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Actually, "I don't believe it" can be a good enough reason, and should persuade the peddler of an outlandish or seemingly unbelievable story to produce some strong and tangible evidence.

If he brought a pic of himself and the ghost sitting together, you still wouldn't believe.  Even if the ghost came up here to confirm the story herself, that wouldn't change your mindset.  I wonder what kind of evidence you want him to put up here on Nairaland for you to believe.  Probably a video?  I know you still wouldn't believe. So what's the point?

Religion, Family, Computers, Internet, Romance, Sexuality, and of course, Jokes.


@Seun, your intended re-organization sounds really okay to me. I think you should go ahead with it.

freelance:
Seun, is their no nairaland chat. If their is none, you should create one. But any kindly send me the link. thanx

https://www.nairaland.com/chat
https://www.nairaland.com/chat.php

Ever since Grafikdon's post, I have not seen any post coming from the "it-doesnt-matter-how-I-dress" set of people. How funny!

@Grafikdon, preach on brother!

Who knows? It could be true. Something similar happened in 1995, not in Nigeria though.

See these also:

http://www.loveandmercy.org/loveandmercy/statue.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/weepingstatues.html


[Please read the full stories. Thanks!]

leketoye:
1. A great number of folks on nairaland are 1st grade hypocrites. They want to condemn people so they can appear good in the eyes of others.

Actually, it's so they can appear 'INTELLIGENT' before others. I agree with you.

Oracle: Well, it is actually rude to give someone something with your left hand

What makes it rude?

sage:
Culture that emanates from ignorance needs to be thrown out of the window.

Word!

As a result of bacterial/viral infection? Yes, they get sick.

As a result of 'spiritual attacks'? I guess not.

Can/Does God send sicknesses to pastors to test their faith? I guess so.

If I may ask, how old are you?

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What do u have to say to these recommendations by ACTON and EFCC?

DUE CARE for Cybercafés by ACTONigeria

Due Care is a working standard accepted by EFCC and must be implemented by every cybercafé operator in order to curb cyber crime and provide information on all users.

• That there is no more privacy for any internet user in the cybercafé.
• That responsibility of policing cyber crime is reposed on operators.
• Every cybercafé shall be duly registered with CAC (Corporate Affairs Commission).
• Every cybercafé must be duly registered with NCC.
• Every cybercafé must be duly registered with a registered Nigerian licensed ISP.
• Every cybercafé must be registered with EFCC.
• Night browsing shall be suspended until registration with EFCC is duly completed.
• Every cybercafé must install an acceptable and standard surveillance system in the cybercafé.
• Every cybercafé must expose all computers used in browsing; the era of hidden computers for browsing is hereby closed.
• Every cybercafé will be a watchdog unto the other such that any cybercafé still indulging in the cyber crime will be dialogued with by a committee of cafe operators. If dialogue fails after three attempts, we shall have no other option than to expose the cybercafé to EFCC.
• Every cybercafé will have a direct email and telephone of EFCC to lay requests and complaints.

Features of the Software:
• Should have a template or the identification of members (Name, Address, Email and Telephone number).
• Should be able to block undesired program/websites - this will be dynamic allowing for any addition (programs and websites) when necessary.
• Should be able to keep track and log users (members) activities - the records will be kept for the first three months.
• Should allow a view of the client's desktop from the server.
• Should be able to link the public IP to the local IP to enable identification of the system on the LAN.
• Duration 3 months.

A monthly meeting to be held between cybercafé operators and EFCC to review progress and to uncover new tactics of offenders in order to nip it in the bud.

A meeting of cybercafé operators, EFCC and local police to take place in every district as we inaugurate our local chapters.

As if that's not all.

Have u guys heard that the airtime charges should also increase?  A thirty-minute ticket should now go for N100, while the one-hour ticket should be sold for N200.  Most cafes have started implementing this new law.  They have succeeded in scaring away the legitimate internet users. The so-called scammers are the ones who can afford these new rates.

There are some other recommendations by ACTON (Association of Cybercafe and Telecentre Operators of Nigeria) for Cybercafe owners.  I'll be back with those.

No you're not old.  You're only getting older.

Good news: Your birthday wish has been granted. . 17 days after!

What does using the left or right hand have to do with respect?

gigitte:
its just part of the culture and the significances of right and left. <snip>

i think that you should respect that part of culture esp since u yourself are righthanded, i mean sometimes you may forget (i do) but you should try and just do it, so as to fulfill all righteous after don't you still dobale even if ever so slightly for elders, will u say you want to shake their hand?

Of what relevance is it?  Why should I respect that part of culture that makes very little, or no sense at all to me?  To fulfill all righteousness?  What righteousness?!!  Personally, I do not find it rude or offensive when a kid (who also knows the 'culture') uses his left hand for me; so the reason why anybody would just disregard the left hand for no justifiable cause leaves me totally deluded.  Some even ridiculously refer to the left hand as 'The hand of the devil'.  How pathetic!

As for 'dobale-ing' (prostrating), that is totally understandable and makes a lot of sense, as different people have different ways of paying obeisance to elders, in different parts of the world.

Perhaps, until someone explains to me the rationality behind this infuriating perception of the left hand, I'll continue to see this as non-sense in the highest order!

Really, what's it about the left hand?  I don't know about other tribes, but it seems to me that it's only we Yorubas that are particularly concerned about this issue; and usually make a big deal out of it.  I personally find it very annoying when an 'elder' considers it disrespectful, or starts telling me some BS whenever I hand something over to him/her with my left hand, no matter how respectfully I do it. 

Also, apart from the issue of handling over stuffs, another perturbing issue is that of writing.  You may be surprised at the length at which some Yoruba parents will go in order to ensure their child does not become a lefty.  There was this former classmate of mine who showed me a mark on her left thumb, asking me this same question.  She told me it was her mother who used a razor blade to cut her left thumb when she was very much younger, in order to stop her from becoming a lefty (in writing).  She therefore had no choice, but to start learning how to use her right hand.  Apparently, her mother succeeded!

So now my question is:  What makes the left hand different from the right?  Why would anyone find it offensive if I used my left hand to hand something over to them?  Is the left hand not a part of the body too?  Is the left hand cursed or what?  I really don't get it .  I need an explanation!



P.S.  I am right handed.

It was a lie afterall!

She's 17!

Someone just told me now that he died today? Can anyone please confirm this?

segedoo:
shame on all who are scared stiff to take the minutest of risks

Excuse me?  What are you referring to here as the minutest of risks?  Playing round wild animals just for the fun of it? You've gotta be kidding me man!

zebudaya:
<snip> Till he died i didn't know what a sting ray was.

Same here.

zebudaya:
To the sting ray: I guess you were nobody till you killed somebody!

Damn right!

I heard just yesterday too.  I heard his head was badly affected, and he only started talking recently (he couldn't talk to anyone, so I heard).  I wish him a speedy recovery.   Poor Fathia.   (Actually, I have a crush on her ).

I just heard on CNN this morning.  This is my first time of hearing about the guy.

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@ Rottweiler, you harsh o!

The desperation of the presidency to nail former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), and hopefully make him unelectable in next year’s presidential election appears to be taking a more definitive push as the authorities seek to put a name to huge cash deposits in different countries around the world – all of which the presidency believe are traceable to the Minna General.

The amounts involved, details of which Saturday Sun gathered may have been forwarded to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), include, but not restricted to, £6.2 billion, $2 billion, 7.41 billion Swiss Francs and 9 billion Deutsche Marks.

But pro-IBB campaigners insist that the figures are not new. In fact, Prince Kassim Afegbua, Secretrary-General of the National Democratic Party (NDP) who was recently appointed in charge of the publicity of the IBB presidency campaign project, told Saturday Sun that the alleged deposits had been bandied around for the last six or seven years and that nobody has been able to trace any Cent therein to Babangida.

Read more here:  http://odili.net/news/source/2006/sep/2/817.html

Seems we're getting somewhere now, right guys?  I hope they nail every part of him down!

I believe I now have every reason to believe that Vampires DO NOT exist!


@ Sista

I think (my theory) he believed he was forsaken because he was pale, not of color.

Here lies the flaw that leads to your other misinformation. How can you possibly 'think' a vampire believed he was forsaken because he was not of color? What led to this 'belief' of yours?

Meanwhile, take a good look at this:

As regards this post made earlier on this thread, here is a more detailed explanation.

Using mathematics to disprove the existence of Vampires

ASSUMPTIONS

• One vampire does exist.
• That vampire must suck one person's blood each week to survive.
• Once a person is bitten by a vampire, he or she becomes a vampire.

[center]https://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1426/vampire1vr4.gif[/center]

1. If there were 4 vampires at the end of Week 2, how many people would get bitten in Week 3? - Four (4); And how many vampires would that make, total? - Eight.

2. How many people would those 8 vampires bite in Week 4, creating how many more of their kind?

3. You get the idea now. Carry it through to the end of Week 8. How many bloodsuckers do you end up with? - 256.

4. Look again at your statistics through week 8. In math terms, what is the relationship between vampires at the end of one week and the number of people bitten the next?

5. Here's another way of looking at it: What pattern do you see from week to week in the number of people bitten? What about the week-to-week vampire numbers?

6. At the end of week 35, if your calculations are correct, you should have 34 billion, 359 million, 738 thousand, 368 (34,359,738,368) vampires in the world today.

Now, how does your vampire census match up against the actual world population? Here's how to find out: Visit the website of the US Census Bureau. This gives an up-to-the-second projected count of the world's human population, based on actual numbers plus estimated births and deaths. Now compare with the values you arrived at earlier. See? Source.

All nationality's of people on this planet earth have melanin which gives them color. White people are the only ones who do not have it unless they mix in with other nationality's, "mixing in" is symbolic to blood sucking. Without melanin you will die, because the Sun will go right through you. If you have no color, the Sun can not be absorbed, it just goes right through you. You wrinkle early and you get skin cancer and then you die. This is why the vampire comes out at night because he cannot be in the sun, the sun will eat him up! White people subconsciously know this and this is why they are more than anyone else advocating race mixing.

Does this mean that all whites (without melanin) eventually develop skin cancer?

Nowadays, some people argue that vampire stories might have been influenced by a rare illness called porphyria. The disease disrupts the production of heme. People with extreme but rare cases of this hereditary disease can be so sensitive to sunlight that they can get a sunburn through heavy cloud cover, causing them to avoid sunlight — although it should be noted that the idea that vampires are harmed by sunlight is largely from modern fiction and NOT the original beliefs. Source

Also, I got from here that Vampires in European folklore are said to cast no shadow and have no reflection. So indirectly, according to you, all whites have no shadows / reflections, right?

ava rose:
WOW I think ORI by muyiwa ademola is the best that film is wow

Yeah. The guy really deserves the award he was given sometimes ago - Most creative producer.

winteric:
i left cele at age 12. my parents tried in vain to make me change my mind, using force,etc.
i actually left when i heard the real gospel from a pentecostal church. i never knew anything about being born again till then. my parents have left the church too. they got fed up with endless spiritisms.

winteric:
the use of candles incences ,etc

winteric:
good christ did that. my late grandpa used stuff like that too in his shrine. a lot of us do things like that under the guise that christ did so. whereas we know the source of such powers! why should we deceive ourselves any further? i know that some of your men sleep in the cementary to acquire power. mysticism, occultism

This reminds me of the passage that was read in church today (John 6: 48 - 71). So many people stopped following Jesus simply because he made a statement which they all misinterpreted literally.

Instead of trying to see things the way you have set your mind to see them, why don't you endeavour to understand the spiritual implications of these things before you start making unnecessary definitive accusations.

No wonder Jesus said in Mark 4 :11 - 12 -

. . .but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables.

I would love to be invisible and able to pass through walls and blockages at will.

I would also love to be able to know what people are thinking in their minds.

mamaput:
Now the truth has come out.
Were are the Godly people that will wish healing hands. To cure sick people?

That is why there is a God na. It's his job to do that, not ours.

Seun:
Jesus was impatient with most of his disciples.

How exactly?

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