A death note is a fictional book that allows you to kill anyone in the world just by writing their name in it. It works only when you write the person's name while thinking about them. This prevents you from killing multiple people who might share that name. The death note also allows you to chose how the person dies and the exact time the person dies.


If you found such a book, would you use it? If no, why not? If yes, whose name(names) would you write in it and why?

Melian:


Is pdp not a party?

The results are called out alphabetically. Since APC begins with the letter 'A' and PDP with letter 'P' and giving the slew of "irrelevant" political parties between the letter A and P that need to be called, there will definitely be a time gap between when APC results will be posted and that of PDP.

So calm down. Everything no be fight.

Olalan:
Most men seems to love women BTW 22 and 27........

The data says 20 - 24. My preference is 21 - 24

The data on what age most men find attractive seems to be reinforced by the comments on this thread. What this means is that for women once they exceed the age of 25 they depreciate in attractiveness by a huge margin.

Here is the data for women.

Here is the data according to reliable research on the subject conducted by Statistical analyst and co-founder of dating app Okcupid. He elaborated on this in his book Dataclysm.

For men.

LordReed:


YES! And many times yes! There is no reason you can't continue to create beauty if the only things you experience are beautiful. Like the cake ice cream example even with cakes you have chocolate, red velvet, cheesecake, vanilla, etc all different flavours.

Here are some synonyms of compassion: solicitude, solicitousness, sensitivity, tender-heartedness, soft-heartedness, warm-heartedness, warmth. None of these require suffering to activate them.

If humans lived without dying they would have found a way to live with an increasing population without exploding. First, the reason people want children the most is to live vicariously in their children even after death. With that pressure off I imagine that people would take longer to have children. Another reason people wanted lots of children was to aid in the acquisition of resources more quickly, that pressure would also be nonexistent.

Do you agree that profound music and works of art that evoke feelings of sadness and grief are a product of evil? If yes wouldn't such profound experiences be unachievable without the existence of evil?

What's the dictionary definition of compassion? You mustn't try to defend an argument even though you know it is wrong. Sometimes it's wiser to just admit you are wrong.
According to Merriam-Webster dictionary: Compassion is a feeling of wanting to help someone who is sick, hungry, introuble, etc. According to Oxford dictionary: Compassion is a strong feeling of sympathy for people who are suffering. Compassion isn't the equivalent of those words you got out of some wack thesaurus. The only word synonymous with compassion is sympathy.

I don't think living vicariously in their children after death is the only reason people have children. Most people find joy in parenthood, especially women. To be honest, I find this line of argument weird and terribly disturbing because there are just so many potholes that I don't even see the point in addressing because they all suggest that the group of people that you are referring to aren't even humans. If humans live for ever how do they age? At what age do they stop aging? If humans can wait as long as they want to have kids, how about the menopausal cycle in women? How about menstruation? That's pretty uncomfortable for women. If pain and discomfort don't exist, does menstruation also not exist? If women don't menstruate anymore, then how do their reproductive systems work? Are these people you are referring to even humans? At the end it just seems that your argument is that God shouldn't have created humans in the first place.

LordReed:


All evil could have been made not to exist and we would still experience profundity.

Compassion is only a subset of the emotion your experience when you contemplate profundity. I feel compassion every time I look at a baby, the baby may even be sleeping evincing no pain of any kind I'd still experience compassion. Why? Because I am contemplating the beauty of the life in such a tiny package.

Wow so the only way your god can think of to keep the population at sustainable levels is to introduce death and disease? Your god must lack intelligence. There are several ways that even a human can think of maintaining stable populations talk less of a god.

Dude in a universe without pain, evil or death what will be the point of getting hurt or how would one even get hurt?

Oh I'm sorry I thought you are religious. I apologise for the assumption.

Do you think we would experience the same profundity that leads to the creation and perception of beautiful music and astonishing works of art if we didn't experience bad emotions that are usually a product of suffering? For most people the best kind of music are the ones that are so powerful that they evoke emotions of sadness and grief. Take for instance Beethoven's Midnight Sonata or for a more contemporary song, Adele's Someone like you. This sort of profundity wouldn't exist if evil didn't exist.

Compassion by definition is sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. How can you feel compassion for a baby that isn't suffering or experiencing misfortune?

How can you keep an ever increasing population of humans at sustainable levels without the existence of death, especially given how long humans have been on this earth?

My argument on the physiological benefit of pain was just an aside argument for people who weren't opposed to the existence of death but were opposed to the existence of pain.

LordReed:


I am not using cake and ice cream to represent good and evil, I am represent only good. I would prefer to have only good than a supposed contrast that evil brings. If an powerful god created this universe it could have created one without evil and it would still be a profound and meaningful one.

Its a lie to say you need to have evil to have compassion and love, that pain and death are necessary parts of the human experience. We would still be human if didn't have pain and death because our situation then would be our experience and we would still be human. Just not what we know as human now.

I find it funny how religious people say pain and death are necessary to the universe but yet dream of a heaven or Paradise where such don't exist, yet when challenged they deny the possibility of living without pain and death. Do you not see how you contradict yourself?

Can you give me an example of what you consider as evil that an almighty God shouldn't have created?

How then can you express compassion towards someone if the experiences that evoke compassion are tied to pain and suffering that wouldn't exist if evil didn't exist? You really think that we would be human if we didn't experience pain or death? If we can't die then that would mean that our lives are infinite. If our lives are infinite, then do we age? If we can't age then are we human? If we can never die then the world would be inhabitable as a result of overpopulation. One of the benefits of diseases and death is that it maintains the balance of nature, population wise. If no one ever dies then the world would be extremely overpopulated and uninhabitable and life would be unbearable.

I hope you realize that pain is also useful when you consider it from a physiological perspective. If us as human beings didn't experience pain, then we wouldn't know when we have hurt parts our anatomy or done damage to our bodies and internal organs and we would just die without being aware we are dying. In this case pain is actually a good thing.

Where did I say that I was religious or that I believed in heaven and hell as literal places?

LordReed:


I do not agree with your summation. If the only actions possible are what we would call good then what would happen is we would not have a scale where we labelled any action good or evil. There is no requirement that makes evil necessary. It is just like saying if I present you a choice between ice cream and cake and you choose cake you really didn't make a choice because both options were good.

Yes I would want a life devoid of all evil, pain and suffering because I can appreciate the difference between cake and ice cream.

I don't think your cake and ice cream analogy relates to the subject of this discussion. You can't use cake and ice cream to represent good and evil.

There is a difference between a life devoid of evil and a life devoid of the possibility for evil, which I referred to. Of course almost anyone would want a life devoid of evil, but such a life would only be meaningful and worth living if this absence of evil, though highly improbable, was reached whilst the propensity for evil still existed. And this would be especially true if we were talking about evil in the context of malevolence; which is evil that results from the actions of man. A life devoid of the possibility of evil would lack everything that makes you human and everything that adds meaning to life. Say humans aren't able to commit evil. Let's say humans didn't have the ability to do bad to other humans. Then good wouldn't exist because good only exists in direct contrast to evil. And if good doesn't exist then the emotions that accompany good actions, both those felt by the person doing good and the person receiving the good action, wouldn't also exist along with the forces that motivate good actions such as love and compassion. If you can't lie then truth has no value. If you can't kill then human life has no value. If sadness can't exist then happiness has no value.

Humans wouldn't be able to create or invent or engage in meaningful activities that have proven to make human life worthwhile like creating inspiring art, music or writing that depict the full gamut of human experience, which always includes periods of suffering. So all the great books, music and work of art that have inspired to growth of human civilization wouldn't exist. Civilization as we know it would also not exists since evil forces like hunger, terrible weather conditions and greed were what led to the rise of civilization in the first place.

A life devoid of the possibility of evil is a life devoid of the capacity for compassion and the genuine expression of love. The fact that we are vulnerable is one of the things that makes us human. The reason we experience death, diseases or feel excruciating pain is because we are human and we have limitations. If evil doesn't exist, then we cease to be vulnerable and we cause to possess limitations and we cease to be human.

A life devoid of the possibility of evil would be an utterly boring, mundane and repetitive life because an absence of the possibility of evil means an absence of suffering and an absence of suffering means a life of absolute comfort. If life is always comfortable then what's the motivation to make our lives better or do anything at all?

johnydon22:


What is evil?

Evil is the cause of unnecessary harm to humans. You can classify in into malevolence and tragedy. Tragedy involves the forces of nature that aren't within the control of humans that cause harm to humans such as natural disasters and disease, while malevolence involves the intended actions of man that cause unnecessary harm to humans, such as murder, rape, wars etc.

Dami12345:


Try reading the posts on the religion threads, they will help.

Have you finished reading your bible. You should, both the old and new testament.

Are there things about God that feel weird?

On the hell fire thing,
It seems a God who can do anything, wouldn't bother to create an hell fire, he could just unmake the bad souls right.

Why stop there, why not destroy the source of all evil once and for all.
But that brings another question, if God created the devil and the devil became bad, how is it possible for God who is everything and can do anything , to make something and it becomes evil .

Does this mean there is another entity out there that has power on par with God and can corrupt his works?

Or is God the embodiment of good and evil?

This a few to think on.

If there is no allowance of the existence for evil how then can good exist? If the beings created by God aren't created with the propensity to commit evil how then can they commit good since good is the antithesis of evil. For good to have value, then evil most be an alternative.

If God destroys evil once and for all, what makes you think that a life devoid of the possibility for evil is one that you'd want to live? If evil doesn't exist and that includes, pain, suffering death, ugliness, wars etc, then how can you appreciate life, happiness, pleasure, beauty and peace?

Jayslicky:
wife rapes only exist in western world but in Africa it's a no, how can a man rape his wife who he had paid her bride price. Any African woman complaining that her husband raped her is crazy, if someone buys a thing he can choose to use it the way he pleases, maybe if paying of bride price is stopped she can then have a lawful society.

I don't agree with anything you just said and I don't think that paying the bride price of a woman represents that the woman is now the property of the husband. But for the sake of argument let's say that it's true. Would you as a man regard your wife as a mere property given that the fact that you married her indicates that you love and respect her? And if you love and respect your wife, why then would you require that she engages in sex with you whenever you want regardless of her mood or how she feels in the moment? Isn't that tantamount to abuse? Why would you abuse someone you love and respect?

The only way to avoid experiencing a breakup is to not get into a serious relationship with anyone. But if you are in a serious relationship then don't expect so much from anyone. Humans are imperfect and deeply flawed and a lot of our actions are controlled by subconscious processes that we aren't aware of. Understand that love fades away and people get bored of their partners. Only a naive person would take any of the promises of their partners(or any other human being at all)seriously.

Third.

Fourteen88:
Why do Africans have hostility towards Caucasians when it's Western/Caucasian countries and cities that Africans flock to? Nobody is rushing off to live in any part of Africa except the Chinese, and they're only there for natural resources.

Fact is, if Caucasians disappeared overnight then the world would be thrust into chaos.

If Africans or blacks disappeared overnight, the world would continue to function like normal, but with a higher GDP since there won't be any more uneducated refugees or migrants flooding in from the African continent.

What if African hostility towards the west derives from a justifiable reason would you still be appalled/surprised by it?

OggaJewga:
It is not white people but the jews which I do not like.

Why don't you like Jews?

Amakababe:
shut up.
Don't derail this thread with homo arguments pls.

Is this your version of being deliberately rude to a guy to gain his attention?

Try harder.

Amakababe:
what brought homosexuality talk here na?

I was responding to someone that brought the subject up. Ask him.

ComputerOperato:


And you are a rude, uninformed individual trying to justify your awkward sexual orientation.
Now I know two things
1) You don't read. I told you about discussing without insults.
2) You are gay hence trying to justify your behaviour

I am am academician. This is a public forum so I won't say more than that.

Finally, since you are uncouth, I will ignore you henceforth.

I'm not a homosexual but I certainly don't discriminate on the basis of someone's sexual orientation as long as they aren't inflicting harm on anyone.

Let's say that I don't read. Okay. You are the one that reads. Now from all your reading give me a verifiable source that states that in precolonial & prechristian African societies homosexuality was proscribed as it is today.

If stating the obvious is tantamount to insults then so be it. Who cares what you are. I couldn't care less if you were an academician or a morgue worker. What matters to me is how well you can defend your claims. And you have done a very terrible job at that.

Your ignoring me is respite from the frustrating experience of responding to a handwaving homophobic sissy who argues without facts.

ComputerOperato:


The article was written by a Nigerian gay man. And I actually read some of the cited sources.
Nothing substantial.

He was just trying to justify his gay behaviour.

How about the book I mentioned that's an actual academic source? Did you read it too?

Again, I am willing to change my opinion completely if you provide me with a source that refutes these academic sources. All you have done since is just dismiss any research negating your view without even basing your dismissal on any verifiable historical information. You aren't a historian neither are you an anthropologist. You are just a handwaving, uninformed dismisser of information that doesn't support your worldview.