₦airaland Forum

rinrin23:
Is it because the majority which is unthinking would rather have a ruler who is just like them.

Missy89:
You sounded like a kid.

You must really think you are the only one that plays video games.

Missy89:
Unfortunately the gameplay was a disappointment. COD is losing originality every time they release a new series.

The weapons were too unreal

fedimol:
COD MW3 was epic! Doing battle on Wall Street.

oluwaKStar:
They even pictured lagos as having overhead trains..that go over building and stuff

1shortblackboy:
Op its very curious that ur blaming God for d backwardness of Africans. Wen d only "crime" he ever commited was to be merciful and forgiving of our sins

JackBizzle:
It is a very pitiful situation.

We Nigerians worship our slave masters

GooseBaba:
Fuvk the Arabs .. The most painful and disturbing is the Nigerians armed with such historical data /information, but he/she is eager to distort and destroy what is left of their heritage just so they can fully dwell in their delusion.

The past is the past... But we MUST learn from the past and not dwell on them or let it repeat itself again. Fuvk the Arabs for their arrogance...!!! But be mindful and vigilant of their slaves (african muslims)... When next the killings in the name of Allah takes place in Nigeria or Africa the Arab is no where in sight..

The future is what we should worry about... I'm yet to see an Arab in the ranks of boko boys... But needless to say fuvk the Arabs..!!

rinrin23:
I get yours too.

No I have heard about it but haven't been able to get my hands on it. Though I read an article of his a while ago about Adam and Eve and the "original sin"

rinrin23:
Noted. But I was referring to the God your friend mentioned (in the story about the laptop).

rinrin23:
The delusion is so deeply rooted from years and years of twisted scriptures, false testimonies, false prophets and false religion. The average person would take a cracked laptop as a show of God's power over a death of a loved one from a disease that same God refused to cure or the Chibok girls that haven't returned. Although my knowledge on African Traditional religion is little, I would rather see Nigerians fighting/defending them over foreign gods.

rinrin23:
A dinner with friends slowly morphed into a heated conversation about the supernatural and the "power of the name Jesus", which when called could silence all demons and counter spiritual attacks. I listened as they spoke about waking up and demons holding them down in their sleep.

I listened as each from different sects of Christianity tip toed around their beliefs and selected a common enemy- the Muslim, and how deluded they were with their lack of understanding of what "true fasting" was. And how these poor deluded lovers of Allah have a veil of delusion around their eyes that stops them from reasoning and seeing the falsities in their sacred book and beliefs.

I listened, smiled and nodded appropriately. I nodded in understanding, I smiled in recognition. These I did because I understood. I too have had these thoughts, I too have stuck to my beliefs feeling lucky to have been born on "the right side" and equally lucky to have been "born again" and "under the grace" of the "new covenant with Christ".

But what they didn't see was a woman who has questioned her beliefs and sought the truth; searched through history and understood: the basis of religion, law, power and control; how wars are won and how religions are spread; how diverse the human race is and how religious supremacy is a much worse ideological cancer than racial supremacy. What they didn't see was me fighting back the urge to speak to them about these 'demons' holding them down- teach them about sleep paralysis, release them from their fear of spiritual enemies attacking them; teach them about the power of the mind, and the power of Self. Most of all was me fighting the urge to confess that I too saw them -strong intelligent women deluded with the same veil around their minds.

However all I could bring myself to do was smile and nod, and hope that someday they too would question their beliefs and come to know the truth; and thus live a life of spiritual independence and an empowerment that comes from knowing that it was -their strength that got them thought difficult times, their intelligence that got them to the height of their careers, and their mind and soul that keeps them alive.

Joavid:
I love this thread.

cococandy:
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pickabeau1:
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MacCantStopMe:
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joseph1832:
Wherever you see poverty, religion is not far off. Nigerian pastors, making money out of the misery of Nigerians. This is a trait Nigerian pastors and politicians have in common.

claremont:
Religious institutions represent the biggest industries in Nigeria. They get their money from peddling 'snake's oil' to a barely lettered populace. They then use the money derived to set up overpriced schools which they then offer to the same barely lettered populace. They are exploiting the mass ignorance endemic in a population that has put its faith in the supernatural due to the failings of the natural leaders.

sonmvayina:
i am totally with you on this one, we are on the same page and have the same mind towards his things..i was only taking on the so call christains, you can see the question i asked too.

pureIvory:
Some people have too much time....
*shakes my head in pity*

biafranqueen:
Can you give me proof of this?

BlackStallion:
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BlackStallion:
That's why we misuse and bastardize everything

BlackStallion:
The average white man's goal is to make his 'people' (nation) superior to others

BlackStallion:
so as to lord it over them (Hitler), our own objective is to lord it over our own people, instead of looking for a means to become globally relevant.

BlackStallion:
Give the average black man the choice of making his country the most powerful nation on earth or becoming a rich man, wealthy enough to look down on his neighbours and 90% will go for option 2. That's why our leaders just steal as much money as they can and borrow some more when they're done.

BlackStallion:
Do you know it doesn't make any sense for Nigeria to be poor? It's unimaginable that a country as rich as ours could be so poor. I have no problem with religion, but when it begins to suppress common sense, then it becomes an issue. Religious leaders say we should sit down in our houses and pray for God to leave heaven and come down to earth to touch our leaders, that's insane. If there's going to be a change in Nigeria, we'll need a revolution. Check the history books, it is only through revolution that progress is made. The animal instinct in us dictates we should subdue our fellow men, that's why the greeks sought out a more advanced form of leadership (and the Romans perfected it). Today, Nigerian leaders try to practice a hybrid of democracy and dictatorship. It's because there still resides a primitive animal in most africans and until we get rid of it, we're just going to keep repeating this vicious cycle. Today's youths will eventually become politicians and their corrupt fathers will tell them to embezzle public funds, then they'll indoctrinate their own children when they grow up and on and on till eternity. Let's forget about meeting up with the rest of the world and focus on developing ourselves. We're already years behind the western world anyway, might as well use the opportunity to grow psychologically....

pureIvory:
I think religion is not to be blamed for the atrocities going on in Nigeria and Africa in general.

pureIvory:
What should be blamed is the way people understand it. People pray for something but they don't work towards it that's just the problem. people use religion to cover up their evil deeds which is bad.

pureIvory:
Even before the whites came we believed in one true God that is master to small gods and we did things for ourselves and pray to God who rewards our efforts.We had a wonderful way of living. Good leadership, good management and even inventions. No one was brainwashing us into believing in what we believed as you say the whites brainwashed us into believing in God and the commandments of God.

pureIvory:
As a matter of fact we should be thanking the missionaries cos they were the ones who really came to our aid by teaching us unlike the colonial masters who came for their own gain.

pureIvory:
The missionaries helped stop most of our evil believes such as killing of twins etc and what we do now is say they harm us with their religion.

pureIvory:
them their essence If you say Africans are still slaves to the white then you are saying the truth cos you are still a slave mentally even when you think you are an exception because you don't believe in religion and the way Africans think,

BlackStallion:
Spear-chucker, that's the derogatory term some whites use to describe blacks.....


.....others didn't (hence the 'spear-chucking' tribes).

Isiterere:
great people, great nation .

Nigerian, I hail thee......

Combination of names sef and the comment, typical nairaland style
ALL IZZ WELL

sonmvayina:
drinking of alcohol is not a sin neither is selling it...Jesus turned water into wine and later turned wine into his blood....just so you know...

red101:
We often like to compare Nigeria to developed countries and become frustrated by how far behind we seem to be. I found this quote in a blog and it really struck me as being very valid. Development is a very slow process and requires mass education. High quality one. Look at all the developed countries and something they all share in common is their education rates and intellectual output, whether in the arts, humanities or sciences. These are the things that inform culture which in turn reinforces development. What do you think?
Here's the quote:
When former Sen. Daniel Moynihan was serving as ambassador to India in the early 1970s, he was asked what Bombay, now Mumbai, needed to do to become a great global city. Moynihan answered, 'Build a world-class university and wait 200 years.'"

BlackStallion:
The fact is, we were tree dwellers when the very first European stumbled across an African. Thus we went from being primitive leaf sewing tree dwellers to 'civilised men', omitting all the prerequisite steps the white men themselves had to take to get to that level.

BlackStallion:
Left to me, educating us was the worst thing they could've done to us. They should've just left us to develop at our own speed. It might've taken a few centuries, but eventually we would have gotten there. Necessity is the mother of invention, unfortunately our environment just wasn't challenging enough to 'force' us to invent things.

BlackStallion:
Our own was just to hunt bushmeat and procreate, while the white men had to survive in harsh winter conditions (thus being forced to invent things like fur coats, boots etc) and hone their hunting skills because of the size of their prey and unfriendly environment.