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NettyNelly:
Is that even possible.

Of course it isn't, not for Muslim women and definitely not for women in other religions, but watch as some react as if this is coming from a reputable source like the Senate.

Christianity is a personal relationship with Jesus.

And yet Jesus himself is written to have described his teachings as a relationship with your neighbours and your enemies and not as self obsession with "yourself"!

I guess its time therefore to abandon a "relationship with Christianity", which is what in my own opinion you've described here, and start relating with the teachings of Christ instead, because if you wish to walk with a God you see not, you must walk first with those you see.

LordReed:
As usual my dear buda you bring the soothing balm of understanding.

I must say it's out of frustration at people like you my Lord arguing with those who have not read their God book or just don't understand what they've read, and the annoyance at them telling others to ignorantly believe as they do.

Thankfully, many have had the mud of enlightenment rubbed in their eyes so believing is impossible. They just need bath in the pool so that they may see. You however must have compassion for those who know not what they do, because you know how hard it is to know and understand if it is feared that knowing would result in their death instead of prolonging their existence on this earth as it actually does.

However, in the case of Nigeria as it is now, there is no capacity to create a procedure of equivalent complexity to develop.

There is actually immense capacity to develop, we just have not tapped it yet, and are currently tapping into the potential to destroy.

You mention bokoharam as an enemy to education, but do you not see how those who tell people not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil are doing the exact same thing. Or how can ignorant slaves who walk by the tree of knowledge ever free themselves from the slavery of ignorance which is the barrier to our development? And then you have those who's sole raison de existence is the destruction of Nigeria so they can have their own country, and also those who wish to impose their own ideology on everyone else!

While education is the solution, and may be a "commercial good as opposed to social good", that is not a reason for individuals not to educate themselves, which they can freely do since learning has been democratised. I mean, many do come to Nairaland University to freely eat fruits of knowledge and thereby be educated.

I personally see a bright future for Nigeria. Our potential is the 42.54% and growing population between the ages of 0–14. When that generation grows, hopefully educated by their parents who are not too old themselves, Nigeria will be transformed into the great nation it has the potential to become, but if we do not educate our children, we'd be creating a worse hell of a nation than we currently have.

Our future as a nation is in our hands. We just need to realise we are responsible for it.

johnsh:
This article was written by Anthony Dim Nonso, and it was his personal experience, its really a shame that top journalists rip people off this way.

It's unfortunate that most claim it as their experience too, many with no experience at all.

somehow:
I said my reality, you said your reality.

Enjoy your day sir.

Enjoy your's too.

Believe, being the operative word, while refusing to accept what you see with your own eyes. Or is it not true that when people die, we put their dead body in a box and put it in a hole where they become worm food?

Those who understand are more [url=https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A25-34&version=KJV]concerned with how they live[/url].

Goodvibes007:
Not true.

Ben must think Sanders is president.

benalvino3:
those ones are the future of the Dem party. they are more popular than speaker

The understanding of God has evolved.

Pelecius:
Can you just imagine? I'm arguing with myself?

Psa 55:19
Psa 102: 27
Heb 13:8
Jam 1:17
And others.
Peace out

Hard to separate the unchanging view and opinion of the writers of the verses above from the changing and evolving God itself, I guess, unless one sees with ones own eyes.

LordReed:
Nobody said they were the same so you were probably arguing with yourself.

Mention the other places were the god's unchanging nature was stated.

Despite God's evolution not detailed in a single verse or chapter, God's changing nature is replete throughout the God book, the hugest being from wrathful Yahweh to forgiving Christ to the explaining Holy Spirit that are all supposedly within us humans. We just have not yet evolved to see (or accept) it yet.

It requires reading the God book from the beginning page by page to the end to understand and see God evolved over time, but many despite claimimg to have never done so, reading a la carte instead.

The beginning of Wisdom is not fear, however, but the understanding of God, which most have not yet bothered to ask and knock and seek for. But glory to God that is changing as threads as these show.

benalvino3:
it was not like this.

Go study some history, Ben. It was much worse than "this" you'd find.

List of United States federal officials convicted of corruption offenses

O. And 'they' could not have gone ballistic against Obama and Clinton (though in reality they stupidly did in private with their lame "lock her up", and their "he is a non-American Muslim), because they had nothing concrete to go ballistic for.

If Obama or Clinton had done a Jan 6, they would most likely have been locked up and I would not have called it ballistic but their just desserts.

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First, this can't be a group on NL as derailers will derail it.

Second, I guess you've learnt about the drivers of the industrial revolution, in which case you should educate us here please.

I hope its pandemic related and would be vaccinated away.

benalvino3:
It does not matter as each president or actor has a goal. Their goal might be apprehending a criminal ring to removing corrupt government officials. The word drain the swamp can fit in all those things.

The division of power in the United States is very vast. No one man should have absolute power we know its good. But there is a problem when other divisions of power are politically leaning to one side and that will be like the ccp one party system. USA is leaning towards communist China system.

The political lean of divisions of power is a fault in the democracy America practices and not the fault of one party. You can't elect a police chief or have the Attorney General appointed by the winner of elections and not have them dance to the tune of their boss.

I'm just delighted that Supreme Court Judges seem to place themselves above such pettiness or Amy and Kavanaugh would have done the will of the person who appointed them. Shows they have integrity I suppose, which some just lack.

somehow:
Not what I believe, it's the reality.

That they only stopped you 5 times in 20 years dokes not make what the article said a lie.

Not interested in back and forth.

I can't argue it isn't your own experienced reality if it is. It isn't mine, and it isn't the reality of the numerous Nigerians I engage with in my living.

As for your interest, own it please, just as you should own how you are treated.

dexpendable:
Who is a Kyari?

Good question, considering.

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/amp/news/281020/meet-deputy-commissioner-of-police-abba-kyari-the-commande.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Kyari?wprov=sfla1

somehow:
Na.. it's actually the majority that face these issues at the embassies/airports, saying otherwise is playing ostrich.

If that's what you wish to believe then so be it for you. I don't believe it and that's perhaps why I don't face these issues as often as is claimed. The experiences I mentioned above were over 20 years ago except the Murtala one which was 10 years ago and still remains the worst airport I have ever landed at as I still face issues when I land there.

Those stunned Nigerians need to get out more.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkxz5XGZRus

somehow:
You cant use exceptions to dismiss the majority.

It is not the majority nor is it the exception, is precisely my point, but the minority shout so loud they make you think it is.

You just need land at Heathrow or any airport a plane flies from Nigeria to to see how few people are treated as is claimed above. Also see how well many Nigerians are doing well wherever we are to know we are treated as the individuals that we most certainly are.

Workch:
The book written by Stephen Meyer is not only largely philosophical but fallacious in that regard

He argued Based on cause and effect to explain intelligent design which will philosophically lead to an infinite regress of infinitesimal causes. He didn’t even provide evidence for this.

Secondly, dude said since we have not found evidence for chemical Evolution, chance is that intelligent design must have occurred. That’s a serious case of fallacy of appealing to ignorance. Because we haven’t find the evidence is not evidence that god did it. You have to find evidence for your “god did it” still.


Thirdly, he did not argue against evolution, you seem not to understand his premise. He argued against abiogenesis, he didn’t say that evolution didn’t occur, he only concluded that the process must have been designed. He’s just an average Christian trying to look for evidence for his conclusions instead of the doing it the other way. You see why he can’t be taken seriously?

As you can see, we are not very informed in Nigeria, and we just believe what we are told, and this is despite Jesus telling his followers to be scientists who ask and knock and seek with all their hearts and soul and minds and beings. Or is that not what a scientist ought to do, research? But, even the religion, we misunderstand.

Take the Scientist Eve who refused to believe and therefore used her senses to check if it is true that on the day that she eats she shall surely die. We read what happened after she ate, her eyes opened, she gained wisdom and she freed her and her stupid believing Adam from ignorance and slavery and went on to live a further 800 years or so after eating, during which she and her so called descendants have gone on to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth" and are now on the way to do the same to Mars and Jupiter and Uranus etc, and yet my people are afraid of eating fruits of knowledge for fear it would kill them!

If only we could really do as Christ is written to have said, and ask and knock and seek with our own eyes and hearts and souls and minds and being, but I guess the so called Holy Spirit has not ministered to us, yet. When it does, libraries would be like 10 minutes away from every home and we would understand instead of stupidly just believe like demons who tremble. But before then, we must have mud rubbed in our eyes and we must bath in the Pool of Siloam so that we may indeed see, I guess.

Years later I would find myself suffering what seems like a stigma that comes with being Nigerian.

You hear this said by many Nigerians, yet, I, a Nigerian, who has travelled to at least 20 countries including UK, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Barbados, France, Greece, etc, has only experienced 'discrimination' at four airports, Leonardo da Vinci, Frankfurt and Paris Gare du Nord, where I was asked to step aside so my passport could be checked, and Murtala where I was taken into a room and my luggage was searched because they claimed to have intel I was a drug mule, and out of all the places, Murtala was the worst though nothing was found.

Thing is, Nigerian or whatever, you are an individual and you command how you are treated and respected or not except by a few stupid individuals who think all people from the same place or with the same colour are the same. Differentiate yourself and be treated as the individual that you are instead of accepting this is as your label. And don't you dare forget to yell!

https://www.nairaland.com/6674946/42-year-old-nigerian-yekemi-otaru-appointed#104208989

Pity you spoil an informative thread with your own opinion.

I personally can't wait till they find a vaccine for stupidity and ignorance (though they actually have already, just that many refuse to take it).

benalvino3:
You know I am against the war but it's not related to what I am saying. I did not think Bush made the Intel agency political and corrupt. The war was against a country outside of the United States but what we are seeing today is mind bugging

I want to ask what you studied but I'm fearful you'd infer I'm insulting you. Are you aware how more informed we are today compared to Bush's time when there was only CNN? Do you not know how minds boggled during Nixon?

Please inform yourselve on how the swamp has been being drained since the 1800s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drain_the_swamp?wprov=sfla1

Jerryherd:
Baale isn't a monarch, more like a chief under a district head called Mogaji

It's a clickbait topic, just like the site.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office, has arraigned one Olagoke Onidundu, who claimed to be the Baale of Onidundu area in Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, over an alleged land fraud.

The latest development was disclosed via a statement by the EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, on Thursday.

And then some people will come and claim their Nigerianism holds them back!

benalvino3:
the swamp is real though. there are people in the government and outside the government that run things. its like the company in prison break. during the Time of Bush things were not like this. it was only the media to worry about but Obama came and changed everything. corrupt the whole system.

So the entire, "enrich my pals with a war" was not swampy enough for you, or is it the case that if you see it not it is not there?

https://theintercept.com/2018/12/01/the-ignored-legacy-of-george-h-w-bush-war-crimes-racism-and-obstruction-of-justice/

benalvino3:
budaatum only problem is the fear of telling the other guy that he is right

benalvino3:
no. I have come to realise that some of trumps friends even trump sometimes over exaggerate stuff. while trump sometimes or most times appear to be correct, these other guys over do things. I don't want to ignore them because its not 100% that they may be wrong... but I just tire on how vocal they get.

Ben, you are right! and I'm delighted to see you realise what you've realised.

Perhaps you'd now stop promoting what they've exaggerated and made you believe, like "maths is racist" etc. And hopefully you'd see they only do as their commander in lies shows they should do.

Ibime:
Mr Arizona is still digesting the latest farcical news that came out of the fraudit. Give him time to process it.

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benalvino3:
Mike Lindell should shut up. The problem I have with some of them even guiliani is over exaggerating things. Even if you have anything to offer don't over promise else you look like a loonie and they have all made themselves look stupid.

Has your account been hacked, or are they just beginning to look stupid to you now?

favor914:
This is just story, but not withstanding enemies of Nigeria, you are happy the United States refuses to sell weapons to Nigeria?, Egypt’s human rights record is 100x worse than Nigeria’s but yet the United States gives Egypt $1 billion dollars every year for the Military because of a deal tied to Israel, yet you rejoice when they deliberately try to make your country weak? but you still want to prosper in Nigeria, Yet you wish bad for Nigeria?

Saudi Arabia is worse that Egypt and Nigeria put together, but USA doesn't mind selling to them.

Perhaps if Nigeria does what Saudi does Nigerians might be pleased. We can start by cancelling the democracy we fought and shed blood to gain, and crown bubu or the next president since bubu is old already, king for life, if just so we see if we prefer that.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/saudi-arabia-human-rights-raif-badawi-king-salman