₦airaland Forum

lepasharon:
soon

Image123:
Don't be ridiculous, those are called deformities. Say the word "deformities" repeatedly until you find out the meaning.

Akiintom:
Just finding it impossible, to link sin with birth malformation.

MZLady39:
Well in a sin-free/perfect world, would malformations exist?

UnchangeableGod:
Cain married his sister. Thanks.

jessykings:
My dear, it is very possible via INCEST!

zionmade1:
ALL these newbies on nairaland
Just type d question on google and add nairaland to it. U will see threads on d topic. D question is stale already find a new one. I wonder if ur mind tells u dat u are wisw for asking a question dat has been asked and answered a million times

Franky826:


ok a lady suggested the mother monitors if her husband is touching the little girl and y'all started bashing her. I bet y'all don't know things are happening these days.. I repeat thing really weird and strange are happening.

the little girl says he like the way the boy touches her and y'all think is the first time she's been touched to even get a feeling?

things are happening! watch that girl closely. watch the things she's been exposed to.

some parents will be so daft and careless to have porns on their phone and not put a lock on it and leaves their children to play games with same phones and you think their young minds won't explore?

parents these children are your responsibility!

at her age I was painting with wax/oil crayons not catching feelings.

something is not right

StevensJojo:
Is it a song she sang or she said it outright.
If its a son then she is probably just repeating lyrics she heard.
If not men you have got to dig deep o.Its normal for a young girl to have crushes but which one is touch?
The mum has done the part she knows-beating her- that in itself has some good especially at her age but you or her dad neeeds to draw her closer befriend her, find out whats up and also direct her

Okoh1:
Hardmirror!!!

I am a sucker for your threads..

Deep sarcasms and satires to bedevil religious folks are the writing techniques you dont hesitate to employ..

Bros, this one got me in a locker!

Until I figure out the literally or otherwise of this post, I will reserve my comment

pweeryambre:
the mum did not need to spank her... the child simply has a faster mental development than her age mates and is becoming aware of different human feelings but unfortunately she cannot explore this one because she's too young to understand it...I'm sure she's Innocent if not she wouldn't have told anyone about it.
the mum should just manage her by trying to answer any of her questions and teach as simple as possible why it is wrong to feel such at a tender age and not scare her in a way that will damage her psych about boys.

pweeryambre:
lol...wow

lepasharon:
It's normal. Don't you remember having a bf/gf in primary school, but not in the sense that we know as adults.

kristonium:
The child's mind need urgent reprogramming!

MChoc24:
Not my fault your child is over sexualized. Maybe you should find out if her dad is touching her that should be your first concern or are you just a neglectful mother who lets her watch,listen and hang around any and everything

MChoc24:
I guess you want her to like girls

divinesaint:
just be close to her so that she can confide in u...but dont encourage her....

TheEminentLaity:
Thanks. The problem is certainly not genetic, good thing it isn't because Nigeria as it is today presents all sorts of problems and troubles that prompts everyone living here to wonder and ask if there is something inherently wrong with us. But it's more about intellectual laziness combined with culture and traditions enforced by religion and superstition. The best method to connect with the minds of great thinkers and inventors over time is by reading their works and I am better for it. Intelligence grows and people get better with training and education. The internet has made the world smaller with the ease of access to information, and nigerians must start looking.

Today, I engaged an former classmate of mine, currently in the civil service, and told him 10 years from now nobody in the west would go for lectures with notebooks and pens. Imagine mobile phones ten years ago, perhaps, we could be so connected that actual contact time with lecturers would almost be non-existent.

In contrast, It is really unfortunate that the political class are, maybe unconsciously from our ultra-conservative nature, keeping the future generations more and more at a disadvantage such that even in Lagos there are schools without roofs, desks and books and school children without any materials. Twenty years ago, a prospective student in the third world with a scholarship may not have had to deal with so much computerisation, currently, you are by default expected to learn and express your ideas using computers with decent typing speed. I have written my representatives, but Nigeria is just one hell of a place.

The future is in science and technology, by now it is no longer an expectation that anybody with some form of education should know how to operate computers. Humans are evolving into weaker species with much more developed brains and with increasing competition, it's no longer the strong that survives but the people with higher intellect.

Your father did great for his family. So should everyone. Like yours, my father was very poor and did well to afford us good education. I would for mine as well and my community. Education of true learning and curiosity cannot be overemphasised. More so now than ever. As for Nigeria, a referendum would be a good restart. We need to decide whether we want to create a decent society or this chaos we have now.

I agree with you. You know there are more genes for intelligence on the X chromosome than the Y, so 'educate a woman and you educate a nation' is actually scientific.

omohayek:
You misread me if you think I'm blaming "slavery" for anything. The point I was making is that
[1] Not all "sub Saharan Africans" have been affected by slavery.
[2] African slavery, as terrible as it was, still wasn't the worst thing human beings have suffered, nor was it unique to sub-Saharan Africa.

omohayek:
Ignoring for now your false assumption that all sub-Saharan Africans have been enslaved, where exactly do you think the very word "slave" comes from? Have you ever bothered to examine its etymology? Here, let me help you out

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slave#Etymology

Ever heard of the tale of Roxelana? She was a Slav captured during a slave raid by the Tatars, who eventually ended up in the harem of the Ottoman Sultan. This happened in the 16th century, the same period during which the first black slaves were brought to the colony of Virginia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxelana

In fact, the Ottoman trade in European slaves was still quite healthy in the 17th century, and only fully stopped in the 19th century, with the rise of Russia and Britain.

And then there's the whole "genocide of the Native Americans" thing to consider, which happened despite their having built civilizations even the Europeans were willing to acknowledge as such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples#Colonization_and_genocide_in_the_Americas

Going back further in time, how much more humiliating and oppressive does it get than to have your holiest temple desecrated and razed to the ground, your capital demolished, and your people forbidden from even setting foot on their own soil on pain of death, with huge numbers of those who weren't slaughtered on the spot being marched off to a distant land as slaves to be worked to death? That's exactly what happened to the Jews after their failed revolts against the Roman Empire, and it only took them 2,000 years of exile in ghettos, religious pogroms, expulsions, and too many other varieties of oppression to name, culminating in their industrialized murder between 1941 and 1945. Tell me anything in the black experience that approaches that level of sustained suffering!

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_wars[/url]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

Your assumptions about the uniquely wretched and humiliated nature of "sub Saharan Africans" only reveal how lacking in historical knowledge you are, a deficit that renders you incapable of taking a proper perspective on how the various peoples of the world have fared. Your belief that being a victim of oppression must be because of a deficit in one's abilities, character, or knowledge, only says something about your own mindset, which seeks to always identify with the "winning" side at any cost, even at the cost of self-respect.

BlazingAyomikun:
You, my friend, are obviously too simpleminded to be dignified with a response. You're so blind you can't see beyond your own nose. Are your olfactory lobes even active? You certainly can't "sniff it", can you? What's so difficult to understand here? Is this belief of yours some sort of new religion composed of closeminded fanatics? Why are you so bent on "proving the fact" that the Black man is "on average" (whatever that means!!!) intellectually inferior? What's the deal?

BlazingAyomikun:
This is really shocking and incredible. What the fucking hell. This is self-loathing and self-degradation at its apogee. What came over you? What kind of heritage, breeding, peerage or "exposure" could make a Black African so contemptuous of his own identity to such an extent that he propagates the myth of Negroid inferiority with such zeal and enthusiasm? How does admitting such ridiculous bullshit help solve our problems? Trudax, several sane persons on this thread in a bid to make you see reason and ditch such toxic orientation have provided well-grounded points on why this extremely false AND offensive assertion of yours is an idea worth ditching into the trash bin, which even the vast majority of Caucasians themselves have consigned into the reeking dustbin of history, with all its awful stench and nauseous aura. The mere existence of this thread is a disgrace. We shouldn't be having this discussion.

I've intereacted with teenagers like myself from other races, Americans, British and Germans and I've never seen anything indicative of intellectual superiority. In fact, the vast majority of them, especially those of the American variety, are way dumber than the dictionary definition of dumb. You keep mentioning averages, averages like that's what provides you with the oxygen you breathe.... What exactly are you talking about? What averages? Do you really think it's that simple? Are we to imagine that intelligence is the only factor that contributed to other races outperforming the Negroids? Wouldn't that be ridiculous, intellectually crude, and disgustingly moronic? Every single one of your conclusions is invalid, and by virtue of my Negritude and the insult dealt me by your pseudo-scientific claptrap, I hereby declare them anathema, along with the one who made them - you, like a Medieval European Orthodox Catholic Priest. You keep accusing every person who makes a reasonable submission of irrational emotionalism and lack of objectivity, as if you yourself are the epitome of objectivity and the beacon of rationality.

Have you considered how human history played out up to this point? Isn't that a very important factor? What about [color=maroon]EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CHANCE EVENTS[/color] Or, considering those is no good for your purposes, 'cos they will show how flawed your premises are and have your arguments destroyed on the hard rock of reason, hun, Almighty objective Trudax? What about ENVIRONMENT? That's another important factor. You can't just center it around intelligence. There are too many chance events in history to be overlooked, most of which had they not happened, things would have been completely different today, and the shoe we wear down here in Sub-Saharan Africa will probably be on the other foot. This attitude of yours is an insult to every Negroid with a sense of pride and and self-worth out there. It is a disgrace, and very deserving of the sort of contempt with which it was met, and even much more.

Whatever the problem of Sub-Saharan Africa is, it certainly isn't purely intellectual, neither does it have anything to do with intellectual inferiority on the part of we Africans with respect to other races (WTF!!!), no matter how much you claim otherwise. It is much more complex than you assume and has a lot more to do with history, environment, and society (as moulded by historical, environmental and cultural factors), and having this kind of pointless discussion will only create more problems than solve any of the numerous ones on ground. There is everything wrong with this topic of yours. Shed that cloak you're wearing. Snap out of that shit quick.

Image123:
Need is different from value, you are missing the point. You might need soap to bathe, it doesn't mean that your cloth or your car have no more value. Stop thinking in 1-D, humans were not created that way.

SirWere:
I'm currently on a very crappy android with touch problems, so......


The argument in itself seems to have been resolved. Whilst West-Africa is no doubt an eyesore and seems to have no progressive works, its mainly as a result of cultural and prevailing religious beliefs, not "race".



A good example, ironically would be the Asian countries and their path to national self development. Lengthy readings on these nations gives me hope about the progress of this continent



I understand the OPs frustration however. Our society just seems rooted in anti-curiousity and promotes blind obedience. I can't count the number of times teachers, supposed custodians of knowledge have asked students to " swallow it like that"!!




Imagine the whole V.C of a "great" university asking you to pray against "witchcraft".






So I understand the OP

hopefulLandlord:
his reference to diamond shows he doesn't even know what Paradox of value is

Image123:
This line of thought pretty much goes for anything and loses all sense of objectivity. A special precious rock/diamond/certificate in Banjul is not important to me, therefore it is not special. Where is the objectivity in that? Mankind is made up of you and i, and if i am special, then mankind is. We are the crown of creation on earth. We do things no other creature can do. We have a will, an ability to make decisions in ways no other terrestrial being can. We are eternal. Let's just cancel that as that is simply beyond the scope of this class as has been proven. It's like teaching calculus to a fish.

dalaman:
If we are equally intelligent then why aren't we creating susperb systems like them? Why aren't we able to organize ourselves and create functional societies like theirs. Why aren't we able to solve our problems like them? Why aren't we making groud breaking discoveries and inventing things like them? Why are we easily fooled and dominated by them?

TheEminentLaity:
Jeez! Where or when did I say that? I am a black african man, pure breed from my full african ancestors and I'm a not doing badly in academics. I could probably be used as motivation for young black africans who live in Nigeria and aspire to study and do research in the sciences at elite universities or even go further to aspire for a Nobel prize in science. But, I'm just one person. The average needs to go up. For every, say, Okonjo Iweala in 160m Nigerians, there are a thousand to ten thousand among 120m Japanese. Not everyone would get into Harvard or become that prolific but educated people won't elect id!ots over and over again especially those that contributed to it's regression in the first place worse still celebrate them. Besides, education makes people much more tolerant and sensible. Our averages need to go up because the result is what is apparent when you look at the level of underdevelopment and mediocrity celebrated by black people. Nigerians have to get serious and more of our people need to come in.

In my uni there were just a handful of black people in my department, just three africans (all Nigerians) and it gets less the higher up you go but you would think that the way Nigerians go for degrees you would find a lot of them there. So the argument about black people coming out top in foreign universities while true, doesn't paint a very accurate picture. Rather, how many are coming out top in elite foreign universities because there are many community colleges in the US, for example, that have lower standards in comparison.

There are generally fewer intelligent people as there are unintelligent people but this talk is about averages not potential (how do you even determine potential especially when one isn't trying at all?) The OP asked a question, and my response from observation is that we, speaking as a Nigerian, we have never shown (we won't have been captured if otherwise) have not and are still not showing in anyway anything other than intellectual inferiority to other races from the increased likelihood of poverty, disorganisation, and underdevelopment within black circles. Could it be genetic? Likely, because behaviours are similar within black african nations. However, I cannot outrightly say that. But the evidence needs to prove otherwise.