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The Bible is the history of man. In its sixty-six books it describes in allegory, prophecy, epistle, parable, and poem, man's generation, degeneration, and regeneration. It has been preserved and prized beyond all other books because it teaches man how to develop the highest principle of his being, the spirit. As man is a threefold being, spirit, soul, and body, so the Bible is a trinity in unity. It is body as a book of history; soul as a teacher of morals; and spirit as a teacher of the mysteries of being. |
sonmvayina:You are very much welcome to the product of buda using buda's own heart and soul and mind and all other senses to ask and knock and seek for buda's self instead of relying on "plenty iteration of Christianity".
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sonmvayina:I am not trying to prove any fact whatsoever, son. budaatum: |
sonmvayina:If you had found it you'd know how to get past our "blind and brainwashed that you can't even see".
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KnownUnknown:I don't think the people who occupied the area on a map of today known as Nigeria read much in say, the 1200s. We Yorubas didn't until Arabic arrived and Portuguese much later. If you mean Arabic/Islamic education, here's some very early Nigeria writing though. Uthman Ibn Idris of Borno sent a letter to the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt in 1391-1392. The letter was one of a diplomatic nature, it also contained poetry and an erudite understanding of Islamic law. This letter contains the earliest extant indigenous written poem produced in Nigeria.Below is Egyptian and Greek for comparison. Ancient Egyptian writing is known as hieroglyphics ('sacred carvings') and developed at some point prior to the Early Dynastic Period (c. 3150 -2613 BCE). According to some scholars, the concept of the written word was first developed in Mesopotamia and came to Egypt through trade. While there certainly was cross-cultural exchange between the two regions, Egyptian hieroglyphics are completely Egyptian in origin; there is no evidence of early writings which describe non-Egyptian concepts, places, or objects, and early Egyptian pictographs have no correlation to early Mesopotamian signs. At the beginning of Greek literature stand the two monumental works of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. The figure of Homer is shrouded in mystery. Although the works as they now stand are credited to him, it is certain that their roots reach far back before his time. The Iliad is a narrative of a single episode spanning over the course of a ten-day-period from near the end of the ten years of the Trojan War. It centers on the person of Achilles, who embodied the Greek heroic ideal. |
KnownUnknown:An education. The ability to use the heart and soul and mind and all other senses to ask and knock and seek. |
KnownUnknown:In Nigeria, almost yes, unless you read Arabic. Our forefathers did not read books. My own forefathers were divining Ifa. In most of Europe too, reading was by Christian education. The church needed preachers and bookkeepers so they educated. Pre-Christian education of course existed. The Greeks and Romans had reading before Christianity, as did the Chinese, the Egyptians and lots of others who's education had nothing to do with Christianity before or after but it was mostly reserved for the few wherever it existed. Christianity proselytised to the masses by teaching reading, especially the Protestants who by defeating the flaming swords of unreadable Latin that barred it from the masses, handed to us in our own tongues. Us, Nigerians? God Jesus in our milk and often the sperm that made us unless its Allah or Ogun and Sango etc in some dying rare cases. |
KnownUnknown:Mostly, what they give you in school. It evolved out of Christianity. |
sonmvayina:Yes. All of it. Perhaps you meant Christians that you know? Christianity is about reading a book and exercising your mind so you grow and develop and evolve. It is written that when you do exercise your mind so you grow and develop and evolve, greater things than he is written to have done would you do. |
sonmvayina:“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a person understands it, they hide it again, and then in their joy went and sold all they had and bought that field." Except in the days the Christian texts were written there was no copyright laws. sonmvayina:I wonder how many people would have heard of Roman/Greek mythology if not for their Christian education that taught them to read. What do you think? |
Newborn27:https://www.nairaland.com/budaatum |
Lagos, Nigeria is Crazy (Largest City in Africa - 25 Million People) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZrYwuxThFA |
I do not accept conditions from you nor care if you answer or not so long as you obviously get to think about it a little which you must. basilico: |
feedthenation:Basilico, I don't trust him neither.
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chatinent:Sounds like love to me. You enjoy its presense in the fridge instead of in your belly. That feeling, That is it. |
tonyson010:I do not believe you. You are human and I am your neighbor. |
Interfaith marriage in the UK Census In the 2001 Census 20,635,298 were recorded as married Of these 882,007 were in a mixed-marriage, in which both partners come from one of the following groups - no religion, and Christian or Muslim and Sikh The most common combination by a long way was Christians married to those of no religion at 749,782 The next most common combination was Muslims married to Christians at 21,396 There were 13,457 Christians and Jews married, 336 Muslims and Jews Figures for mixed-faith marriages have not been collated for the 2011 Census, though groups who support couples report anecdotal evidence of an increase According to the 2011 Census four out of 10 people with no religion are aged under 25 and four in five are under the age of 50 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30708242 |
MrPresident1:Join the Nairaland Democratic Party and be the difference you want to see! |
azraeljaheel:I should edit my post because of your phone? Some people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_drowning_man?wprov=sfla1 |
gidgiddy:You, "have no national philosophy", it sounds like, "no commonality of purpose and no integrated values system". Some of us sang Arise O Compatriot, and are therefore rising to uphold our Pledge. Many of us are in groups where we have "philosophies, and commonality of purpose and integrated values". In fact, there is no reason why we can't have that even here, on Nairaland, as a start, though we'd need to start by defining what we might mean by "philosophies, and commonality of purpose and integrated values" since we will not get them by miracles but by very hard work and dedication to the task. |
azraeljaheel:Parable of the drowning man
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azraeljaheel:The following is a dishonest lie. azraeljaheel:I never labelled you, and buda does not put buda's money where buda does not care. |
This dishonest individual (who in mentioning me has done it in sneaky way so his lies do not come to my attention), is one of a very few I have paid money to do work for me. And the work was very simple as the lying individual can testify. azraeljaheel: |
MrPresident1:Are you against democracy or what? |
Ttalk:Need I point out your, "level of killings" that you say has not yet been provided? You forget to note that you are complaining that everything is not provided and yet you claim "Nigerians ..... practically provide everything without any input from the government". Ttalk:This hurts like you stuck a knife in me. Nigeria is a blessed country, at the moment. Since its inception it has had this black thing in the ground it sells for dollars to fund everything so personal taxation hasn't exactly been a huge thing as every Nigerian knows or ought to, that the schools, the roads, hospitals, government salaries, the entire government budget, is funded by petrodollars and not by the tax we pay Since Nigeria was not built with the tax we earned from the sweat of our brow, we do not monitor it and it does not benefit us. Some of us even want to destroy the little it has helped us build instead of investing our tax in its future improvement. And that's the pity. It like we got some other country we will call our own after we destroy the one we got. Ttalk:No one is "comfortable with the level of killings going on", that's why quite a lot of us don't live in those uncomfortable places, Ttalk. You hardly, after all, see as many threads from eyewitness accounts of "killings going on", or do you? But let me focus on your "state police", for now. I'm from the State of Osun, as named by our past governor, Aregbe. When he came to power, he said the state was broke, and government workers were too many and he can not pay everyone so, "government workers, I have to sack half of you". NULGE, everyone, was up in arms. "You can't sack us! We are the sole providers in our families, what will our children eat"? But Aregbe said, "no money!" It was finally agreed that he will pay half salary until things improved then he can pay what he owed. But things got worse! Petrodollars dropped from $150 a barrel to sub 30 and Nigeria earned lots less as did each state especially those like mine that borrowed on an income of $150 a barrel of crude and were now paying interest on an income of 30. Aregbe started paying half salary every other month. I better explain that last bit so you don't miss the point! A person on a salary of say, 10k a month was now being paid 5k every other month, thereby cutting their annual salary from 120k to 30k. And then it was cut to whenever he could pay. Is that the same state governor that you think will provide you with "state police would at least reduce this madness in this country"? Would police be on special state payroll and receive full pay when everyone else wasn't, or would their guns increase madness on the street? Ttalk:You do not need to apologise to me for your opinion of me. Its obvious you know nothing about buda and are apologising for your own parochialism. Please know that I do not want us to be "good", though "good" is a good thing to be, as it is a requirement for being bold and brave and fearing no evil. I want me, us, to be better than "good. Much much better than "good". "Good", my black ass! As if "good" is what wins elections and puts in a "system or structure to guide us". In fact, the very best, is what I want from myself and for myself and from us and for us. Responsibility, Ttalk, does not wait to be guided, for that is not responsibility but its exact opposite. Responsibility is knowing we are the "system", that we create our own "structure to guide" we ourselves, precisely because "nothing happens by chance" and nor will "system or structure to guide us" happen until we guide ourselves. Which brings me to my faith in Nigeria, or at least its future. You, we, all are young with many years ahead of us. We look at the labours of our heros past in vain thinking they should have done better. And they might have should, though you need to recognise they were not "good", but were learning how to rule a nation they had no experience of ruling. We, however, are a new generation, one that has evolved from those so called heroes and who see the possibilities we can achieve. Immense faith in us do I have. |
azraeljaheel:"Sounds somehow" how? |
azraeljaheel:What did the pastor say, and where do you sleep now? |
Bantu10:Superhuman me, single handedly keeping "this contraption together". Just goes to show how much harder you must try to destroy this so called contraption I suppose, but I'm delighted at your woeful failure. |
Ttalk:You forgot to add, Killing - by ourselves Corruption - by ourselves Madness - by ourselves And you seem to have forgotten the system is one we created, by ourselves. If we become responsible for just these few things, I'm sure you'd moan less. After all, is that not the meaning of the Democracy we fought for, the right to rule ourselves? |
zendi:Who cares who's exploited? https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelposner/2020/10/07/how-tesla-should-combat-child-labor-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo/?sh=5a0922df5cd0 |
basilico:So, you would cancel the democratic voice so you can dictate? And what would you then do if that dictator is a democrate imposing abortion and same gender toilets on you? |
kkins25:azraeljaheel, tell kk about your pastor. |
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