Chimex38's Posts

Nairaland Forum › Chimex38's Profile › Chimex38's Posts

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 (of 119 pages)

Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by chimex38: 7:45am On Oct 12, 2025*

elpaso007:
Hi. I don't get why posting a link to a pdf doc on nairaland breaks

Try this again.

https://research.cardinalstone.com/storage/ResearchReports/CardinalStone%20Research%20-%20Earnings%20Preview%20-%2010%20October%202025.pdf

@elpaso007
Edited:
clicking the link directly from Nairaland won't work.
It's a space separator effect arising from the PDF file name from cardinal stone.
Most browsers recognize only part of a link without spaces from HTTPS including NL.
once there is a space within the same link, it adds "%20" to it and stops linking from that part to the rest of the link.
It's like a standard web protocol.

@emperor00
Highlight all the texts in the link from "https:......pdf" and from the options given from your device, either:
1) open it Or
2) copy and paste in your browser URL

4 Likes

Celebrities › Re: “una Dey Craze For This Yankee!” — Peter Okoye Claps Back At U.S. Waitress by chimex38: 7:40am On Oct 12, 2025

Gotocourt:
Fabricated stories, he's peppering his enemies that he ate a meal of $1000 (1.5M) . No receipt or anything. Omorr, pure lamba

The waitress sent the amount as DM. he didn't write it himself.
I think that's a reasonable difference.
And if it was planned and staged?
Won't the waitress have exposed herself and the restaurant on a bad note?

On this premise, I don't think it's fabricated.

3 Likes

Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by chimex38: 8:03am On Oct 11, 2025

KarlTom:
Who's up for another round of explanation ...

The legendary Cyril Stober will be the anchor

One-on-one
1 am.

Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by chimex38: 1:47pm On Oct 10, 2025

megawealth01:
But multiverse don deliver na

True sha.
Just wondering whether the latest Gold rush euphoria suppose fit still trigger another rally as well.

Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by chimex38: 10:06am On Oct 10, 2025

Streetinvestor2:
Mineral in those kind of stock like japaul is coke,spirit, Fanta Pepsi etc

Lol..

Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by chimex38: 10:28pm On Oct 09, 2025

#Goldrush
But why is multiverse not rallying for the past one week?
Abi gold no dey for their minerals huh

Politics › Re: Dangote Refinery, Engineers On Warpath Over Fresh Redeployment (Photo) by chimex38: 11:36am On Oct 09, 2025

U09ce:
Up till now, the Dangote Refinery has not told Nigerians the 'sabotage' 800 Nigerians did. If people want to commit such a criminal act, why would they need up to 800 people? These guys are just been victimized and unfortunately even the custodians of the Nigerian laws have shoved them aside.

You know premium times are good at hidden and undisclosed investigations like this. Same reason the Minister of Science and Tech resigned
You can't rule this info out entirely.

1 Like

Nairaland General › Re: Dark Mode, UI Facelift, & Minimum Character Rule by chimex38: 9:41am On Oct 09, 2025

Jaga9ja:
I don't take advice from online, not even from X, Facebook or anywhere else online.

Maybe I used the wrong word "advice" to generalise.
But it includes:
-seeking different opinions,
-Validating your own opinions,
-shaping thoughts on issues,
--Taking statistics on people's choices and preferences.
-seeking the why, how, when
-Getting new info in general.
- passing time reading comments.

Nairaland General › Re: Dark Mode, UI Facelift, & Minimum Character Rule by chimex38: 9:18am On Oct 09, 2025

Jaga9ja:
I don't live like that.

If I don't like you from through series of interactions, I don't like anything you have to offer after that, even of it is eternal life.

Online isn't real life.
There are other sectors of the forum such persons may have a superior advice that might be beneficial to you or your relatives.
Life isn't black and white wink

Nairaland General › Re: Dark Mode, UI Facelift, & Minimum Character Rule by chimex38: 9:15am On Oct 09, 2025

casualobserver:
There are people who are a temporary nuiscance and there are those who are permanent nuiscance. For me to add you to a list it means you’ve established yourself as a permanent nuisance. These are the people that I don’t want to interact with ever or see their posts.

Either way the power to unblock should rest with the person who blocked.

Calender option proposed by someone above this comment of yours solves it.

Though I get your drift.
There are people whose opinions in some sectors are absurd in ones view.

I will suggest seun to create permanent blocking limited to the persons comment on that section of Nairaland so one does not see it.

Cuz in another section, the person may have a better life experience that me or you and have a much better contributions, thoughts and advice that are beneficial.

Nairaland General › Re: Dark Mode, UI Facelift, & Minimum Character Rule by chimex38: 9:07am On Oct 09, 2025

Jaga9ja:
It is not for you to decide when one chose to let go, or should let go at all.

Seun should make the block button flexible, tailored to everyone needs.

Could add a calendar option for users to choose the length of blocking, even if it is for 600 years; another user don't get to decide when I chose to forgive.

OK.. your calender option solves it then..

But people are dynamic and not entirely defined by a particular action or comment.
They could be repulsive in one and In other sections, their contributions could be useful. That includes you and I.

Nairaland General › Re: Dark Mode, UI Facelift, & Minimum Character Rule by chimex38: 8:22am On Oct 09, 2025

casualobserver:
The power to unblock someone should rest with the person who blocked the person. You are blocked on WhatsApp until I unblock you and if I choose not to unblock you, you remain blocked.

Can be forgotten by the blocker to unblock after sometime.

And if one sustains anger level over 3weeks to one month cuz of a comment or few comments in a faceless or virtual forum , then one should check themselves in real life.

Though I support blocking scammers permanently.

1 Like

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 12:05pm On Oct 08, 2025*

Truthseeker10:
Baba go and cry🤣

...
Perfect..
good for upcoming generations to read through the thread.
Christianity is a way of life(lifestyle)

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 10:17am On Oct 08, 2025

Truthseeker10:
🤣🤣you claimed that your position was the master of the equation na. You shock say James sef na a=b+c. Baba go and argue with meta ai.

@bolded never mentioned such claim.
Trying to put words in my mouth.
Shock ke😁😂
When i was the "inventor" of the equation.. 👇

chimex38:
I am not forcing you to disown your religion wordly label and won't do that to anyone provided we agree on the more Important content.(a=b+c.... )
We agree to disagree 👍
Titus 3:9

My position was from the Master Jesus himself.
👇

chimex38:
Again in John 14:6
Jesus specifically says: I am the way the truth and the life.
Christianity is a way of Life to me.

I love as you are quoting me out of context, adding and subtracting my words, making me repost again and again.
It's a sign of weakness and defeat that the debater has refused to admit.
Which isn't bad in itself if you still have thoughtful points to layout.

I like as you've been dodging quotes from JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF by sending me to man-made Meta AI grin

waiting for you to come up with sth I can learn from or denounce my stand..
Disappointed, you are the one being close-minded. just using man-made dictionary that changes with time as events unfold and feeding my words to robots to help your defeated ministry.

YOU HAVE NO POWER TO CHALLENGE THE WORDS OF THE MASTER JESUS CHRIST WHEN ITS THROWN AT YOU.
YOU JUST PROVED IT. wink

WHO IS META AI?
EVEN APOSTLE JAMES WILL BOW?
philippines 2:10
WHO THEN ARE YOU?
so i ain't surprised, just catching cruise just as you probably are..

Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by chimex38: 7:56am On Oct 08, 2025

GeneralDae:
Google or check on X (formerly Twitter):

Juliana Terzungwe: A Woman Driver at Dangote.

impressive. She trained at Larfarge Driving Academy in Calabar..

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 7:43am On Oct 08, 2025

Truthseeker10:
🤣🤣🤣who is stopping you from doing what you want to do with meta ai? Baba go and sleep.

Lol.. The onus is on you to disprove. that a≠b+c
I quote Jesus words himself and ascribed it as my way of life, that's OK by me.

You're free to use dictionary, metaAi, James, etc that connects to your spirit and soul.

2Timothy 2: 14
"Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen".

Good Morning.

Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by chimex38: 11:49pm On Oct 07, 2025

Joyful365:
I'm responding to you because you have elucidated your points to some extent, unlike some here who comment like they have either sold their souls to the devil or never attended the four walls of a good university.

All your points in defence of Dangote are weak and engulfed in same strategy the rich and mighty of third nations and even first nations use to keep the working class perpetually poor.

Everything I have written is in defence of working class Nigerians.

They had the option to take up arms and go into kidnapping and other crimes but they did not.

They give their 50-70 hours working every week, but what do they get in return?

Peanuts and working conditions that make them look like fools compared to those who can simply buy machetes with less than ₦10,000 and earn much more than honest hard-working Nigerians through terror.

Dangote is telling Nigerians that he pays his drivers ₦240,000 ($180) per month, his laptop boys are amplifying it and uninformed Nigerians are clapping for them.

How much does Dangote products costs compared to same products produced in Canada, USA, China, Libya and other countries?

How much is Dangote fuel and Dangote cement in Nigeria versus similar products in other countries?

How much do those drivers and workers in Canada, USA, China, and Iran earn compared to the price of the products of the companies they work in?

Dangote is charging international price for his products in Nigeria.

Dangote speedily increased price of his cement by over 200%, citing naira devaluation, etc.

But how much is he paying his workers?

Did he increase his workers salaries by same percentage?

No!

He is topping Forbes billionaires list but majority of his workers are topping the list of those living in peanury and customers of Bet9ja and Sportybet.

Before Dangote refinery and after full subsidy removal, fuel sold for less than ₦700.

Dangote refinery came online and fuel is selling for ₦1000 across Nigeria.

All his workers can no longer afford to buy fuel to run their generators. They are getting poorer and poorer by the day.

Dangote claims to pay his drivers ₦280,000 monthly. Even though the amount is ridiculous compared to the value of the service those drivers provide, I can tell you for a fact that Dangote and his laptop boys are lying to Nigerians.

I have interviewed hundreds of Dangote truck drivers. Non of them earn up to ₦100,000 as monthly salary.

Even if you add the amount given to drivers as dispatch for each trip (which should cater for their hotel accommodation and feeding on each trip), they still don't get up to the amount Dangote is claiming to pay his drivers.

Dangote should publish the pay slip of his drivers.

Do you think drivers that are well paid and well rested will be all over Nigeria ending the lives of people due to reckless driving?

Those drivers are not well paid.

They're mostly illiterates who sleep in their trucks and stay alert on the wheels through consumption of Fearless and other hard drugs.

Go out there and talk to Dangote drivers. They're all over Nigeria delivering cement and other Dangote products.

It's no coincidence that Dangote truck accidents have been recorded every month in Nigeria over the past 15 years.

That's the most shameful safety record of any company globally but laptop boys have been paid to defend and celebrate it in Nigeria.

If I ever become president of Nigeria, I'll not allow Dangote or any company or business abuse the rights and privileges of Nigerian workers.

They're the foundation of every thriving society. When they're unprotected and vulnerable to the whims and caprices of greedy capitalists aided by ill-gotten monopoly, the society will proceed on a free fall.

Nigeria is on a free fall. I hope this helps you understand one reason why it is so.

Shalom

I admire your passion for the Nigerian work force and your ambition. Most of us can relate. If not ourselves, our loved ones and friends.
But the FG that needs to have a regulatory oversight are toothless cuz their own minimum wage is shameful and abysmal.
I am all for better pay packages especially for private sector workers in the first place who constitute the bulk of the employment.
Everybody can't work in an oil and company and everybody can't be a businessman.
Teachers are the worst.
Niche Cambridge schools are now their Dangote;300-400k.
yet, thats a below par payment compared to their overseas counterpart taking the same IGCSE exams for students.
But all they are allowed to compare is their counterpart in local private schools earning 50-150k..
Head teacher/principal may earn 150-200k giving a false illusion of better pay when the schools charge fees from 1m and above.

That said these are the main bias for DR against the union
1) the Probability of a strike involving PENGASSEN AND IOCs or FG within the next 3-5yrs Is about 9/10.
DR workers not being a member of PENGASSEN will enable DR to keep getting it's supply of crude and gas no matter how long the strike lasts. The business and Nigerians via petrol stations won't experience scarcity and hence high prices of fuel.
So risk of joining the union is HIGH on the firm (DR).

2)The possibility of staff payment default from DR to workers within this 3-5yrs is about 1/10. If there is even a default or a bridge of entitlement contract, it won't be a massive group default. It most likely will be few individuals and spread across different timelines and they will be treated on an individual bases based on DIL antecedents. So risk of not-joining the union is low on DR as well as the workers.

3)These unions(PENGASSEN and NUPENG) have the members-skill-set to shut down critical areas of Nigerians entire crude pipping network. We could see how the nations 3 refineries have fared..
We also know about the increased leakage of crude by vandals in Nigeria. Oil theft through unknown sea vessels, etc. we hardly meet OPEC requirements.
What is read at the destination guard meter is different from the production guard meter by as much as 10-20% loss of barrels/day.(2021 report by S&P global)
The unions who control key sections can't entirely be absorbed.
The probability they will infiltrate and corrupt the minds of the DR workers into doing their biddings for the sake of human greed is as high as 8/10. And we are back to fuel imports and forex scarcity due to constant "turnaround maintainance grin

" that never materialise as always done input own refineries.
He may even risk loan default payments,etc and Me and go back to buying black market fuel with high sulphur content and changing fuel filter and co every 4 maker days..
The rippe effect is not to be imagined.
Thas why I won't easily dismiss the premium times whatsapp leakage report on DR Internal memos.
4) NLC, NUEE and TUC frequently go on strike likewise the popular ASUU. Most often than not, they call on their sister partners of PENGASSEN AND NUPENG amongst others to join and shut the country as a whole.
Can we guarantee these larger union bodies not going on strike in 3-5yrs joining PRNGASSEN along unwarranted just for solidarity sake?

If no, isn't it wiser for DR staff not to join them PENGASSEN so as to keep getting seamless supply of product during their usual national shut down until DR stabilises.

5) DR workers join PENGASSEN.
Based on what transpired so far, it's unlikely that PRNGASSEN were going to fight for a wage raise for the workers as soon as possible.
Otherwise they would have used it as bait or attack DR during the fiasco.
Also the truck workers pay was true.NUPENG and probably PENGASSEN would have disputed it. Dangote said it with his mouth. I doubt he will be lying. Within the next 3-5yrs ,the probability of PENGASSEN fighting for a wage raise and other allowances for DR workers would have been as much as 5/10.
My question is:
If DR workers had joined NUPENG and PENGASSEN?
Would it have justified the high risk and -ve ripple effect associated with the other 1- 4 instances listed within this 5yrs incubation and weaning period?
Will it be worth it for
1)DR workers,
2)DR itself and
3)Nigerians as a whole to all come out in 5yrs time to a win-win-win situation? sad

The bigger picture should be considered in this nascent stage.
In about 5yrs time we can begin to look at DRs pay packages with keen interest.
The DR workers themselves will be the ones to join the union if its that bad and all the earlier HR relations sugar-coated promises fails.

Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by chimex38: 11:20pm On Oct 07, 2025

Joyful365:
I'm responding to you because you have elucidated your points to some extent, unlike some here who comment like they have either sold their souls to the devil or never attended the four walls of a good university.

All your points in defence of Dangote are weak and engulfed in same strategy the rich and mighty of third nations and even first nations use to keep the working class perpetually poor.

Everything I have written is in defence of working class Nigerians.

They had the option to take up arms and go into kidnapping and other crimes but they did not.

They give their 50-70 hours working every week, but what do they get in return?

Peanuts and working conditions that make them look like fools compared to those who can simply buy machetes with less than ₦10,000 and earn much more than honest hard-working Nigerians through terror.

Dangote is telling Nigerians that he pays his drivers ₦240,000 ($180) per month, his laptop boys are amplifying it and uninformed Nigerians are clapping for them.

How much does Dangote products costs compared to same products produced in Canada, USA, China, Libya and other countries?

How much is Dangote fuel and Dangote cement in Nigeria versus similar products in other countries?

How much do those drivers and workers in Canada, USA, China, and Iran earn compared to the price of the products of the companies they work in?

Dangote is charging international price for his products in Nigeria.

Dangote speedily increased price of his cement by over 200%, citing naira devaluation, etc.

But how much is he paying his workers?

Did he increase his workers salaries by same percentage?

No!

He is topping Forbes billionaires list but majority of his workers are topping the list of those living in peanury and customers of Bet9ja and Sportybet.

Before Dangote refinery and after full subsidy removal, fuel sold for less than ₦700.

Dangote refinery came online and fuel is selling for ₦1000 across Nigeria.

All his workers can no longer afford to buy fuel to run their generators. They are getting poorer and poorer by the day.

Dangote claims to pay his drivers ₦280,000 monthly. Even though the amount is ridiculous compared to the value of the service those drivers provide, I can tell you for a fact that Dangote and his laptop boys are lying to Nigerians.

I have interviewed hundreds of Dangote truck drivers. Non of them earn up to ₦100,000 as monthly salary.

Even if you add the amount given to drivers as dispatch for each trip (which should cater for their hotel accommodation and feeding on each trip), they still don't get up to the amount Dangote is claiming to pay his drivers.

Dangote should publish the pay slip of his drivers.

Do you think drivers that are well paid and well rested will be all over Nigeria ending the lives of people due to reckless driving?

Those drivers are not well paid.

They're mostly illiterates who sleep in their trucks and stay alert on the wheels through consumption of Fearless and other hard drugs.

Go out there and talk to Dangote drivers. They're all over Nigeria delivering cement and other Dangote products.

It's no coincidence that Dangote truck accidents have been recorded every month in Nigeria over the past 15 years.

That's the most shameful safety record of any company globally but laptop boys have been paid to defend and celebrate it in Nigeria.

If I ever become president of Nigeria, I'll not allow Dangote or any company or business abuse the rights and privileges of Nigerian workers.

They're the foundation of every thriving society. When they're unprotected and vulnerable to the whims and caprices of greedy capitalists aided by ill-gotten monopoly, the society will proceed on a free fall.

Nigeria is on a free fall. I hope this helps you understand one reason why it is so.

Shalom

I admire your passion for the Nigerian work force and your ambition. Most of us can relate. If not ourselves, our loved ones and friends.
But the FG that needs to have a regulatory oversight are toothless cuz their own minimum wage is shameful and abysmal.
I am all for better pay packages especially for private sector workers in the first place who constitute the bulk of the employment
Everybody can't work in an oil and company and everybody can't be a businessman.
Teachers are the worst.
Niche Cambridge schools are now their Dangote;300-400k.
yet, thats a below par payment compared to their overseas counterpart taking the same IGCSE exams for students.
But all they are allowed to compare is their counterpart in local private schools earning 50-150k..
Head teacher/principal may earn 150-200k giving a false illusion of better pay when the schools charge fees from 1m and above.
That said these are the main bias for DR against the union
1) the Probability of a strike involving PENGASSEN AND IOCs or FG within the next 3-5yrs Is about 9/10.
DR workers not being a member of PENGASSEN will enable DR to keep getting it's supply of crude and gas no matter how long the strike lasts. The business and Nigerians via petrol stations won't experience scarcity and hence high prices of fuel.
So risk of joining the union is HIGH on the firm (DR).

2)The possibility of staff payment default from DR to workers within this 3-5yrs is about 1/10. If there is even a default or a bridge of entitlement contract, it won't be a massive group default. It most likely will be few individuals and spread across different timelines and they will be treated on an individual bases based on DIL antecedents. So risk of not-joining the union is low on DR as well as the workers.

3)These unions(PENGASSEN and NUPENG) have the members-skill-set to shut down critical areas of Nigerians entire crude pipping network. We could see how the nations 3 refineries have fared..
We also know about the increased leakage of crude by vandals in Nigeria. Oil theft through unknown sea vessels, etc. we hardly meet OPEC requirements.
What is read at the destination guard meter is different from the production guard meter by as much as 10-20% loss of barrels/day.
The unions who control key sections can't entirely be absorbed.
The probability they will infiltrate and corrupt the minds of the DR workers into doing their biddings for the sake of human greed is as high as 8/10. And we are back to fuel imports and forex scarcity due to constant "turnaround maintainance grin

4 Likes

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 9:19pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
Read and get educated below.

Lol.. I actually got educated with the way you super imposed the analogy. I could use that in some other applications.

I Iike your tenacity.
But you used James words as reference point..

So why don't you use this Meta AI stunt with Christ words as reference.
Why skipp them from our NL discuss to Meta?
You should rather be trying to invalidate my position on Christianity as a way of life.
Anyway no problem..
The last summary is OK on content.
But We can agree to disagree on words👍

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 8:45pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
So James contradicted Jesus?

Lol.. a=b+c
Try again.

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 8:37pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
oga bye bye since you know more than James.

Lol...keep Skipping my facts and points from horses mouth and cherry picking.
You are trying to bait me with James.

chimex38:
...........
........
You can embrace James' which is valid as well.

JESUS is the MASTER of James.
a=b+c wink

2Timothy 2: 14
"Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen".

Titus 3:9
But avoid stupid arguments, long lists of ancestors, quarrels, and fights about the Law. They are useless and worthless.

We agree to disagree 👍

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 7:40pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
Oga is James wrong for calling your day to day activities of remaining spotless from the world a religion? Yes or no? You are just bent on writing long epistles and being dogmatic about the word "religion". Nothing more.

King James Bible
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Again in John 14:6
Jesus specifically says: I am the way the truth and the life.
Christianity is a way of Life to me.

You can embrace James' which is valid as well.
I have chosen mine from Jesus quotes and interpretations..
Which ever rocks our boats.

I am not forcing you to disown your religion wordly label and won't do that to anyone provided we agree on the more Important content.(a=b+c.... grin

)
We agree to disagree 👍
Titus 3:9

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 6:55pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
🤣🤣go and rest oga...tell James that he is wrong for saying that our daily activities of remaining spotless from the world is a religion.

😁
I quoted a verse from Jesus Matthew 5:17 you skipped it.
(I just noticed I quoted a wrong post of yours to reply to; It was for Christianity )

Anyway,
Laws are "likened" to Religion(as existed before Jesus).
Jesus Fulfilment is likened to his interpretation of the law which is is shown in his way of life for 3yrs(lifestyle).

Vs18-19, he emphasised the importance of the law itself followed to the letter(Religion)
Vs 20, he made more difference between righteousness of the Pharisees(Law) and a higher form of righteousness( as shown in his way of life).

Like the maths equations😁
Provided your "a" contains "c", no qualms.

I only engaged the discuss thinking otherwise; once established, everyother thing is personal ego of "wordly correctness".

We agree to disagree 👍
Titus 3:9

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 6:21pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
You have been the one having a narrow view of the word "religion" to mean strictly following a set of rules.
James 1:27 below is for your daily activities which it refers to as a religion.

King James Bible
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

New International Version
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

1+1= a) 2
1+1= b) 1 + c) 1
To you: 1+1=a(encompassing)✅

To me: 1+1 = b+ c✅

We can't all use same method.

Titus 3:9

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 4:47pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
Oga be open minded. Read below.

Titus 3:9
We agree to disagree👍

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 4:44pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
You are just being funny. You claimed that religion is worship and great devotion to God. How you are separating your day to day activities and way of life from great devotion and worship to God that makes up your definition of religion makes me wonder if you are truly a Christian. I have asked you severally if there are day to day aspect of our lives that are outside the scope of belief in God and the worship and great devotion to God, but you've been unable to mention any. So I still wonder how your day to day activities can be separated from the obvious religion that you are practicing which is Christianity.

2Timothy 2:14

We agree to disagree 👍

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 2:04pm On Oct 07, 2025

AngelahFlo:
People will always wanna agree with their own preconceived logic. Truth is when you place "Religion" beside what "True Christianity " really is, then you'll understand that Christianity is more than just a religion but someone like Mr Truthseeker and several others will never understand this so they keep hammering at it. How can you explain to someone who's mind is set in one direction that something ain't what they believe it to be?

Religion definition isn't wrong in what constitutes a religion in the broad sense of taking all religions in the world into account but limited specificaly in scope to Christianity when people take that meaning literally on the surface.

I know so many young or even older people I will show that definition of religion and it will limit their scope of what Christianity entails..

How we practice it is much more important than the name we give it..
If Religion works for him and he tries to do right as Christ did ..fine and good.
If way of life or Lifestyle works for us and we try to do as Christ did ..
fine and good.

What we call a way of life, he calls religion based on the English definition. That's OK by me. The koko is he understands the context.
Na linguistics, synonym, semantics,etc we dey argue which is a bit irrelevant.

We can agree to disagree with him on that.

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 1:38pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
are you implying that the lifestyle of Christ is not a religion? If yes, how come "Christianity" is a religion?

Thoughtful and reflective question I just say.

My response is found in Matthew 5:17
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them".
Jesus isn't creating sth new.
He was born a Jew and died a Jew.
He wasn't reckoned to have broken any Jewish law where he was challenged by the elites of his time.
In all, his decisions prevailed.

He came to unravel the nuances within the same old law that has been blinded by fixed religion adherents as held by the Pharisees of his time.(Matthew 5:20).

1 Like

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 12:57pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
So you agree with your definition of religion that Christianity is fully a religion?

chimex38:
.......
.....
It is a way of life to me..
Its how I have chosen to live it with my day to day decisions.
..............
........

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 12:42pm On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
Does your way of life and how you treat people not include great devotion and worship to God as you have defined "religion"?

context wise, which is much more important.👇

chimex38:
Exactly, we are on the same page here.
...........
.......

Definition:
We can agree to disagree on definition(w.r.t Christianity)

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 10:59am On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
So are you now agreeing that Christianity is fully a religion?

It's English, and semantics we are now arguing here..

It is a way of life to me..
Its how I have chosen to live it with my day to day decisions and interactions with majority of people I come across.

Dictionary definition of religion doesn't do a good job when it comes to christianity.
But it's good enough for religion definition in general but can be limited in practicing Christianity for a novice and naive folk.

If you are smart enough to include all nuances and term it religion, and it works for you, that's good enough for me.
It's not about me and you.

But for the greater majority of Christians which is of greater concern, that definition is literal and limited
(w.r.t Christianity).
They need much more context.

Christianity Etc › Re: I'd Rather Follow Jesus Than The Devil. by chimex38: 10:36am On Oct 07, 2025

Truthseeker10:
You are funny. I never told you to uphold the mosaic law like the Pharisees.
The problem you have is that you are limiting the word religion to rituals.
If you say Christianity is a way of life, is there a way of life that we should live that is not part of our worship and devotion to God as you have defined to be what "Religion" is?
What exactly is this "much more" that you are referring to that is outside "worship and devotion to God"?

Exactly, we are on the same page here.
The problem is that English definition or probably my interpretation which I believe majority will fall under same interpretation as well.
It says it's a systemic way of worship and great devotion.
Which by my interpretation sounds rigid and dogmatic and limits the scope of actual practice of Christianity.

But if you include all the nuances of Christianity as your religion , then we are good. It's just a matter of definition.

But I try to separate the nuances as a way of life rather than including it as part of a religion when discussing with people.

Someone missed a Sunday service, helped a friend to hospital, another cooked for that hospitalized friend, etc..
All of a sudden, they are praying to God to confess and forgive them because they didn't keep the Sabbath holy by attending Sunday service and dwelling much of the day in activities directly related to religious worship as they usually do...(become used to the fixed and systemic way of worship).

When they had simply lived a good Christian life-->way of life approved by the Lord.

#peace

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 (of 119 pages)