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Christianity Etc › Re: Evolution 101 by budaatum(op): 12:47pm On Jun 17, 2019
OLAADEGBU:
I don't have to be explaining or teaching you what molecule to man evolution means if you truly understand the Darwinian theory of evolution but never mind, we use different software in processing information.
We sure do, it seems. Or I'd bother to tell you to go to post one in this very thread.
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum: 12:46pm On Jun 17, 2019
buda's tits shall be here waiting for your very tiny brain.

vaxx:
i am keeping you off for a while idiot. Got to attend to some stuff. Be right back.
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum: 12:40pm On Jun 17, 2019
So says the supposed undeluded normal rat vaxx!
We shall take your word for it. I promise.


vaxx:
only an abnormal and deluded brat make such utterances.

Toothpaste your brush and breath out inteligence, it is locking somwhere in your cerebrum. grin
Christianity Etc › Re: Evolution 101 by budaatum(op): 12:37pm On Jun 17, 2019
OLAADEGBU:
I am sorry for asking a level 401 question to a level 101 student of evolution. embarassed
Your question was not level 401. It was more like level 001, pre-school, and goes to show that even to ask questions requires thought, and research, which incidentally, is presented for you in this thread, but which typically, you're blinded to for some reason.

A simple "Care to explain what you mean?" And the above is your response Olaadegbu! I bow my head in sincere prayer on your behalf because you never would, it seems!
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum: 12:29pm On Jun 17, 2019
And there was I thinking you would have grown out of your nappies in your long sojourn in Kenya.

Go back there vaxx. They might eventually teach you to grow up.


vaxx:
lol..... Go Buda, check right there if you are still normal, the thermometer is right within your diappers.
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum:
My tits must seriously pain your tiny brain.
Ndo vaxx.


vaxx:
Expunged stupidity and bitterness from your tits Buda. Unlearn your foolishness if times permit, upskills and edify your polluted mind.


Ignorance they say is not an excuse In 21st century.... grin
Romance › Re: Should I Get My Fiancée Arrested? by budaatum: 12:17pm On Jun 17, 2019
Godoverevery:
why are you crying more than the aggerive ......like my matter even dey pain you pass me.......i didn't lose anything I just posted the thread so people can learn and no what going on ......Pray God really bless you and you will understand.....she is already begging me......even her parent are already pleading on her behalf.......her stupidity out of fear just caused her getting married to me and I don't think it will go down well with her because she will really suffer.
You didn't lose anything? You lied about:

1) you lost 150k
2) you lost 40k to organize her party
3)you lost about 60k u used to buy phone for her
You have lost a minimum of 250k

As nicely calculated for us by Chidonc as gleaned from your own post on the subject? And her parents are begging you this morning? The parents who you were unable to contact?

It's true. You lost nothing. Abeg she said to make it 1million please since you never responded and 500k sef will be lose nothing to very rich but no sense lying you! She will pay it all back last month. And she will marry you. She promises.
Christianity Etc › Re: Deconstructing The Lies & Myth of Consensual Adult Homosexuality/Same Sex Union by budaatum: 12:07pm On Jun 17, 2019
Muttley, everytime I see buda mentioned in this prick talk I curse you. Be warned!
Politics › Re: Atiku Being Targeted For Arrest - Spokesman, Paul Ibe by budaatum: 12:04pm On Jun 17, 2019
mukthar2000:
Senseless looter, if Abiola can be declare winner and still be jail, who is Cameroonian fool that can not be jail, U better gladder sense b4 they bundle u.
So in your own opinion, Nigerians have not learnt and evolved since then? With all the uprisings we have seen around the world, we Nigerians will today have what happened to Abiola happen today and our uprising will not be the uprising of the century? We will sit there and let the whole world laugh at us?

I tell you the truth, the ridicule and shame if we behaved so spinelessly is enough to wipe my country Nigeria off the face of the earth!

And personally, I have immense faith in us.
Politics › Re: Atiku Being Targeted For Arrest - Spokesman, Paul Ibe by budaatum: 11:57am On Jun 17, 2019
Explain to us with your own brain which supposedly has no crawcraw, how your article, which is about Independent National Electoral Commission unveiling an electronic collation and results transmission system for the 2019 election, translates to, they want to arrest Atiku, please.

I swear, I would open brain shop for you but I'd probably need to give you one for free. If tribunal finds Atiku won the last election then my bubu will return to Daura or we shall do June 12 on his ass. If Atiku commits crime meanwhile we will most definitely arrest his ass! It is after all our Nigeria, ko? And not my bubu or Atiku's Nigeria!

As if you know how to stand, or the truth if it was slapping your face and choking your throat!

Ellie01:
Abeg clear d crawcraw in ya brain. Stand for truth for its sake

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/226667-2019-election-results-collated-transmitted-electronically-inec.html
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum:
I now understand what your problem is vaxx. The idea that my tits are smarter than your tiny brain must be hurtful. Do please continue to blame them for your inability to learn from their superiority. Between the two of them, we can withstand your stupidity.

I've shown how sentiment and rationality works in CoE. Rational investments in highly profitable tobacco and oil was divested in due to the sentiment of its members who decided it was unholy to invest in them. And to think the Queen gets involved in CoE investments shows how much knowledge you lack. You must think Henry the VIII was still on the throne or the Queen is General Overseer Oyedepo or something. I would strongly suggest you dump history according to Shakespeare and get a proper history book, but I trust you not to listen to very highly intelligent tits!

vaxx:
You can't be sentimental and rational at the same time. Polarity and subjectivity aren't meant for rational minded. Church of England is not as gullible as you might think, and neither does her commissioner less inform about the economical and ethical consideration of the plants.


And for such a highest authority to even give it a consideration shows she has given it her full endorsement and open up marijuana uses for medicinal purpose( as she inducate).The church had just successfully lends credence to the whole marijuana industry and as well break the stigma that comes with marijuana for medical uses.



And your last response. The one in red shows clearly the feminist and petty trait you have in your chemistry. No sane man talk and rant at the same time.
Christianity Etc › Re: Masquerade Brutalized Sister On Niqab In Ogun State. by budaatum: 4:01am On Jun 17, 2019
chiedu7:
If there are no fulani herdsmen in the sw, then explain

https://www.nairaland.com/5248080/south-west-governors-invite-army-police
There's always been people who will use fear to exploit others. I recall a time when some people were called ajokutamamomi. Some said they only drank water using the skulls of people they kidnapped. Is it true that Igbo people chop stone and don't drink water except from human skulls?

I recall a time when Ghanaians were taking all our jobs. So much hatred was whipped up culminating in Ghana must go and they went. My maths teacher had to go as did the bread and meatpie makers who lived nearby. No more nice Ghana bread or meatpie for me and no maths teacher neither!

You'd hear people claim Islamisation of Nigeria. But how? Will they reeducate all the Christians and pagans and atheist and turn us all into Muslims? And like lambs to slaughter, we will all jejely accept, right? No body will tell them to fuq off?

Do note, I'm probably the only one with this view on Nairaland. Dem never born the papa of the fulani herdsman who will kidnap a Yoruba or Enugu person in Yorubaland or Enugu! Fulani herdsmen don't even kidnap Yoruba or Enugu people in Fulani land! But I guess you think there's no Yoruba or Enugu people in Fulani land right?

People seriously need to wake and stop falling for this silly baseless scaremongering! Nigerians are not as sheepish as some might think. If Fulani herdsmen were kidnapping us will we not just kidnap their herds of cattle? Or na so you believe Yoruba and Enugu people dense reach?

Mr, I'm from Osun State. Plenty fulani herdsmen plus their cattle de there. Dem no born any one of them to kidnap in Osun State. My people will send them all to kidnap state before anybody can say Walaitalai and we will chop their cow too!
Romance › Re: Woman's Degrees And Qualifications Are Useless - Nigeria Man Says by budaatum: 2:44am On Jun 17, 2019
Na, let's not tell him. Let's just tell all the sisters to stay away from his ignorant ass!

Family › Re: What Fond Memory Do You Have Of Your Dad? by budaatum:
Me: Dad, I need 50kobo please.
Dad: Why?
Me: To buy a book.
Dad: Why?
Me: To read.
Dad: Why?
Me: To learn.
Dad: Why?
Me: To be smart.
Dad: Why?
Me: To be intelligent dad!
Dad: Why?
Me: So I'm not stupid!

You'd think he'd give me the 50kobo by now right. Nope. Not my dad! We still got to do the whats, the hows, the wheres, the whens and the whos too. Good thing is he'll give me a whole 1 Naira at the end, 50kobo for the book and 50kobo for my answers.

Rip dad!
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum: 1:49am On Jun 17, 2019
leokid866:
And if you looking at a reduction in crime, bring up the legalization to our northern leaders and watch Nigeria burn. You forget some states have come out to ban alcohol it is now weed you want to take to them?
I haven't advocated legalization leokid, but now that you bring it up, we grow acres of the stuff already and anyone who wants it can get it. Over where I live you get an eighth of an ounce for £30 which is little as you can see in picture below, while in my village lynon bag will full for less than ₦200.

Quality? Naija smoke is crap! The fact that we grow acres means we are late to harvest so all the get high stuff falls on the ground while just over there in Morocco that's lots of money! One can grow 4 plants in a cupboard in UK and make 3k Gbp while a whole acre in Naija won't make you ₦100k. Do the maths. Just about 200Gbp!

If we can improve quality and export, I'm for it. If you burn your house na your own palava be that, or get insurance and burn it at someone elses expense! As for driving while high. There's nothing new there as lots of dopers drive already.

That container is the length of a common lighter and less than an inch deep. 30Gbp!

Romance › Re: Should I Get My Fiancée Arrested? by budaatum: 1:30am On Jun 17, 2019
Godoverevery:
bro I can't deny I love her......but am not blinded by love.... have made her gone through alot from last month till now for doing that rubbish .....I use my head before my heart.
Anyway thanks ur point noted.
This was you in that thread lying that you use your head and not your heart when the truth is you use neither your head nor your heart and you now have the audacity to insult me because I'm only 12 yrs old! I swear if my 12 year old sense no pass your own however old you may be!

But don't mind me. Her whatsapp is not working. Let me know about that 500k she told me to get for her from you. I can come in the morning to collect it wherever you are.
Romance › Re: Should I Get My Fiancée Arrested? by budaatum: 1:21am On Jun 17, 2019
This is his post where he first asked advice ironically titled Need To Know If Am Doing The Right In A 6 month Old Relationship.

It was posted on 22 May 2019. Less than 2 months ago which means he's only known her 8 months in all. Did he say he spent 250k on her? That's 30k a month, minimum wage. She cheap bwoy!


Godoverevery:
Hi everyone.... just need your veiw if am doing the right thing.
I started dating my current gf last December and it have been alot of up and few down........what really happened was Wen we met she just lost her job so I felt like helping her out so I came up with the idea of her doing a business of her own were we can both benefit....so one of my friend gave me a link to were she can pick perfumes ,body spray and female slippers in bulk at cheap prices and resale since she knows lot of people due to her friendly nature.
After discussing with her and she accepted so I sent her 100k around feburary ds year to start and got her a new phone has well cos d one she was using was bad so she can also advertise online.....sales was good according to her........fast forward to April
I just felt like knowing if she was keeping the money in her account as she Claimed so i asked her to come give account of the sales cos I told her we will share the gains between ourselves becos i didn't want her to lose track and be financially reackless ........she did the account and it good sales......i now asked her to send me the capital back...to my surprise
She said she sorry that her dad was in need of cash and was depressed so she borrow him 80k out of the money......I was really angry cos she didn't tell me before doing it so alot of drama happened..... after begging she said her dad will give her back d cash ending of last month...... ending came she started begging again dat I should give her till mid this month.....last week she started begging again I should give her till ending of D's month.

Ds were I need you guys help.....I love the gal if God permit I want to marry her.
Her birthday is on Friday and I av plans of celebrating it on Sunday with few friends at a nice lounge....(get cake, wristwatch with set of nice panties has gift).
But has I was making order for the wristwatch D's afternoon at work something in me just ask if am sure am doing the right thing and ever since I am really thinking I should just cancel the plan.... because what she did with the business money really hurt and I find it difficult to trust her.

Pls am I doing the right thing celebrating her birthday or I should just cancel it....thanks
Politics › Re: Atiku Being Targeted For Arrest - Spokesman, Paul Ibe by budaatum: 12:47am On Jun 17, 2019
Somebody please tell Atiku's spokesman that nobody is arresting him, though, for these lies, he ought to be!
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum:
Very unfortunately for you, CoE is a religious organisation in which sentiment still holds sway despite my claim of us being rational. We claim "rationalism" because we vote but we can't claim our individual members are rational. We after all divested from oil and tobacco despite the huge returns from those investments.

The investments of CoE are outsourced but still have to comply with ethical guidelines as laid down by votes at synod, and I'm not going to sit here and claim sentiment would not have a play.

As to you making the "audience see the gullibility of your input", I can only delight in the fact that the audience itself is not gullible and can clearly see who's input is gullible.

vaxx:
ok this is worth replying,

“ An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and a satisfactory return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”


In the above lines thorough analysis implies analyses based on logic and facts rather than the psychology, hunches or intuitions. It involves studying facts in light of established standards of safety and value.

The safety promised in such an operation does not need to be absolute, but should provide adequate protection against loss of principal in reasonably normal conditions or variations in the economic scenario.

Church of England may even be outsourcing her finances, she has portfolios of investment and shares across many COMPANY public equity. She may raised bond for the project, or even borrowed to financed the project. It does not neccasrily mean she has to empty her cover. Stick to your literatures Buda. Go and read some Shakespeare. Science and buisness is not for you.





You talk too much pooping on unneccasry and gibberish side talk. Broadcast your message to verbose poster like you cus the more you try this act of feminine with me, i will made the audience see the gulibility of your input. I am a respecter of no stupidity .......
Politics › Re: BREAKING: I Can't Celebrate Abiola In The Midst Of Bad Leaders - Obasanjo by budaatum: 12:01am On Jun 17, 2019
rusher14:
This old man thinks everyone else is a fool.


How come you weren't able to celebrate him when you were the top dog?
"Not in the midst of bad leaders"!
He has honestly, for once, included himself.
Education › Re: Buhari To Nigerian Universities: You're Still Slow In Discoveries, Inventions. by budaatum: 11:59pm On Jun 16, 2019
majorgr:
people don't understand that in advance countries research is always funded, here, you are researching on our personal funds, how does a country want inventions with personal pocket money? A friend told me when he went to the US for a fellowship program, during his defense there the prof asked him how he has been funding his research in Nigeria. when he said from his personal pocket, both the prof, all the lecturers, msc, phd and undergraduate students present at the defense said EH!!!
The prof was so surprised and ask him so you use your own money to solve national problems?

so you see, research goes hand in hand with full fundings just like developed countries have been doing to solve their problems, they don't expect their students to use their personal funds.
Indeed. You write a funding proposal to an organisation (be it private or government) that might benefit from your research and they fund you, and not that government has some pot from which research is paid. Imagine. More of that money might go to people with Mohammed in their name and guess what we'd all say then!
Romance › Re: Should I Get My Fiancée Arrested? by budaatum: 11:39pm On Jun 16, 2019
Godoverevery:
Mumu botton you say.....bro I be confirm street I was born and brought up in mushin Lagos....I finished from lautech....so I no be Mumu Wen it comes to ladies.
I have dated alot of ladies dat if you ask me start counting I won't even remember some.
But a man get to a stage in life were you have to move Into dat level of having a family and building a home.....my intention is to marry her early next year.....so I knew wat I was doing not like I was fooled....maybe that why am not angry.
But she is fooling you lol! She even turned off her whatsapp so you can't call her for Christsakes!

Abeg, no mind us fools. Biko that 500k she tol me to helep her collect from you. I fit come tomorrow morning, early.
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum: 11:33pm On Jun 16, 2019
I expected no less from you vaxx. Rather than actually reading what anyone says, you just insist in thrusting your ill-informed thrash down people's throats! Next you'd say something about learning when you really mean "vaxx knows all and is teaching everyone else"!

First, the CoE, as I said, does not do holy. We are a rational bunch, the sort that allows atheists and gays as clergy, and a more accurate description of what you posted is one by the Times, the relevance of which of course eludes you and which states:

The Church Commissioners for England, who handle £8.2 billion of church assets, ban investment in companies that profit from recreational drugs but said for the first time that they would consider investing in companies that work with medicinal marijuana now that it is legal in the UK.

To which I added "See the word "consider"? That consideration means "discuss it at synod", which Church Commissioners for England report to, but of course you know better despite getting your never existed Charles III from Shakespeare's fiction!

If the Church of England find that marijuana is medicinal and can find companies that produce medicinal cannabis I can assure you that we the synod (and I do include myself in that 'we' since I am a lay member of the CoE who elects and is electable to the Deanery Synod that gets to chose representative for the Members of the House of Laity which is represented at the General Synods), will approve that the Church Commissioners invest in it because we will find it "holy" in our own way to invest in anything that prolongs life or makes it bearable, though not all £8.2 billion of church assets since it is unwise to invest all of one's funds in one single category of investments, but we will not invest in recreational marijuana because it will be outside of the ethical guidelines we the members of the Church of England have laid down for our Church Commissioners who just happen to be subject to us, a subjection that no King or Queen or even God or Bishop can usurp for reasons I laid out in my Queen and King post and contrary to your opinion that the Queen can "do almost anything" which she most definitely cannot do and which you would know if you truly understood a word in my previous post but which you most unfortunately obviously don't.

You don't need take my word for it and to be honest with you, my responses are never for you alone since you aren't ever the only one who will see what I write. But I'm certain I've promised you I always and forever will respond to lies and inaccuracies if it's anything I know about even while I'm shaking my head at you vaxx!




vaxx:
This has cross out of point. We are discussing church investment into what is totally regard as ungodly or unholy to the church of Christ here. Not on the supremacy of church. I only tolerate it for a while when you shift the goal post. I am not tolerating that anymore.


The report i posted says church of England is investing into marijuana and the commissioner of the church did give a go ahead. So who are you to question them? A SITTING church member or the governing council in the synod house?.


I hate when it reading wording without any form of peculiarities or reasoning.
Romance › Re: Should I Get My Fiancée Arrested? by budaatum: 10:41pm On Jun 16, 2019
Godoverevery:
lol......wish D's place is only meant for matured men and women....I mean people who aiin't still under there parent .....
people who haven't started life .....dat ow I see some fools who are still in there teens/people who aiin't married commenting about marriages..... advising them what to do...... you don't talk about things you av no experience of...only fools do that...when you get to that level of fiancée things you will understand...... enjoy ur bf/gf level.
Lol! I'm only 12years old, where please can I possibly have gotten the kind of sense that make you not think? It's not as if one were born with it, or were you?

But that's of no matter. Send me the 500k for her please. She said she will only use a tiny bit to get a new whatsapp that will receive your call and she will pay back last week.
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum: 10:36pm On Jun 16, 2019
leokid866:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.narcity.com/amp/weed-related-traffic-deaths-are-on-the-rise-in-canada

Okay this was a study done before legalization. But one could see a pattern forming.
Oh, a pattern has formed! See here too my Lord.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_legalized_cannabis?wprov=sfla1
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum: 10:32pm On Jun 16, 2019
vaxx:
And regarding the supreme governor, madam Elizabeth the queen holds the power to do almost anything ( and so denies that power to any elected politician or bishop or whatever) but only exercises it on advice. If she wanted to change church doctrine or secular law (or withhold the approval of a change) on her own a account, she can do that easily but not to provoke a major constitutional crisis. She welcome democratic rullings.


The play King Charles 3 explores this in a fictional setting.
Sounds like you don't know much about Kings of England or of United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth, as our Queen Elizabeth is known. She has no such power "to do almost anything" as you claim. Neither was democracy welcomed by any monarch. It was wrested from the King by Parliament.

United Kingdom monarchs haven't had the authority you claim she has after we beheaded King Charles I for treason on January 30, 1649 and replaced him with James II the King of England and Ireland who was also known as James VII the King of Scotland and whom we deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and replaced in 1689 by Mary II Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland who co-reigned with her husband and first cousin, King William III the Prince of Orange, the Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic until her death.

As for "the Church Commissioners who exist to support the work and mission of the Church of England today and for future generations, helping it to remain a Christian presence in every community", according to ethical guidelines which exclude direct investments "in companies involved in indiscriminate weaponry, conventional weaponry, pornography, tobacco, gambling, non-military rearms, high interest rate lending, human embryonic cloning, extraction of thermal coal and production of oil from oil sands, subject to revenue thresholds", at the request of us members. I can assure you that we can, if we see fit, add marijuana to that list especially as most foreign companies that do engage in the production of marijuana also might produce some for recreational use.
Politics › Re: I Will Hand Over To Atiku Abubakar If Election Tribunal Declares Him Winner – Bu by budaatum: 9:46pm On Jun 16, 2019
Joshmodest:
On December 17 2015 , Justice ademola of the federal high Court abuja , ordered the federal govt which even a fool knows buhari is in charge of , to release Nnamdi kanu " unconditionally , but the federal govt totally refused the court ruling and kept him in jail !!!!
All the above is not exactly true, at least, not going by public reports! I'll however offer wiki on the subject pending your provision of references for your claims because me being Nigerian, I just don't accept you dem say above!
Romance › Re: Should I Get My Fiancée Arrested? by budaatum: 9:38pm On Jun 16, 2019
Godoverevery:
well you are free to make fun out of it......but you are totally wrong with the heart thing......it matter of helping and supporting someone......Wen good people with good heart goes bad....is people like dat call them wicked but mock there gud heart previously.
Of course I'm free to make fun of you lol. Especially as I've done the same many times over and at a greater cost and I continue to do so despite so many burnings. Or do you think you have a monopoly on not thinking? There's only one difference between you and I though.

Once someone burns me like you have been burnt, I don't call the police on them, I call police on myself for being so gullible and just move on to the next person because I understand that I will kiss many frogs before I find a prince so I just move on from the frogs that kiss me. It sure would cost me more if I don't.

Ah, but forget all that. 500k please. Her whatsapp isn't receiving your calls and she's asked me to collect it for her.
Christianity Etc › Re: Evolution 101 by budaatum(op): 9:25pm On Jun 16, 2019
wirinet:
I am surprised you are talking like this. You are beginning to sound like a theologist. It is only theologist that claim to know exactly how the universe began, no scientist claim that. What scientists have are various postulations and guesses. No one can know exactly how the universe began, because no one witnessed it and there is no observable data before the universe began or even after it began (that is even if it had a beginning in the true sense of the word). What scientist are fairly confident of is what happens long after the beginning from their interpretation of observable data.
You cannot compare that with the postulation by theologists of "God did it" or since it exist it must have been created by someone" without any supporting evidence or data whatsoever.
To the theologists, all uknown obsevations stop at God did, while with the scientists vigorous debates and arguments ensures and the most widely acceptable explanation for "observable data" wins, albeit temporarily until a better explanation comes along or new data that does not conform to old explanation is observed. Einstein and Bohr debated quantum mechanics 3 times and in the end Einstein was "wrong" and Bohr was "right" and today quantum mechanics rules the microscopic world.
It is a travesty to put the Big Bang Theory in the same league with the "God did it" hypothesis.
Funny. I read the first statement and cracked up laughing. I would have accused myself of "claiming to not know exactly how the universe began", and I'm refusing to accept the doctrine of a big bang per se. Are you sure you are reading me correctly? I'll add to the confusion. I am a theist, having abandoned the "a" that preceded it at the turn of the year, but I'm not one to believe stuff. I put that down to my years of ingrained non-believing atheism, which I have not managed to completely abandon.

I'm not claiming God done it, but if God did do it it all very likely went bang and it was likely big. However, to me, that's all speculation, or in your words "various postulations and guesses", since as I said, "we struggle to know what happened 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 10,000 years ago, and even yesterday in Nigeria, so anything said about a billion years ago can only be mythology, at least, to me". I'm not prepared to take "various postulations and guesses" and from that "claim to know exactly how the universe began", or go ahead and believe what I consider to be just another myth. (I'm not resisting temptation here and hope you see the funny side when I say, unlike you who like some theist insists you know it went bang!)

I mean, think about it. If there was a bang, something must have instigated it. And I don't mean a God said, but that something must have existed which must have gone bang, but have you noticed how nothing is said about it? I put it to you that that's because no one has a clue. So, yes, my ignorance can be said to be filled with God and it's an admission of that fact - my ignorance - that made me dump the all knowing "a" in front of the more humble ignorant theist that I have become.

That though does not mean I "stop at God did it", or at the "widely accepted explanation" and "various postulations and guesses" of a big bang "albeit temporarily until a better explanation comes along or new data". Why dump one "widely accepted explanation" and "various postulations and guesses" of God done it for another "widely accepted explanation" and "various postulations and guesses" of a big bang? Even though a theist, why behave as a theologist and "claim to know exactly how the universe began "when I really don't". Can't I just be honest and say, I, buda, is ignorant and don't have a clue how the universe began? It really is the truth that as far as the beginning of the universe is concerned, and despite all my reading on the subject, buda is ignorant.

The universe is said to be 13.8 billion years old, and I'm not prepared to do what some do which is, look at all that I see today and claim it began with a bang, and it's just way too long ago for me to accept that some people (prophets, if you may), can possibly see so far back and claim they know exactly what did happen. It sounds so Bible to me a la because there is something there must be a creator, or there was a bang. The Bible, like all books, and most things, are to be understood, and not stupidly brainlessly believe in "various postulations and guesses" which to me are no different to "God said".

As for "after the beginning", though, I do accept the idea that things evolved from then on, since even in my own very short time of living I have seen evolution, albeit not of apes nor fruitflies, but of the Mercedes Benz S Class which clearly has evolved in my lifetime, as has the reasoning of Nigerians too, on the whole, which has evolved from our ancient gods done it to our current atheism which is spreading.

Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum: 8:16pm On Jun 16, 2019
vaxx:
I doubt as much, the supreme governor has the final says on this matter......
I got to do this!

Final say, lol!
Christianity Etc › Re: Church Of England To INVEST 10.5 Billion Dollar Into Marijuana. by budaatum: 8:15pm On Jun 16, 2019
vaxx:
How are you sure this new investments wasn't thoroughly debated in synod before the church finnally settle to inject a whooping 10. 5 billion dollar into something the large Christian majority feel it is against the standard character of holiness and the head of church ( Jesus christ)

I doubt as much, the supreme governor has the final says on this matter..... The member agitation are for simple democratic rullings.
At the synods that I attend? I'm sure. The CoE is not ever going to invest all its funds of about 10b in one single product to start with, as we just aren't so stupid that we'd put all our money in one single investment, and see the following from the Times:

The Church Commissioners for England, who handle £8.2 billion of church assets, ban investment in companies that profit from recreational drugs but said for the first time that they would consider investing in companies that work with medicinal marijuana now that it is legal in the UK.

See the word "consider"? That consideration means "discuss it at synod", and the "ban" mentioned was as a result of synod agitation, and not because of any yeye holiness (CoE does not do holiness!). Any whiff of the Church Commissioners investing in anything we consider non-medicinal marijuana, we will be back on the warpath! And trust me, they listen. We just need to stop paying offerings to make them, and when CoE members agitate, even God in heaven hears.

For your info, "supreme governor" of the CoE and Defender of the Faith is Queen Elizabeth II and if you haven't noticed, she hardly ever speaks!

A very unusual organisation, is the CoE.

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