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I think we the masses were fed it in our breastmilk. That someone or something will come and bear our cross for us and only that thing or someone will, so, instead of developing the muscle to empower us to bear our own individual crosses, we wait in supplication for the arrival of our supermuscled messiahs/prophets/politician etc to come bear our crosses for us.

Thankfully, that's this my current generation, the generation that seems to fail to learn the lessons from our heroes past. The coming generation are learning the skills and developing the abilities that empower them to retire their messiahs and bear their own crosses. After all not many of them have not yet learnt the lesson of the last 8 years of Next Level and 4 x4 and Lazy Youths and the need to learn to bear their own crosses and produce their own manna since no messiah has appeared yet.

This thread is for that coming generation to list the skills and abilities that you developed that empower you to bear your own crosses and boldly go up to heaven to learn to make your own manna here on earth for yourselves so that my current generation may learn not to continue to expect our crosses to be bourne for us and our manna to fall into our begging mouths from the heavens above.

My hope is we are not too late to learn.

P.s. In case of confusion which is your generation, the ignorant one is the current.

[quote author=Gossiphub post=120657860]https://twitter.com/ruffydfire/status/1621895954449276931?t=g2nToi54pDCnG1uASdeujQ&s=19[/quote]

oyin44:
Shebi the responsibility of an opposition is to check the excesses of the government...

But why our own practice different from the western world?

Atiku ,obi and buhari are one..so who is going to fight for the masses? Ghost .

The masses must fight for themselves!

I will laugh at their assumption of being able to steal from me and get away with it, because I as a Nigerian is in a better position to steal from the Nigerian government and our nation more than they can possibly steal from us all.

CoolUsername:
That's the thing about holding ridiculous beliefs; you don't know when they're being ridiculed.

I think it the thing about you assuming wrongly one holds the beliefs you ridicule. Like ridiculing you for a thing you don't think. For instance, claiming you believe "maths is racist" then ridiculing you for it.

benalvino3:
it is funny how Budaatum missed it
that's the beauty of trolling them. When you say a joke/mockery or something sarcastic, you still have to tell them because these days they don't seem to recognize those things.

It's hard to recognise things you believe one believes Ben. Probably why your trolling fails where I'm concerned.

CoolUsername:
Gender roles are a made-up construct used to perpetuate white supremacy is a far right hegemony. To subscribe to these roles only serves to strengthen the patriarchial system which were allowed to proliferate through western imperialism. Gender only exist to give us guidelines to serve under the capitalist chokehold we live in.

And what do you mean by meeting force with greater force? Don't you know that The Force is female?

I'm struggling to make sense of the above.

Gender roles are not " made-up construct", but are the result of 'mummy carries baby, daddy provides protection', and were imposed on the couple, first through desire for one another and to propagate, and because a 9 month pregnant individual could not chase off wolfs.

Did you drink?

Enugurangers:
Coolusername. I wasn't joking when I said Nigerians are very wicked and cruel. This post operators are your average Nigerian.

See screenshot below

There is nothing like "average Nigerian". You just need look out of a Nigerian window to observe our diversity, and moreso if you travel some.

And wat you are pointing to is a consequence of supply and demand.

IjeBos:
Discussing anything with them is like playing whack-a-lie. You whack one they push another. They roll from wrongness to wrongness while pushing the alt-right meme du jour. And when wrong… just roll away without ever admitting it.

That's their intention, to get you whacking so your time is consumed by them. And every time you let them consume your time they achieve their objective, because it stops any meaningful conversation from being had so no growth or development or change occurs.

shuttox:
“We will return home and like Jehovah’s witnesses, tell our people that it is Tinubu that can do it. Tell our people to collect their PVCs, whoever does not have a PVC is not a friend of Tinubu.”

https://punchng.com/naira-petrol-hoarders-plotting-interim-govt-tinubu-alleges/

Tinubu is JW, lol.

raumdeuter:
Going by their personal lives and personal beliefs

Biden even Obama is probably more conservative than Trump. Biden Obama Clinton had a church they identified with, Trump probably spends Sundays recovering from Saturday's hangovers. He was basically an enjoyment man. But he wanted to win a ticket under the Republican party and has to say anything to win

I remember in the 90s to mid 2000s. Trump was the darling of the liberal media, He often appeared on WWE, Rap lyrics even host a beauty pageant

He was a showbiz man. Trump that was interviewed and said "Avoiding HIV in Manhattan in the 70s was the equivalent of his own Vietnam war". Now compare that to a traditional conservative like Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, The Bushs or John McCain

He was simply a populist who cashed in n peoples fears and worries about the economy. That was why he was loved by the Union people the reliable Blue collar Democratic voters of the rust belt

I ought to frame this!

westlius:
Then foreigners in the complex they loaded there ATM and ban Nigerian from using Foreigners ATM.

This is not legal.

Make a copy of the sign below and stand by the Foreigners ATM with it. People will see it and revolt after you explain to them why you are standing with it.

An A4 handwritten version would do.

He's probably depressed and does not know it.

You'd need to let him be for a while, since he's not harming anyone and is aware for his need to privately talk to himself.

Buy him a notebook to record his conversations. He'd hopefully read what he writes and reflect.

armyofone:
I thought he will be stepping down from congress completely - but only stepping down from his assigned duties in congress.

Integrity is required for him to want to step down and he's shown he has none by what he's done to get the job. So, don't expect him to exercise any. It's the people who must wait to de-employ him.

Even our courts have now become Obidient.

IjeBos:
This is our government. Expect more crazy talk from her. Unfortunately whatever lies she concocts and disseminates while in a Hearing is protected by the speech and debate clause.

Lies are not protected from being discovered to be false and lies if that is what it is, and such lies have consequences for the liar.

[quote author=adamusuleiman1 post=120562444]Greene: Can you tell me how much money went to CRT?
Dodaro: CRT?
Greene: It’s a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin not equal to black skin and other things.

MTG also creates numbers out of thin air.
She claimed that $5.1 BILLION went to some elementary school in Illinois for "equity and diversity".

Greene: Can you tell me how much money went to CRT?
Dodaro: CRT?
Greene: It’s a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin not equal to black skin and other things pic.twitter.com/ssFZE7Gxlz

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 1, 2023

will soon claim here that "an elementary school in Illinois received $5.1 billion to teach CRT".

I'm so glad she's been given a platform to show us what she like.

Maynman:
And if you look at cultures and traditions, they have different gods for different things.

Almost all ancient civilizations too had different gods for different things, even if they did not consider them gods at the time. One for rain, another for sun, a different one for wind and so on.

I find they are used as stopgaps. Like, this is what we (this culture and tradition) so far know about a particular phenomena and should be known by all so it is propagated through tradition and culture and religion, and education today where it is observed in the diversity of subjects one learns up to 16. Human ancestors would have had to build a temple to the God of Mathematics.

Eyes are open to see how fuqed face kayode is.

https://twitter.com/realFFK/status/1620361682307665920?s=20&t=uOmPPr72Huh-l__VRcd_Ww

Enugurangers:
I am enjoying the drama.

Metoo!

Maynman:
We can say our human ancestors were polytheists, and from polytheism evolve to monotheism.

Before they were polytheist, which means more than one theo, they must have first adopted their first theo I'd have thought, and then add poly to it.

Problem is with "our human ancestors". It's so Adam, like we originated from the same ancestor, when, where religions are concerned, human ancestors were poly with diverse views and cultures and thoughts and opinions, and what we today have is the mishmash, like "relating a Greek word to the Hebrew Bible".

As "human ancestors" became conscious of themselves and others and their surroundings, gods jumped out at them so to speak. It's why people near the oceans had sea gods, and those constantly waring had war gods, while those farming worshipped the weather etc etc, and as consciousness evolved so did the idea of gods.

Kobojunkie:
It has nothing to do with the teachings of YHWH or Jesus Christ for certain.

No it hasn't. It's another god made up to explain how the world came into existence as understood by certain other people in a different place.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge

dyera:
This is another proof that Jesus is already on his way to this world and he will be arriving any moment from now.

I'm told if you look closely with spirit enhanced telephoto wise person eyes you would see Jesus riding on his way on the comet. The prayer is he'd stop by this moment and not 50,000 years time.

Photos if you see it please. You know how atheists are with their "evidence".

IMAliyu2:
Oh I wasn't aware

That's what is hoped when you are lied to, that you are not aware you are lied to and too lazy to check facts.

IMAliyu2:
So, we could all agree that this is a very bad policy maybe even racist and should undoubtedly be reformed?

Reformed? After it was thrown out by the court?

Why?

CoolUsername:
Well, black people sure love to vote democrat

When Alabama's "substitute father" regulation was passed? You'd need to provide stats for that please.

For ref, population of Alabama is 5.04 million with 1,348,681 (2017) being black. Do you think they get to chose who wins?

Ironically though, George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 - September 13, 1998) was a Democrat.

raumdeuter:
You can googlee it or read more from here

https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/man-house-rule#:~:text=Under%20the%20man%2Din%2Dthe,was%20not%20supporting%20the%20child.

This was one state trying to exclude some recipients from federal funded welfare.

Thankfully, their action was found to be illegal, but I would not be surprised if a different way was found.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_v._Smith

Maynman:
Workch, let’s all stick to I DONT KNOW and reject any explanation given to us by scientists and Theists, because everyone is ignorant of it, any idea propose can never be right, because this thing is unknownable.

I've brought this here to drag it away from your more active thread so as not to detail it.

I do not agree with the "let’s all stick to I DONT KNOW", (on the assumption it is meant as "no one knows", and not just you claiming to not know, if which I misunderstand, what follows is irrelevant).

If one has not done the work to know, then indeed one should say one does not know, but a general categorical "no one knows" (my assumption of the meaning and intent of your "I DONT KNOW", with apologies if wrong), is just not true since some know because they have bothered to do the work in order to know and therefore do know.

Also, it is not very wise to "reject any explanation given to us by scientists and Theists", unless by "accept" you mean uncritically accept and believe it.

And this thing is not unknownable.

First, it is very possible to know what is already known, since many express what they know in writings which can be read or accessed in other ways to therefore know what they know. The knowledge (what is claimed to be known) about gods go back to very early writing and from many cultures, so one must consider such "explanations". You yourself have explained your knowing here for consideration and thereby increased the knowledge of those who read it either we agree or not.

Second, scientists and sometimes, theists, do quite a lot of research, often more than a layperson may do, so their explanation (opinion) is worth consideration. And that's apart from learning how their explanations have changed or been abandoned or evolved over time, which will increase one's own knowing and understanding, not only of the explanation but also of the explainer and what they explain.

Third, one can compare and contrast the various explanations to see where they agree or disagree or express the same idea different or same and compare to one's own understanding and knowing, which will increase one's own understanding and knowledge. It's a lot of work, I admit, but it's not impossible to do the work in order to know.

Not doing the work and claiming not to know, is true, in some sense, but those who make such claims of not knowing and then go on to explain their opinions of knowledge, are presenting a fallacy of untruths that they have already ascertained for themselves, just as you explained.

Maynman:
For you to say you don’t know if a god exist or not, you’ve already ascertain that a god can exist.

Guess we can listen to the bit where he gave consent for "one single book".

raumdeuter:
There are rules like "Man in the House" rules

Basically a child who qualifies for benefit would be denied if an adult male lives with the mother. In other words "Miss you cannot get this benefit if you have a man living under your roof"

Get pregnant obviously by a man but the moment that man lives with you the benefit stops. its simply placing a reward on being a single mother

This rule came into effect in 1968. That was when the breakdown of the family started.
In 1965, 24 percent of black infant were born out of wedlock, Now its about 65 to 75%

As at 2013 Don Lemon actually puts it at 72%

I wonder how many black people wrote and voted for that rule, and what was intended by it.

In response to Don and you.

https://wapo.st/3kPcHAN

A001:
Using your other moniker to quote me, Ode. Very soon, you'll use your bud.atum or rottenbbq moniker to quote me. Confused, double-faced idiot.

I think you know very well that buda is no one else or you wouldn't have attempted to hide this by not spelling buda.