senbonzakurakageyoshi: Okay, so in essence, Agnostics are basically Atheists who don't believe in God but leave the possibility open that God does exist?
Gnosticism is knowledge. A-gnosticism is without knowledge.
Being agnostic on the issue of God means you don't know, or more typically, you don't think anyone can know whether God does or doesn't exist. As you can see, such a person cannot be said to believe in God. That's what makes a person an atheist. It's not necessary to declare that there is no God.
That being said, one has to be careful when using labels because most times, people form wrong views and associations brought upon by wrong generalizations. We see it everywhere
All men are dogs All (insert tribe) are (insert insult) All women are . . .
senbonzakurakageyoshi: Kindly explain how that analogy applies to the distinction between Atheists and Agnostics
I did with my first post. I told you clearly that what you refer to as agnosticism is atheism. You made the point that they have two different names and I countered by telling you that an elephant is an animal. Or if you like, man is a mammal.
An atheist doesn't believe in God(s). That's all there is to it. It's when people now want to go into peculiarities that you start hearing of positive, negative, weak, strong, evangelical, new etc atheists.
robinsoncrosoe: stop spewing trash.there is a difference btw pdp mismanagement and apc wrong polices.what we are experiencing now is due to apc's wrong polices.they don't know what to do with govt.they are confused.pls leave pdp out of this.APC is in power nw and they shd take the blame for what is happening now
I didn't bring PDP into this. The person I quoted was the one who said PDPs 16 year legacy was being destroyed.
It wouldn't hurt you to understand what you are responding to before you type.
Edelweiss44: Ogbeni will you stop making a mockery of yourself there?? At your age you still can't tell yourself the simple truth! So it's PDP that caused this fuel scarcity? Your Minister of Power, Fashola while still in the opposition as Lagos State Governor once said that any serious Government would fix the power situation in the country within six months.........but now, his Government has been in power for almost 1year and yet nothing to show for it except blaming Jonathan and PDP.
Obasanjo came in when the price of oil was less than $20 per barrel, and he did not complain, he did not owe salaries, he had access to far less revenue than Buhari currently has with oil at over $30 per barrel, yet Obasanjo did not try blaming past leaders for any inability to fix things. Tell your President to quit blaming PDP and start fixing the economy, which is what he was voted to do!!
You're the one making a mockery of yourself. When Obasanjo came in, the oil price was stable. He didn't come at a time when it crashed. Obasanjo even later experienced an oil boom and he must have thought he was in heaven then. Your hero GEJ presided at a period when oil prices were through the roof and what happened.
Leave politics,sentiments and whatever. Tell yourself the truth.
Pidggin: This is what you call destruction of our economy. What it took PDP to build for 16 years is being destroyed by gutter economics.
Did you really say this?
My goodness!
In reality what you are seeing is the effect of 16 years of PDP misrule and devastation. We had years of plenty and we didn't prepare. How do you expect us to fare in the years of famine?
Nigerians want short term solutions and that is what got us in this sad situation. That is why our politicians are able to hoodwink us and rob us of our heritage. They dine fat on our wealth and throw crumbs at us because we don't demand for better. We live for today, not for tomorrow.
We need change, but it must start from the mind first. That's the most important change.
blueto: So you are depicting that approximately N1,296,000,00 was disbursed to you to purchase 36 SUV vehicles at the cost of N36.5 each for personal gratification?
This Government is busying incurring unsolicited arrears on the nation.
Nigeria should simulate the efforts of Senegal to dissolve the Senate if we are to make optimum utilization of our pecuniary resources.
The Senegalese Senate that was dissolved is not the equivalent of our national assembly. Bear that in mind.
Unless you don't want a democracy, a legislature is necessary. What you should be pushing for is a limit on their excesses.
66xtr9r: I can see that you're indeed mentally sick with Cotard’s Delusion, “Walking Corpse Syndrome” affecting your bloodline.
Deluded hypocrite, so this too is an empty threat - the barbaric statements of ”BABOON AND DOG WILL BE SOAKED IN BLOOD” in 2011 and pronto carnage and murder of many Southerners and Christians in the North followed suit with many Youth Corps members killed just because you and your wicked cotravellers lost the 2011 presidential election?
You have no idea of what you are saying. Petulant child.
66xtr6r: You mean like Oba Rilwane Akiolu of Lagos who threatened to drown Igbos in the lagoon should they fail to vote for his anointed gubernatorial candidate in the 2015 elections.
The same Oba is walking freely without being held in a dungeon.
Or maybe like those wicked politicians of yours who threatened fire and brimstone should they lose the elections in 2011 and pronto carnage and murder of many Southerners and Christians followed suit in the North, with many Youth Corps members slaughtered for the ”BABOON AND DOG WILL BE SOAKED IN BLOOD” chant.
Like the Oba has metaphysical powers. What are you even comparing?