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 Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 4:13pm On Jan 26, 2017 |
EXCLUSIVE: Belgian club blocking my transfer cries out new Nigeria star Onyekuru https://i0.wp.com/owngoalnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/image-6.jpg?resize=350%2C200 New Nigerian shooting star in Europe Henry Onyekuru has cried out that his Belgian club AS Eupen are now standing in the way of his transfer to perennial Scottish champions Celtic. AfricanFootball.com exclusively reported that Celtic have tabled an official bid for the Nigerian striker, but it now seems the transfer may be scuttled going by what the player is telling AfricanFootball.com He has alleged Eupen now want him to work with another agent and not his agency Macato Sports and they want him to move to Russian champions CSKA Moscow. "Eupen are acting funny on my transfer. They are frustrating me and my agent for their own interest,” blasted the striker, who has taken Belgium by storm this season. “They promised to let me move in January if I have a good offer, now there are good offers but they now want me to sign for their own agent before I move and they want me to sign for CSKA Moscow which I am not interested in. “This is unfair and not acceptable." http://africanfootball.com/news/682501/EXCLUSIVE-Belgian-club-blocking-my-transfer-cries-out-new-Nigeria-star-Onyekuru 1 Like 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 8:22pm On Jan 25, 2017 |
HOW WAS YOUR JOURNEY? Millions of people have survived religion. Hundreds of people on Nairaland have made the journey from indoctrination to thinking for themselves. I just had a young man approach me today about his change towards unbelief. Sometimes it takes years, sometimes weeks. Sometimes it is painful, sometimes exhilarating. Sometimes you lose friends, sometimes you don't (but you almost always gain new friends). For most, completing the journey is a relief, a sense of achievement and a moment of joy. Whatever course your journey took, it will be interesting to others--both those who have been there and those still on their journeys. A friend described his journey beautifully in six concise steps: Indoctrination - Mental slavery - Education - Skepticism - Secularism - Mental liberation Then another followed with her journey: Indoctrination- mental slavery- delusion- objective research- skepticism- SHOCK- pretend christian- atheism- humanism- active human rights advocate If you have been there, done that, don't withhold it. Share your story. It may be unsafe for you in the real world, but there is no excuse online. You can create a pseudoname online and share your story. There are thousands looking forward to hearing of your journey to freedom. Thank you! 9 Likes |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 8:38am On Jan 25, 2017 |
Icon4s:it still does jor. Are you going to remove Ivory Coast from your top 10 because they crashed out? Or worse, Nigeria. we didn't even qualify for the tournament. Algeria crashed out too, but we know they have a good team, they just lack a good coach who can help them with cohesion. |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 9:50pm On Jan 24, 2017 |
Ivory Coast out of AFCON! 1 Like |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 2:53pm On Jan 24, 2017 |
Icon4s:Remove Morocco and put Burkina Faso Remove DR Congo and put Mali South Africa deserves a place but I don't know who to remove. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 1:23pm On Jan 24, 2017 |
FAITH--A POST-MORTEM Religious people believe things on faith. Although they hate to admit it, this means they are certain some things are true with insufficient evidence or with no evidence at all. Actually, it is obvious, even to religious people, that faith is a terrible reason to accept something is true. It is terrible because we know different people use faith to arrive at contradictory conclusions. So some, or all of these conclusions MUST be wrong. For example, using faith Christians believe Jesus was a god but Muslims believe he was only a man. Using faith Jews, Christians and Muslims believe there is only one god but, using faith, Hindus believe there are many. But there is another way to demonstrate the failure of faith that might have more resonance with religious people--there are things people believe on faith that they cannot possibly know are true. And there are things people are certain about on faith that they cannot truly be certain about. Let's look at some examples. Muslims believe the Qur'an is perfect--that it contains no errors. I have yet to meet a Muslim who is not certain of this but how could anyone know it? No Muslim will claim to have read the entire Qur'an and confirmed every sub-clause of every sentence in every verse against validated evidence. So how do they know the Qur'an is perfect? Because someone told them and they chose to believe it on faith. Claims of this sort cannot be shown to be true. There are many other claims that cannot be shown to be true. For example, the claim that God is omniscient. How could anyone be sure of that? They can't--they have to believe it on faith. (I don't even know how God could be sure of this--if there is something he doesn't know, he wouldn't know he doesn't know it!) There are other religious claims for which there may be some evidence but only enough to arrive at a probability that the claim is true and not enough to arrive at certainty. Take, for example, the claim that Jesus was a real person who actually lived rather than a character of fiction. Outside of the Bible, we have no first-hand evidence that Jesus existed. For the entire first century Jesus is not mentioned by any scholar, historian, philosopher, politician or poet. Nor is he mentioned in any surviving private letters or official documents. Absolutely nothing has been found. It's as if he didn't exist. And that is odd if he really did perform miracles, anger the Roman and Jewish establishments, attract a large following, get crucified, die and resurrect. Even within the Bible we have no first-hand evidence. The stories about Jesus were written 30 - 90 years or so after his alleged death and no one who wrote about him could have known him (scholars do not believe the authors were Jesus' disciples--the names of the Gospels were added long after they were written). These second-hand Biblical accounts of Jesus' life are themselves problematic and need to be read with caution. The Gospels of Matthew and Luke are largely word-for-word copies of Mark yet, despite this, contain differences of fact and paint different pictures of what Jesus was like. We also see embellishments added to the later Gospels that sound fanciful. For example, can we really believe that long dead people arose from their graves and walked around the town greeting people as stated in Matthew 27:52-53? Given the lack of evidence for Jesus' existence and the nature of the hearsay stories in the Bible, what probability should we place on Jesus being a real historical character? Well, pick your own number, but you can only pick 100% certainty using faith--it is not warranted by the evidence. Faith is a wholly useless way to determine what is true and what is false. So why do religious people use it? There is a simple answer to that. Faith is all they have. And it is worthless. 4 Likes 3 Shares |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 7:18am On Jan 24, 2017 |
Danycrusoe:The two topics are good. Here are some I can think of: - Gender Balance in Nigerian Football - Nigerian Media and Its Effects on Football Development - Sports and Employment Potentials - NPFL: Potential and Challenges in a Foreign League Crazy Environment 1 Like |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 8:57pm On Jan 23, 2017 |
Mickael2:  Anytime I see blue like this, na scroll I dey scroll. My business na lakesidepapa money. Senegal vs Cameroun. Oshey! 3 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 12:15pm On Jan 23, 2017*. Modified: 8:14am On Jan 24, 2017 |
TWO CONVERSATIONS IN 2,000 YEARS Sometimes, I imagine having a conversation with an educated man 2,000 years ago. His name is Jonathan and the conversation goes like this: Me: "What if the world was not like a plate but like a ball? If the ball was spinning, it might mean that the sun does not move around us but we move around the sun. Don't you think that's a possibility and we should be open-minded to it? Right now, we just don't know." Jonathan: "That is quite absurd. It's impossible. How could the world be like a ball? Things on the bottom of the world would fall off. And if we were spinning, we would all fall over and get dizzy! No, that's ridiculous, the world is like a plate and we do not move! And that means someone must be moving the sun across the sky. And that someone is God." Roll forward 2,000 years. Now talking to Donald. Me: "We are pretty sure there was a Big Bang but we do not know what initiated it nor what existed before the expansion began. So we should stay open-minded to the possibility that the universe came about through a natural process that we do not yet understand. Right now, we just don't know." Donald: "That is quite absurd. It's impossible. How can something come from nothing? We never see something coming from nothing. No, it's ridiculous. Only someone outside the universe could make the universe. And that someone is God!" ..... Some of us haven't made much progress in 2,000 years. Some of us still prefer to be irrationally close-minded in order to cling onto to the ideas they were raised to believe. Fortunately, others are prepared to seek knowledge rather than defend ancient beliefs. These are the people who will make our future. 11 Likes 1 Share |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 11:28am On Jan 22, 2017 |
Ichel:Dude, this your signature is one kain sha. |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 5:39pm On Jan 21, 2017 |
G. Jesus replaces Kelechi on Man City bench. Hmmm... |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 9:50am On Jan 21, 2017 |
Lazyerudite:Right now, I don't even think Ighalo is the one stopping Success' shine. His problem has been the injury wahala. If he overcomes his injury, Mazzari is ready to play him. 1 Like |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 7:58am On Jan 21, 2017 |
lakesidepapa:Alright. I give you 60k if Senegal wins AFCON, or You give me 55k if Senegal does not win. safarigirl, so #27,500 WHEN I win this. Leggo! 1 Like |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 11:33pm On Jan 20, 2017 |
TheSuperNerd:Hey, good to see you. |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 4:50pm On Jan 20, 2017 |
TheGoodJoe:Bros, which one be your own na? Dey talk Amunike dey go  Make she talk fess. lakesidepapa, where you dey na? |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 4:26pm On Jan 20, 2017 |
safarigirl:I hereby solemnly declare to donate 50% of whatever I win in this transaction to anyone in need. The said person to be chosen by safarigirl. Fair enough? This is too good a deal to turn down. |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 7:25am On Jan 20, 2017 |
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| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 6:45am On Jan 20, 2017 |
lakesidepapa:Interestingly, I'm not a gambler but it is difficult for me to pass over free money in this economy. I will top every of your offer with 5k. So Senegal will not win 60k. Deal? Go big or go home! |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 11:10pm On Jan 19, 2017 |
lakesidepapa:Senegal will not win. 25k. Deal? 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:42pm On Jan 19, 2017 |
NO GODS NEEDED I have no gods. I have no fear of demons and devils. I have no dread of spells and curses. I don't fret about my fate after I die. I never pray. I work for the things I want. When I do well, I thank myself, and the people who helped me. When I do badly I blame myself. I have no faith. I have confidence through evidence. I have hope through optimism. I have purpose through love. I have no religion. To tell me what I live for, and what I should die for. No dogma to drill into my kids. No group I belong to that makes me better than others and makes them, less than me. But I have wonder and awe. At the age and size of the universe. At the complexity and diversity of life. At the achievements of the human mind. At courage, sacrifice, devotion and much more. I am an atheist. I don't know there are no gods. I just see no evidence that any exist, and much evidence that we invent them. So, I can find no gods. And I have no need of them. 8 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 9:33am On Jan 19, 2017 |
"There will be quite a large number of weddings" ~ Pastor Adeboye's prophecy for 2017 How come Adeboye and his fellow prophets never prophesy anything of consequence? They failed to prophesy about Gambia and the situation that is developing there right now. Why? 3 Likes |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 7:53pm On Jan 18, 2017*. Modified: 2:42pm On Jan 21, 2017 |
tbaba1234:WOW...he's having a lot of fun in this team. Just imagine if he is not allowed to go on loan because someone wants to be 'drilling' him. 4 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 11:03am On Jan 18, 2017 |
WHAT ARE YOU? A cloud is an arrangement of molecules. So is a mouse and so are you. The molecules will stay arranged for a while and the cloud, the mouse and you will exist. But they won't stay arranged for ever. At some point the arrangement will break down and the molecules will each go their own way. Maybe one of your molecules will become part of someone else or maybe it will become part of a new cloud. This much we all know. But there is a difference between humans and other arrangements of molecules. Our molecules are arranged to give us greater intelligence than any other known arrangement. We have enough intelligence that, uniquely, we know we will die one day. But we don't want to die. So we try to imagine ways we could live forever. We know what happens to molecules so we invented something else. We say part of us is not made of molecules and therefore not subject to the laws of molecules. We call that something, a soul. No-one has ever seen a soul, no-one has ever detected a soul, in fact, we have no reason to believe a soul exists. It's just that we want it to exist. So we believe it does. Our belief in the soul does not come from science; it does not even come from philosophy—it comes from wishful thinking. There is a branch of learning that claims expertise in the soul. It is a branch of learning that elevates wishful thinking above reality. A branch of learning in which what you would like to be true takes precedence over what is true. It is dedicated to defending ancient longings rather than uncovering new truths. It is a branch of learning that is not about learning—it is about NOT learning. It is called theology. 8 Likes 3 Shares |
| Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by joseph1013: 8:20am On Jan 18, 2017*. Modified: 9:33am On Jan 18, 2017 |
feelamong:There is so much misinformation in this post. I'm not surprised it was written by Chacha Wabara. She should stick to her legal profession, and not form expert economist. The first lesson when floating a currency is that anything other than a COMPLETE float is destined to fail. When policy makers fiddle with the exchange rate, black-market activity inevitably surges, as Nigeria’s experiment with a free-float attests. It can also be costly. Russia spent about $90 billion defending the ruble against short-sellers in 2014 before ultimately giving up in November that year. Just look at Argentina. President Mauricio Macri removed a crawling peg on the peso on Dec. 17, 2015. The move was part of an economic overhaul aimed at luring investment and jump-starting an economy suffering from anaemic growth and a shortage of dollars. Was it effective? While the currency slid 27 percent on its first day of freedom, the depreciation since then has slowed and inflation is showing signs of easing. The peso’s three-month historical volatility has fallen to among the lowest in Latin America. Investors showed their renewed confidence in the country last year by mopping up a record $33 billion of international bond sales, while the use of black-market exchanges by locals, a widespread practice before the free float, has become less common. What about Russia? Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina abandoned currency interventions in November 2014 as the country grappled with sanctions and a slump in the price of oil, its main export. The ruble, which rebounded last year, is still down about 32 percent since then. Was it effective? Two years on, implied three-month ruble volatility has fallen to levels last seen before the free-float, inflation expectations are coming down, net capital outflows have slowed and Nabiullina has been lauded as Europe’s most-orthodox central banker. What’s more, households have lost interest in currency swings and are keeping 60 percent of their savings in rubles, according to a poll released in August. LESSON: Don't do a half-hearted float like Nigeria's and expect it not to fail. Also, don't do it too late. In Nigeria's case, it's probably too late. Buhari and his goons have so much destroyed the economy that things will only get worse unless Oil goes to above $50 levels and the Niger Delta militants do not 'show him pepper'. 3 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:44pm On Jan 17, 2017*. Modified: 10:15am On Jan 18, 2017 |
DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOUR PASTOR SAYS Every now and again a theist appears in NL religious section who has evidently never spoken to an atheist before. They are shocked. There are tell-tale signs. They will often kick-off with comments like: "You are lost." "You have eyes but are blind, ears but cannot hear." "The truth is staring you in the face." If you try to engage them in conversation, they may say, "A wise man does not argue with fools" or they may wheel out Psalm 14.1, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." If you continue to coax them into explaining why they believe in their god, one of two things will happen; either they will run away or they will offer arguments so thoroughly discredited that most atheists could debunk them in their sleep. It is pretty clear that these believers approach atheists with a preexisting idea of what atheists are like. The caricature seems to be that atheists are rather stupid, have not given the question of the existence of God the least thought and, most likely, chose to be atheists because they hate God or prefer sin to righteousness. Of course, if they do hang around, it doesn't take long for those misconceptions to be dispelled. They soon find out atheists are more often the exact opposite of their caricature. I may be wrong, but I guess they get this image of atheists from the pulpit--it's another thing their pastor says that is not true. My advice is don't believe everything your pastor says. On second thoughts, it might be safer not to believe anything your pastor says. After all he makes his living by encouraging people to believe a long list of fantastical, magical things, none of which he can show to be true. 8 Likes 2 Shares |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 8:05pm On Jan 16, 2017 |
otezu5:I think this is a mistake...you never know until you try. Too many talents is good headache for a coach. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:56pm On Jan 16, 2017 |
Sillyking Chyme 4 Likes 2 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 12:21pm On Jan 16, 2017 |
THE END OF GODS The human ape has worshiped many thousands of gods throughout its brief history. Our gods have ranged from rivers, winds and mountains to celestial bodies such as the sun and moon, to animals, and to humans (with some part-human-part-animal combos thrown in for good measure). We've even worshiped some extraordinary multi-headed monsters that are the stuff of nightmares. Our most recent gods have morphed into immaterial, invisible, ghostly sylphs. As our gods have become less substantial, they have become more intelligent and more powerful. Some are now credited with the improbable, if not incoherent, combination of omniscience and omnipotence. With such diversity, perhaps the only thing gods have in common is that we invent them, laud them, disseminate them and, eventually, we forget them. As our species has matured, we have discovered one more thing about gods. Now, with more than a billion people not believing in them, we have learned that we do not need them any more. In our infancy, no doubt we needed gods to help us cope when the world was a hostile, uncertain and frightening place in which we felt small and vulnerable--a time when we were at the mercy of unfathomable diseases, predatory animals, floods, drought, storms and natural disasters. A time when we were starting to ask difficult questions about origins, life and death but had no answers. But those times are long gone. For most of us, gods are no longer a need--they have become a habit. A habit it is time to break. 10 Likes 5 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 1:16pm On Jan 15, 2017 |
SCIENCE MADE GOD USELESS.... 8 Likes 2 Shares |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 8:37pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
Now, you see why people don't bother watching the Nigerian Football League. A club side just abandoned an ongoing match because the centre referee sent an official of theirs off to the stand for an unsportsmanlike behaviour. |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 7:27pm On Jan 14, 2017 |
It'd be difficult for Ndidi not to bench Onazi in the Eagles. He's outshined Kante thus far. 3 Likes |
| Sports › Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joseph1013: 1:34pm On Jan 13, 2017 |
safarigirl, thegoodjoe Any idea where thesupernerd is? |
atleast we now have somebody who can type long replies to TheGoodJoe, most people don tire for am
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