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Scholar8200:
Justifies? A student has the choice to either pass or fail, and if the teacher does his job very well, he(teacher) is not to blame if one chooses not to pass!

point is, there are just two options and we have our free will. Just as it will be unjust to give a pass mark to a student who fails woefully...

Scholar8200:
It is all about the consequence of a choice. Would you say God should give Eternal rest to all? Yes but not all will receive it, what then?!

lekkie073:
since we r not leaving this world with our bodies, what does the fire in hell want to burn?

donnelly:
from your finding, what actually happened

kevoh:
It's actually a scene of a minor accident of trucks carrying fish. Notice how one part of the road is very dry and the part with the fish wet. Don't mind the last picture, that one could be photoshopped but I'm certain it's unrelated to the previous ones.

www.snopes.com/media/notnews/rainingfish.asp

Sorry I pooped your party, no lying for your god once again.

Medicis:
Hello! Pls are you an atheist or Muslim? I'll really wanna know your faith b4 I respond.

Medicis:
Every soul is immortal. ETERNAL LIFE is when you spend your immortality with Jesus in heaven and ETERNAL CONTEMPT is when you spend your immortality in hell. The Devil is immortal but doesn't have eternal life.

For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity. 20All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.…

CoolUsername:
But.. But.. What about faith?

vchykp:
I'm sorry about the incident tho, may the deceased RIP.. TB Joshua's case is a different thing, if a building collapses, it could be tagged as the carelessness of the architecture, quote me any where(traditionally/spiritually).. Buh thunder is not an ordinary thing,in village, it is believed that whoever thunder strikes is evil and should not be buried in d community,nd now dis ones died in church, prayer warrior for that mata and u think God is happy with them?..

Annunaki:
Lovely quote, very Succint.

goodnews201668:
Then should general overseers, founders and pastors pay tithe?
Hebrews 7:9

vchykp:
So you mean this is the 1st lightning the church has experienced?.. And in the whole village, its only the church of God that has more casualties?.. Don't you know the church is a place of refuge?.. My bro/sis let's wake-up to reality, this are the ones that funicate and come to church, this are the ones that conducts abominable act in the name of ministry,God is simply angry with this ones, and anyone that survived with injury, should know its a warning for him/her to stop abormination in church.

patrickbon:
fake church

jayriginal:
You're a Bayelsa man not a Levite.

Geofavor:
"Abiogenesis is a spin-off of the bigbang."

A 60-year-old Christian woman was caned yesterday (April 12) in Indonesia’s Banda Aceh province—for breaking rules aimed at Muslims. It was the first time somebody from outside the Islamic faith was caned under the province’s harsh sharia regulations.

In the same nation where beachgoers in Bali throw back beers and frolic in bikinis, the woman was whipped nearly 30 times with a rattan cane before a crowd of hundreds, for the crime of selling alcohol. The canings are performed in public with shaming in mind. While many onlookers find the punishments hard to watch, some shout insults at the victims and hold up their cameraphones to record and share the macabre spectacle.

Until recently, sharia regulations applied only to the province’s Muslim population. But under bylaws that went into effect late last year, now members of other religions can also be punished under the rules—although until yesterday it wasn’t clear just how far that would go.


EPA/GIBRAN
A 2014 caning in Banda Aceh.
Banda Aceh is the only province in Indonesia allowed to implement Islamic law. For decades it tried to break free from the nation, and to help end the separatist movement Jakarta agreed to give the province a degree of autonomy—including the right to use sharia law. Since the two sides struck a peace deal in 2005, following the devastating tsunami that struck the region, the province has steadily implemented more sharia regulations.

When the new bylaws were passed late last year, many voiced concerns about how non-Muslims would be affected. Islamic leaders sought to allay their fears.

“The fact is that Muslims in Aceh do tolerate religious freedom and we can coexist without any problems,” Teungku Faisal Ali, head of the provincial chapter of the influential Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama, told BenarNews at the time. “We don’t want to raise the impression that Islamic law in Aceh infringes on the rights of non-Muslims… It doesn’t [force] sharia law on non-Muslims because they are free to observe their own faiths and beliefs.”

The Christian woman caned yesterday—and no doubt in considerable pain today—might beg to differ.

Geofavor:
sorry If I seemed a bit cranky earlier.

@ the bolded, I'm not disputing that. True, they're different subject matters. But without the first one, there wouldn't be the second. This is why I took the theories as a single whole; a single whole which is just subdivided (if i may say).


Maybe you don't see it, but there is a link between the two theories -- abiogenesis is a spin-off of the bigbang.

Geofavor:
clap for yaself, stephen hawking.

Before rushing into discarding what I said in a flash, pause and think. The bigbang suggests the inception of everything -- the begining of the universe, right?

Now, if the universe didn't come to be, subsequently, would there be life? The answer to this is what I was talking about.

What you said is just like saying fire has nothing to do with a cooked food because it isn't part of the ingredients in the cooked food.

dancuz:
nice.tell this to your african mother and she will say it is spiritual

Geofavor:
It still doesn't make sense to me. That's one scientific theory I refuse to agree on. I haven't really delved into it, though (maybe because I'm not intrigued by the Idea). I don't really like the Idea that living matter came out of a mass of energy and non-living matter.

IAN BURKHART HAS been a cyborg for two years now. In 2014, scientists at Ohio State’s Neurological Institute implanted a pea-sized microchip into the 24-year-old quadriplegic’s motor cortex. Its goal: to bypass his damaged spinal cord and, with the help of a signal decoder and electrode-packed sleeve, control his right arm with his thoughts. Cue the transhumanist cheers!

Neuroengineers have been developing these so-called brain-computer interfaces for more than a decade. They’ve used readings from brain implants to help paralyzed patients play Pong on computer screens and control robotic arms. But Burkhart is the first patient who’s been able to use his implant to control his actual arm.

Over the past 15 months, researchers at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and engineers from Battelle, the medical group that developed the decoder software and electrode sleeve, have helped Burkhart relearn fine motor skills with weekly training sessions. In a paper in Nature, they describe hooking a cable from the port screwed into Burkhart’s skull (where the chip is) to a computer that translates the brain signals into instructions for the sleeve, which stimulates his muscles into moving his wrist and fingers.

When Burkhart thinks “clench fist,” for example, the implanted electrodes record the activity in his motor cortex. Those signals are decoded in real-time, jolting his arm muscles in all the right places so that his fingers curl inwards. But he can do more than make a fist: Using the one-of-a-kind system, he’s learned to shred a video game guitar, pour objects from a bottle, and pick up a phone. “Card swiping is the most impressive movement right now,” says Herb Bresler, a senior researcher at Battelle. “It demonstrates fine grip as well as coarse hand movements.”

If Burkhart can swipe credit cards after a year, he might play the piano after five—that’s how long similar chips have lasted—because he and the computer have been learning from each other. But the implant will stop collecting signals in July when it’s removed, even if the chip is still providing good data, because the clinical trial was structured for a two-year period. In those two years, the computer trained itself on Burkhart’s thoughts, learning which signals translate to what movements, while he figured out how to make commands more clearly (often with the help of visual cues). “That’s the real achievement here. We’ve shown we know how to process the data,” says Bresler. “The chip is a limiting factor. We need to work on new ways of collecting brain signals.”

Though similar neuroprosthetics have been helpful in reducing tremors in Parkinson’s patients, they still have a ways to go. Besides the serious, invasive surgery, there’s always a chance the body will reject an array, blocking any attempts to record and transmit brain signals while ensuring you get patted down at every airport security scanner, forever. “Something will replace this array,” says Bresler. “Future signal collection devices will cover a larger area of the brain and be less invasive.”

Drawbacks aside, the electrode sleeve and decoding software wouldn’t be where they are today without the array driving them. With improved collection devices, these products could eventually help stroke victims recover by reteaching their brain to use their limbs, while quadriplegics could mount similar systems on their wheelchairs. At the very least, the neuroprosthetic experiment suggests that in the future, paralysis might not mean dependence—and that deserves a fist bump.

Blackfire:
Islam can never survive in a competitive environment, so its inward mechanism is to dominate with no one to question it.

But other religion survival mechanism is to be able to interact with others.

Islam is afraid of its own very shadow.

Even on this nairaland they ve the khadijat gown covering them in Islamic section and a very sympathetic MOD with them.

If u are a Muslim and u insult me, your life will never remain the same.

Blackfire is back. Where is my ari3l?

Logicbwoy:
On this Sunday that just passed, I drove through my former church on my way to get fuel and I noticed that the church was almost it usual attendance. The fuel scarcity had little effect on the numbers of people in the church.

This led me to wonder, why people still drive to church despite the economic hardship facing us in this country.

-Are they going to church to beg God for the thousandth time to stop the fuel scarcity- a scarcity that keeps on recurring?
-Are they going to church to miraculously make fuel appear int heir tanks?
-Are they going just to receive the AC in the church since there is probably no light at home?
-Why dont they save the fuel in their car for work instead?
-Why didnt TB Joshua and other prophets of doom predict the fuel scarcity?


This leads me to a theory about suffering. There is an argument that the hopeless turn to God or religion as a crutch. And truly, if you notice, countries that are poor or suffering are usually more religious. It seems that many need a hero, a messiah to bring them salvation from their unsolvable problems.

Honestly, why do people think it is worth it to go to church during this fuel scarcity? Hasn't God failed Nigeria enough? Nigeria keeps getting harder- no light, no fuel, no jobs, bad roads etc. Nigeria keeps sinking deeper into an abyss.






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