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Macro231101:
it doesn't matter, I never said I renounced, but I am on my own now doesn't mean if I see my brother I won't help or acknowledge him...

You said you are no longer a buccaneer bro. Those were your words not mine.

Seems you are undergoing an identity crisis.

May God lead you aright.

Chris525:
A lot of the founders meant well. I can say this for PC, BAN, NBM & SEC.

Truth is they were just too young, an ill-equipped to actualize what they had in mind. Rica sought to control mind of the individual. Which I'm sure he later realised was impossible.

How can you say they meant well when they engaged in murderous initiation rites and processes, did blood oaths and ordered hits that actual people were killed?

If the foundation be destroyed what can the righteous do?

If the foundation of a thing is wrong or dysfunctional you can actually predict its disastrous end. It's not rocket science.

They are not as smart and well-intended as you lot are trying so hard to paint them.

They were short sighted. Myopic. They lacked wisdom. They could not see far.

There is a way that seemeth right to a man but the end thereof is destruction and death.

Myopia. That's the diagnosis for the founding fathers' condition.

Macro231101:
I was a true buccaneer, I used d word 'Was' cause I'm no longer a buccaneer.... I adhere to everything cos I was a traditional buccaneer, I don't smoke, do drugs or indulge with anything Violent, concerning my academics I think bee the best in my dept proved that. Though I didn't graduate with a first class but finished with a strong upper

Perhaps you should also consider changing your moniker to make the renunciation more complete.

Sinistami:
Sure they did. But it's vice versa. Because of the high rate of vikings and it's splinter groups such as the Icelanders, Green landers, Red skin, outlaws etc influence in the south especially Rivers and Bayelsa the now newly invented language by the vikings is now rampant on every body's lips.

I understand the latter part too. The people have been encultured. I stayed in Rivers in the early 2000s during the Odili regime triggered Asari Dokubo-Ateke Tom cult war. What my eyes saw in PH and in the hinterlands my tongue cannot express.

Only God can save Rivers State now.

Sinistami:
LOL... Is this your uncle from the states of Rivers or Bayelsa or grew up in PH perhaps. People say it a lot there without being prosecuted.

No, he is Igbo and stays in the east. He was very popular back then and everyone called him Die the Matter. As a child I liked the sound of the name and when I was old enough, I got to know the meaning of the name(he has a very peaceful disposition to life and would use it to calm people and situations down).

We started using it and variants of it (die the matter/die it/die the issue/die the case) as teenagers. You can imagine my shock recently when a member of a WhatsApp group I am part of questioned my use of 'die it' in the group, implying that it was an exclusive preserve of a cult group. I was trying to de-escalate a contentious issue.

I was livid. Imagine the nonsense!

At least ndoeyopbennet has helped me solve the mystery. Vikings cobbled together street slangs from the east and south south and mixed it with sea faring language and nordic culture lingos and made it their own.

The wonders have ended.

Thanks ndoeyopbennet.

This is heart rending. Such a lovely couple. This will be hard for Pst Itua to bear.

May God comfort him and heal his heart.

RIP Ibidun Ighodalo

FrontRunner:
Does your uncle also shouts"SS ooo" or at other times "Wida you" or "Who goes"If he does,Guy, it's not normal.

Read and comprehend what I put up there and stop asking me nonsensical questions.

raptorsschedule:
The real MVP.

A year later there is no disputing which single player was most responsible for leading the Toronto Raptors to their first NBA title.

He was the Finals MVP and he plays for the Los Angeles Clippers now after a 12-month stint north of the border that will be forever legendary.

From his on-court production to the catalogue quirky quotes, Kawhi Leonard’s time as a Raptor was brief but almost impossibly impactful.

But on the anniversary of the Raptors championship, it might be worth putting Kyle Lowry’s contribution in a fuller context and recognizing the single player most responsible for turning the Raptors into a championship organization.

“He knows everything that is going on around him. Every single thing,” is Raptors president Masai Ujiri’s scouting report on his longest-serving player. “And he just handles himself really, really well.”

Lowry got it done on the floor this time last year.

The Raptors title was a validation that shouldn’t have been necessary. But putting a ring on a player whose game is more about contributions that aren’t as easily captured by stats – unless you’re into the league’s ‘charges drawn’ leaders – provides a useful shorthand to swat away uninformed opinions with.

But in the context of the nearly three weeks of social unrest that has brought the United States and other countries to a potential reckoning on social and racial injustices, Lowry’s off-court contributions from a year ago deserve more discussion.

Two moments, in particular, stand out as Lowry was able to defuse tense and even racially charged moments and come out looking like the better man.

The first came in early in the fourth quarter of Game 3 at Oracle Arena in a win that signaled the Raptors weren’t just happy to be in their first Finals, but that they were there to be heard.

Lowry dives hard into the first row to save a ball headed out of bounds and ends up in the lap of a fan – another signature Lowry play. But before he can get back to the floor another fan pushes Lowry and yells at the Raptors star.

Lowry, agitated but cool in the moment, motions for the referees to intervene and minutes later the fan is escorted out of the building.

The punchline? The fan was Mark Stevens, a multibillionaire investor and part of the Warriors ownership group. He was eventually fined $500,000 and suspended by the NBA for a year.

But viewed in hindsight, the most interesting thing about the incident was what Lowry said the next day when asked about Stevens, who reportedly told him to “Go f— yourself” multiple times after shoving him.

“He showed his true colors at the time.”

And Lowry showed his too. While acknowledging he was furious about being hit and cursed for doing his job – and by a white owner with ties to the Republican party in Donald Trump’s America, no less – he was able to keep his composure.

How?

“By understanding at the moment my team needed me. Understanding that there are plenty of fans and kids in the world watching this game. Me being a grown man, having kids myself. I’m a grown man and my kids could always go back and see that,” Lowry said.

“If it wasn’t in this situation, things may have been — they probably would have been done differently, handled differently by me. But understanding that I have two young children and being able to hold myself to a certain standard, which I do, I hold myself to a high, high standard. And I have to make sure that I uphold that.

“That’s a big thing for me … never letting guys like him get under your skin because that’s bull crap.”

It’s fair to say that the Raptors storybook season would have had a much different ending had Lowry lost his temper or decided to respond to Stevens in kind with a shove or worse. A player hitting a fan – even if provoked – is something that would drown a suspension and likely altered the course of the series.

But Lowry wasn’t finished making big plays at key moments.

Source 1: Toronto Raptors Schedule

Source 2: Indiana Pacers Schedule

Source 3: Denver Nuggets Schedule

In hindsight that would have been the moment they lost that championship. Kyle Lowry's emotional intelligence under such pressure and provocation is highly commendable.

So yea, I agree with you.

FrontRunner:
Guy drop the argument with your you won't understand hashtag.Why not make us understand nae.Times have changed bro.Cultism now is not the same as then.
Then they were called secret cults for a reason, now it is all an open book.
Then unless you're a member of an certain sect you may never know any signs, code not even their color codes.Then Time was of the essence coz you must move cautiously with time to survive.But today you can be at the bush and someone will just call you to leave there.
There's nothing secret about Cultism any more bro thats why I keep wondering what the Hussle is now.
I had an uncle in the military then that had this book first published during ex president Objs time.1999 at UI then 2005 at Uniport.It was meant for just service men,then Obj wanted to eradicate Cultism in Nigeria public schools.He initiated the renouncing program as at the time for all universities,I repeat all universities.(1999 to early 2000) ask??.And many repentant cultists back then went ahead and denounced publicly in different areanas and sports complexes in schools dropping arms and charm's.I saw myself.Though very young and stubborn.Went with my elder brother who was a cultist but he only went to see faces of peeps.
That book itself exposed 5 different secret cults intoto,I mean no be today Confra cast.some was to an extent while some were totally casted.Now times are different, things were even more hidden then. Today time speaks for itself.Time is nothing to us.All u need is free WiFi,gps or data to keep yourself informed and today no one cares if you're a cultist or not.Its like wild fire,it will either burn itself out or burn a couple of foolish souls down.
Time will tell.
Just Imagine say I hear one small boy dey shout "Die it ooo,SS ooo" for street or bar?.I don't need a native doctor to tell me it's either he has started flowing with baggers or he don go Carry him bagg.its that simple now.
You're not a kid any more you should know when to stop arguing.

Na wah o, so "die it" is an exclusive language of cultists? Interesting.

I have a 66 year old uncle whose nickname from his teenage years is 'Die The Matter'. People have been using "die the matter/die it" for years before these cults were even formed yet you would be maimed for using an English word that was hijacked/stolen by cultists.

This whole thing is crazy. If Nigeria doesn't arise and kill cultism, cultism will kill Nigeria. And the time is now. Tufia!

aaking:
That number 4 is uche okechukwu

Lol. Google Isaac Semitoje and then Uche Okechukwu and come back here to report your finding.

thedio:
No4 is wrong

No bro, that's Isaac Semitoje. He is a central defender(5) and pairs with Keshi who is the sweeper(6).

1. Daniel Amokachi
2. Augustine Eguavoen
3. Aloy Agu
4. Isaac Semitoje
5. Stephen Keshi
6. Ben Iroha
7. Nduka Ugbade
8. Rasheedi Yekini
9. Finidi George
10. Emmanuel Amuneke
11.Thompson Oliha

Richieniit:
did he steal your relative money?
What matter at hand are you discussing?

To celebrate another man's downfall or the joy of seeing he's got issues?

I'm very sure na your type they go him igram to beg for money... yeye!

Guy hustle cos that salary of yours won't give your kids the best life they deserve. I'm not saying i support crime but you can't actually say you are better than him. YOU'RE ALSO A SINNER LIKE HIM SO PICK YOUR SIN RIGHTFULLY AND BLOOM LIKE ROSES

Na dem. Beautiful nonsense. Seed time precedes harvest. Reaping is coming and it comes with many sorrows, physical and spiritual. Smh

Hey OP, this your post made me shed a tear or two.

I wish so deeply all fathers were like this.

Thanks for capturing this so beautifully.

IyaTola:
Hi there! I am unable to access my ml mail so do well to drop your mail address. Thanks

Hi Iya Tola, I think you should remove the post you made about the JJ guy on the other thread. Your picture and phone number is on your profile. Not safe.

AZeD1:
"On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick."

Even Jesus said the sick need a doctor not a pastor.

First off, what you quoted was a proverb Jesus used to illustrate a point to explain why he socialized and dined with sinners.

You can however argue that he is not against going to see a doctor.

Here is what Jesus really thinks about healing. This is a direct saying not a proverb:

" And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils... They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Mark 16-17-18

Jullima:
I like to give people benefit of a doubt.

It’s very plausible the aunty was unaware he was outside. A lot of things could’ve gone wrong from gate house to main house. Did the gateman go tell the wife in the house immediately? Do you know if the uncle told his wife he was coming? How long did it take for the wife to know someone was outside and for her to call the uncle if he was expecting someone? All these could also be false and the woman might just be evil and she’s very comfortable risking a child’s life.

I always like to believe the positive plausible angle until you prove me wrong.

I also find it strange that his wife didn’t offer him food along with his bath, I find it even stranger the uncle didn’t ask about his trip and if he has eaten.

I have been a guest and I have been a host and from experience most people’s quality of stay can also be based on their perception and their expectations on what they think they’re owed by their hosts. I also don’t want to invalidate the OP’s experience. I think he should tell his sister his own experience and tell her what to watch out for. If you have food, shelter and security what else is left again?

So you choose to learn from experience only then?

"People show you who they are, believe them" - Maya Angelou

AZeD1:
Go to the hospital. Don't listen to anyone that tells you it's spiritual.

Lots of people in Nigeria have lost their lives because they went to the church instead of a hospital.

God gave you a brain for a reason, don't embarrass him by not using it correctly.

And the countless millions that have lost their lives in the hospital nko? Those who have gone to all the best medical consultants in the land and their conditions have not improved or have gotten worse, nko?

Abeg shift!

Beautiful nonsense.

HenryDion:
I read an entire epistle and nowhere did I see a mention of "Hospital."

All you said was, you were taken to 'some places' and 'church'

The mind is very powerful, in the sense that it can play according to your fears, what you hear or see.

I want to be very honest with you, what is happening to you is not spiritual, neither is your ex trying to harm you.. Leave that poor boy out of this.

The reason you started dreaming about your ex and having sex in the dream was the moment someone hinted about your ex being the cause of your problem..

Lemme tell you my life's story, so you'll learn about the power of the mind.

I was diagnosed with HIV in 2009 in a heart to heart center and immediately, I start exhibiting all the symptoms of HIV. I got thin overnight, sores started growing in my throat, and some rashes too.

I was told to begin medication immediately.. The hospital they referred me to, for my ART drugs ran another test.

Everything came out negative. They conducted more test to confirm and everything was negative. I got confused.

I went to a more sophisticated private lab here in Abia state. Still, the test was all negative. What happened? What do I have to say about the symptoms?

What am I saying? The mind is powerful, and these churches and pastors will not help you. Instead, they will play on your emotions and heighten your fears..

Dump all of them and go to a reliable hospital. Let them run some tests and know what's really wrong with you.

Hospitals are where you should go when you're sick, not the church. I don't know if this will sink, but for your sake, I hope it does.

Demiladey361

You are intelligent but naive. May you not experience a problem whose only solution is spiritual.

Kingfish542:
lol.....If you have been reading my comments, u will know that I detest them.
if you were given a gun to kill a cultist that has never killed anyone or even hit anyone before or a Jew that has killed someone(s) . who would you shoot?

I'm not defending anybody, I just think a bad decision doesn't make u deserve death, killing someone is what makes you deserve death

Being part of a brotherhood that orders hits and kills people for whatever reason is evil enough, brother! How can you not see this? You do not have to carry out the hit. Being a member of a group that spills blood is bad enough. Is this too hard to comprehend?

Are you blind?

Having eyes but cannot see.
Having ears but cannot hear
Having hearts veiled by darkness
Having their understanding darkened by the ignorance within them

List the must haves in the woman of your dream and the good to haves. If sexual attraction is a must have and being slim is a no no for you, I'll say cut her loose. Let her go. You'll make life miserable for her if you marry her.

If it's a good to have, I'll say focus and dwell your attention on the good qualities that attracted you to her in the first place. Energy and love goes where attention goes.

My 2 kobo.

Gaggi:
A figment of you people's imagination. Genotype cannot be changed by prayers or anything else except science.
The reason Nigeria is still backward is because people swallow every B.S they hear.

If a genotype 'changed' it was because of faulty or misleading tests in the lab. Yes, labs have been known to make mistakes that is why people should always do the tests at least 3 times in different labs.

It's our foolishness in this part of the world that will make sickle cell not to be eradicated. If only people will stick to medical advise, the disease can be eradicated in a few decades. When you start peddling lies, then you are encouraging people to keep defying medical advice and hoping they can be foolish and end up praying for a cure or miracle, thereby keeping us in a perpetual cycle.

Mr know it all, I greet you. Have you heard of spontaneous remissions in medical science? Have you researched deeply into the placebo effect? Have you put all the laws of quantum physics and quantum biology into practice and gotten results from them?

You, my friend, is Newtonian physics and biology brain washed. There is more to life than what Isaac Newton saw and taught!

In quantum physics/biology everything is everywhere at the same time, there is no space and no time between what we want and us, all possibilities exist, energy and matter are equally interchangeable(Einstein's E=mc2), the observer affects what he observes.

It matches seamlessly with spirituality and its laws: as a man thinks so is he, all things are possible, we are gods, as He(God) is so are we.

Bros, we haven't even scratched the depths of spirituality and the results derivable from it. Most of us are clueless. It doesn't mean that these possibilities don't exist or that people aren't getting these miracles or that spontaneous remissions are not happening or that men aren't converting spiritual resources to physical results. Problem is only a few percentage of people know how and can stay the course to move possibilities into experience.

Not in support of blind faith or people blindly going into trouble like OP and his wife but bro, never pontificate and talk arrogantly about depths you know nothing about.

Sammy07:
Did they?

Did you see the margin in each of the eastern states Tofa won? It was very close race considering that Abiola ran a Muslim-Muslim ticket and Tofa chose an Igbo man, Sylvester Ugoh, as running mate.

Many Igbos supported Abiola and wanted him to win. They gave him far above the 25% of votes he required in 3/4 of the states. Abiola won Anambra and had over 45% in most of the Igbo states.

With all the rumour back then surrounding Abiola and the bible...

That's solid support from the east bro. In fact without the Sylvester Ugoh influence, Abiola would have won everywhere in the east hands down.

That rape incidence was so emotionally traumatic for you that it may have affected your sexuality. Here is how that can happen.

The hypothalamus which is the part of the brain that controls sexuality and the amygdala which is the part of the brain that controls emotions are very close to each other. Your traumatized amygdala may have affected your hypothalamus and thus your sexuality.

Psychologically speaking, the cause of the emotional trauma was a guy and your body has made the decision that it's not safe or fun to have sex with men, women are safer, better and more fun.

This is one of the ways people become gay.

I believe your own case has a chance at being reversed.

I am a therapist and have some experience in dealing with this type of issues. I might be willing to work with you on this. You can PM me and we can take it up from there.

My heart is cold
I love sex
I don't experience butterflies in my stomach for guys
I don't know how to love
I can deceive a guy into a relationship
but once we have sex, all that emotional yen yen yen feelings disappear fiaamm,
all I want is sex,
after sex, I hate the guy like shit
I was raped when I was 10


Girl, the rape at 10 broke you, can't you see? These are your own words. This is your norm.

The rape of a child is a destiny destroying event.

The two good relationships you had are the exceptions. Perhaps you had them in your younger days before the the effects of the rape created an iron cast over your heart. Sometimes our traumas are hidden to help us survive but are revealed later in our lives for us to resolve them.

Seek a therapist. You need help.

JJTeam:
[/b]On a serious note[b]: I noticed alot of constant trend of cyberbullying and i think you guys need to do better.

I understand it a sensitive issue but we intend to get our emotions wrapped up and losses focus on the main issues. This kind of behavior lost all manner of discussion between one and other. I want everyone to keep in mind that this is a thread and opinion may be differ from others.
We're all educate and we need to treat eachother with dignity and respect. I personally am guilty of this behavior but i try to fix it and i hope you guys do the same.

Personally, i believe not all cult are evil as they portray but theirs always one bad apple in every group. Please Understand! Cult can never be diminished or eradicated no matter how hard they try. Cult has been part of our existence in one form or another. We can do our diligent to try and support each other in order to convince the future generations.

The human nature instend to close up during aggression and we become guarded. We are all leaders and as such, we need to come together and have a discussion.

This is why i use [/b]#Saynotocultism[b] in every post.

As a leader of my group, i tried to lead my member to the right path but all would approve of this method and i understand their concerns.

Lets welcome new members of this forum with open arms before judging them of mere statement which they might have said.

I Promise to only reply to those with a reasonable comment and i expect you guys to do the same.

#Saynotocultism #SaynotoCYBERBULLYING

You are a passionate crusader against cyberbullying but have no qualms with killing people in black and shipping them in nylon bags or threatening to kill monicar and his family.

Your life is indeed a cautionary tale against two-faced hypocrisy!

Hello Pascopele

I think from what you wrote and their connotation these two are English words or formed from English words:

12) Jettison (Jetesin)
15) Maneuver(American English), Manoeuvre(British English) not Manover.

Barryseal:
I remember the first time he sang send down the rain in Lagos, the heavens really opened and poured.
It was a regular occurrence and alot of people casually suspected the spiritual undertone. They were right. Would have been interesting to know the rules he broke.

Same thing happened in the east. He came to Aba and sang Send Down The Rain at the Aba Stadium and it started raining cats and dogs.

The devil's gifts come with sorrows. Damn!

Thanks bro for opening up. I pray this helps you with closure and that you find that healing you seek.

This is just a snippet into the evil and decadence and depravity that is out there in our society.

I shake my head in disbelief when many men and even some women in Nairaland and elsewhere defend alleged rapists or abuse the few courageous women who speak up about their alleged abusers.

If the mad woman had come on nairaland to write that she was serially raped by this young boy in 2006, imagine the kind of backlash and attack and derision and shaming she would have received. Imagine for one second the kind of names she would have been called. How could such a smelly dirty ugly woman be raped by such an intelligent handsome young man? Imagine the memes and the public crucifixion she would be made to face.

Rape has become an endemic toxic culture in Nigeria and it didn't start today. Boys have been indoctrinated from a long time ago and there's no safety net for women.

Even as far back as my secondary school days in my boys only school I heard troubling things concerning organized gang rapes by our school boys in their neighbourhoods or at extra mural lessons. And I can tell you for free that things got worse over the years.

And even you the girls enable these rapists and attack other women who come out to call out their abusers. And some of you too are rapists in your own right, scavenging and prowling on innocent and vulnerable little boys and destroying their innocence and destinies. But today is not for you. Let's leave yours for another day.

Let this make us think and change our ways and mindset about rape and towards the war against rape.

#SayNoToRape

Mariangeles:
You think case number 2 should be treated as the other rape incidents?
Would it be fair on the man?

At any point she decides to decline penetration or further sex hold your fire, hold your own body. It's her body, she has all rights to it. She is the landlord of her estate(her body, her spirit and her soul). Respect that. Honour that.

You can beg, you can seduce, you can get angry but do not penetrate or assault her forcefully without her permission. On no account must you forcefully assault her sexually.

Is permission too hard to understand?

Without the landlord's permission any other thing is violation. It's desecration. It's rape, the rape and desecration and violation of a human spirit, soul and body. It is evil. It's inhuman. It should be condemned by all.

bukatyne:
First, you need to differentiate the different instances of rape.

A boy of 18 sleeping with his 16yr old girlfriend is statutory rape.

A boy who 'insists' on sex after his girlfriend 'withdrew' her consent after having a earth shattering organism during pre-intimacy can be accused of rape.

A boy who drugged a girl and raped her because she is 'chopping' his money is rape.

A boy who thought he was seeing green light from the half naked girl in his room is called a rapist.

A boy who dragged a random girl walking down the street into a corner is a rapist

A boy who rapes a baby is a rapist

Etc

I however do not think they deserve same punishment.

I wouldn't punish some at all as rapists (1 & 2).

You can flip the script for women too.

Apart from the first example you gave which I think should have some lighter sentence, all the others listed by you deserve very harsh punishments.

Bukatyne, you are also part of the problem. No should mean No. Nothing should justify rape. Nothing whatsoever!!!

Godlovesyou28:
How did you know that its my best psalm... I know the entire chapter by heart. The power in that scripture had seen me through many battles in the past and given me hope that God has my back. Thanks for the new insight thanks.

You are welcome.

It will work because the little you is aware of what happened back then spiritually but ignorant cognitively.

Cuddle her, tell her you love her and she is safe and keep reading the Psalms 91 to her. Get her to join you in reciting it.

God's grace.