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Tonto is one of the good looking celebrities we have actually.

destinie2019:
You have to be open to the freedoms of others. You can't just be elected and become the determinant of what people can or cannot do. An elected president is not an emperor, or a king. Certainly not a god or a deity.
This is democracy!

Its okay to determine what people should do and not do.

That's what a law is basically. Dos and Don'ts

Dictating what constitutes freedom of speech is one area that can easily degenerate into tyranny.

Allowing people to speak their mind is less dangerous than not allowing people say what they have in mind.
At least now I know what you're thinking.

How do you determine what should be considered as hate speech?
Who gets to define what hate means?
Its a daisy pot to cook in.

pfadom:
Only an irrational mind will find nothing wrong with his statement. Reasonable people don't leave loop holes for mischievous elements to twist their words.

He actually created avenues for such twists. Otherwise, what connection exist between the release of Dasuki/Sowore and gunmen attack on GEJ home in Bayelsa?

Easily!!

He shouldn't have made that statement at all.
Its nothing but a conspiracy theory, not something to throw around lightly.

Its unguarded and manipulating the context to save face seems even more foolish.

Just apologise.

One of the best threads this year.

the premise of catching up to your friends will only hold you down.

I don't see a win in it.

you may never catch up or the shallowness of the pursuit hits you with a darker depression when you catch up.

there's no win here.

my advice is to create a job for yourself if there isn't any that wants you.

how do you do that? By learning a skill.
Learn a skill and run it like a personalized service.

Find a way to use the contacts on your phone or your followers on SM, that's a database people barely utilize.

or better still use mathematics to your advantage

Aim to submit 100 CVs in the next 1 month, let's see if the devil is that dilligent.

Forget about your friends, they are on their own journey.
what matters is the quality of the journey.

You have enough intelligence to live a remarkable story.

They are no report sheets afterlife, all we have here is all that matters.
Don't spend it worrying about a shallow catch up.

What makes you so sure your friends are a reliable measurement for your success or path?

This is an unguarded statement.

This brother has to be careful with his accusations, don't let hate take your rationality.

midnighter:
Yes! I'm interested. It's something for me to chew on

LOL. Okay.

can I recommend a book?

if yes,
Please read "Man and his symbols" by Carl Jung

I can send it to your email if you want.

Iamgrey5:
No sir

Well known is not popular by default.

A person can be well known and notorious instead of being popular

A person can be well known and people maybe indifferent about him or her.

A person that is well known and popular would receive positive recommendations from the people as specified in the definition you posted earlier.

"regarded with great favor, approval or affection especially by the general public"

My bad.

I was wrong, I had to go do some reading on it.

You're correct.

one step away from ignorance....lol

Iamgrey5:
Bro I am tired of responding to you.

I clearly wrote that Sowore was well known but not popular in my initial comment.

So I don't know why we are still arguing this

This is your first response to me, you were arguing with someone else I just followed it.

Anything well known is popular by nature.

What dictionary is that?

Iamgrey5:
Read my comment again but slowly this time.

I wrote "even though he was known to everyone he wasn't popular"

Definition of popular

regarded with favor, approval, or affection by an acquaintance or acquaintances

You've perverted the meaning of popular

The same dictionary you got that meaning from said from said "regarded with great favor, approval or affection especially by the general public"

You added the latter to support your argument

LadiIshola:
Victory at long last.... Either way it's a loss to the federal government. You keep him and disobey court orders, you're giving people more reasons to continue to struggle..... You now release him after much pressure it's definitely evident that we can only achieve this much and more through continuous struggle.

Why do you want the federal government to lose?

Why is it important for there to be a winner in this struggle?

Let good ideas reign not humans winning?
That's how bad ideas propagate, when we support people not ideas

midnighter:
So why are they still sacred?

The humans playing the idea aren't sacred but the idea itself

The king seizes being human once he ascends the throne.
That regard is where the privileges stem from, the same exact reason you sit there and listen to a man of God preach or teacher teach.

Or a parent parent you regardless of their flaws, because they are a persona for the authority they wield over you.

They embody ideas we have high regards for, probably because these ideas are regulatory by nature.

They are primitive ideas, scientific reasoning is just a very recent development..
How do you think the primitive man was able to conduct himself without science?
Culture wasn't a scientific discovery

Men never thought that way since time, we accorded personalities to ideas that regulated human behaviour.

I can get into this deeply if you're interested.

Cousin9999:
I think young women should be taught how to do makeup, but they shouldn't be allowed to wear it until they're a legal adult or unless it's stage makeup or just playing dress-up.

It's just bad parenting to allow anything else.

I like this idea better than everything I've read so far. I agree with the idea of teaching them how to use it properly

But...
Wouldn't it be tempting for the child to try when you aren't there?
What would you do to reduce the chances of it occurring in your absence?

That's where I for see danger in the idea

Mrhonesty:
Pls, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. No other name given in Heaven and Earth that can save than JESUS. If u die waiting for imes that will never come, sorry.

You're not allowed to mock someone else's religion.

If you believe in Jesus christ, then he is allowed to believe in ime.

What makes you so sure of your own belief?

Both lack tangible evidence

Enemyofpeace:
This boy seems not to know have respect for the throne he is occupying. He is just behaving just like a Yahoo boy. Maximum respect to the oba of Benin, that one na king for Nigeria and the entire world, no be this one wey just dey do anyhow like jaguda

I'm curious,

How is this action disrespectful to the throne?

YoungLionken:
What sort of mockery is this.

It is obvious that he's not supposed to be doing this, considering his pedigree.

If you like argue but, the truth remains unchanged...

What exactly is being mocked?

What's his pedigree? And why isn't he supposed to do it?

SugarMuffin:
Wetin tiwa wear sef her stylist needs to be sacked

That's the point, to get your attention.

Your attention is money.

TwoBottles:
The say "masquerades are ancestral spirits" but I once saw one taking pap and akara. Do spirits eat?

They are only representatives of the idea of ancestral spirits. It doesn't make them transhuman.

Its like acting, they are playing a character.

nextstep:
Leaders who don't provide good schools, good hospitals, good roads, and instead steal all the money... are they the ones who should be complaining about the youths that they raised?

But seriously, every generation since Plato has complained about the deterioration of morals in the youths.
Imagine what Nigerian parents were saying about those 1960's highlife kids who just want to dance and drink and hang out in music joints. Then another generation complained about the kids of the disco 70's who just wanted to dance and smoke. Then they complained about those kids in 80's who just want to breakdance and wear jerry curls. Now those parents who danced and smoked in 60's 70's 80's are complaining about kids doing the very same thing in 2010's.

And I won't be surprised to read that Naira Marley himself complains about "kids these days" in 2040's.

Thank You!

The redundant nature of our current music is a direct reflection of our nation's booming redundancy.

That's the role of the artist in the society

okenwaa:
Stupid write up.

The government should be your major concern and not an individual.

Before NM broke into limelight, the youths have started doing drugs,fraud,prostitution etc. The system made them this way.

Do a write up on bad leadership and poor parenting and act like you have SENSE for once.


Naira is least of your problems!!!

People are more concerned with feeling morally superior than understanding a problem.

Its about feeling good about yourself than understanding why he has so much supporters.

They probably think his supporters are stupid and their support is one proof of their stupidity.

You will make zero progress solving the conundrum whilst viewing people through that lens.

philip0906:
Succinct! He'll soon be a thing of the past. Another rave artist, will show up the scene and usurp his position. Hopefully, he's sensible to ride on this fame and milk it as much as he can.

But olamide lasted...

Wizkid too

Davido too

They are all lasting


They are several levels of consuming art.
At some point people start consuming the artist in a way that distorts their perception of the art made by the artist.

Liposure:
Lets be honest wit ourselves.if our elders had laid a good foundation. do u tink nairamarley would trend.

Did the elders of our current elders lay a good foundation for them to lay one for us?

Blazebond:
As far as I am concerned,the day u start talking all this "I am a marlian" nonsense,Na that day your mumu start,believe me,all of Una when dey claim marlian no get sense,adults go dey misbehave that claim say na "marlian" Dem be.

Have you ever asked a marlian what it means to be a marlian?

Let's stop with the moral superiority.
Understand the term first

Why do they find his music meaningful?
Why do they find living through him meaningful?

Aidejay:
President Muhammadu Buhari: A true reflection of the large chunk of Nigerian eldery

OP your post ended up being you throwing blame here and there and factoring naira maley into it. Bad leadership=rotten youths. Rotten youths= bad leadership. No solutions provided just write and go.

There's nothing wrong with stating a problem clearly, even if you don't have a solution.

The least a writer can do is state a problem at its highest resolution.

KosiGee:
The word is INTEGRITY... maybe you can add transparency or honesty. Something that lots of countries, businesses and individuals lack.

Btw, I had to look closely to convince myself that the car pictured was really Audi and not Avdi or Audl. China can be funny.

If the car is resprayed by the maker, can it still be considered new?

crafteck:
They could have turned the matter around and made money, daughter could advertise the scratched cars.

Make it look artsy right?

Lol.
And inflate the cost too

RZArecta2:
One car I can understand, maybe two but TEN ? I don’t understand the level of negligence both parents will have to be on not to notice their child thereby giving her enough time to scratch ten cars

Ah ah na!

How many minutes will that take really?

Its a car shop, the child is allowed to look around.

You think you can be alert all times with a child?
Its that ideal attainable?

The child will wear down your attention

Have you been with kids before?

Conceptman:
Sorry Ronald, no extra time you can't win all the time

Hmm..

I love the play on 'time' there.

Zerlo:
Alright, what ever the story might be I believe your best bet is abstinence. This is a clear case of addiction and it might feel impossible or very difficult to stop but with a strong-willed mind, u can pull it off.
Ask your self, what exactly do I gain from sex and what exactly am I losing. Your answer will be an extra motivation to stop, reduce or stop completely.
Personally, I feel sex is highly overrated. Seeing people bragging on their body counts or sexcapades is nauseating. If u like have sex with Miss world, it doesn't add a value to u.
So bro, make a choice today to break away from the shackles of sex enslavement and liberate your soul. Cheers.

Sex has a gain. It can lead to reproduction.

The problem isn't sex but the abuse of it.

Offpoint:
5 days in a week, are you hopeless?

Lmao.

How is it that those 5 guys were in one movie

What's the name of the film?

NotBeenPaid:

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Naira Marley is just a silly idiot - His fans included.

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That would be a shallow way to categorise people.
There's a reason behind the attraction people have for him and his work.

He's chosen as their avatar for a reason, seek that reason and you'll find a richer understanding.

You don't get to call people fools without knowing what's driving the folly.
That's what constitutes folly really; unguarded statements