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amosy007: yeah very true! The civilazation the world is witnessing in.. IRAQ, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, SOMALIA, SUDAN, NORTHERN NIGERIA. Etc..
Do u know Egypt is the first world powerhouse (like soviet union and Usa) before islam entered the country?

Civilization indeed

Egypt was great even after Islam. Turkey ws great after Islam too. The problem with Islam today is this dichotomy between the extremists and the moderates. If the moderates can dominate again then we might see some peace.

I dont know about black but a very early African saint was St Augustine of Hippo. Born in Hippo Rhegius ad 354 in present day Algeria.

haibe: We know the end of satan already in the bible, he will be destroyed and thats because he will never repent.

I think that is the answer. God can forgive if he repents but according to scripture he wont repent. So the question is null and void.

boxbonnie: "Seek HIM first and every other other things will be granted to u"
Good! Let's kip apart the 10th point, No man, none that ¶ know of has been able to atain the other nine points completely without "GoD"
At most a mans determination,hardwork,dreams,focus..etc may drive him to ataining let's say "five" den he spend the rest of his life striving to get all other four.
Enough said, it's even d "GRACE" of God that kips us on our daily struggle, be u a beliver or an ATHEIST.
¶ stand to be corrected'

Yes. But that is also not clear. It is not a guarantee. It is more a statement than an agreement. Many have sought God and failed in most of the other areas. Others have not sought God and still attained all 9.

Some of those are beyond our control and hence totally independent of any belief in God.

A more important question. Do the first 9 matter to Christians? If you can attain point 10 then you have succeeded regardless. The other 9 are an illusion and a distraction. Why not just focus on point 10.

boxbonnie: 10 Reasons To Submit To God Today

1. Empowerment -
❤ ❥ God certainly is far higher than the devil and submitting to God is to be empowered to operate in the same level with God. - Daniel 11:32
2. Success -
❤ ❥When you yield to God you become exposed to God's kind of success. - Joshua 1:8
3. Fulfilment -
❤ ❥God takes care of what is committed to him. Psalm 37:5
4. Peace and joy -
❤ ❥You will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. - Psalm 16:11
5. Protection -
❤ ❥No force can harm you when you are under God's covering. Psalm 91:9-11
6. Victory -
❤ ❥God is the Almighty and He will prove Himself in any battle you may be facing. James 4:7
7. Provision -
❤ ❥God is committed to supplying all your needs when you totally yield to Him. Matthew 6:31-33
8. Good health -
❤ ❥You shall serve the Lord your God; He shall bless your bread and water, and I will take sickness from your midst.- Exodus 23:25
9. Long life -
❤ ❥God desires that you enjoy life and have it in abundance, (John 10:10) but this is only possible when you yield to Him. Psalm 91:14, 16
10. Eternal life -
❤ ❥The ultimate benefit of submission to God is eternal life. This is a life of peace with God after death. John 10:27-28

In conclusion, Submitting to God is the wisest thing to do. It offers you abundant life here on earth and beyond. Therefore ensure to submit to Him.

Only the 10th point is a valid argument for belief in God. Others have achieved all the other 9 points without believing in God.

The real KEY to Christianity is the belief that the after life will provide all the blessings and fruits of labour for proper conduct, belief and worship. There are no guarantees that this world will deliver any blessings.

Hence believing in God does not guarantee the first 9 points.

jedisco: Just to chip in, the best way to gauge the beauty of a phone is by actually seeing it or asking those who have used it.
The online picture of every phone out there looks beautiful.
When it comes to the GSIII, alot of users and reviews as well have complained about its looks and feel.
I haven't seen anyone referring to the iPhone 5 or Lumia 920 as not being awesome look and feel-wise. The only complain about the Lumia is that its shiny. Nokia has said that the good thing is that it does not fade and scratches are easily hidden cos the material used below is thesame as that untop unlike aluminium which makes scratches easily visible or plastic which feels meh

I don't like the iPhone 5 for its looks.

texazzpete: Hmm...you compared specs, huh?

You have no idea which phone has a better camera. In fact, it's likely to be the iPhone because it's an improvement over the 4S...which was already neck-and-neck with the SGS III
You have no idea which phone has a better CPU. In fact, it's likely to be the iPhone if the rumors are true that the CPU used is the Cortex A-15.
You've got no idea on the exact GPU in the iPhone 5. It could actually be better than the GPU in the Quad core SGS III...especially if its the same quad core GPU in the new iPad...or even the first SGX 6 series GPU.

So I ask you...where did you 'review the specs' from?

In the first performance head to head tests (benchmarks) the iphone 5 came up above the SGS3. So it is packing some power. I still prefer my SGS3 however.

cruiz: Genesis 2:24-Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.(World English Bible)
They above verse of the bible is mostly quoted to back arguement that the bible is not in support of polygamy. It was obvious that Adam and Efe were the only exixting being then. Someo Other prophets that came after married more than one wife and it was never in the bible that God was angry with them, curse them or destroy them like the people of Noah and Sodom and Gomorrah.

If God forbid polygamy right from the time HE created the World, all his prophet would have abide to the rule of the LORD, yet thy perform miracles with HIS permission.
Even Jesus Christ never condem polygamy during his preaching through out his era.

I believe the british and americans just want us to believe that other peoples way of live is babaric. Africans, Asians and even some early generation of the so called westerners are known to practice polygamy.

So while condeming polygamy if the bible does not forbid it?

NOTE: All your constructive argument are welcome but please exclude Paul (Saul) prechings, verses or letters in your argument. Only mathew,mark,Luke and John from the new testament.

Why no Paul? I thought Paul's teachings were critical to Christianity.

walcolm: it is true BUT the time it took you to create this thread is more than enough to Google it and get the answer yourself

I have googled it. Most of the results I get are rumour oriented. They don't even have any pics or screenshot previews. Apple also has nothing on their website.

I am hearing news that the Iphone 5 launches on the 12th Sep 2012. Can anyonbe confirm this? Are there any solid links to the iphone 5 with screenshots, previews, rumours etc.

tobechi20: My felow nairalanders, HAVE U EVER KNELT DOWN AND PRAYED FOR THE ATHEIST.

Hav u prayd that ALLAH/JEHOVAH/THE gods etc should change their heart so they can belive in his existence.

Hav u fasted for the atheist?

Shouldn't the prayers be focused on those who really need it: the poor, the sick and the needy. Atheists are not in need of salvation so why bother praying for it.

Mrs..Chima:
So your original post where you said African men are better than other men in all areas is fake as well?

If it apply to one...it should apply to all. So the bottom line is there is no nationality of men better than the next. However...Black men are on the bottom of the totem pole unfortunately.

No, African men are better than other Black men in most regards. In regards to the negatives you mentioned earlier (ra.pe, liars etc) you will find that common amongst most groups.

Mrs..Chima:
No....I have never married a white man but my friends/associates have and they are happy.

I also know some too that are happily married to white dudes.

Mrs..Chima:
From what I have heard from around here and there....White men makes the best husbands/boyfriends in relationships.

Have you actually experienced it? I think they do however.

Mrs..Chima:
You forgot to add liars, murderers, thieves, adulterers, rapists, ignorant, misogynists, whores, fake bible thumpers, and opportunists.

I have more but you get the point.

Yeah but you could say that about most races.

Maybe fake bible thumpers are their key trait here.

holyvirgin: what ar u saying, a slut sleeps wit u 4 money and ur gf sleeps wit u 4 what she would gain afterwards. U ar payin both 4 services rendered. No diff

So what about a wife then? Or one who takes with the promise of giving you some sugar but never does and keeps her virginity intact? A true gf does not need material goods from a bf. Some want it, some dont. Some dont even care. Some sluts dont even care about money and just want sugar from as many guys as possible

If I was assaulted physically I would defend myself with measured aggression. It would be the type that is legally defendable in a court of law

49cents: A girl who sleeps around is a slut and the one who respects her sexuality is a lousy lay.....you are the lousy one son!

I have made it abundantly clear in some "virgin" threads that true virginity is about one's conception of their sexuality which is basically about it being in sync with the primordial needs of your person, which fundamentally is love.

Anybody who has lumped "sexual experience" by sleeping around according to the dictates of their base instincts is not be true to their humanity....if you consider mating like a feat then was the difference between you an the beasts we see on National Geography. just incase you are wondering.... am not a "virgin" but i respect my sexuality!

You need to strike a balance of course. There is a clear difference between a slut and a couple of sexual partners. It all depends on what you want. I have no beef with virgins but I am not sure I could handle one. I leave it to the more experienced men

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The worst thing is that nothing will be done to the girls after that. Is the act of stripping enough to discourage future acts of criminality? I do not believe so.

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This is so not right. If someone stole my BB phone, car, eanything. I would never strip them. I would prefer to hand them over to the authorities. This jungle justice is ridiculous.

lefulefu: Romanus start to dey toast Bisi after sighting her standing for near mainroad near the store were he dey regularly buy im 200 naira MTN recharge card.Romanus start to dey toast Bisi.Bisi start to dey form and she no gree.Romanus intensifies the toasting.one week pass,two weeks and three months and yet Bisi still no gree.Romanus somehow track Bisi home address and start to dey send her expensive gifts.he send her blackberry,expensive gucci handbags using the money wey he borrow frm im friends.He also buy mary kay 4 her.Eventually Bisi come gree to the toasting and after much pleading Bisi gree open for am for bedroom.After the hot yanshing and romance for bedroom with sweat still running frm Romanus back and face BISI come tell Romanus that she is HIV positive.IF na you dey Romanus situation na wetin u go do?

So the guy meets a girl he likes, takes his time to try and know her. Tries to toast and romance her (all in an innocent way). Never raped her or treated her bad yet she decided to give him HIV as a gift. Wow.

The only circumstances where someone should not be given a life sentence for giving another person HIV through sex is where they are both aware of the HIV, neither are aware of HIV (so no anitretrovirals are being taken). If the partner with HIV is aware and passes it onto their partner, toaster etc (and they were not subject to rape) then the they deserve a life sentence.

Rocktation: No jail term can be light enough, in the Nigerian prisons abeg.

For stealing a BB? Then maybe community service. They can help clean the streets etc. Surely stripping them naked and taking pics is not the answer. Also, people who commit worse crimes are getting away with it just because they are powerful, why pick on these girls alone. I would like to see Honourable Farouk Lawan stripped naked and pics sent to all the newspapers for indiscretions.

nice4life: The was how Rebekah who became Isaac wife was described in the bible.Are there still ladies like this in our generation? personally i think godly virgin men should only get married to beautiful virgins,I rest my case.

Because virginity does not work both ways. Virginity is the preserve of women. Male virgins are not only despised but actually mocked. Sexual experience in a man is a must for most women but sexual experience is not a must for most men.

Virgin women however must be lousy lays. I wonder why people bother with them.... oh well

talishaf: Ok so i recently met this guy and hes from new york, and in the beginning he told me that his mom was nigerian and his father black. I am attracted to him but by looking at his picture he looks like an average african american so i associated that with an american accent, that was totally not the case. SO we finally talked over the phone and he has a nigerian accent which kinda threw me back because i couldnt pair his voice with what i saw. Immediately from the beginning he was calling me baby and that he wanted a serious relationship those were red flags as well but the main thing is i dont know how to feel now because the whole thought of dating an african is a little scary and unsettling seeing how i never dated a african before. But also when u think of african men u think of womanizer and not good english or understanding of different culutres. Something in me is telling me to just turn the other way and not invest any of myself into thiswhat advice do any of you all have on this issue

It is best to go into this with an open mind. Be very mature about everything. I believe you should consider it if there is no major issue putting you off. Here are some benefits of African men (mostly Nigerians):

1. Responsible. Africans are generally more responsible than their African American, Black British/French/European and Jamaican/other Carribean counterparts.
2. Cultured. Culture makes a big bonus as it can give a very strong backbone to a family unit.
3. Lower divorce rates.
4. Less promiscuous. (Better believe it babe. Africans cheat less than the other black groups. Or rather, all black groups cheat alot).#
5. More financially capable and successful (this is mostly for Nigerians however).

The list is endless.

Your choice. Goodluck

The girls stripped naked for stealing a BB is a joke. It is why I can never respect this country. Ok, so they were thieves and stole BBs. Were they armed? Did they defraud people? At most a suspended sentence and a warning or a light jail term. Why strip them naked?

Right now a group of oil marketers who stole billions from the country have been given the permission to go on Hajj just because they bear powerful names. No one seems to be slagging them off. Their crime is far greater.

shizzle11: Hmmmn, human beings and mindset, nawaooo!


@Dimples, swwetie, no offense pls, you jst turned 29 and still single, and the posts from the family section scares you from even 'thinking' marriage and you want to dedicated th rest of your life taking care of your ageing parents(as if those who are married don't happily do that). Do you intend to get kids (that is of course out of wedlock) cos u'll definately need one or two to take care of you when you start ageing. Just asking'o, and maybe a food for thought for some.

She can have kids without being married. What makes you think that she needs to be married to have kids.

Dimples 316: @ OP and topic,

Here we go again, are folks like you ever going to believe that there are actually some women out there who do not want to get married, have kids and do the whole family woman thing? Did you read the front page thread titled 'My Husband and His Strange Women'? Do you visit the family section where you get to see more of such stories? Stories like that are enough to put me off marriage, but that's just one of the many reasons why I am not taken in with the whole marriage thing.

I turned 29 in June, am still single not worried or bothered about my status. My utmost concern is and has always been to watch out for my parents, take good care of them like they took care of me from infancy to adulthood and simply just give back to them before I lose one of them to the cold hands of death.I can do this with or without a husband infact I do not need one to.

Marriage is the least of my concerns even as I write this.I've got my head screwed on right I look beyond the glitz & glamour of the wedding day ceremony. I am not thrilled about it or anxious for it whether it happens or not, I remian well grounded in the fact that SINGLENESS IS NOT A DISEASE I NEED TO BE CURED FROM & MARITAL STATUS OF BEING MARRIED WILL NOT GUARANTEE MY PASSAGE INTO HEAVEN.

I thought that as a xtian you needed to be married to indulge in sex or you commit pre-marital sin. Hence the whole heaven ideology hints at marriage.

I don't really think it makes a difference these days. Marriage was mostly for the protection of women. Now women can provide for themselves and can still have both emotional and financial support without being married. They can also have children outside of wedlock too. Based on this Women getting married is more a choice than a need. There are some religions nand cultures that focus a lot on marriage but I feel a woman can do just as well without necessarily getting married.... just as long as she knows what she is getting in to.

Flashaldrin: Op wtf are you talking about?? Changing uglinity to beauty??
Is there anything you can give to balotelli or adams oshiomole to turn them to will smith??

Lol . I like that. I guess some people are beyond upgrading but maybe 60% of people are borderline and could be upgraded. There are psychological effects related to this however. The new found self esteem might tempt the person to dump you for a new partner etc.

jmoore: marriage is the only commitment.

So if I married in a court but not in a religious institution would it still count?

P.S: that mentality is why so much cheatin happens in marriage. So many people think they can cheat and do all tne nastiness they want without being committed and then expect to be perfe t marriage partners. They however find it a hard lifestyle to abandon.

jmoore: Every premarital sex and extramarital affairs can be classified as cheating because you are taking what is not yours. If a boy is sleeping with his girlfriend then cheating has started.

That only applies in a religious sense. Imagine a scenario where a guy with only one girl that he bonks regularly but they are committed compared to a married man that services prossies on a regular basis, which of the two would be classified as cheating?