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Omnitetris64:
This is from Plutarch's life of Sertorius, a Roman general who spent his last years in Spain fighting Rome itself.

His army was mostly local Spanish allies. Plutarch says they came to him in streams from every quarter, that they were brave, and that they had no discipline whatsoever. Their constant complaint was that he was too slow. They wanted him to march out and attack the enemy immediately, and they were impatient with his delays.

He tried to talk them out of it and failed. So he let them go and have the battle they were asking for, hoping they would be beaten badly enough to learn something without being wiped out. That is roughly what happened. He then rode out, gave them cover while they ran, and brought them back to camp.

A few days later he called the whole army together, and had two horses brought out in front of everybody. One was old and weak. The other was big and strong, with a tail famous for how thick it was. Then he placed a tall, powerful man next to the weak horse, and a small, unimpressive looking man next to the strong one.

On his signal, the big man grabbed the weak horse's tail with both hands and pulled with everything he had, trying to tear the whole thing off. Plutarch says he gave himself no end of trouble for nothing, the crowd laughed at him, and eventually he gave up. Meanwhile the small man had been standing at the strong horse plucking the hairs out of its tail one at a time. He finished quickly and easily, and the tail was bare.

Sertorius then stood up and said that perseverance is more effective than violence, and that many things which cannot be mastered while they stand together will give way when you master them little by little.

I like it because it is not really about war. It is about the thing we all do when a problem is big: look for one enormous effort that will settle it in a single afternoon. The debt, the degree, the business, the weight, the backlog at work. One big push, and done. It almost never works, and we try it anyway, because the big push feels like seriousness and plucking one hair feels like doing nothing.

So let me ask the house: what is the thing in your life you have tried three or four times to fix in one big push? And has anybody here actually fixed something the slow way, one hair at a time, and can tell us how long it took?

Rilwayne001:
Why are the private investors not investing in Abia though?

Neoteny:
They're basically saying any future president has no legal room to radically unfurl their visions and undo mistakes and malfeasance of past leaders.

peleson1:
Philosophy at it's very best

So what happened to Aristads afterwards and where did he relocate to ?

Egypt or Israel ?

Kukutente23:
I think the right word is "mounted"
Like a donkey

Kukutente23:
Mind your business

An hadith says Al Zutt rode your prophet till he collapsed

Are you aware of this

Curious345:
It's a foot bridge . Not a single car has transited on it since it's commissioning . About a year ago

Omnitetris64:
Aristides was an Athenian general and statesman, roughly 530 to 468 BC. Plutarch wrote a life of him. He is one of the very few men in Greek history that even unfriendly sources call honest. Athens nicknamed him "the Just".

Athens had a procedure called ostracism. Once a year the citizens could vote to send one man out of the city for ten years. No crime, no charge, no trial, no defence. You scratched a name on a broken piece of pottery and dropped it in. If enough of the sherds carried the same name, that man packed his things and left.

In 482 BC they ostracised Aristides. Plutarch records one moment from that day.

A man who could not read or write, a farmer who worked his own land, handed his sherd to a stranger standing near him and asked him to write "Aristides" on it for him. The stranger was Aristides himself.

He asked the man what harm Aristides had ever done him. The man said none. He had never even met him. He was simply tired of hearing him called "the Just".

Aristides wrote his own name on the sherd, handed it back to him, and said nothing.

The part I keep returning to is that the voter had not been lied to, had not been bribed, and was not angry about any policy or any decision. He was just tired. The reputation itself had become the irritation. And the system handed him a perfectly legal way to act on it.

So, question for the house: have you watched this happen here? Not somebody removed from a position because they stole or failed, but somebody pushed out because people simply got tired of them being the straight one in the room.

And if that is how it actually works, what is an honest person supposed to do about it. Stay and keep quiet. Make themselves less visible. Or accept the exile when it comes and say nothing, the way he did?

wirinet:
I didn't realise I was arguing with an IPOB youth, taken in by IPOB propaganda. So after the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, the Jews moved south, they crossed through Egypt, traversed the whole of Egypt, then Sudan, crossed the Sahara unto Chad, then entered Nigeria, and moved straight to Abakiliki or is in Nsuka? So, where is your evidence of igbos along all these routes? Abi dem no leave records or evidence? The Jews left Turkey, Rome and Europe and moved enmass into the Sahara desert to land in the centre of igboland. Grand delusion.

wirinet:
I have pointed out that Pharaoh is not a person but a title. It's the title for King, just like Oba in Yoruba or Eze in Igbo. Egypt had many many Kings before the last Pharaoh - Cleopatra VII was defeated and forced to commit suicide by Augustus Caesar.
Saying Pharaoh was born of a virgin is absolute nonsense. Egypt was a highly patriarchal society before the ptolemiac dynasty was established by Alexander the Great. Succession was strictly hereditary. The first male child almost always inherit the throne. How can a fatherless child of a woman become the Pharaoh?

MrPresident1:
The Jews were dispersed by the force of the roman sword in the aftermath of the destruction of the temple of God in Jerusalem in 70AD. The fled into the interiors of Africa where they are till today.

The ancient Jews are majorly congregated in a nation called Nigeria.

Jesus Christ will rise from among them.

MrPresident1:
Wirinet and DeepSight



If Pharaoh was born by the virgin of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar was born by the virgin of Babylon,

wirinet:
My brother I tire for interpretation or should I say comprehension. I wrote and I quote:
and someone interpreted it to mean " all the great people who have walked this earth were born by virgins."
Religion seems to destroy frontal lobe of the brain, which is responsible for reasoning.

AMINDA:
The verdict is out there. It was a total embarrassment and disgrace. This was Tinubu being booed with "Tinubu Must Go" chants by the people hired by the APC across multiple states. See Sanwo-olu and Governor Abdulrazaq having second-hand embarrassment.

MrPresident1:
Your friend got illuminated and realized that all the great people who have walked this earth were born by virgins.

You that was not born by a virgin can never be great

MrPresident1:
DeepSight, have you read and pondered on this?

Have you seen the great people that were born of virgins? If you know these things, why is your mind linearly fixated on the linear concept of virgin birth?

MrPresident1:
Do you know that Pharaoh is also born by a virgin? Can you explain the science behind that?

wirinet:
Ask am this question. If scientists happen to stumble upon the body or any physical item of Jesus, and carry out a DNA analysis, will it contain only 23 chromosomes? Or it will have Mary's full set of 46 chromosome. But then, if he only had Mary's full set of chromosomes, the question will then be where did he obtain the Y-Chromosome, as Mary had no Y-Chromosome.

MrPresident1:
Pharaoh is also born by a virgin. Why do you find it difficult to believe that Jesus was born by a virgin?

damoobaba:
You dey count abeg 🙆‍♂️🙌

wirinet:
Goodmorning and happy Sunday my brother.


That's standard in Nigeria, especially in the south. A country that have more churches than factories is doomed to poverty. A country that have more churches than schools is doomed to ignorance.

jesusjnr2020:
4. The books of the Bible has never made anyone who reads it go mad or mentally insane, but the 6th and 7th books of Moses has made most of its readers to lose their minds and become mad usually on a permanent basis til their deaths.

damoobaba:
Shoo, are you joking this Sunday morning?

MrPresident1:
Jesusmos the only one who can regather the Jews and Israel and the church. Any regathering before we see Christ is satanic deep fake

Presently, the true Israel are in exile, the true jews are in Nigeria suffering the great tribulation, and the whole world is upside down because Satan and his boys have taken over the earth.

Jesus can of the seed of David will take over and end the great tribulation

This is the great tribulation

Revelation 12:13-15
King James Version
13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

[u]This is the end of it, the raising of Michael from the seed of David[/]

Daniel 12:1-3
King James Version
12 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Michael will arise inmNigeria. He will be the King of the South. He will end the dependency of his people on the face of the serpent.

He will break the yoke of the US Dollar over his people's destiny.

Dogalmighty17:
He doesn't exist and never existed. The Hebrew language doesn't have the letter 'J' so the name Jesus is purely made up.

MrPresident1:
Jesus Christ is not a proper noun, like the name of anybody. It is just a codeword for the man anointed of the LORD, the eternal King of Israel.

In mathematics, when you are given an unknown value x in an equation and have to solve for x, the value that fulfils all the parameters of the equation for the unknown x is the x we were looking for.

Jesus Christ is from the loins of David, born of the virgin Mary

BarrElChapo:
Zero net illegal migration can your president make that claim on any of his campaign promises 😂.

Pray and pray hard that JD/Rubio don’t win else y’all will cry more.

BarrElChapo:
There’s nothing like not really, if you migrate legally you have no problem especially in the western nations.

BarrElChapo:
France is not protesting migrants, Migrants are destroying the lives of ordinary citizens.

Migrations is allowed. Illegal migration is what most of these nations are fighting.