₦airaland Forum

QuinQ:
The Strait of Hormuz is always open. The problem is who'd be willing to risk crossing it (guided by US ships) and which insurance companies will be willing to insure such a person.
See below, insurance companies effectively closed it before the war even fully got going

Thank God for Google AI - top level analysis. See below


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Trump says it's opened though. I guess we'd find out who's lying when energy price rise or drop in few weeks.

I don't celebrate anyone's demise but the guy was a vile, evil, war-mongering piece of turd. I'd mourn the death of a tsetse fly before I mourn Lindsey Graham's death.

pdppower:
I'll rather believe IMF than believe anything that comes out from this fraud infested govt.

He said he'd rather believe IMF SMH

Resonance of the infamous African adage - It takes a village to raise a child. This is who we are - at our core, as Africans

Managed to lay my hands on WebeforeMe and C'est Un African Thing CD albums. Me and We album are currently on their way to me.

Got WebeforeMe from Italy, C'est Un African Thing from Japan, Me and We are both coming from the Netherlands. Strange how these albums are now scarce. I'm interested in his debut album - Ikira (or Lagbaja) (Ikira and Lagbaja was essentially treated as the same debut project) too but the only copy I found after so much search is on cassette and it was gone before I could even decide wether to buy it or not.

I can later get Abami and Africano...The Mother Of Groove from the same source I got the others from, provided they're not sold out by the time I'm ready to buy. Paradise, Sharp Sharp and 200 Million Mumu are all I want now, then I can say I have at least most of his discography. Whoever has any of these in either physical CD or digital WAV or FLAC file (No MP3) should please let me know.

By the way - Me, We and Abami were all released in the same year (2000) if not at the same time. WebeforeMe was released a year later to the international market.

This dog looks like she needs food more than a hump, in my opinion. Look after her better.

Kobojunkie:
1. We, in Africa, literally had next to no recorded history until the Europeans showed up. That is to reveal that rather than as a benefit, Islam, which colonized much of the land for over 1400, did nothing to improve the lives and economies of the poeple. This despite harvesting almost 20 million of our black ancestors for their Islamic wars, plantations, etc. That should infuriate any African out there.

2. Most of the male slaves taken by the Arabs were castrated. And about 80% of them died as a result of their wounds. This is recorded in Islamic records. I am not sure of what you mean by, "...scattered them across the Americas too."

3. You can literally investigate and read these things for yourself from mostly Arab sources about slavery.

4. You mean the gods that your traditional ancestors worshipped across Africa were all white men? You sure you are OK?

5. Only a "black" man will take offense to being told he needs to read more to educate himself on a topic that he has made it very obvious that clueless about.

Undoubtedly flew miles over your head, that's why you're doubting if you're Ok but hey - I thanked you for a great lecture. I learned a lot. Again, thank you.

Let's bugger off now shall we?

Kobojunkie:
1. Saying you were born into a Christian/Islamic/religious home typically means absolutely nothing as I have found from my own reading that the people most ignorant about the content of their claimed religious books and beliefs are usually those born into the religion and those who source their ideas from those who claim to be scholars in such religions.

2. If you read the books as you claimed, you would also have noted that those books constitute the Constitutional Law of the nation of Israel, constituted of the people of Israel in the land of Israel, a nation with clear borders. And like all other nations of the time and even today, they had a functional army whose role was to defend the nation and destroy its enemies, among other things. It would be stewpid of anyone to expect that a nation would not do that in the least.

3. I see I aptly describe your kind there. Your kind is the reason why that country is, as we speak, already a failed state.

4. For over 1100 years, the Arab world mined the African nations for slaves. The Almajiri system of raising kids in the North is a relic from that time. I believe it was designed to ensure that all children born in Northern Nigeria were disconnected from their parents from a young age, brainwashed into Islam from that point, and eventually shipped off, mostly as subservient slaves to be used in the progress of Islam. Such slaves rarely revolted against their Islamic masters; in the same way, they rarely revolt against any calls from their Islamic Imams today.

And yes, it was the Europeans and Americans who fought against Slavery. Not a single African or Arab ever fought to eliminate Slavery. As we speak, Slavery has made a huge comeback both in the Islamic world and Africa, with over 40 million people caught up in it.

5. Well, you may think that, but the facts remain that they ended slavery on masse; you and I are free today because of the Europeans and Americans' efforts to end Slavery. Many Africans today are not so lucky as they have already been enslaved, some sold by their African brothers/sisters to the Islamics.

6. Your logic is unsound! Instead, as of the junction we find ourselves in this day and time, Western Civilization has been much friendlier to Africans than Islam and our old traditional ways have been. Islam literally wants everyone who does not accept it to be subjugated or killed. That political ideology does not even work for the Islamic nations whose people flee their own homeland by the millions.

Now, if the condition in, say, Nigeria changes at a later date due to circumstances, and we need to resort to barbaric means to maybe defend ourselves, then maybe we can consider bringing back traditional African ways then.

Yeah of course. Guess I need to read more to appreciate the Europeans and Americans for my existence. Arab world would have enslaved my entire lineage and perhaps the entire black race. The Arabs undoubtedly enslaved Africans under inhumane and barbaric conditions and scattered them across the Americas too. Maybe that didn't happen, I may be imagining it. I just may need to start licking the back$ide of the white man to appreciate this act of kindness. No wonder God is a white man.

Oh and of course I need to read more. Great lecture - thanks.

Kobojunkie:
These are your own words.

2. Correction, every religion on earth DOES NOT have barbarism ingrained in its scriptures. If you had ever taken the time to read more, you would know this. As for you refusing to acknowledge that your religion is not the best as far as civilization is concerned, that is a personal issue, not for this thread.

3. What we see in Nigeria is not directly linked to any internationally complex hooga-booga as you pretend. We have Islam intentionally pillaging its way through the country, making its intentions known all the way. And then we have people who would rather continue lying to themselves that the international community is obsessed and involved in their existence, altogether. At the same time, they refuse to stand up and fight the scourge right before their very eyes. That is a nation of mostly deluded individuals who have chosen to blind themselves to the invaders in their midst. We see that happening in places like Europe, also.

4. Actually, it did! Under Islamic colonization for over 1000 years, much of Africa was just used as land for the Arabs to mine slaves and labor from. Almost 20 million black Africans were taken away from Africa into Arabia, their DNA vanishing from the earth not long after. African history was pretty much silent throughout much of that period until the white man arrived, pushing back against Islam from the seas.

Eventually, it was also the white man who pushed to end slavery across the world. Unfortunately, parts of Africa have reverted to selling their own to Islam for a pittance.

If I had ever taken the time to read more? Projection much? I was born into a deeply religious Christian family just like millions of Nigerians, so be assured I read the bible like my entire existence depended on it. I read Deuteronomy Chapter 20 which explicitly command the Israelites to completely destroy the inhabitants of surrounding cities, sparing "nothing that breathes". I read the Book of Joshua which recounts the carrying out of these "herem" or "ban" policies - total destruction of cities, including women, children, and livestock. I read passages in 1 Samuel 15 which depicts "God" commanding the prophet Samuel to destroy the Amalekites down to infants and nursing children. I read Exodus 21 and Leviticus 25 outlining laws regarding indentured servitude, including rules where foreign slaves could be kept as lifelong property or passed to descendants, and specify physical punishments for servants. I read Leviticus 20 which enforces death penalties for a wide array of moral and ritual offenses, including stoning for violating the Sabbath, cursing parents, and various sexual infractions. All these weren't barbarism in your own (Holy) book of course? [s]Only if I had EVER taken time to read more[/s].

"What we're seeing in Nigeria is not directly linked to any internationally complex hooga-booga as you pretend"? Want me to post "The white man"'s Memorandum of Engagement as a prerequisite for their "Strategic Partnership" with Nigeria that explicitly outlined that B0k0 Har@m are their associates and must be reintegrated back into the society? Or you think that's the Nigeria president's domestic policy?

Arabs mined slaves in Africa but it was the benevolent white man who put an end to it? Of course they didn't participate and certainly ended industrial scale slavery of Africans, out of the goodness of their heart. I get the logic - Islam - bad, way of life of my ancestors - bad. Christianity and white man - good. All hail the white man.

Kobojunkie:
There is no proof that Christianity committed as many atrocities as Islam in Africa, none whatsoever. Much of the slave trading, human sacrifice, scalping/skinning cultures that pervaded much of the southern aspects of even western Africa were not committed by Islam or Christianity but by the traditionalists whom you pretend were much better.

Much of what we see in Nigeria, and the other places, is related to Islam, which had those areas in its clutches for over 1000 years prior to the Europeans showing up to at least push some semblance of advancement and meaningful education on the poeple for a brief period.

This is where your argument fell apart sir. I did not say Christianity committed as many atrocities as Islam in Africa. I alluded to the historic doctrines of these religions - Call it crusade and Jihad, respectively, and everything else in-between. I didn't mention the atrocities they committed in Africa specifically but rather, since their inception - whichever X amount of BCE years they dated back to.

Every civilisation on earth, EVERY - has had its fair share of barbarism you mentioned - slave trading, human sacrifice, scalping and what have you. So I'm not "pretending" traditionalists "were much better", I'm not soliciting for them because as you rightly said, they committed these barbaric acts. I am also not trumpeting whataboutism here but so did the Judeans (Judaism/Christian) and the Hejazis (Islam). Uncivilised acts and practices were customary to them and evidently ingrained in their holy books which very much reflected their "civilisation" and way of life. Every religion on earth are deeply intertwined with the environment, social structures, tradition and historical context in which they develop. I will not exalt any foreign religion over my own tradition and way of life.......and that was my argument.

Oh as a matter of fact, saying that most of what we see in Nigeria and other places is related to Islam - is oversimplification. Much of what we see in Nigeria is a complex international network of destabilisation attempts, resource grabs, power struggle, orchestrated through a sect of Islam (actually a sub-sect) because the doctrine supported it. No almajiri terrorist in rural Northern Nigeria can fly military grade drones and other kinetic capabilities in their arsenal, not to even talk of affording one. They are mercenaries supported locally and internationally (It's a global network). So sir, Islam is not the problem. Powerful people/nations and network of globalists want to make you believe that a certain religion is the problem. I personally have no issue with practitioners of Christianity and Islam in Nigeria/Africa (Each to their own) but the hill I'm willing to die on is - Both religion DOES NOT belong to us.

Footnote: Europeans didn't "show up to at least push some semblance of advancement and meaningful education on the poeple" My God! NO!

Part of the reason why I have been saying - both Middle East religion (Christianity and Islam) DOES NOT belong to us in Africa. Christianity committed as much atrocities as Islam, the core archaic doctrines trickle down to this century. Hey! Look at Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso etc.

Both religion has always been about control, politics and conquest.

Trump: If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, it would blow up Italy in two minutes.

Meloni: As far as I know up till now, nine nations possess nuclear weapons and only one has used it. That one is the United States.

Why is Trump not at the front right and centre of this deal signing? He enjoys this kind of attention as a president of peace that he is. Unless it's not a good deal and got outwitted by Iran?

EndBuhariNow:
I can see handiwork of England France and Spain... Nuke them

London, Paris and Berlin.

YoungLionken:
He's right. Life has no meaning except what you give it. Someone spending 40 years on a job may be doing so, not necessarily because of anything other than hope...

Didn't say he's wrong

Pickup8:
Esu is not Satan, but esu is the chief head of evils. Babalawos always try to avoid esu in other not to get into trouble since he was the one that always destabilize and injure other gods. ESU MA SE MI OMI ELOMIRAN NI KO SE chants of traditionalist, se Ori re pe bayi?

Don't lend opinions on things you know less about or assert a position out of ignorance. A Babalawo that avoids Esu is not a Babalawo. When they say "Èṣù ma se mi, omo elomiran ni ko se" it's generally an appeal to Esu asking him to bless their path with clarity and redirect any harsh lessons or chaos toward those who mean harm towards them.

Esu is an entirely impartial deity. If you perform good deeds, Esu ensures you receive blessings. If you act with greed, malice, or ignore spiritual wisdom, he enforces the natural consequences of those actions.

Go and learn about yourself, your heritage, your very rich culture and traditions. Most importantly go and learn about your ancestor's way of life instead of some Jewish or Arabian's way of life and religion.

QuinQ:
He definitely can and probably will. After mid-term elections there are no constraints on Trump whatsoever.
He can tell Iran to go to hell

Yh because USA has unlimited resources to wage wars and Iran will just sit back and take it? Great thinking

"Unfair for Iran to lack nuclear weapon when Israel and USA has them" - Fixed.

No you cannot go back to bombing Iran and you know it

Kalulu44:
No1, I am not a religionist. Yes I was born into a Christian home and have read the Bible so many times.
But my conscious self doesn't believe in all those bumkum again.
So if you can call me an atheist now, you're not far from the truth.
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But in the so call Bible which you directed me to that I have also read. Why are you not separating the old testament to the new ones. The new said no more blood sacrifices.
To my own understanding, anything blood sacrifices is evil. And I am still doubting your ifa doesn't do blood sacrifice of a claim.
I will find that out

I myself was born into a deeply religious christian home until I started asking uncomfortable questions and digging dip into history but anyway that's by the by.

Why should you separate Old Testament from the New Testament? If you have to distinguish parts or sections of a supposed "Holy Bible", what does that achieve? If the New Testament is now the "approved" section of the bible that Christians should live by then why did the Old Testament make the cut?

How is blood offering evil? How do you decide what's evil and what's not? What's your frame of reference? Is it the same God that happily accepted blood sacrifices in the Old Testament, the same God that told Christians in the New Testament not to offer blood sacrifices anymore because he already accepted Jesus's blood as sacrifice? Help me make it make sense.

Again, you don't make sacrifices to Ifa. Ifa is like a conduit and depending on your circumstances, Ifa may tell you what deity to appease and how to appease the deity which may or may not include animal sacrifices.

About you being an atheist, I suppose that's fair, you don't have to belong to any religion. Everyone should be allowed to practice whatever religion they deem fit but I hold a strong opinion that Christianity and Islam doesn't belong to us.

enemyofprogress:
My distinct will guide me on what to do, whatever my distinct tells me is what I will do. My distinct has never failed me.

Very distinct.

Kalulu44:
But they sacrifice blood to ifa and esu

Ifa is a spiritual and philosophical system, you don't sacrifice to Ifa. Do you offer sacrifices to Esu? Absolutely. So, since we're on whataboutism - are there no rituals and sacrifices in the bible involving blood? (Assuming you're christian) You may want to read Leviticus, Exodus, and Deuteronomy especially. Even christians believe Jesus was a human sacrifice to God. (There's nothing like human sacrifice in Ifa system by the way).

Even in Judaism which is the religion that Jesus practised, they offer blood sacrifices to God for a whole lot of things - sin offering, burnt offering, peace offering, guilt offering and other rituals.


Know the religion you practice, read your bible too in depth. Not just the chapters that preaches prosperity, "heaven", and placing curses on "village people".

damoobaba:
Wait, I no understand. Your holy spirit no agree with Pastor?

"Holy Spirit" is not a christianity thing. Holy Spirit is your intuition

I'd trust my Holy Spirit and would most likely get off the bus with the "traditional doctor". A pastor herds a flock of sheep, A real ifa oracle sees with the third eye and guide you to navigate life accordingly. This is who we were before the colonisers brought their religion and told our ancestors that our spirituality is evil.

Ifa is not evil. Esu is not satan.

Trump is forced to negotiate with more hard liners in Iran because he killed off the moderates. Not achieved the objective of restricting Iran’s missile or nuclear capabilities, or regime change.

All that is seen in Trump’s decision to postpone his return to US and stay on the other side of the Atlantic than to be present for the signing ceremony on Friday. This is a guy who loves the limelight - he went to the Middle East last year for one single day to be front and centre of the signing ceremony marking the end of the 12 day war between Israel and Iran.

Why wouldn’t he want to bask in the glory of this diplomatic triumph? Unless there’s no such thing as “diplomatic triumph” because the only thing US has achieved was reopening of the Strait of Hormuz which wasn’t shut until Trump decided to wage a war against Iran. A huge blunder and strategic failure for Trump’s USA.

"World's most AI excited nation" without a single AI data centre or AI infrastructure or pipeline.

PapaNnamdi:
On the job,
1. You don't have to be intelligent to get the good jobs or promotion, just get a good network, or know how to wonderfully kiss a diarrhea ass and you are good
2. Getting a job or working as an employee keeps you in a loop, education was actually designed to domesticate individuals and jobs keep them in a busy loop till they loose purpose and die,
3. Life has no meaning, you are the one that gives it meaning through your relative experience

All the three points are completely true from my viewpoint but the contradiction in the second and third points - if life truly has no meaning whatsoever, then I think the idea of losing one’s purpose becomes difficult to justify. Why would it matter if someone spends 40 years working a job if there is no meaning to begin with?