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PastorAIO:
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This maybe a bit off topic but am curious. Do you practice any form of worship? To who or what if yes?
By worship I mean activities such as prayers to a Devine being.

InformedLola:
Hmm

why hmmm, interested in meeting a nice guy?

Libber:
am having problem with this question,please can anyone help
According to the description of R-rated films: Children under 17 require an accompanying parent or adult guardian (age 21 or older) and adults 25 years and under must show ID. And children under the age of 6 are not allowed in after 6:00pm.

Deadpool is an R-rated movie.

Write a JavaScript function named canIWatch that will take age as a parameter.

If the age is less than 6, return You are not allowed to watch Deadpool after 6.00pm.

If the age is 6 or more but less than 17, return You must be accompanied by a guardian who is 21 or older.

If the age is 17 or more but less than 25, return You are allowed to watch Deadpool, right after you show some ID.

If the age is 25 or greater, return Yay! You can watch Deadpool with no strings attached!.

If the age is invalid, return Invalid age.

let's see the code you have written. Then we can take it from there

Chai, naija which way

gidgiddy:
Ojukwu has never denounced Biafra, on the contrary, there are YouTube videos where Ojukwu said he was honoured and proud to have led Biafra. The only thing Ojukwu did was to give 'one Nigeria' a chance, and he lived long enough to see it fail. At almost 80, nobody expects Ojukwu to start fighting again.

Lmao, it's not only your hipocrisy that is mind blowing, your ignorance is too. Do you have any idea what it means to take an oath of public office in a sovereign nation?

SharkTank:
Brush brain? I rest my case. I can't be bothered by your ignorance. I'm not your father

You can't be. Not when you're yet to fully grasp what it means to use figure of speech in English.

SharkTank:
Another Afonja lie. Una dey use lie brush mouth in the morning

Lol, at least he better pass una way dey use ignorance dey brush una brain every morning.

gidgiddy:
I've watched this video a number of times and the hypocrisy is mind blowing. I give props to Major Taffy Williams, my father fought alongside him on the Biafran side and he was a great motivator. It should be noted that mercenaries were used on both sides of the war, infact, Nigeria used far mor mercenaries than Biafra.

As Ojukwu rightly said in the interview "war is the price of freedom". Every war has one side that is fighting for freedom and another side that is fighting to take freedom away. When it comes to the Nigerian/Biafran war, every Nigerian knows which side was fighting freedom and which side was fighting to take that freedom away.

I'm happy that people like Gowon, Obasunjo, Buhari, IBB who all fought against Biafra and went on to be presidents are all still alive today. I'm happy that they all alive to see the faliure that same Nigeria has become.

Ojukwu has been vindicated, the Nigeria he fought againt turned out to be a monumental disaster, proving that Ojukwu was right to try and get him people out.

It's your hipocrisy that is mind blowing. Have you forgotten that you are also talking about the same Nigeria Ojukwu later denounced Biafra to serve?

PissedOffWeed:
Wait!!! Who's she? Down here in Rio we know Lisa Ann....Pamela Anderson and Mia Kalifa.....but da hell is this attention seeking Wanna Be??!!!!

Lmao perverts every where

TGIF!!!

I got this brief message from a catholic group but its not only Catholics dat need to know but all Christians as well...Its very important we know such. Pls Read Thus:

Teachings of the church
Please read and follow-VERY IMPORTANT

1) The Church neither believes nor encourages any of its faithful to get involved with Chain letters, Chain SMS, Chain Emails etc. These kind of things give a very wrong picture of God.

2) These kinds of prayers are from the occult & therefore DANGEROUS. It is NOT from God. On the subject of Prayer…PRAYERS ARE NEVER POWERFUL, BUT GOD IS! It is our faith in God and not in prayers that matter. God hears prayers even when they are not said! Our Faith in God should be this sure HOPE that He LOVES US, no matter what. AMEN.

3) There is NOTHING (JUST NOTHING) we can do to receive God’s favor. THEY ARE ALREADY OURS FOR THE ASKING, because of what Jesus has done for us on the Cross…Jesus said Ask and you shall receive –Mt. 7:7…no strings attached…no conditions…Jesus had done everything for us on the Cross…it is FINISHED.

4) We cannot “purchase” God’s favor by novenas and chain prayers etc., He has already given us everything in His Son Jesus… there is nothing more God can give us. When He gave His Son, He gave all of Heaven to us Rom 8:32.

5) THERE IN NOTHING WRONG IN PRAYING NOVENAS, BUT.. when we say we have to pass it on to so many people and should not break it…that is certainly wrong worse still when we say on the 4th day or 5th day this will happen, that will happen, a miracle will occur etc etc…it’s like gambling. God never gambles. He simply gives because He simply LOVES US. It is so simple…child-like faith.

6) These kinds of prayers are superstitious and thus from the occult. And dabbling with the occult is dangerous. By thr way, most Catholics are very superstitious. We need to read our Bibles and understand the Official Teachings of the Church, in the CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, ENCYCLICALS etc... There is plenty on authentic websites and in books.

7) Coming to the nature of God, God is love – 1 John 4:8. He just loves us…He loves us so much that He gave us His only Son – John 3:16. We cannot twist His arm by making chain prayers and worse still some people think if they break it something bad will happen. That is fear…there is no fear in those who are in the love of God…in fact perfect love (of God) drives away all fear – 1John 4:18.

Whenever I receive such mails, SMS etc. I just press DELETE.

Mostly people do it out of innocence but we need to educate and help one another.

Do spread this msg to as many people as you can.

Thank you.
- FR AUGUSTINE VALOORAN

Source: www.facebook.com

Well if you attend the said church then you most probably know me , but am in the closet here and I ain't coming out @3coins and leonmacjames

3coins, the boy has been found oh. Thank God

Reports reaching me now says he had been found and he's with his family. Thanks everyone

Thanks all, a version of this thread is already on FrontPage and yes the police are already iinvolved too but we can all play our part by spreading the word. Thanks once again to all who responded.

Am not really sure how this nairaland front page works but nairalanders with large followers can help share if the mods won't push to front page.

Cc mizmycoli, smellymouth, modath, naijaboiy, tosyne2much, sandoski, twaci etc you guys should please help a brother out

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Mods can please help move to front page. Please anyone who also enjoys large follower ship here can please share so the information can spread quickly.

cc Seun, Lalasticlala, Mynd44, OAM4J farano, Rocktation dominique, r231

Modified: Missing person has since been found

sekundosekundo:
Compiled by Catholic to deceive the gullible. Catholics and Idol worshipers are the same.

Lol , is that all you could say? You don't have any sources that says otherwise?

DeepSight:
^^^ As far as anything to do with the economy and sectoral development is concerned, yes. He was rather weak on corruption and security though.

Sir, I'm not sure how any reasonable economic development can be made in a state that has always suffered from political corruption and abuse of office. But that's by the way. I only wanted to know if you would have voted for GEJ instead of buhari( I respect your opinion on many things on this forum). Also there's no saying if Fela wouldn't have been more critical of the Jonathan administration than he was of the buhari administration.

darknez:
@Bold: Will come back to that if you did not say anything about this Church you speak of.


I agree on the one flock thingy but I do not think Jesus was referring to only those who the Gospel is yet to get to. I believe those who he refers to are people who through no fault of theirs, aren't properly disposed to receive the message, though they strive to do what their conscience dictates to them.

still we can both agree christ does have one flock as he rightly said in verse 16 of that passage " there will be one flock and one shepherd"

The answer I may come up with following that analogy may, surprisingly to you, not be anywhere near what you have in mind. If you want us to follow a particular line of succession, we may end up asking questions we definitely would not have any answer to.

I am quite sure the line of succession you have in mind, is not particularly supported by Scriptures.

what kind of questions are you talking about? I have followed that line of succession and I don't think I have half as many unanswered questions as many of these Christian sects have. Am not quite sure what you mean by the bolded. Are you saying you are sure that particular line of succession is against Scriptures are that Scriptures does not support it. Like we both agreed earlier, Scriptures does not have to support it but it should go against the Scriptures. There's a difference between the two. Besides if you followed your history of Christianity properly then you would know that this particular line of succession gave you what you now know as Scriptures.

DeepSight:
Why is this question relevant?

Cos I see you criticizing the Nigerian people for voting for Buhari whom they had rejected more than once when in fact there was no better option.

DeepSight:
Oh, Holy God, No way!
That's another Adolf Hitler in the making!

PS. . . . Anyone who supports Trump has no sense of history.
This is the same way Nigerians lack a sense of History in voting Buhari.

Many Nigerians Identify with the words of the genius Fela Anikulapo Kuti - and at the same time support Buhari - who the great Fela described as an animal in Human Skin. Sometimes I wonder what these same Nigerians would say if Fela were still alive. . . .

Alas, the Dead hardly speak. . . . .

This is the same country in which we have an IBB strutting free and an MKO Dead. This is the very same country were Abacha would have been made civilian president if he was not killed. The same country where the man (Buhari) who said that Abacha was never corrupt, is fighting "Kwarapshin" in Nigeria today.

It's a fool's country, and we all, are, to a head, collective fools and, for quite a time, we will be ruled by fools. Fools like Buhari. Anyone who has ever read "Animal Farm" by George Orwell will clearly understand Nigeria and its Hypocrisy for what it is.

Enjoy the game, my friend, its only just started. You will see worse before 2019.

Post Post script - I wonder what the Poster called Gbawe has to say nowadays! A man who thought the sun rises from his ass in terms of his political views . . . . I still really doubt that he will be honest enough to recant his campaign for the the APC and his hero worship of some of them. At the minimum, I hope he would not be girlish enough to claim he is being harrassed!

Do you think Jonathan was a better option?

darknez:
Now you give a lot of info all at once. Let me see if I can highlight the main points:

1) We agree not every truth is Biblical.
2) Truths can be found in other sources from the Bible.
3) Christ has only one flock.
4) Christianity existed before the Bible, as we know it in present times
5) The early Christian community relied on the Leadership of the Church for guidance, not on 'books'.

Okies....hope I was able to cover all the points?

Yes you did

Now, apart from 1) and 4) don't you think the other points are problematic?

2) Truths can be found in other sources no doubt. I can find some truths in a very good Mathematics text.

If 1 is taken as a unit and 2 is taken as two units, where 3 is similarly taken as 3 units such that
(1 + 1 = 2), (2 + 1 = 3), and (1 + 2 = 3)...it therefore follows that the operator "+", has a positive effect for which the operands increases by a unit when subsequent operands are added by just one unit.

That bad example up there is true for all time and is taken to be a universal truth, irrespective of any culture, language or creed.

However, the truth I presume you talk about, should also have that element of universality for it to be from God. Since the truths are non biblical, at what point do we draw the line between the truths revealed by the Spirit and those which are made by man?

I am not sure if you see the problem therein?

I honestly don't see the problem, Yes there can only be one truth and yes there are more than one possible sources of truth. The key thing is that the truth from different sources should not contradict each other, If anything they should compliment each other. At what point do you draw the line between the truth revealed by the spirit and those which are man made?
By man made I suppose you mean false teachings.
1) It should not contradict the Bible
2) It should not be contrary to the teachings of the one true church.
Note: The two points listed above can in no way contradict each other, hence whatever information emanates from them can be true

3) Christ has more than one flock. Read up John 10:16. If that is the case, then the issue of leaving the flock is rendered irrelevant because some are already out. Thence the problem I mentioned about having a common bases for knowing revealed truths e.g the Bible remains.

John 10: 15-17
…15just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. 16I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd. 17The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.…

All I see here is Christ saying he has other sheep that are not yet in his one flock not that he has more than more flock. I believe he was referring to does who were yet to hear his gospel but who upon hearing his gospel will definitely join his flock.

5) The Leadership of the Church? Which Church? What Leadership? The one you follow? The one followed by Anglicans? Methodists? Protestants?

Good question. Read up John 21:15-18. Christ clearly left the care of his sheep to Peter. Also read Matthew 16:17-19. Christ also made some big promises there, giving peter the keys to his kingdom and that the gates of hell shall not prevail over his church. Which means who ever his in his church(his flock) will definitely not go wrong because his church will always have the right leadership to guide them like Christ asked peter to. Now ask yourself, who succeeded Peter and who succeeded the person who succeeded Peter e.t.c There in lies the answer to your question.

darknez:
Um...but you are the one who used MUST and even went as far as making it bold.

Anyways, I don't expect everything to be in the Bible, otherwise I would expect my last birthday celebration to have a mention there too. But considering that not every Christian is Catholic, don't you think it would be worrisome to explain some concepts using non-Biblical revelations?

I used must because your post seemed like you required every information about Christianity to be in the Bible. Anyway since we both agree every truth cannot be in the Bible then it only follows that there are truths in other sources outside the Bible. Christ only has one flock, nothing can be worrisome for those who remain in his fold. There was Christianity before the Bible was compiled and there was also conflicts within these communities of Christians but history tells us that they never relied solely on any books but rather on the leadership of the Church. Besides the apparition of Mary the other guy referred to happened years after the Bible was compiled so there was no way it could have been in the Bible.

darknez:
Well thought out response. They make sense too.

Now for the bold: You said Mary thought that prayer? Can you give me a quote from the bible where that is?

Why must it be in the Bible for it to be true?

I blame the nairaland media (e.g smellymouth ) for hyping the team. Can't believe I burned fuel to watch such a sour match

MadCow1:
Meanwhile in UNIBEN,,,



https://i.imgur.com/bF7Nh.gif

why you hate uniben like this ?

Redmalie:
Pls oahray help me with this error I'm getting. Been stuck here for hours.pls

both your deposit and withdrawal function should not be inside your init function. It should be inside the BankAccout class but outside the init function.

truthman2012:
Hear this and this may be my final response to you:

1 Corinthians 15:40 ►
There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another.

Brother read your Bible in full and not in parts. The passage was trying to explain how the body when resurrected cannot die because it has more glory than it did before death. I talked about different flesh(terrestrial body) having differing levels glory and also how the sun , moon and stars(celestial body) have differing levels of glory . It in no way inferred that the human body would take a new body.

truthman2012:
You made up your mind for vain argument from the start, notwithstanding any explanations I make.

May I ask you: when people who had died thousands of years ago will resurrect, whose bodies had decayed, some eaten up by animals, how will it happen if they need their terrestrial bodies?

Brother I never mentioned anything about terrestrial body. You brought it up. The Bible only talks of one body which dies once and then gets resurrected after which it can die no more. For it is only what has died that can be resurrected. Saying the terrestrial body which dies is different from the celestial body which resurrects is in fact complete ignorance of what the word resurrection means. For if the celestial body did not die then how can it resurrect? Or was it alive with the terrestrial body for it to have died with the terrestrial body? For it is only that which is alive that dies in the first place. So you see sir, there are many complications with the theory you are trying to propound here. As to how the dead body which has long decayed can be resurrected, you will have to ask your Almighty Yahweh but I doubt you would get answer. The good thing though is that if you believe Yahweh is all powerful then it shouldn't be too difficult to accept that he can raise the dead body no matter how decayed their have become.

truthman2012:
Who is into a fight with you? Why do you sound so disrespectful? I don't like wasting my time on indecent people.

You started well by pretending as if you are asking genuine question, but now I can see your intention as your post contains a lot of abuses. As a carnal man, you lack knowledge of spiritual things.

How does my post sound like am fighting with you or even disrespecting you? I only stated the fact that you are ignorant of what what the Bible says of Christ resurrection.

Firstly, you do not need terrestrial body in resurrection, anything could have happened to that of Jesus like that of Moses. In the final resurrection when the dead in Christ will rise first, their terrestrial bodies would have been long decayed and it will not be needed. Would you say because their body had rottened they will not resurrect?

Can you distinguish between soul and the body?

Thomas touched the resurrected body and the fact that it showed nail hole and pierced form is a spiritual operation. Jesus could have deliberately done so to convince the people that it was him. This is not strange in our world: There children the Yorubas call "abiku", the Igbos call them "ogbanje" who die and still come back. This is familiar spirit operations. There are such children that when they die, spiritualists make a mark on them so that they will be rejected in the familiar spirit kingdom. Many of the children still come back with the mark made on them. If the Devil has the power to do that, Jesus can do much more anything he wants.

If your post still contains insults, I will ignore you. I am not under any obligations to answer you.

rather than answer the questions posited in my posts you went into this long explanation of ogbanje and abiku for what? Trying to equate Christ resurrection with that of ogbanjes and abiku? If this resurrected body or celestial body as you called it can carry wounds, needs the stone at the bomb where Jesus was laid to be moved off so it can pass and then wined and dined with the apostles in Galilee. How exactly is it different from the terrestrial body that died?

truthman2012:
Jesus didn't ascend into heaven bodily. He died first and then resurrected. There is a difference between terrestrial body and resurrected (celestial) body.

hmm. O boy which celestial body are you talking about.Is it any different from the soul? Was it the terrestrial body or celestial body that was killed, that it would require resurrection? So when Christ asked Thomas to touch his nailed hands and his pierced side, was it his terrestrial body or celestial body. Please answer these questions truthfully and don't wallow in ignorance. Lastly what happened to the terrestrial body of Christ that was laid in the tomb?

truthman2012:
Agree with your views in the thread. Thanks.

I don't quite understand you. Don't Christians have the same believe? That Christ ascended into heaven body and blood, soul and divinity.