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@ Nbote, I'm glad you noticed the "inheritance law". I was just trying to use terms that the OP can easily relate with.
Just to add, he should speak with a lawyer ooo. Sometimes you don't know how long things should take and when to be worried. A lawyer experienced on such matters will be your light in the dark tunnel. People have been frustrated from getting their own monies because of BVN issues and name misspells. How much more a person who is merely inheriting it and without all the account details?

Get a lawyer that deals in inheritance law.

What's going through my mind? Bring this car downtown ipaja ayobo. Use it for just 6 months and it's life will never be the same again.

This is nice. There needs to be a law that all governnent parastatals and offices must buy Made in Nigeria.

Very nice illustration.

@OP,
An important thing you mentioned is that they do well in the class but poorly on homework. For some people the reverse is the case. I don't wanna go into lots of details about what is wrong. I know a simple way to make it right. It works like magic with kids. It is called motivation. Different kids are motivated by different things but there's a shortcut to knowing what motivates all kids. Just buy a pack of sweets and give anyone of them that gets things right. Tell them anyone of them who gets all in the homework will have two wraps of sweets. Be creative with your rewards.

iyb:
thats the beauty of islam there is no need for a will everybody gets his share.

Good insight iyb. But it is not that automatic. Some Muslims want a portion to be devoted to their favorite charity and an Islamic will still needs to state what should be bequeathed to such. Hence, must be written.

babysophie:
A will is nt so important to m because we do things jointly in our names. As for access to a partner's financial accounts,if d spouses v each other's ATM passwords then i dont nid to go into d bank to access funds. Long life together is wat i pray for. We r each other's next-of-kin n in case of eventuality,my spouse will take everything i v cos we belong to each other.

These are not enough ma. What if the ATM card expires? How does the person alive claim his/her spouse's money? What of pension savings? Next of kin does not automatically confer the rights of beneficiary to a person. Next of kin simply means who to call if they can't reach you.
We made www.proxywill.com to serve as an alternative to the legal will. It is still best to have a will and use proxywill as an archive for it.
Note: you can self write your will with or without the assistance of a lawyer.

Lots of adverts without contact details Gabriel?

This is one of the best threads ever and I'm not talking of just Nairaland. That it took several years to finally crawl to the home page says a lot.

Ajanlekoko, well done. Please permit me to add another type of track. It is called the "No Track". People on that track just want money or food just to to go by on a daily basis. They are not ready to join any of the three tracks being discussed. You surely know someone who feels ok calling you up for financial assistance every now and then. If you ever manage to get him/her any job he will quit in the shortest possible time and of course without any tangible reason.

This happens because the students are not given any opportunity to assess the lecturers' quality of teaching. We shouldn't just think that almost all of them are dullards.

Anytime people complain about age discrimination I ask them this question:
If you are given the job of managing your favorite football club will you buy old players who haven't played with any football club in their lives? What you will do is
1- snatch some experienced players from competitors to assure your victories.
AND/ OR
2 - hire some fresh young players to keep your expenses low.

Hence, it is the same in any industry.

The first and most important solution is to have a complete dynamic database of all Nigerians. Then make it impossible to live for a week without doing something that will make you trackable. The current situation is that even if you give police a criminal's name , picture, etc they still find it difficult to track and capture the criminal.

@OP, your work is copacetic ! I love the way you make light stand out from darkness by blending with the darkness. You, sir are an original thinker.

Probitas Doctrina.

Better by far.

Statutory rape is the case only if one of them is at least 18. In the case they are both minors.

@ PastorAIO, don't bother guessing. I have already dyed my grey hair black.lol

@ Sarassin. Kirlian photography was an area that scientists didn't like much because it was more of parapsychology. It is nice to see that it is now being revisited as there are more tools now to probe things.

I'm still waiting to see any compelling discourse/argument for a disembodied "soul" from anybody out here.

My experience was a funny but puzzling one. The machine brought out the right amount but a N1,000 note was not aligned with the the rest of the notes. I took the other notes and then tried taking the N1,000 note but the machine was already pulling it back in. So, it was a tug of war between the ATM and I. Of course the machine won. Still wandering what just happened I stood there telling the security man and some other people around including a few friends who were also there. I stood there and was hoping that the next person will be overpaid by the machine and I can convince him that the excess 1k was mine. What the machine did next surprised me even more. It didn't overpay the person ooo but it refused to let go of his card after paying him the exact amount he requested for. It then brought out another single 1k note. He was confused. I just said "bros, that's my money" . Other people who knew what happened corroborated my claims and he gave it to me.

UyiIredia:
But near death and out of body experiences provide some evidence that a disembodied soul does exist in us. It would be unwise to ignore the evidence from them because of your materialistic bias. By the way, the brain is the seat of the soul and in life our soul is bound to our living body so any damage to the brain reflects on the soul but this is not so in death when we have on a spiritual body that becomes the new seat of our soul.

Nice insight. I also believe that if anything personal outside the physical e.g the supposed soul exists it can only be linked via the brain. However, there is still no conclusive evidence of a disembodied soul. What people experience during near death experiences have been replicated in a laboratory condition. You may google "Michael Persinger". He is a Canadian professor who pioneered and has conducted a lot of research on this matter. You may checkout youtube videos on " the God helmet" The summary is that there is a part of the brain that calculates where your body is and interpreted same correctly. If that part is simulated/disturbed it can let you view yourself like a third party. People who have experienced near death experiences have tested it and confirmed that the God helmet designed by the professor gives the same experience they had during their near death experiences. Our inference is not far fetched now. During NDE that part of the brain is disturbed and the illusion of disembodied non physical self is created.

@ PastorAIO , thank you for the complements. Sarassin is doing an excellent job in explaining his propositions and importantly, answering questions. How can one not like to have a good intellectual exchange with such a person? He reminds me of those days when we had Krayola, Banom, Deepsight, TonyeT,Wirinet, Late Bawomola, MrBrownJ, etc. And discussed to expand our minds. Isn't it laughable that some other people prefer to just lay down their propositions and expect you to swallow them hook, line and sinker?

Well, back to the topic. If Sarassin proposed Life field exists it will have to be purely a responder. Nothing can originate from it. This is in response to PastorAIO's question about wether marks such as thoughts can occur on the Life Field and transferred to the physical body.
@Sarassin, how far out of the body does this Life Field extend? 2cm ?, 13cm?, 5m?, just how far should we estimate it to extend granted that it won't be constant for all people nor even for one person?
For those who can't wrap there heads round the plausibility of this concept just remember those non contact thermometers used all around the country during the Ebola breakout. It accurately measures the body's temperature from a distance. Now, imagine you wanna measure electric field around the body and not temperature.

Sarassin:
Good points, I am inclined to believe that the Life field is distinct from the Aura. The Life field is itself a product of life, providing an accurate electronic mirror image in which certain details are detectable before they become apparent to our other senses. But we also know that a much larger pulsating field surrounds the body, imagine an electromagnetic energy cloud, this is the Aura. Our bodies radiate on a wavelength just outside our normal vision and our eyes are sensitive to light that lies between the wavelengths of 380 and 800 Nanometers, but with high intensity artificial sources we can extend this at either end of the spectrum into the areas of infra-red and ultraviolet light.
The aura unlike the life field can be seen surrounding living things by anyone sensitive at the infra-red end of the spectrum, there is also the “cheat” method of 'sensitizing' the eyes by looking through special chemical solutions. The Life field though cannot be seen but it can be easily detected and manipulated.
The electric field and the aura are of course bound to the body and do not go anywhere of their own accord, the Life field in particular may persist for a while even after the body is deceased and undergoes chemical decomposition, not so, the aura which will lose it hue and colours rather quickly and dissipate. The electric field does not take a new adjusted form after loss of say, a limb we know that some people who have had a leg amputated report that they can still sense it and even complain of itches in absent toes. This is due to the persistence of old sensory patterns in the brain.

Many thanks for the follow up explanation. I now see that matches what some people call etheric body just that in yours it is bound to the body and cannot detach to go anywhere. It simply dies too.
This does not match the description of the soul which supposedly predates the physical body and supposedly survives death and continue to live on independent of the body it inhabited.
Also, there is no science to support a field not readjusting to the new shape of a physical body in case of loss of limbs. Feeling pain in an absent toe can be fully accounted for by neuroscience without requiring that the life field remain as it was before the loss of limb.

Sarassin:
Absolutely love your post.
For me, I do not see an imperative for a Soul.
I believe that what we term the soul is essentially our awareness, living cells are capable of recreating past patterns through a molecular memory which is passed on from one cell to another so that a new one can reproduce the behaviour of its parents. In my view, our awareness, the sum total of all our molecular memory is essentially a biological event, the main variable is the degree of awareness.
We now know that living things have their own electrical fields, I call it a "Life field" this life field seems to be the sum-total effect of all the other small electrical charges that occur as a result of chemical events that continually take place in the body, we know too that changes in the field are not random but connected with basic biological events, for instance, the field would be influenced by disruptions to the body or organism produced by disease. This life field in conjunction with our awareness is what I believe the ancients conjectured to be the soul.
The field persists as long as life lasts, and in many cases can transcend death itself. It undergoes regular small changes in healthy subjects and more dramatic aberrations in an ill or diseased person. What is more changes in the life field follow a cosmic rhythm. Experiments have shown that the life field reaches a maximum positive value at full moon and a negative value two weeks later, it is very much a product of life, possessing an organising ability that seems virtually a template, that serves to lay down the form and function of the developing organism. It is Design for Destiny.

Interesting.
What you describe as Life Field matches the description of what some people call aura. My concerns on such proposition are as follows
- for it to exist the physical body must exist first to create the life field.
- it will have to grow with your body size. A fat person will have a fat life field.I can already start imagining what some people's life field look like.lol
- this life field must be bound to the body creating it and thus cannot on its own go anywhere. In fact after death it must weaken as all body cells die one after the other till there no cell and hence no field or life field.
- if a person loses his limbs and may be a few organs along the line will his life field be updated with his new shape? If it transcends death does the amputated life field not mean disadvantage?


Kindly help expatiate on how this life field proposition accommodates those exceptions.

About the extraction of oil causing a weight imbalance. This is is unlikely.
- Most people live in the northern hemisphere and this weight imbalance with respect to the southern hemisphere has not caused a re-tilt.
- Oil is lighter than water which covers 70% of the earth's surface. The weight of all oil extracted will still not be enough to cause such a weight imbalance to cause a re-tilt.
- The earth and its atmosphere are really the same mass still when considering gravitational forces. It won't matter if the oil is within the earth or in its atmosphere. This is because we are talking of very large masses here. Oil weight is child's play.
- Global climate changes has occurred in the past and it wasn't oil that was responsible. An asteroid was responsible for killing off most species on earth including the dinosaurs.
-Finally, oil may be responsible in the sense that the emitted greenhouse gases alter the pattern of absorption of solar rays such that it is significantly deviating from what it has been for thousands of years.

First, I must commend your efforts. It is not everyday you see smart O Level holders. As a matter of fact many graduates too still struggle with basic principles talk more of linking them to realities outside school.
Now to the topic. The earth has been tilted for billions of years. Many forces were responsible for making it that way and are still responsible for keeping it so. It will take some asteroid crashing into it to alter anything and it will just be slightly but with serious implications for global climate change and life on earth as we know it.
To be continued...

The soul, if exists,if physical, must reside in the brain. Why? That is still the only organ that you can't lose or transplant while the person retains his/her identity. Eyes, limbs, hearts, lungs, etc have all been transplanted for humans and those people remained who they were withouth losing any form of their identity. Neither does blood transfusion make anybody lose his/her identity.

Also, the soul, if exists but not physical can be linked to the physical body only via the brain for same reasons given above.

If it were possible to do a brain transplant will the person still retain his identity assuming all other organs are intact?

Now, all the foregoing is about if something called soul exists.

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I wish you all the best guys.

Nice one.

Bruce should stop the rants. If he is the successful man that he claims to be he should know that you will have to face rejections every now and then and the way to deal with it is not by crying like a baby all over the place.
He blocks people who don't share his views on twitter. How could he not know that it is normal for him too to be denied audience sometimes?

What goes around cones around. Ben Bruce believes he has lofty ideas and does not hesitate to block anyone who tells him otherwise on twitter. Now, he has been shown how it feels. What is he ranting about?

We should all learn to be more tolerant especially of those who you feel are not as powerful as you are. Power is nothing without control.