₦airaland Forum

SonsOfLiverpool:
Haha madam relax na, I never said am looking for a wife.

Well, you know what you guys are like. Sometime now, you'd be asking me to call you daddy, so I'm guarding my interest before it's too late.

SonsOfLiverpool:
easy mama, am a young man in late 20s. No chance.

But we could be pals you know

Even 19 sef, you can't have her! Lol!

yrex01:
y bringing his mom to this ? This is a sign of poor upbringing or bad parenting, no offense !! Just bcoz talk z free online doesn't means u should loose ur sense.

Must be one of those athiefulated obliterated whatumacallems!

oyebanji44:
Absolutely wrong..why did some people from eastern part of nigeria dislike buhari so much?and also why was it that we Nigerians did not know that politics is one thing,crime is something else..why mix politics with crime..??Deji case is not politics ..biafra agitation is not politics..go google and find out..everything is politics in nigeria..Haba

Sounds like you are telling them to go and educate themselves?

I swear, if they take your advice I will give them scholarship!

JasonScoolari:
I just love the way Linda is pouring all her frustrating on the lifeless kunù and burukùtu guzzling president.



Tag all the zombies to come and save the lifeless one before Linda enter second round.

We should come and save my bubu from sour tits?
You are very funny!

SonsOfLiverpool:
I like that woman hahahahaha

No! You cannot marry her! I don't want another daddy. Thank you.

princfred:
A goat who does not believe in God talking about what happens when God enters ones life. Such a hollow skull between your shoulders.

You sure have a lot to learn. But don't worry, God is working on making you intelligent. Meanwhile, I will pray for you. In Jesus Mighty Name. Amen.

LoJ:
now thats a great mother.

Oh thank you. She is indeed. I'm going to call her and tell her you said so!

bloodofthelamb:
I agree with you that this diseases have been reduced but not eliminated. To get rid of a problem you have to get rid of the source. In Christ man's ultimate problem was solved.

Thank God for science! But there are something's science is ignorant about. I rather trust in the finished work of Christ, than to trust in man's wisdom and strength.

This is the problem I have with you religious people, blood. You allow us atheists to gain too much power over you due to religious ignorance. Sometimes, I wish I was one of you so that I can defend you against us!

Just think. You say God created the universe and all things that are created. Then you allow people to separate science from the Almighty God! Is the scientific ability not from God? Or did the scientist, according to your belief, create their own scientific brain in their lab?

It is written that "people suffer because of ignorance"! Science is a way to eliminate ignorance, blood. It can only be a product of your God, if you believe in God, that is! While Jesus is the wisdom, knowledge and power that accomplishes everything and without which nothing at all is created! Without those things in one, do the workers not work in vain?

Please see my posts in response to Anas09 here and subsequent posts of mine on the thread, and the link in one of them before you respond. Unsalty salt is not good for cooking or anything, for that matter. And the saltiness in the salt includes science. You Christians have to grab hold of the wisdom of your Lord Jesus Christ! For only then shall we all live in paradise right here on this earth that we see now! Only then can it truly be said that Jesus is Lord!

bloodofthelamb:
Have they really worked out how to protect themselves?

Yes we have, somewhat, as you'd know if you study life expectancy over time and disregard the mythical Methuselah et al.

A lot of diseases and ignorance that easily killed people (influenza, chicken pox, child birth, wars and sacrificing to the gods), have been eliminated or significantly reduced, and you're less likely to be eaten these days on have your bits caught on a stick or die from the elements.

If we could protect ourselves a bit more from ignorance though, the world would be a lot much better.

vaxx:
LOL.....ISESE can't die off but we evolved and that is what is happening. The same people going to mosque and church are still the same people you will still find in the shrine. There is nothing fanatic can't do about it.

Oh indeed. When we worship Owala and Ogun, and at the Odun Ade Festivals, some Church and Mosque people do turn up, but participation on the whole has significantly reduced as more have embraced Islam and Christianity, and school, for that matter, which has been the main cause of decline, I'm afraid, as people who go to school are less likely to worship the traditional gods in the Kingdom. You're less likely to be employed too, if not schooled, and since farming, the main employment of the uneducated, is dwindling, you could see the disincentives to traditional worship. Most of the highly educated avoid it like the plague.

Try the gift of using your resources more efficiently, like buying a calender for yourself so you don't wait till after the giving season to ask this question to start with. You might want to consider buying yourself a book or pay to better educate yourself too.

If your pastor is honest, the greatest gift to give him is the development of yourself.

P.s. I only answered because no one else did.

vaxx:
You know names of egungun depends on each family names and influence but they are common general one.

That's why I wondered if it was those names you were asking for.

I used to live in Obanikoro, in Lagos, when it was a village and they used to hold a huge egungun festival there. The local kids who were my friends would put on their outfits, take on the guttural voice of the dead and go whipping people extorting money. I was like 11-14, small as well, so they'd think they could torment me, but I'd recognise them and call them by name and dare them to whip me and "I'd demask them", so they left this "child of the devil", as they called me, alone. I did not try it with the adults though!

I also encountered them in the Orolu Kingdom, but being experienced from Lagos, they too quickly got to know me, so. We do have them in distant sections of the family, but I can't recollect the names of the two I actually know. It is dying off though since most people in Orolu are now Muslims and Christians. Even the egungun goes to the mosque and church these days.

janettee:
I like her already..

She's a terror! She used to be religious, though not when I was a child, and still goes to church and Bible Study, but she causes havoc there. She was a nurse before she retired, so would ask how it's possible for a woman to have a child without having sex. "Did Mary have artificial insemination 2000 years ago?" A question I once asked her when I was like 11 years old.

She doesn't so much claim there are no gods, but "show me", and constantly complains how Nigerians would spend their time in prayer then come begging her for food to eat and feed their kids and pay their fees. Her favorite line is "God never came down to do anything for a lazy sit on the ass person".

The local pastors visit her to pray for her thinking she would give them money, but she tells them not to come to her house unless they are bringing her gifts. "I can not go to fa gburu in cold London to come and waste my money feeding your lazy ass", she would tell them.

I guess I influenced her. About 20 years ago I told her I was not happy having an ignorant mother who did not read. She said she could not see so I took her to the opticians and got her glasses and we cut a deal. "If you go to Church with me", she said, "I will read". So I went to Church for 12 years and got me a very intelligent mama.

She loves helping people who help themselves, and over the past 10 years has made us all pay over $20k for the school fees of some young unrelated person studying in Ghana, amongst many others she sponsors.

raptex:
Who's ma? Wifey or Mama?

Mama. She's in Nigeria at the moment causing havoc with anyone who mentions God in her presence. She's let a building of mine to Mountain of Fire, and instead of paying rent they want to pray for her. So last Saturday she locked up the building so they could not worship on Sunday. They all came to plead with her but she would not have it till they paid.

vaxx:
oh very well, was born in oshogbo but brought up in jos before moving to Ghana and then end up here.

I ask because you do sound not like one who has lived in communities where this is practised. How long were you in Osogbo, and at what age did you live there?

vaxx:
That is deep, but let limit it to the various languages among Nigerians ethnic group. I have gotten some answer to that

Have you ever been to Nigeria?

Guestlander:
She is biracial like Obama. But I don't think they hate her for that reason, Diana her mother in law was hounded the same way.
They were right there when she died. If you can sell newspapers, you will be hounded regardless of your race.

Diana was hounded for news to sell papers. She was not hated. Nor is Meghan hated by the majority of people in UK despite what the media say. They are just making news to sell paper. She does rub some traditionalists up the wrong way as she tends to not so much follow what they perceive to be protocol which she's probably not so aware of being a foreigner. And some dislike her because they are racist bigots. Most people actually think she is a royal breath of fresh air and love her.

We might just need a dating site, or thread at least, for atheists.

HardMirror:
I am from osun state. I love osun worshippers. The deity is so interesting and the rites so full of childish innocence, yet with strong undertones of sexualism, it makes me just love the deity

Owala River in the Orolu Kingdom of Ifon Osun was dammed in the early 50s forming a huge lake around which the towns of Owode, Oba, and some others are situated. The Owala River flows into the River Osun. The people around drink, piss, poo and bath in the lake and likely along its flow, and Schistosomiasis now infests the water killing people and decimating communities around it. Below is a small section of the infested Owala as seen from the edge of my farm.

raptex:
Are you sure there are Nigerian female atheists or freethinkers?Cos all my life I've been around overly religious females.

I have met a few, ma, being one. But there aren't many openly atheist females as the cost of admitting it is huge.

vaxx:
ok. Thanks for your contribution. I am still awaiting answer to the names of masquerade in various Nigeria dialect ...

What exactly do you mean by that? Are you asking for "masquerade" in various dialects? In Yoruba, that would be "Egun", or "Egungun". Each community in Yoruba land would then have Eguns with various names. One I used to know is "Eefinori" (smoke on the head), because smoke came out of his head, of course. I'm sure it had a more traditional name than that, but that's what everyone called it.

ouzo1:
I thought I was the only one having this same issue.
I hardly like someone for long

That's because you have not yet found someone of the same yoke whom you can love for long. If you are an atheist and the people you do find are religious, you are bound to get bored of their religious thinking before long. Or you compromise for the sake of your relationship.

Come back to let us know how you get on when you do find a same yoke atheist.

bloodofthelamb:
Do you know that man needed no clothe in the beginning? Because he was clothed and shielded in the glory of God. Man got exposed to cold, sickness and disease and ultimately death when the glory of God left him through his sin.

Humans were naked because they were insufficient evolved to the state where they would feel the need to cover themselves up! They were exposed to cold, sickness and disease and ultimately death until they worked out how to protect themselves!

malvisguy212:
lol. the Bible a story book ? the Bible is not a story about anyone, the purpose of the Bible is how human can have a personal relationship with God.

The purpose of Jesus is how humans can have a personal relationship with one another.

The purpose of the Bible is how humans can have a better existence!

LordReed:
Keep trucking on budaa, I hope 2019 brings you good health and prosperity.

And to you and everyone else on here my Lord.

MuttleyLaff:
With the greatest respect budaatum, I do feel like walking on eggs when replying to your post(s) sometimes.
Or feel like walking through a minefield, not knowing what I'll step on, that possibly will trigger something
Why, please tell why in the world will I want to insult you?
What is my gain, what is the benefit? Huh?

It is something I do often I recommended to you
I often go back to posts, reading them slowly out loud to myself, to improve making more sense of what I've earlier read
It never was intended to be disrespectful so please to read it as an insulting remark sir.
Just like you, and as the saying goes, great minds think alike, you know, if you'd admit
that I too consciously choose my words and construct my sentences to communicate

As for the carriage, that is a very good catch observation you had there
As a point of correction, it is actually called "line feed" and not carriage returns.
budaatum, line feed is another conscious thing I do because of aethestic need
and concern with how my content is going to appear displayed by the browser

"I never said your choices reflect your fears
please re-read slowly out loud, to see that, what I said was {cr}
from the word go, from the very beginning, was choice {cr}
however a moment of choice is a moment of truth, that, there's the ugly of consequence"

"I never said your choices reflect your fears, please re-read slowly out loud, to see that, what I said was, from the word go, from the very beginning, was choice however a moment of choice, is a moment of truth, that, there's the ugly of consequence"

Case point is above, same content, reproduced line fed and not line fed
Notice with the line feeds, I left align my content on the browser
and I also save the readers' eyes from moving across long lines
by letting the eyes read, kpa-kpa-kpa, drop to next line, off you go. Easier.

Again, budaatum, you wouldnt find any evidence of me discarding what you wrote, talkless completely discarding
The truth of the matter, is I've been acknowledging what you say
and actually going further, broadening and/or expanding the scope with my contribution(s)

Take for example, would you honestly say here that,
you have never in your life had cause to take or made choices, that had ugly consequences?
Did you delight or looked forward to taking the choice(s), that has ugly consequence(s)?

I never assumed anything budaatum, demons are relative is suffice, just like I earlier said.
If I wanted you to agree or accept something, trust me I will ask you

I am so sorry that you walk on eggs muttley. I do however find it insulting when people ask me to read slowly or carefully as if I didn't to start with. And I too go back and read stuff over and over and over again.

I must confess that I have a lot less patience with you than I have with some others on here, and I do not hide it when communicating with you. With the more simple, I have no choice, but not with you since I know you are far from simple and intelligently minded. That's why I get frustrated whenever I think you have not engaged your mind when communicating with me. When you don't engage your mind, I am insulted because I know you have a mind that is engagable, so why the heck would you hide it from me? Do you not find me worthy of your very best maybe? That said, whenever you do engage your mind, I henceforth promise to ensure the eggs you walk on are hard boiled first. As to walking through a minefield, that I cannot help you with since I am that complex, legion and all, but I hereby cover you with the blood of Jesus and promise that none of the mines will blow you up. You, muttley, must fear no evil.

Your aesthetic line feeds just make you more difficult to read, do note, since we are very capable of moving our eyes along long lines and expect to. Do you yourself find it difficult reading long lines perhaps? If we have difficulty moving our eyes along long lines we would hardly move our minds now would we! Besides, most probably read on a phone screen with lines that are not long at all. Stop trying to make us too lazy to move our eyes if you would please that is, and divert the effort to moving minds instead. You, sir, are more than capable.

Now, let's see how far we've gotten, shall we. Yes I have likely taken or made choices that had ugly consequences, and did not delight or look forward to the choices I made that had ugly consequences, but not in relation to my freely chosen demons which exist at my pleasure and go when I tell them to go.

By the way, you never did ask what my demons are, not that I'd tell you if you did, mind.

Anas09:
Glory to Jesus for that. Stay healthy.

A cousin of mine came to see me on the day I left home and we were laughing at how oddly we both walked. He'd been ill too, but couldn't do a buhari like I could so I left him there. He's a prayer, morning and evening, takes God serious and fasts and tithes too. I was in hospital and two weeks later, he was dead.

If not the fact that buda could fly home to the wonderful doctors and the crane out the window and the picture of flowers with petals that moved, I'd say, Anas, or buda would be dead too. Indeed glory and thanks that buda is healthy.

The thing is, until we Nigerians understand that 'Jesus' is wisdom, knowledge and power that can be acquired through diligent study instead of some idea to be believed and worshipped, we shall never ever enter the Kingdom of God!

LordReed:
Wow budaa hope you are back to full function.

As good as can be, considering. Thanks. Life gave me lemons so I now drink lots of lemonade.

MhizAngel99:
@elated177 Even if God and heaven did exist, Akin1212 would be more likely to go to heaven because he is doing good things for the sake of doing the right thing, whether he believes in a god or not. Whereas you're just being motivated, consciously or otherwise, by the threat of eternal damnation in hell and/or the promise of eternal joy in heaven. If you thought there was no god, you'd probably be swimming in sin

You christians love to label atheists as fools just because it says so in the bible - a completely flawed, contradictory book by the way, but in truth, you are the real fools. At least Atheists have the intelligence to scrutinize their beliefs and search for evidence. Christians are just brainwashed to do whatsoever they are told without applying any iota of logic. @elated177 stop trying to infect people wit ur delusions of grandeur

Such as them crucify Christ and think they worship him. The delusion they work under amazes me.

Anas09:
So, did you get your waist back? Not funny.

Of course I got my waist back Anas, as I described here.