₦airaland Forum

smeag0l:
I trade retail forex but learnt from an institutional trader. 7 years

How profitable are you? Do you have a job besides forex?

LordReed:
We've been having an acrimony free discussion so far so what is causing this accusation? Are you in my head to know what is obvious to me or not? If you are tried of being civil tell me so I can take a rest, I won't spare the time for the uncouth.

Sorry o no vex. I'm simply just saying that one needn't test the obvious.

smeag0l:
I learnt from an institutional trader in the UK

I'm talking about retail forex o.

For how long have you been trading?

LordReed:
A god is not obvious to me. What it means is you didn't test for the existence of a god then, you simply accepted it.

if a lion stood in front of you would you bother testing? wouldn't the presence of the lion be obvious? so it is with God. if you say it isn't obvious then you are simply lying.

LordReed:
No. First I don't know what you mean by that since I considered just about every good outcome to be something the god brought about and secondly I don't know what your point is. If the ones I have stated already are not enough for you to make your point then you'll have to find another way to make it.

The things that you've mentioned had you involved in them. i'm asking for you to tell me something that you had no hand in, something that you just had to know that God and God alone did.

By the way, the family members that you prayed for to accept Christ who did, are they still Christians or are they now like you?

LordReed:
Then it is pointless for the god to wait and standby while people suffer.

It isn't pointless. And you make it sound like God doesn't care that people are suffering. But you forget that God didn't create today's world, man did. Man chose to rebel against God and hand over ruling power to satan, according to whom the world is.

LordReed:
The intent is not to make you look stupid but to point out what we see as faulty reasoning. The faulty reasoning is not you guys fault, its baked into the religion and hard to escape.




What was the baby's crime? Being born? Did it ask to be born? How is it justice to kill the child and leave the people who committed the infraction with no punishment?

Besides David's love child is not the only baby your god purportedly killed. An untold number were killed, how is this good? By what reasonable standard of judgement would you call mass killing children good?

You have too many questions.

When you say God killed a bunch of children you say it in a way that seems to equate God's killing of children with the unjust killings happening today and the other killings of babies that pharaoh and herod carried out.

But that is not so. If you look at the scriptures closely you'll see that anytime that God did something "evil" He wasn't acting sporadically: the people on whom He carried out judgement did something to attract such a treatment from God. It is always the people's fault and not God's.

If God were to be acting the way you want Him to (carrying out instant judgement on perpetrators of evil and not just sitting and doing nothing) you would be dead and in hell by now because you also are among the perpetrators of the same evil you condemn.

You have murdered. The Bible equates hatred with murder, so if you've ever hated anybody (which i guess you have) then you are guilty of murder.

Breaking one of God's laws is equal to breaking them all. Say for instance you haven't worshiped idols or stolen or fornicated but you have lied. By lying you have become guilty of worshiping idols, stealing, fornicating among other transgressions.

But you see God is just and would never do anything unjust. There is a time that God gives for repentance and God is VERY patient so you can guess how long that time is.

God is still waiting for the message to reach them and will continue to wait in that hope. The fault with the slow spread of the message is not God's fault but that of the people to whom He has entrusted the message.

Lovelive:
Are you ok ?

Is there something wrong with what i posted?

lifenija:
let me pray for u, bow ur head.


YOU ARE MAD.

So we're not supposed to show our President respect?

smeag0l:
Let me do justice to this based on the lay man macroeconomics I learnt in school. Unemployment rate is the single most importantfactor that affects a country's currency(naira inclusive).when more people are unemployed , the population becomes poorer and the central Bank embarks on monetary easing measures like reducing interest rates and printing more money. Some crude measures like giving out cash to cushion poverty e.g tradermoni were embarked upon in Nigeria. This weakened our currency. Besides, it also feeds into a lower CPI or consumer price index which will be discussed under consumer confidence. On balance of trade, a country that exports more than it imports has a positive balance of trade and vice versa. The currency of such a country appreciates and this is because everybody wants their product. Therefore , they get foreign currency as a result and convert it to their own currency thereby raising the demand for the local currency and ,thus, its price. It is the reverse for a country that imports more than it exports. Nigeria currently imports almost everything. The third one is political stability. A country that is almost always changing government, plagued by wars or changing economic and government policies frequently will see the value of its currency plummet. Nigeria, for example, comes up with several policies, acts and bills frequently and most of these are anti-people and therefore impacts business badly. This leads to a lack of appetite for investment in the country hence a depreciationof the naira. Lastly, consumer confidence , measured by the consumer price index, is defined as how safe and secure consumers feel about their income stability. Let me bring it home to Nigeria. Currently, the populace(who are the consumers) feel that their jobs are not secure and their income is often eroded by the increase in the price of commodities and essentials. Therefore, people are afraid to spend the money they have at hand because they don't know what will happen tomorrow. They'd rather hoard and even convert it to dollars or some other stable currency. This has a knock-on effect on businesses in that they won't make enough money and a further knovk-on on the government revenue and the economy in 6hat government won't get enough taxes from these businesses. Consumer spending is the singular most contributor to the GDP of every country. By the way, I have indepth knowledge of all these things cos I trade forex.

You trade forex? Under what platform did you learn?

LordReed:
So will a person killed before they had the chance to repent get a chance after their death?

Nope

Good day everybody.

I have noticed a very negative trend here on Nairaland which is the habit of people making derogatory remarks about out President, Muhammadu Buhari.

Some call him an idiot, some say he is stupid, some call him a fool, etc.

Regardless of your preconceptions about him this doesn't change the fact that he is our President. This is the highest office that can be occupied in this country, and as such deserves the highest respect.

Even if he does things that are not right or that you don't agree with it still isn't right to mock or insult him. He still is our President.

If we won't respect him as our President we should at least respect him for the fact that he is older than most of us (I'm sure the oldest Nairalander isn't up to his age).

Most Nairalanders won't even dare talk or refer to their parents or older siblings or bosses or uncles or aunties the way they refer to the President.

In Nigeria and Africa at large, respect for our elders is a value that has been passed down from generation to generation, and one way that we express that respect is by the way we refer to an elder. We refer to our elders as Sir/Ma, Uncle/Aunty, Brother/Sister, etc.

Please from now on let us accord the President the respect that is due to him as our leader and elder.

Thank you.

LordReed:
You can be anything and be amoral. Your title or position doesn't preclude you from being amoral, it's your actions that suggest if you are amoral. If a god exists it certainly doesn't care very much about human welfare for instance, if it did it would not standby and watch all the atrocities that have been going on throughout human history without doing anything. That is how an amoral being would behave. You would define yourself as a moral being, would you watch any of your loved ones get beaten, raped and killed before your very eyes when you have the power to stop their assailant? You won't standby and do nothing or am I wrong about you?

Like i said before, there is a set day for jusdgement.

Even the people on whom the atrocities are being committed are not innocent (that doesn't mean i'm in support of what's happening to them).

God is waiting patiently for all to repent and turn to Him.

MaxInDHouse:
So you truly love yet you never cared to chat heartily with JWs before you began posting this on social media regarding a group:



Well my message to you is that you can never find a single group out there that's performing as Christians like JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES.
So i'll advise you to humble yourself and come for a Bible study.
You once said our people are not allowed to think independently, the result of your independent thinking is becoming obvious to everyone now {Matthew 7:16-18} just imagine a person claiming CHRISTIAN asking on a public forum:

Is God Good?

When you're supposed to be out there SANCTIFYING God's name {John 17:6, 26} everywhere you go! Matthew 6:9

You've made your choice to oppose God's people so there's no surprise that you're here asking rhetorical questions to prove you don't understand the God of the Bible.
But We are His WITNESSES anyday, anytime, anywhere and before anybody we have the proof to convince anyone by saying to them:

Taste and see that Jehovah is good ; Happy is the man who takes refuge in him! Psalms 34:8

We have shown you love by coming to your homes giving you the opportunity to study God's word with us but since you choose to label us as "EVIL" we are not surprised! Matthew 10:25

Everything i posted about you people is true and i never did it with any evil intentions. And don't be deceived. There are many true Christians who don't bear the tag of Jehovah's witness. There's nothing special about you guys. You guys just have some weird perverted beliefs that's all.

LordReed:
Well there isn't an atheist or philosophy section so we are here.



So why would such an all good being kill babies? Is killing babies good?

Even if there isn't any atheist section here it isn't nice the way you guys are always trying to make us look stupid because of what we believe in.


Anyways, you need to understand that God is a judge who won't just simply wink at evil but must judge evil and we humans are the evil ones. And you need to view all His actions towards sinful men with that as your foundation.

Why did God kill king David's baby? Simple. What were the actions that led to the birth of the baby? David slept with another man's wife and killed the man. That is a sufficient answer.

LordReed:
Yeah several. I passed my SSCE and JAMB in single sittings, naturally I attributed my success to the god. I prayed for family to become born again and when I got back from school my mum was born again, my father followed sometime later then my siblings after that.

Can you tell me something else if you don't mind. Something that you know you had no hand in. Something that you know just had to be God.

LordReed:
Sounds good. How did you test that a god exists for example.

You don't need to test that. It is obvious.

The more reasonable queston is which is the true way to God? Islam? Christianity?

MALIGNANTGuest:
The VALUE of a President's Brain can also be used to measure the value of that country's currency.
IF your PRESIDENT is an IDIOT, the value will definitely drop.
But if he's got a quality IQ, it will appreciate.

Please show some respect to the president. Even if not for the sake of him being your president but at ease respect him as your elder.

smeag0l:
Op, here are the most important factors that determines the value of a country's currency. Any other thing are just offshoots of the factors listed below. I'll list them here and that's it. If you have any questions on how each of these affect the naira you can let me know so I'll elucidate.
1. Unemployment rate.
2. The country's apex Bank interest rate on lending
3. Balance of trade.
4. Level of manufacturing or industrial production in the country also called manufacturing index.
5. Political stability.
6. Inflation rate
7. Consumer confidence
8. A country's balance of payment and gearing

How do the bolded affect our Naira?

teelaw4life:
Insecurity = No FDI...or foreign direct investment.

Say for example, you have a house where you sell goods. But on the next street, there is a house where the tenants are much. So you decide to start selling your goods in that house.
But the problem is every time you send your worker to the place, they get robbed or killed...and you make losses.

Now, in this analogy, you are the seller from a foreign country, the house on the other street is Nigeria. The money and goods you take to the other house is the FDI...your workers getting robbed constantly is the insecurity

Nice illustration. I totally got it. Thanks.

Born2conquer:
Tourism
UAE earns massively from tourism

That i know of.

SlayerForever:
Who told you so.

Isn't oil the main export of UAE? Or is there something else i don't know?

AlwaysMotun:
when there is no security in a country, the Investors who are supposed to bring in money to invest in the country will not come, they will fear for the bandit. The same also goes for ease of doing business... Investors are looking for countries whose policies are stable and progressive and not the ones that will wake up tomorrow to ban different inventions and companies as we have in the past few months.

What inventions and companies have we banned? I only know of crypto and the abokifx saga..

Wonberi:
you are correct, but don't forget more investors still troop into UAE. The number of New and renewed Trade license daily is on the high side because of the easy of doing business, security, and so on... What can Nigeria offer a foreigner to invest in the country's economy; high electricity bill is not the problem but poor supply, poor transportation( staffs and commodities), insecurity and so many negative vibes. I hope i myself have a proposal to end all these negatives but it seems impossible. something like a curse.

So you're saying investors don't troop into the country because of insecurity and infrastructure? Ok.

greggng:
Like most assets, a currency is ruled by supply and demand. When the demand for something goes up, so does the price. ... Because more dollars are needed to buy the same amount of yen, the dollar becomes a weak currency. In the case if Nigeria we need more naira to buy dollars ...the Nigeria becomes weaker

But why is that so? Why do we need more Naira to but Dollars?

Fortune118005:
Economic growth

What makes the economy grow?

Metrofox:
When people can't go about their daily productive activities eg farming , how can you get products to export and get Dollars in return

Alright, i understand now.

ITbomb:
When you don't produce anything that another country would need, your currency falls

If what you are producing is wanted by another country, your currency will be strong

Problem is that we depend on oil as we cannot produce any other thing, so when we were producing and selling oil at high quantities, our currency was stable.
Now that most buyers of oil are looking elsewhere, we don't sell enough to balance what we are buying from other countries, so our Naira falls

I believe this is "layman" enough

so the reason for our currency devaluation is because we don't export anything besides oil? But what about UAE? Isn't it the money they make from oil that's the reason their country is the way it is?

SporaD8:
Gross Domestic Product, Balance of Payment and Foreign Reserve.

So you're saying Nigeria does not produce anything and we don't have enough foreign reserve? Please explain what foreign reserve is. Thanks

VeeVeeMyLuv:
It is not that Dollar is going up

Instead it is your naira that is diving downwards.

@ topic

1. Fisical responsibility and accountability.
2. The level of greed & corruption.
3. Human rights law.
4. Foi.
5. Ease of doing business
6. Level of insecurity
7. Amount of export to import.

I think these points are sufficient

so doing business in Nigeria isn't easy? how do you mean?

how does insecurity affect the country's currency value

doesn't nigeria export oil among other things?

Bacteriologist:
Two things.


1. Why is it not god's fault? Didnt god create everything? god can only be absolved if he didnt create everything. If god indeed created absolutely everything, then yes, evil is ultimately god's fault.

So right off the bat we have a big problem with your entire post.


2. You cannot prove that the Bible is true by posting things in the bible that you already believe to be true.
That's not how rational reasoning works.

You cannot prove the Spiderman is real, by using spiderman comic which you already accept to be true. That is a circular argument and is a fallacious form of thinking.

If you want me to take your arguments more seriously consider using more authentic forms of reasoning to prove your points.

Will you blame the creator of instagram for frauds being carried out on his platform?

When he created instagram was that his plan?

God created a perfect world and the people which He created perfectly but with freewill chose to make it the way it is now.

So God is not at fault

LordReed:
Do you mean if i was certain then because I don't think any god answered my prayers now.

Is there any other thing that happened in your life in the past that you attributed to God?