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What does it mean when a girl tells a guy: "I care about you ALOT."

I have a sister who has a boyfriend. Her boyfriend is also a good friend of mine and my parents already know him. During this covid-19 break my sister has been living in my house and I've noticed that she is usually on the phone with a guy who isn't her boyfriend. If she isn't on the phone with him she will be exchanging voice messages on WhatsApp with him. I've asked her who this guy is and she says he is just a friend. But her communication with this guy is becoming too much and sometimes she talks with him till 1 - 2 am in the midnight.

Should I talk to her boyfriend about it?

interesting.

Network is back in Lagos.

Slimszy:
Same here

Davash222:
Thank God. I'm glad now. I was thinking my village people don locate my phone.

surgebitcoin:
Experience it also.

Tocynone:
Same here

Where do you guys stay?

I stay in Lagos.

I was browsing with my Airtel sim this morning around 4am and the signal just disappeared. After a few hours it reappeared but the data connection hasn't appeared since. I haven't been able to browse with my Airtel sim since 4am up until now. 4G, 3G and even Edge isn't browsing.

Please who else is experiencing this? Was there a warning from Airtel that this would happen?

Kiddogarcia:
that guy is good,but have watched him play,am sorry to say he's lazy.for you to win slams,you need strength to go the distance.wawrinka is not a triple grandslam winner because of his talent,is because of hardwork and strength to play for hours.he has a good chance if he dosen't meet nadal,and all those five set specialist,gael monfils,kevin anderson,marin cilic early in the competition.

Tsitsipas hasn't shown any hint of laziness lately. If anyone has a shot at winning this French open asides the big 3 it's him and Thiem. He beat Nadal in Madrid, and could beat him here in Paris. Nadal wasn't very convincing against Goffin yesterday.

Anderson doesn't have a good record on clay and has been injured since the AO. Marin Cilic is a shadow of his former self and has already been knocked out by Dimitrov. Tsitsipas already beat Monfils in Dubai this year and Monfils is always struggling with one injury or the other.

Thiem was losing 2-0 and finally decided to show his true colours. Now leading 5-2. A challenger level player like Cuevas is no match for Thiem when he decides to really play.

Seun:
There's a thread for that: www.nairaland.com/5208623/french-open-2019-atp

Okay, didn't know this.

vandertommy:
you have a point though, I just don't want those "big guys" to win it. Another strong contender is A. Zverev, just that he's too arrogant

The only other strong contenders for the french open besides the big three are Tsitsipas and Dominic Thiem. Tsitsipas has defeated Nadal already on clay this season and he beat Federer at the Australian Open. Thiem has a good h2h against Nadal on clay. He beat Nadal in Barcelona this year and he beat Federer in the finals of the Miami Open this year.

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Seun:
Yeah. Wow, Osaka got broken again. Siniakova is serving for the match at 5 - 2, and leading. I can't believe this is happening.

To be honest I expected this outcome. She played terribly against Azarenka. Her only saving grace was that Azarenka's serving was awfully bad.

Bye bye Osaka. Can't wait to see you drop out of the top 20 after failing to defend 4000 slam points.

Osaka collapsing like the Berlin wall..

Seun:
I think she's not taking her opponent seriously. She should defeat an opponent at this level in 2 sets. Even now (2- 2), Naomi hasn't broken her.

She should take a player like Siniakova seriously. Remember Siniakova just defeated an in form power hitting Sakkari. Siniakova is Top 30 quality and can be dangerous when she's in her groove and I'm sure Osaka and her coaching team are aware of this.

I just think Osaka isn't investing much in the first set as she does in the second and third. Maybe that's her strategy. But it will hurt her when she applies this sort of strategy to clutch players. Players like Bertens and Kvitova would fry Osaka's ass if she plays like she's been playing this tournament.

Swaitek not showing any of the fire she showed when she demolished cute Wang. Currently being roasted 4-0 by Monica Puig, one of the few non-black WTA players with a nice ass.

Osaka has lost the first set of every match she's played this tournament. She's lucky this has been against a lesser talented player like Schmiedlova and a poor serve like Azarenka. She wouldn't have made it so far had it been against players like Petra Martic and Vondrosova Marketa who seem to tune themselves to God-mode in the second set after winning the first.

Osaka is a joke. Losing 5-4 but up 40-0 on Siniakova's serve but still doesn't convert. Then she had a break at deuce and still didn't convert. Then loses the set.

Dimitrov was down 2 - 0 against Wawarinka and up 6-2 in the tie break of the 3rd set, then proceeded to lose the tie-break 8-6. What a choker.

Seun:
At 4 - 4, Osaka faced two break points and defended them successfully. Then she threw away another point and is now losing 5 - 4. Yikes.

She was still broken in the end, after failing to convert 6 break points.

Petra Matric might actually win this tournament. She demolished an in form Mladenovic in straight sets and today defeated Pliskova in straight sets. Martic has also won 13 of her 15 matches on clay this season, dropping only 11 games in her last 3 matches. She's my bet to win this year's French open.

crackhaus:
Deuteronomy 20:10
. " When you go near a city to fight against it, then proclaim an offer of peace to it.

Deuteronomy 20:11
. "And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace, and open to you, then all the people [who are] found in it shall be placed under tribute to you, and serve you.

*(The verse above [20:11] is NOT akin to slavery, it's called 'COLONIZATION')*. Take Note.

Deuteronomy 20:12
. "Now if [the city] will not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.

Deuteronomy 20:13
. "And when the LORD your God delivers it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword.

Deuteronomy 20:14
. "But the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder [take] for yourself; and you shall eat the enemies' plunder which the LORD your God gives you.


Dude if you don't have all the information, please desist from quoting me with Google knowledge.
Go read the rules of war as stated in all iterations of the Geneva Conventions and you will see the similarities with the rules of engagement as stated in the book of Deuteronomy (It is extensive and goes as far as chapter 23).
Every other sovereign territory/country has followed similar patterns from before the time of Sun Tzu to the present.

Here is the summary of the Geneva convention rules of war.

1. No targeting of civilians.
2. No torture or inhumane treatment of detainees
3. No attacking of hospitals or aid centers.
4. Provision of safe passage for civilians to flee
5. Provision of access to humanitarian organizations.
6. No unnecessary or excessive loss or suffering.

All the verses you quoted break all these rules. How is this even an argument? Chapter 20:14 clearly states to kill every male. This goes against the NO TARGETING OF CIVILIANS RULE.

How dare you quote laws that instruct the killing of civilians and the allowance of slave ownership and the selfish plundering of the conquered nations resources, and draw a similarity between it and the rules of the Geneva convention that are humanitarian in intent? Are you high?

By the way, Deuteronomy 20:11 endorses slavery, not colonization. It's clearly says to make conquered people SERVE you.

crackhaus:
I decided to engage you on this despite the rudeness in your earlier comment, because I was so sure you would end up making my point for me.

First point:
I never said GRRM's work is based on the bible or Sun Tzu's work. I said the Art of War is something that has been laid down for ages so i understand why there is a cessation of hostilities to allow for discussing terms of surrender.

Second point:
If you have truly read the Art of War, the Deuteronomy account of the rules of war, and any other historical book that talks about war tactics, you would most certainly have seen how they all look the same.
The laws of war as stated in the Geneva Convention also looks the same as that in Deutoronomy, you can go confirm that if you want.

The esteemed and renowned people who gathered to pen down the war guidelines in the Geneva convention didn't think the Deuteronomy account was just a fairytale before incorporating it therein, so what you believe or don't believe about the bible doesn't just matter at all in the grand scheme of things.

Cheers

No. Your initial argument was that the modern day Art of War which Game of Thrones relies on in its story telling was derived from the bible and dictated by God as evidenced in Deuteronomy and I called bullshit on that claim. Here are your exact words:

"Starting from the Bible which the modern day
'Act of War' based its principles on, God instructed the
israelites on what to do before engaging in war, who to kill,
what to kill, who to enslave etc. (Deuteronomy 20:10, reading
the entire chapter is advisable)"

No. The rules of war in all historical societies don't look the same. The rules of law of the Mongols, also known as the Yassa, was different from that of the Islamic and Persian. territories they conquered. The rules of war of the Visigoths was different from that of the Romans. Rules of war have always differed across cultures and geographical territories, and some weren't even laid at all. Whatever similarities they share are almost negligible when put up against the weight of their differences.

NO. HELL NO. The rules of war that was crafted in Geneva IS NOT SIMILAR to the rules dictated in Deuteronomy or Leviticus or Numbers or Exodus. This is palpably absurd. How can you even make this sort of claim? The Israelites were a genocidal group of warriors. Their rules of war given to them by their God allowed for wiping out of entire nations, including the murder of children and babies. The Geneva war guidelines doesn't even allow for killing of unarmed civilians, let alone ethnic cleansing which was endorsed by the God of the Israelites. The Geneva guidelines also prohibit the capture of unarmed civilians and the use of them as slaves. But the rules of war of the Israelites allowed for the enslavement of members of the conquered territories. Whatever similarity is shared between the Geneva guidelines and the Deuteronomy account doesn't admit of a causal relationship between the two, but rather the presence within the biblical myth of commonsensical notions of war that any society could have come up with through military experience.

crackhaus:
Since you're more historically accurate than I am, please enlighten me on when the 'Art of War' was written by Sun Tzu and compare it to the time in history when the events of Deutoronomy 20 occurred.

First of all, GGRM's game of thrones is based off of medieval Europe, not on the Exodus account in the bible or Sun Tzu's writing. Whatever military style and tactics you see is based on what was common in Medieval Europe. Besides, Sun Tzu's writing is based off of Chinese strategy and Chinese military thought.

Tzu wrote the art of war around 6th century BC while the Deuteronomy account, although not backed by consensus among historians, is purported to have occurred over 900 years before the art of war was written.

So how does the bible account in Deuteronomy have anything to do with Game of thrones?

crackhaus:
I saw where Seun also brought this up, the explanation is simple.

The act of war says there must always be provision and allowance for terms of surrender before engaging in battle. During this period, there is always a cessation of hostilities until after the discussion has broken down and no side wants to stand down. Starting from the Bible which the modern day 'Act of War' based its principles on, God instructed the israelites on what to do before engaging in war, who to kill, what to kill, who to enslave etc. (Deuteronomy 20:10, reading the entire chapter is advisable)

Even in real life, every war that has been fought on earth since those laws were put in place always follows it accordingly. There are those who go against them though, which is what is referred to as 'War Crimes' - something the Targeryans are guilty of and why the Westerosi are skeptical allowing a dragon rider to rule them again since Dragons usually destroy everything and everyone in their path.

Lol. The act of war was based on the bible? What a pile of nonsense. Seriously though, have you ever read any history book at all? There is more to history than some half-proven Jewish mythology. It irks me when Nigerians only make reference to the bible when trying to make a historical argument.

Deepfeel:
the point you made is pointless

Okay.

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fineboynl:
what a wasteful generation

Hypocrite.