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TrebleChamp:Bournemouth had 1.4 XG to Chelsea's 1 today so Airmark will definitely lecture us on the importance of good finishers |
drisham:You must think Estevao is an ambitionless bench warmer. Someone who is itching to conquer the world and is already a star boy for Brazil |
Man like Henderson A superb performance |
Man like JP |
Serious belt to ass being delivered to iamoyindamola already |
Jackson on the beat Airmark how far? |
Rogers £117m signing wey dey full belle unlike Wirtz |
Sharpest hotels |
Melvyn11:Evidence of borrowing stories from their colonial masters Another example in Judges aside Gideon copying the 300 Spartans story from the Greeks is Samson. Samson is a remake of Hercules. Both killed Lion with bare hands, both squeezed water from stone, both had long hair, both used bare hands to collapse the gates of their enemies, both set their enemies fields on fire, and both were ultimately betrayed by their wives. |
Bimmarlykay:I said most of the bible was cooked during the Maccabean/Greek era which is correct, and in my next post clarified that the earliest books are during the Babylonian era which is around 500 BC. That is a good 1000 plus years after Moses. But most books are Greek era |
akwesenana:They would quickly talk about their defeats and blame it on straying from the path of God but it would be there. It's been over a millennia between when Egypt was their colonial master and when they wrote the bible. They generally don't mention the taxes they paid in tribute to the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians or Greeks but anyone reading the bible will see the wotowoto they received from the Philistines, Assyrians and Babylonians even if they don't dwell on it. The Greek period is not covered in the bible. They were never at that much odds with Egypt. In fact Egypt was always a benevolent colonial master, allowing them their glory years of Saul, David and Solomon while only demanding tax. It was when Egypt lost to the Assyrians that the Hebrews fell apart because the Assyrians had a scorched earth policy and were not as benevolent as the Egyptians. Egypt has always been a place of refuge for the Hebrews with many of them taking flight into Egypt when things got rough, including Jeroboam who fled there when Solomon was trying to kill him, to thousands who fled there (and remain there) when the Babylonians sacked Judah, all the way to Jesus fleeing Herod. There is no way the Israelites will give Egypt wotowoto and flee to Canaan which is under Egyptian control without consequence. it never happened. When they suffer pain and defeat, you will know from the lament of their prophets like Jeremiah, Micah and co. For example, in the period of the Judges, the Philistines gave them wotowoto for 400 years until the time of David and had them mostly subservient. But the story you know is of David slaying Goliath, but if you read with open eyes, they gave enough hints of their defeats. Even when Philistines killed their whole Royal Family (Saul and his sons), they acknowledged but will blame it on Saul straying from God's path. Let me even shock you, they stole the Gideon 300 men story against the Philistines from the Spartan 300 men story and it was written during the Hellenistic period when Greece was their colonial master. The reality is the Philistines gave them wotowoto until David somewhat stabilised things, and even at that, the Philistines kept all their territories on the Coast and just faced their maritime business while the Hebrews faced their herdsmen business in the hinterland. The 5 Philistine Cities on the Coast were flourishing and kampke, David only stopped their incursions into the hinterland and did not defeat them. It was the Assyrians that later carried away the Philistines to Assyria to disappear forever from history, same with the 10 tribes of Israel. Another example, when the Assyrians took away the ten tribes except Judah and Benjamin never to be seen again, they are least acknowledged it small while blaming the ten tribes for straying from the will of God. That was a catastrophic event which they skirted over but at least acknowledged. Same with when the Babylonians finally carried away Judah and Benjamin 200 years later. They acknowledged but would rather dwell on the triumphant return as evidence of God's providence, forgetting to mention that Cyrus the Great reversed the policy of moving people out of their ancestral lands and returned the ones he could including Judah and even funded and planned their return for over a year. I raise you that their defeats are posted all over the bible (but not dwelt upon) and they never had major issues with the Egyptians to the extent described in Exodus, otherwise they would have been annihilated. |
Woman dashes out N20m pension of her late sister to prophet. The daughter want swear for her
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GloriousGbola:10 plagues of Egypt 5th Plague - All livestock were killed 10th Plague - First born of all humans and livestock (who are already dead) were killed Moses was simply an invention Just only 2 of the plagues would have ended any civilisation (all crops, water and livestock killed), but the Egyptians went strong for another 1,000 years until the Assyrians toppled them, with no record of these plagues or of the Jews in Egypt except records by Pharoahs of disciplining them in Canaan from time to time when they went out of line. |
Kimbeast:Culture and Religion is an admirable choice borne out of respect for ones culture, ancestors and stories told over the generations. Everyone is free to choose and identify with their culture or religion. People of the book can choose Moses and Abraham story just like Soyinka can choose Oduduwa story and I can choose Fenibeso story. But when it comes to historical fact, we would default to the written records of the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks and Romans who were the colonial powers and kept receipts. You can't claim you escaped Egypt and ran few hundred meters to Canaan where Egypt is running things. That's like claiming you escaped Benin and ran to Esan where Oba is present in full force, or you ran from Rome to Naples to escape the Romans. |
The Nephilim of the bible (Giants fallen from heaven) are simply lifting of the Greek Titans mythology, written by the Maccabees during the period of their rule by Greece. A lot of Greek, Mesopotamia and Persian mythology makes it into the bible such as Nimrod of Babel, Noah's flood etc. These are people influenced by the World powers that controlled them and retold their histories (even in the language of their colonial power). There is no book of the bible written before their conquest by Babylon and most are written in the Greek period in the 200 years before Christ, including all the books of Moses. |
Melvyn11:OK |
Melvyn11:Jesus comes 200 years after the Maccabean writing of the bible and will of course quote what the Maccabeans have written. Egypt is the only power that recorded history of the period and were the ruling power in Canaan and they don't know any Moses. They describe the Hebrews as aboriginal to the land. Yes it is likely few Hebrews served as slaves in Egypt as did some of all the other tribes, but not the whole Hebrew nation. |
Melvyn11:That is not my view but the consensus amongst scholars and historians Egyptian history is well recorded especially the era of the Rameses and there is no record of the events of Moses. Secondly, the Egyptian empire controlled Canaan which was it's vassal and Egyptian military presence was always in Canaan so there is no way the Hebrews will escape Egypt into Canaan where Egypt is present. The benevolence of Egypt is what kept all the tribes in Canaan existing and they were all vassals of Egypt including the Philistines, Canaanites and Hebrews. In around 700 BC when the Assyrians defeated the Egyptians in Canaan, they carted away Israel (Samaria) and the Philistines, never to be seen in history again. Judah only survived by paying ruinous taxes to the Assyrians, and about 300 years later, when the Babylonians defeated the Assyrians, they carted away Judah before Cyrus the Great returned them a century later. Judah cannot write a history 600 years after Samaria has been carted away in the language of their current Master (Greek) that contradicts the documented written history of Egypt who control the area and don't know any Moses, any plagues or any escape from Egypt. They only know Judah, Samaria, Philistines and Canaanites as their vassals who pay small tax to them and carry out their bidding, and when they step out of line, Egyptian military will bring them back in line. |
On the issue of Tithe, the bible was made up during the Maccabean era of the Hellenistic period (circa 200 BC) which is the intertestamental period between the Old and New Testaments There was never a man called Moses who wrote Laws, and the Israeli nation were never slaves in Egypt that needed leading out. They are aboriginal to the land of Canaan. There was never a Levite tribe that needed supporting by Tithe and at the time the Bible was written, Samaria had already been diluted following the ethnic cleansing of the "lost 10 tribes" by the Assyrians 7 centuries earlier which includes the so called Levites. This is a history being made up by Judah about a no longer existing Samarian practice and occured under the Maccabees. The part about tithe is to continue the funding of religious activities while paying tax to the Greeks separately. |
GloriousGbola:On the books, the cost of repatriating or disposing them will be close or more than the sale price, or of minimal value to the company globally |
BlueRayDick:The bolded is a bit # Afrodoc is this not a punch below the belt? I made my own privilege, I am not OBO. |
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GloriousGbola:Right now, you can almost guarantee that the number you called for plane ticket is less than first semester cost of sending pikin to uni. The same energy used to raise funds to send that child to uni should be the same energy used to raise fund to send them for youth service. |
BlueRayDick:I hear you, but it's still penny wise pound foolish. NYSC should be treated as a one-off life event which budget provision should be made for like a wedding or funeral. The speed of the ransom payment in less than one week shows money dey with proper planning. The kidnappers were calling N950m for 20 students initially, and in less than one week, the matter is done and dusted. Let's even say they reduced it to N5m per child, that payment was too quick. You will usually spend the first 3 days pricing with the kidnappers, then another couple weeks to raise the money but these guys done finish the whole matter in few days. As example, when my cousin was traveling to Osun, she was going by bus. I quickly called her and her father and saw that it's just complacency setting in. This is around that Owo massacre time. Within few minutes, we have arranged contributions for her to travel by air, and the agreement is that she should stay there throughout NYSC until we book return flight than risk coming back and forth by road. As a child in her early 20s whose brain cannot comprehend entering plane or spending few hundred k on it, it's up to those with means within the family to guide, before ransom bill of millions drop. And it's up to her father to know the importance of accessing such funds for safety than to bring a bigger ransom bill later |
BlueRayDick:That's why I said it took them less than one week to raise ransom payment. That indicates there is means within the family, whether the nuclear or extended. If my relative is kidnapped today, it will take more than one week for us to agree contribution levels oh |
BlueRayDick:Anywhere there is a clean rescue without any victims blood spilled, money has changed hands. These parents sef. You sent your child by nightbus to NYSC, only to raise 100 times the airfare for ransom payment in less than one week. |
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Maresca haters should know that if Man City start flopping from now, it's because most players are seeking exit and demotivated after their guilty verdict Like Ibrahimovic said, once Juve was found guilty of Calciopoli, all players asked their agent to find them exit and lost motivation, and he believes the same will be going on at Man City now. ITKs shouldn't come and tell us they told us so about Maresca if City results start going south |
Nigeria filed FR Congo complaint late and was dismissed on that technicality Typical incompetent NFF |
Ronaldo dey give Jesus statement to read like Wike dey give INEC returning officer result to read. |
Skimpledawg:Prayers on the mountain answered. Enjoy |
Emaprince:Nice one my gee |
