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Still waiting for the SCIENTIFIC reasons....

Majority are okay with mediocrity. We, as a people, can cope with any situation, so we would rather manage (and say "e go better" than act right or demand excellence (in most cases).

What am I doing? I'm trying to amass enough wealth so that I can influence things, especially education and mass re-orientation (in a positive way though!). Yorubas will say "rich man no fit talk make poor man claim sey him get idea"

UyiIredia:
So far there is nil evidence of blind forces of physics making codes only conscious minds do.

Can you be kind enough to give examples of codes that you think the blind forces of physics can't 'create'?

"Singing hymns and waving palm branches through all eternity is pretty when you hear about it in the pulpit, but it's as poor a way to put in valuable time as a body could contrive."
- Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven


"People think after they die they're going to lie on green fields and listen to harp music. He says they wouldn't want to do that for five minutes while they're alive but they think that we have to for the rest of eternity doing that after we die."
- Rabbi David Wolpe quoting Mark Twain while debating Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Rabbi Bradley Artson on "Is There An Afterlife?"

#NuffSaid

omoluabi1:
Lol, someone is cheating the system. Pls pay for the author's sweat.

I understand bro...but then I pay when I can o...

omoluabi1:
Oh no, I don't do e-books. Perhaps I'm just a conventional reader. I like holding the paper book to my face but reading books from an ipad doesn't do it for me.

I prefer ebooks as they're convenient for me. And are free!

omoluabi1:
Do you have the book you mentioned above? Let's swap books? Are u game?

I've got the e-book version of the former and I borrowed the latter from.a friend.back in 2009. Do u do e-books?

Nice post. I'll also recommend Dan and Chip Heath's " Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is
Hard" and "Warriors on the High Wire: The Balancing Act of Brand Leadership in the 21st Century" by Fiona Gilmore. They may not be in the startup genre but it is important for an entrepreneur to journey through the pages especially for big dreamers. Imma look out for the books you listed especially Rework. I have a feeling the author is my kinda guy..Thanks op.

Head to Bank of Agriculture at Total Gardens and ask to speak with anybody that can be of help...they should b able to help.

Happiness! Does it for me.


Clap along if you know what happiness means to you..P.W

Homo-fücking-phobia! Damn you Rodina!

Interesting piece!
Tell em op! I can so do number 1 ehn! As a lover of beauty in whatever form.

For me,
Surprises...kisses, serx, food I really enjoy, favorite hobby...bla bla bla...Just surprise me baby.

Be ma masseuse once a while...all the time

Getaway weekend...especially when the week has been crazy!

Take the reins sometimes (to show me you appreciate my role as the man).

Names...call me by my nicknames..hypocorisms!

It's for real. Op, still, cite your source oooooooo !

UyiIredia:
You are mistaking complex patterns for codes. Not all patterns are codes. In your example the zinc blend hexagonal lattices represent nothing else so they aren't codes. DNA OTOH codes for a the chemicals guanine, thymine, cytosine or adenine depending on the pattern.

I get your point. The complexities surrounding the natural world can make one sentimental. I think it was one of the things Dawkins addressed at length in "The Blind Watchmaker". I think the culprit coder here is the blind forces of physics if I'm to go by Dawkins (he made sense but I'm not satisfied)..I'm not sure though.

lastmessenger:
I have already told you that asking where God came from is Like my pet dog asking how I came to be. No matter how the dog tries he will never fathom that out.
God and human don't relate at the same level same way humans and dogs.

As an agnostic, I can completely relate to your analogy in that man does not yet know enough to come to a certain conclusion about god's existence. However, in trying to use it to prove god's existence, I find some things wrong with it:

1. Your pet dog can see you, you feed it, sometimes find a mate for it when it's on heat, build a kernel for it. and even bury it when it dies. It doesn't have to argue about your existence.

2. You didn't create your pet dog (you don't know if it knows this though)

3. Your pet dog doesn't build spacecrafts (it's not smart enough, why should it even try?)

Like I said earlier, I completely understand the analogy! But it doesn't confirm the existence of a creator.

urcutecrush:
I won't say xo but wen ppl are dying for it.
What should we call it......

Hate the player, don't hate the game...

plaetton:
For one, atheism is an antidote against the devil, witches, demons and evil spirits.
So an atheist is by default, innocculated against these ailments of psyche.

With clarity in their minds, atheists are fair minded, usually taking the most rational approach to see and addressing issues.

Atheists are more charitable, more compassionate, take responsibility for their actions without looking for a devil or demon to blame.

As an atheist, I see all the christians around me struggling with the internal and embarrassing contradictions of their faith.
The devil is always haunting them everywhere.

I have come to realize that this devil that they so much lament about are actually the internal contradictions of their beliefs.
So the devil serves as a useful buffer against cognitive dissonace.

This is why the devil and demons do not bother atheists.

That antidote part sha...so fücking true!

That number 1 is a girlie thingy....methinks.

I can so tolerate 2!

Others are such a turn off!

urcutecrush:
A well packaged lie

Sure it's well packaged?

Why should a wife wait in the first place? If you wanna get laid then tell your hubby. It's your marital right (if there's anything like that). He may have other things in mind nao. I'll always love a woman who knows what she wants and goes for it. 11 out of 10 times!

It's for soji (sabi) wives abeg. Why your hubby no kuku stick to grinding stone and fire wood stove (adogan as the Yoruba call it) for the kitchen, and rafia hand fan for bedroom? Mats?

Many of the guys from my former church don't know. I don't see them much anyway, and whenever I come across anyone of them, we have too much to catch up on than religion (they know I travel a lot so that excuses the "we no dey see you for church" mantra).

My mum knows I'm no longer religious. My extended family members don't know as we barely even communicate sef (besides, I'm not supposed to broadcast it abi?). The ones I'm close to (younger cousins) are aware though.

Friends. Everyone I've met since I became an apostate knows. Everyone of my long-time friends that I'm presently close to is also aware.

As a business man, I always state it from the very first.meeting (for anybody that mentions religion) that I'd rather we not talk about religion as I don't mix both. If they insist, I simply say I'm not a religious fella and you can decide there and then whether you want to do business with me or not (they stay). I cannot afford to pretend.

Agnostic BTW.

alagemo:
Please where can I download it. I mean 'the good book'.

Just Google it. I dey fear NL bots. Use "Grayling's Humanist Bible The Good Book" in your syntax...should get it easily.

Been there, done that. Twas even in church sef. She tied her wrapper inside-out and I told her. Shikaina! No love lost, no love found.

Still gets me anytime! Acknowledge source OP...It ain't your I.P.

I concur completely....With my whole heart!

IfyAwazie:
lol. Watever u don't like or u know is not good for u, u try as much as possible to AVOID.

There's a reason I used the word "UNAVOIDABLE".

plaetton:
Again I agree with you that atheists tend to attack and mock posts centered on religious befiefs.
The reason is simple. You cannot advertise what you agree are irrational points of view on public forum without expecting a strong push back from your rational counterparts.

Our nation has already endured so much of that, much to the detriments of the entire black race.

You and your ilk are very free to exercise your irrationality and imbecility in private, but when Imbecility ventures out of it's delusional cocoon, then it becomes a public health hazard.

I need not remind you of the many horrors that people of irrational faith inflicted , and continue to inflict upon humankind.

Therefore, I am sure you have no problems agreeing with me that continual vigilance is imperative for the rational people to ensure.

This!