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PAGAN9JA:
Dont pastors and imams insult traditional religions and Gods everyday in sermons?

Isnt that blasphemy?

explorer250:
there should be freedom of belief and association in this country.

tintingz:
Is the Qur'an Allah's words? Yes or No?

budaatum:
buda is not a believer in anything, tingz, and prefers to understand instead since believing is unthinking and requires a lack of sceptism which buda happens to have imbibed massive doses of.

A more accurate question to ask someone like buda would be, What does it mean to say the Quran is the Word of Allah? Which I would answer though you have not asked.

I wonder if you are familiar with the Temptation of Christ where satan tempted Jesus with quotes from the Bible? That story shows how words in a book of God can be twisted in such a way that they become the words of satan, just as some do with the words in the Quran.

To say the Quran is the Word of Allah is to say that one has a viewpoint that makes one's understanding conform with one's idea of Allah. If ones understanding of Allah is wisdom and mercy ones understanding of the Quran will be a wise and merciful, and if one's understanding of Allah is that of an ignorant tyrant, one will be ignorant and tyranical.

The Quran itself is merely words in a book until one breathes the breathe of understanding into them.

phemmyfour:
Resend the link, this one is not working

budaatum:
For full documentary.

Louis Theroux Law and Disorder in Lagos

BackllGodNaija:
I'd say it's better to act as fools than to actually be one. Perhaps that's the best way to make fools know how foolish it is to be one. So why not advise yourself instead?

BackllGodNaija:
Yeah, considering that I was only acting as the fools who do so, you just might have a point.

BackllGodNaija:
Yeah, more like only fools would ask a proof for a proof...

By the way, my phone don't like fools, so look for one that does to like or buy.

BackllGodNaija:
What an irony! The best way to tell me I was lying (which in itself was a lie) was to lie lol! It's obvious you're just seeking something else to clutching at as your pals here since all your straws have hence been destroyed. The same label ya'll don't consider good enough to prove that man's maker exist, is that which you said my phone would have used to prove to me it's maker exists? It seems you are too blind to realize from the Op that I'm not that foolish...I don't need my phone to point any label but just using my phone to prove how foolish that logic of atheists is.

How if you still able to comprehend the concept, you may yet refer to @playthepiano's comments. Thanks.

budaatum:
Do know that I trust your phone more than most humans though, since anyone who does not say they were made by their mummy and daddy is either lying or think they dropped down from God's factory somewhere or are too young to know how humans are made.

Delimar47:
It's a work visa. After 6 years of renewals if you still in system and have not been redeployed outside the US, it's at company discretion to file for PR for you. Within 3-4 years, you can individually file for citizenship.

Nuel4:
Those of you on this thread confidently declaring how he is going to lose so bad in November, if you are truly confident of the left's imminent victory, why not relax and savor your victory when you beat him?

"We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be!"

Delimar47:
https://www.uscis.gov/

wirinet:
Please delete all posts showing your location. It's dangerous revealing your location on social media. No matter what evidence you provide, MAGAs will never believe you. They have been primed to believe only what come out from the mouth of their lord and saviour, so fact and reality means nothing to them.

You are simply wasting your time. Just make your point and ignore their tantrums thereafter.

salford1:
Trump is busy shooting himself in the foot

CoronaVirusRelo:
smh.....

Do you know what an H1B is?

sino:
Now you have unraveled the deceptions of some of the "neo atheists" and their modus operandi. I dear say, it is basically lip service to all these philosophical jargons. Eventually, they have become what they claim to want to eradicate. This is not surprising, after all we are all humans with our flaws...

Indeed, Islam had made seeking knowledge compulsory on both males and females in one of the reported sayings of the Prophet (SAW), and it is quite instructive that the first verse revealed was about seeking knowledge, Allah (SWT) Says in the Qur'an: "Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists)". One of the things frowned at in Islam is blind followership, every scholar of Islam is to be held based on the standards of the Qur'an and Sunnah, hence, it is pertinent to seek the knowledge of these two, else you might be easily misled. Of course, studying the Qur'an and Sunnah isn't about just learning how to read them, as some of these ex Muslims have claimed, but understanding! Allah SWT Says: "(This is) a Book (the Quran) which We have sent down to you, full of blessings that they may ponder (reflect) over its Verses, and that men of understanding may remember." (Qur'an 38:29) Also Allah SWT Says,"...Say, "Are those who know equal to those who do not know?" Only they will remember [who are] people of understanding." (Qur'an 39:9).

"O you who believe! If a rebellious evil person comes to you with a news, verify it, lest you harm people in ignorance, and afterwards you become regretful to what you have done." (Qur'an 49:6)

The verse above captures the ignorance of tintingz and the likes who hold on to the claims of terrorists and surprisingly, suspend their skepticism to become zombies! And no matter how you try to make them see the fallacy of their views, just like fanatics, they stick to their preconceived opinions. It is always a pathetic view...

I agree with the need to make people read more, have access to books...but when poverty ochestrated by the powers that be, bites hard, people loose the patience to seek understanding, they becomes tools in the hands of their benefactors...

Indeed, we can't really agree on everything, but we can learn from each other and that to me is the hallmark of intellectual discuss.

Pst Gbenro (UberNigeria) wrote:

I want to tell a story about how Enviroments impact Strategy.

When @UberNigeria came to Nigeria, they had a world class strategy.

There was one flaw in their Strategy, it only worked "Ceteris Paribus".

So one of the strategies was to encourage New riders/Drivers to Sign up.

Lets start with the riders.
Whenever a new person signed up on @Uber they gave a promo code.

Typically this was between 1000, and 3000 naira.

Sounds good right? Just wait.

Nigerians, started multiple signups. So if I wanted to go out, I would create a new account.

Ride free.

When I get there, I would create another and ride back. Also free.

Uber tried their best to mitigate this fraud, tried to limit it phone numbers.

But here in Lagos and Abuja each one of us has 4 lines, even if you don’t.

(New sim 200.
Free ride 2000. Net profit 1800).

So they started locking phones to 3 acccounts per phone. That was just the riders o.

Now to the drivers.

First there was the signup bonus.

Basically everytime you introduced someone to drive on Uber, Uber paid you 40,000 naira.

I am not going to lie this was part of my motivation.

So first and foremost there was the issue where people would sign up and not drive. When you get the money you share them.

Uber now said no problem.

They would only pay after 20 trips �.
People would register, drive the Trips, collect the Bonus and Stop Driving.

You also know In Nigeria we had the fleet Option, so I would hire a driver, register him and on every driver, make 40k.

*Now come the Abuja Airport Incentives.*

Part of the plan was to undercut local taxis, so in Abuja, an Airport to Town trip was between 4-5k.

Its been like that for years, Uber came and said we will carry this route for 3500. So to encourage Drivers, Uber now said okay.
If a rider pay you 3500, we will then give you a matching bonus of 3500 making the Trip 7000.

Now wait for Nigerian drivers scam. Beloved,
eye hath not seen, nor ear hath ever heard,
neither had it entered the heart of Uber the kind of Fraud that happened next.

Now you remember the earlier rider fraud?

So a Driver, creates a new Rider = +2000
Requests himself to the airport, Cash trip, 3500 = -1500 get paid =7000.
Round Trip = 14000.

An enterprising Fraudster can do 10 Roundtrips to the Airport in a day.
That's #140,000. Without picking a single person.
How much do you earn from this scam?. Work it out.
Uber tried everything.
From Geofencing the Airport to Not allowing people request from the same spot.
They tried everything but Nigerians always beat through their incentives strategy.

They just had to remove all incentives in Nigeria.

Essentially, what I am saying is one needs a Nigerian strategy to solve a Nigeria problem.

This is how a beautiful strategy that has been tried everywhere else including Ghana failed in Nigeria.

ejighikemeuwa:
BE INFORMED: Among all the religious leaders of the world only Jesus Christ made these claims: (l am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me) John 14 vs 6. Again I am the resurrection and life; He died on the third day He rose and still a life till today and will ever live for ever unto eternity AMEN.

0temSapien:
Author Ishi, you sef have joined them ba. You are calling me, god Otem, a psycho, just because you haven't discovered your godhood yet. May your inner eyes be open.

Ishilove:
This is the image you conjure up in my head.

Ishilove:
Indeed. It flies over your head like fighter jets.

Ishilove:
Lmaaaaao!

Buda abeg I cannot laugh too much. I'm at work .

Do you know the image you cut? Skinny legs and a fat stomach. That's reverse Kwashiokor

Ishilove:
Heh. I was being sarcastic.

Ishilove:
One cuppa a day for us Nigerians is excessive because most of us drink ours with milk, sugar and bread/biscuit. I can't imagine drinking coffee every day. It will give one severe, anus distorting constipation.

I recall back in the university when I went for midnight prep with some of my mates. Someone would bring a flask of hot coffee to share, another would bring cracker biscuits. After drinking, everyone would become hyper. Everyone but Ishilove. I'd close my eyes briefly to 'gather my thoughts' and when I open them, it would be 4 am, or even 4.30. This happened on like 3 different occasions and I was becoming worried that I was under spiritual attack.

It was after I declined their offer of coffee on the last occasion that I realized the coffee was the problem. Instead of making me alert, it immediately made me sleep. Caffeine till date makes me sleep so if I start my day with coffee like you folks, I'd be very lethargic for the rest of the morning.

Ishilove:
Then you, Buda, must have a very small stomach if this baby sized portion fills you up. There's no way you're 80kg if you always eat like this.

Now I feel like grounding you for not eating properly. No internet, TV or midnight walks until you eat more. Lol