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krattoss:
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Any one with any help or antidote to curb over excitement..

wanna learn to move in silence especially when something big comes my way.. But i always feel it's a big load Burgin me until I spill it out to few of my folks..

Since nairaland lacks psychotherapists section like reddit and Co.. (tried navigating through reddit many times but always gets lost).
I feel like this is the best section out of many threads and sections I follow to spill out one of my darkest flaws.. {thank God it's a faceless forum).

So anyone with any advice to offer?

funshyboi:
thanks, I did. but my issue is the thread don't seems conclusive to me. some keep saying it exists with tangible evidences around them, while some says it doesn't without any evidence other than maybe because they haven't seen any. maybe joseph1013 can be helpful in logical analysis

edi287:
The more I think about it, the more I feel Salisu might have a case and won't be sacked. If Okechukwu and Rabiu Ali were really the players those guys offered Salisu money to play, Salisu can argue those players were already going to be on the squad regardless and Rabiu Ali is too old to move to europe.
His "gift" argument actually isn't a bad idea. Those guys messed up big time...didn't do it right

Nnamz:
And if you threw in fixed deposit to the equation, the one that Zenith Bank likes to convince their customers to go for (DON'T EVER FALL FOR THIS. IN FACT, AVOID ZENITH BANK WHEN IT COMES TO INVESTMENTS!!!!), fixed deposit will debit you the full amount, and credit you back , at maturity, that full amount PLUS the interest.

So in summary, bonds take the full principal, spread the interest over the tenure, and pays back the full principal at maturity. Tbs gives you interest upfront, and credits you the full principal. Fixed deposit takes all the principal, credits you NOTHING until maturity when you get both the principal and interest all at once.

Omooba224:
Lemme use Thomas Paine's book name AGE OF REASON. Just to use it as the age we are now, we are now making use of our logical reasoning.
Would you mind explaining the concepts of Witchcraft and Sorcery? People have been using hearsays like "see this one so you don't know that there are witches and wizards, if they visit you once, you will understand that there is AYE", but personally I don't believe in such things again.. I only believe what I see and sense with my senses, I don't buy things at face value again..
Thanks as you explain...

I was looking to answer this comprehensively yesterday, and upon writing a long epistle about it, my system crashed (witches at work, right? ).

But I will answer the question another way, and try to pen down my previous thoughts some other time.

A lot of people ask me, if witchcraft, sorcery and the supernatural isn't real, why then do people believe in it? Are you saying you are wiser than my grandma of 90 who scoffs at those who think there are no witches? Children of nowadays have been so blinded with technology that they have no idea of the evil activities of darkness.

Well, what I say is that it has never been a good excuse to believe in a phenonmenon based on the number of people that believe in it.


I mean, if alien abductions aren't real, why do people believe they've been abducted?

If astrology isn't real, why do people believe the position of celestial bodies affects their lives?

If electromagnetic hypersensitivity isn't real, why do some people believe they are dying when exposed to electromagnetism?

If homeopathy is literally just water droplets, why do people believe it has strong medicinal effects on them?

If there are many mutually exclusive religions in the world, why do people from each one believe they've had experiences which exactly confirm their own religion and disprove the others?

If truth exists, why is anybody wrong at all?

The answer to all these questions (and witchcraft, sorcery and demons) is that the human mind is pretty sloppy and unreliable. We're not the pillars of clear and rational thought that we like to imagine we are. We have to apply a tremendous amount of effort to consistently identity what is true and what is not, and we can't really expect a worldview to be sensible if we haven't done that.

Sure, it might somehow feel right even without putting in much critical effort, but that same feeling is shared by plenty of others who hold different views.

What can be done to resolve these contradictory beliefs and identify those which are true (or most likely to be true)?

How can one apply more critical thinking to questions about the nature of the world?
My recommendation would be to adopt and apply a worldview based on scientific skepticism.

Omooba224:
The Sage of Nairaland! Only Attis knows how indebted I am to you. I have been reading your posts for months now. I must confess, your views proffered solutions to my state of quagmire. I have been asking questions about my faith since the beginning of this year. Anytime I tried to shake indoctrination off, I normally got back to the start menu. Lol! I must tell you, I have gone through a severe development, rebirth. The religious apologists normally keep shut when I tell them what they have never heard in their lives. I am now their nightmare, they keep on shouting "You are a confused being, you have to belong to one religion bla bla bla". I am now free and open-minded.
May Brahma be with you and your brain...

LOL.

Anytime I get this kind of message, most of them via PM, I can only remember what Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

It is in Ecclesiastes that it's written, "...there is no new thing under the sun."

My thoughts and questions here are not new, they have been thought and asked across the generations by thinkers, philosophers and everyday people. It is just sad that more people are only beginning to think and ask them in our continent.

We will be free, and hopefully development will start.

Perhaps this is why I have not given up this thread.

May Odin give you knowledge on your path,
May Thor grant you strength and courage on your way,
And may Loki give you laughter as you go

CAPSLOCKED:
joseph1013


I'M HERE TO INFORM YOU THAT ALLAH IS ON ONE THREAD ON FRONTPAGE INSPIRING ANTS TO WRITE HIS NAME ON SAND AS PROOF OF HIS OMNIPRESENCE.. INSTEAD OF DOING SOMETHING BENEFICIAL TO THE UNIVERSE.

safarigirl:
#5

Movie Title: Banana Island Ghost

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Year: 2017

Cast: Chioma 'Chigurl' Omeruah, Patrick Diabuah, Bimbo Manuel, Ali Nuhu, Tomiwa Edun, Tina Mba

Genre: Comedy

Industry: Nollywood

Run Time: 1hr 49 mins


Plot:
A young man dies, but is given one last chance to find his soulmate before he has to leave to Heaven. God sends him to Ijeoma (Chigurl), a social misfit who has the impossible task of raising 18 million naira to stop the foreclosure of her late father's Banana Island mansion in 3 days.

Review:

The idea of a ghost finding a soulmate sounds ridiculous, right? Well, I can assure you that this movie made it worse
, this movie is one of the worst excuses I have seen of comedy in all my life. Unless you have an IQ of 0.5 or less, the likelihood of you even cracking a smile at the forced jokes in it is incredibly low. However, you are likely to laugh at the ridiculousness of the pathetic show. There are so many things wrong with BIG, from the casting, to the plot and even down to the acting.

However, it is not all doom and gloom for this failed attempt at comedy, let me first pick out the good parts of the movie.

Quite easily, the score and choice of songs for the movie were top notch, the producers would have had more success if it was just a compilation of top Naija tracks than bothering with the cast and other jargons. The cinematographer was also great, I mean, the picture quality of the movie was top notch and they captured the city of Lagos quite impressively, it could easily have been mistaken for a foreign country, then we have......okay, I think that is all the good parts I can think of.

Now, to the bad. Trust me, there is a LOT of bad.

First bad has to be the casting. Let it be said now, that there is no reason why anyone has to endure seeing Chigurl on their screens for more than three minutes at any point. Lord, she made the entire movie bad, it was distracting counting the rolls on her neck and watching her waddle her way through it all, but we could have very well persevered if Chigurl's acting was at least half decent. The girl could not even decide on which accent she wanted to flow in, her acting seemed forced part of the time and she was just an all round shitty actress in the movie.
Then there is Bimbo Manuel playing God, really? Like seriously? I mean, Bimbo is a great actor, but I could very well have thought up better suited actors for the role if Olu Jacobs and Pete Edochie were unavailable or too expensive. Off the top of my head, Kalu Ikeagwu would have played the role perfectly and maybe the wardrobe guy could have even gotten him an outfit that didn't look like he had to squeeze himself into it.
Only Tomiwa Edun successfully gave a good account of himself in that movie, playing Ijeoma's (Chigurl) two-timing, gold dividing boyfriend (who only interacted with her once, when he came to borrow money). Even Ali Nuhu had some cringeworthy moments......but, no need to lengthen this post

Next up, advert placements. Everyone knows these big budget movies have some sponsors who they advertise in the movies. Well, in BIG, someone forgot to add subtlety to the adverts. I mean, there was an entire scene lifted from a Cocacola advert, but there were other sponsors too, such as Sunlight Liquid Soap, Cold Stone Creamery, Lipton Tea, HealthPlus Pharmacy, Kilimanjaro Restaurant and some Dap-something. All that money, wasted on a trash movie


Now, moving on. The plot was bad, but oh the scenes were worse. There were pervert police officers who couldn't stop going on about Ijeoma's (Chigurl) 'yansh'....and yes, they pronounced the word in the crudest of ways. There were some mean girls, who turned out to be her colleagues, but could very well have been overaged high schoolers going by how juvenile their teasing was.

I never understood why Chigurl wouldn't stop harping on about the Banana Island mansion; a house that was obviously not a mansion, looked more like a random one-storey building in Mushin, and was occupied solely by her. I mean, for all the sentimental value this house carried, it was surprising that her mother neither lived in it nor bothered to contribute a scent towards saving it. Was the house really that important?

Then there was a scene where Ijeoma (Chigurl), who was on low cut, still managed to sleep with her wig and make-up on ....oh, and might I mention that she settled into the idea of a ghost coming into her life quite quickly. I mean, she faints once and the next time she sees the ghost, she's talking to him like she converses with ghosts regularly. Ghost whisperer perhaps?
There are so many poorly thought-out parts to this movie that everything just culminated into a disaster of epic proportions.

If you are looking to introduce an unbeliever of Nollywood with this movie, I would advise you don't. In fact, anyone who can go twenty minutes in this movie without turning it off in anger, has a high tolerance rate.


Rating: 2.5/10


Play or Trowey: Trowey inside the closest lagoon

TONY56:
Very unlike Stambic, my matured NTB-the very first transaction for this year 2018 has dropped into my account as 13:37pm.
Stambic used to credit accounts on or before 12noon.

Has anyone been credited today?

talktrue1:
Check your account balance. You must have been credited

Oasis007:
Ighalo Holdup play is a topnotch, but he's damn slow! Hope to see the Combo of Iheanacho and Musa again!