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Furious2:
Please I need a download link for Acrimony

The spam bot keeps deleting the link. Check this page, I posted one here

Diiike:
Thanks a lot for your response

Sorry I'm disturbing you
How about game of thrones

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Diiike:
Bro please do you have link to series like maybe or boondocks or the Simpsons

I'm sorry, I don't have links for animations.

Diiike:
Thanks a lot You too much

you are welcome

hakeem4:
lovely point

thanks

The short answer is that there are signs that sick people who

(a) believe in prayer and
(b) know they are being prayed for
Show positive health benefits.
People who

(a) don't particularly believe in prayer and
(b) know they are being prayed for can show some, but markedly less results.
People who don't know they are being prayed for don't show anything significant enough to be more then happenstance (or a break in study protocol.)

To the non-believer, this points to psycho-somosis as the likely acting ingredient.
To the believer, this 'proves' that faith is necessary, although that doesn't really adequately explain why those with faith unknowingly prayed for dont show bette results. But, again, it can be argued away with the fact that people of faith whoa re sick always have people in their community praying for them.

The short answer is, no, there is no scientifically valid proof in the efficacy of prayer but, as in all science, that doesn't prove that such effect doesn't exist, merely that no study has been formulated to date that can capture it.
We are rationalizing animals and anything with emotional import gets rationalized by *everyone* with a feeling on the subject.

Edit: It should be noted however that this has no bearing on the existence or non existence of a deity or deities. Its a relatively small percentage of deists who believe in a god who is a super santa clause that delivers what ever we ask for if we grovel low enough.

Let peace reign in Nigeria

During the earlier times people saw lives with pains, tragedies and sorrows. They wanted some kind of theory which could explain all this. Therefore, they thought about explanations and theories which gradually led into beliefs. These beliefs, which were influenced by the times they lived in i.e., non-scientific reasoning, were products of constant fear of the unknown. Instead of taking on the fear head on and finding permanent solutions, they just escaped into the world of false beliefs that gave them temporary relief. In a world where people clutch at all kinds of straws to make some sense of the madness around them, truth can never be found. Instead of analyzing, examining and understanding why something happens and how it should be handled, they tried shortcuts by bringing unknown and untested factors to interpret things!

These beliefs divided people because each person had a different set of experiences and those in turn influenced their explanations and the resultant beliefs based on their mental makeup and situations and not on one truth. That's how different beliefs - both religious and non-religious - originated.

Then some people sustained them by creating fear in people, making emotionally dependent on them to control others and to earn money, keep their jobs intact and maintain their power.
Some tried to have an ‘order’ around by adding ‘religious rules’ or morals to them.

People who needed some sort of external emotional support, people who are fearful of things happening around them because they cannot understand and see things in a scientific way, people who cannot think critically and differentiate between facts and fiction still believe in these things.

Yes, some people need belief systems to sustain themselves. That is the reason why scientific world still tolerates religion although it can critically analyse and debunk the myths.
Until everybody around can understand a scientific way of world to make them strong mentally and permanently, religions can survive.

Until we all come together and learn to live peacefully with each other and realize that whether you are a xtrian, muslim, igbo, hausa , or Yoruba are just labels created by the charlatans that want to rule us so it's easier to divide us.

SalamRushdie:
So how come 99 percent of Nigerian tithe payers still live from hand to mouth

They will get their rewards in heaven

@Explorers, update please!!! I heard 2 have been rescued, 4 more set to walk out.

ScienceWatch:
Really ?
Then go and read your Atheists Training Manuel again. For your convenience I include the link here; https://www.nairaland.com/4601231/atheist-finds-refuge-peace-christ#69128077
Gratitude goes to the our brilliant detective Butterflyleo.

ok

Diiike:
Please help with "the dictator"

[url=http://mc1.dl3enter.in/files/d1/film/2012/The%20Dictator/The%20Dictator.2012.1080p.BluRay.mp4] the dictator [/url]

lookingfly:
Pls help with the link for 2018 B. E. T awards

just put ss before the link after https, you will be able to download.

lookingfly:
Pls help with the link for 2018 B. E. T awards

[color=grey]you can download it[/color] on YouTube.

When it is without knowledge, forget it.

"To President Muhammadu Buhari’s ardent followers, certain spectacles are heartwarming emblems of his simplicity, but, they are in fact, bad PR. The image of the President of Nigeria watching a 32-inch TV, for instance, should be nobody’s idea of austereness neither should it deserve the fuss it attracted. The same can be said of his farm pictures which have surfaced for the second time in two years. In 2015, the pictures of Buhari visiting his farm shortly after becoming President should have been an alarm. There was little about that farm that spelled technological innovation, entrepreneurial creativity, or any perspicacity that suggested he had what it would take to stimulate national development. When the pictures resurfaced in 2017, very little had changed. The man still keeps cows the same way our grandparents kept domestic animfarming

Even more unsettling is the fact that we live in a globally connected world where other world leaders intuit our leaders and our collective mental development from the way we narrate ourselves. Buhari shared the picture before leaving for the One Planet Summit in France. He would have preempted his own arrival in Europe with a confirmation that the largest conglomeration of Black people in the world is stuck in a time warp. Where does one even start? In 2017, Buhari hopes the picture of himself growing fruits and vegetables, and practising animal husbandry at a level that barely transcends subsistence farming, has any discernible potential to solve the nation’s food crisis? The man has lived through similar specious programmes like “Green Revolution,” “Operation Feed the Nation,” and “National School Agriculture Programme,” yet his grand vision for Nigeria is still non-industrialised agriculture? Even the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, reduced official work days from five to three so that people could take up farming. If, with all those efforts, Nigerians are still unable to feed themselves, it could only mean that previous solutions were cosmetic and the fundamentals of farming problems in Nigeria still need addressing.

What is the point of Buhari’s advocating more people to take up farming when we have problems of land tenure system, desertification, storage facilities, manufacturing, electricity, poor road access to urban markets where the produce would find a market, and perennial food wastage? The issue of food wastage in Nigeria was raised by the Agriculture Minister, Audu Ogbeh, last year when he observed that 30-40 per cent of our farm produce end up wasted. Our problems are not food production in itself; it is that failure to create structures that can distribute what we have sufficiently. Nigeria does not need to be an agrarian economy where we will hang a hoe on our shoulders, and “go back to land” to survive. What we need is knowledge and the political will to execute smart ideas. It is thanks to such cultivated knowledge that a state like California, partly situated in the desert, can be the food basket of the USA. The state earns an average annual income of $50bn on farming alone, and that is about twice the entire budget of Nigeria with all her oil revenue. Yet, less than three per cent of their citizens are involved in farming. How do they do it? Technology, innovation, and creativity. When the yams Nigeria sent to Europe sometime this year with so much fanfare were returned as not up to par, our cultural deficiencies were immediately obvious. What the world wants to buy is between our ears, not in the ground.

Developed economies of the world have so industrialised that machines have replaced the humans who used to work on slave plantations. People who travel through Libya to Europe arrive there (for those who do anyway) to find that the jobs available for Black labourers are mostly sex-based. With smaller land mass and population than Nigeria, countries like The Netherlands, Italy, and Germany make far more money on food exports than Nigeria makes on oil. They apply creative solutions for maximum productivity. Today, developed countries have a lot of time for leisure and can concentrate their intellect on the less rudimentary issues such as development in areas of health, environment, climate change, human rights, and the elevation of the human soul through cultural productions. That is the standard Nigerian leaders should be nudging people towards, not further prod the land to yield food when we have not demonstrated enough sagacity to handle what we already get.

There are problems with our leaders brandishing an unreconstructed mind, living 19th-century realities in the 21st century. Their anachronism, and the archaic ideas they deploy explain why our problems seem extremely complicated. From building roads that last to planning budgets that are not fraught with statistical failures, we recycle pretty much the same issues annually. Buhari’s government has learned to hide behind jaded excuses such as “corruption is fighting back” when what fights back so viciously is the failure to evolve, to think outside the debilitating circumstances that created the problems we are trying to solve. We are overwhelmed by the weight of our troubles, and very little is changing.

The recurring problem of corruption in Nigeria underscores how the inveterate approach we have used to tackle these issues contributes to their resilience. This year, we have been confronted with several high-profile cases of corruption that are psychologically draining. Nigerians that have been so frequently outraged at some point can barely summon enough anger over emerging cases of corruption. It is almost safe to conclude that people no longer care about these issues anymore. People are drained, and it is almost impossible to keep up with them as they are being churned out. The Mainagate started as a drama but right before our eyes, it metamorphosed into a tragedy, a tragicomedy, and then a farce. The probe that resulted in the House of Representatives was painful to follow; the bureaucracy by which our lives are being governed is not only outdated, they are so faulty they admit the same problems year in and year out. The systems are loose, decidedly uncoordinated, and internally programmed to fail. One reads through the drama that happened at the National Assembly during the probe and wonders if the ineptitude displayed by the main actors who run the country at the top echelons is not a deliberate attempt to undermine Nigeria.

While that is still sizzling, then came the weighty accusations exchanged by the Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, and the Securities and Exchange Commission DG, Mounir Gwarzo. There are too many details in the allegations both parties are bartering that fail to add up. At some point, one wonders if we are ever going to overcome our problems or we are fated to be this way. Are these people governing or they are toying with the control buttons of governance? One becomes considerably soberer when one realises that these same issues of corruption and what not were what we fruitlessly tackled under the PDP for 16 years.

Amidst all these, we have a President preaching subsistence farming thus confirming that his approach to complex issues is oversimplified solutions that have no viability in present times. In case the Presidency forgets, the rest of the world follows what happens in our country and assesses our capacity to resolve our issues through our leaders and the way they reason. The images of our President canvassing subsistence agriculture are, in that wise, a poor commentary on our collective intelligence and our capability to solve problems. I understand Buhari has to appeal to his followers who get easily titillated by his supposed earthiness but they should be mindful that we also live in an interconnected world where local idiocies have global implications. Our country builds universities like pure water factories and yet we act naïve; practically asking the world infantilise us.

I hope it made sense to you.

CAPSLOCKED:

THIS JUST PUT MORE SADNESS IN MY LIFE.

lol, why?

Vitiligo is caused by a loss of pigment in the skin, due to destruction of pigment-forming cells known as melanocytes. The exact cause of the destruction of these cells is not known. One possible explanation might be that the body's immune system destroys the cells, as in other autoimmune conditions

Surprisingly, the causes of vitiligo are yet to be precisely established, but most of the research so far points to the following:

An autoimmune disorder - the patient's immune system becomes overactive and destroys the melanocytes2

Genetic oxidative stress imbalance
A stressful event
Harm to the skin due to a critical sunburn or cut
Exposure to some chemicals
A neural cause
Heredity - family link
A viral cause.
Some treatments are not right for everyone. Many treatments can have unwanted side effects. Treatments can take a long time, and sometimes they don’t work. Current treatment options for vitiligo include medical, surgical, and other treatments. Most treatments are aimed at restoring color to the white patches of skin.

Medical treatments include:

Medicines (such as creams) that you put on the skin
Medicines that you take by mouth
A treatment that uses medicine plus ultraviolet A (UVA) light (PUVA)
Removing the color from other areas so they match the white patches.
Surgical treatments include:

Skin grafts from a person’s own tissues. The doctor takes skin from one area of a patient’s body and attaches it to another area. This is sometimes used for people with small patches of vitiligo.

Tattooing small areas of skin.

Other treatments include:

Sunscreens
Cosmetics, such as makeup or dye, to cover the white patches
Counseling and support.