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Good. Social distancing is needed.

This is all just bullshit

luluosas:
Please, repent and seek mercy from God now.
Like my pastor said in the video above, those who have ears to hear, let them hear. Cheers

Screw your useless charlatans. The real heroes ,scientists and medical staffs are doing the real work to save humanity and you and your fellow church goers are following these frauds like mindless sheep.

I mean, i want religion to fade away too, but i don't want people to die from this disease. I would rather the catalyst be a change or introduction of new philosophical ideas and public challenging of religious bodies

It's good that you're confronting your doubts about religion. I respect anyone who is brave enough to question the beliefs they were brought up with for it's merits. I was similar to you once upon a time. I was brought up in a christian household and was force fed Christianity like another normal Nigerian child. I had always had questions, but the answers i got weren't satisfactory. Things really began when i got access to the internet (around 2007) and i got exposed to different Ideas and knowledge. I started seeing more and more the flaws in my faith until i eventually lost my faith.

Contrary to what you might have been told, it's OK to question things. If something is true, it will withstand objective scrutiny. Religion constantly tells you how the wisdom of man is flawed, but it's one of the best tools we had. So one of the first things i feel you should do is browse up on logical reasoning and logical fallacies. This will help train your ability to reason and discern information (it's a skill that can be learnt). I recommend you watch these atheist you tube channels : Cosmic skeptic, Holly Koolaid, Genetically modified skeptic. You should still also read the bible and listen to what ever preacher you want.
Pls understand me, the point is not to make you an atheist, but to encourage you to think and expose yourself to different ideas. If at the end your faith is strengthened then fine, but if not then that's ok.

It's good that you're confronting your doubts about religion. I respect anyone who is brave enough to question the beliefs they were brought up with for it's merits. I was similar to you once upon a time. I was brought up in a christian household and was force fed Christianity like another normal Nigerian child. I had always had questions, but the answers i got weren't satisfactory. Things really began when i got access to the internet (around 2007) and i got exposed to different Ideas and knowledge. I started seeing more and more the flaws in my faith until i eventually lost my faith.

Contrary to what you might have been told, it's OK to question things. If something is true, it will withstand objective scrutiny. Religion constantly tells you how the wisdom of man is flawed, but it's one of the best tools we had. So one of the first things i feel you should do is browse up on logical reasoning and logical fallacies. This will help train your ability to reason and discern information (it's a skill that can be learnt). I recommend you watch these atheist you tube channels : Cosmic skeptic, Holly Koolaid, Genetically modified skeptic. You should still also read the bible and listen to what ever preacher you want.
Pls understand me, the point is not to make you an atheist, but to encourage you to think and expose yourself to different ideas. If at the end your faith is strengthened then fine, but if not then that's ok.

elated177:
Who really is becoming obtuse? Is it not you?

As far as this particular message is concerned, I didn't say atheists are wizards and witches. This does not change the fact that most of the atheists are witches, wizards, occultists and satanists.

The gist of this message is to point out, among other things, that both atheism and witchcraft/wizardry stem from satanism. The fact that an atheist does not believe in the existence of the supernatural, Satan or the Creator does not change anything. Atheism is from Satan himself.

Both atheism and witchcraft have one common denominator, Satan.

"I didn't say atheists are wizards and witches."

"This does not change the fact that most of the atheists are witches, wizards, occultists and satanists. "

CAPSLOCKED:
MAYBE IF YOU SMOKED WEED YOUR GRAMMAR WOULDN'T BE SO DISORGANIZED.

Oh snap. LMFAO

Are you trolling or being serious?

elated177:
One cannot really separate atheism from witchcraft and satanism.

An atheist believes there is nothing like God and is, therefore, on the path of destruction, whether he/she believes it or not. I have made it clear that atheism is simply what Satan sells to those who believe they are too smart, too logical and too intelligent to worship him directly and deliberately. Atheism is like a veil over the face of the atheist placed by Satan himself.

Witchcraft involves dealings with Satan and the demons. Any individual who engages demons in any form of mutual relationship is a witch/wizard. Such an individual recognizes the existence of beings outside the human or physical beings. They know the difference between good and evil, light and darkness, righteousness and wickedness.

The heart of an unregerated man is well disposed to evil. The heart of man, in its fallen state, is desperately wicked. It is pertinent to note that man, of himself, cannot accomplish the evil he harbours in his fallen/unregerated heart. This is where the demons come in. The demons are always too willing to assist man carry out the evil that abounds in his heart. This is one aspect of witchcraft...the driving force, if you prefer.

For a witch/wizard, anything vile goes. The more vile, the better. To the witch/wizard:
Are you a pedophile? Have at it.
Are you a homosexual? Enjoy yourself. Nothing do you.
Are you a liar? Ah! You are a correct person.
Are you an honest person? See this mumu! Mugu! This makes you an arch enemy of witchcraft.
Do you condemn sexual immorality --- fornication, homosexuality, adultery, etc? You are a natural enemy of witchcraft.

Putting it more succinctly, what is your poison? Go ahead and enjoy yourself. This is the freedom - bondage actually - witchcraft grants its practitioners. Witchcraft thrives on vileness. This is because the forces/spirits behind witchcraft love it vile. What does wickedness feed on? Wickedness, of course!

Again, as far as witchcraft concerned:
Do you carry bible all over the place, even preach, albeit garbage, but do not have any regard for the Ten Commandments of YHVH Almighty? Na wa o! This is what witchcraft loves very much. A lot of those who claim to follow Yahushua the Messiah, especially in this country, fall into this category. Some of them think that by carrying the bible all over the place and even preaching, even if it is falsehood garnished with little truth, they will discourage the saints of YHVH Almighty from actually studying the Scriptures and sharing the Good news. How they have been deluded!

In any environment, work or residential, two kingdoms always exist; the kingdom of light/good/righteousness and the kingdom of darkness/evil/wickedness. The forces of light are always at war(spiritual war) with the forces of darkness. You see, it is impossible not have this type of spiritual warfare in any gathering of human beings. Unless, of course, there is the absence of the representative of one of the kingdoms. What I mean is this: if the environment has only the people in the kingdom of darkness, for instance, there won't really be any spiritual warfare in the context of this message. However, the very moment an individual on the part of kingdom of righteousness steps into such environment, the spiritual warfare commences.

There is this thing about light that intimidates darkness; light tends to render it useless/powerless. In pitch darkness, even a splinter of light makes a lot of difference. This is why light(light here used refers to a person in the kingdom of light) can go about his/her business without an iota of care whether darkness is present/exists or not. Darkness, on the other hand, cannot function properly or feel comfortable in the presence of light. This is the reason the children of wickedness (children of Satan) in this world engage in all sorts of futile attempts to quench the light they, through the demons, see in the saints(children) of YHVH Almighty. Efforts in utter futility.

YHVH Almighty has loved his saints with an everlasting love. No servant of Satan can change that love. I know they wish they could. It pains them everyday they wake up and realize that - in spite of all the nudity and near-nudity they deliberately parade before the saints, the acts of seduction they stupidly engage in, the smoke they wholeheartedly generate at the middle of the night, and the fumigants they spray into the homes of the saints - the love and power of YHVH Almighty, our Father in heaven, are still very much bestowed upon his servants. May they continue to wallow in frustration.

The light which the demons in the children of Satan are hostile to will only shine brighter and brighter. The saints of YHVH Almighty, of which elated177 is one, will continue to walk and live in complete humility before YHVH Almighty, our Father in heaven. Humility before YHVH Almighty is obedience to his instructions; his Ten Commandments. This incorporates honesty, diligence in whatever they do and being law-abiding citizens of their nations. This is what YHVH Almighty, our Daddy in sky, expects of us, his saints. This has always been the case and will never cease to be the case. This love is unbreakable.

El Elohe Yahshrael! Hallelu Yah!

What a load of bullshit. I could feel my braincells dying while reading this.

Christmasdon:
Hope we will make sane people in the futures to come. today we are now, our fathers of today never smoked the way guys smokes now. its alarming, smoking indiam hemp, or other insane substances is at large. how do we curtail this menace for the well being of our youths in the coming future.

I'm not saying i support or condemn what ever anyone is doing, but our fathers never smoked and is Nigeria the better for it? People smoking weed and hemp is the least of this generations problems. We have to deal with this sad excuse of a country our fathers are leaving us.

Nice post, although i take some of this with a pinch of salt as i believe that some of these may just be the experience of one person. But i get what you're trying to say.

RandomGuy48:
That video is also misleading and selective in what it presents. For example, it mentions a study about NDEs in which cards bearing numbers and images were placed in hospital rooms where patients couldn't see them from the bed, but could see them if they had an out of body experience. It then says that no one who had an out of body experience during the duration of the study saw the cards. What the video (conveniently) doesn't mention is that the handful of patients who reported the out of body experiences did so in rooms that didn't have the cards set up, so the fact they didn't see them means absolutely nothing.

"What the video (conveniently) doesn't mention is that the handful of patients who reported the out of body experiences did so in rooms that didn't have the cards set up, so the fact they didn't see them means absolutely nothing.[/quote]"

Do you have any source for these claims? Because the studies say they take account of only those that had the cards in the room.

Ladylite:
Because I believe that there are unexplainable things my mind is open to any proof of the existence of such things... Proofs exist in books and experiences or encounters.

Everyone has their own encounters with the unexplained phenomenon, some experience these encounters just before death and others like me have had Near Death Experiences which became proof to us of the afterlife and we know for a fact that there is life after death and the curiosity of such experience kept out minds open to who or what controls the afterlife and we began to understand many things that are hidden from some of you that are locked up in this physical realm.

Yet there are others who without the NDE encounters have had their share of the supernatural in the constant occurrences of dejavu or premonitions.... Which science is yet to explain... Where you can dream or see someone dying or some occurrence happening and few days later it happens in the exact same way.... Kindly explain that.


But to shut your mind and think there is no God is the biggest ignorance of all.

For the universe, and all in it could NEVER have intelligently existence by itself.

I hope you know that there are people in this world that have not met you and to them you do not exist.... Consider that o

Finally I would rather live my life for God than live hoping with empty conviction that he doesn't exist.

I wonder why people like you are so bend of making others join you in your unbelief... Maybe you once believed and it didn't work for you because you went about it so superstitiously.... Well I have proof and I have a good relationship with God. I know there is heaven and hell. I am also aware that God is not responsible for the mishaps in this world... The devil is not either... Human beings are.

The devil exists but can not do anything without a human being.... Yes, we are more powerful than evil.

"Because I believe that there are unexplainable things my mind is open to any proof of the existence of such things... Proofs exist in books and experiences or encounters. "
Believing there are unexplainable things is a far cry from believing there is a God. I also beleive there are unexplainable things in this life, but i don't invoke God, because i don't have enough evidence to. If you can't explain something, it's ok to say "I don't know"

"Everyone has their own encounters with the unexplained phenomenon, some experience these encounters just before death and others like me have had Near Death Experiences which became proof to us of the afterlife and we know for a fact that there is life after death and the curiosity of such experience kept out minds open to who or what controls the afterlife and we began to understand many things that are hidden from some of you that are locked up in this physical realm."
Everyone has had their experiences, and i'm not trying to dictate to you what it is or isn't, but my main point is not to rush to big conclusions of God or Supernatural, but rather search for a rational answer, and even the lack there off one does not necessarily justify God (again God of Gaps).
Near death Experiences are not a proof of the afterlife. Believe me NDEs (Near death Experiences) have been studied for decades and these experiences all vary from each other greatly. Plus science has recognized a phenomenon in the brain that makes people hallucinate during these situations. This video is a great summary on the scientific work that has gone into it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz0C0JpVqnM

"Yet there are others who without the NDE encounters have had their share of the supernatural in the constant occurrences of dejavu or premonitions.... Which science is yet to explain... Where you can dream or see someone dying or some occurrence happening and few days later it happens in the exact same way.... Kindly explain that. "
These experiences are all anecdotal and there have been studies that have put them to empirical scientific tests and they fail time and time again. Alot of people have had these De Ja Vu premonitions but they often throw away the hundreds of times they were wrong and find meaning in the few coincidences. I've also had the De ja Vu or "premonitions", and believe me, i want to believe in the supernatural. But i'm not going to make big leaps in logic because i can't explain it. Again, if something happens that i can't explain, then i simply say "I don't know" and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

"But to shut your mind and think there is no God is the biggest ignorance of all.

For the universe, and all in it could NEVER have intelligently existence by itself.

I hope you know that there are people in this world that have not met you and to them you do not exist.... Consider that o

Finally I would rather live my life for God than live hoping with empty conviction that he doesn't exist."

I haven't "shut my mind". I don't make the claim that there is no God, I say I don't believe in him because there is not enough evidence. Pls understand this. I'm not actively trying to disbelieve god the same way you're not actively trying to disbelieve in unicorns. I just don't believe , it's state and not an action. There just isn't just any conclusive evidence yet.
I can't explain the existence of the Universe and i won't try to. But i'm leaning towards scientific explanations because they atleast present logical theories and pieces of evidences.
Yes people have not met me and to them i don't exist, and you know what? that is a logical stance to have. They haven't met me, and so if someone tells them i exist, then they can either say "I don't know" or "i don't believe until tangible evidence is brought. Tangible evidence can be brought forward my existence but can thesame be said for God? Do you understand this? and besides, this is not a parallel analogy to this argument because they know humans exist, so telling them i exist is not far fetched.

"I wonder why people like you are so bend of making others join you in your unbelief... Maybe you once believed and it didn't work for you because you went about it so superstitiously.... Well I have proof and I have a good relationship with God. I know there is heaven and hell. I am also aware that God is not responsible for the mishaps in this world... The devil is not either... Human beings are."

I am not bent on making anyone join my unbelief, i want people to think logically. It's actually the other way around. Religious people want others to believe in their belief base on faith alone, and i'm sorry, this is not enough for everyone. Faith alone is not a good foundation for a belief system.
Yes i used to believe. I was born into an evangelical family and had religion spoon fed to me. I went to church, read the bible and prayed daily. But then i got access to the internet (back in 2007) and then got exposed to different ideas and beliefs. I began to discuss with people who challenged the things i believed. When i started really looking for myself, i started seeing the cracks and holes and eventually i became an agnostic/atheist.
"You know there is heaven and hell?" What evidence do you have of these claims? Do you understand my point? Even if these places are real, you have no way to prove this (except anecdotal evidences) and can't expect everyone to believe. If your God is real, he also understands this and knows the evidence that would make someone (like me) believe but withholds it.

"Finally I would rather live my life for God than live hoping with empty conviction that he doesn't exist."

This last statement is an example of the ideology many religious people have that actually ticks me off. That i can't live my life with any meaning or purpose because i don't believe in what they do. I try to live my life to the fullest everyday. I have good days and bad days. I have dreams and aspirations. I try to be empathetic and see things from different perspective. I respect my fellow man and bear no ill will to anyone. I do good because i want to not because heaven an hell are hanging around my neck.

KingJuhd:
Where are you from?

Rivers State, Nigeria.

Ladylite:
Let us not deceive ourselves.

As long as there are too many unexplainable things in this life.... There must be forces beyond our control and realms beyond our reach.

God does not exist, HE LIVESSSSS


He does not need believers, we believe because we need Him.

I agree with your first statement about there being too many unexplainable things in life, but what gives you the reason (or right) to invoke God? Is god your answer for anything you can't explain? What you've just done is called the god of gaps fallacy, you should google it and read about it a little.

KingJuhd:
It is the region. Just like European, South America, Asia

Yes i know, but these servers are usually located in A country or several countries in these Region. For example, the North American (NA) Servers of Fortnite are in USA, so Canadians and Mexicans are actually connecting to these servers. If you don't know the country, it's OK to say so.
The reason i am asking is because one of (if not the most) important factor for ping is distance to servers. The closer the servers, the better the ping (for a given internet speed).
For Taiwo in Nigeria, it may seem like playing on Sub-Saharan African servers will give lower ping compared to EU (Europe), but if the Sub-Saharan server is in South Africa, then it doesn't really do much for Taiwo because South Africa is actually farther from Nigeria than a lot of EU countries (thus EU servers). A friend of mine has experienced this in a game (can't remember which one), where Sub-Sahara African server were in SA, but he got worse ping than on EU servers.

KingJuhd:
Sub-Sahara Africa

This is not a country.

Wow, didn't know people followed LoL in Nigeria.

Hope anyone who follows this tip gets banned.

Or you know, you could grind and get better at the game. I never got the point of hacking? The point of the game is to play get better and meet more competitive opponents.

Even though i don't play pubg mobile, this is good news and a step in the right direction. Alot of online multiplayers don't create African servers because they believe that there isn't enough market here and to be honest, most times they're right. But it's bad when the very popular ones (which do have a good following here) also refuse to create servers for us. Hopefully this proves to be success and shows game devs of other games that it would be worth it. I hope Epic games follows suit and create fortnite servers also. I need me some low ping so i can edit and replace quicker. Btw, what country are the servers located?

Dude is a sick pedophile and should be locked up.

Shepherd00:
I didn't ask you why you are an atheist, I asked you if anyone has harmed you since you became a rebel.

No, no one has harmed me. I stated that the reason for this is because i keep my atheism a secret because we live in a very religious society which would ostracize me if i came out. I went further to mention how religion hurts society as a whole. These are not the reasons why i became an atheist.

I am not a rebel. I am someone who disbelieve. Pls try and understand. Atheism is not an active thing, it's passive. I don't put in effort to become atheist, i simply just don't believe because i haven't found credible evidence for anything religion claims. The same way you don't put effort in your disbelief of Zeus,unicorns and dragons is the same way i don't put effort in disbelieving Jesus Christ as the son of God or the Ark-building Noah. If God truly created us then he'd understand that not everyone would believe something just based on faith alone.

You people should go and do something usefull with your lives

You're looking for sugnificance where there is non.

No one knows what comes after death and anyone that claims with certainty that they do is most likely lying through their teeth. I don't believe in any religion and it'll most likely stay this way till i die. When i die , i will find out. Maybe i won't find out since there will be nothing else, maybe christianity was right or maybe the Vikings were right and hopefully i end up in Valhalla and fight by the side of Odin. Everyone's word and holy book is as credible as the other.

Except you're talking interms of how your words can affect your psychological state, they don't do shit. Your words are not powerfull, they have no physical effect on anything. You cannot speak things into being. Words are cheap. Your bible verses don't make this any less true. If words truely had power then we'd all be riding unicorns and be living in golden mansions.

Shepherd00:
It's good you said Jesus sent His Disciples to Preach the gospel not impose the gospel on people.

Since you disbelieved, has anyone done any harm to you? Why shd we?

I don't understand the first part of your post, are you refuting anything i said?

"Since you disbelieved, has anyone done any harm to you?"

I don't advertise my atheism in the real world because we live in a very religous society and i will be ostracized by it if they know. But religion harms soceity as a whole. If religions were just about people finding peace and deeper meaning to existence then i would mind my business and leave people to go their way. But it's not.
Religion actively offers it's own explanation for the universe which largely go against scientific knowledge we have now. Any thing that contradicts religious texts becomes a controversial topic and becomes more difficult to diffuse into society because people are reluctant to accept it (e.g theory of evolution).
It also dictates how people should live their lives and these mandates are often rigid and based on outdated views made by outdated people (e.g Sharia) .
And lastly it's used as a tool to embezzle the masses. Look at the unholy amount of churches we have today in Nigeria, with more springing up. These people preach their lies and tell the people that God, who is supposed to be the creator of universe, need their tithes and offerings for some reason. We have pastors becoming multimillonaires off the backs of the poor congregations. And they're treated like some kind of rockstars.