Realmrsean:
they re all features of the brain 🧠 and mind.. nothing extraordinary..

Just like dreams

Maybe; then again, maybe not. Even evolutionists do not agree the evolution theory is absolute - they still debate it.

But scientists have made one submission which we all agree with - we only understand a fraction of how the brain (mind) works. We don't even know it's full capabilities.

It's like generative AI - cooking up a gazillion possibilities. It also has proven telepathic abilities where you look at a person and you communicate with eyes alone. Who says it doesn't have other abilities?
The abilities emcompassed in what we call "gut feeling"?

Until we understand how it works and have a full explanation for it, dismissing it is playing ostrich.

sageb:


Reigners church back then.
Alas! The case against the Bishop for building structure negligence was swept under the carpet by the powers in authority.

You know the story. Bishop Akan Weeks. So many promising young men and women died that day with no closure for their families till date.

Realmrsean:
this is an coincidence, you want to tell me all the times your guts feeling sets in.. something relatively tragic has happened in alignment to your supposed gut feeling?

That's the whole point. There's no scientific explanation for that gut feeling. It's even more puzzling when there's no precedence of such occurring to you yet you have feel a strong urge to do otherwise.

Just like that sudden urge to take a detour off a route you've driven for years without fail. You ask yourself why, but no explanation, yet you still feel that voice say, "No, go that way".

You can't explain it, I can't, science can't.

I'm barely even religious so it can't be attributed to being churchy or other such attributions to the divine. But we still can't explain what drives gut feeling.

liveLongNprospa:


If your instincts kick in, omo it's a very hard thing to shake off no matter who or what the situation will cost.

December 10, 2016. The bishop of a big church was being ordained. I had accepted an invite to be there so had rushed back into the city. A Saturday it was. The Governor was billed to be there.

I was all set to go but at the dying minute, changed my mind to watch EPL games. Funny thing is, the games do not start till midday and Barça had a game for that evening so I would have been done with the church attendance before then. There was no logical reason not to attend but I just had this gut feeling not to. Even ignored the reminders by the person who invited me.

Decided to go visit friends instead, and as we were bantering and trolling each other's teams, news filtered in of the church collapse by late noon. Several people died, including the person who invited me. At the spot. I'd have been seated beside the person certainly.

Joe and Lezz kept trying to reach me, and the later did late at night to confirm my safety since I had mentioned to them in passing when we chatted I'd be attending.

Gut feeling is something we can't explain. But it's potent. Very potent.

BlueRayDick:


The man was a pastor.

Dr Ola Brown who once flew with him in her tribute to him narrated how they flew together in a doggy copter and the man slept all through the flight while they were scared to death. The man obviously believed in the saying " when it is ur time, It is ur time"

I guess the PA doesn't and the man most likely felt he lacked faith.

Three human phenomena even the most ardent atheist has explanation for:

- Instincts
- Intuition
- Clairvoyance

There's no absolute explanation for these phenomena. Sometimes you just have that gut feeling there's no logical explanation for, and if you ignore it, you'd rue your mistake for life if you are lucky to survive it.

Odunayaw:
Didn't read any of the excrement.

Thought to dignify you as a human with this response though.

Be better.

You can't even read or comprehend to begin with. If you could, you'd be able to critique intelligently instead of having blind faith. Everyone kept complaining about the midfield. Everyone but you and your faux -patriotic cohorts who questioned the nationality of any of us who dared asked questions.

But you have less than the intelligence of a cuttlefish. A rodent would have realized the obvious faster than you.

Odunayaw:
That one de look for attention

You fickleminded nîtwit. You think I give a tuppence about you wishy nûmbskulls?


You wishy-washy simpleminded thing who thinks everyone who points out the flaw in a system is háteful.

Our midfield was as good as dead. Our players were bragging about winning all over social media. We the pragmatic ones warned about being complacent. You the happy-go-lucky ones countered us for pointing out the obvious.

Exactly what we pointed out happened - complacency.

It's the same way you have blind faith in public officials and call out those who demand better as a hatérs of Nigeria, even when the system has to be rejigged.

You deserve a high-five. In the face. With a plank.

If you are a Messi fan like me, after the devastating heartbreak of the 2014 World Cup final, no football result can shock you just as much.

Almost a decade of being hardened. Some sort of vaccine to the aftershock of football loss. A thousand AFCON final losses just feels like one of those things.

LordTheus:


It's gonna be a long night on Twitter, that's for sure 😂.

Ghana is going to get revenge on us.

I warned! Faith alone gives you nothing. Nothing!

Faith without work is dead. Our midfield was dead.

It's the same way we keep hoping Nigeria would get better when the system continues to reward Iwobi-esque public office holders and excuses away their many shortcomings.

DissTroy:


And this overconfidence from fans and players alike might be our undoing.

DissTroy:

Fans are completely fixated on the fun of trolling Ghana and South Africa all year long that we are looking past the actual game.

For us Twitter banter supersedes the possibilities of the 90 minutes on the pitch.

DissTroy:


Same Bible you pontificate with says faith without works is dead. To compliment the faith, do the work on the pitch tomorrow.

And the first thing is not looking past the match to make post-match celebratory declarations.

Cape Verde wasn't supposed to lose to SA based off pre-game analyses. A section of their media were already talking up plans to match up with us.

Still think I am a pessimist?

A pragmatic realist more like.

Mujtahida:

Pessimist, get behind me

Typical overly-religious Nigerian - wishing against wish that everything gets better when no plans have been made to make it better.

We are being outplayed. Our midfield is absent. But, hey, your wish would wash all of that away.

Everyone who complained about Iwobi on this thread has been proven right, again. Today especially.

I warned about being complacent and players already preparing post-match celebrations.

Mujtahida:

Na their house dem siddon abi? People that went to train after winning SA. Quoting scripture without seeing the practical reality of the situation before you. Are these boys the type of players who are not ready to do the work before you talk of faith without works? Abegi

We who believe will make that declaration NOW: Naija don win. That's my choice. You can choose to be careful and hesitant. I believe we will win. And we are not making post - celebratory declarations. No. That one is for you after we win. We are expressing the certainty of our belief NOW. Even if we don't win, nothing spoil but you see that believe, I believe am die that we will win!

If you don't grasp it, forget it.

DissTroy:
Most of you don't realize it but Ekong, our captain's name, literally means "war" in his native Ibibio language.

I repeat, Ekong means war!!!!!!!!!!!

liveLongNprospa:


Have you first admitted you made a mistake with your earlier post?

Have you admitted you have been comparing a Lieutenant to THE General?

Google-search "Greatest La Liga midfielders of all time".
Kroos is never mentioned. Xavi is always in top 2 on any list. Modric sometimes even gets mentioned in the top 15, but never Kroos. Not even once.


https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/10-best-midfielders-in-la-liga-history

https://m.allfootballapp.com/news/epl/5-Greatest-Midfielders-in-La-Liga-History/2792034


Do show any list where Kroos is mentioned and more particularly, any top 5 or top 10 list of greatest midfielders where Kroos is mentioned. Even one.
In contrast, all the lists always have Xavi on them.

Just about every radio station and hospitality outfit has been playing Tyla's "Water" since beating South Africa, and even more so today, the AFCON final. Everyone. If you tune in or linger for a few minutes, her song would come on.

Nigerians are petty.

Please! When it gets most decisive and if it's balloting day tomorrow, a bulk of those groaning would vote and campaign for the worst candidates on the ballots fueled by ethnoreligious sentiments.

We can all keep wailing about the kidnappings and increased spate of crimes while blaming the government for everything, but as long as a vocal and sizeable number of young people continue to excuse away questionable and unexplainable sources of wealth under the guise of "Did you question his poverty?" or as it's more commonly stated crudely in the South " All way na way ", the insecurity is only going to get worse.

Just this week, right on this thread, fraud was being justified by certain people. Right on Facebook, kidnappings are excused away. Then human trafficking, armed robbery, and worse.

Blame the government, blame Nigeria, blame the heroes past (and the anti-heroes), but you are a ruining crime apologist because it favours you and yours.

liveLongNprospa:


Who be this man?
KCM was dubbed because of all 3 of them.

https://therealchamps.com/2022/06/01/toni-kroos-best-passer-champions-league-history/

Read and confirm the stats mentioned there.
It's not by noise.

Ironically, the same website you quoted posited Kroos isn't fit to lace Xavi's boots, while calling Xavi "the engine room".

https://therealchamps.com/2017/05/28/toni-kroos-hardly-xavis-heir-xabi-alonsos-heir/

How about that for a reply? Shooting you with your own gun.

Blueelf:
Those people saying Iwobi is no Okocha to excuse his mediocrity, please remember that Mikel Obi was no Okocha but was way better than Iwobi

Let that sink in when you want to pamper overgrown adults that parade as professional football players

Maybe; but then again, maybe not. Nostalgic bias? You seem to forget so quickly how Mikel used to get vituperative criticisms from football lovers for holding on to the ball a tad too longer than necessary, needless back passes when he should be forcing the attack, and slowing the pace of the team's attack.

Onazi was more attack-minded than Mikel.

liveLongNprospa:


Lmao.. Please count the 5 important players in the 4 UCL Madrid won that Kroos partook in.

I am waiting.
Also count the important players in the German team that won the world cup in 2014

Kroos was never in the conversation for the top 3 most influential players in the Madrid UCL-winning teams and the WC German team.

The IG model, Benzema, Modric, Ramos, and Casemiro were more decisive than him for the Madrid team.

Muller, Boateng, Neuer, and even Lahm were more influential to the German World Cup success.
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In contrast, Xavi was Spain's and Barcelona's top 3 player for all of the stretched periods of dominance. So much so there's still a debate if he was denied a Balon d'Or or two - something nobody has said about Kroos.

liveLongNprospa:


Lmao.. You dey waste your time with this talk honestly.. 1 trillion

It's funny and laughable until you realize the group is chiefly a Northern group where the majority take what their thought leaders saying without questioning it.

And if you can spread the narrative to the unlearned man who has the same voting rights as you that Peter Obi has trillions stacked away which he hasn't made available to the hungry man, it begins to take shape.

And it's hard to change a core Northern man's perception once it forms. Elections would be here soon and he and his horde would vocalize it.

Remember how the rumour of Obi chasing non-Igbos away from Anambra as Governor raised its head during the campaigns? It started as a rumour a decade and a half before.

Mujtahida:


Now faith is being SURE of what we hope for and CERTAIN of what we do not see - Hebrew 11v1

Same Bible you pontificate with says faith without works is dead. To compliment the faith, do the work on the pitch tomorrow.

And the first thing is not looking past the match to make post-match celebratory declarations.

Cape Verde wasn't supposed to lose to SA based off pre-game analyses. A section of their media were already talking up plans to match up with us.

joseph1832:
Em, but Peter Obi isn't the only mentioned.

Corn logic: Let's ignore the obvious tainting lie spewed by a support group of our party to focus on telling the opposition not to complain Peter Obi wasn't the only one mentioned in the lie.

Sportsweb:
https://www.nairaland.com/7996727/peter-obi-atiku-swimming-wealth

Exactly what I wanted to post. These people are hellbent on gaslighting that they'd finger a Peter Obi who left public office years ago for the rot they caused.

From "What would Peter Obi have done differently?" to "Peter Obi is responsible for everything going on".

mostob:
I don't think the players are overconfident. Only the fans are boasting. And, it may lead to something serious health-wise. Tomorrow like this, if my heart no fit take am, I will just off phone and go on a stroll.

Fans are completely fixated on the fun of trolling Ghana and South Africa all year long that we are looking past the actual game.

For us Twitter banter supersedes the possibilities of the 90 minutes on the pitch.

Mujtahida:

I'm not in CIV but Nigerians have concluded that they have already won it. I don't know whether we can sense it but there's this certainty that we have won it.

And this overconfidence from fans and players alike might be our undoing.

izzou:


I think its time to use these fintech platforms

I have been procrastinating lately.

Since the cash crunch drama in January 2023, I only use fintech apps for everyday transactions. First time in weeks of transferring to a traditional bank vendor account on a weekend, got debited but seller isn't credited.

Of course, Nigerian vendors don't care. I'd have to pay regardless via any means while sorting out the issues myself during the weekdays or wait 72 hours.

izzou:
Please is anybody's GTapp working?

All the account i put in cannot be verified.

Make dem no give me plate to wash for here.

Crazy bank. I'm here at a supermarket hoping it processes before I leave. Thankfully, there are fintech platforms to the rescue.

raumdeuter:
I saw a post about Herbert Wigwe involved in a crash

https://saharareporters.com/2024/02/10/breaking-access-holdings-ceo-herbert-wigwe-five-others-die-helicopter-crash-california

https://www.nairaland.com/7996769/herbert-wigwe-dies-helicopter-crash

What the..?!!!!!!!!!!!!

Incognito9:


I believe the analysis on the hard decision is the first thing he had to do before removing the subsidy. That announcement on his inauguration day is characteristics of a reckless leader.

hunger is the worst enemy of man and that's the new reality you're saying people should adjust because he want to form hard man.

I fault that ur statement

A presidential candidate wanting to be president of an import-dependent country who declared and reprimanded the citizens for worrying about the foreign exchange rates was never going to do any analysis of consequences.

The joke is on his minions who cheered him when he kept dropping distasteful and anti-economic-development takes during the campaigns.