Sammy101111:
I think nairaland should have a road traffic forum to inform people on traffic in Nigiera

Good idea unfortunately nairaland is the most regressive online forum in the same Nigeria. So this will not fly.

I still saw this man last week Thursday at BOSKOH HMI flagoff at Police College, Ikeja.

Life!

Imagine yourself performing some magic spell and turning into an ant so that you can impregnate the queen ant.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENyyRwxpHo

Why would a “God” who created the structures in that video care enough about some random species on our planet to chose some random Jewish lass for divine impregnation? All for a god damn human sacrifice. The Abrahamic God is capable of nuclear fusion, gravity, photons, etc but yet prefers to f#ck (the spirit of the lord overshadowed.....) 15 year old girls in order to rectify simple mistakes in his design. Sounds dumber than fucking the ant. Yet, this is the core belief of the insanity called Christianity.

Yeah so recently I watched some of the sizes of other planetary bodies compared to earth and I discovered that we are really insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

300 earths can fit inside Jupiter. And more than 900 Jupiters can fit inside the Sun. More than a 1, 000,000,000 sun's can also fit inside UY Scuti. That's absolutely bonkers.

That God wants to have a private relationship with us is not only arrogant, it is ignorantly narcissistic and self absorbed.

Oh michigas post got removed I think he finally reached the text count limit of nairaland.

I don't like to argue about the authenticity of Jesus figure because I think it is inconsequential. And many authentic sources have different viewpoints so is a toughy contested point that is in fact, irrelevant.

Jesus existed, no shït sherlock, so what?

A man named Jesus at that time could very well have existed.

That doesn't mean he did any of the supernatural things the Buybull claims he did. Those are the things that would need to be proved.

How did he turn water to wine? Resurrexr a 4 days old corpse, ascend to heaven?

How was the encounter with Moses and Elijah recorded when the same passage says no one was there with them?

Jesus PROBABLY physically existed. But the supernatural stuff is where you would need some serious evidence. Because extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

How can anyone possibly explain these clearly asinine claims?

Hahaha isn't ot even funny that were talking about a Nigerian governor making investments and the value of the investments?

99% of apc and PDP governors have bribery, corruption, and embezzlement charges filed against them. But the worst tinubu and Atiku supporters could do is to bring up an underperfroming investment from Obi.

The bar is so high lmao.

Tinubu urchins hide your empty heads in shame. Obi is coming!!

Nice thread. Readers are leaders.

Books read so far this year:

How To Win Friends And Influence People
The Art Of Thinking Clearly
Atomic Habits

This is racial profiling at it's best. Those chinese kids c probably have no idea what he's doing and what martial arts is even about.

That's why movies are so powerful. They can really create (false) impressions of a people that is almost impossible to erase.

Anyone selling a 200cc + bike at clearance price?

I have Mafia 3 for swap looking for Resident Evil or God of War or FIFA22

AyarmBoye:
Fifa 22 available used for just a month .....


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Rickmann:


And the funny this is secondary school leavers are still dying to get degrees while graduated are pouring out on a daily...

Majority of people just follow the crowd in Nigeria. Few people actually think things through.

A man on twitter, has taken a deeply controversial stance by challenging a belief that holds firm in most Nigerian hearts: the authenticity of juju.

He claims that juju is not real, or at least that it's not supernatural, but a mixture of natural tricks that majority of people cannot easily understand. There has even been a cash prize to that effect, a N1m reward for who can prove that juju actually works.

He's received a lot of negative comments and even death threats from many people, but his resolve is firm. He's even started attending Television shows to debate priests and other believers in voodoo magic.

Movements like these are probably stupid or maybe even crucial in a highly superstitious environment like Nigeria's.

What are your thoughts?

Lalasticlala

PastorMIsBack:


I don't know. I haven't left religion and I still think logically and critically.


I don't follow blindly. I read the Bible for myself.

If you think critically and logically like you claimed, do you really believe that

1. Donkeys and Snakes can talk?

2. 7 billion people can arise from a Adam and Eve and their two sons?

3. Carnivores and Herbivores coexisted in the same boat for years?

I could go on..if you're a critical thinker how have you examined the anonymous authors of the Bible and the fact that the book was written many years after the said events occurred?

Can you share how have you been a le to reconcile this with your "logical thinking?"

efficiencie:

Knowledge for the service of the LORD GOD is beautiful but knowledge for the purpose of just being knowledgeable could easily lead to an obsession and from thence to the idolization of knowledge.

Coming after you just said too much knowledge isn't bad?

So the only knowledge that agrees with the belief you hold is the only knowledge that is important and the one we should pursue? Yea lol..it's called confirmation bias.

efficiencie:

First it was wear a mask, next it was social distancing, next it was lockdowns, next it was get the first jab, followed by another jab, followed by another booster jab and yet COVID cases are skyrocketing in societies with high vaccination rates...these worshippers of knowledge find it hard admitting that all they know is failing them and that they need help beyond what they think they know.

And these are the types of comments you make when all you study is what already agrees with you.

Science is always learning and acquiring new knowledge. The more we know, the better we can refine our old methods of thinking and our previous models. That's why Science will and constantly change.


You need more knowledge in other things.

TheRealOwner:


Wow I can relate to this soo much. I grew up believing the Bible Word for Word, letter for letter. The stories of the OT really fascinated me and I could not imagine any other thing being true.

However I grew older, became more knowledgeable about Science, Fossils, Carbon Dating, medical innovation and the outer space & other planets.

I became more religiously involved in my late teens and early 20s. Started actively preaching and ministering to people, as that was the way to 'please God'.

My quest for knowledge and 'finding the right answers' led me to discover so many things like mistranslated Bible verses, the Apocrypha, differences in doctrine & denominations, Bible verses that weren't original but added later, etc

It was a really turbulent time and I eventually came to some realizations about God and the world

I won't elaborate further, but let's just say I don't care about religious activities anymore and I have shifted my interests, time, resources and energy into information and things that will give me the kind of life I really want for myself

This is interesting! Thank you for sharing. Knowledge really sets one free.

Continue learning and keep an open mind! Go where the evidence and knowledge leads!

jesusjnr2020:

So the problem is not having "too much" knowledge, whatever that is, but making knowledge to take the place of God in one's life and become one's god.

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That is dogma.

The purpose of knowledge is to inform our opinions, beliefs and actions.

Acquiring knowledge with the goal of strengthening belief in a particular god out of around 4,000. Is self-limiting and often leads to contradicrions and cognitive problems.

I don't think being an atheist or theist makes you "more" or less intelligent per se.

I think the intelligence is always there. But in the absence of superstition and other thinking processes that rely on mythology and other ineffective systems, you are able to make use of the tools that have proven to work.

After i left religion, I now understand the value of logic and critical thinking. Which I would have looked down upon if I wasotherwise still very religious.

It's not about a spike in your IQ because you stopped believing. It's about a more frequent use of effective thinking processes and methods.

Religion is hypocrisy.

Don't think that this isn't a common occurrence in many Christian churches. We are only talking about this because Sammy had the courage to be vulnerable and come out publicly.

A lot of choir masters, deacons and other high members of the church use their positions to commit untold atrocities against other members.

It's truly a shit show, what Christianity turns people to, both in Nigeria and all over the world.

They dress luxuriously to church every Sunday, raising holy hands to God in prayer, and contribute great money in a bid to appease a non-existent God but in reality they are liars who don't ever practice what they preach. Their dark minds are full of strife, hypocrisy and many other sorts of evil.

I wonder what heaven is supposed to be like if it will be filled with people who are quite simply pretenders.

If dem like make them sign Messi.. Chelsea is a dusted club.

Christian Ignorance


In Genesis 2:17, God commands Adam and Eve, under the threat of death, to remain ignorant; ignorant of the knowledge of good and evil. And it seems like a lot of Christians, but by no means all, have, very seriously, taken this message to heart. They seem to revel in their own ignorance; to be proud of not knowing, or being unwilling to know, the truth about the world we inhabit.

This is coming from an ex-fundamentalist Baptist, who believed, for nearly 20 years, that the Genesis story was, in its entirety, literally true. I personally know what its like to take pleasure in ignorance. I remember sitting in biology class, thinking, “this is all bullshit. I came from Adam and Eve, not some monkey.” Eventually, however, my huger for knowledge won out, and I had to get rid of the fundamentalist bullshit that I had been raised to believe.

Now, when I look at fundamentalists and evangelicals, all I see is willful or easily cured ignorance. The scientific ignorance of 1st century goat-herders is completely excused; but it is, in my opinion, inexcusable to be ignorant of such basic scientific facts as evolution by natural selection, simple geology, or simple anthropology in the 21st century. We literally have all of human history and knowledge at our fingertips; it sits within arms reach of each one of us, just about every second of every day. At this point, the blame for ignorance falls on the individual.

However, I do acknowledge that we are all ignorant about something - nobody knows everything about everything - but some people are so ridiculously ignorant, in such fundamental subjects, that it wouldn’t be a stretch to call them an ignoramus. While I know some people are just not capable of grasping high-level scientific concepts, I wouldn’t place the average fundamentalist Christian in that group. The average fundamentalist Christian is fully capable of understanding some very complex subjects; they just won’t allow themselves to understand anything that contradicts their indoctrination. In those areas, they are willfully and happily ignorant.

As someone who wants to understand as much about as many things as I can, these displays of willful ignorance astonish and bewilder me. I can no longer wrap my head around how people are content to be ignorant. It just flabbergasts me when someone says “the earth is 6000 years old,” or “we didn’t come from a rock.” Like, seriously, the cure for ignorance is simple: pick up a nonfiction book on the subject and fucking read. It’s that easy, yet they won’t; and it saddens me.

I am no longer content to be ignorant, nor am I content to allow people to wallow in their own ignorance. I know I’m not the smartest or most educated person in the world, but if I could help lead just one person away from ignorance I would be happy. That’s why I can’t keep my mouth shut when I see my aunt deriding science or an old acquaintance spouting religiously inspired bullshit. We’ve come to a point where ignorance is a danger to the whole human race, and, though he was the furthest thing from an atheist, I’ll leave you with a quote from the reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

Reposted with permission from Jared Bridge.

Thoughts?

Speaklove:

#speaklove#
You said
" A god that resides in your mind. "
#me
So if you claimed he resides in my mind then that should be one if the evidences that he is real because ;the mind is one of the four components of the soul .

The human soul is a living matter ,
And the mind is not an ordinary term to describe the thinking faculty of a human but a factual space of existence within the soul of man .

Believing something is true IN YOUR MIND is not evidence that such things exists in reality.

If I believe that a hot cup of milk is rotating around the solar system, that doesn't make it true. Subjective experiences and anecdotes are just that, anecdotes.

"Reality" is not "Reality" because you can see or touch it ,rather it is about what you can or not see or what you can hear or not hear but

Wrong. Reality can be subjective, granted. But when we refer to reality, it's usually about objective reality in facts and observed phenomenons. Wishful thinking and opinions are not necessarily real and have little to do with reality.

So God was not or is not real because we think or imagined his existence but because we can see and feel his influence ,his power ,his dominion ,his artistic splendor displayed all over the wall of creation .

When and where did you see this god? Besides which god? Each religion (we have like 4,000 of them) can use this same line and what changes is they substitute Allah, Ifa, Obatala, Thor.

Seeing nature and thinking therefore God exists. DOES NOT mean that God exists. You're just making a leap to appeal to your preconceived belief.

We ourselves are one of the proofs of the existence and reality of god -in that we are constantly faced with bewilderment every time we behold the streams of miraculous innovations and new findings from experiment conducted by this wonderful being called man .

Yea, thats not how evidence works.

So even the findings done through scientific experiments are not(or should not be) for discrediting the existence of God but for pointing to undeniable and factual traits that are no less than the handiwork if a higher being
Whose splendor are greater than anything humans can think or imagine ,and this being can not be called anything less than God-the Creator.

Yall apologists used to claim thunder was god speaking, science came along and gave a clear explanation of how thunder works and how it merely a natural phenomenon which is not at all as a result.of supernatural or divine influence, the same has happened for explanations of many other things, such as gravity and genetics.

So far everything deemed supernatural has been exposed to be as a result of complete natural processes. No god needed

Science keeps making enquiries and making investigations based on facts and giving us explanations for observed phenomena while all you church folks do is say "yea god did it"

You need to step up and read the writing on the wall. Science is closing the god gap and religion is losing its grip in the minds of many with each passing day.

Xanax is also highly addictive and one can easily OD (overdose) on this drug.

It should be used under the supervision of a professional.

Nmezor:
Who brought this into 9ja?

We had it coming. Drugs are usually a manifestation of other deeper societal problems.

For example, Tramadol has been used by many workers to stay focused at work because in a harsh economy everyone wants to keep their jobs at all cost.

Tramadol is gateway drug it's only a matter of time and tolerance before the users develop addictiin for stronger substances.

Many programmers, music writers, labourers, construction workers etc use meth for increased productivity. Yahoo boys usually work at night night sleep comes. Meth can make you not need sleep for 10 days straight and you're bombing steadily.

Refer to Bella Shmurda's
Ice on my neck, Ice on my wrist. Many days I never sleep. I'm taking risk song.

In a country where you need to be on a constant grind yo make ends meet, it's only a matter of time.

When you have the demand, the supply will come.

Karleb:


How can I unread these?

Education includes the facts.

The meth inital high is said to be the most happiest feeling a human can ever have.

It's why most users get addicted from the first puff. After using it and it wears off..Its all you can think of.
You simply just want to get that feeling again..and again.. and again and you're in.

The feeling is truly amazing.

But the thing is, the higher you go, the bigger the fall.
Before you use meth, say goodbye to your family and friends and sell your belongings.

Because you WILL definitely lose them and you will eventually sell your things. Only by doing it now you will properly do a send off your family and you will sell your things for the actual price of what they're worth.

dreh17:
Outta curiosity;
Is this the same drug from the movie Breaking Bad?

Anything different from marijuana should be completely banned from our society.

Yes, it's still meth. But usually in the real world, to cut cost drug dealers "cut" (dilute) the meth with other substances to increase profit. It's stuff like that causes the tooth decay (Google meth mouth) and other skin stuff and sometimes even heart attacks and death in users.

Heisenberg's meth (blue sky) was obviously more purer/cleaner and that's why it was sought for by dealers and users.

However, more meth means more a stronger addiction that eventually causes the users to seek for inpure meth when the normal one is too expensive for them (meth heads usually can't keep jobs for long) or unavailable( like a police bust).

It's a rabbit hole that ends very badly 99.99% of the time.

Nmezor:
My God . Na poison o

Truly a poison. Methamphetamine is one hell of a drug. Not even heroine (which is itself highly dangerous) comes close.

Meth literally transforms human beings into aliens/supermen.

Meth can cause you to be up without sleep for 7 days straight. And your concentration and focus will still be higher than normal people who have been sleeping.

Someone on meth can hear sounds from the 3 next rooms. And can finish 10 books in one week. All this while feeling Happy like crazy.

It literally turns a man into a beast. It's why meth is a journey most people never recover from. One high is enough to get you hooked forever.

lkillbrokehoes:
I actually don't know what people gain by using hard drugs, i really don't know.

Methamphetamine is on a different level from other classic hard drugs bro.

Your brain releases on average 250 dopamine units during a mind blowing orgasm while having sex.

Taking Methamphetamine alone tricks the brain into releasing 1300 dopamine units. That x6 of an orgasm.

An orgasm "high" is about 15 secs to 30 secs max. Meth high can last for hours.

Imagine feeling uncontrollable orgasms for 12 hours straight. This drug is truly the Devil's candy.