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logica: Most Beautiful Brazilian Hair.

Peppyluv: Mr blind bat,that's not her real her but an afro wig. The colour is ugly but blends with her skin tone. She is fine thou.

The Atlantic: A woman was so frustrated with the hairstyling of Blue Ivy Carter, the child of superstars Sean Carter (Jay Z) and Beyoncé Knowles, that she created a petition on Change.org to urge her parents to “properly care” for their child’s hair—or more explicitly—comb her hair. She subsequently said it’s a joke but the debate goes on.

That’s because with the multibillion-dollar-black hair care industry, the issue is far bigger than little Blue Ivy. It’s about the politics of respectability and the pain of oppression, a fear of deviating from “the norm” that remains particularly prominent among the black elite and the black middle class.

There aren’t many high profile examples of beautiful, powerful, and rich black families in America, outside the president and his wife. Jay Z and Beyoncé are among them, though. They made it. They, and their alleged traditional ideas of marriage, have become the ideal, the aspiration for many, who constantly hear about pathologies that exist in the black family. Their marriage and, by extension, their offspring, have become more than just about the glamorous lifestyle of hip-hop royalty, but some sort of symbolic “dream.” They’re the Cliff and Clair Huxtable of our time.

Even better: They’re real.

Therefore, the Carters are making quite a bold statement when they, hardly known for being black radicals, repeatedly decide to not conform to public ideals about what their child’s hair should look like.

Huffington Post: Beyonce Knowles has finally responded to the controversy surrounding her daughter Blue Ivy's offensive hairstyle. For the past two years of the young toddler's life, Blue Ivy has caused a severe discourse within the African American community with her unruly curly locks. Knowles and husband Shawn "Jay Z" Carter have been relentlessly scrutinized for their negligence of their child's grooming. After much uproar and a petition, Knowles has finally succumb to the pressure and permed Blue Ivy's hair.

birdman: you have a good point. based on this, i believe ms katsina is in fact the most beautiful AND authentic. until the rest can prove this is indeed their natural hair

Iyineda: In my humble opinion:

1. Miss Cross Rivers (looks like my girlfriend, I am not even kidding)
2. Miss Katsina
[size=14pt]3. Miss Ebonyi (loses points because of hair style)[/size]
4. Miss Anambra
5. Miss Niger

Image123: Your comment was racist. You sound like you suffer from family problems BTW.

TheBigUrban2: Racist towards what race exactly?


You are one to talk about family problems when your slow reasoning seem to be the result of generations of inbreeding.

TheBigUrban2:

You must feel so special and interesting......

PastorAIO: From what he (krishna) says I don't really get the distinction between how he regards those that worship him as a seen personality and those that worship him as something abstract and unseen.
However of all the deities in this world I find that Krishna ought to be the most interesting to Christians. The parallels to christianity are just so astounding. I remember as a kid I was sitting next to my mother and she was reading a book about Krishna when she mused to herself aloud that Could it be that the Krishna cult was a derivation of christianity and that Krishna is just a different pronounciation for Christ. What she said stuck with me. Of course after the death of Jesus christianity spread abroad. We have the story of how it spread westwards into the rest of the Roman empire. But it also spread east. The political situation was different in the east. East of the Roman empire was the Persian Empire. It is on record that Christianity also had an impact there. It was also a time of great religious upheavals in the persian empire too. And similar to constantine and Theodosius' Empire there was a need to sort it out and reinvent the state religion. An orthodoxy needed to be established.
In the Denkart (a persian religious book) we are told what happened.

The King of Kings, Shapur, son of Hormizd summoned men from all lands to an unprejudiced disputation to examine and instigate all creeds. After Aturpat had been vindicated by the consistency of his argument, he issued a declaration before all those representatives of the different sects, doctrines, and schools in this wise: "Now that we have seen the Religion upon earth, we shall not tolerate Falsse religions and we shall be exceeding zealous (in intolerance)", and so he did.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eJw3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=denkart+aturpat&source=bl&ots=Ynl0ojYduO&sig=TM13MUOvRklsYQt9kUgP8Y0Fw0w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cQq9U8uaCcOP7Ab3kIGYCQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=denkart%20aturpat&f=false
I would imagine that in the persecution that ensued many christians would have fled, most likely into India because it was, and probably still is to this day, the most tolerant place for all kinds of diverse religions. Perhaps the Krishna cult is just another form of christianity that simply evolved in a different direction from the christianity of the Roman empire.
Check out this Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6J8hPr58Qc
I went along with this hypothesis for a while until one day it dawned on me that the cult of Krishna preceded Christianity by about 4 or 5 centuries if not more.

davidylan: I wonder if the folks here took out time to see Germany annihilate Brazil last night... take a chill pill folks.

PastorAIO: Please, if I may ....



Arjuna.: Lord! of the men who serve Thee- true in heart-
As God revealed; and of the men who serve,
Worshipping Thee Unrevealed, Unbodied, Far,
Which take the better way of faith and life?
Krishna.: Whoever serve Me- as I show Myself-
Constantly true, in full devotion fixed,
Those hold I very holy. But who serve-
Worshipping Me The One, The Invisible,
The Unrevealed, Unnamed, Unthinkable,
Uttermost, All-pervading, Highest, Sure-
Who thus adore Me, mastering their sense,
Of one set mind to all, glad in all good,
These blessed souls come unto Me.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/gita/bg12.htm

The translation that I have at home which I can't find online reads like this:
Arjuna: My Lord! Which are the better devotees who worship thee, those who try to know Thee as a Personal God, or those who worship Thee as impersonal and indestructible.

macof: Sorry for the late reply.
Before I take this against christianity, is this what you just believe or what the Bible tells you.
If it's through your knowledge of the Bible, pls provide Bible passages to support this

macof: I personally like this analogy but what does it have to do with a Jewish man??
Ori by Yoruba philosophy is the reason for existence not just one individual...Ori concept is a vast study

macof: Ori is simply consciousness, not only of you or I but the entire universe.
It is by Ori that Olodumare initiated Akamara
Kind of like "the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God"

macof: God (Olodumare) is literally everything, I am in God as it is in me, but the beginning started with Ori. So Ori has always been since the beginning with Olodumare but at a point, Ori was used to perform something resourceful or something resourceful was finally achieved
Another question for you..
Do u consider "the word" literal as Genesis 1 denotes?

Dulcet7: Salvation is progressing when the person gets more exempted from wickedness. This does not mean wickedness does not [b]flow [/b]from outside-in, but it doesnt [b]flow [/b]from inside-out. [b]Flow [/b]meaning a consistent and continuous pattern. Outside-in e.g. "bad things" happening in the world to "good people"; "Inside-out" e.g. thoughts, intentions and actions that are not in line with love. Your outside-in experience of wickedness is someone else's inside-out manifestation of wickedness. It is outside-in because it comes from the outside of your heart and attempts to harden your heart against love and become wicked like it.

God's concern is not in the outward actions of people but in their inner world, the impulses that lead to those actions. God's concern is the heart of a man and not his/her religion. It is the impulses coming from inside-out that comprise aspects of his salvation and that is what God wants to know about.

During salvation, wickedness in the heart is continuously replaced by love and there will always be traces of wickedness left but the love will cover it up unless the person deliberately decides to frustrate his own salvation by emphasizing the wickedness. Wickedness is like poison - just a little in a heart filled with love - if emphasized upon - can ruin the entire heart.

Dulcet7: A human's true religious objective is to achieve maximum efficiency in all spheres of life (there is no religion in death).

Efficiency can only be maximized according to the manufacturer's standards, and this is where God comes in.

By the etymology of "re-ligion", it attempts to "bind back together" (establish 100% efficiency by design standards).

This process of "Unit testing" is the common object which can take various courses called religion. The object is same, but the objective is often lost in the excitement.

For every religion, one should be able to ask, 'Does this really increase my efficiency as a creation of God?' i.e. Am I 'helping' God do what he planned when he created me and everything else?

This is why I have little respect for so-called religious persons who have no respect for nature in itself, or for those who use the name of religion to deprive others of their lives and belongings.In either case, they are not only failing at their inaugural objectives, they are destroying other Creations' efficiencies as well.

Our sole purpose is to maximize the efficiency of our lives' design. Jesus came to show us a tangible form and he gave himself up in the process because it was necessary and THAT was what maximised his own efficiency (he is totally respected across Eastern and Western religions), but I assure you there are some people who have not seen or heard this tangible form and yet they are somehow doing things right!

Dulcet7: Religion is like various means of transport to explore a land. Some people have horses, other have trains, planes, cars, others are strolling on foot, some are jogging. When you are travelling to a destination and the destination matters, then speed or transport method will matter. But when you need to explore, you can go slowly or speed through - your means of transport does not matter - everyone has a chance to enjoy the exploration one way or the other. It is not how fast you get there - in fact there is no "there" to go to in the experience of salvation - it is the experience itself that counts - so this is why I said on another thread that there is no RIGHT religion and there is no WRONG religion. All we have are right hearts and wrong hearts. Compassionate hearts that predominantly love inside out and selfish hearts that are predominantly wicked inside out. Some religions create fanatics out of people and they start focusing on the religion rather than their salvation within the religion - which is the most paramount thing. One should never allow his or her views on religion to harm another person or distract or destroy their own walk of salvation.

Dulcet7: The journey called Salvation means an exemption. Exemption from what? From wickedness. Wickedness is the only form of evil that exists. It manifests in various shades: greed, jealousy, hatred, envy, pride - all boil down to wickedness and the only cure to all of them is love - when applied to the person from inside-out till salvation begins in that person too.

striktlymi: No it's not as rounded as you made it sound; from the Christian perspective that is. Simon Anholt made it clear that he and his team were not concerned about morals, this in itself makes their research a bit more secular than Christian. No need to give examples to prolong the argument when Simon has made it clear from the beginning.

TheBigUrban2: Did Inesqor run away?

texanomaly: Much of it is others' opinions and derailing. Lol You know...the usual in religion section.

texanomaly: InesQor I could kiss you right now! I didn't see that you found mine till I refreshed. You are lucky you are not right in front of me.

texanomaly: Wow! Thank you.
I could only find two pages of my thread.

texanomaly: Just for you InesQor, a little Maddona:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMqIQhiJdvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPHUZenprKc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS088Opj9o0

Image123: my response had almost nothing to do with your attacks on him. i'll respond to that later though. i simply stated a neglected theological truth. Perhaps you read it with the prism of its Image123's post. Nobody, not me nor the OP can be a deep belieever all his life. All have sinned, need to repent and then believe, And that life of believing is no usually a DEEP believing all of life. Perhaps you need to go re-read what i posted, this time less skimming .

texanomaly: Thanks. I love poetry. One of my faves is missing. It's about the preexistence.
Madonna? Was that song 80s or 90s? She didn't get as much credit as was due for her singing, maybe because her personality overpowered it. That is one of her most beautiful songs. Nice!
@Uyi Iredia...do you remember the name of that thread. You started a separate thread to ask what I believe.
www.nairaland.com/1645927/invitation-tex-talk-faith+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kqDQhDmt4dkJ:www.nairaland.com/1645927/invitation-tex-talk-faith+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Pastor AIO: Is this the definition of Christ-like? That must mean that Christ himself was not Christlike when he said the following:

34And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. 35And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Matt 26

texanomaly: I can’t remember the name of my own thread…it was something about coming to earth to gain a body. Grrrrrrrr…I wish I could find it.

@ bolded
We are so “on the same page”. I’m interested to know if we are thinking alike.

Dizkova: @InesQor, thanks for your candid reply.