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Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Croatia: World Cup - 0 - 2 On 16th June 2018 by budaatum: 8:50pm On Jun 16, 2018
Passovile:
How we take come this world cup self?
I think we flew. Like, on a plane. Though, now you make me wonder that they didn't walk all the way to Russia!
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Croatia: World Cup - 0 - 2 On 16th June 2018 by budaatum: 8:39pm On Jun 16, 2018
Daeylar:
Just tell me why Nigeria should give themselves an own goal cry cry
Because we are generous!?
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Croatia: World Cup - 0 - 2 On 16th June 2018 by budaatum: 8:35pm On Jun 16, 2018
Well. At least we scored first.

angry
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Croatia: World Cup - 0 - 2 On 16th June 2018 by budaatum: 8:03pm On Jun 16, 2018
Sirfeeking:
It seems the crotians are better in the air
You seen their wings already?
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Croatia: World Cup - 0 - 2 On 16th June 2018 by budaatum: 8:02pm On Jun 16, 2018
Go homeboys! Homeboys go!!
Christianity Etc › Re: The Mental Disorder Called Atheism. Must Read For All Nairaland Christians by budaatum: 3:43pm On Jun 16, 2018
superhumanist:
The funny thing is that they won't admit that it is their opinion, they would claim that it is from God. just look at the nonsense from butterflyleo
They can't admit what they do not know, and really, they don't know. They believe that inner voice they hear is the voice of their god, when it really is their own self's telling them what they wish to hear. If only they would mind their tendency to be confirmatorily biased.

A fault that highly encouraged in Christianity, and adopted by some, is the fact that everything is down to God for them. So whatever is achieved is because of God, which does not allow recognition of personal effort and reduces the need to value the individual person, as the "spirit of God in the person" is all they need recognise. Pity is that it reduces the need for individuals to take responsibility for their existence.
Christianity Etc › Re: 22 Year Study States Atheism In A Mental Disease? by budaatum(op): 10:46pm On Jun 15, 2018
I see I'm repeating myself!
budaatum:
Don't you like your own medicine? You go about insulting everyone, trolling every thread thinking others can't do the same to you? Now you want to pass it off as humour? After making false derogatory comments about one all over the place?

No, I am not laughing! All you have to do to get me to stop is you just post excerpts from the response you claim you got from Google, or admit there is no study and that you posted unverifiable comments from some crackpot's site . And perhaps grow up a little? Or don't you really realise the 'whole world' can see what you do?

Merry Christmas to you too. My regards to your girl.
How's your girl? She still putting up with you?
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 10:31pm On Jun 15, 2018
O! Your "carefully considered interpretation" may be wrong, but instead of admitting it, you continue with your baseless lies, but, I must keep my cool?

Please start your first post in the Gospel of John thread with the first chapter. I would not want a single chapter wasted.

ScienceWatch:
Thank you for your kind response and the link. Very professional indeed. I hate working with links.

Nevertheless, you were talking inside that link with the esteemed Butterflyleo about logs and twiggs. My carefully considered interpretation is that you were trying to wrap the logs around the twiggs. I may be wrong again so please keep your cool.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum:
Listen to your self, shameless you. There was only one rule on The Gospel according to John thread sc. Its sole purpose was so the person mentioned in the op minded their stupidity and trolling, which they are very well known for, and which gets in the way of conversation way more intelligent than that which the mentioned is capable of. Now all of a sudden, "I will blow your warped mind". I lol and kmt at the same time.

budaatum:
I must add this personal because I know I will have to say it at some point, Sciencewatch, please refrain from derailing this thread! (Forgive me.)
I dare you to come on my Gospel of John thread sc!

ScienceWatch:
I just knew I was right, considering the hatred you are spewing here.
I will be gentle on you because of your amnesia. Do you remember that I told you that I was hesitant to go on your topic, "The Gospel Of John", well now you know why. Wise readers must please Bookmark what I am saying here.

An atheist God hater can never come close to understanding any of the gospels. It is totally impossible. Even with a PHd you will fail.

I can go to your topic now and interpret the deep hidden spiritual things that John wrote and blow your warped mind apart.
The problem is even as I explain the deepest secrets in John's Gospel, you still would not understand. That is a fact proven by yourself many times even to Butterflyleo and Vaxx as they labored to assist your poor understanding of proven spiritual realities.

I called you the smartest atheist in the world for a reason. But I will never say that you are the wisest. Wisdom is far above intelligence.
Even animals intelligence is far superior to what atheists display here. Animals intelligence produce harmonious results. Atheists destroy.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 10:19pm On Jun 15, 2018
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 8:22pm On Jun 15, 2018
ScienceWatch:
I take it you are also saying that Butterflyleo is lying in his ground-breaking OP ?

This is the link to the highly esteemed Butterflyleo's topic on this mental problem;
https://www.nairaland.com/4538134/mental-disorder-called-atheism-must/23#68508492
My response is already detailed here, and kept being reiterated in that thread. Go read.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 8:15pm On Jun 15, 2018
ScienceWatch:
Finally you show your true colors. Your egotistical clashes with Vaxx was noted. Now you come on a so-called religious forum to justify Atheists insults, mockery and ridicule of millions of innocent, kind and loving peoples revered, life transforming and holy scriptures.
"Millions of innocent, kind and loving people" do not revere your version of god, sc, even though you think you've hidden your very disgusting version under the guise of the Christian God. As to the Scriptures being holy, while I have seen a lot of people who read those Scriptures and have seemed to be holy from their reading, I can't see anything about you and your sort that points to anything anyone would consider holy.

I'll let vaxx deal with your lies about a clash with him.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 4:42pm On Jun 15, 2018
ScienceWatch:
Do an unbiased Examination of this so-called religious forum and see verifiable evidence of how highly motivated atheists are to defend their version of their deity called NO-GOD while insulting and mocking the true creator God.
But you choose to chastise Christians for defending what is revered, sacred and holy. Take care my dear.
Quite a lot of people on this forum enjoy their relationship with their God without it being impacted by whatever anyone else says, thinks or believes. Most of them go about loving their fellow human beings unlike you who's sole reason for existing is to lie, rant and rave against atheists as if their opinion actually murders your god, which is why you end up reaping the exact hatred that you sow from the abundance of your heart.

Your defence of your hatred and your hateful god, deserve nothing less than insults, mockery and ridicule, and if I were you, I'd of taken that god of hatred of yours to the bottom of the river and bashed it's head in and gotten a better god by now, or even just adopted the God Yahweh as my god. But I guess your god of lies, hatred and deceit has so much of a hold on you that you can't possibly abandon it for a loving version despite the so called blood of Christ that is said to have been freely shed for you.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 3:38pm On Jun 15, 2018
ScienceWatch:
It is allegedly widely report on internet sites that a 22-year old study at a German University[/b] has many psychiatrists and psychologists throughout the world wondering if atheism/ deism, agnosticsm is a sign or warning of a more serious mental illness already present or in the process of developing. Atheists or people who are very strident about there atheism are heavily prone to mental illness:

“There were 17,809 people in the study. It was a very large model as far as psychological experiments go.” This came as quite a shock to us as we studied patient after patient.”
Sciencewatch, you are a liar!
Christianity Etc › Re: 22 Year Study States Atheism In A Mental Disease? by budaatum(op):
budaatum:
ScienceWatch (sw), I strongly believe that you operate on the premise that people are generally stupid, or you wouldn't think others cannot see through your imbecilic charade on here. I advice you look over your own post and see what you sound like. Or better, imagine someone else wrote all you've written and ask yourself what you'd think of such a person. You are like a two year old throwing a tantrum in a supermarket because mummy would not let you have your way.

I do not think keb could agree with you that I've used any antics against him. He is way too intelligent to agree with statements that can easily be shown to be false. In fact, keb will be agonising that you mention his name so much as, in my opinion, you make him more ridiculous than any atheist can. If I were keb, I would have pmed you to shut up already as you are doing him more harm than good.

As a side, I have been requesting evidence for your 22 year study since October. Please post a link to your post where you asked me for proof of anything so people can see when and what it was that you asked proof for.

While many have humoured you, I expect by now you have exhausted their patience and they will tell you what they really think of you. We got to save a brother from killing himself after all, you poor sod.
I'm aware this had no impact on you when first posted and I hardly expect it to have any impact now, so let's assume I am reminding myself of how much of an utter waste of time you are!
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 3:18pm On Jun 15, 2018
ScienceWatch:
If you dare accuse me of lying here, please be a gentleman and provide proof.
All you do is lie and peddle ignorance, and you've left a long trail behind you as evidence. It is a pity that those lies are in defence of your version of god. It either approves of your lies or it is a rather corrupted god, dare I say. Either ways, not one worthy of the time of anyone with an ounce of a brain.

As to your mental illness, perhaps stick to the thread generously created for you to exhibit your ways.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 1:09pm On Jun 15, 2018
ScienceWatch:
I will never lie to you my dear.
You always lie sc. You did exactly the same with your fake 22 year study that never materialised, that I now wonder if truly, its hardwired into you to lie, for not one single word of truth spews forth from your mind.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 1:01pm On Jun 15, 2018
ScienceWatch:
For the sake of peace I will have to agree that my reading skills suck.

Tell us Budaatum, can you do this without chanting ? It is common knowledge that chanting is the easiest way to contact a spiritual entity.
All you've done here is peddle lies only to eventually concede with more lies that you don't know what you were doing! Did your inner voice stay silent while you were lying, I wonder!

Perhaps stick to your common knowledge, but understand why. It might help you develop, grow and evolve, and perhaps enable you to understand the meaning of "Thou shalt not bear false witness".
Christianity Etc › Re: The Mental Disorder Called Atheism. Must Read For All Nairaland Christians by budaatum: 4:06am On Jun 15, 2018
MuttleyLaff:
Why would anyone deify one's conscience?
Some people do deify their inner voice muttley. It is called the "Voice of God" by some, which is deification even though its been demoted to "Holy Spirit" in Christianity.

MuttleyLaff:
What talks with one's own voice?
One's conscious self talks to the, usually, externally projected self, is how I'd put it. The projected self is what some call their conscience, inner voice, critical inner voice, auditory hallucinations, God, gods, angels Gabriel, Michael etc, voice within, inner light, Socrates' "daimōnic sign", Voice of God, Holy Spirit, and so on.

Some, like me, just admit that, "I am talking to myself".

MuttleyLaff:
"Morality, is about good and bad behaviour.
Conscience, on the other hand, is intuition, the capacity, as it were, without being learned or taught, to instinctively know, right from wrong
"
- MuttleyLaff ©
When people go to church, muttley, they hear a sermon. That sermon is usually a moral lesson, as in, "this is the proper, Christian, way to behave". I am currently working through a Gospel, and it does seem to be replete with stories that teach morality too.
I assert from the above, and that parents teach their children so they do not become evil, that Conscience is acquired by being taught and learned, even since you claim it is the "capacity to know right from wrong", which I believe, is acquired through learning, and a whole heap of teaching, and forcing, even.

One acquires morals (right and wrong) from being taught, and one's being taught, and learning, is what enables one to acquire the "capacity" to make moral choices, I would have you consider.

One could claim the learning through the years hardwires it in eventually, but one does not begin with any knowledge of right or wrong, or a conscience, hardwired in from birth, is my view.

MuttleyLaff:
Teach your children right from wrong, and when they are grown they will still do right, is what Proverbs 22:6 says
If moral were prewired, why does the bible bother advising teaching them to our kids right from when they are young?

”... moral prewired into their DNA"
Misrepresenting me is not good enough for you
so you try sticking your misinterpretation on me and falsely labelling it as mine
Muttley! You are the one who took up position in support of ”... moral prewired into their DNA" , a statement which stands in opposition to mine and which I have elaborated on above. If you disagreed with it, then I wonder why you never took it up with the person who wrote it but chose to engage with my rebuttal of it instead. Might it be the same reason as when you claimed one can't judge them? Or perhaps you just missed it?

I have repeatedly asked a question similar, if not exactly the same as, "If moral were prewired, why does the bible bother advising teaching them to our kids right from when they are young?" So I ask again, why did you not ask that of the person who said it was hardwired?

Go read through the thread before making allegations a la sc, it is unbecoming and morally wrong and I know your inner voice agrees with me. I, after all, have taught you that buda does not lie! And kindly mention me when you find who said their "morals are hardwired into their dna"! I would like to see how you engage with it.

But while you're at it, be reminded that, first, below is you saying what I consider to be "conscience is hardwired in", within the context that you appear to have dived into, but do let me know if my understanding is wrong. And second, note my objections to this view as stated above.

MuttleyLaff:
Conscience, on the other hand, is intuition, the capacity, as it were, without being learned or taught, to instinctively know, right from wrong[/i]"
- MuttleyLaff ©
If it is instinctive, some would claim that is hardwired. A position I disagree with, so you know my stance.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Mental Disorder Called Atheism. Must Read For All Nairaland Christians by budaatum: 8:46pm On Jun 14, 2018
MuttleyLaff:
Dont tell that you dont listen to your still small voice, inner voice or voice within.
I don't deify it is all since it is rather limited in what it has to say. Or have you not noticed it talks with one's own voice, and can be deceived to say what one wishes to hear?

As I mentioned earlier, people never seem to rely on their morality being prewired, which is why quite a lot of prophets, holy people, ones parents as well as one's community, expend a lot of effort teaching morals. I am certain you would teach your kids morals too, but now I wonder why you'd bother if it is already prewired into their dna.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 8:35pm On Jun 14, 2018
ScienceWatch:
My dear Omo Basorun, I am not in the habit of airing our dirty laundry in public. I won't join you in undignified slander here, let's wait till we have a Brandy at our local pub.

To refresh your spiritual amnesia, here is another extract of your incredible spiritual journey;

You said, "Whenever I arrive in the Orolu Kingdom, I do a walk around the town as part of my os[h]a (I've added the h so it reads well), and I must start after 2am, for that is when the Spirits that ensure Orolu prospers roam around the Kingdom.
The walk takes me past Saint John's - the first church in town, past the first mosque and past the Palace in front of which stands the I Bo Osa (Osa Shrine), and takes approximately 1.5 - 2 hours."

I will never lie to you my dear.
'Chanting', 'talking to spirits', 'waking people up', sc? I will, from now on, pay better attention to your inability to read.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 12:42am On Jun 14, 2018
ScienceWatch:
I am so sorry to hear that you are suffering memory loss my dear BUDAATUM.

Because I have sworn my undying love for you in public, I will help restore your failing memory of your critical life experiences.

Because you are the smartest atheist in the world, I will give you cryptic clues that will free your amnesia.

CRYPTIC CLUES :

1) The spiritual ritual must start at 12 midnight.
2) You will be chanting loudly as you go.
3) Villagers will wake up because they know that supernatural intervention is near.

I won't paste the link to your own post here, because the cure to your amnesia is sweat my dear.
You are a common peddler of untruths sc. Where in that story did I claim to chant or call on spiritual entities in the middle of the night to intervene in the affairs of the village, you dishonest prat?!

Here, is a link that should help disabuse you of your lying tendencies.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 6:06pm On Jun 13, 2018
ScienceWatch:
You stated that you called on spiritual entities in the middle of the night to intervene in the affairs of the village.
Where did I tell you any of these lies you're peddling sc? How does an atheist call on "spiritual entities" ?
Christianity Etc › Re: The Mental Disorder Called Atheism. Must Read For All Nairaland Christians by budaatum: 10:49am On Jun 13, 2018
MuttleyLaff:
Everyone has this still small voice, inner voice or voice within, that bears witness to what is wrong or right.
The voice can get embroiled, get caught up in and lose out to a cacophony of deafening other voices, like those you aptly typed out
I do wish everyone had this small inner voice you mention, but that just isn't the case. Lots of people don't have any such voice and some people's just talks crap.

But since you appear to have placed even my voice amongst the latter, I guess I'm done here.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 2:30am On Jun 13, 2018
omenka:
Question is, hasn't religion been behind some of the greatest crimes against humanity we've witnessed?
Nope, religion has not been behind ... .

You and your sneaky question, "some of" !? That doesn't have a meaning!

Still, religion has not been behind the "greatest crimes against humanity we've witnessed". No religion has ever killed anyone. It is humans who are behind the greatest crimes, and achievements, we've ever witnessed. Some just sometimes chose god as their preferred weapon is all.
Christianity Etc › Re: 'Religion Has Done More Harm To Man Than Technology' - Twitter User Says by budaatum: 3:23pm On Jun 12, 2018
ScienceWatch:
His only weakness is that he fights to publish SATANIC Harry Potter fiction on a so-called religious section.
butter confessed he has a double-barrelled gun that shoots both ends. I did suggest he get a mirror so he can see himself, but we all know how butter refuses to learn, because it's all, 'hardwired into his dna from the start'. Besides, he's hardly going to take advice from atheist buda. If he did, both of you would see that not only is Harry Potter religion, but it specifically is Christian religion.

Harry Potter is followed by house-elves and goblins — not disciples — but for the sharp-eyed reader, the biblical parallels are striking. Author J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" books have always, in fact, dealt explicitly with religious themes and questions, but until "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," they had never quoted any specific religion.

But what else should be expected from those who think they shoot their opposer when in fact, they only accomplish their very own demise. One can clearly see why the JK says:

"I go to church myself," she declared. "I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion." JK Rowling
Christianity Etc › Re: The Mental Disorder Called Atheism. Must Read For All Nairaland Christians by budaatum:
MuttleyLaff:
Morality, is about good and bad behaviour.
Conscience, on the other hand, is intuition, the capacity, as it were, without being learned or taught, to instinctively know, right from wrong.
The human race is replete with occasions where the human conscience failed in its instinctive duty then it would seem. The Aztec sincerely believed it was right and proper to sacrifice thousands of humans to their gods. The conscience of slave raiders do not seem to have persuaded them to abolish slavery, and the looters of Nigeria must not have consciences, or instincts, and most definitely not, morals!

MuttleyLaff:
Let me make myself clearer, I implied that conscience is hardwired into the psyche
Morality, if you want to put it into the equation, is a product of conscience
Conscience actually evolved into being. Primitive humans hardly exhibited it, and relied more on consequence than anything else. The reason one ape does not steal your banana or wife is for fear of what you'd do if you caught it. You should see how apes fornicate sneakily when chief ape isn't watching or becomes too old to do anything about it.

MuttleyLaff:
Everyone has this still small voice, inner voice or voice within, that bears witness to what is wrong or right.
The voice can get embroiled and lose out to a cacophony of deafening other voices
and thereafter render whatever it is that was originally being sent out become bad
Or that voice could be saying crap, like, "get a gun, go to a high school, shoot people, they don't deserve to live". Or, " atheist are stupid", as one persons 'still small voice' recently claimed.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Mental Disorder Called Atheism. Must Read For All Nairaland Christians by budaatum: 1:35pm On Jun 12, 2018
Christianity Etc › Re: Which Is The Default Position? Atheism Or Theism by budaatum: 1:07pm On Jun 12, 2018
winner01:
The human disposition to believe in the supernatural is a scientific fact.
Humans have a disposition to believe what they wish to believe, actually, and not just in the supernatural. Believing, however, is not the great virtue religion makes it out to be and one just needs to consider the numerous beliefs that have been held to be true but that have been detrimental to human existence. Much better than believing is actual knowing. And if I were Christian or a Muslim, I would be insulting my God by claiming I believe in God. Personally, I would claim "I know God" instead, and to hell with anyone who claims I don't know my god!

winner01:
The evidence is overwhelming and continues to stare at us even though we continue to look for alternate answers.
If this were true, then consider what I said above,. Why 'believe', if you 'know' ? Surely you have been given sufficient abilities (limited, as you claim they may be), to find out, especially considering how "overwhelming" you claim the evidence is?

winner01:
Atheism requires lots of faith in my opinion, I simply do not have that much faith. How could one rationally push that man is here to be here and once he's dead he's gone, that the universe is unplanned and cares nothing for us, that everything happens to happen and there's no greater purpose to life, that there is no transcendent morality, no good, no evil, and all we have are just likes and dislikes. It makes no sense and the available evidence stands against these.
I can understand why you claim atheism requires faith. And I agree with you. An atheist has to have faith in ones fellow human being, for instance, that just because another worships a god, that don't necessarily make them bad people. An atheist has to have faith that if she goes about being nice and kind to others, goodness and mercy would go with her always, but that there is no god to ultimately reward that good. And of course everyone eventually realises that those who are nasty to others would receive opprobrium from those they are nasty too.

Funny enough, church, is where I got to learn and understand 'faith'. Turns out I now have so much of it that church people say I border on the edge of arrogance, and I agree. After all, if Christ shed blood for me, as they claim, that must make me super special, and goddamn me if despite that shedding, I were to live in fear!

winner01:
Maybe the Christianity practiced today is true Christianity. If you'll be honest enough with me, you'll agree that Jesus would have condemned outrightly such activities under the idea that "all men are created equal".
"Christianity practiced today is true" ? That would depend on where one looks. I do doubt Christ would approve of the wealth flaunting of some Christians. He might just tell people to sell all they have and give it to the poor!

winner01:
Maybe many of our teachers, parents and even religious leaders got this wrong, it still does not say much about the validity of such teachings. I can observe how people get overtly religious in society with little to show for it, and how they condemn those who try to ask questions. This is why christian apologetics for instance, is almost non existent in Nigeria. We now know better and we can reform the process of teaching.
This change in attitude is what has allowed more people to speak out against false doctrines, and ensured outright rejection, as in the case of the atheist. I personally am delighted that these sort of discussions go on, though I do wish we could apply more intelligence whilst discussing. But I have faith. I doubt many could claim they learn nothing by engaging with people of other religions on here, though I do admit that some are so rigid that they learn nothing.

winner01:
One of the factors that led me to Christ, is the existential reality of the gospel.
And that is the same thing that piqued my interest in religions, on the whole. My conclusion however, is that religion acts as a placebo whereby people convince themselves of a salvation they forever remain uncertain about despite their "blessed assurance". As I once said, do I go tell Margaret to abandon her faith and become an atheist? What good would that serve Me, or Margaret?

winner01:
Of course, the need to evangelise I've discovered, is innate. That explains why most atheists are here trying to persuade me to be one of them. If atheists cared so much about humanity as they claim, they'll constantly be in Islams face, for we all know its the most potent tool for evil in our world today.
I dislike " innatism" with a passion. I once had someone inform me that playing the piano was an innate ability, and Mozart and Beckham were the example given. The fact however is that if neither of them put the work in to learn and hone their skills, neither would be known today.

There is no inherent need to evangelise, is actually the truth, and the only reason to evangelise is to increase the number of people on ones side. Unfortunately, my atheism is academic, as in it has developed through intellectual exercise. To convert you to it would involve quite a lot of indoctrinating you, which I cannot do since there really is no gain for me in converting you. And, it would involve immense time sacrifice on your part, which honestly, I can't advocate that you take on as it would come at a huge cost to you. Besides, Margaret......

But, back to the default position. It really is simple and plain ignorance. Humans know absolutely nothing when they come out of their mothers'. In fact, they do not even know how to breath, and have to learn it in the first few seconds of being born. It is why babies cry when they are born. The cry is the first act of exhaling. We go on and fill children with stuff and claim it was innate, is the truth. You just watch Mozart develop in some rural village where there's no piano! Or try not teaching your children maths or morals hoping the ability to perform calculus or love their fellow human being, is innate.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Mental Disorder Called Atheism. Must Read For All Nairaland Christians by budaatum:
MuttleyLaff:
Yes, that is absolutely correct bud
a person has a moral sense of right and wrong that is hardwired
So, morality is not a learned thing, according to you, and the verses quoted?

MuttleyLaff:
]Just has people dont always have good success
so people dont always have a good or blameless conscience though
Are you saying consciousness, morality and one's success are hardwired? Do you mean they are determined before one is actually born?

MuttleyLaff:
People can also have a conscience that's being seared
People equally can be desensitized and lack good conscience, having lost the hardwired/inborn/intuitive moral sense of right and wrong.
Do you mean by this that a bad conscience, as in one that may not see murder as bad, can be hardwired into one before birth? Or that they lost the good consciousness that was hardwired and a new but bad one replaced it?
Literature › Re: Platform 9¾ by budaatum(op): 2:26am On Jun 09, 2018
What!? You afraid of Harry? I am rather not surprised since you are exactly what he fought against.

Joyfully, you've got this promoted where you'd only just further ridicule yourself.
Christianity Etc › Re: On Subjectivity And Objectivity by budaatum(op): 2:47pm On Jun 08, 2018
Butterflyleo:
I rather showed you how you cannot and will never be able to remove objectivity from a premise that has already been set out of which other inferences have been drawn.
butter, please, where did you show me the above? I don't think I saw it.

Welcome to the sub/obj thread.

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