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dearpreye:
What do YOU stand to gain if MMM crashes today? What's your profit? Why are most black people like this?

There's very little a hope left for the back race. The minds of most of us are too primitive and very close to those of primates.

The black race has been lagging behind other races because of this evil and pathetic mindset. MMM isn't mandatory. If you don't have the courage to take basic risks like MMM, leave those who do.

Bros!

Where have you been?

Enochman:
I PRAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU AND FORGIVES YOU.

For ....?

4kings:
hahn, Galatians 5:14, says "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself"
Verse 18, says "if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law"

Wait, wait. So, you mean as long as I am led by the spirit I do not need to love my neighbor as myself?

Where is the spirit abeg? I need leading

And Nigeria cannot provide 24 hours stable electricity for itself

written by Sam Greenspan

Yesterday, I found myself in a discussion about the anti-abortion people. The reason: It's just incomprehensible to us that people get so zealous about that issue that they'll go as far as to murder doctors who perform abortions and bomb abortion clinics.

The conversation then took its natural turn to selective, self-serving interpretations of the Bible... finding a few verses that you can use to justify a position that lets you impose your morality on someone, and riding those verses hard and fast for the rest of your life.

So I thought it'd be a good time to find a bunch of stuff that the Bible bans... stuff that's a lot LESS convenient. Don't worry, though... just because I'm pointing it out, that doesn't mean you now have to follow it. It's a lot easier to keep discriminating against gay people for no particular reason than to stop eating bacon, after all.

Here are 11 things that are technically banned by the Bible. (All quotes are translations from the New American Standard Bible, but, because I'm actually trying to maintain serious journalistic integrity here, I cross-referenced several other translations to make sure I wasn't missing the point.)

Round haircuts. See you in Hell, Beatles... and/or kids with bowl cuts, surfer cuts or (my favorite) butt cuts. Leviticus 19:27 reads "You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard."

Football. At least, the pure version of football, where you play with a pigskin. The modern synthetic footballs are ugly and slippery anyways. Leviticus 11:8, which is discussing pigs, reads "You shall not eat of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you."

And you're doubly breaking that if you wake up, eat some sausage then go throw around the football. Or go to the county fair and enter a greased pig catching contest.

Fortune telling. Before you call a 900 number (do people still call 900 numbers, by the way?), read your horoscope or crack open a fortune cookie, realize you're in huge trouble if you do.

Leviticus 19:31 reads "Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God." The penalty for that? Check Leviticus 20:6: "As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people."

Seems like a lifetime of exile is a pretty harsh penalty for talking to Zoltar.

Pulling out. The Bible doesn't get too much into birth control... it's clearly pro-populating but, back when it was written, no one really anticipated the condom or the sponge, so those don't get specific bans.

But... pulling out does. One of the most famous sexual-oriented Bible verses... the one that's used as anti-masturbation rhetoric... is actually anti-pulling out.

It's Genesis 38:9-10: "Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the Lord; so He took his life also."

Yep -- pull out and get smote. That's harsh.

Tattoos. No tattoos. Leviticus 19:28 reads, "You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord."

Not even a little butterfly on your ankle. Or Thug Life across your abdomen. Or even, fittingly enough, a cross.

Polyester, or any other fabric blends. The Bible doesn't want you to wear polyester. Not just because it looks cheap. It's sinfully unnatural.

Leviticus 19:19 reads, "You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together."

Check the tag on your shirt right now. Didn't realize you were mid-sin at this exact second, did you? (Unless you checked the tag by rolling off your neighbor's wife while you two were having anal sex in the middle of robbing a blind guy. Then your Lycra-spandex blend is really the least of your problems.)

Divorce. The Bible is very clear on this one: No divorcing. You can't do it. Because when you marry someone, according to Mark 10:8, you "are no longer two, but one flesh." And, Mark 10:9 reads, "What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

Mark gets even more hardcore about it a few verses later, in Mark 10:11-12, "And He said to them, 'Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; and if she herself divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.'"

Letting people without testicles into church. Whether you've been castrated or lost one or two balls to cancer isn't important. The Bible doesn't get that specific. It just says you can't pray.

Deuteronomy 23:1 reads (this is the God's Word translation, which spells it out better), "A man whose testicles are crushed or whose penis is cut off may never join the assembly of the Lord."

Oh, and the next verse says that if you're a bastard, the child of a bastard... or even have a great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchild of a bastard, you can't come to church or synagogue either. Deuteronomy 23:2 reads, "No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord."

Wearing gold. 1 Timothy 2:9 doesn't like your gold necklace at all. Or your pearl necklace. Or any clothes you're wearing that you didn't get from Forever 21, Old Navy or H&M.

"Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments."

Shellfish. Leviticus 11:10 reads, "But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you." And shellfish is right in that wheelhouse.

Leviticus 11 bans a TON of animals from being eaten (it's THE basis for Kosher law); beyond shellfish and pig, it also says you can't eat camel, rock badger, rabbit, eagle, vulture, buzzard, falcon, raven, crow, ostrich, owl, seagull, hawk, pelican, stork, heron, bat, winged insects that walk on four legs unless they have joints to jump with like grasshoppers (?), bear, mole, mouse, lizard, gecko, crocodile, chameleon and snail.

Sorry if that totally ruins your plans to go to a rock badger eat-off this weekend.

Your wife defending your life in a fight by grabbing your attacker's genitals. No joke. Deuteronomy actually devotes two verses to this exact scenario: Deuteronomy 25:11-12.

"If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity."

That's impossible to misinterpret. Ladies, if your husband is getting mugged, make sure to kick the mugger in the pills. Do not do the grip and squeeze (no matter what "Miss Congeniality" might advise). Or your hand needs to be cut off.

As a final note, I know that nine of these 11 cite the Old Testament, which Christianity doesn't necessarily adhere to as law.

To which I say: If you're going to ignore the section of Leviticus that bans about tattoos, pork, shellfish, round haircuts, polyester and football, how can you possibly turn around and quote Leviticus 18:22 ("You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination." as irrefutable law?

But that's me trying to introduce logic to religious fanaticism (or, at least, trying to counter some mix of ignorance, bigotry and narcissism with logic). And I should probably know better.

Source: http://www.11points.com/Books/11_Things_The_Bible_Bans,_But_You_Do_Anyway

blessedvisky:
Oga atheist. You Dan land again. You and atheism are like this.
To you, atheism is just like peak milk "it's in you

Thank you o jare

phenomem:
Why not a selfie with it

I be Warri boy

UyiIredi:
Physical laws don't explain consciousness whhch is non-physical. God is required to explain the presence of consciousness.

Tell me something

Explorers:
4. Rollable TVs.


LG has developed a prototype for a TV that can be rolled up like a sheet of paper.

The TVs use OLED (organic light emitting diode) technology to decrease the thickness of the screen.

The OLEDs have organic electroluminescent compounds that light up when electricity is passed through them.

Apart from LG, almost all other major TV or electronic display manufacturers such as Samsung, Sony and Mitsubishi are working on making the screens more flexible and portable.

Na to work hard remain o.

I need to have enough cash to be able to afford these.

No be by to dey see am for explorers thread

4kings:
this is why i didn't want to answer your question

Lol. Ain't that a biatch

UyiIredi:
There is evidence. One strong one is from the presence.of consciousness.

How is that evidence of a creator?

I will take a picture and post it on nairaland

Then cc lalasticlala

NCAN Ogun state branch hereby requests for the names of the "Nigerians" to confirm the confirmables

Nigerians should just mind their own business.

We can complain about Trump but cannot say kpikim about our own leaders who are robbing us dry

A people full of misplaced priorities

Ehen?

4kings:
asserting that this cosmos was not created without evidence is wishful thinking.

We only do that because there is no evidence of a creator

4kings:
Ok, now you are not even getting it.


Why not do research on Chi energy, before you come again to engage me.

Hmm. Chi energy

4kings:
Wishful thinking applies to atheism, bro.

And why would a deist say atheists are sad?

Give me one atheistic wishful ideology

Because we do not subcribe to wishful thinking

In the year 3000, Nigerians will still be praying to Jehovah and claiming that "god did it" without inventing anything useful.

Aside from looting funds to enrich science driven nations.

Explorers, the remaining nko?

4kings:
Put "atheists" in your statement, and look at your mirror again.

Atheists don't rely on wishful thinking or seek emotional satisfaction and that is why deists and theists always seem to describe us as sad.

However, I have never been more happy since I stopped dwelling on wishful thinking and fairy tales

4kings:
I'm sure you aren't getting the context, or you just intend to ridicule it no matter what.

I am only telling you how I feel about the concept.

Anything can fit into the concept of "higher" power. Some people see owls and say they are witches. Their "assumptions" are so real to them and if one says otherwise you will be asked to "disprove" it.

Just like when I say my poop is proof of higher power. Can you prove it is not?

Do you now understand?

4kings:
Exactly.

So, if I equate "higher" with my poop then I would be right, right?

4kings:
Assumption is simply a hypothetical Opinion, just like Evolution.

I agreed that there are assumptions, so try disproving them and stop giving me definitions.

You cannot disprove what has not been proven. You have to prove it first then it can be disproved.

And evolution is not in the same league with your assumptions

4kings:
sure, everything can be proven by laws.
but "higher" here just means, "not perceived by mainstream norms".

"Higher" here means "something we don't understand"

drbolade:
Last weekend we Celebrated mumssie in her 4 bedroom bungalow built by our first born to mark her 70th birthday; nice music, good food, nice wine etc. and I look at some years back when things were extremely difficult. I lost my dad when I was in primary 2 age 7yrs, our first born was in his final year in university.

Things were extremely difficult and that was how my sister comes in a dad figure.I can not mentioned all her good deed towards the family but let me just site some instances.

My sister single handedly sponsor our second born wedding, she sponsor our third born through university and on many occasion she used to feed the family. We used to called her mother Theresa.

Unfortunately some years back she was diagnosed of HIV yeah you heard me right and she became the ghost of her former self. Now to the glory of God everybody is doing fine and I keep thinking who knows if my sister did not try to play god probably everybody would have eventually turn out good though things might even be more difficult then. Though we are still one big happy family despite her status but how i wish...

Ladies please don't play God over your siblings do your best not at your own expense

What an ungrateful and apathetic write up. Where was your god when you were all suffering?

Your sister is your God. That one your serve in your church should be flushed down the toilet

4kings:
This has not been disproved objectively like religion.
Ever heard of Chi, placebo effect, Quantum Mechanics of the human brain, kundalini and the likes?

The "higher reality" i'm referring to here, does not necessarily mean Spiritual or Supernatural in a religious sense, but has to do with Knowledge and reaction of certain events just like Gnosticism.

The concept of "higher" is a religious one.

Everything can be proven by natural laws. It just depends on how many natural laws you are aware of

4kings:
Ya there are assumptions, i agree.
Can u disprove them?

assumption
əˈsʌm(p)ʃ(ə)n/Submit
noun
1.
a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof

That's your answer

4kings:
What if the Principle of Causality, does not apply in the plane where the designer comes from?
What if this plane is an intrinsic part of this designer or the designer an intrinsic part of the plane?

Assumptions, assumptions.

Do you have proof of these assumptions?

4kings:
Pantheism has to do with identifying the universe and its components with God.
Buddhism concept of Supreme Knowledge has to do with reaching the God-self.

The concept of Buddhism is complex, so it is not easy to just place a label on it.
But it identifies a higher reality which atheist don't.

This "higher reality" is more or less a product of wishful thinking and exists only in the imagination of those who believe in it

Unfortunately I can't fit it into just 5 people.

Too many great minds on this forum and I have learnt immensely from all of them in their different ways