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Religion / Why Christmas Is On The Penultimate Sunday Of March by cactusland(m): 5:39pm On May 24, 2021
As far as is known, Jesus of Nazareth was born sometime in the year 5 BC in the town of Nacrat (Hebrew name, pronounced Nats-raht)/an-Nāṣira (Arabic name), then known as Nazareth. The Star of Bethlehem and the fare of the priests is one major clue: in the Bible it says that the shepherds were tending to har flocks of sheep when the Nativity occurred. This could not have happened in winter or summer, but in spring on clear grounds that I shalln't get into. It so happens that in the last 2 decades of the first century BC the Chinese recorded many comets; the ones in 10 and 12 BC are known to have been Comet Halley.

In 5 BC the Chinese wrote of another comet, as told by this chronicle from then:
"In the twoth year of the tide of Ch'ien-p'ing, twoth month, a hui-hsing atiewed in Ch'ien-niu for more than 70 days"
This effectively means:
"In the time between March 10 and April 7, 5 BC, a comet that was maw to be seen for more than 70 days atiewed near Alpha and Beta Capricornii"
That "comet" stayed put for about 2 months, suggesting that it was in truth a nova. This was enough time for the Magi priests from Persia to reach Nazareth using the Star of Bethlehem as a guide; it is known that the Magi were still maw to see the nova when Judea was reached.

The rainy season in Iran begins in March, and the sudden atiewing of a bright object would have fooled the Magi into believing that the star was a heliacal rising, so in the 6-8 weeks that the Magi yode to Nazareth, hye still would have seen the nova for about 2 or 3 more weeks after reaching the town, since 70 days is 10 weeks.

King Herod died swith soon after this, having been 68, a chronic alcoholic, and likely nearly blind in a time when the life expectancy was about 30. Thus he would not have seen it. The Romans would not have either, for the nova (could be seen only in the morning by April) was at a low ecliptic altitude and was nearby a full moon on March 23, 5 BC that was drawing closer night by night.

Thus is the answer: Christ was born sometime in late March 5 BC, so may have been close to the date of March 20 (which was a Sunday in 5 BC, go figure)
Politics / Re: Nigeria May Stop Oil Production If Price Crash Persists –NNPC by cactusland(m): 6:43pm On Apr 23, 2020
Lostz:
oil should become valueless.

make everybody focus on his own house
For real. Oil's potential in money is no longer worth it. Build solar plants in the north and damless, hydropower in the south. And NEVER centralize the grid.
Business / Re: Is Crude Oil Really Selling For $14? by cactusland(m): 11:29pm On Apr 20, 2020
Zooposki:


Crude oil now below $3.00. cheesy cheesy cheesy
Now it's below 0. Oil Armada coming very soon to America

Religion / Re: Jesus is coming soon. This thread is for faithful watchmen by cactusland(m): 5:59am On Feb 10, 2020
MrPresident1:


Let me indulge you only once, after this one no more entertaining of any alternate handle from you buda for eartum aka budaatum. Just write whatever you want to write with your buda for eartum monicker.

Now to the rationale you're raising, you need to concentrate and focus, Trump is a saint?

Buttigieg is openly gay, Trump postures as a man of faith, the question is, who will win in America out of these two men?

Openly gay Buttigieg vs Man of faith Donald Trump!
As if Buttigieg's corruption will get him anywhere. It will catch up to him very soon, which means we will have a Bernie vs Trump line rather than Pete vs Trump line
Religion / Re: Jesus is coming soon. This thread is for faithful watchmen by cactusland(m): 10:57pm On Feb 06, 2020
MrPresident1:
Buttigieg is openly gay and he has apparently won the Iowa caucus, Iowa typically symbolises the Democrats frontrunner.

Openly gay Buttigieg vs man of faith President Trump

Looks like a no contest!

Trump 4+4 issa goal grin

Buda for eartum aka budaatum what say ye? grin

Not for the reason you think. Most people don't care that he's gay, they care that he's CORRUPT.
Romance / Re: Im Thinking Of Divorce Just Few Months Into Marriage by cactusland(m): 3:57pm On Feb 02, 2020
You should not have married her while she was still in school. Just because she's an adult doesn't mean she's quite ready for marriage.

Also, she never loved you.
Crime / Re: 16-Year-Old Kano Bride Drowns On Her Wedding Day by cactusland(m): 9:28pm On Dec 13, 2019
Why is anyone being married off at 16? Nobody is mature enough for marriage at that age!
Politics / Re: Nigeria’s Social Media Bill: The Dangerous Implications By Techcabal by cactusland(m): 4:39am On Dec 03, 2019
Godhatesodomy:



Nonsense. Nigerians have cults too and they are ethnic based so don t act like the concept is new to you. grin
I know full well of the ethnic cults, but there simply is none (as far as Jews are concerned) outside of Israel.
Politics / Re: Nigeria’s Social Media Bill: The Dangerous Implications By Techcabal by cactusland(m): 2:38pm On Nov 22, 2019
Godhatesodomy:



Fake News is dangerous. There is alot of fake news in America yet its coming from the government itself by Jewish mafias that employs black characters. There is more corruption coming from outside of Africa than within.

Wake up out your slumber
Jewish mafia You have got to be kidding me! �
There is no such thing. By the way, that is kind of racist/tribalistic
Politics / #saynotosocialmediabill Trending On Twitter by cactusland(m): 2:13pm On Nov 22, 2019
Today the hashtag #saynotosocialmediabill is trending on twitter in the US and Nigeria following the announcement of the hate speech bill and of a social media bill that would result in the destruction of freedom of speech in Nigeria

Call your local HOR and Senator from the NASS website to take action against this tragedy-law!
cc lalasticlala

Foreign Affairs / Re: Do You Support The Coming American War Against The Syria Assad Regime by cactusland(m): 6:50pm On Nov 21, 2019
omenka:



I think the US is on point on this call. The consequences of the US standing down after what Asad did to his own people would be more dire. It would give other rogue and beligerent regimes around the world the impetus to deploy such weapons against percieved enemies.

This is gonna be unlike Iraq or Afghanistan. There would be no boots on ground, just ariel strikes at some military infrastructure to reduce Asad's capability.

People like Asad are the reason why I still insist Mubarak is a patriot!! He didn't burn his country just to maintain his grip on power.

I feel people calling for the US not to act are only doing so just to sound politically correct. I mean, why should a whole country burn just for the selfish interest of ONE MAN It simply doesn't make any sense.
Six years later and you have been proven absolutely right.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by cactusland(m): 8:08pm On Oct 26, 2019
stanech:


It is the whole party. Because they do not condemn it. Republicans or right wingers are condemning it but the dems are numb
And the court just ruled that his dad has equal say. Democrats don't even know about this case at all for the most part.
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by cactusland(m): 8:04pm On Oct 26, 2019
marvelous000:
ladies and gentleman. brace yourselves for life irony and sense of humorgrin

Canadian liberal prime minister(Justin Trudeau) just won election without popular vote.
I wonder what equivocation libtards in US have up their sleeve. I mean; are they going to repudiate his re-election with profoundest disavowal as they did against àgbere papa 1 of the world(trump). grincheesy

Oh my gawd. this mirth is more than I've right to expect.

Thing is, Trudeau isn't popular even among Canadian liberals. The only reason people voted for his party is to counter the worst of the conservatives.
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by cactusland(m): 7:37pm On Oct 26, 2019
stanech:


This is why I hate the democratic party. They promote this useless lifestyle. Now a kids life is ruined
To me it's not the whole dem party but just a few crazy courts.
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by cactusland(m): 2:05pm On Oct 24, 2019
https://amp.dailycaller.com/2019/10/22/republican-senator-ruled-out-impeachment-trump?__twitter_impression=true

IMPORTANT
Only SEVEN of the 53 Republican Senators that the Daily Caller (a right wing paper by the way) asked about impeachment said they would completely rule out removing him from office.

Trump has officially reached the deepest abyss. The House RepubliCAN'Ts are just delaying the inevitable with their recent insolence.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by cactusland(m): 1:52pm On Oct 24, 2019
obixcel:
Finally a Ceasefire in Syria
Breakthrough...Peace

All this is happening while Dems have themselves locked in a dusty basement cheesy cheesy
What ceasefire? It's just a ploy.
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by cactusland(m): 1:50pm On Oct 24, 2019
stanech:
A mother decided that her 7 year old boy is really a girl because he liked the movie Frozen. The husband insisted that he's a boy. Courts got involved. Jury just ruled that, yes, the boy is a girl and he will now be "transitioned" into one cry embarassed cry embarassed
They shouldn't just transition someone just because he likes Frozen. He could end up gay in the future, prepare for that instead of ruining his life by transitioning him.

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Romance / Re: Uganda Announces ‘kill The Gays’ Bill To Impose Death Penalty On Homosexuals by cactusland(m): 1:55am On Oct 16, 2019
Steven Anderson must be controlling Uganda's Parliament...
Foreign Affairs / Re: Zimbabwe Bans Use Of U.S. Dollars, Others by cactusland(m): 1:14am On Jul 01, 2019
9jvirgin:
The whole of Africa should be a country instead what we have is 54 senseless people parading themselves as "presidents"
2 kings still, eSwatini and Lesotho
Business / Re: ECOWAS Adopts ECO As Name Of Single Currency by cactusland(m): 1:03am On Jul 01, 2019
Abkreizi:


Did you study Economics in secondary school. ....even with the whole of west Africa i see a greek crisis coming up
And Naija be the Greece of ECOWAS
Celebrities / Re: COZA Pastor: Bobrisky Replies Bisi Alimi "You Are High On Your Oyinbo Prick" by cactusland(m): 6:26am On Jun 30, 2019
Both men are madmen. Bisi Alimi accused Bobrisky of being always on history's bad side while Bob tried to use the fact that Alimi is gay to score points.

This world has abandoned reason, and I'm tired of seeing COZA topics on the front page of every forum.
Celebrities / Stalker Of US Dem Alexandria Ocasio-cortez Arrested, Tongue-tied Over Intentions by cactusland(m): 11:40pm On Jun 29, 2019
QUOTE from New York Daily News:

The man charged with holding police at bay with a fire extinguisher and a broken bottle to get an audience with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got bashful Friday morning, refusing to explain what he wanted with the freshman congresswoman.

“Nah, bro, I don’t want to give my side of the story,” Douala Hashi, 31, said during an exclusive jailhouse interview where he is being held after failing to make bail.

The Somali-born man was busted Wednesday on contempt charges for returning to the progressive lawmaker’s office in Jackson Heights after he was warned to stay away.

Police hit him with stalking charges for three other visits to AOC’s office when he tried to talk to her and became violent when he was rebuffed.

Hashi hasn’t explained why he wants to meet with Ocasio-Cortez or why he violated the judge’s order not to contact her.

[More Politics] Trump thinks Putin was talking about California Democrats when he trashed ‘Western liberalism’ — draws blank on ‘busing’ »
He was charged with criminal mischief on June 15 for spraying a fire extinguisher on the same floor as the lefty firebrand’s office. Carrying a broken bottle, he ducked into a utility closet before he was handcuffed.

Hashi never actually entered her office that time, police said.

Judge Jerry Iannece set bail at $2,500, leaving Hashi to stew in jail until his next court date. The judge also warned Hashi to stay away from Ocasio-Cortez and two aides when he does get out.

Ocasio-Cortez is one of the most outspoken lawmakers in Congress and has become a lightning rod for supporters and critics alike. She complains that she is deluged by death threats whenever she criticizes President Trump.
Science/Technology / Re: Global Warming Is A Big Scam by cactusland(m): 10:22pm On Jun 29, 2019
lilwetdick:


but thorium salt reactors is dangerous if not manage well, dam free hydropower is still being research on

solar and wind energy cant power a factory

no country can developed without emitting some kind of pollution, developed countries emit more pollutions than less developed countries, coal is still use to power electricity in developed countries

Anything is dangerous if managed incorrectly, but the thorium reactors fail by simply cooling down and draining to a tank. The only way this could become dangerous is if the tank(s) holding the fuel are ruptured. Otherwise, failure consists of fuel draining into a special tank for failed reactions, while the failed component is fixed. They cannot fail like Liquid Water Reactors, which can have situations like Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three Mile Island due to the fact of steam pressure and potential for zirconium to start reacting with the water producing explosive hydrogen.
This great link on the matter sums everything up here \/
https://liquidfluoridethoriumreactor.glerner.com/2012-how-might-lftrs-fail/

As for solar and wind energy being unable to power factories, that may not be true as solar technology gets better and more efficient (not to mention how notoriously sunny much of Africa is even in the forest), however there is also a type of "space solar power" in the works that can self-replicate using lunar materials, potentially powering everything on earth. And it would be cheap by world standards (only about 10 billion or so dollars; budget that countries can pool together for such a project). Both wind energy and solar energy are viable in Nigeria, as the country is both coastal and Sahelian (areas that can't use solar can easily use wind power from the mountains, wave power or aforementioned nuclear)
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/renewable-energy-in-africa-is-set-to-surge-by-2040-iea-says



As for pollution, semi industrialized nations like Nigeria are at a severe disadvantage due to plastic pollution. In the industrialized nations, it's gaseous pollution that is most problematic. For developing nations, it's mostly plastic and chemical pollution from unsafe factories.

Coal is only being used in Africa sparingly, and usually for the heating of homes or for cooking. Nigeria, North Africa, and Equatorial Guinea are excluded due to heavy revenues from fossil fuels in all those countries.
Science/Technology / Re: Global Warming Is A Big Scam by cactusland(m): 5:44pm On Jun 29, 2019
lilwetdick:


what other ways to develop without going through the process of industrialization, can you name them please?
Development is impossible without at least some industrialization, but industrialization is possible without emissions. Look up Thorium Salt reactors, zaï and cordons pierreux, solar power, dam-free hydropower, vortex wind power (that way birds won't get caught up), car batteries, anti-poaching laws, anti-pollution laws, and aggresively enforcing anti-corruption legislation.
Science/Technology / Re: Global Warming Is A Big Scam by cactusland(m): 5:33pm On Jun 28, 2019
lilwetdick:


but every developed nation went through industrialisation to get to where they are..

why are they now preaching global warning when developing countries want to get industrialised
The unfortunate problem is that the costs are becoming worse than the benefits; there are other ways to development than to destroy everything Permian style in the process.
Romance / Re: Over 10,000 Women Protest Naked For Sex by cactusland(m): 5:11pm On Jun 28, 2019
None of them look oyinbo whatsoever grin grin
They all look east asian.
Politics / Whoever Thought Splitting An LGA Into Two Sections Must Leave Nigeria by cactusland(m): 4:15am On Jun 25, 2019
Along the lower stretches of the River Kaduna near where it empties into the Niger (in the state of the same name) lies a peculiarity possibly borne of corruption.
I tell you of the splitting of Edati LGA into two sections by a long stretch of Mokwa LGA that extends in a narrow panhandle from the Kaduna mouth until the LGA of Wushishi is touched barely just east of Soji in nearby Lavun.

What kind of a monster decided to do this to the inhabitants of Edati?

Politics / Re: Nigerians In Abuja Protest Against Sudanese Military Govt.(picture) by cactusland(m): 12:09am On Jun 15, 2019
MrExcel:
If the uprising in Sudan is not stopped, the repercussion will be so disastrous to Nigeria. Remember, Sudan shares border with Chad and chad shares with Nigeria. Imagine the number of armed men that might cross over to our country.
I wish I could join
The doom of the TMC will be the doom of Idriss Déby. It will be a domino across Africa.
Nairaland / General / Multiple Women Date-defiled At Jake Paul's Party On May 4 by cactusland(m): 3:10pm On May 09, 2019
The Pauls dey trash oooo

The day after a huge party at YouTuber Jake Paul’s house on Saturday, rumors began swirling that multiple women had been drugged. But the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told the Daily Mail it had not received any complaints like that from the party.

The rumors first began with an apparent Facebook post from a mother’s group in southern California and from an Instagram post from a firehouse that serves the Calabasas area where Paul lives.

On the private Moms of Conejo Valley Facebook group, which has more than 17,000 members, this message began circulating on Sunday.

The post claimed that the mother’s daughter was at Paul’s party on Saturday night and she “ended up in the hospital with eight other girls who had been drugged and … ended up incoherent. Something was put in their drinks. The girls were all half naked and unable to walk or talk.” The mother also claimed the party-goers were made to sign a disclaimer of some kind before they could enter the party.

The speculation was further fueled by the apparent Instagram account of @firestation68. The account is no longer available, but according to reports, a post said firemen had spent the majority of their Saturday night “transporting multiple patients” from the party to the hospital.

Paul has not commented on the reports on social media, and he didn’t immediately return a message left by the Daily Dot—there is no indication that Paul had anything to do with any reports or allegations of women being drugged. Paul’s brother, Logan, seemingly had a good time at the party, which was thrown in honor of rapper Desiigner’s birthday.

A spokesperson for the L.A. County Sheriffs’ Department told the Daily Mail that nobody had reported anything about women being drugged. The only complaint the department received was about loud music and that the party that was “getting out of hand.” One of Paul’s elderly neighbors was “scared” by the party and fell as a result, but there were no other injury reports.
DISCLAIMER: I know not where to put this thread
Politics / Re: A Disgraced And Fugitive Lawyer Should Never Be Speaker by cactusland(m): 9:38pm On May 07, 2019
Front0lane:
Pls do not let your bigoted Igbotic father wail to the grave early o. No go die untimely over Yoruba matter
Foolish Igbos will claim ignorance of this bigot, small time they will claim Yoruba started this.

How any bigoted lunatic can start wailing about Yoruba man he never met or ever will is beyond every human comprehension.
This set of chest beating baboons are indeed cursed till eternity.



Na worse than even that. He's an angry white man who decides he wants to play Nigeria against itself.
Crime / Re: Policeman Shoots A Lady While Trying To Shoot A Dog In Benin (Pix) by cactusland(m): 4:17pm On May 04, 2019
Obagoblog:
Trying to kill a mere dog with gun?

That policeman doubles as armed robber... They are the set people that hate seeing dogs...
He wey shot her should've set the knife upon the dog

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