Pastafari: And what makes you think that the Flying Spaghetti Monster didn’t create the universe?
To be honest with you, I don't think anything created the universe, or at least no one put forward sounds credible to me.
As I said, 13.8billion years is far too long ago for me to ignorantly 'think' anything credible about the start of the universe and I refuse to be that ignorant.
Don't forget to provide the evidence I asked for please.
Pastafari: Well, If scientist say that the universe is 13.8billiom years old according to various extrapolation from the CMB and redshift of the expanding universe, who do you think made those? It couldn’t have started on his own, ....
This is a problem with you humans. You struggle to accurately describe what happened just 10000 years ago but you expect buda to believe anything you have to say about 13.8billiom years. I mean, do I really seem that gullible? If so, someone please sell me antigullible cream. I'm willing to go up to ₦100k.
Why do you think the universe "couldn't have started on its own", pasta?
MaxInDHouse: If you don't need to be a member of any group yet you are here everyday agitating that humans aren't doing things right. Think of what exactly you want because each person will decide on what is right and wrong, and since there is no Organization to make things orderly! You will continue to abuse, insult and curse them while they will also do the same to you and nothing is going to change!
The politically broadcasted announcement of Max!
Or will you try to convince us that you do not want to become the leader of the group and "organise us", which is a good thing, except for your need that we must all abandon our gods and bow down to your own god, which, max, is about control, and not, Jesus Bible leadership.
Pastafari: Flying Spaghetti Monster is not a parody. The Spaghetti monster is more than 13.8billion years old, we just happened to discover this truth in 2005.
Forgive me. I was very ignorant that "Spaghetti monster is more than 13.8billion years old, fact".
Could you provide factual evidence please, so I don't need to merely believe you but can know for myself.
MaxInDHouse: Well that's exactly what the Jews in the first century thought about our Master, Lord and King who turned down the offer to become a ruler after Satan and his human agents tried to lure him! Luke 4:5-7 compare to John 6:15
So if our Master, Lord and King who happens to be the world's most wonderful counselor of all times is no part of worldly Politics {John 18:36} who are we his humble followers? John 15:19; 17:14
Never mind we are the most stupid creatures on this planet when it comes to POLITICS because we don't know anything about it just like our Master, Lord and King Christ Jesus! Matthew 26:52
Stop with your lame "when it comes to POLITICS because we don't know anything about it". Everyone knows what you are politically campaigning for!
Not wanting to be a politician is not the same as participating in politics, we can not all be minister or president! Voting is participation, and it is that participation that improves communities, and not some idle focus on some imaginary after life!
See Politics below. The first is Christ telling you how important it is that you participate in politics, which means, how your community is run. The second is him telling you he will make you president, or at least a leader in your community.
benalvino3: Aren't you a liar? That's my assumption or yours? The bolded was what you were arguing for and I and Ibime argued that it's rubbish and their socalled instructions implies that blacks are not smart enough.
No body takes your word for anything here. Please show us where buda argued "that black students", which buda once was, "struggle to think analytically for racial and cultural reasons".
The fact that you "struggle to think analytically" for whatever reasons, does not mean all we blacks are dumb like you, ben.
MaxInDHouse: You're welcome anytime, remember politics is the root cause of all the troubles on this planet today, and God's people (Jehovah's Witnesses) have stepped back from participating in Politics!
MaxInDHouse: That's what you people need to know about true Christianity, we mustn't interfere in Politics at all! John 17:14 So when next you see religionists dabbling into politics tell them that Jesus condemns such! John 15:19 In fact that's why all other religionists despises us with contempt because we will never support anyone in Politics!
What amuses me is you thinking we all here are far too dumb to have not yet recognised the politics of our own very words. It's why you'd think you can fool us into becoming irresponsible!
What if it is He, pushing us down with His Noodly Appendages, that causes this force? He is invisible, remember, and is undetectable by current instruments, so in theory it is possible. And the fact that the gravitational powers of the Spaghetti Monster haven't been disproven makes it all the more likely to be true. We can only guess as to His mo-tives, but it's logical to assume that if He is going to such trouble, there is a good reason. It could be that He doesn't want us floating off earth into space, or maybe just that He enjoys touching us—we may never know.
That last sentence is nonsense. The paragraphs starts with "if", thereby asking me to not use my brain; then he tries to convince me I am blind with "invisible, remember, and is undetectable", and tells me to "guess" while crap is cooked in my head; and he then concludes "we may never know", when I knew it was crap all along, and he likely does too since his work is a parody, as in, 'an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect'.
I think it would be a good read again - yes I've gotten much further in the past" - but I likely would not have the time I fear. A must read though. Lol. As is the Bible and Quran, not for belief however, but for anyone wanting to understand Nigeria and Nigerians.
KnownUnknown: The Bible is not overrated nor underrated. It’s a collection of impressive literature composed by some of the finest minds of those times.
Thank you. Now, if only we can be bothered to understand what we read in it then the unknown might just become the known and we might become the finest minds of our time.
Tamaratonye1: Depends on what you mean by overrated. What I know is, it is a heaping, steaming pile of contradictions.
Christians skew things such that some verses are allegorical and others aren't. Some things imply this, while others imply that. That way, if the bible makes mistakes, you can interprete it to mean whatever the hell you want it to mean and still believe in this mythical nonsense. This is a book on which not all Christians can agree, and the Jews and Muslims have their own religion based on its mythical god.
This is why the bible is a useless, pointless piece of nonsense. Aesop's Fables and Confucianism provide more practical counsel, and you don't have to believe in an angry ass deity that murders children.
You don't need to be a Christian nor believe the Bible if you can read for yourself instead of letting others tell and interpret the book to you. And if you read it like a child with no preconceived indoctrination blinding you, which is how you read Aesop's Fables and Confucianism, with fresh eyes and no one preaching to you, you'd have gained understanding of your own instead of stumbling on interpretations and beliefs of the ignorant, because that "heaping, steaming pile of contradictions" is intended to provoke your brain into action.
Best thing is, it can do it without you knowing, if you read it that is, or if you're lazy like me, pay to have it read to you for free.
Parents should be forgiven for not wanting their kids to be taught from the perspective that "objectivism," "individuality," and "a sense of urgency," are aspects of whiteness, and that black students struggle to think analytically for racial and cultural reasons. These are racist assumptions; they are false, and they do not belong in schools. Yet they were elements of "Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture," an instructional document that has drawn plenty of citations in educational settings. To the extent that the phrase critical race theory is shorthand for this sort of thing, the outrage about it seems justified. https://reason.com/2021/10/06/ag-merrick-garland-fbi-critical-race-theory-parents-schools-domestic-terrorists/
See ignorant mischaracterization a la ben's "maths is racist".
Can black people preaching CRT claim they themselves "struggle to think analytically for racial and cultural reasons"?
Then again, perhaps I should take that back since some black folks are ben q!
basilico: This is a sad story. Earlier I reported on how those misfits purport to be journalists. They would never report on this but will spend a week talking about how Melania Trump pushed away Trump's hands. Sick bastards.
A boy dressed as a girl rapes a girl in woke school's washroom. Tranny is arrested and released on bond. Dad goes to school board meeting . Dad placed under gag order not to talk about it. He gets arrested after an altercation with a leftist scum accusing him of lying. Tranny then goes ahead and sexually assaults another. Garland cited this dad as an example of domestic terrorist.
Perhaps to understand the 2 volumes of Open Society and Its Enemy, one should take in the whole picture before attacking the few ideas that were presented in the first 1/4 of Popper’s Magnum Opus. He might have attacked tribalism and the misconceptions of historicism (in response specifically to Marxism), but he never said that they are ‘bad’ and should be banned. He simply unpacked the ultimate effects of those ideas on society, especially if they became the foundational beliefs of those in power. In contrast, he proposed an alternative idea called the ‘Open Society’, which as its name suggests, is open to changes, including from George Soros’ wet dream to George Soros’ nightmare, and vice verse. The key is that change is possible, based on the constituents’ collective intent. Thus it is open to corrective actions in case a change did not bring the intended results. This is not a cultural how-to, this is a structural how-to of world improvement. Once the structure of ‘openness to change (corrective actions)’ is firmly established and sustained, people (individuals and collectives) are free to choose what kind of world they want to live in, because there will be a mechanism to change it again if it doesn’t work out.
Afterwards, read wiki, then read the 2 volumes themselves.
And by the time you are done, you'd understand who the people who would want to tell Soros "to stay put somewhere" might have to be, and why.
Angeldemon: Most Nigerians dont like paying tax because the governments havent been using it for what its meant for. Instead they embezle it. So paying tax in Nigeria is like just dashing your money to a random man on the street for no reason
'Because the people have not bothered to make the government accountable', you mean, after all, it ought to be spent to clean our roads, remove the dirt, mend our schools and pay our wages et all, things we all ought to be benefiting from.
budaatum: You are putting your cart before your horse.
Its the people who do the accounting, and they account out of interest. And if I tax your ₦30k by say 50% (18% my ass!) I'm very certain you will order me to account for it, or would you not? I bet you'd even ask your employer to pay you more than the poxy ₦30k they currently pay you, because, in my own opinion, you do deserve to be paid more than slave wage if you yourself are worth more that is.
I'm thinking you should be worth at least ₦60k, though that's still very little and far beneath your worth. But if I tax you 50% of 60k, you'd still take home more than you currently do after tax, see?
You seriously got to learn to fight for your rights instead of expecting to be given them out of the kindness of my heart!
RiceProducers: Typical Nigerian thinking and language. Completely meaninglessness. Anyway tax avoidance by hiding money in a tax haven as smarty pants businessman is a case that the owner of a global company like Facebook or Twitter makes. It is not expected of a third world prospective Presidential or VP. The electorate of the second largest population of poor people country won't forget when you come to ask for votes
Farmer. You wise so.
Hear! People!
We the electorate must endeavour to remind ourselves so that we do not forget! Amen.
PENIEL2018: Last Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bipartisan bill that outlaws non-consensual condom removal, known as "stealthing". The new legislation adds the act to the state's civil definition of sexual battery, making California the first US state to render stealthing illegal.
The law gives victims a clear legal remedy for the assault that Doogan, who now lives in San Francisco, suffered decades ago. And advocates say it marks a sea change for other survivors who, unlike Doogan, might now have their day in court.
The law will allow sex workers to sue clients who remove condoms, she said, and hopefully pave the way for further legal protection for sex workers and other groups typically marginalised by the criminal justice system.
PENIEL2018: Last Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bipartisan bill that outlaws non-consensual condom removal, known as "stealthing". The new legislation adds the act to the state's civil definition of sexual battery, making California the first US state to render stealthing illegal.
The law gives victims a clear legal remedy for the assault that Doogan, who now lives in San Francisco, suffered decades ago. And advocates say it marks a sea change for other survivors who, unlike Doogan, might now have their day in court.
The law will allow sex workers to sue clients who remove condoms, she said, and hopefully pave the way for further legal protection for sex workers and other groups typically marginalised by the criminal justice system.
I guess we have not yet realised that by the sweat of our brow will we eat our food until we return to the ground.
When we do realise we will all invest in ourselves.
Good question, op!
KingOfAmebo: The question is, Since taxes are ment to cater for the development of a country as obtainable in developed nations, Why would our so called businessmen, politcians and clergymen chose to pay taxes "secretly" to economies of other countries while leaving the country they claim to love impoverished?
Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44, TonyeBarcanista, Midolian, NwaAmaikpe, Officialgarri, Fergie001, SupermodelVicky, Omenka, Modath, Ireneony, Abeg make una help us ask them ooo.