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Catalin:Why? |
yasolan:Why? |
Abdstrakt:I love a good battery, the best battery for that price would be great. Then processor speed. Then size of storage. Then Camera. Thanks |
Unfortunately for me, my phone unexpectedly packed up on the first of January, 2017. As a matter of urgency, I need another phone that would give me the best value for #70,000. Please recommend. Thanks |
THE SEASON OF FOOLISHNESS Here are Enoch Adeboye's prophecies for 2017 THE PROPHETIC WORD FOR 2017 IS SURPRISEThis is the foolishness that we get as prophecy abi? Which of these is objectively measurable, verifiable or falsifiable now? Plain idiocy. This is where the candid advice has to be given for these people to go and find proper jobs. |
sheyviruz:Same to you, bro. |
safarigirl:Thanks dear. Happy New Year to you. |
TheGoodJoe:Thanks bro. Happy New Year to you. |
Olajide Abiola |
Dear all, that worship the God of Israel, today isn't the end of the year according to God's (Yahweh) calendar. Today is 2nd of Tevet, 5777. You are meant to use the Jewish calendar not the Gregorian calendar. Or hell awaits you all. |
Is this phone still worth it in 2017? How much is it sold? Who is selling? |
Is this phone still a good buy in 2017? How much is it sold for now? Who is selling brand new? |
sheyviruz:I've been wanting to make a post about this (but may be I still will). Anyway, the short answer is: good for him! I see a lot of atheists online trying several word gymnastics to prove that Mark did not really denounce atheism, but that's BS. Even if he's an atheist, he's denounced it. Period. But it's laughable when Christians rejoice over his statement. He never said he's a Christian. So what's there to rejoice about? If Christianity is true, then an atheist and a Mark are both going to hell? And if Mark's religion is right (he didn't tell us), a Christian and an atheist will go to Mark's religion's hell (if it has). Rejoicing over Mark's statement for a Christian is silly. I read Sapiens, a book by Yuval Noah Harari. I know Mark has read it too. It's fantastic book. You should read it if you've not. Everybody should read it. I gave excerpts on this thread. Because Mark has raved about the book in the past, I understand what he means when he said Religion is important. It is. One of the reasons for our civilization was the way religion helped us to craft stories that people could rally around and build a community, and through that cooperation could happen on a large scale. So, good for Mark. He's not an atheist. May be he also falls into the category of people who think atheists and agnostics are different. We don't know. If he subscribes to a religion, he didn't tell us unambiguously. |
sheyviruz:Amen Thanks bro. |
tbaba1234:Training matters more, remember? Well, according to some people's logic. |
THE REAL MVP On many occasions, Theists and Religious people claim that Atheists are usually rude, dismissive and condescending in arguments about God or religion in general. This claim is not entirely untrue. It is the case that Atheists have been known to be rude, dismissive and condescending. The problem here is that sometimes it can be hard not be. Personally, I can't claim that I have always been civil in online engagements and this is partly because some of these 'arguments' religious people proffer are things we have heard before, hundred times over, by better apologists and it gets tiring seeing failed arguments and bad logic being thrown at your face every now and then in the guise of 'argument'. You can't blame them much because some of them have only just recently started engaging atheists in arguments and maybe these are the first things that come to their mind. I must commend the folks who are always patient and civil. You are the real MVP. |
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Whenever you say Jesus is the reason for the season, you need to be reminded of some historical facts. The history of Christmas is very long & tortuous but I'll try & present an abridged version here. Of course, I expect everybody to know that the origin of Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus or Christianity but in case you didn't know, your ignorance should be cleared by the time you finish reading this. What you're about to read may be something you've never heard before. To start with, why December 25? The day Jesus was born (if he ever was born) is not known. That's strange! Almost all persons who have a wide impact on the world have known birthdays. The census reported in Luke (the one requiring Joseph & Mary to travel to Bethlehem) actually never took place and the story of an astronomical event ('Star in the East') reported in Matthew as to have happened around then is yet to be verified by scientists. There was a Roman pagan celebration of the birthday of Mythra, the Sun God. This celebration took place on December 25. When the Roman Emperors forced the whole world to become Christians ('Catholicism'), they needed to accommodate everybody into the church. One way of doing that was to inculcate some of their customs into the church. Since the Christians at that time associated Jesus with the 'Sun of Righteousness' mentioned in Malachi 4:2, Emperor Constantine drew a parallel between the two 'Suns' (Mythra, the pagan Sun & Jesus, the Christian Sun) and decreed that December 25 should be used to celebrate the birthday of Jesus. As an aside, every time you go to church on Sun-day morning, you're testifying to Mythra, the pagan Sun god. Before then, Jehovah was worshipped on Saturday while the Sun God was worshipped on Sun-day. Because of the implications on the religion, some early Christians didn't like the idea that Christmas was a pagan invention. So they invented an alternative theory. 1st century anonymous work said the world was created on March 28. Iraenus (a 1st century historian) plagiarized that & said Jesus must have been crucified on March 25 & if so, he equated the equinox (March 25) with the conception of Jesus. This made so many early Christians BELIEVE (what can't belief achieve?) that Mary must have been impregnated by the Holy Ghost on March 25. And if someone got pregnant on March 25, then she must have given birth on December 25, i.e., 9 months after. But this attempt is funny. How can you just base your belief on someone else's conjecture? And if the Son of God wasn't conceived through natural means, how are you sure that the pregnancy went the natural way of 9 months? Jesus could've spent 15 months or 3 months in her mother's womb: you can never know. The caroling was a Christian conversion of the pagan Koliada. The gift-giving spree is reminiscent of an earlier Roman pagan celebration of Saturnalia. The Yule (or Yuletide) is the name of an indigenous midwinter festival celebrated by ancient Germanic peoples. The Christmas tree is a direct importation of the pagan tree worship which was tied to the Thor god. Father Christmas & Santa Claus are fictional figures but even though the idea of the former predated the latter, they later became unified into a single personality. Santa Claus is the anglicized form of 'Sinterklass' which simply meant Saint Nicholas in Dutch. St. Nicholas was a Greek bishop who was noted for taking care of children and rewarding the well-behaved ones with gifts. Even though the St. Nicholas Day (a feast of giving in its own right) is still celebrated on December 6, the St. Nicholas concept (called 'Santa Claus') was superimposed on the preexisting Father Christmas as a means of further Christianizing a pagan celebration of December 25. All these pagan origins made a section of the 17th century church to frown on Christmas. In addition, they discovered that no saint celebrated their birthday in the Bible (in fact, Job & Jeremiah cursed their birthdays) and every birthday celebrated in the Bible (Pharaoh's in Genesis 40 & Herod's in Mark 6) was marred by an evil consequence. Called the 'Puritans' (an essentially reformationist Protestant movement), they campaigned against the pagan & unbiblical celebration called Christmas. In fact, they were the ones ruling the English Parliament & they outlawed Christmas for these reasons. As they were the colonial masters of America ('New England'), Christmas was similarly outlawed over there. Even though, political dynamics restored Christmas to Christianity later (18th century onwards), such puritan sects still exist today. Examples are the Jehovah Witnesses & the Deeper Life Bible Church who don't celebrate Christmas for the same reasons. But some of those Christian sects go to church on Sunday. As I said earlier, worshipping Jehovah on Sunday has exactly the same origin as celebrating Jesus' birth at Christmas: so why they have problems with Christmas & not Sunday services is still a mystery. Anyway, Christmas is now approaching the status it started from — a non-Christian significance. The progressive secularization of the festival is obvious in the songs: some are outright religious songs (e.g., 'Silent Night', 'Hark! The Herald Angel Sing') while others are purely secular (e.g., 'Jingle Bells', 'Days of Christmas'). There have been campaigns in the US to convert the greeting, 'Merry Xmas', to 'Happy Holidays'. The Philadelphia State outlawed Christmas carol in schools. Christmas is increasingly becoming more of a secular celebration than religious. Nigeria is one of many countries where Christmas is a public holiday. How that happened is well-represented in the picture below. I'm sure seeing that picture will make you love Xmas as an African. Enough said! And FYI, in case you think it's the whole world that's celebrating the 'born-in-a-manger' story, you need to read this. Christmas is NOT a public holiday in many countries like Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Comoros, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Laos, Libya, Maldives, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, & Yemen. Countries like Somalia & Brunei have even banned Christmas celebrations with anybody doing something as simple as wearing a Santa Claus hat to spend 5 years in jail. Of course, that's how intolerant Muslim-dominated countries can be to foreign ideologies compared to Christian-dominated countries. Countries like Japan, where Christians are a tiny minority, widely celebrate Christmas purely for the exotic cultural & secular significance. Thanks for your time Merry Xmas (sorry, Happy Holidays) to you all!
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TheGoodJoe:Sometimes you talk as if you sleep on the same bed with Pep. I don't want Iwobi going near Pep but how can it be hard to get Iwobi if Pep brings the right figure? He spent close to £50 million each to get Sane and Stone. Are you saying that City cannot afford to use that same amount to buy Iwobi? Does it mean that because James (of Madrid) gets more links, then Iwobi is better than him? There are far better points to use to support Iwobi. |
THE SOURCE OF ALL MORALITY "When the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. Those who found him brought him to Moses, Aaron and the whole congregation. They put him in custody cause it wasn't clear what should be done to him. Then the lord said to Moses: "The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him outside the camp." The whole congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death. Just as the lord had commanded Moses." ~ Numbers 15:32-36. A man was publicly executed for picking up sticks. Thus says the Bible, the purported source of all morality. When you go through these Old Testament teachings and you're a humanist, the barbaric context is enough to make you swear off the Christian religion. Then you are bound to hear some of these Nairaland apologists say: "That's the old testament, Jesus has given salvation from all such barbarity." Of course. Except that the one who commanded thus is still believed to be ageless, changeless, timeless.. And until they find such verses that disturb them personally, the Old Testament still constitutes the larger portion of the holy book which holds all absolute truths and ordinances directing human behavior. |
[b]WHY THE DOUBLE STANDARD? There are people who are utterly certain they are being observed by aliens. We may try to reason with them but usually we cannot disprove their beliefs. We can only show there are no good reasons to hold them. They say, if we don't believe them, it is we who have a problem--not them. These people are routinely diagnosed as mentally unwell. We take the view that, if their delusions compromise their wellbeing or safety, we should offer them medication, counseling and, in extreme cases, we should confine them. We accept these people are ill and we seek to take care of them and help them to get well. .... There are people who are utterly certain there is an invisible being watching them and that this being actually created the entire universe from nothing. We may try to reason with them but usually we cannot disprove their beliefs. We can only show there are no good reasons to hold them. They say, if we don't believe them, it is we who have a problem--not them. These people are almost never diagnosed as mentally unwell. We take the view that, even if their delusion compromises their wellbeing or safety, they should be free to believe whatever they like. Only in very exceptional and rare cases do we offer them medication or counseling. Generally, we do not accept these people are ill and we leave them to fend for themselves. Yet these people can be much more at risk than those who believe in aliens. There is no known case of a believer in aliens going without food, rejecting medical treatment, lacerating his own body, facing up to angry mobs or committing suicide to appease his favourite aliens. .... How can we justify this double standard?[/b] |
GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE Christians and Muslims agree that the Jews are God's chosen people. Crucially, God revealed himself to the Jews and to no one else. If the Jews had not diligently carried out God's wishes, Christians and Muslims would not have learned about God and would still be pagans today. So why don't Christians accept what Jews say about Jesus and why don't Muslims accept what Jews say about Muhammad? |
safarigirl:The guy is slow! ![]() |
TheGoodJoe: ![]() When did he ask Alonso? |
TheGoodJoe:That is why City is at the top of the league table and leading by 6 points. Story! |
komekn:Please where did you see that playing in Europe is a pre-requisite for invitation to the Eagles? Are you sure you read my comment at all? |
terzurum5:1.97! This guy is tall. He is as tall as Mertesacker who is 1.98. (For perspective, Peter Crouch is 2.01m) The guy is taller than Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Taller than the tallest Super Eagles player currently, John Ogu. He would probably be the tallest ever player to play for the Super Eagles if he is invited. And he is just 19! |
Peter Adeosun Keyz wrote |
WHY NOT BELIEVE IN GOD SINCE THERE IS EVIDENCE IN THE BIBLE I love Quora. It is a spectacular forum. Intelligent, witty, reasonable answers. I spoke to a friend of mine how that there is not a lot of Nigerians commenting on the forum, and the guy told me he is glad Nigerians don't comment. He said he would be ashamed of the things Nigerians write. He pointed me to Nairaland and the idiotic comments on the forum. I laughed. Anyway, a guy asked this question: Why don't people believe in God if there is a substantial amount of evidence to support it like the Bible?And he got this lovely answer: For the same reason people don’t believe in Harry Potter, even though there’s a substantial amount of evidence in seven books and eight movies.BRILLIANT! |
[b]SOLVED! HOW NOAH POPULATED THE ARK I've been trying to work out how the Noah family collected all the animals for ark in seven days. I think I've figured it out. They divided the world up by continents. There are seven continents counting North and South America separately. My guess is Japheth took Australia/Oceana and his wife took Asia; Shem took Africa and his wife did Europe; Ham and his wife took North and South America respectively. That leaves the continent with the fewest animals, Antarctica for 600 year-old Noah himself--it's a smaller job and, at his age, he probably wouldn't feel the cold too much. Noah's wife, Naamah, probably worked point from the ark to control everything. To get the job done in time, she would have needed to employ satellite imaging to find the animals and IsatPhones to communicate worldwide with her collection teams. Naamah would have direct access to a master database of animals and would check them off as they were collected. This was a precision operation--if she missed one animal, it would be lost forever--God was out of the creation business! Obviously, having the animals leg it back to the ark was a non-starter; they must have used transport. In fact, transport would have been the biggest problem, with vast distances to cover, huge loads and very little time. These vehicles must have been enormous. There would be no time for multiple collect-and-return-to-base trips. To get an idea of size, think in terms of 75 railroad stock cars for each vehicle. I'm guessing they used hyperdrivemobiles, with antigravity fields capable of hovering above land and sea. At the enormous multi-mach speeds necessary to achieve this task human control would have been impossible. Here I'm thinking GPS systems, directly linked to Naamah's database with radar and ultrasonic collision avoidance for day and night operation. A suitable power source must have been a real headache. Nothing short of a fusion reactor would have the capacity and power for the job. So that's it. Job done. This is one in the eye for naysayers who bleat that this job was impossible. All the technology necessary is ALREADY IN USE TODAY (or will be soon), so it is completely feasible. And, if humans can invent these things, they would be trivial for God. All you need is a little faith.[/b] |
hahn:A blog is too much work. I don't have the time to promote it. |
Apparently, today is the 2nd year anniversary of this thread. Amazing how fast time went. It's been worth it. We grow each day and it's incredible how much progress I have made in my godless life. |
I don't like what has happened to Imoh Ezekiel. He's a talented young man, who I think is better than Simon Moses. Gutted he's got himself into irrelevance by chasing money so early in his career. |
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