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richybanky:
Tho d Chibok of a tin might be a scam but abt d English part.... I served in d North, Niger State, Bida local govt and I can say dat 96% of them can't speak English in d skul wer I served, d ones dat ar trying in speaking small small English will say sir please go and learn Nupe or Hausa language so dat dey can understand wat u ar teaching them, so to me is not new to me dat d lady given wit 3 names can't express herself in English is common in d northern part

what then exactly are they being taught...

99% of all the subjects are taught in English, i have no idea Atoms had Hausa and Nupe nomenclatures too..

Habba northern Nigeria!!!

joseph1013:
But according to the constitution, the Federal government owns all lands in the federation. So what lands are they talking about?

Correct but really Nigeria is merely a Federal State on paper not in actuality.

There is always Igbo land, Hausa land, Ijaw Land, Yoruba land..

A man from the south living in the north is seen as an immigrant living in a HOST community.

Is that federalism?

JackBizzle:
Paul infiltrated Christianity. The guy's teachings took Christianity into another dimensions.

Muslims recognise Jesus but not Paul. Very interesting

Haven't you noticed how the Christian doctrines are really centered on the opinions of man paul found in his letters than the alleged teachings of the man Jesus himself.

They always go for the easy One, if Christians followed Jesus' teaching literally they'd be nothing better than Muslims.

dorox:
I can agree with you on this, but then again not all who identifies as christians believe the same thing.

Doesn't that make it 'Subjective' and therefore unreliable in a collective term.

it has up to 50 satellite galaxies

A satellite is a celestial object in orbit around another of similar attributes. . Planetary objects around other planetary objects are called Moons.

Big Galaxies also have satellites (smaller galaxies) in orbit around them...

An orbit is formed by gravitational interference from a body of larger mass on a celestial body in a straight motion.

The Milky way galaxy hosts up to 50 small galaxies in orbit around it of which it devours some of them little by little.

https://ste.india.com/sites/default/files/2015/03/11/333851-galaxy-3dgsd.jpg

dorox:
Is the bold an assertion of yours or a suggestion that my previous statement implies it?

Nope it's an affirmation of reality. . . Lets face it most Christian practises and beliefs were directly hewn from older pegan practises and beliefs.

Just like Islam also borrows concept and influence from the Judeo/Christian concepts and Arabic paganism.

that's how these things develop.

dorox:
Christianity did not originate from Europe they also had elements of their indigenous paganic religion that was fused with christianity when it was adopted as their new religion.

So such beliefs are fully incorporated in the Christian belief only being dispelled now by the wind of Secularism, information, education and scientific illumination..

All religious moderation were tampered by these values if not they would still be same till today!

If "YES"
Go to the hospital for thorough screening and medication.

It has up to 200 billion stars

As galaxies go, the Milky Way is a middleweight. The largest galaxy we
know of, which is the monsterous IC 1101 , has over 100 trillion stars, and other
large galaxies can have as many as a trillion.

Dwarf galaxies such as the aforementioned Large Magellanic Cloud have about 10 billion stars.

The Milky Way has between 100-400 billion stars; but when you look up into
the night sky, the most you can see from any one point on the globe is
about 2,500.

This number is not fixed, however, because the Milky Way is
constantly losing stars through supernovae, and producing new ones all the
time

dorox:
The reason is very simple, it is as a result of the syncretic fusion of our residual african paganism with christianity that gave rise to such beliefs.

European Christians also believed in witches and even killed Witches. . .more than 600,000 alleged witches were burned at the stake by the Church in medieval Europe

dorox:
I am a christian who doesn't believe that there are witches and thefe are many more like me.

Yeap good one. . . why do you think is the reason why you don't agree with the superstitious beliefs that is prevalent in the Christian religion?

It hasn't always being that big

So the milky way at the starting point of it's evolution hasn't always being this big, it has been averagely small.

then how did it get this big?

By preying on other smaller galaxies. There are lots and lots of galaxies in the universe all swirling around in a dance of gravitational music, so there is bound to be random collisions all around.

Massive galaxies can pull in smaller galaxies gravitationally and finally they collide and merge and the galaxy becomes bigger.

this was exactly how the Milky Way became bigger, by preying on smaller galaxies accumulating more and more galaxies and gets bigger.

The latest of it's prey is The Carnis Major Dwarf Galaxy whose stars are slowly being drifted into the Milky Way galaxy, soon the entire galaxy will be merged with the milky way and it will become even bigger.

frank317:
Don't u have pity for Job?
How u ask him what went wrong... he felt bad for Job, that's what went wrong. What's right with u if u have no pity for Job?

Christians are the most ridiculous hypocritical lot i know of, they feel like it is their divine mandate to propagate their religion and ridicule others openly but they would want to deny others the right to ridicule theirs.

He is asking i save Christianity the ridicule, why?

-Because Christianity don't ridicule other religions?
-Remember they don't go around pouring their religions on others
-they don't inconsiderately disturb others with bangs and shouts from their church
-Yeah Christians don't go about knocking on our doors to smear crap on our faces
-they don't come to your buses to pour out their ridiculous beliefs.
-they don't force little children to learn their religions in school
-they don't litter every nook and cranny of the nation with ware house churches
-they don't ridicule the traditional beliefs and even burn shrines unprovoked.
-remember Christians don't go about telling atheists how they'd burn..lol..
-Remember Christians don't go about telling other religions how ridiculous their beliefs are.

here is one big truth Christians would be the ones persecuting others but would be the ones shouting they are being persecuted..

they think it's their right to propagate their religion openly but feel like denying others the right of doing same or challenging it.

they do all the things i listed above, not to talk of the radio, t.v and everywhere but just a small internet niche an atheist uses to voice out his own ideas about religion. Christians wants to take that away too, they so bad want to save their religion from scrutiny, questions, ridicule and criticism.

showing just how vulnerable these beliefs are, the truth is always naked needs no protection. . Anything that needs to be protected like this is not far from being a LIE.

Oh well like i said Anybody who don't want their beliefs ridiculed shouldn't be having ridiculous beliefs since their belief is literally ridicule against itself.

I have no apologies to anybody and more is actually coming!!

Larryfly:
If you dont believe in Christianity , why not just leave it, why ridicule it so much

. You know you cant try this with Islam


I m really shocked that you are Igbo. What went wrong?

If telling stories based on your religious fundamentals is as same ridiculing it then something is seriously wrong with your religious fundamentals.

2ndly no idea should be above ridicule. it is a tool that panel beats human idea into a better shape.

If science, sex, politics and every other human idea can be placed under ridicule then why not Religion surely, you can never deny others the right to say what they want.

I have written against Islam many times here so there is really nothing to it..
https://www.nairaland.com/2694704/muhammed-flying-horse
https://www.nairaland.com/3047568/christianity-islam-two-sides-same
https://www.nairaland.com/2243457/muslims-justice
https://www.nairaland.com/2420021/islamic-sharia-death-sentence-kano
These are Just few of my threads against Islam, now remind me again i can't try this with Islam?.. LOL... People

We shouldn't be so damn respectful to ridiculous ideas or we'd have to respect every other nonsensical idea, whim or coercion out there.

By the way JOB is a Judaic story not a Christian story..

If you don't want your beliefs ridiculed, don't have ridiculous beliefs...

i gave a clean direct warning before starting this story.

How ever this story makes you feel is YOUR OWN BUSINESS simply don't read it if you can't swallow it.

frank317:
Of course it is....if God exists, he should be evaluating his past actions after reading this

Hahahahahaha No be small... Probably repent too if ego would allow it to

Pyrrho:
You are right Johnnydon.
Anyone who reads these should be evaluating their religious dogmas.

You've warned them...

Any sane mind that reads it must ask questions concerning what he has been fed to believe all his life

Size

Ok galaxies are really huge, there are dwarf ones but still galaxies are very huge to us. Being a gravitational wedlock of billions of stars, billions of planet, stellar dusts, clouds, gases, dark matter, it gets real big.

The milky way galaxy is on average very large though there are some galaxies that dwarfs it big time in terms of sheer size.

but it is large, up to 120,000,000 light years in diameter and up to 12,000 in thickness.

Light is the fastest thing known to man, in fact as far as we know the fastest thing in nature, now imagine this.

If the milky way galaxy was a football field, it'd take light up to 120million years to travel from one goal post to the other.

Uuuhm lets get a little bit closer home, the earth is really big right, yeah it is now scale this. If the earth was the size of an atom (only seen with with a microscope) then the milky way galaxy is the size of the united state of America.

That's just how large it is

Consider the picture below, Our SUN and the entire Solar system are not actually anymore than the small dot in the picture.

1 out of billions

Yeah that is correct, Our milky way galaxy is not the only galaxy there is but 1 galaxy out of more than 200billion galaxies in the observable universe.

That is like 1 grain of sand in a whole desert.

Long before humans never knew our galaxy was not alone, we thought we were and science hypothesized about other galaxies they called it Island universes

Not until in the early 1900s did a young Astronomer Edwin Hubble (Hubble telescope named after him) confirmed using the Mount Wilson that a distant nebulae was indeed an island universe (Distinct galaxy from ours) this nebulae is known now as the Andromeda galaxy More than 2million light years away.

thus humanity found out our galaxy wasn't the only one and now we find the number of galaxies not only reach up to 10 or 100 but billions of these gigantic monsters.

https://new-universe.org/zenphoto/cache/Chapter4/Illustrations/Abrams42_w580_h332.jpg

This image is a hubble deep field image, achieved when the hubble telescope is faced at one blank dark part of space for days or weeks, the result shows massive numerous distant galaxies.


every dot of light in this image is an individual galaxy, there are more 10,000 in this one image alone

Have you ever looked up in the night sky seeing the stars littered all over, small twinkling lights far far away.

These stars are so far away from each other that it takes years for light to travel between them.

All the stars you see at night are part of the milky way galaxy, even you yourself, the sun, planets.

So when ever you are looking at the night sky, the sun, moon, planets, other things or people around you, You are indirectly looking at the Milky Way Galaxy..

What is a galaxy?

A galaxy is a cluster of stars, clouds, dust, planets, dark matters all held
together by the reaching arms of gravity....

Read more about galaxies here ==> Galaxies

https://www.dispatchreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Galaxy.jpg

Now let us run through Facts about our own Home Galaxy the milky way galaxy ..

Sources (Picture credits): Nasa.gov
www.universetoday.com
twitter: @Hubble_telescope

frank317:
Lol... nice one Johnny

The story is dropping a lot of mind pricking points for people to think over..
But ayam innocent ooo, no say na me tell you

dankol:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Bros see me see wahala ooo ...

https://www.wikitricks.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pw-15.png

See confirm angry ranting cus i talk small truth.. Chai but ayam on ghost mode .. them no see me

**Singing** Double wahala for deady body!!!

flamingREED:
In all your atheism, I bet you that your intellect is not up to a hundredth of mine.

Are you smarter than Daniel the Jew?

Has your wisdom equaled that of Jesus our Lord or Solomon His step-ancestor?

How has stargazing made your life better?

Haven't Christians excelled in science from time immemorial?

Reply, you hypocrite.

hahahahaha nawa o!!! I'm pretty sure you are a thousand times more intelligent than i am of which i never claimed superior intellect here.

So you are more intelligent sir....

Case closed.. Have fun

For bleep sake let us freaking stop generating it 'for mouth' and fu_cking start generating it for real.

WTF

#sighs

Explorers:
Yea, u right bro. I learnt that after explaining to the king about the bull, the King said they should test the invention and he should the one to be roasted first in it.

Its one of the most cruel execution methods i know of

Explorers:
7. Brazen Bull.


A bull made of brass is used to roast the live victim inside. A door is provided to place the victim inside the chamber and the bull is started to heat up at the bottom. And then the victim will be roasted alive until his flesh melts from his body. This bull also designed to amplify the sounds of the screaming victim and make them sounds like a bellowing bull.

Fun Fact:

The man who invented and designed the brasen bull was killed using the Brazen bull by the same Emperor he designed it for

Anas09:
Jon, Catholic Church as an organised religion started in the 4th Century, not third. So how could they have started counting beads by then.
By third Cenrury Christianity wasnt yet a state religion, and the Christians prior to Catholicism never use beads.

Christianity was made a state roman religion late 4th century but Christianity existed in Rome long before then.

Now to put to rest whether Early Christians used prayer beads let me then quote a wikipedia source since saying it myself won't be accepted as a credible source.

" The Desert Fathers of the 3rd to 5th centuries, used pebbles or knotted ropes
to count prayers, typically the Jesus Prayer ("Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
have mercy on me, a sinner". The invention is attributed to Anthony the Great
or his associate Pachomius the Great in the 4th century."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_beads

ValentineMary:
Actually I think the islamic beads came first. The catholic rosary started in the year 1214 at Toulouse in France when St Dominic claimed the virgin Mary appeared to him. But the Islamic beads has been used since the time of Mohammed (64 A.D) though then it was disjoint pebbles used to recite the 99 attributes of Allah

This is incorrect

Muhammed was born in the 6th century 500s, 570AD to be precise and he never used beads rather counted with his hands beads were later inventions to subtitute muhammed's hand counting practise.

Catholic bead counting prayers began as early as 3rd century, the Rosary in particular is the one you are referring to which began in the 1200s by saint dominic

Anas09:
Olay. So between the Catholic and Islam, which started using beats first?

I'd say Catholic...

Early Church fathers used praying beads as early as 3rd century AD (Not necessarly for rosary recitations as found today)

Islam bead praying is directly due to muhammed's practise of using his fingers to count his prayers which was later substituted with beads in Islam.

So catholic (Christian) beads came first.

Decker:
You know race isn't just about the color of skin. What about the noticeable variation in facial features and hair colour and texture?

These are still reactions to U.V radiations in the mutation of genetical variarion, persons of the same race can have different hair colours.

Hair texture is still the same thing, simply put temperature. . . Warmer temperature gives rise to hard small hairs while colder temps result in thick wooly hair textures found also in other animals.

An artic fox is hairy while a tropical fox is not.

You are correct before something can be said to be dead it must first be shown to have ever lived.

So how can God ever die when it really never lived at all

otemanuduno:
I don't know, but Eartum told me that they can fly like himself also, because Eartum has two wings.

Doesn't this lump of ignorance disturb you? Eartum could not even tell you what simple U.F.O means even when he literally revealed how and who created the universe to you.

It's also amazing how you now have a description of an eartum with two wings but when i initially asked a description of eartum you said you always witness eartum in an unclear state.

how come you now know he has two wings?

U.F.Os also use wings to fly?