₦airaland Forum

HappyPagan:
I'm sure you have never met a priest.

Did you just say he closeshiseyes?

HappyPagan:
I'm sure you have never met a priest.

Did you just say to closeyoureyes?

lawani:
Religion is rigid and know it all while theology is ongoing.

Religion is believing while theology is ignorance?

I could not help myself, lawani

LibertyRep:
Federal government workers should wait for Garba Shehu or Femi Adesina to authenticate this news before they wear the dancing shoes.

Some state and local government workers would need to hold their governors by the jugular henceforth.

We can start with the jugular of those who pay nothing at all!

Timbuktuo:
Actually, no idea. The point is frivolous expenses should cut before touching crucial ones

I beg to differ. The bigger frivolouses should be cut immediately then we can bother about the crumbs, is what I think is more prudent. And I don't really think bomb making is crucial. If a UK government spent that much on them that government won't be our government for much longer.

HarryDuce:
The good news is, not everybody follows the Nigerian mentality.

Despite being Nigerian. Perhaps we should not call it a "Nigerian mentality". Except its a pretty prevalent mentality amongst Nigerians.

OkCornel:
Cold truth. I have a slimmer of hope it turns out well in our lifetime, but we might be grand parents before that glorious future becomes a reality

Grand parents or very long dead.

"We must be scared of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" !

Janosky:
Story for the gods.
It's NOT true.

Well, we have ops story, and the link I posted narrates a few others, so something must be going on to produce so much smoke. Worth investigating, I reckon.

Yes it's true. In UK you pay a portion of your 'you are old' care. If you have a house, they'll care for you on credit and take payment from your estate when you die. And that's apart from the inheritance tax rate of 40% on the part of your estate that's above the tax-free threshold of £325,000. By the time your days end there might be nothing left for your children to inherit!

You might see why euthanasia must be discouraged. Some might just kill off their parents to save a few bob.

OpenYourEyes1:
Holy Bible has moral guidelines. Pagans have none.
I don't click on boring nairalandish links.

My pagan foreparents had tons of morals! Didn't yours?

OkCornel:
I think the intelligent and rational ones might have made their calculations about the mid to long term future of this country and decided that the best way up is out of the country.

I mean... this country can be likened to a man that lives from pay check to pay check (i.e. stumbling from one vision-less government to the other every 4 years)...

It's scary to think that you only need to see 4 different visionless presidents serving two terms each. Add that to your current age and booooom!!! you've started collecting your pension with your grand-children running up and down...

If one is to predict the future using past and present data, going by cold logic...the future of this country could be a horror movie...

Or leaving the country makes them rational and intelligent. Our stupid just don't sell in the real world. Imagine praying to some god for daily bread instead of going to work for it. A lot of people do wise up once they step out of the so called 'spiritual Nigeria' and into the rational world. You can't exactly beg your landlord you'd pay next week since landlords can't beg the banks they are mortgaged to.

We aren't the first to go the way we are going. Empires fall because the people go stupid, and so would we. But out of that failure do new empires evolve. Unfortunately evolution is a very slow process so it might be the next generation, or the one after, or the one after or ones after those. Pity. I would have loved to be around to see it.

OpenYourEyes1:
Pagan priests freely sell materials like this to dubious characters. They don't care!
Armrobbers, murderers, crooks, scammers and other criminals collect stuff like this from them.

Pagans and their priest have zero sense of morality. This is why the filth is forbidden.

Don't some priests of other religions too not care and sell the same crap? There's a story of one on here feeding people worms!

Timbuktuo:
The US should start with defending Planned Parenthood before even conceiving of touching the Defense budget. You think super power is by mouth?

And how much we talking about here?

PDPGuy:
But 20% of the pentagon budget can pay the tuition and fees for all students in public colleges/universities. That tells you that tuition-free college education and Medicare for all, won’t cost trillions of $$

You forgot to say that the Pentagon budget was enrichment of the already rich, and a scam if ever there was one.

OkCornel:
Very annoying fellas they are



You're spot on. We have intelligent and rational Nigerians, but they are fast becoming an endangered specie...

I don't think the intelligent and rational Nigerians are becoming endangered. I think they are slowly increasing in number. One day there'd be so many that there is bound to be a rapture, except it would not be like the rapturetians expect.

Trike:
You appear to be a very confused troll on a religious forum. I never asked you for your biased opinion. In my research for evidence of Miraculous healings I per chance came across many forums including nairaland. Members that stand out with a distinct ability to assist me are MuttleyLaff, butterflylion, Sonofthunder, Anas09, winner01, bloodofthelamb, sciencewatch, OLAADEGBU, bennyann, ishilove.

MuttleyLaff is one of the people responsible for your not thinking?

Muttley, I'll be kicking you come Saturday for this!

Some weeds do, though, it depends on the individual. Gellato Kush is good for creativity, I'm told. Lemon Haze on the other hand dumbs you down. It might be the higher thc in the former that releases the mind.

Nigerian strains are not hybrids, which the two above are, and Nigerians allow their weed to dry in the sun leaving most of the thc to dry off and fall on the ground where it rots. They therefore have much lower thc than western hybrids. (Typical stupid and wasteful of us, I daresay).

All the same, weed did not make Fela or Marley creative or show them how to make the music they did. I bet you would not say that agbero weed smoker you just happen to know creates, or would ever create anything! Fela or Marley both learned and practised a lot to create what they created.

First, let me get rid of the betidiot!

We Nigerians are not as smart as we wish to believe. Most people who say we are have never been to someone else's father's farm so think their father's farm is the biggest. One just need look at the fruit produced on each farm to know which is better. But I guess not everyone's father has a farm. You'll have a home though, or at least a surrounding. So look around you Nigerian, and tell please how many Made in Nigerias do you see? Now check the quality of those things and tell which were smartly produced.

There are very smart individual Nigerians, but collectively, smart is not the right word to describe us if intelligence and the ability to produce fruit is concerned.

luvmijeje:
I'm telling you those texts were inserted. Why did he call himself a Roman if he is not one. He didn't claim it just once. He claimed it again in Act 22 : 28

Paul was a Roman citizen (Acts 21:39; Acts 22: 25-29) "from [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsus%2C_Mersin?wprov=sfla1]Tarsus[/url] in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city".

Tarsus was part of the Roman Empire at the time.

Seems there's an issue here!


For some former Jehovah's Witnesses, leaving the faith is not just the mark of losing your religion - it can also mean losing your loved ones. In many cases, friends and family are told to cut all ties with ex-believers, leaving them isolated and sometimes suicidal.

Last year, Sarah - in her 20s - was excluded by the Jehovah's Witnesses in a process known as "disfellowshipping", she says sparked by her refusal to live in an abusive relationship.

She claims her partner at the time had been violent towards her, at one stage leaving her with broken ribs.

Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses shunned by their families

Nigeria has indeed changed. In the 80s when Ijanikin and Oto decide they wanted to celebrate the Oro Festival, they'd inform everyone weeks before so don't go saying you're going for some vigil or whatnot. Some tried, but the indigenes let them know they were guests in their towns! Funny though, we once had a full tapping on school grounds during Oro and the locals joined in.

musicwriter:
Who peer reviewed the bible？

No one last time I checked. Reason why it should be read with s critical mind if you asked me. But then, peer revieweds must be read with a critical mind too, since peers might just be wrong or just not completely correct in their understanding. Besides, you're a peer too so you'd better.

Hier:
When I said coming out of a shrine, I meant, visiting a shrine for spiritual fortification which was not expected from a Pastor, so is having an alligiance written on my profile not expected from me. The logic is very clear

The allegiance is in no way similar to a pastor "visiting a shrine for spiritual fortification"! Tingtinz (with apologies), is always in there and no one would say its for "spiritual fortification" or for an allegiance to Islam or Allah!

OLAADEGBU:
And you wonder why liberals are bent on arresting Julian Assange?

Tell us about it! The current liberal administration is bent on arresting Julian Assange.

We can of course go back to check the records to see if Obama had any non-Muslims in top jobs during his two terms.

It is both true and unsurprising that per the leaked email, dated 17 October 2008, non-Muslims were excluded from a list of potential Muslim candidates to be considered for Obama administration posts. What the Daily Caller story failed to elucidate is whether lists of candidates from other demographic groups were compiled to promote general diversity in the Obama administration’s ranks. Because agency heads during Obama’s presidency came from various backgrounds, it’s safe to say non-Muslims were not “excluded” from consideration for top posts.
Snooped!

musicwriter:
I have no idea where you copied that from but it is not the standard view of the dark ages. .

Links are included.
A standard view is God wrote or inspired the Bible to be written. Standard views are not always the correct views. And Documentaries can be crap since they are usually not subjected to peer reviews!

Hier:
Otem. I cant recall the number of request that have been made for a moderator. I can recall making those request, I guess originalkalokalo also did and many others and no one listened to them. I could remember how Akint*m, hopefullandl*rd, you, and many others almost confused me of my faith and made ridicule of it, but its well.

buda is not Otem.

Otem, I think that prayer is rather after the fact, at least the bit that goes "to your own glory and to advance your own interest". Blasphemy some might call what you do, but I'd call it "make them think", for that's what you do.

Daviddson:
Gothic architecture is different from gargoyle, demon figures, etc. Those who had such sculptures are most likely in the occult. Google and Wikipedia are still free - check them out.

We checked it out and nowhere does I find they are occult! But perhaps I did not check properly so please educate us.

Daviddson:
These are just a few of the scary statues in a supposed church cathedral. Don't these photos pass off as what one would expect to see in an occult building HQ?

According to Lester Burbank Bridaham, writing in Gargoylaes, Chimeres and the Grotesque in French Gothic Sculpture, "There is much symbolism in the sculpture of the Gothic period; but we must be wary of reading in too much meaning" .

They need to be understood in the context in which they were created and not in today's context.

musicwriter:
Christianity became the official religion in Europe in 325 AD. Europe enters the dark ages from 400 AD up to 1000 AD, some say up to 1200 AD. This's the worst hour is European history and why its appropriately called the dark ages. This's basic history, so don't tell me you don't know that.

You perhaps need to read a bit more history. It might have seemed dark from the conquered Roman Empire perspective who's writings give you Dark Ages but it was not dark at all.

The term ‘The Dark Ages’ refers to the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance: the 5th – 14th centuries. It has been suggested that this period saw little scientific and cultural advancement. However, the term doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny – and many medieval historians have dismissed it.
Labelling this large period of history as a time of little cultural advancement and its peoples as unsophisticated is a sweeping generalisation and regularly considered to be incorrect. Indeed, many argue that ‘the Dark Ages’ never truly happened.
Busting the ‘Dark Ages’ myth

Why do we use the term 'Dark Ages'? Far from 'dark', the early medieval period saw religious diversity and the invention of new forms of art. Dr Janina Ramirez, art and cultural historian, shares 5 facts…A very quick glance at the remarkable manuscripts, metalwork, texts, buildings and individuals that saturate the early medieval period reveals that ‘Dark Age’ is now very much an out-of-date term. It’s best used as a point of reference against which to show how vibrant the time in fact was.
5 things you (probably) didn’t know about the Dark Ages

The Migration Period was a period that lasted from 375 AD (possibly as early as 300 AD) to 538 AD, during which there were widespread migrations of peoples within or into Europe, during and after the decline of the Western Roman Empire, mostly into Roman territory, notably the Germanic tribes and the Huns. This period has also been termed in English by the German loanword Völkerwanderung and—from the Roman and Greek perspective—the Barbarian Invasions. Many of the migrations were movements of Germanic, Hunnic, Slavic and other peoples into the territory of the then declining Roman Empire, with or without accompanying invasions or war.