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prince2pac:
I hope the person updating is still alive, abi he staked Chelsea to win with his house rent... match don end since nah



them fans right now

At this rate, you will not make heaven

The game ended 2-5 na, mod update scores

Chigold101:
And you know how Tyndale died...?

He died by hanging because he opposed King Henry VIII. Henry VIII annulled his marriage and Tyndale opposed his action as not sculptural. Henry VIII had him arrested and hanged. It still doesn't change the fact that the first English Bible was from an English man.

Chigold101:
Are you talking about who printed English Bible or who gave us Bible...


Having said that the first English Bible was actually printed in Germany...

England banned Bible and many burnt many people on the stake for coming into Britain with the Bible

The first English Bible was printed in England in the 1500s by William Tyndale. Though the first printed copy of the Bible was produced in Germany, it wasn't written in English. It was written in Vulgate Latin.

Chigold101:
First the activities of the Bible took place in the Middle East, and some part of Europe.

The first Bible published was done in Germany.

I don't see where Britain came in from

Who do you think printed the English Bible?

I wonder if this much people would concur to this fine, if it was done by the NBC. Just saying

These people are less than animals. Having travelled the length and breath of Nigeria, I consider myself a culturally tolerant person. But a near-death experience in Bauchi, centered around Prophet Muhammad has made me have this disdain for Northerners. So many deplorable human beings amongst them.

mayberry1:
You are giving yourself excuses not to get married, if your Dad had thought this way I bet you wouldn't be here writing trash.

His dad doesn't need to marry his mum to impregnate her. Sad, but it's true.

xynerise:
Culture didn't change. People changed.

Who created culture? It's people. So if people change, then culture will change.

Walkee:
what's special about giving birth to anyone? Believe me, those that were never born aren't missing out on anything. You are here now, some time in the future you'd be dead and rotten in the ground. All your achievement and suffering won't mean shiit to you anymore. So what's the point?

Help me ask him. The sooner people realize that life itself is meaningless, the better for humanity.

Freestainworld:
your Logic's doesn't make any sense, since sex is cheap, go and start sleeping with prostitutes so you can be happy, as for children, I don't expect you to get married not to talk of having babies so you won't be in financial slavery since you are Island, if they hadn't given birth to you, would you have been here reasoning like a toddler.

He doesn't need marriage for any of the things you mentioned. He doesn't even need a prostitute to have sex regularly. As long as you have money, you can have anything marriage has to offer.

Goel:
Civilisation doesn't mean nationstate. China is one of oldest nationstates, not settlements. First humans settled on Africa and then first Aryans settled somewhere between India and Iran. Later they migrated around the world.
Chinese are mongoloidal race which came into existence after mutations in body of Aryans which stopped or inhibited various facial changes with age and that's why Chinese Japanese look that away. Since humans went to East Asia after India and Europe, they were late to settle.

As far Chinese are concerned, they teach in their country that humans came into existence in China and not Africa. No point bothering on that if you are using a Chinese source.

If that is the case with nairaland, then belief about west building civilisation must be to some highly underdeveloped and uneducated societies. Here in Asia wherever I have travelled, west is known to be more rich and advanced than rest of world due to some reasons in past 3-4 centuries. Not credited with building world at all.

I perfectly understand that civilization does not mean Nationhood. Yes, the Chinese are fiercely jingoistic and xenophobic, which has seeped into teachings that humanity stemmed from China, just like the Nazis did by siting fake archeological finds to buttress their teachings on the superiority of the Aryan race. So when I am not reading from Chinese authors when I say China is one of the most ancient civilizations.

Goel:
They are a minority. China was a way later entry into civilisation. So anyone crediting them for founding modern languages is a rarely attended group of archaeologists.

Importance also lies here equally. We are only comparing important inventions and China lags behind in quantity since it was new to civilize.

Nor Chinese inventions were exclusive. Developing paper or some similar writing platform wasn't a challenge for people from other parts of world. Chinese martial arts itself came from India and Mongolia. Many of Chinese inventions were reinvented around world by other societies themselves.

Chinese have done a distinct challenging thing; invention of gun powder, guns and war rockets. Even those were reinvented in Southeast Asia and Indian subcontinent later.

Compass was a great deal, without it, world would have been 300-400 years late to connect but not paper. Paper was easily assimilable.

Maths and medical science made world a completely different place. I rather recommend you to not to make it versus all these inventions from all parts of world had significant role in what we are today.

Nobody believes that western people built civilisation, even Westerners themselves. They know that they were first to do things on industrial scale what eastern people used to do on small scale. Even Europeans also contributed a lot in ancient era during Roman empire.

It's in fact entire Eurasia which built world civilisation. Europe + Middleast + India + East Asia. These societies dominated world in intellect and innovation in that era too. These are the societies which colonised each other, played great games and fought world wars. These are the societies which even today are growing economically over their own other peers to take control over the world. Even the new entry in competition called USA was settled by these societies themselves.

Lol, your write up makes it look like China is a newbie in human civilization. China (Shang Dynasty) is one of the four ancient civilizations in hostory, in fact it is credited to be the most ancient continuous civilization in human history it has been around since ancient Egyptian civilization. The only civilization that precedes it is Sumeria/Babylon.
You are wrong when you say nobody believes that Westerners built civilization. You can only speak for yourself. Infact, it was one narrow-minded comment where someone asked what has China invented that drew me into this thread. Take a simple poll on Nairaland and judge for yourself.

Goel:
First written languages came from Iran, Egypt or somewhere else in middleeast but first paper came from China for sure.
Modern mathematical digits are Arabic numerals which are derived from Hindu numerals of Gupta empire (Indian dynasty).

Mathematics at large from digits to trigonometry and even all modern complex calculations came from India, Iran and Arabia. Even first human civilisations were invented in these countries.
Chinese discovered many great things like gunpowder. But calling them as mother of invention is exaggeration. They are old as country but very new as a civilisation. Iran, Egypt, India, Egypt and Europe, all had settled when Chinese used to do tribal dance with mongols in jungles.

It's not clear exactly where writing was invented, some will say ancient Mesopotamia, some credit the Indus Valley civilization, but archeologists also credit China.
I still maintain my stance that China is the mother of inventions. By this, I don't mean quantity, I mean importance. Imagine how possible oceanic travel would be without a Compass, or a world without paper or printing. Go read up Chinese inventions, they invented a great deal of things. Western education has succeeded in convincing a lot of people that only Europeans invented things that shaped human civilization.

blueAgent:
What is patriotism with knowledge?

Will patriotism cause an Aircraft to defy law of gravity and fly?

Stick to the romance section, this thread is way above your league. PS, This is my last reply to you.

blueAgent:
Most Africans are too dumb to reason logically.

If the Whiteman has dressed in a way that looked provocative or inappropriate for that environment he would have been sent out.

I have seen and read countless number of times that police were called on people who were not properly dressed or exposed their body.

It's not a cultural thing but decency.

Try wear bikini and go to a mall.

People wear bikini to Walmart. You need some exposure. Better still check Youtube.

selemempe:
the importance of suit and tie in this discussion is because of how this man was dressed....as a tribute to some 'cultural heritage'. I denounced that cultural heritage nonsense by pointing to how the ever proud East Asians left many of their cultural heritage behind (including their dress) in favour of western/global styles. Of cause simply dressing in suit and tie is not all that is needed to develop...but it shows a willingness to shift from old ideas to more modern ideas.

Of course Africans are in awe of whites and would seldom want to disturb their fun. But I can assure you again that a fellow white would call the police too if this guy was white. And since both the shop owner and this guy are black...it's perfectly ok. And you may also be surprised that this black shop owner would have still called the police even if this guy was white. Because the shop owner already formed his ideas about what an appropriate dress code looks like

The discussion itself is heavily nuanced, and I only called you out because you were inferring that China became successful because they started wearing suit and tie, but we can both agree that patriotism and competence trumps any sort of dress code when it pertains to National growth, and for the second part, at least you agree that inferiority complex played a role there. Inferiority complex is never ok, and that's my opinion.

selemempe:
they embraced 80% of western ideas. In fact the only part of their culture they kept was language and religion. Even those have been influenced by west. Below is a street in Tokyo. See many English signages? See how 'western' the people in the photo are dressed?

And for Japan, it was a deliberate strategy. Read about the Meji era. The emperor forced Japanese citizens to adopt western dressing deliberately. The westernization made Japan the sole non-white global power. Giving them the advantages to colonize China and Korea.


As for a white men getting red carpet treatment...who told you that? Maybe from an African...but his fellow white would have called the police on him

It's not Meji. It's Meiji. Emperor Meiji (The Meiji Restoration in the 18th Century) You are making my point. Lol. China's rise to greatness is way beyond wearing suits and trousers. Don't we wear suits and trousers here? China rose to greatness because of two things. Patriotism and competence. They quashed corruption, devalued the Yuan, and maximized their large population which made them an export hub, buy their products, and steal European and American technology. It has zero to do with some useless suit and tie.
On the red carpet thing, at least you agree an African will do that, and that was the premise of this discussion in the first place.

selemempe:
Africa has also been a mother of inventions long before China. Egypt and Sudan are the birth places of civilization.
Today's China however owes its new found success to Western ideas. And they have gone deeper and deeper to westernise and modernize their society. Africa should do the same and leave the old ways. If you want to badly hold on to the old ways in the name of culture, you would create a very unappealing society

That's a very simplistic way of looking at things. China's new found success is not based entirely on embracing western culture. Like the Japanese, they only embraced western education, specifically science and technology, but left significant parts of their cultures intact. While I agree that not all aspects of our culture is beneficial and should be done away with, it is our blatant hypocrisy and inferiority complex that irks me. If it was a White man dressed in this attire that silly shop owner would have thrown out a red carpet.

selemempe:
Fool! China's system of government came from the Soviet Union. I knew you know nothing chai And I was arguing with you. Japan is a parliamentary democracy based on the Westminster style. Awolowo free education may have been responsible for your poor knowledge of these issues but I will forgive it.

Can you tell me what china has invented?? Mobile phones and internet came from US. Planes and automobiles came from Europe. Having an army, navy and air force are western ideas. Dressing in suite are western ideas.

You talk of language. Pray tell who doesn't speak their mother tongue in Africa? Swahili is the national language in Kenya. There is a language spoken by most Ghanaians. Nigeria is the only African country without a native national language. Language is not an issue at all. And has nothing to do with westernisation. Religion is also not a factor in westernisation.

The main factors of westernisation is dressing well... western style education .... understanding and using modern technology and knowing an international language. Leaving backward culture behind

China is the mother of inventions. She invented writing, paper, fireworks, and loads of other things you take for granted, including numbers and mathematics. (Alongside India) Westernization goes beyond dressing. It includes Religion, language and general culture.

Colonial mentality all over the thread. White people run around in bum shorts, bikinis and some go nude and we term it fashion or eccentrics. Meanwhile we cringe at a divinely dressed person in traditional African attire. Mental slavery at it's peak.

Poverty-ridden comments all over this thread, because a woman is from Canada, op should throw all caution to the wind and date her, even though he has zero feelings for her. That is how some people end up with toxic partners and even psychopaths just because of flimsy material things. God punish poverty .

BigSarah:
Hmm, forget about this girl she’s gone... probably a potential terrorist by now..

Just being realistic , please don’t swarm me .

Do you look like Sarah Bataam? Seriously.

Jeffy1206:
young man listen to yourself again and refer to my first comment.

I don't blame you, I blame myself for quoting you in the first place. Adieu.

Jeffy1206:
so what's the difference now? �

What's the difference between when I say "I will slap you" and I actually slap you? One is a threat, the other is action. Get it?

Jeffy1206:
but the last circular Said so

It didn't say so. It only threatened to do so.

Cargoed:
CBn did the right thing, when you consider how reckless our local banks can be.
1)A crypto exchange going down can cause systemic failure in the banking system making CBN and even Amcon to bail out.
2)Exchanges began to fix their own naira rate and round tripping was encouraged.
3)A local bank can hold Crypto as part off it's assets , if or when it drops/corrects 80% what kind of shock do you think that will cause in a financial year.
4)Banks can't be made responsible for P2p transactions.
5)Crypto was killing Fintech and even micro finance banks.
6) Satoshi Designed BTC in such a way that CBNs will have no choice but to ban it.
7) KYC and AML issues.
Is the central banks job to first protect National Currency and banking institutions first or Encourage such innovation at all costs.
9) The Naira is currently backed by Oil not btc.
10) The CBNs gov tenor is 8yrs at Max not 2145 when the last Bitcoin. Will be mined.

If you are the CBN Gov with all these revelation. Would you not ban it immediately.

Crap statements. You clearly know nothing about crypto. I won't bother enlightening you. Go and read.

Jeffy1206:
So what of the blocking of the accounts of people involved? confuse people as leaders.

No account has been blocked. Crypto exchanges will simply not allow you deposit or withdraw naira.

joey150:
Oh yes, I see your point.

But there are ways around it. If you're keen enough to drive that car.

Sure.

joey150:
No it isn't. It's like saying, you can buy a car, but just don't drive it in any official road.

You still have bushes, forests, off-trails, villages and the desert to drive it in.

You are making my point. That's why it's a quasi ban. Unless you misconstrued the meaning of quasi.

joey150:
No it isn't. It's like saying, you can buy a car, but just don't drive it in any official road.

You still have bushes, forests, off-trails, villages and the desert to drive it in.

Can you now convert cryptos to fiat through your bank account unless through P2P?

Never4getU:
Osinbanjo won this for Nigerian youths and it's economy. When u're trying so hard to impress ur master even as tho ur believe on something good becomes bad as good it satisfy ur oga at the top.

Mumu CBN gov emefiele

Osinbajo won nothing, you still can't move cryptos to fiat unless through P2P. CBN dullard didn't say anything different, nothing changed.