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If this story is true
then i am dissapointed that Jonathan can be so pedestrian as to eat hotel food in other countries
whether Gambia or the US

such exposure is a security breach damn it

I hailed a taxi, and too late, realized that it had 1 passenger inside
"taxi, i be want drop" i said
"oga, no problem, enter. i go soon drop this man"

I hopped into the taxi and took the back sit
As i ushered myself unto the semi naked sit my mind raced bacwards taking my life in one full sweep
I was broke.. damn broke. I was just coming from the computer village where i had dropped my laptop a week ealier for repairs
I had gone back to see if i could retreive the laptop using faith in conjunction with an almost empty pocket
it did not work.

Things were getting frustratingly difficult for me
this was not a usuall story of my life
I was born with a zinc spoon and for a large portion of my teenage life
was able to afford some of the china inner-labeled designer neccesities of life


(**chei...what have i got myself into..how i wan take finish this story?...OOOOo GODDDDD.. u who hid Jonah in the belly of the whale,.. pls touch the MODs heart to hide my post in Jesus name..Amen)

when my thread was banished to the literature section by the MOD
My inside plugged my 'mentals' into bringing my little ministry to the literature section
and it quickly drafted a story that is part literature part 'religion
This story is a concotion of truth, fiction and what could be ..(make i try be like ishilove small, although i am not a literal giant like her)

and by the way,
..this write up is no revelation at all from God or anything ethereal

it is only a fruit of my having fun times with my God and the bible
....trying to explore its 'secrets'

Afterall, most of the visual ideas we have of the bible were actually not clearly stated in the bible
they were given to us by hollywood and our sunday school teachers

i dont consider myself any less than either
..and so will write to my hearts content

and for those that might be easily described as non entities
alluding to the sensibility of my write up

i say this, with as much calm as is my second nature:
kindly string together any thoughts of yours if you can
and you incapability will soon convince you that like the roaring dinosaurs who came to a sudden end
a peanut sized processing brain on the head of a human is a recipe for a darwinian extinction....

.....*my spirit bids me not to go futher

Also,
do u realize that the pharisees who you gleefully criticize
acted just as you
yep,
they were protecting the 'sanctity and commoditization' of God by Jesus and his followers
funny resemblance isn't it?

nna men
some things in life takes a long time to brew oooooo
so its better to just quickly put out there the barrels that have already fermented

once it hits me, i write
and it exhausts me
after that, another thoughtt that is in the queue crystalizes
and i feel compelled to write it down before it evaporates for years
unfortunately my energy level is finite
....hence the staccato style of writing

ooooo, i long for those days when i was like a young goat
kicking and twisting at the 4 winds with zest
.......perhaps, a woman just as Delilah as taken my strength

[quote author=Mynd_44]Seeing as this is an obvious diversion from what your Holy Book says, should I move this to jokes or Literature?[/quote]^^you sure about this being an 'obvious' diversion from what my holy book says?
if i had said adam was created a full grown man, would that be a more 'obvious' alignment
(although, this was not stated in my holy book)

justwise: Who is plagiarizing who?

very well then
i guess you are in a better place to authenticate the owner of the story
and clear the confusion on the allegations of plagiarism levelled against the OP

Lets imagine God as a man, so that we can easily follow this narrative

After God had created all things, he then called all things to himself and said let us make man in our image and likeness,
and let him have domininion over ..etc

then God bent down into the soil of the earth and its chemical compositions, and formed the basic cellular structures of man
he then ejected the "cellular container" with life
and it became a living soul and started to divide and grow

everything came together for the good of this baby man (foetus) to ensure that he grows
he had a 'weak' umblical chord that was attached to the earth from whence he drew his feeding from
as baby adam grew stronger, the unblical chord grew weaker and wore off

*So in essence, God made man in his image, while all 'produced' man in their likeness*

Animals provided breast milk to Adam
he learnt to crawl, and God began to lead him gradually to the garden of Eden that had been planted just for him

baby adam could soon walk, and had a swell time growing and discovering his world
as he journeyed around, animals came over to him, and he chuckled out names to them
he was able to communicate with animals, much like how animal species communicate amongst themelves
His strength was that he could communicate accross species





***uhm....^^^interesting story... let me see how Eve fits into this

[quote author=Nuzo']I have always wondered why NCC haven't issued a ban on such fraud and security risk.

In security conscious environments, hidden calls are automatically banned by the network provider.

Hidden calls screams deception and crime.[/quote]Which security conciouse environment does what you're suggesting?

MODs get this out of FP
plagiarism kills innovation
NairaLand should not encourage such

some years back, i happened upon a powerful mind trick
it goes something like this:
if half of nigerians where like me, how would the country be like?
this made me desire to improve myself


i soon improved on this inquisitive logic for a better national and cultural appreciation
with reasoning and scenario visualization in the line of:
1) if all nigerians moved to america, and all americans moved to nigeria, what woul be the impact?

2) if we exchanged only leaders, i.e jonathan, and them tambuwal and tinubu go lead america,
while them Obama and the republican bucaneers came over to Nigeria.... what would be the impact?


Moving a goat from nigeria to america does not change it character. It only changes its name to American goat

To further nail my confidence in jonathan's comparative honesty, i believe that if he is lined up with past leaders of states and the country
hw would be closer to the bottom index.
I mean, imagine weighing jonathans personal corruption level against those of folks like Babangida, Atiku, Abacha, Tinubu, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Ibori,.

I am sure for jonathan, the scale would read: "weightless. Please add more points to reach the level of your mates"




*i have not mentioned Obasanjo, because i feel he is a peculiar case. He is unable to differentiate nigeria's money from his. he can easily sign a cheque for a girl to buy a car from Nigeria's Soverieign Wealth fund", and see nothing wrong with it. He acts almot like a baby. The others however, are very concious of what they are doing, and try to hide their acts

Why do i say this?
just like tambunwal alluded to jonathans body language encouraging corruption
so i allude to his body language washing his own hands off it

Also, despite how critisized he his, and how many leaks around him
there has never been a story of him stealing money in the Nigerian way
It is very obvious that one of the ways he has decided to enrich himself without having issues with a future audit
is by frequent international travels. I believe that the estacodes he collects from such travels runs into 10,s of millions
I wont be surprised if the total sum is past a billion now.

..........it all depends on the definition of corruption


what quite a number of nigerians take as sharp,
you might hear the brits and yanks through their news channels like BBC and CNN describe as corruption
For example, that guy that did the sign language thing during Mandela's funeral,
is what a number of us will laugh at and exclaim: "Badtest guy!!"
However, the western press use him to demontrate the continuous decline of south Africa into the deeper waters of corruptionunder the ANC

So, we do have various and different conceptions of corruption
and in western country standards, Jonathan might be called a thief

But using the generally accepted perception for corruption in nigeria
I do not believe that jonathan can be accused of being a thief
he does not lift a finger to discourage folks around him from stealing
but he his himself a "saint"

^^^
there is no shame in feeling ashamed of ones own country and even denying it
it all depends on what the country stands for

a teenager will easily deny to his friends that the village drunkard who passes out in the gutter everyday is his father
he might also wish him dead that this humiliating cup might pass away

nitrogen: Hmmmmmm! Nice one.

We've missed seeing your threads around.

been as busy as a bee

He considers Jonathan as a weak man from a weak tribe
and sees no qualms in calling for and demanding his exit
If he Obasanjo wanted an extra term above his 2 terms, how does he expect any other person not to want 2 terms?
Despite the internal arrangement by PDP for power rotation,
the fact remains that anyone who had Jonathan' oppurtunity would grab it by both hands
and distrort the arrangement. Atiku would have done the same, so would Tinubu

Obj feels that just like he did during Murtala's regime where he stuck to the handover plan despite the death of Murtala
Jonathan should follow suit

i cannot seperate the messangr from the message
i am already aware that Jonathan is a weak leader without a vision for Nigeria
I really dont need Obj becoming the cheerleader for the removal of the gift he bequeathed us
If i have to let my girlfriend go because of her unfaithfulness
I really wont like Obj the notorious one to be the one screwing her after me

Conclusion
I wouldnt take obj' letter as a point of reference for Jonathan ineptitude if I were you
other points of references abound

I have heard it said concerning obj's letter that the messanger should be seperated from the message.
I dey laugh

If someone that you are aware desires to shag your girfriend or wife comes over to you with a terrible story about your wife
..how will you react?
Seperate the messanger from the message?

Indeed, the person's story might be correct, but the goal is clear. It is for you to dump her so that he can shag her
This is the dilema that we now face.

Obasanjo somehow sees Nigeria as his child and creation. He wants it back from Jonathan
He wants to give Nigeria to a new suitor.
this is the objective of his letter. That is why it is mixed with lies and truths

Obasanjo also lacks respect for minorities
he considers them as weak and subject to brawn
hence he could attack Odi and Zaki biam
and humiliate the Igbos during his tenure

He only responds to strengths
hence he stepped aside when the Nothern North of Nigeria mutilated the constitution to usher in Sharia

^^
Well said

And yes, I put myself atop the hill and waited for him to light me up
as the storms of life ravished me and sought to put me down
my spirit man became even more stubborn
and more ambitious
i no longer wanted hills, ....i wanted mountains

He did light me up ..just at the nick of time
he redefined my story beyond what i even imagined

With quivering fingers, I type this
"Thanks my big brother and friend, ...when do we hit the next mountain?"

He whispers:
"Patience, young man. Catch your breadth. The wind will fetch you at the appropriate time.
...........we've got loads of blank pages to fill in your book of life"

It came to me softly, but yet forcefully
the words of jesus as recorded in the bible

It said:
"you do not light a lamp and keep it under a bed...nope
you light the lamp and put it atop a hill so that all men might see and give glory to your father in heaven"

this was not the first time i was encountering this verse.
In my sunbeam children church class, we were taught that it means that we should do good

bUt this time, it seeped into me differntly
it was as Jesus telling me:

"You're my lamp. the way that you can be of value to me is if i push you out unto the public. Then, will my light in you be conspicous for all men to see and bring glory to me
....Yep, your'e extremely imperfect, but that's the best place to start for better effect"

I meditated on this for a while, and then decided to do as I was asked...timidly with warts, moles and all.

Pastor Oyakhilome discussing about women and skimpy clothes gave an intersting thought
"it is not the women with the issue, but the onlooker who can't keep his eyes off"

Jonathan is not the weak one (although he is weak)
we are the weak ones (reference to a commentator -Ajanlekoko)

The 'opposition' has a chance to claim the presidency
but the greatest disservice that they will do to their strategy
is if they approach it as bullies of the 'weak' president

...i might be weak, but when you rub it in and make a mockery of my weakness
you'll get the most venomous fatal snake bite you could ever imagine

.......go ask women who thought that their husbands were weak, and said it to his face

The governors are now also learning their lessons
I hope that Jonathan concludes that mess

As for the opposition
yep, opposition is great. But you must come to equity with clean hands
Not when you refuse to be challenged, and are an emperor in your own domain, then you go to someone else's domain to challenge him


I laughhhhhhhhh, ...the laughter of someone setting a bait
bullies only respect one thing -quashing
The nigerian federal structure allows for this

this also holds true for a number of NairaLanders and youths
who felt that they put weak jonathan in power
so they brazenly staged an Arab styled demonstration to protest the fuel price hike
they were drunk with power, and cajoled by some political fools who wouldn't dare try it in some other hostile regime. (** i respect those who fight no matter what, whether na Abacha , not those sneaky rats**)

They felt that Jonathan from a small small tribe, stereotyped as drunken
(in even serious minded discussions)
was a weakling. (**he probably is**)
Humans have a way of piling up bullying when the sense that you are weak

Jonathan reluctantly realised this
he got the military in to quash the uprising

Then the people switched from calling him weak
they began to call him wicked and clueless

The man was labelled as weak,... very weak
the governors made nyanga for him before letting him have his rightly deserved political power (prior to his election)

As is typical of king makers, the governors felt that the president was their football
to be kicked around
the same king maker syndrome affected Chris Ubah when he was humiliating Ngige he installed as a governor

Unfortunately for some of the governors, the president threw off their yoke
this has greatly vexed them,... seeing small, weak jonathan challenge them

I am someone that is very laid back, and so easily defined as being 'weak'
this suits me fine, as it gives me an opportunity to relax and watch some folks trying hard to use my head while I discover their weakness..
(my frontal desposition all depends on what i desire to acheive)

With my characteristics, i think that i am able to understand president GEJ who was previously declared as weak, but is now being labelled as wicked and dictatorial

^^
why dont you ask ajanlekoko if the job he advertised is one that would have a long future
ask him the rates for different skill levels for the job
Speak with him passionately about it (not desperately)

if you find it attractive, you can see a future in it, and you look like the job role*
you probably cld practice and strengthen the skills (not certification) needed for AJ's job
while still maintaing your present job and regularly keeping in touch with AJ

You probably would be very competent in AJ's desired skills in some 365 days time
i think this is what is described as mentoring
......just my thoughts ..(I've taken actions like this before, and it worked for me)



* i said 'look like' because some job requirements or mentors require some kind of minimum finese from their candidates

PapaBrowne: Saints as vultures! It doesn't get more intelligent than this! Excellent piece!

And why is it incomplete? I want more!

Feraz: Very interesting. Hope you won't abandon it just like that of externalising your problems?

LOL

Naaaaa i aint abandoning both of them threads
presently,........ too many things are competing for my time

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