₦airaland Forum

petrov10:
anyody can claim to be igbo na today ??

Of course. I do not deny that fact. Same same as you. Who knows if you are really Igbo or even Nigerian.

I have nothing to gain by

petrov10:
Apc make no mistake about this

Its a done deal already



Do not expect any igbo within or outside S.E to vote for buhari
That's not possible


Igbos will vote jonatan come feb

Gej 2019 as sure as heaven

I'm Igbo. Nwannem, I and my house (6 adults) are voting Buhari

Speak for yourself.

So many fickle - minded folks on Nairaland. .. smh

derecho:
bros,you maybe amongst the few. .that's if you used your Christian name.

Trust me. I live in lagos. People are really tired. Most of my friends voted Jonathan in 2011. So did I. In hi d sight if it wasn't my worst ever decision then it was a close second. I don't have a xtian name by the way but I'm Igbo, Delta state.

derecho:
Just checked.Mostly muslims from the North and South West.Some few Christian names who just registered on twitter.Anyways,different persuasions.

I honestly beg to differ.

Been on twitter for more than a year. I followed Buhari days ago. So did all my siblings and friends. We are all southern Christians by the way.

GMB

expert1000:
Haters tak it or leave it, GEJ till 2019.We cnt risk Islamisation of Nigeria.Buhari boys boko haram hav drain his bank account, daz y I had 2borrow 2pick his nomination form

Stop taking hard drugs. They are detrimental to your mental health.

luvinhubby:
Obviously you failed in the comprehension, cos the prof. was hawking(soliciting for voter patronage) inside the brt bus & that, my friend, is against the law.

Dear luvvinghubby,

Please justify ur assertions with proof, showing the relevant acts of parliament/laws.

A concerned Lagosian.

luvinhubby:
Obviously you failed in the comprehension, cos the prof. was hawking(soliciting for voter patronage) inside the brt bus & that, my friend, is against the law.

Dear luvvinghubby,

Please justify ur assertions with proof, showing the relevant acts of parliament/laws.

A concerned Lagosian.

chukwudi44:
The umbrella body for xtians in Nigeria is the Christian association of Nigeria. Anyother body is fake. I can assure you that this organization is fake and is not registered

CAN are on their own, my brother. No serious minded xtian pays them heed anymore. Besides, on that day CAN will not be there to force people to vote for PDP. Xtians and Muslims alike are tired already.

Nonybb:
ATTRIBUTE AND CHARACTER OF A BUHARIST

If you are a Buharist...

¤You must be a Northerner

¤Your religion must be Islam

¤You must hate Jonathan without concrete cause

¤You must be violent and an anarchist

¤You must be abusive and might have called Our President shoeless, clueless and Otuoke drunkered


¤You must have covertly loved Boko Haram when they started newly but now hates them because you have that conception that GEJ is culpable (In other words, you must be a former sympathizer of Boko Haram)

¤Your Party must be APC

¤You must/might secretly love Sharia

¤You might partly be unexposed academically

¤You must have a Born-To-Rule Mentality Syndrome

¤2015 might be the year you will first kill somebody in your life due to electoral disfavour

¤You must have blamed GEJ for too much rain this year

And lastly,

¤You must hate and insult me for telling you this #TRUTH

My name is Azuka.

I'm a baptist.

I'm from Delta state.

I support Buhari.

ihedinobi2:
After reading a friend's latest entries in her diary, I thought about writing my "closing" arguments on friendzoning and "nice guys finish last". I decided that it isn't worth my energy right now. But I'll say the following and leave it at that:

Friendzoning is an act of selfishness. This is because love is beautiful when you're the recipient. When someone loves you, they make you a very high priority in their lives. You benefit a lot from that. They're always there for you. You can count on that. If you have any kind of need, they will be right there to stretch themselves and provide it. But here's where it gets tough: love is vastly expensive to the lover. The lover spends a very difficult kind of currency - themselves. Where do you replenish such expenses? Only from other people who love you in the same degree.

Now, someone is spending themselves on you and you enjoy that. But you would rather not spend yourself on them for whatever reason is applicable to you. What do you do? Call Love Friendship and invent arguments for why they should keep up the expense even when it kills them to do so. That is what makes the Friendzone issue difficult to leave alone. Those who have been drained like that tend to be cynical about love and the value or worth of fellow human beings.

About the "nice guys finish last" matter, I have only this to say: like attracts like. If a woman is attracted to men who do not respect or value womanhood, it says a lot about her not just about men who do respect womanhood. If a woman wants tough guys who are all about swag and money and bachelor pads, whatever she says about them being real and all that, it means only that she is not very interested in motherhood and stability. You want to live the life of the club and spotlights, you don't belong in the home, the kitchen and the bedroom and nursery. It's that simple.

When a man or woman is ready to take on life, they don't look for fast-moving stuff, they look for deep roots. And if they have spent their youth running around and jumping on every train headed south, well they have the consequence that they will not be very deserving of any kind of love, to say nothing of a good man's or woman's love. Forgiveness exists to ensure that they can be rescued but it is not something they have any right to. So if you're a nice guy and the flashy girls are giving you the cold shoulder, move on. Don't complain. Simply build yourself a life you can be proud of and you will have your own pick of women. Don't be bitter about other people's choices even if they hurt you. Just free them and thus free yourself to breathe, to live, to grow and become everything you can be.



Addendum: I realize that there is a conflict about the definition of "nice guys". I have only this to say about it: there are dull guys, there are players and there are decent men. Dull guys are boys who have not acquired the, er, "balls" to take on life. Players are the typical bad boys. Decent men are the "nice guys" in question here. Decent men make homes. They tend to keep long relationships so whenever they're in the market after their first time, they aren't nearly always the most polished. They place their women very high on their priority list because they understand gow critical the role of womanhood is to a man. You don't generally find them in clubs, not because they don't like fun but because they have moral boundaries. You won't meet them at strip joints unless they're on a break from decency. They aren't regulars at pick-up bars and restaurants because some things tend to be overdone. A decent guy is simply a man with boundaries. He does not live on a constant high. He is a centered person and does not chase thrills as a matter of course. That's the nice guy here. If you have any other definition, it doesn't apply to my arguments.

There, have a nice thought or two now.

God bless u. That's all I can say.. God bless u.

@AzukaChiemeke1

There are some funny facts about the Azusa revival which the pentecostals lay claim to as thier origin.

1. When the "revivalists" received the "gift of tongues" they actually thought they were speaking real earth languages. So where did the argument of angel-speak come from?

2. Subsequently, pentecostal congregations sent out missionaries armed with these new tongues to evangelize the far corners of the globe. After all, some of them could speak Cantonese, right? Wrong! They failed woefully.

3. It was only after the evangelism debacle that pentecostal theologians began to talk about Angelese, private prayer language and their other pet deceptions.

Shdemidemi,

I'm with you on this one. But please realise that no matter what you say these tongue speaking xtians may never change inspite of the evidence. All we can do is tell them the truth in love so we can absolve ourselves @ the judgement seat of Christ...
I was a Pentecostal up untill February this year. Then I stumbled upon an article on the interet that shook me to my foundations. After prayer and much crying God led me to the truth. Now I am simply a xtian, nothing more.
Whatever the case we must keep fighting against all these dangerous doctrines e.g. Word of Faith, Tithe paying, prosperity gospel, speaking in tongues, holyghost fire prayers, special anointing, e.t.c.
God be with you.

I have spoken only once on Nairaland about speaking in tongues, probably because from experience I know that people hardly ever change their beliefs, more so when these beliefs, however erroneous can be backed up by experiences and not by reason. I have been there before, you see. I have spoken in tongues, prophesied, sown seeds, been slain in the spirit... name it. It was only when I began to STUDY the bible in detail, putting my education to good use that I discovered the truth. Now that I know better I count all those things as loss.

Now, for those who use 1st Corinthians chapters 12 to 14 as their excuse for engaging in this unbiblical practice, please note:

1. When a word (like "unknown" in 1st Corinthians 14 vs 2) is italicized in a translated work such as the bible, it means such a word was not in the original text but is added for clarity. In other words, the word "unknown" as used in 1st Corinthians should ordinarily not be there but was inserted by translators of the KJV 1611. No wonder in the NIV translation the word "unknown" is absent in those same verses.

2. As part of my course in the university, I studied the evolution of the English language and can authoritatively say that "tongue" as used in 1611 was just another synonym for language. However, it was more specific as it con notated "dialect". Therefore, what the translators wanted us to know was that any language the corinthian xtians did not understand was simply "unknown" to them. While this was clear in the Greek, we English speakers would have found it difficult to grasp, so the learned KJV translators inserted "unknown" to make it easier for us. It is unfortunate that much of christendom has stumbled over this single word.

Please, has anyone else gotten the second invite for the assessment in lagos?

Tarzan/George of the jungle...

The funny thing is that i have learnt more scriptural truth from nairaland this year than from books I read for years... you all should even be asking what is being taught in these books and materials. So much heresy is being taught today. Indeed the Christian bookstore is one of the most dangerous places for a.Believer to visit.

Bidam: Jeremiah said it in Jeremiah 7:22-23.
Listen to what the Eternal inspired Jeremiah to write: “For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I DID NOT SPEAK . . . OR COMMAND them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. But this COMMAND I GAVE THEM: ‘Obey my voice . . . and walk in ALL THAT WAY THAT I COMMAND YOU, that it may be well with you.’ ”
There you have it.The 10 commandments was differentiated from the sacrificial laws.

Bidam and scriptural engineering ooo
Abeg where did u see ten commandments there... ?

Candour: The scriptural gymnastics on this thread will make professional gymnasts and contortionists green with envy. The following are some 'wisdom' poured forth on this thread
1.Jesus was a Pharisee who paid Tithes
2.Melchizedekal law of tithing is the new format.
3.Paul explained how to drop Mosaic Law of Tithing and pick up Melchizedekal tithing
4.The Mega rich pastors are the conclusive evidence that Tithing works
5.Pastors took over the privilege of the Levites
I believe more will pop up

The extent to which these guys are prepared to go in order to perpetuate this fraud beats my imagination.
... There are none so blind as those who will not see.

The facts are clear as daylight. Any other interpretation is plain dishonesty.

@Mko
This is part of the reason why ASUU are on strike. Our children no longer understand comprehension passages. Paul used Melchizedek as a simile for Jesus. It was just .a comparison. No wonder he says "another priest" in that Hebrews passage.

Besides, I have studied that passage in Several versions and analysed it (using my training as an English graduate/linguist) and I am pretty sure that Jesus is not Melchizedek.

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I agree with you... The true start of the Nt is Acts Chapter 2 because that is when the Holy spirit is given. I observeved this earlier this year when I began studying my bible without denominational bias.
Much of what we've been taught in our churches is plain error.