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Politics › Re: Igbos Stop Joking, Atiku Will Lose Heavily. Here Are The Reasons by budaatum: 11:19am On Oct 13, 2018

kotv:
This is disgusting and yet you wonder why they don't support your party or want anything to do with your party.

Everything about you APC supporters is tribalistic and division. You people are disgusting and must be removed from Nigeria before you destroy it completely with your hate and every thing that makes us humans

Excuse me, but what makes you think that tiny brained smelly mouthed disgusting idiot speaks for everyone?

Christianity Etc › Re: The Non-Christian Chatbox ( sticky ) by budaatum: 11:03am On Oct 13, 2018

LordReed:
Naah nothing so serious, maybe something like kool dudes hangout.

Wouldn't it just be a 'bash religion' group though? I hardly think one is needed since we get that here already.

Christianity Etc › Re: The Way Some Atheists Behave by budaatum: 10:59am On Oct 13, 2018

H0pefulLandl0rd:
The notice only shows when the banned person checks his/her profile. others can't see it

This is ridiculous! That rule is hardly enforced! People insult and bully people on here everyday and don't get banned.

Seun, is this fair?

Christianity Etc › Re: The Way Some Atheists Behave by budaatum: 10:45am On Oct 13, 2018

H0pefulLandl0rd:
Oh! I made a mistake. its end of NEXT month

I've been banned a lot. I doubt I've Been banned for insulting Nairalander before. my bans have been more for insulting religions or antispambot running wild

But there's no notice on your profile saying you been banned huh

Christianity Etc › Re: The Non-Christian Chatbox ( sticky ) by budaatum: 10:37am On Oct 13, 2018

LordReed:
Well maybe just a social group?

Maybe I'd call it Nairaland Atheists.

Christianity Etc › Re: The Non-Christian Chatbox ( sticky ) by budaatum: 10:36am On Oct 13, 2018

Have You Been Banned?

This ban malarkey is getting tedious! Annoyingly, once you're banned, you can't communicate with anyone! So, I'm setting up legal to advocate on your behalf.

If you're banned, email me at gmail with link you got banned for. Please email mods first though.

Christianity Etc › Re: The Way Some Atheists Behave by budaatum: 10:04am On Oct 13, 2018

H0pefulLandl0rd:
Reminds me of aaronson

Excuse me, but who are you? A new hoping landlord? Why the new registration?

Christianity Etc › Re: Pope Blames "Satan"(not His Priests), For Sexual Abuse Cases!!! by budaatum: 9:51am On Oct 13, 2018

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis on Thursday released the names of nearly 30 priests accused of abusing more than 100 children or young people.

Here's what we know:

Foreign Affairs › Re: New Video Emerges: Bill Clinton Wrapping Arm Around Monica Lewinsky's Waist by budaatum: 8:52am On Oct 13, 2018

OLAADEGBU:
The country is a reflection of the leadership they get.

And we have not learned diddly squat by my reckoning, or we would not be considering electing thieves!

Christianity Etc › Re: The Way Some Atheists Behave by budaatum: 4:51pm On Oct 12, 2018

LordReed:
Finally accepting that if I didn't need to defend any of the bullshit dogmas or doctrine or constantly interpret things that happen to me as portents, signs or miracles (they weren't that special), the entire thing falls apart into a convoluted, confused mess.

Sounds like you eyes opened. Must have been traumatic.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 3:37pm On Oct 12, 2018

Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution

The year 2016 began a new era of political populism throughout the developed world. In the United States, the face of that populism is President Donald Trump. Despite being called every name in the book, and despite over a year of bad predictions, Trump managed to win the White House.

Rather than seriously wonder why the New York billionaire with tons of skeletons in his closet managed to win over blue-collar workers, Christian conservatives, and more Latino and black voters than the previous Republican nominee, the American media has doubled and tripled down on calling President Trump a white supremacist, a homophobe, an Islamophobe, etc.

Tucker Carlson, the popular Fox News host, has a dire warning for those unwilling to learn the lessons of 2016: start listening to the American public or face the prospect of a violent revolution. In Ship of Fools, Carlson highlights the fact that America has dissolved into an oligarchy that only pretends to practice democracy. This cannot sustain itself, especially when identity politics continue to tear at the delicate balance of America’s race and class issues.

Many liberal and left-of-center people will refuse to pick up this book. After all, Carlson is a full-throated conservative who has never hidden his right-wing views. That being said, in Ship of Fools, Carlson often sounds very left-wing. For Carlson, the new secular religion of multiculturalism and open borders are just a dodge to keep Americans from recognizing that the middle class has been so thoroughly gutted that native-born workers are either working for less wages than their parents or are dying off in droves due to drugs, suicide, and general despair.

Carlson also attacks professional environmentalists for harping about climate change (which Carlson sees as an open-ended problem, thus making it a perennial cash cow) when cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles have become sanitation disasters. Environmentalists are not even concerned about littering anymore, Carlson notes.

Overall, Ships of Fools is a targeted snipe at the Democrats and Republicans and their elite enablers. Carlson despises the fact that, until the rise of Donald Trump, both parties agreed with each other. Both support the endless deployment of U.S. troops abroad and both support globalized financial capitalism that has utterly destroyed the Midwest and America’s manufacturing base.

Even worse, the collusion between Democrats and Republicans has bred a type of arrogant elitist who is insulated from all mistakes. Characteristic of this new elite class are people like Max Boot, the war hawk who constantly eggs on American invasions; William Kristol, the self-proclaimed guardian of the Republican Party who will never refuse his guilt for the Iraq War debacle; Maxine Waters, the notoriously corrupt race baiter who lives in a posh all-white neighborhood; Mark Zuckerberg, a child of privilege who uses the power of his monopoly to suppress the opinions of the American majority.

Ship of Fools is a broadside full of rage. Carlson’s targets are our mindless elite, most of whom are sheltered in the time-warp known as Washington, D.C. At its heart, this book has a very dire warning: the current path of self-destruction in American life can only end in two ways: 1) the suspension of democracy and the installation of authoritarian rule, or 2) the gutting of the elite and a return to the practice of mass democracy. Carlson would prefer the latter, but Ship of Fools points out with great relish that, in America, our elite seem hell-bent on not listening to voters at all

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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 3:35pm On Oct 12, 2018

In Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, Tucker Carlson tells the truth about the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. They have total contempt for you.

“They view America the way a private equity firm sizes up an aging conglomerate,” Carlson writes, “as something outdated they can profit from. When it fails, they’re gone.”

In Ship of Fools, Tucker Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords. Traditional liberals are gone, he writes. The patchouli-scented hand-wringers who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by globalists who hide their hard-edged economic agenda behind the smokescreen of identity politics. They’ll outsource your job while lecturing you about transgender bathrooms. Left and right, Carlson says, are no longer meaningful categories in America. “The rift is between those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don’t.”

Our leaders are fools, Carlson concludes, “unaware that they are captains of a sinking ship.” But in the signature and witty style that viewers of Tucker Carlson Tonight have come to enjoy, his book answers the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course?

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Christianity Etc › Re: The Way Some Atheists Behave by budaatum: 3:05pm On Oct 12, 2018

LordReed:
The days of foolishness. LoL

What made you abandon it?

Christianity Etc › Re: Religion Is Not A Playground. by budaatum: 1:47pm On Oct 12, 2018

Primesky:
That's not true!. If you know Jesus Christ at all, you would have known that He came to save us from sin, which alienated us (humans) from God, and ultimately to reconcile us back to God. Our relationship with others stemps from our relationship with and love for God, not that you or we are good people. All such acts of human goodness and benevolence without love for the almighty God and Jesus Christ our Savior, is exercise in futility. The devil also do that, so nothing new. Your goodness and good deeds must be born again.

I never knew the devil did goodness, benevolence and love. Got any references please?

As to good deeds needing to be born again, I know an atheist who ships books to the library in his community that otherwise wouldn't have books. Many people have benefitted from this atheist's deed, but from what you say above, no good has been done as far as god is concerned. I can't say I understand that god determines good by whether one worships god or not.

The Samaritan did not worship god but we call him good today. And I think the Levi and the Priest were bad. Or are you claiming I misunderstand?

Christianity Etc › Re: The Way Some Atheists Behave by budaatum: 1:36pm On Oct 12, 2018

LordReed:
Really? Someone says protons have mass and the first thing that comes to your mind is the religion protons belong to?

Aren't protons Catholic? cool

I was searching for your Christian days!

Foreign Affairs › Re: Saudi Govt Critic Disappears In Saudi Consulate And Saudi Govt Implicated by budaatum: 1:47am On Oct 12, 2018

Why would Saudi Arabia be interested in Jamal Khashoggi?

Read Jamal Khashoggi’s columns for The Washington Post

Foreign Affairs › Re: Saudi Govt Critic Disappears In Saudi Consulate And Saudi Govt Implicated by budaatum: 1:42am On Oct 12, 2018

“The Saudis will keep killing civilians and journalists as long as we keep arming and assisting them,” Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, said on Twitter on Thursday. “The President should immediately halt arms sales and military support to Saudi Arabia.”

“I would not be in favor of stopping a country from spending $110 billion — which is an all-time record — and letting Russia have that money and letting China have that money,” Mr. Trump said, referring to an arms deal with the Saudis, brokered last year, that the president has said will lead to new American jobs.N

Khashoggi For US Jobs?

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 9:14pm On Oct 11, 2018

A California man whose testimony contributed to the indictment of 13 Russian individuals and three companies in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of an alleged 2016 U.S. election trolling effort was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison and six months’ home confinement in a deal with prosecutors.

Richard Pinedo, 28, of Santa Paula, Calif., pleaded guilty Feb. 12 to identity theft in a deal announced the same day Mueller’s office unveiled an indictment accusing the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency. The defendants were charged with running a far-reaching fraud scheme using fake social media accounts to trick Americans online into following Russian-fed propaganda to support then-candidate Donald Trump.

Pinedo admitted to creating about 200 bank accounts, often using stolen identities and selling some to unidentified offshore users, including suspects connected to the Russia probe.
U.S. defendant sentenced in Mueller probe of alleged Russian 2016 election trolling effort

Christianity Etc › Human Universe by budaatum(op): 8:50pm On Oct 11, 2018

Apeman - Spaceman
Human Universe Episode 1 of 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NFy0XPp_4

Professor Brian Cox asks the biggest questions we can ask as he explores our origins, our place and our destiny in the universe.

Brian begins his exploration in the beautiful Ethiopian Highlands, where he has a rare encounter with our distant cousins, the gelada monkeys. They were once Africa's most successful primate, roaming across the entire continent, yet today they are found in just one place in the remote Ethiopian Highlands. So how did this happen? Why have some of our closest relatives retreated, whilst we have expanded everywhere? The clues are all around us - in the beautifully photographed human stories that are the heart of the series. From the fishermen of Lake Ziway in Ethiopia to star navigators in the Gulf of Aden, Brian carefully pieces together a startling new theory that links the expansion of our ancestors' brain size to the way in which Earth's orbit changes over time. He discovers that the universe played a surprising role in our ascent to the stars. But big brains alone did not get our species into space. To understand what did, Brian follows the route taken by our ancestors as some left Africa and headed north to the Middle East. In the spectacular ancient Nabatean city of Petra in Jordan, Brian unpicks the next part of our story, where he shows that it was our brains coming together to build cities, to farm and ultimately to pass information from one brain to another in the form of writing, that led us to space.

The programme concludes on the Kazakhstan Steppe, one of the toughest environments on Earth, as Brian joins the Russian Space Agency (RosCosmos) for a daring mission in the depths of winter. The team is there to rescue two cosmonauts and an astronaut as they arrive back on Earth after months off-world living aboard the International Space Station. The race is on to find them as they hurtle to the ground aboard their Soyuz re-entry capsule.

Politics › Re: Anxiety As Nigeria’s Fresh 25 Oil Cargoes Await Buyers by budaatum: 2:45pm On Oct 11, 2018

Indications emerged yesterday that the sale of Nigeria crude oil in the international market is currently facing challenges due to surging production of United States shale crude, which experts say has similar geological properties.

According to loading programmes compiled by Bloomberg, about 25 out of 60 Nigerian cargoes scheduled for October export remain unsold, while trading will switch to November shipments next week when new programmes are released.

Another factor said to be impacting negatively on the country's crude sales is the stoppage of crude imports from Nigeria by the US, which used to be the highest importer of Nigeria's crude.

Nigeria's Crude Faces Glut Over U.S. Shale Production

Politics › Re: Anxiety As Nigeria’s Fresh 25 Oil Cargoes Await Buyers by budaatum: 2:35pm On Oct 11, 2018

The landing cost of the Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) being imported into the country has risen to at least N205 per litre on the back of the recent increase in global oil prices, putting more pressure on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
NNPC faces pressure as petrol landing cost hits N205

Politics › Re: Anxiety As Nigeria’s Fresh 25 Oil Cargoes Await Buyers by budaatum: 2:27pm On Oct 11, 2018

Would Nigeria become the old Venezuela?

Politics › Re: Anxiety As Nigeria’s Fresh 25 Oil Cargoes Await Buyers by budaatum: 2:18pm On Oct 11, 2018

Nigeria may not benefit from rising oil prices due to petrol subsidies, the Nigerian Natural Resource Charter (NNRC), a United Kingdom funded organisation, has disclosed.

In a message which the NNRC issued through its twitter handle @NigeriaNRC yesterday, it explained that while oil prices continue to rise to new levels, Nigeria will unlikely benefit from it because it has also continued to maintain subsidy on petrol consumption.
NNRC: Petrol Subsidy May Deny Nigeria Benefits of High Oil Prices

Politics › Re: Anxiety As Nigeria’s Fresh 25 Oil Cargoes Await Buyers by budaatum: 2:14pm On Oct 11, 2018

AmazingELixir:

Wasn't it on this platform that it was reported that the Polish government had declared intention to buy Nigerian crude...

Buhariiiiii what have you done this time oooh!...

Poland’s largest oil refiner, state-run PKN Orlen, has bought its first ever Nigerian crude oil cargo expected to arrive in mid-October, the Polish company’s chief executive told Reuters amid Poland’s ongoing efforts to cut its reliance on Russian oil.

Christianity Etc › Re: The Non-Christian Chatbox ( sticky ) by budaatum: 1:23pm On Oct 11, 2018

JeromeBlack:
I'm surprised. I thought you would even be leading some groups sef.

Atheists haven't started doing "group", I don't think, since it would then seem like a religion. And personally, I don't evangelise as anyone is capable of reasoning for themselves if they wished to

That said, it's perhaps time for a group.

Foreign Affairs › Re: America is Losing Global Influence - The Atlantic by budaatum: 11:27pm On Oct 10, 2018

okwabayi:
The article is full of praise for Trump's strategy, even citing someone who did the same with success back in the day.
Yes, the Chinese are taking over, so? It's their time, since Africa is too lazy and lacks the foresight to both produce finished materials and long term plans. The continent is a revolving door for western nations to practice development plans and similar breakthroughs especially aimed at their people's favour.
The United States has chosen to focus on itself as opposed to dominating international markets which they already have a foothold in. Their relaxed approach now is simply "let the smaller competitor (China) play around. When we're ready we'll reclaim our market.". I remember correctly most of the media consumed on the African continent is American (soft power), the leaders are ever willing to export raw materials there and Africans are willing to provide labour -- skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled to the American government.

No, America is not losing global influence. It will bounce back even harder when it deems fit. Let the man in power focus on boosting domestic production first. It's still the same Africans they will sell end products to.

The consequence for Britain however, was it became a backwater country that found significance as part of Europe it had always thumbed it's nose up at, and Rule Brittania on which the sun never set, became Ruled by Europe rain pissed on all the time.

Oh how the mighty fall. America beware of hubris!

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Christianity Etc › Re: The Non-Christian Chatbox ( sticky ) by budaatum: 10:18pm On Oct 10, 2018

JeromeBlack:
Wassap Buda?

Ae you on any atheist whatsapp? I need to talk to atheists in Nigeria. Shit gets lonely at times.

Na, not on any atheist whatsapp. Haven't found one I guess. Maybe we should create one.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya 1st New World Order Colony In Africa by budaatum: 4:34pm On Oct 10, 2018

It's such a pity that someone who sounds so intelligent could be so ignorant! She's just throwing kitchen sinks hoping something sticks.

Christianity Etc › Re: Christ Mind by budaatum: 10:04am On Oct 09, 2018

vaxx:
You are directly telling him to make bible a complex test book. And I am sure he is smart enough to avoid that tricks muttleylaf is one of the few christain I respect his theology prowess on nairaland. he will not fall into your charm. How can he argue against his own standard of truth.

Not every post is for the sake of arguing, vaxx. Not every post is about ones tiny ego. He'll be teaching you. Unlike you, some can discuss in order to increase their own understanding and that of other readers.

Christianity Etc › Re: Christ Mind by budaatum: 9:47am On Oct 09, 2018

MuttleyLaff:
I fully give you the right to,
just dont leave bruise marks

I'll consider. But first educate vaxx on how complex the Bible is. Start with "love thy neighbour", which he thinks is a "verse [that] interprets itself without any form of ambiguity”. You might want to show the many ways Jesus taught that lesson and why, and then move on to it's modern day implications which it would seem many have not yet learned even though it is taught in just about every religion worth the salt. It might enter his blockhead coming from you.

Politics › Re: Ok, Atiku Is Corrupt. But So Are They All! by budaatum: 2:58am On Oct 09, 2018

Yeah? The "everyone is a thief so you too must thief" ideology, right? You must think Nigerians are still in stupid mode not realising if one doesn't thief, that's one less Nigerian thief?

Atiku ko Atif-u ni! "Public corruption is a cancer on the body politic." One by one thief will stop. And it continues with me! And you not voting Atif-u!

Christianity Etc › Re: Christ Mind by budaatum: 2:50am On Oct 09, 2018

vaxx:
That is not the goal initially.

Really? What was the "goal initially"?

vaxx:
The Bible expressed itself already. ( love your neighbour as yourself) i think this verse interprets itself without any form of ambiguity.

First, the Bible did not express itself. Some people expressed themselves in the Bible, and it is left to us to understand it, hopefully, in the sense they could have meant it to be understood - though many don't, dare I say - and even, in a context that makes it relevant to us in our own subjective time.

As to "love thy neighbour" being "without any form of ambiguity", and interpreting itself as you claim. I think you are being unserious, or did you not insult me in your very own thread about weapons?! Weapons of love, were they?

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