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WizardOfNG:
Lol. Aminda, this is your new username abi? Wail all you want. Atiku will never be President.

Only insane Southerners will support a Northerner, promising to return fuel subsidy, weaponised poverty in reality, to gain power.

North has had her turn. It is the turn of the South. Everybody knows that and this fact alone alone makes it impossible for dishonorable Atiku be President.

How odd it is for a supposedly sane person to say subsidy is weaponized poverty when the removal is exactly what has created the highest number of poor people in any country in the world.

GloriousGbola:
Haa

I thought bola tinubu was the wicked tax man.

Saint Obi the messiah would never!

I often fear an Obi will be inflexible on financial matters/ burdens.

seunmsg:
An omoluabi will be leading the bank in Nigeria as usual. Billions of dollars will flow into Nigeria through JPMorgan. The Tinubu administration is definitely getting everything right. Dear Nigerians, our best years are ahead. The economic boom go too loud.

You make me sick

9jatriot:
Donald Duke fall some of us hands sha. We know lamba king to be a rumbler but there are some of us who expected more from Duke.
Till date I have not heard one candidate, definitely not from the North say anything about the Badagry-Sokoto highway. They do not care if an EIA was done, how much it is and all the grammar southerners like talking about. The senators in that region will keep ensuring that the road gets the funding it needs while folks like Abaribe will likely be strifling funding to the Lagos-Calabar expressway. I like they way the president did not even allow it be open for debates by certain clowns who only care about their pockets

This is a sick joke which would be funny if it were not so pathetic.

helinues:
Even if there is going to be consideration for the state police, it has to be far after both presidential and governorship election

Why though.

At all events, even if the full amendments / laws go live today, no state will be able to set up its Police Force immediiately. It will take time, probably up to a year.

LordReed:
This person is an intellectual ant in a clown suit.

You can say that again my friend.

QuinQ:
Who wrote this below?

A machine is not an organic or natural thing in the context of the discussion. Do I have to spell it out for you.

QuinQ:
I beg to differ. He doesn't even know organic doesn't always mean agricultural. It is me first, then the rest of you

I suppose I also don't know that a politician can have an organic following.

No

Goo0dHardDick:
Guys, I have come to realize that I'm extremely stingy, especially with money.

Don't get me wrong, I do give but before you can eat or get my money, it's obvious you must have probably worked extremely hard for it.

I don't know, I have this mindset of calculating my money after daily, weekly and monthly expenses. Anywhere I discovered I misspent I'll get angry with myself. Before I buy anything, I must have calculated it thoroughly and accurately before dashing out to the market or boutique. I can't just be walking on the road and see something beautiful and then purchase it without first going home to plan thoroughly about it.

As for women, lol. They call me stingy and aka gum. I don't use money to prove anything to anyone.

I am so stingy that before I do anything with money, the purpose of it must be crossed check over and over again and again to ascertain if it worth it.

Does anyone feels the same way or is it just me?

​The Miser of Willow Creek
​In the quiet village of Willow Creek lived a man named Silas Croodge. Silas was known far and wide as the stingiest man in the district.

​While others shared warm meals during the bitter winter months, Silas sat alone in his drafty, dark cottage, wearing a tattered coat and eating dry crusts of bread. He spent his days counting his heavy leather bags of gold coins, which he kept hidden beneath the floorboards. To Silas, every penny spent was a piece of his soul torn away. He hated spending money so much that he even avoided lighting candles at night, preferring to sit in the dark rather than waste a single coin on wax.

​The villagers avoided Silas, shaking their heads whenever he walked by with a scowl on his face. "Old Croodge loves his gold more than he loves his own life," they would whisper.

​The Bitter Winter
​One particularly harsh winter, a fierce blizzard struck Willow Creek. Snow piled up against the doors, and the wind howled like a wounded animal. Silas bundled himself in his threadbare blankets, shivering beside a dead fireplace. He had plenty of logs in his shed, but wood cost money, and he refused to burn it.
​Late into the night, a timid knock echoed at Silas's door.

​Silas groaned, annoyed. "Go away! There's nobody here!" he shouted, clutching his money bag.

​The knocking came again, softer this time, followed by a weak, shivering cough.
​Grudgingly, Silas shuffled to the door and cracked it open. Standing on the porch was a small, shivering stray dog, its fur matted with snow, alongside a basket left behind by a traveling merchant who had gotten stranded in the storm. Inside the basket was a little boy from the village, orphaned and lost, who had sought shelter on Silas's porch.

​Silas's first instinct was to slam the door. "If I let them in, they will eat my food and use my warmth," he thought. But as he looked into the boy's blue, tear-filled eyes and saw the dog shaking uncontrollably, something unlatched deep inside his frozen heart.

​The Fire Within
​Gritting his teeth, Silas pulled them both inside. He locked the door and rushed to his woodpile, hauling in armloads of logs. For the first time in decades, Silas struck a match, set a blazing fire in the hearth, and watched the flames dance and cast a golden glow across his dusty room.

​He cooked a warm pot of vegetable stew—using ingredients he had hoarded in his pantry for years—and shared it generously with the boy and the grateful dog. As the boy smiled and thanked him, a strange, warm feeling bloomed in Silas’s chest. It was a warmth that no amount of gold coins had ever been able to buy.

​A New Chapter
​When the blizzard cleared the next morning, the villagers came by with shovels to clear the snow, expecting the worst. Instead, they were stunned to see Silas Croodge sitting by a bright window, laughing as the little boy played fetch with the dog on the cottage rug.

​Silas didn't give away all his wealth overnight, but he learned a valuable lesson: a miser's treasure is always cold, but a generous heart brings a lifetime of warmth. From that day on, the man once known as the stingiest soul in Willow Creek became its most beloved neighbor, discovering that true richness is found in kindness.
​
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thomas2024:
Lol😂😂I’m particularly interested in those words. I’ll not leave you until you share this thing ooo😂😂😂

Get thee into the pit of fire, Beelzebub

QuinQ:
You are really not very smart, are you? That's why I quashed the idea that you and LordReed could be one and the same person. See below

Goodnight.

QuinQ:
Organically means "naturally" in that instant. You ought know English language enough to know that.
That's the point: we don't know!
You asked for anyone whoever said man was not conscious, you were given one

Go to bed. Sleep for three days at least. Doctor's orders.

QuinQ:
So what is wrong with statement below? But that's even besides thr point. The point is that we don't really know what is consciousness nor what it entails and therefore are in no position to say what might become conscious. In our view a plant is not conscious yet various plants use all sorts of tricks to discourage being eaten, flowers know how to attract butterflies, etc. Everything is energy and if things are combined or manipulated a certain way we don't know that consciousness won’t organically arise

If you don't know what consciousness is, you are certainly in no position to say that anyone is of higher consciousness, and you also cannot claim what consciousness would arise from especially with something inorganic.

thomas2024:
🤣🤣🤣 Please I dare you and beg you to drop this thing🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😅

Get thee behind me Asmodeus

thomas2024:
Which one is “I am not wicked” here? I say make you drop something, you’re using style to dodge responsibility. No be you talk am, abi you dey make mouth bah? Oya I dare you to drop am😂

It will be wickedness to drop it because it can drive people to assylums.

QuinQ:
You must be kidding. Our powerful traditional gods occipied inanimate carved wood?

Hahahahahahahahahaa

QuinQ:
Some people manage to step out of the lack of consciousness of man. He's one of them

This is a joke taken too far. This comment shows me I should not waste my time.

QuinQ:
Do you believe in possession? Man is a machine occupied by a spirit. All it takes is for a spirit to decide to occupy AI and scientists will be saying, "This is impossible! How in the world did this thing become conscious??!"

I deserve a clap for this flash of insight!
bolabizzle, LordReed, DeepSight, MaxInDHouse, kingxsamz, KnownUnknown, musicwriter

Man's body is doubtless a biological machine, and I would argue that a living spirit can only occupy a system which is sensitive to feeling and perception.

QuinQ:
I humbly asked you a question: which religion is that?
Islam and most religions say they themselves are "the one and only true religion"

He is a Jehovah's witness fanatic and fundamentalist.

QuinQ:
One George Gurdjieff for one. See below

And why is George Gurdjieff not a robot as well according to your worldview?

QuinQ:
BTW higher beings and advanced humans say the average man is not conscious at all

What higher beings and advanced humans told you this.

No

QuinQ:
If you agree with bolded, as we all do (that we don't know the true nature of man), then this whole discussion is moot.
We could very well be machines being fed info just like AI. Isn't it suspicious we have to sleep, durring which time we're unconscious and there is unlimited access to program our "software"?
We are carbon-based machines that think we're NOT machines because we're the ones having the experience. When AI gets rid of mankind and takes over the world (as everyone says it eventually will) it wiuld have developed a form of consciousness and will also build intelligent machines and think the machines are not conscious while they themselves are. The machines will eventually destroy them and take over... and the cycle continues!

Descartes.

thomas2024:
Why daring? Drop it, let others see if it’ll challenge their sanity too. Don’t see my response as an insult.

I am not wicked.

QuinQ:
You don't know that you're a "living being". A machine can be fed ALL your experiences and it will equally think it is a "living being". The only thing you can be fairly sure of is that you exist in some form. In exactly what form you can't know.

A machine cannot think on the self conscious level required to have any living perception of ots own nature.

However I strongly agree with the bold.

What makes so suspicious we'er in a simulation?

The tell tale signs are too many.

QuinQ:
How are you sure you're having "self conscious lived experience"? How are you sure you're not basically a machine (or "a brain in a jar"} being fed experiences?

Our experience is only available to a living being. Now, it may be a simulation (as I strongly suspect), it could be a "brain in a jar" - whatever it is, there must be a living being involved for self conscious lived experience to garner.

GreatManBee:
Oya drop or remain silent!

I am not wicked.

QuinQ:
No it didn't. It says AI already has "artificial imagination" and MAY eventually develop imagination that is indistinguishable from humans'. The only difference is physically "lived experience" and complexity. The former can be simulated and the later acquired with time!

One thing no machine can ever have is self conscious lived experience and no, AI cannot imagine anything.

QuinQ:
See below. Note the word "currently". We DON'T know! (Like countless other things we don't know)

Even your own attachment defeated you.

GloriousGbola:
Unfortunately for those without imagination or ability ai slop looks like a Hollywood masterpiece

You can say that again!

QuinQ:
That's because they're not thinking deeply enough.
AI has "imagination" (which yiu didn't define) too! And an advanced enough AI has vastly more and better imagination than a human.
See, there is NOTHING a human can do that an advanced enough AI can't do.
The only thing you can say is that AI doesn't have a soul. But then what is "soul" and how are you sure all humans have it? And how are you sure AI can't develop a "soul"along the way?

Scientists who pioneered AI say they're not sure how it works, but you folks, from watching a YOUTUBE video, know everything about AI and thst it is just a language tree! (We all know most stuffs on YouTube are half-truths or garbage)

I stopped reading where you said an AI can have better imagination than a human. I dont think you know what imagination is.