₦airaland Forum

In naija, Abuja.

Not to mention Seun's gross disrespect of his moderators. He completely threw them under the bus.

Extremely unprofessional.

berem: Na my hero you dey call flying monkey Ololufemi ? Choi! Chinua Achebe don see shege for nairaland!

I did not call him a flying monkey. I used an extreme example, but am not claiming that Chinua Achebe's case is the extreme.

This for me has nothing to do with personalities...it is about processes and respecting the will of the people.

manny4life: Unfortunately, this is not how our democratic process works. This is the reason why I NEVER participated in such nonsense since it's inception.

In a democratic process, when people are nominated, it's subject to the first vetting process (background information) where the majority decides if to be or not to be. After all said and done, then it's taken to the polls if the majority wins. I've never seen where a nominee is directly put into the polls, it doesn't work like that.

1. Yes, in most party systems, a candidate first must scale through his party primary before entering the general election. But...what is the equivalent of party or party primary in a vote like this?

2. "Nominees" are directly put to the polls all the time in my state (California). In this particular case, the nominees might be independent candidates, or the yes/no propositions we vote on.

3. More to the point, since while the process was taking place, no rules were violated, how can one discard the results just because they didn't come out to your liking? Seun's whole handling of this process is very unprofessional for this exact reason. Change the rules AFTER the "game" has been played, not in the middle of the game. Dude is pretty much Ibrahim Babangida at this point.

It isn't even about Biafra.

If the people decided to induct a flying monkey into their hall of shame...why not?

You didn't rule out flying monkeys beforehand explicitly, did you?

The principle at stake here (which Seun is violating) is that of democracy. The biafra stuff is irrelevant.

This is simply one of the most r3tarded things I have seen so far on this website.

The mods had no control over who was nominated...they simply collated votes.

So your blaming of the the mods is a copout. Unless you want them to arbitrarily throw away people's votes.

OK, so in the future, keep the hall of shame......but then have Seun look at the list of nominees and strike out any he doesn't like.

Hell, you may as well do this for every single voting process on this site, yes?

Democracy, subject to Seun's whimsy.

oyb: wow - this is the ibb approach - when elections do not go the way you want - annul them

why are we allowing a vocal bunch of noisemakers to truncate the process?

maybe as nl emperor, you should simply unilaterally announce your mod of the year, man of the year etc, without resorting to the democratic process

Correct yarn.

Seun na politician....pandering to the crowd.

Moreover, he seems to have a bit of a fascist streak in him.

If people freely chose to add Achebe's name, then on what basis should their voices be suppressed?

OK then, provide a list of people who are not permitted to be added to a hall of shame list.

Aigbofa: What's up with all the MOPOS? Did he beat up some girl in Lagos?

lmao

don't believe me just watch, nigga nigga nigga


Best lyrics ever?

On instagram straight flexin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LOZhaxTw0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxau9B3jOHM

eduson77: take am!!!!!!!!!!!
https://gifs.gifbin.com/1232319696_4hwihe.gif

lol

Love comes in all shapes and sizes, it seems

Sybellah: ekt what's yo plans for these holidays?

Just kicking it in Houston with my family. Pretty low key. You? Ohio or you out of town?

freecocoa: Duh!

And whot are so wrong in thee grammas he speak? Nut as if all meny of you can abule to wrote something proparly like that.

We has meny wurst pearson in this nairaland, please spear and cut the guy some brake, he try as far am comesign.

Yeah, I see that now. You guys are the largest ethnic group in both Ghana and IVC.

Hmm. to what extent is this sense of ethnic nationality prevalent amongst Akan?

I am guessing it isn't very high...most Ghanaians I've met view themselves as Ghanaian first, before their tribe. And I'm guessing that the same is true in IVC?

I suppose I associated in my mind with Ghana only..and never looked up the demographics of IVC before.

cray. i didn't know there were Akan in IVC

Nairaland don't fall me hand o. I've got 30 minutes to decide

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Not the same thing bro.

Would that "answer" still stand without the "answer marker"?[/quote]Yup. The si is optional

Yeah, visiting my folks. They get annoyed if I don't visit them during holidays like this

Anyone know of any? I'm going out tonight with some buddies of mine, but all of us are basically out-of-towners.

So let me know if you know of any spots that are fun.

t

Spanish.

Q: Tienen hambre?

A: Si, tienen hambre.

I'm headed to the rockets/grizzlies game tonight

Unbelief is now the world’s third-largest’religion’

By By Kimberly Winston| Religion News Service, Published: December 19

A new report on global religious identity shows that while Christians and Muslims make up the two largest groups, those with no religious affiliation — including atheists and agnostics — are now the third-largest “religious” group in the world.

The study, released Tuesday (Dec. 18) by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, found that more than eight in 10 (84 percent) of the world’s 7 billion people adheres to some form of religion. Christians make up the largest group, with 2.2 billion adherents, or 32 percent worldwide, followed by Muslims, with 1.6 billion adherents, or 23 percent worldwide.

Close behind are the “nones” — those who say they have no religious affiliation or say they do not believe in God — at 1. 1 billion, or 16 percent. That means that about the same number of people who identify as Catholics worldwide say they have no religion.

“One out of six people does not have a religious identity,” said Conrad Hackett, a primary researcher and demographer on the study. “But it is also striking that that overwhelming majority of the world does have some type of religious identity. So I think people will be surprised by either way of looking at it.”

The next largest groups, the report finds, are Hindus (1 billion people, or 15 percent), Buddhists (500 million people, or 7 percent) and Jews (14 million people, or 0.2 percent). More than 400 million people — 6 percent — practice folk traditions from African, Chinese, Native American or Australian aboriginal cultures.

An additional 58 million people — slightly less than 1 percent of the global population — belong to “other” religions, such as the Baha’i faith, Jainism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Taoism, Tenrikyo, Wicca and Zoroastrianism.

In addition to the numbers of adherents, the study also looks at where they live. Christians are the most evenly distributed, while Jews are fairly evenly divided between North America and the Middle East. The United States has the highest number of Christians of any nation, at more than 243 million, or 78 percent of the total U.S. population.

Meanwhile, the majority of the world’s religiously unaffiliated — 76 percent — live in the Asia-Pacific region, with 700 million in China alone, where religion was stifled during the Cultural Revolution.

The report found nearly 51 million religiously unaffiliated Americans, or about 16.4 percent of the U.S. population. That number is smaller than the 19 percent of Americans Pew reported earlier this year. Researchers attribute this discrepancy to the fact that their 2012 report was based on information from adults only, and the newest report includes the religious adherence of children, which tends to be higher than that of adults.

And while the number of the religiously unaffiliated is high, researchers are careful to point out that they are by no means homogeneous.

Surveys considered in this report show that 7 percent of unaffiliated Chinese report a belief in God or some other high power, while that number among the unaffiliated French is 30 percent, and among Americans it climbs to 68 percent. In China, 44 percent of unaffiliated adults say they have worshiped at a graveside or tomb in the past year.

The report covers 230 countries and is drawn from more than 2,500 censuses, surveys and population records accrued through 2010. It marks the first attempt to pin down a global religious landscape using such records, Hackett said.

Other findings include:

— About three-quarters (73 percent) of the world’s people live in countries where their religion is in the majority, mostly Christians and Hindus.

— The religiously unaffiliated are in the majority in six nations: China, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hong Kong, Japan and North Korea.

— The unaffiliated, Buddhists and Jews have the highest median age (34, 34 and 36 respectively) while Muslims, Hindus and Christians have the lowest (23, 26 and 30 respectively). Median age is a predictor of how religious groups will grow, as those with a younger age have more women of child-bearing age.

Ryan Cragun, a religion sociologist at the University of Tampa who studies the nonreligious, said the numbers on the unaffiliated are not surprising. But he cautions that surveys that rely on secondary data, such as censuses, and self-reporting often over calculates some groups, such as Christians.

“The real question is whether or not the nonreligious are outpacing the religious when it comes to growth,” he said.

That and other issues, such as migration, age range and mortality will be covered in future reports, Pew researchers said. A more in-depth report on the religiously unaffiliated is planned for 2013.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/unbelief-is-now-the-worlds-third-largestreligion/2012/12/19/1db89f74-4a06-11e2-8af9-9b50cb4605a7_story.html

[quote author=H-Star89]still here

#Fail @ Mayan Prophecy[/quote]

I enjoyed reading this article...her timeline is eerily similar to mine.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/12/how-the-africans-became-black/266222/

heh