₦airaland Forum

plaetton:
This one is golden.

It is indeed sad when a person approaches the light, and then, afraid of the same light, turns back to the darkness.

I wonder what ever happened to this young poster .

I think we broke him.

akigbemaru:
a man stabbed neighbour over witchcraft allegation.

No sh!t.

akigbemaru:
a man stabbed neighbour over witchcraft allegation.

No shit.

They're free to practise their religions but please keep them out of our laws.

We seriously need to remove the religious slant in our laws. Laws are meant to protect people's rights, not a bunch of arbitrary rules ripped from a book that was written thousands of years ago. Just let people do what they want as long as they aren't infringing on the rights of others.

Genesis tells us that there is water above sky. As in, it tells us that the sky is like a solid canopy with water above it. I don't think that your definition of science is in line with the general definition of it.

I'm not even surprised anymore. People will say anything.

The same way you fight vampires, duh! /s

jadeus:
Show me how. Don't just tell me to believe without giving evidence.

God exists because it's written in the bible and the bible says that the bible is always true. Discussion closed! /s

jadeus:
Show me how. Don't just tell me to believe without giving evidence.

God exists because it's written in the bible and the bible says that the bible it always true. Discussion closed! /s

You shall not wear cloth of mixed fabrics - Deut. (22:11)

UyiIredia:
You are so damn naive. Jazz is secondary. Strength of character is far more important than the ability to do miracles. I suggest you go back to the Bible, read up on all the miracles God did and how people remained rebellious and unbelieving.

Seeing is believing to me. I'm not a closed-minded person. If I see incontrovertible evidence of God or gods, at least I know that I'll believe. But since his miracles are limited to stories, I just can't believe.

UyiIredia:
So there must be fake atheists.

Nah bro, I was just joking around. I really don't care about 'real' or 'fake'.

UyiIredia:
Go to your nearest Christ Embassy branch and ask if they'll play videos of Pastor Chris performing miracles like healing , casting out demons etc. If so, go to the church, watch and evaluate the evidence for yourself.

I'll like to see him heal an amputee. You know? Something that is very difficult to fake onscreen.

UyiIredia:
Jazz is for real. This ain't cheap parlor tricks that involve sleights of hand. The problem is not with the (not stage magicians) but with you and your irrational doubts and fears.

I'm not scared of anything. I'm just like, if you're so strong let people see. If you do jazz to fly for example, fly around the country so people all over can come and patronize you.

UyiIredia:
Critical thinking isn't materialistic thinking please.

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Pdizzle:

You don't have to see jazz on video, there are a lot of festivals that go down in the South West, you can attend one. I really wish i had the genuine atheists view of ATR

B-b-but I'm a genuine atheist .

Dudes like me can't come all the way from Abuja to the South West, unfortunately. So, if these guys are so confident in their abilities; then, they should film that their work in action.

Street magicians pull off tricks all the time, but they don't claim that they are real. Hypnotists make people do stuff but they never claim to have any power. But in Nigeria, when a dude does a little parlour trick everybody is completely sold on his 'powers'.

Critical thinking is something that's seriously lacking in this part of the world.

osesology:
These occurences signals the second coming of Christ. Matt 24 summarizes my arguement.
But of course how can you believe in what the Bible says when you do not believe in the ONE that inspired it. All I can tell you is REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND!

You just shot yourself in the foot by bringing up that passage. Yes, everybody should read up to verse 34; I won't give any spoilers though.

Pdizzle:
Well you're talking about the placebo effect, but i think jazz and the ATC is more than that due to the processes, ingredients and initiations. Can you put your mind over matter and stand in front of a dane gun or pscyche yourself up and let me axe you with a UTC?

Thanks for the kind offer but I'll have to politely decline. I'm just saying that I want to see jazz on video in a way that can't be explained.

osesology:
Atheists will always be atheists. When things are going well, they say its as a result of natural occurences but when tragedy strikes they start chanting on top of their voices ``where is the God that you serve''! In the new testament (the book of acts to be precised) the early christians faced a lot of trials and tribulations. Some where imprisoned, some where matyred but that didn't stop the gospel of the Lord from spreading throughout the whole world just as Christ predicted. I believe that everyone is entitled to his or her own belief, so atheists can go to hell and lay down their complaint to the devil their father for all I care. Afterall this is their world not ours.

The butthurt is real.

Pdizzle:
Now you're being sceptical, even though they play with our mind, it works. I have heard of an accident in which the driver disappeared, also seen live Sango stage play magic. Are you yoruba, have you heard of 'egbé'

Jazz is very powerful in stories but when the camera crew comes along it is explained quite easily. I remember when National Geographic was still a quality network, they did a documentary on all those guys who use 'jazz' to stab themselves and feel no pain. The theory was that it was the power of the mind can sometimes translate to the body.

For example, if a person is having aches, dctors give them sugar pills and lie that they are painkillers and sure enough, it works. So to test it out the guy National Geographic guy who was doing the investigation convinced himself that he could do all these stuff, so he psyched himself up and stabbed himself through the cheek with no pain.

Nothing supernatural after all, just mind over matter.

Pdizzle:
Come to think of it, these are different people in different geographical locations. What if Sango is Amadioha and Amadioha is Zeus. People still worship them today and it still works for them.

But where was their jazz when the whites attacked?

Ajibam:
But you can abort any baby to control birth..

Better to terminate a baby that was never born than to have more than you can take care of. So, abortion may not be perfect but it's the only alternative.

whatis1god:
In as much as I extend my sympathy to the people of paris
I don't believe the hypocrites called Christians should even point accusing finger because u people brought us where we are today.
From killing innocent people both adults and babies to raping innocent girls and women and raping us financially.
Therefore, let all the Christians keep mute and lets hear from the atheist in the house not the hypocritic christians.
In fact, christians are the worst beast that ever evolved in this world. They are our misfortune.
1. Who killed 6-7 million jews?
ANS= Europpian christians
2. Who gave us colonization in both africa and in asia?
NOTE: during this period our ancestors were continually killed. Their wives and daughters raped at gun point.
No wonder, wole soyinka referred to them in one of his poetry as "people who knows all book but never know the book of love".
Were they muslim? No!
were they atheist? No!
ANS= Europian Christians

3. The LRA in Uganda, Congo DR, and South sudan that had claimed so many lives since eighties to date with the help of holy spirit. Who are they?
Muslims? Hell No!
Atheist? Shit No!
Ans= black christians

4. The Crusaders.
Were they Atheist?No
Hindu? No!
Muslim? No!
ANS= christians

The Spanish inquisition, the Portuguese inquisition just to mention but few were not authored by any other religion but Christians.

Check their bible, its so filled with hates, sexism, rape, killing of innocent babies all in the name of religion.
So you think you have the effrontry to not make a mute when the word terrorism is being mentioned?
Pls give me a <br />
These are just few among the terrorist act displayed in the bible.
KILL OTHER BELIEVERS
2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB
(Exodus 22:19 NAB)
(Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT
(Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)

So just keep quiet
Even the gun those animals called ISIS use are made and given to them by this same Europian christians
are you so daft to say you didn't know that?
Hypocrites everywhere

But ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Boko Haram, and the cunts responsible for the Paris attacks aren't christian organizations. We don't see christians, hindus, buddhists, or atheists beheading those who disagree with them, do we? Seriously you so-called 'moderate muslims' should spend more time taking a stand against these extremists instead of trying to justify violence by showing how other religions are bad.

More like religion of piece: a piece of you here, a piece of you there, and pieces everywhere.

Medicis:
THE ATHEIST AND THE MUSLIM... Birds of a feather. One says God is false and the other believes in a false god.

Please don't insult atheists. We don't want to kill everybody that doesn't agree with us.

KingEbukasBlog:
UyiIredia , did you notice that he didn't refute your post ? Instead he attacked your personality and made false claims - sums up their conspicuous low intellectual capacity , every single one of them .

You do realize that you're doing the exact same thing, right?

winner01:
Epic!!!! It helps him live through each day. Youve simply but precisely described his situation.
I mean who dosent let go of his pasts

Its like spending your whole life stalking your Ex day in day out. Its that serious.

Shows that theres a scar somewhere that hasn't healed up completely. He's really fighting it. I still maintain that it might be sexual abuse. Such experiences leave a long lasting and ever fresh scars.

Unfortunately for him, nairaland is where where he will ever get to make all his noise.

I wont be surprised if his family is unaware of his atheistic beliefs, same goes for many of them. I only hope they get to show this level of concern for the "ignorance" of their relatives. Shebi charity begins at home


"How else can you fight God but to pretend He doesn't exist?" - Chris Bowyer


Concerning this dumb thread, as much as i would love to reply on the issue of forbidden knowledge, i wouldnt do that here. Ill probably create a new thread on that for those whose hearts are open and receptive to answers and not just for some hate-filled mockers.

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Pyrrho:
"soon"? after how many years?

Around 2000. Even though Jesus said that his generation won't pass away before he comes back.

I probably would, because 'God' created me without a moral compass and somehow expected to know better. Imagine punishing a baby and all its descendants forever because the baby made a mistake! That's one fallacy in the biblical myth.

youngice:
This is a very welcome development
It has been observed that the rise is sex related crimes proportional with accessibility of pornographic content through various social medium

It's like you don't know India.

PRISTINEMUSCLES:
Almost all the posts here sound so repulsive. Damn, all these just shows that the end of the world is almost at hand.

JESUS CHRIST IS LORD

You guys have been saying that for 2000 years.

Oluwaseytiano:
Here is how the imaginary part is supposed to
happen: On rare occasions a mutation in DNA
improves a creature's ability to survive, so it is
more likely to reproduce (natural selection).
That is evolution's only tool for making new
creatures. It might even work if it took just
one gene to make and control one part. But
parts of living creatures are constructed of
intricate components with connections that all
need to be in place for the thing to work,
controlled by many genes that have to act in
the proper sequence. Natural selection would
not choose parts that did not have all their
components existing, in place, connected, and
regulated because the parts would not work.
Thus all the right mutations (and none of the
destructive ones) must happen at the same
time by pure chance. That is physically
impossible. To illustrate just how hopeless it
is, imagine this: on the ground are all the
materials needed to build a house (nails,
boards, shingles, windows, etc.). We tie a
hammer to the wagging tail of a dog and let
him wander about the work site for as long as
you please, even millions of years. The
swinging hammer on the dog is as likely to
build a house as mutation-natural selection is
to make a single new working part in an
animal, let alone a new creature.
Only mutations in the reproductive (germ)
cells of an animal or plant would be passed
on. Mutations in the eye or skin of an animal
would not matter. Mutations in DNA happen
fairly often, but most are repaired or
destroyed by mechanisms in animals and
plants. All known mutations in animal and
plant germ cells are neutral, harmful, or fatal.
But evolutionists are eternally optimistic. They
believe that millions of beneficial mutations
built every type of creature that ever existed.
Believing in beneficial mutations is like
believing a short-circuit in the motherboard of
your computer could improve its performance.
To make any lasting change, a beneficial
mutation would have to spread ("sweep"
through a population and stay (become
"fixed". To evolutionists, this idea has been
essential for so long that it is called a "classic
sweep", "in which a new, strongly beneficial
mutation increases in frequency to fixation in
the population." Some evolutionist researchers
went looking for classic sweeps in humans,
and reported their findings in the journal
Science. "To evaluate the importance of
classic sweeps in shaping human diversity, we
analyzed resequencing data for 179 human
genomes from four populations". "In humans,
the effects of sweeps are expected to persist
for approximately 10,000 generations or about
250,000 years." Evolutionists had identified
"more than 2000 genes as potential targets of
positive selection in the human genome", and
they expected that "diversity patterns in about
10% of the human genome have been affected
by linkage to recent sweeps." So what did they
find? "In contrast to expectation," their test
detected nothing, but they could not quite
bring themselves to say it. They said there
was a "paucity of classic sweeps revealed by
our findings". Sweeps "were too infrequent
within the past 250,000 years to have had
discernible effects on genomic diversity."
"Classic sweeps were not a dominant mode of
human adaptation over the past 250,000
years."

This is untrue. While gene mutations contribute to evolution, they are not the only the cause. Changes in the environment and isolation also cause animals to evolve differently.

Also, you should note that not every single trait that every living animal has is beneficial. For example, whale foetuses grow rudimentary hindlimbs which are then reabsorbed before birth. Furthermore, the human male's testicles develop in the body and then migrate to their final place eventually through the inguinal canal. These canals make men susceptible to hernias. If evolution was always beneficial then male testicles should form outside the body away from our body heat and without the risk of hernias.

Oluwaseytiano:
"Evolution" mixes two things together, one
real, one imaginary. Variation (microevolution)
is the real part. The types of bird beaks, the
colors of moths, leg sizes, etc. are variation.
Each type and length of beak a finch can have
is already in the gene pool and adaptive
mechanisms of finches. Creationists have
always agreed that there is variation within
species. What evolutionists do not want you
to know is that there are strict limits to
variation that are never crossed , something
every breeder of animals or plants is aware of.
Whenever variation is pushed to extremes by
selective breeding (to get the most milk from
cows, sugar from beets, bristles on fruit flies,
or any other characteristic), the line becomes
sterile and dies out. And as one characteristic
increases, others diminish. But evolutionists
want you to believe that changes continue,
merging gradually into new kinds of creatures.
This is where the imaginary part of the theory
of evolution comes in. It says that new
information is added to the gene pool by
mutation and natural selection to create frogs
from fish, reptiles from frogs, and mammals
from reptiles, to name a few.
Do these big changes (macroevolution) really
happen? Evolutionists tell us we cannot see
evolution taking place because it happens too
slowly. A human generation takes about 20
years from birth to parenthood. They say it
took tens of thousands of generations to form
man from a common ancestor with the ape,
from populations of only hundreds or
thousands. We do not have these problems
with bacteria. A new generation of bacteria
grows in as short as 12 minutes or up to 24
hours or more, depending on the type of
bacteria and the environment, but typically 20
minutes to a few hours. There are more
bacteria in the world than there are grains of
sand on all of the beaches of the world (and
many grains of sand are covered with
bacteria). They exist in just about any
environment: hot, cold, dry, wet, high pressure,
low pressure, small groups, large colonies,
isolated, much food, little food, much oxygen,
no oxygen, in toxic chemicals, etc.
There is much variation in bacteria. There are
many mutations (in fact, evolutionists say
that smaller organisms have a faster mutation
rate than larger ones 17). But they never turn
into anything new. They always remain
bacteria. Fruit flies are much more complex
than already complex single-cell bacteria.
Scientists like to study them because a
generation (from egg to adult) takes only 9
days. In the lab, fruit flies are studied under
every conceivable condition. There is much
variation in fruit flies. There are many
mutations. But they never turn into anything
new. They always remain fruit flies. Many
years of study of countless generations of
bacteria and fruit flies all over the world
shows that evolution is not happening today.

You know that microevolution never stops and eventually builds up into macroevolution right?

HCpaul:
Ok... Show me an evidence and i will belief the evolution theory.

Finally! My time to shine. You see the way bacteria eventually become resistant to antibiotics? That's natural selection in action in that situation.

A more specific example is the drought that occurred in Galapagos Islands back in '77. During the drought the supply of seeds was greatly reduced; now, a specie of bird called the finch which relied in small soft seeds for food had to turn to larger and harder seeds. As a result only the finches with larger beaks could get adequate food. By the next generation the size of finch beaks increased by 10%.

That's microevolution and basically all that a person can witness realtime in a lifetime. But let's not kid ourselves microevolution continues until we see radical changes. So, whether a person says micro- or macroevolution. It's all the same process, evolution