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Kobojunkie:
Proverbs 18 vs 18(ERV)
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18. The best way to settle an argument between two powerful people may be to use lots....

Yet have you never nor would you ever settle any argument you have on here by casting lots and gambling since we both know God's Word is not by lot!

Artymanx1:
https://mailchi.mp/4eccc2ba334a/bellyfatloss This link works. Try it now!

Much better. Lightening fast. Consider placing the email request a bit a further down on page afyer one has consumed some worthy info before feeling phished.

Why did you post previous link?

He should perhaps have checked the person's competence before making him a commissioner in the first place.

You mean the cartoon they want you to see so they program what you think as they have obviously done here, lol.

Pity they so easily got you.

What's the stake of the jealous individual who took the picture you mean?

That he should find something better to do instead of being jealous of the doings of others.

The time it takes this site to load will triple my belly fat if it loads at all which it didn't!

Imagine a person who writes the following trying to shut buda up, lol!

Kobojunkie:
Where do you find that gambling is a sin?

Kobojunkie:
Again...

Instead of telling buda what buda should serve or stick, you really ought to consider not aggressively forcing your view on buda because it is obvious you are not buda's God nor can you control buda.

But still, your data, your time. Do with it as you please and know buda will do as pleases buda.

Kobojunkie:
Really?

Yes, really! Your data. Use it how you wish, and know others will use theirs how they wish, and that includes challenging each others beliefs, statements, opinions etc etc etc etc if posted on a public forum.

edi287:
I understand but I'm not the one starting this. It's them.

And instead of you spending your time discussing with intelligent folks here you allow them to consume your time?

It is amazing that they have such powers over you.

edi287:
Nah sometimes you've got to let these cowards know you can play their useless game at times.

We can't let these hypocrites get away with their shenanigans...

You do not need to play their game like they do.

Beat them with superior wit and knowledge but do not join them in the gutter or you'll become filthy like them.

Kobojunkie:
I hope you understand the meaning of what you typed there for next time you think to tell me how I should address or not address those that I do, beginning now.

I do not tell you how you should address or not address those that you do, Kobojunkie. You are not my slave, I am not your God, I do not pay for your data and you must not obey buda. Besides, I like how you address those you address even when I disagree with you, since it shows you at least use your brain unlike most.

Just know that whatever and whenever we write on this public forum others have the right to respond however they too may like to. And even the Gods can't takeaway that right unless they make the mods ban us or we cease to exist.

Until then, you Sir will live long upon the land the Lord appoints to you. Amen.

TheSourcerer:
Evolution is fast . very fast even . think about that a while

I suppose time is relative, and I do expect the evolving I described to happen in my lifetime just as I claimed it already is, and with individuals like TheSourcerer diligently working at it, I am absolutely certain this Evolution will be very fast.

Kobojunkie:
I don't need to consider it in their case because their claim is that they belong to the same flock I belong, unlike you.

I am not tackling the bible... maybe you are but I am not. Note that difference please!

Whether you consider it or not is entirely up to you Kobo, just as its up to me to write whatever I want wherever I want to.

Akuruoulo:
Yes dear. Don't u think ADAM HAPPENED AT ALL ?

Literally, no. Its mythology.

The people who brought us the Bible used to believe the following.

budaatum:
Mighty Jupiter was the supreme deity of the Roman pantheon, a god of the sky and heavens and the champion of the Roman people. His symbols were the oak tree and eagle.

The supreme deity of the Roman pantheon, mighty Jupiter was a god of sky and thunder whose symbols were the oak tree and eagle. He ruled as the dominant member of a triumvirate called the Capitoline Triad, which included his consort Juno and daughter Minerva. Jupiter bore many similarities to Zeus, the king of the Greek deities from whom he was adapted.

Unlike Zeus, however, Jupiter was explicitly linked to a specific political entity—Rome. From the great temple erected in his honor on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Jupiter presided over the state and its ever-expanding empire. As a result, the Romans emphasized the worship of Jupiter above all other gods. Jupiter’s blessings were thought to secure their victories and maintain hegemony over their rivals. Worship of Jupiter was formalized by the Roman state over the course of its existence.

What is known of Jupiter’s mythos came not through the narratives in which he plays a role, but from the ways in which his worship was observed by the Romans. Like other figures in Roman mythology, Jupiter was believed to be a critical actor in Roman history. Accordingly, his nature and attributes transformed in order to keep up with broader historical changes in the Roman state. By the end of the first century BCE, Jupiter’s centrality to the state was eclipsed by cults devoted to the worship of deified emperors.

Etymology
In Latin, the name “Jupiter” was usually rendered as Iūpiter or Iuppiter (the character “j” was not a part of ancient Latin alphabet, and was added in the Middle Ages). The name stemmed from two roots. One was the Proto Indo-European word dyeu- (the same root for the name “Zeus”!), meaning “shining thing,” “sky,” or “day” (as in the Latin for day dies); the other was pater, a word shared by Greek and Latin that means “father.” In keeping with these naming conventions, Jupiter was sometimes called Diespiter or Dispiter. Additionally, Zeus was called Zeu Pater in Greek, and Sanskrit speakers used the term Dyaus pitar (father of heavens) to refer to the sky god. This all points an archetypal “sky father” deep in the history of Indo-European-speaking people, whose identity was localized by the cultures that splintered off over time.1

Jupiter was known by a number of epithets. For bringing victory, he was Iuppiter Elicius, or “Jupiter who brings forth,” and for summoning lightning, he was Iuppiter Fulgur, or “lightning Jupiter.” For bringing light and enlightenment to all things, he was Iuppiter Lucetius, or “Jupiter of the light,” as well as Iuppiter Caelestis, or “Jupiter of the heavens.” Above all, he was Iuppiter Optimus Maximus: “Jupiter, the best and greatest.”

Attributes
As the god of the sky, Jupiter commanded lightning, thunder, and storms. Like Zeus, he wielded lightning bolts as weapons. Befitting his role as king of the gods, Jupiter was commonly depicted sitting on a throne and holding a royal scepter and staff.

Rather than taking an active part in battles, however, Jupiter was imagined to oversee and control them. More than any other deity, Jupiter held the fate of the Roman state in the balance. To appease him, Romans offered sacrifice and took sacred oaths in his honor. The faithfulness with which they made sacrificial offerings and kept their oaths informed Jupiter’s bearing. The Romans came to believe that the success of their Mediterranean empire could be attributed to their unique devotion to Jupiter.

By way of the eagle, Jupiter also guided the taking of the auspices, the practice of divination whereby augurs tried to decipher omens and predict the future by observing the flight of birds (words such as “auspicious” and “inauspicious” come from this practice). Because the eagle was Jupiter’s sacred animal, the Romans believed that the bird’s behavior communicated his will. Omens divined through the behavior of eagles were considered to be the most revealing.

Family
Jupiter was the son of Saturn—the god of the sky who preceded Jupiter—and Ops (or Opis), goddess of the earth and growth. His brothers were Neptune, god of the sea, and Pluto, god of the underworld and wealth (metals, the basis of Roman coinage and wealth, were found underground). His sisters included Ceres, a fertility goddess who controlled the growth of grains, Vesta, goddess of hearth and home, and Juno, a maternal goddess associated with marriage, family, domestic tranquility, and the moon.

Jupiter was married to his sister Juno, who served as the Roman counterpart to Hera. Among their children were Mars, the god of war that played a substantial role in the founding of Rome, and Bellona, a goddess of war. Additional children included Vulcan, the god of fire, metalworking, and the forge, and Juventus, a youthful goddess who oversaw the transition from childhood to adulthood and was associated with invigoration and rejuvenation.

Though the Roman mythic corpus lacked the stories of marital strife that so often defined Zeus and Hera’s relationship, it was clear that Jupiter was unfaithful to Juno. Anecdotal tales told of Jupiter’s many infidelities and the children that resulted from them. With Maia, the goddess of earth and fertility (who may have lent her name to the Roman month Maius, or May), Jupiter had Mercury, the messenger god of commerce, merchants, sailing, and travel. With Dione, he sired Venus, goddess of love and sexual desire (although other stories had her emerging from sea foam, like the Greek Aphrodite). With his sister Ceres, Jupiter had Proserpine, an important cultic figure associated with cycles of decay and rebirth, just as Persephone was for the Greeks. Finally, with Metis, whom he raped, Jupiter had Minerva.

Mythology
By and large, Roman mythology lacked a rich narrative tradition. As such, little exists in the way of epic stories explaining the order of the universe and the origins of humankind. This is also true of Jupiter, whose mythos was built not around stories that featured him as a main character, but around the ways that Romans observed their chief deity and explained his place in their storied history.

Origins
Jupiter’s origins were largely identical to the tales of Zeus’ creation. Before Jupiter, Saturn reigned supreme as the god of the sky and the universe. Of course, it had not always been that way. Before Saturn, his father Caelus (meaning “heavens”) ruled, but Saturn overthrew his father and took control of the heavens for himself. After Saturn married Ops and impregnated her, he learned of a prophecy foretelling his downfall at the hands of one of his children. To prevent the usurper from seeing life, he swallowed the first five children that sprang from Ops’ womb. When the last child finally emerged, Ops hid him away and gave Saturn a rock dressed in swaddling instead. An unsuspecting Saturn devoured the rock whole.

What followed was the worst case of indigestion in the history of mythology. Unable to digest the rock, Saturn regurgitated it, along with the five children he had swallowed—Ceres, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, and Vesta. Jupiter, meanwhile, had been plotting his father’s imminent demise. With the help of his brothers and sisters, he defeated Saturn and took control of the cosmos.

Jupiter would later find himself in the same position as his father, Saturn. After raping and impregnating Metis, Jupiter was seized with the fear that his own unborn son might overthrow him. To avoid such a fate, Jupiter swallowed Metis along with her unborn child. Much to Jupiter’s surprise, the child did not die, but continued to grow until it burst from his forehead and into the world. That child was Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, forethought, and strategic warfare; she eventually became a part of the ruling Capitoline Triad.

https://mythopedia.com/roman-mythology/gods/jupiter/

Akuruoulo:
it was said that ADAM WAS WANDERING IN LONELINESS, NAMING THOSE ANIMALS HE CREATED BT WASN'T HAPPY . DO U THINK ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED IN A DAY ?

Do you think Adam happened at all?

Ovaltine:
This is the right and near perfect explanation.
What solution do you propose?

We need to develop our minds. Kind of like become as children and abandon our preconceived beliefs and look at things anew and with fresh eyes in order to be reborn.

Basically, we should evolve from the 'age of believing' that we are currently in, into the 'age of use the senses' so we can progress into the Age of Enlightenment.

And we are on our way already, I dare say, slow as it seems, which is unfortunately the nature of evolution. One just need read the numerous threads of the unbelievers to see how much progress is being made. And one day there'll be a seismic shift of minds. And voila!

Akuruoulo:
ALRIGHT AUNTY . I LOVE FACE TO FACE CNSTRUCTIVE ARGUEMENT. THEY WERE SAYING ADAM AND EVE WERE INSTRUCTED BY GOD NT TO EAT THAT PARTICULAR APPLE. ADAM STAYED YEARS ABI NA MONTHS BE4 EVE WAS CREATED, AND IF YES THAT MEANS ADAM WAS TOLD ABT THE APPLE BE4 THE CREATION OF EVE. THEY ALL SAID AM WRNG THAT IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD INSTRUCTD THEM BOTH. IF GOD INSTRUCTD THEM BOTH, IT SIMPLY MEANS ADAM MIGHT HAVE EATEN THE APPLE YEARS AGO UNKNWINGLY (THEY SAID ITS A LIE THAT I SHOULD SEARCH IT IN THE BIBLE). AT LAST IT WAS CLEAR THAT EVE WASN'T THERE WHEN THE INSTRUCTION WAS GIVEN.

Both male and female created he them at the same time, so I don't understand where you got your "ADAM STAYED YEARS ABI NA MONTHS BE4 EVE WAS CREATED", and it is clearly written that God instructed Adam and afterwards created Eve who was not there when Adam was instructed.

Still, the myth is not for believing, but for gaining understanding, which I suggest you continue to ask and knock and seek to gain.

TheSourcerer:
no the slaves here actually integrated with the chiefs or owners , treated them with respect some even integrated to the family

Delude yourself, why don't you! Perhaps you are one of those who missed out on history, or never read wide enough so it can be said that you "never heard of still to this day", when the truth is you covered your eyes with your hands and stuck your fingers in your ears.

We might not have whipped or chained our slaves because we hardly needed to since we never found a use for as many as America did except where there were resources like mines when we did chain them, and where we didn't we successfully imprisoned their minds and they obeyed for fear of death, but our gods loved slaves as sacrifices and we loved feeding our gods.

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DPawnship_was_a_common_practice%2C%2C_and_the_Fon_people%29.?wprov=sfla1]Here is a good place to start[/url]. Pay special attention to the references at the end.

Resources. That's why we are poor. We just are not resourceful enough, the greatest resource being our minds.

Ignorant barbarians!

The police need to be held responsible for not protecting this individual and the entire community should be locked up in jail!

Akuruoulo:
I had a rough arguement with people who thnk they are pastors yesterday on this, and their mouth get shotd up at last. If the BIBLE GAVE ME THE CONTENT I SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH, THEN U GAVE U THE ONES U FELT LIKE OPPOSING IT(BIBLE VERSE) WITH ?

Only those who will not learn are satisfied with the familiar.

A wise person might suggest that you abandon your preconceived beliefs and ideas and become as a child in order to be born again, but I guess he'd be far too wise for some.

Akuruoulo:
ALRIGHT MA. I KNW WHAT THE ANSA TO MY QUESTION. AT LEAST GENESIS 1 VS 2, AND 1 VS 3 WILL TELL U THE ANSA

Actually, no, GENESIS 1 VS 2, AND 1 VS 3 will not tell me the answer, though they might give you an answer you are content with. But that's perfectly okay, for as a very wise man once said, "the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor the gospel is preached". And not all are poor, as we know.

Akuruoulo:
u are confusing urself nt me

Stop lying, lol.

You are confused and you know you are, but you must keep knocking and asking and seeking with all your heart and soul and mind and being until your eyes open and you find, or you will stop questioning and just ignorantly believe.

The choice, my good sir, is entirely your's, and the Holy Spirit that is within the Kingdom of God that is within you is your guide. Amen.

I chuckle often when people ask me if I believe what I read in books. I've written here somewhere that I never received a Biblical education like we Nigerians mostly do, and this thread reminds me of my early education about Gods, which included the planets and Gods from all over the world and kind of makes it impossible to accept any one single God as the only God. I so love Jesus though, It, Jesus that is, being the Logos through which all that humans think is made. Nothing beats the written word as a God once you understand the immense understanding and hence power that they convey. And Jesus did say [url=https://classic.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+4%3A4&version=KJV]you should not live by only one book or you will become malnourushed[/url].

Anyway, here's some reading to be believed at your own peril. And you might wonder why the same Rome peddled the Bible all around their empire.

Mighty Jupiter was the supreme deity of the Roman pantheon, a god of the sky and heavens and the champion of the Roman people. His symbols were the oak tree and eagle.

The supreme deity of the Roman pantheon, mighty Jupiter was a god of sky and thunder whose symbols were the oak tree and eagle. He ruled as the dominant member of a triumvirate called the Capitoline Triad, which included his consort Juno and daughter Minerva. Jupiter bore many similarities to Zeus, the king of the Greek deities from whom he was adapted.

Unlike Zeus, however, Jupiter was explicitly linked to a specific political entity—Rome. From the great temple erected in his honor on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Jupiter presided over the state and its ever-expanding empire. As a result, the Romans emphasized the worship of Jupiter above all other gods. Jupiter’s blessings were thought to secure their victories and maintain hegemony over their rivals. Worship of Jupiter was formalized by the Roman state over the course of its existence.

What is known of Jupiter’s mythos came not through the narratives in which he plays a role, but from the ways in which his worship was observed by the Romans. Like other figures in Roman mythology, Jupiter was believed to be a critical actor in Roman history. Accordingly, his nature and attributes transformed in order to keep up with broader historical changes in the Roman state. By the end of the first century BCE, Jupiter’s centrality to the state was eclipsed by cults devoted to the worship of deified emperors.

Etymology
In Latin, the name “Jupiter” was usually rendered as Iūpiter or Iuppiter (the character “j” was not a part of ancient Latin alphabet, and was added in the Middle Ages). The name stemmed from two roots. One was the Proto Indo-European word dyeu- (the same root for the name “Zeus”!), meaning “shining thing,” “sky,” or “day” (as in the Latin for day dies); the other was pater, a word shared by Greek and Latin that means “father.” In keeping with these naming conventions, Jupiter was sometimes called Diespiter or Dispiter. Additionally, Zeus was called Zeu Pater in Greek, and Sanskrit speakers used the term Dyaus pitar (father of heavens) to refer to the sky god. This all points an archetypal “sky father” deep in the history of Indo-European-speaking people, whose identity was localized by the cultures that splintered off over time.1

Jupiter was known by a number of epithets. For bringing victory, he was Iuppiter Elicius, or “Jupiter who brings forth,” and for summoning lightning, he was Iuppiter Fulgur, or “lightning Jupiter.” For bringing light and enlightenment to all things, he was Iuppiter Lucetius, or “Jupiter of the light,” as well as Iuppiter Caelestis, or “Jupiter of the heavens.” Above all, he was Iuppiter Optimus Maximus: “Jupiter, the best and greatest.”

Attributes
As the god of the sky, Jupiter commanded lightning, thunder, and storms. Like Zeus, he wielded lightning bolts as weapons. Befitting his role as king of the gods, Jupiter was commonly depicted sitting on a throne and holding a royal scepter and staff.

Rather than taking an active part in battles, however, Jupiter was imagined to oversee and control them. More than any other deity, Jupiter held the fate of the Roman state in the balance. To appease him, Romans offered sacrifice and took sacred oaths in his honor. The faithfulness with which they made sacrificial offerings and kept their oaths informed Jupiter’s bearing. The Romans came to believe that the success of their Mediterranean empire could be attributed to their unique devotion to Jupiter.

By way of the eagle, Jupiter also guided the taking of the auspices, the practice of divination whereby augurs tried to decipher omens and predict the future by observing the flight of birds (words such as “auspicious” and “inauspicious” come from this practice). Because the eagle was Jupiter’s sacred animal, the Romans believed that the bird’s behavior communicated his will. Omens divined through the behavior of eagles were considered to be the most revealing.

Family
Jupiter was the son of Saturn—the god of the sky who preceded Jupiter—and Ops (or Opis), goddess of the earth and growth. His brothers were Neptune, god of the sea, and Pluto, god of the underworld and wealth (metals, the basis of Roman coinage and wealth, were found underground). His sisters included Ceres, a fertility goddess who controlled the growth of grains, Vesta, goddess of hearth and home, and Juno, a maternal goddess associated with marriage, family, domestic tranquility, and the moon.

Jupiter was married to his sister Juno, who served as the Roman counterpart to Hera. Among their children were Mars, the god of war that played a substantial role in the founding of Rome, and Bellona, a goddess of war. Additional children included Vulcan, the god of fire, metalworking, and the forge, and Juventus, a youthful goddess who oversaw the transition from childhood to adulthood and was associated with invigoration and rejuvenation.

Though the Roman mythic corpus lacked the stories of marital strife that so often defined Zeus and Hera’s relationship, it was clear that Jupiter was unfaithful to Juno. Anecdotal tales told of Jupiter’s many infidelities and the children that resulted from them. With Maia, the goddess of earth and fertility (who may have lent her name to the Roman month Maius, or May), Jupiter had Mercury, the messenger god of commerce, merchants, sailing, and travel. With Dione, he sired Venus, goddess of love and sexual desire (although other stories had her emerging from sea foam, like the Greek Aphrodite). With his sister Ceres, Jupiter had Proserpine, an important cultic figure associated with cycles of decay and rebirth, just as Persephone was for the Greeks. Finally, with Metis, whom he raped, Jupiter had Minerva.

Mythology
By and large, Roman mythology lacked a rich narrative tradition. As such, little exists in the way of epic stories explaining the order of the universe and the origins of humankind. This is also true of Jupiter, whose mythos was built not around stories that featured him as a main character, but around the ways that Romans observed their chief deity and explained his place in their storied history.

Origins
Jupiter’s origins were largely identical to the tales of Zeus’ creation. Before Jupiter, Saturn reigned supreme as the god of the sky and the universe. Of course, it had not always been that way. Before Saturn, his father Caelus (meaning “heavens”) ruled, but Saturn overthrew his father and took control of the heavens for himself. After Saturn married Ops and impregnated her, he learned of a prophecy foretelling his downfall at the hands of one of his children. To prevent the usurper from seeing life, he swallowed the first five children that sprang from Ops’ womb. When the last child finally emerged, Ops hid him away and gave Saturn a rock dressed in swaddling instead. An unsuspecting Saturn devoured the rock whole.

What followed was the worst case of indigestion in the history of mythology. Unable to digest the rock, Saturn regurgitated it, along with the five children he had swallowed—Ceres, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, and Vesta. Jupiter, meanwhile, had been plotting his father’s imminent demise. With the help of his brothers and sisters, he defeated Saturn and took control of the cosmos.

Jupiter would later find himself in the same position as his father, Saturn. After raping and impregnating Metis, Jupiter was seized with the fear that his own unborn son might overthrow him. To avoid such a fate, Jupiter swallowed Metis along with her unborn child. Much to Jupiter’s surprise, the child did not die, but continued to grow until it burst from his forehead and into the world. That child was Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, forethought, and strategic warfare; she eventually became a part of the ruling Capitoline Triad.

https://mythopedia.com/roman-mythology/gods/jupiter/

Get a job. Clean gutter if you are broke enough then promote yourself from there.

I wonder if you know you are asking if God will bless you if you do the work.


Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.

Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

If clouds are full of water, they pour rain upon the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie.

Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Ecclesiastes 11:1-5

Bobrisky's baby is due today. Any update?

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Bobrisky's baby is due today. Any update?

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Bobrisky's baby is due today. Any update?

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Bobrisky's baby is due today. Any update?

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Bobrisky's baby is due today. Any update?

Jupiter and Saturn are so huge that people will cower in fear at the sight of it.

Kind of explains why [url=https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_%28mythology%29#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DJupiter_%28Latin%3A_Iuppiter%29_is%2Cand_his_sister_was_Ceres.?wprov=sfla1]Jupiter was considered a God having taken over from it's mother Saturn[/url].

Anyone bold enough to see Jesus taking over from Yahweh?