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sylve11:
Terrible.

No one knows tomorrow, it's very important we start doing right.

What's your definition of right?

how much airtime will you send? I have the workings

while I agree that not everyone is strong mentally, a lot of people are passing through hard stuffs. I used to be once depressed and I used to have suicidal thoughts in the past but I overcame them by opening up to someone that helped me and now all is history. Although there are situations in which death is better than life, that shouldn't make you take your own life. it's a free world anyways, why rush to commit suicide when you'll still die in the end.

Eyah, quite a sad story. while it may be rare, medical students pass through a lot of mental stress and can become pyschologically abnormal due to a lot of pressure and all that. furthermore, castration isn't the way out because sexual immoralities is first of all mental before it becomes physical. he needs to learn how to clear his mind.

Sandrazima:
Most guys will leave me to my fate? In which world? Lol

Women are the real ones with abundance. Have you seen my WhatsApp? I have over 50 unreplied messages from guys. Sometimes I wonder where some of them get my number. Some of them I've told to leave me alone, that I'm not interested, yet they feel they have to prove themselves, offering to take me out and sending me card when I didn't ask. Some of them I ignore hoping they'd stop texting, yet they are still texting. I've installed GBWhatsApp many times just to hide my last seen and online so these stalkers will leave me, yet they are still texting

The more badly you treat a guy the more he chases you. Talk about lacking any self respect
But they will come online and be forming alpha. I laugh in Chinese.

This online applies to simps jare

So, what happens after today?
We can be impure ba?
Lol

Lol..... I never trust words.
But I know people can be genuine.
People can be hippocrates.
People can be struggling.
People can be anything they want to be.
Sexual purity is a choice and although it's a right choice, not everyone has the ability to go that path.
It is an intense discipline that needs the help of the holy ghost because you're making sure that all your faculties are pure.
Thanks for the post all the same (though I think In the long run, it may not really cause any change) but still, thanks.

yomi007k:
So you believe manhood can be stolen?

Yes I believe because I don see am happening with my Koro Koro eyes

Badonasty:
This penis stealing accusation thing as to stop and this jungle justice of a thing too...it’s so sad that this day and age people still believe dick can disappear mysteriously

Oh man, dick dey dissapear mysteriously ooo. Just because e never happen to you no mean say e no dey exist ooo. It's unbelievable but it happens

Brandonx:
I'll keep saying it. Nigerians are evil!
They would maim and kill anyone they perceive to be doing well whenever they have the opportunity.
I'm still trying to fathom how someone could steal a penìs.
Like does it make any sense ?

Oh boy, nothing in life is impossible oooo. I no dey believe all this kind thing until it happened to one of my closest nigga in my street, Omo they stole is d*ck for three days the part dey empty but it was later restored Sha. I swear I no believe am until I see am with my eyes. Unfortunately I no get picture I for don post am here.
Things dey happen for life sha. Never say never

joseph1013:
Les Luka

So Ijeoma Chinonyerem made an interesting post about the supernatural, detailing a story of a woman who, it appears, “unintentionally killed her boyfriend” with charms and whatnot. The full story is on her page so go there for the gist.

I've been wanting to make a post on this and this seems like an opportune time to do so.

Whenever people find out about my irreligious leanings, the first question they ask is;

“so you don't believe in jazz?”

(which is funny, given the god they serve is supposedly more powerful but they never hesitate to use a ‘lesser power’ to validate the existence of their god, but I digress).

“No, I don't. Any wahala?”

Oftentimes, they'll regal you with stories that have no explanation and could only be as a result of the unseen. Not that their stories are made up but I'll explain why I don't believe in the supernatural.

1. The imperfections of cognition — selection bias.

For all the adulation and praise the human mind garners, it is not impervious to failures of accurately describing the human experience. One of this failures is the Selection Bias.

The selection bias is a quirk of human behaviour that predisposes us to accepting information that aligns with our preconceived notions and dismissing information that invalidates our opinions. Everyone has a selection bias to a certain degree. No human is immune to this. You will accept information that confirms what you already know and you will discard those that do not align with your beliefs.

For instance, an antifeminist will readily accept and ape the rhetoric of ‘indecent dressing leads to rape’ while ignoring the fact that conservative nations (with ‘decent dressing’) have far more incidence of rape than liberal countries (with ‘promiscuous dressing’).

Or what about the Buharist who refuses to factor in the overwhelming socioeconomic failures of the Buhari administration but agrees with the miniscule, two-bit crumbs of ‘progress’.

In the same vein, superstition is the mainstay of this selection bias, and religion as a whole.

If I made a prediction few days back that Manchester United with lose 6-1 and Liverpool would lose 7-2 concurrently what would happen to my reputation? Let's back up a bit; say I also predicted an 8-2 loss against Barcelona before the match what would you think of me?

I'd be heralded as a seer. People will slide into my DM to run their betslips by me, I'd be asked what charm I'm using, or the intellectuals amongst us would ask what statistical models I'm using.

But here's the catch, I make THOUSANDS of predictions. 99% of which turn out to be wrong, off-tangent most often. But the need to believe I have the powers of premonition predisposes people to SELECT the instances in which my prediction was spot on and dismiss the overwhelming chunk of it that was wrong.

It doesn't matter how unlikely my correct score predictions were, the fact that it is not consistent already eliminates it's viability.

We have been fooled by randomness. We see two or more unlikely events happen (usually within the same time frame) and automatically assume there's a pattern, neverminding the fact that these events wouldn't even register if they were far apart. Because of our need to understand our world, we force-fit randomness, select the information we want and toss the ones we don't like.

2. Imperfection in our cognition — mass delusions.

People say;

“well, I saw it with my eyes, Chinedu saw it too, so did Kemi”

Emmm.. that you all witnessed a “supernatural phenomenon” does not make it true.

There is a phenomenon in psychology called mass hallucinations — as the name implies, it simply means when a group of people witness an anomaly at the same time, usually within the same vicinity.

The history books are replete with stories of a mass of people witnessing a UFO, Virgin Mary, Jesus or an apparition. For instance, there was a time in Brazil, thousands of people ‘witnessed’ an apparition of Virgin Mary in the clouds (it turned out to be clouds of lightening).

As psychologists explain, mass hallucinations often start with one person seeing an unfamiliar object or activity. He or she then points this out to another person, who looks for this pattern (consciously or unconsciously), sees it, and points it out to the next person and boom! An entire mass of people are supposedly seeing something supernatural.

In terms of local magicians and ‘prophets’, they first prime the unsuspecting audience with cues; accentuation of key words, subliminal gestures and the rest. Then they often employ a hallucinogen — could be a plant, a powder, whatever — to induce psychedelic, out-of-body experiences, altered states of consciousness and then proceed to manipulate the person through suggestions.

The victims of this snake-oil plot never suspect they've been played because they don't know they've been played.

For good measure, consider the fact that psychiatrists can implant fake memories simply by putting the person in a highly suggestible state (using the aforementioned techniques) and telling them stories which they will remember as vividly as their own memories.

This is something that has gone on for centuries but now the scientists have a way an empirical way of understanding these blindspots in the human psyche.

When a person is doing feats of magic, stop and ask yourself this question;

“Can they do this again but in a different setting?”

Like 99% of magic, it is not reproducible in a controlled environment. They said magicians and native doctors cannot reproduce it with scientists controlling for variables and extraneous occurrences.

Summary of my extra-long post.

99% of our ‘supernatural experience’ have an explanation, and it is NOT a supernatural being pulling the strings. For the 1% that don't have an explanation, then they SIMPLY DON'T HAVE AN EXPLANATION, so terming it supernatural is fallacious.

Shine your eyes fellows.

The realm of the mind is vast and wide!
Anything is possible in the realm of the mind and thinking and many don't know the difference between reality and mind.

GodHead85:
Here's something to think about,

We are mortal because our chromozones decay, what if within the relatively near future, we develop the flexibility to renew our chromozones ??

Imagine how theists would react to it, who needs heaven once you are immortal on earth ?

Obviously, you’d need an off switch, for once you run out of things to try to to.

Gives you one more reason to resent, we could potentially be the last mortal generations of the humanity.

Imagine technology could return your youth to you, I doubt it might reverse the consequences of aging, but it could definitely halt it. Maybe quantum autonomous nano swarms riding our blood cells, acting as a brilliant system, regulating our body, giving us increased regenerative abilities.

Imaginatively, I do hope or envision a future time where money is recognized for what it's (an imaginary construct that facilitates trading and cooperation) - AND humanity will outgrow its needing the bible/Koran/fav holy book to inform you the way to be moral. However I don’t see that taking place until mankind as an entire starts to actually take responsibility and admits that it’s alright to not have answers.

The idea of AI causally being tossed as an alternate for humankind deciding and fair resource balancing scares the shit out of me. Why? Because
A) without emotions, it might be a psychopath
B) programmed emotions (for empathy?) are only nearly as good as mankind’s emotional maturity

Okay, i'll be getting sooner than myself with all this pseudo science and what ifs

I like the part where you said, Humanity should be begin to be responsible and that it is alright to not have answers. But we are curious and we must seek for answers and whether the answers are right or wrong, it is of no concern to us at all.
We choose that which conforms most likely to our mindsets and prejudice.

Majority of humanity are programmed.
If you're a fanatic, it is because you grew up in an environment that supported the possibility of fanatism.

If you are an atheist, it is because you gathered some outward Information and data that appealed to you that God doesn't exist and it clicked within you.

You're human, you don't need to choose or reject God. It is only a low level logic mind that thinks that only one option is correct. Logic will say it is either God exists or he doesn't exist but life will give 7 answers or possibilities.
1. Yes God exists and describable
2. No God doesn't exist and describable
3. God is both (exists and doesn't exist depending on the context)
4. God is not both (neither exists nor doesn't exist)
5. Silence
6. Yes God exists but indescribable
7. No God exists but indescribable

joseph1013:
Of Religions, sentience and egos.
BY NWOBODO FORTUNE

When religious people say that Science proves Religion right and people that don't believe are "fools", what exactly do they mean?

Because from where I stand, it seems like quite the opposite.
A central flaw of religion is a desire to put man (and the earth) at the center of everything because we're the only beings that have the sentience to do so.
The earth must have been created for us. We must have some great, big purpose in this world.
The earth must have been the center of the world with everything revolving around it (this religion based belief was popular until the early 1600s).

This "special person, special purpose" belief is why the majority of religions have young earth creation dates. Man is the reference point and religions cannot conceive of a world in which animals existed for hundreds of millions of years before we did. Or a world in which until recently, we were no more special than these animals, just evolving humans at the middle of the food chain.
Thus, most religions aren't even made from the moment when man split from the ancestral apes or the moment when he first became sentient enough to make wooden tools. They're from the moment when he became sentient enough to think in abstract terms, in fact, in such abstract terms that he could imagine things that didn't exist and convince himself that they did because it was the only way this world could have been created. That period was just about half to one dozen millenia ago compared to the 200 millenia that our species, homo sapiens has existed or the approximately 6.5 million years since we split from the ancestral apes.
And most of their thoughts are bull... The exact bull by which most religions are proven false.

All of science does not agree with a young earth. The only thing that agrees with a young earth is our ego and our wanton desire to place ourselves at the center of narratives simply because we have the consciousness and the overbearing ego to do so.
From the petrol in our cars that represent the remains of dinosaurs that existed 66-230 million years old and the remains of myriad other species of extinct animals to the rocks that we can accurately date with Potassium Argon dating systems to 3 or even 4+ billion years ago to the earliest light from stars that we calculate to have left the star 13.4 billion years ago, showing us that the star is at least that old, we've consistently found that so much existed before us, so much exists with us and so much will exist after we have gone extinct. We're just lucky enough to have the consciousness of self / intelligence to enjoy the now.

I have always maintained that the more specific a religion is, the easier it is to be dismantled. Because while they can twist and turn, changing the goal posts on a number of these vague ideals they churn out, the truth remains that most of their beliefs are created by men who thought themselves special enough to be the mouth pieces of the gods whilst making quips that were only true in their time, mainly as a result of widespread ignorance in ancient times.
If you hold their more specific quotes, thoughts and attempts at science up to scrutiny, they crumble into fine dust.

No religion is special. They're all made up attempts to answer the questions, How did all of this come to be? Why are we here? etc.
That is why there are so many of them. (There were over 100,000 known religions before the conquest and colonialism of much of the world by superior armies spreading Christianity and Islam (for political means) reduced that number to the conservative 4,000 it is today.)

Unlike Mathematics or Physics which would be replicated almost perfectly if all of it were lost, religion is such a diffuse product of the imagination that if all the 4000 religions suddenly left our imaginations now, in time people would invent entirely new ones that would have only one thing in common with the old ones. A reliance on faith and absolutely no rooting in fact.

Have a nice day.

Religion and science can never complement each other based on the fact that science is an objective act and religion is a subjective act.
Even in the same religion, the same followers or worshippers have different thoughts, mindset and pictures of God because God is a subjective phenomenon not an objective one.

If God exists, that is fine by me. If he doesn't exist, that is also fine by me but one thing I am aware of is that I exist and I live and that's enough for me.

Religion is simply an attempt by man to explain the mystery of existence.
They try to explain that God created the world, of what concern is you that God created the world? Whether he created the world or not, does it matter? The mystery of existence or creation cannot be explained by logic or by words simply because this whole charade and game of life existed before you're born. It existed before your reasoning, your intellect and your emotions were born or formed so it would be impossible to explain the whole mystery of existence with that punit and tiny logic or theology of yours because life will continue to exist even after you're gone.

The focus shouldn't be for or against God
The focus should be on yourself.
Know thyself!

Religion is a phenomenon man created to shift responsibility from himself to some "unknown deity".

God cannot be proved nor disproved. So arguing for or against God doesn't make sense at all.

For me, I think it is better to just enjoy and live life here and now, be conscious of this moment. Live in the present and not in the past nor the future. Every religion claims to be the true religion and they say all other religions are false, I am not proving or disputing such facts at all. What I observed is that even if there is an element or iota of truth in any religion, the priests have woven doctrines around it and this has killed the truth.


It's better to go within yourself and look inside of yourself and discover your true being. Why become like Christ when existence has made you something else. Existence has produced one Christ and that's enough. Existence doesn't repeat itself and if you try to become Christ by all means, you'll only be a dead Christ and not a living Christ because you'll loose your authencity.


If you believe in God, fine.
If you don't believe in God, fine.

But, have you believed in yourself?
You've not seen God, but you can see yourself right? Why not start from going deep within yourself?

All the efforts of religion is to take the focus from yourself to God, whereas you're supposed to start from Yourself.