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I checked his profile too. Not that I would have adopted him even if he were a saint, but it seems like he just doesn't learn! He watched the harm and destruction his father's habit caused his mum and those around him and took on the same habit, so what's to say he wouldn't inflict the same harm and destruction on his adoptee if he couldn't resist inflicting it on his own dear mum?

Your solution is not adoption op. You just keep watching where your father ends up and ask yourself if that's where you are going too. If you like it, knock yourself out enjoying the trip to destruction. But if you don't then perhaps choose a different destination.

Your life is in your own hands, or feet, should I say, since we're talking journeys here. Just remember you might one day read a thread on here by ChildOfChildOfDoom and titled "My Grandfather And My Father And I Are Criminals And I'm A Wasted Sperm!"

Good luck now!

Here's some education on the chicken.

https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/chickens/2013/05/01/evolutionary-history-of-the-chicken-pigeon-and-other-birds/

You know you can get your money back?

Hey, guess what... Red Bull doesn't "give you wings" after all.

The famous energy drink slogan has been found to be false after a US lawsuit and the company has agreed to compensate customers who bought it in America between 2002 and 2014.

Legal papers specify that no proof of purchase is necessary.

Anyone in the US who bought at least one can, in the last 12 years, could be entitled $10 (£6.17) cash or $15 (£9.26) worth of Red Bull goods.

The false ad lawsuit all started in 2013 by a US consumer, Benjamin Careathers, who believed the company's slogan "Red Bull gives you wings" is dishonest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/29550003/so-red-bull-doesnt-actually-give-you-wings

colizee:
That's weird....Do you have a terminal disease or something?

No terminals.

Conners:
I meant in Nigeria here, getting a job after graduation is not always guaranteed no matter the course you study. And thanks for ur advice and links,I'll definitely check them

"The world is an oyster" someone once told me. Don't know why though cos they stink of piss but I'm told it's good advice.

owelle22:
And you don't know nairaland is from 18yrs & above

Say who?

Sonfethopia:
Lol 13 y/o wen join NL in 2006. Hahaha.

2019 - 2006 = 13

My Parents are ambitious.

I was registered before I was formed in the womb.

I don't know "graduating well with medicine is like a 50% assurance of getting a well paying job to live comfortably"! Are you sure your stats are correct and you haven't included some who did not graduate well? Please send me their details so I can get them employed in Vietnam, if not UK, so they can get paid reasonably well and live relatively comfortably.

There's a thread here somewhere lamenting that doctors get paid more than every other profession. I suggest you look for it and read. Most graduates in medicine I know have 100% well paid jobs and live comfortably because they are in demand all over the earth!

As for your question, I don't think you should study meducine until you get your stats right as there's no point investing in such strenous education on a 50% chance of getting a well paid job. Perhaps try nursing, or become a physio, first.

Here's a couple of threads that might help you decide, and good luck.

https://www.nairaland.com/5489784/medical-school-experience-fighting-spirit/4#83438186

https://www.nairaland.com/1049407/medical-students-aspirants-thread#12193318

wickedtuna:
Lol...i didnt know budaa to be one who gets worked up over people's opinion

Worked up over a dumb mut, lol.

I don't, not really. Just that his opinion is dumb and I'm educating him because I'd rather he not perish. And since he does it all over the place where he easily ignores it, I figured to collect them for him so he can no more avoid himself.

tintingz:
Humans train them.

Really? So what about a dog or a cat or a chicken in the wild where there's no humans? How do they know where to go get their food and not eat their offsprings instead?

tintingz:
There must be a time the human behavior is just like other animals that have no beliefs.

The reason I asked if animals have beliefs.

You never did say if you ever had a dog or a cat or a chicken, and if they had the knowledge to recognise you as their owner so they didn't instinctively bite you and scratch you and peck at you and believe or knew their food came from you.

ctleurocollege:
We don't care about diwali

Who's we? Try speaking for yourself!

Some do care about their neighbours even if they are far away in India!

Here's one as posted on prayer (and some other words) from another thread.

I've added the pictures too.

budaatum:
Whatever you find they mean to you, but your understanding might not be what they mean or be intended to mean, after all, you understand at your lazy level and don't possibly know it all.

Prayer, for me, for instance means working out what I want, as in putting my goals and aspirations in to words so I can state it clearly for myself. Its the first step in working out what action to take to accomplish my goals and aspirations, after all, its not like I ever prayed for my dinner without going into the kitchen to cook it.

Faith is that my actions are achievable and I am capable of achieving my goals, after all, should I not have faith I would eat after I labour in the kitchen?

Afterlife is what you imagine it to be. I concern myself with my here and now and leave the afterlife to take care of itself in due course. It is a fact though that after labouring in the kitchen I will have my dinner to eat.

And it is the divine consequence of my laboring in the kitchen that my dinner in the end appears and that after eating it I am now full.

I suggest you try being a skeptical Greek like us instead of a believing Nigerian! It's how I got my dinner of egg, ham and mushroom ommelete with a side of home made bread with cashew nut butter and olives on the side (see below so you don't think it is imaginary), instead of being lazy and believing those words mean what you've been indoctrinated into thinking they might mean.

My apologies for not posting a picture of my full belly.

tintingz:
But there must be a time they never had, that time brought out beliefs.

Do you know that somewhere in the west it was believed that women lifted up their hindlegs? It made the owners of donkeys pretty wealthy in fact.

There was also a time it was believed amongst some that the creator of all things lived on the moon until some came along and said no it didn't, it lived behind the sun. Some mooners didn't even stop believing the creator of all things lived on the moon until Armstrong landed on the moon and found no creator.

There was never a time humans did not have beliefs. They were more ignorant so had no other way to explain things except what the chose to think up and believe.

tintingz:
Forget the argument, those images are attractive.

The real thing was delicious and filling.

tintingz:
So you saying religion didn't give people imaginary hope?

Prayers, faith, afterlife, divine consequences what are they?

Whatever you find they mean to you, but your understanding might not be what they mean or be intended to mean, after all, you understand at your lazy level and don't possibly know it all.

Prayer, for me, for instance means working out what I want, as in putting my goals and aspirations in to words so I can state it clearly for myself. Its the first step in working out what action to take to accomplish my goals and aspirations, after all, its not like I ever prayed for my dinner without going into the kitchen to cook it.

Faith is that my actions are achievable and I am capable of achieving my goals, after all, should I not have faith I would eat after I labour in the kitchen?

Afterlife is what you imagine it to be. I concern myself with my here and now and leave the afterlife to take care of itself in due course. It is a fact though that after labouring in the kitchen I will have my dinner to eat.

And it is the divine consequence of my laboring in the kitchen that my dinner in the end appears and that after eating it I am now full.

I suggest you try being a skeptical Greek like us instead of a believing Nigerian! It's how I got my dinner of egg, ham and mushroom ommelete with a side of home made bread with cashew nut butter and olives on the side (see below so you don't think it is imaginary), instead of being lazy and believing those words mean what you've been indoctrinated into thinking they might mean.

My apologies for not posting a picture of my full belly.

Beosten:
Aluko is her father's name from your example.

I want it as my daughter's middle name.

It's your daughter. Do what pleases you! I know a person named Blessing Aluko Banke. The beauty of the name so pleases me that that is exactly what I call her.

DiamondSports:
The government needs to do something before it gets worse

Yes, I agree. The government should impose a 10 year jail term on anyone who tarnishes Nigeria abroad!

I'm sure you meant as a first name, still.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eniola_Aluko?wprov=sfla1

omoiyamayor:
From my opinion I think it's more that our bad activities abroad,population and low unemployment % contributes too.check countries with few people like Seychelles,Swaziland or Benin.

Don't mind some! We will go and tarnish ourselves abroad then refuse to take responsibility for tarnishing ourselves and blame our passport for tarnishing us as if brain deadness and an inability to properly reason is not tarnishing enough!

Shior!

tintingz:
SMH. You keep missing my point.

Did you read where I said "religion took advantage of this human weakness"?

Are you saying religion didn't give some sort of opium(imaginary hope) to people in need of it?

Yes, I am saying "religion didn't give some sort of opium(imaginary hope) to people in need of it". And if you were a skeptic Greek, you would understand that an individual's opium induced ignorant misunderstanding is not what religion teaches instead of insisting that the 2+2=7 of an individual is due to the teaching of mathematics, as you are doing here!

Perhaps consider that you might have missed the point.

Such therapy – which is already illegal in Domen's home state of California – helped Domen go from gay guy to heterosexual husband and dad.

The law does not stop you seeking sexual orientation conversion if you want to. What it stops you doing is imposing it on unwilling individuals, and basically respecting the individual's right to go to heaven or hell!

Conversion therapy

See also: List of U.S. jurisdictions banning conversion therapy
In August 2012, the California State Assembly approved SB 1172 prohibiting mental health providers from engaging in sexual orientation change efforts (such as conversion therapy) with LGBT minors. It was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown on September 29, 2012. The law would have gone into effect January 1, 2013, but was being challenged in Pickup v. Brown and Welch v. Brown.

On August 29, 2013, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals suspended the injunction on SB 1172 and rejected the plaintiffs' claims against allowing for the ban on conversion therapy to go into effect. On June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court held a conference on whether or not to grant certiorari to Pickup v. Brown. Certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court on June 30, 2014.

AB 2943, a bill by Assemblyman Evan Low which would have extended the ban to paid conversion therapy for adults, was approved in 2018 but withdrawn by Low before final approval. It would have been the first statewide ban applying to adults.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_California?wprov=sfla1

tintingz:
This is not my point.

Humans will always imagine some sort of hope when in trouble or depressed, religion took advantage of this weakness and develop different sort of opium pills.

No humans is immune to debt even wealthy people have debt.

In this thread it depict that in case when you're in debt, take this opium pills to chill your mind.

I repeat, you are blaming the opium induced misunderstanding of one individual on the entire religion.

Now he's asking you all to vote for him so he can sell the goose that lays the Nigeria golden egg so he can cook it and sit down and eat it like he ate up those companies he ate up under his big fat belly campadre and my kinsman obj!

I swear to my fellow Nigerians, that if we ever become so stupid that we elect Atiku as the President, I will sit down and eat the Nigerian goose that lays the golden eggs with them, because, those who are too stupid to not learn from Aesop, definitely deserve to starve!

tintingz:
The way religion give their members some pill of opium is funny. I think humans someway and somehow will always seek for imaginary hope a.k.a opium, because of our imperfection.

Religion is a good service in this.

I think you blame the opium induced misunderstanding of one individual on the entire religion. There are parts of the book that warn against borrowing and debt, which those not opium induced would be aware of.

O ye who believe! Fear Allah, and give up what remains of your demand for usury, if ye are indeed believers. Sūrat l-baqarah

Wouldn't an intelligent person reading that text, which they should have done before getting into debt, not have a better understanding and likely not get into debt in the first place?

shadeyinka:
Let me ask you a practical question.

1. How does one project Gods love and plan of salvation to one who voraciously oppose His knowledge.
(Especially on a forum like NL)
2. How can one point a sin and not sound as being judgemental?

My attempt at a response is here.

shadeyinka:
Let me ask you a practical question.

1. How does one project Gods love and plan of salvation to one who voraciously oppose His knowledge.
(Especially on a forum like NL)

When I first read your practical question as reproduced above, I was astounded. And then a mist covered my eyes so that I could no more see nor read anything else and clutter my mind, and therefore had the time to fully consider your practical question in all it's glory, dare I say, seeking first to understand that which you ask.

And when its implications became aware to me I was in awe. And I could not eat, so I filled up my bath with hot water and added cleansing oils to purify my body and hopefully my mind. After which I went to bed and lay there and eventually slept, as I could not see to do anything else. And this morning I awoke with my empty belly but my sight and my mind restored, and can only now attempt to respond to your practical question, with apologies for the delay. May "God"s love and plan of salvation" be projected.

Your first question "How does one project Gods love and plan of salvation to one who voraciously oppose His knowledge?" Is of a profoundness that is indeed immense. For though it might not initially be obvious, you ask a question that only God alone who continously loves and plans the salvation of all humans who have mostly "voraciously opposed His knowledge" has answered. And in fact can be read as "how can one become the Messiah?" Or even "How can one become like God!?" And you ask lowly mere mortal buda! And no wonder I went blind!

But thankfully we have afore us a full record of God's answer, or at least a record of God answering it, a short record of which I shall give. For when it is written that "Of the fruit of the Knowledge of Good and Evil though shalt not eat least you die", God was projecting "God's love and plan of salvation". Adam and Eve "voraciously opposed His knowledge" andate the fruit however, and did not die, despite the accepted, and dare I say, misunderstood, and believe instead, that they did die, though many many years followed during which they indeed lived, to wit I say may the Lord God give understanding of the projection of "God's love and plan of salvation" to us all who live.

A reading of the Holy Words show how God and those he has appointed projected "God's love and plan of salvation" over time. Some projections were by threats (you shall die, go to hell, be rained on to death, be destroyed by fire, will not be saved and go to hell etc), and some were by other means (fires in a bush, donkeys speaking, Wisdom crying, the Word becoming flesh, love love love, etc), all so that we may learn and continue the work that God has always done, which is to project "God's love and plan of salvation", and to wit you now ask how.

So, first, let us see some specific ways in which God has projected "God's love and plan of salvation" and learn to become like God.

When Moses went up the mountain, he returned with a projected record of "God's love and plan of salvation". And for that I rejoice immensely, though we "voraciously opposed His knowledge" and created a calf of gold. And when God rained down rain on the earth, it was to project "God's love and plan of salvation". And the earth was cleansed. But we "voraciously opposed His knowledge", and the earth got dirtied again with sin. When the Lord set Samuel over the Israelites, it was to project "God's love and plan of salvation". And then others followed, Kings and Prophets all to project "God's love and plan of salvation". And the Lord sent Jonah to the people of Nineveh to project "God's love and plan of salvation". And we "voraciously opposed His knowledge" and hearkened not. Then Wisdom raised her voice and called out aloud in the open public square so those who have eyes and ears may see and hear the projection of "God's love and plan of salvation" yet we "voraciously opposed His knowledge". And the Lord so loved the entire world, and changed tack, and sent the Messiah Jesus Christ to project "God's love and plan of salvation", but "voraciously opposed His knowledge", and we crucified him unto heaven instead and placed him at the right hand of God and from there he continues to project "God's love and plan of salvation". Then Paul got struck down on the way to Damascus to project "God's love and plan of salvation". And the church was born to bring that plan of love and salvation to we the Gentiles. And much time passed, and we had the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and it entered into you Shade so you asked the questions you asked above which blinded buda and made buda not eat for 24 hours, all so that "God's love and plan of salvation" may be projected. And so we now make words here on NL in hope that that same purpose, the projection of "God's love and plan of salvation", may continue though we deign not to be as God, but according to God's plan of projecting "God's love and plan of salvation" to the Glory of God who art in heaven and for the continued benefit of all humankind here on earth, amen.

That (and all those I have not listed but which can be found in the Holy Word of God), is how "God's love and plan of salvation" is projected - by God, who has immense Knowledge and Wisdom and who has been from the very beginning of time and knows and sees more than we can ever possibly know or see - to us, who have at all times "voraciously opposed His Knowledge". For though we are blind, we say we see. The Light shines in the dark in which we dwell but we claim we are in the light, and not a single one of us is willing to become as a child because how shall grown up we be born again and become as innocent children and enter in through the narrow gate of understanding when we already are fully grown, assuming to know it all while believing that which we comprehendeth not and "voraciously opposed His knowledge"? Are we not all mere trembling believers who claim we understand, while creating others who are like us and in our own images, 'believers' in our own ignorance and lack of understanding of "God's love and plan of salvation"?

So how may we mere mortals project "God's love and plan of salvation" since we are not God, and have no wrath nor immense God's powers of projection, you ask immensely puny ignorant mere mortal "voraciously opposed His knowledge" buda?

We project "God's love and plan of salvation" by learning how God has projected "God's love and plan of salvation", Shade, and by learning how that projection has evolved over time, and by fully understanding "God's love and plan of salvation" itself, for us, as in for oneself, and then for all others, and by then lifting up our own cross of the projection of "God's love and plan of salvation" as learnt from the Word and which must dwell in us, as in, in oneself, so that it may be seen and Our Lord and Father be glorified.

For by the Spirit of God inside of us ourselves which is a full understanding of the things of the Kingdom of God, which is "God's love and plan of salvation" and the good fruits that it produces, Shade, is the Father glorified. And if "God's love and plan of salvation" is not fully projected inside of us, we are like those asked for bread who give stones, the blind who lead the blind, and woe to us, or rather, to me, buda, for not projecting "God's love and plan of salvation" so that it may be seen and God the Father be Glorified.

You ask, "how, specifically on NL", and that I shall deal with here.

You and I have had numerous conversations here on NL, and despite knowing that "buda is not one of them", I am going to accuse you of treating buda as one of you, not as a believer, mind, nor perhaps as one in whom Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost is manifested, but yet with regard, and with respect, and with the love that comes from God, and by applying the Fruits of the Spirit that is within you in every word with which you converse with buda. And buda is made blind by your Spirit and can not see and can not eat and must be purified before responding to your question, which in case you are not yet aware means "how shall you, Shade, make buda be like God?!"

So, in response, you will continue to project "God's love and plan of salvation" as you have always done, to buda and all others who "voraciously opposes His knowledge", by continuing to manifest that God's love and plan of salvation that in you as fruits and works in your Words, so that buda and all others may continue seeing your fruits, and your works of love, and your God steps and learn of God's love and plan of salvation for buda and all others by seeing God's love and plan of salvation as it manifests in you.

And that brings me to the second part of your question which is somewhat like the first.

shadeyinka:
2. How can one point a sin and not sound as being judgemental?

You can not point a sin of buda and not sound judgemental, Shade, because a sin is an error buda commits against the Lord God Almighty who alone judges the living and the dead.

What you can do is point out buda's errors and lack of understanding. And you can only do this as our Lord Jesus Christ did, which is by teaching and bringing understanding to the fore with wisdom and knowledge that you yourself must have gained through diligent study and understanding of the Word and of "God's love and plan of salvation", and by manifesting the fruits of your learning and understanding and the loving Spirit of God that is within you. Because, it is by your own good fruits as produced by a full understanding of "God's love and plan of salvation" as manifested in you by the Father who art in heaven, that buda will see and learn of "God's love and plan of salvation" and learn to sin no more, and not by you stoning buda. Because, unless it be that you be perfect as thy Father in heaven is perfect and "God's love and plan of salvation" manifests in you such that you yourself have not one single sin of your own blinding your own eyes, you shall not see well enough to help buda nor anyone else chop down the forest in buda's or anyone elses eye.

So, continue to learn and get wisdom and understanding and perfection, would be my suggestion. For in removing sin from yourself first shall you manifest in the fullest Glory of the Lord thy God Almighty, and then shall you much better project "God's love and plan of salvation" so that we both may go and sin no more, by God's Grace.

May the Holy Spirit make us (oneself and all) not oppose "God's love and plan of salvation" for us (all), in Jesus Mighty Name I pray.

And now may I finally eat because I starve!

That's what I thought at the time lol. Haven't watched the video though, my eyes are tired, so someone let me know how authentic this is please.

tintingz:
Animals can recognize signs, fear etc these are natural instinct, but they don't have concept of knowledge that can develop some imaginary thoughts like myths and beliefs.

Animals don't have beliefs.

I bet you've never had a dog or a cat or a chicken. If you ever did, I bet they never had the knowledge to recognise you as their owner, so they instinctively bit you and scratched you and pecked at you and never believed nor knew their food came from you.