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Jarus:Interesting. That means some of those 'beggars' could be genuine. But again, how many people will you help out on a daily basis? When you're not Dangote. |
Theology for dummies: Jesus could not have died on Friday. 3 days and 3 nights, remember? |
Pre-match in KD: "We're here to beat Egypt. We must beat Egypt. Egypt cannot escape defeat today." FT: NGA 1-1 EGY Post-match: "Siasia knows how to win away." Our optimism is endless! |
benzion72:I'm interested in knowing where you got this. |
I'm not optimistic about our chances in the two games against Egypt but I will keep my cynicism to myself. Maybe that's a way to insulate myself against Super Eagles' disappointment. |
WHY IS GULLIBILITY GOOD? Religious adults are so gullible that they believe the most incredible stories with no evidence. But what are they thinking when they stand on street corners, go house-to-house or post on the Internet to encourage normal people to be as gullible as they are? Here are some things they may be thinking; There's not enough gullibility in the world. I don't feel so gullible, if you're gullible too! You have no life if you're not gullible. You're never alone if you're gullible. People would be nicer if they were gullible.. I am sure you can add some others as well. |
[b]WOMEN AND RELIGION The gender gap is a measure of the extent to which men and women are treated equally in the areas of Economic Participation and Opportunity; Educational Attainment; Health and Survival; and Political Empowerment. The Global Gender Gap Report is published annually by the World Economic Forum and ranks most countries in the world according to the size of the gender gap. Let's be clear, there is a gender gap in every country and it is a gap that always favours men. The 2015 report ranks 145 countries. Here are the 20 countries with the smallest gender gap (in order of lowest gap first): Iceland Norway Finland Sweden Ireland Rwanda Philippines Switzerland Slovenia New Zealand Germany Nicaragua Netherlands Denmark France Namibia South Africa United Kingdom Belgium Latvia Here are the 20 countries with the highest gender gap (in order of gap): Angola Tunisia Algeria Benin Turkey Guinea Mauritania Côte d'Ivoire Saudi Arabia Oman Egypt Mali Lebanon Morocco Jordan Iran, Islamic Rep. Chad Syria Pakistan Yemen Notice something about these lists? There are no majority Muslim countries in the top 20 but 17 of the bottom 20 countries are majority Muslim. Of the 20 countries with the lowest gender gap, 15 have religiosity below 50% (fewer than 50% of people say religion is important). The data for prior years shows this is a consistent pattern year after year. What conclusions can we draw from this? We can say secular countries treat women more equally than religious countries and Islamic countries discriminate against women more than Christian countries. Of course, this should not surprise us. The Qur'an and The Sharia make it clear that women are subordinate to men and have fewer legal rights. Islam permits a husband to beat his wife--something that would be a criminal offence in non-Islamic countries and Islam gives women inferior rights in inheritance and jurisprudence. In some Islamic countries women are not allowed to leave the house without a male relative as an escort, and have to be covered from sight when they do. Muslims often deny they treat women badly but the data is not lying, Muslims are.[/b] |
Icon4s:If the boy is interested, we should invite him. He is actually good. We need as many competition for places as possible. It's even better if they are all playing in top leagues. We are tired of our best players playing in Russia, Turkey and Israel joor. |
rabzy:Got this online. L-R: #SPOTD - The Green Eagles team of 1988: Ademola Adesina, Sunday Eboigbe, Samuel Okwarawaji, Stephen Keshi, Peter Rufai and Coach Yussuf Salami.
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forgiveness:Hehehe...na joke I dey o |
One of the guys who has inspired me in the walk as an apostate is a guy on Youtube whose username is darkmatter2525. If you love my work, you will double love his videos. He passes his messages across in the most concise way possible. Just take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y201QzDdzbg Absolute gold! |
Petrobros:LMAO...abeg leave forgiveness o before he codedly go ask paale. This one no concern foreign players na ![]() |
[b]WHEN CHRISTIANITY PROVIDES YOU A NEW FATHER Christianity has the ability to give you another father different from the one that biologically gave birth to you. And this new father can have you all-brainwashed that you don't want to listen to any criticism against him. You can even slap your biological father for this new father. You can leave your biological father financially stranded while dropping all your money towards the birthday ceremony of your new father to hold in Dubai. You're supposed to be in a family. But no, religion gives you another family which now matters more than your biological family. Your social structure has been rearranged just because you've embraced an ideology. The natural family comes only secondary to the artificial family. Someone can criticize your president, your boss at work, your employer or the person that even feeds you. Doesn't matter once they don't criticize your father in the lord. You can even kill for these artificial fathers. And nobody is spared. All the Christians that I know who are devoted to a particular pastorpreneur throw fits once you criticize their daddies in the Lord. He's still laughing with you because you haven't criticized his artificial daddy. And you're wondering how terrorism comes about? Religion gives you a book, a name, a personality, just something, for whom you're ready to severe long-term relationships. A criticism against it becomes an attack on your person. You can even kill for the course. If you doubt me, ask Rev. King's church members.[/b] |
I hear you, bro. The same way I heard myself when as a Christian I convinced myself that Christianity was not a religion but a lifestyle. |
[b]I swear, if for every time I hear someone say that his religion is not a religion but a way of life I get paid a dollar, I would be rich. Ask a Christian, he will say Christianity is a WAY of LIFE, not a religion. Ask a Muslim, she will say Islam is a WAY of LIFE, not a religion. Now a Hindu (I assume) has come up to tell us Hinduism is a WAY of LIFE, not a religion. Interesting! But here are the facts: - Hinduism is the world’s oldest living religion and the third largest – behind Christianity and Islam – with more than 1 billion followers. It has no common creed or church. Nor is it based on the teachings of a founder or holy book. - There is one supreme God that cannot be fully known or understood. Hindus are encouraged to relate to God in the way that suits them best, like worshipping many deities who are believed to be manifestations of God. The trimurti or three main deities are Brahma, the creator; Vishnu, the preserver; and Shiva, the destroyer. That’s why Hinduism is often thought of as polytheistic. It is not. - Hindus believe that all living creatures have a soul. This soul – the spirit or true "self" of every person, is called the ātman. The soul is believed to be eternal. - The Hindu scriptures refer to celestial entities called Devas (or devī in feminine form), which may be translated into English as "gods" or "heavenly beings". - Devout Hindus perform daily rituals such as worshiping at dawn after bathing (usually at a family shrine, and typically includes lighting a lamp and offering foodstuffs before the images of deities), recitation from religious scripts, singing devotional hymns, yoga, meditation, chanting mantras and others. - Hindu festivals are ceremonies that weave individual and social life to dharma. Hinduism has many festivals throughout the year, where the dates are set by the lunisolar Hindu calendar, many coinciding with either the full moon (Holi) or the new moon (Diwali), often with seasonal changes. - Pilgrimage is not mandatory in Hinduism, though many adherents undertake them. While there are different yet similar pilgrimage routes in different parts of India, all are respected equally well, according to the universality of Hinduism. It's obvious that the word Religion has gotten a bad rap and everyone is scampering for cover to be excluded from the label, but no matter how much Hinduism run, it is by DEFINITION, a religion. [size=13pt]'the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods."[/size][/b] |
Icon4s:Then please answer this: You are one goal down. You have more than 30 minutes into a win-or-go-home Quarter final match, your entire team have not been able to muster a shot on goal all day, you have on the bench the following attacking players Iheanacho (Man City, England), Ezeh (Porto, Portugal), Yahaya (Tottenham, England), Moses (Gent, Belgium), you've got nothing else to lose, what would you do? What would a coach with half a brain do? |
Icon4s:It's easy to say in hindsight. But the question should be: did we use our best players to prosecute those matches? Did Manu intentionally sabotage the games to satisfy his ego? |
Icon4s:I have heard you say this a couple of time, and each time I nod my head sideways. That's not true. We lost out not because we were inexperienced but because they coach did us. If Manu's selections were more transparent, we would have excelled. He practically folded his arms against Germany and told everyone to go to blazes. And he had his way, we crashed out. That first eleven against Brazil would have beaten Korea silly. It would have stood toe to toe with Germany with great firepower. The more games, the more that team would have jelled. |
PastorAIO:Great question! According to my limited study on India, it showed that the answer lied in Hinduism as a philosophy. The strong caste system creates a deeply connected society, and acts as an extremely powerful support base against as well as protector from subversive change. As you may know, before the European invaders got to India, India was ruled by Muslims from around 12 century to 1857. Yet there was no mass conversion. Then the Mughals invaded India too and eventhough they weren't as keen on religion conversion, it is arguable that they would have succeeded where the Jihadists failed. I'm interested in knowing more about this. |
stephenmorris:I don't agree that we embraced the Abrahamic religions because we love cheap things. People all over the world love cheap things. From Norway to Canada to the Bahamas. The reason we embraced those religions in the first instance was because we had no choice. We were slaves. We were colonized. Their religion was practically shoved down our throats. It's not difficult to imagine if you know how colonization works. We had no choice then. We have a choice now, though. |
stephenmorris:The first time it struck me, I could not shake it off. It was unmistakably true. A large majority of Hindus are in India. A large percentage of Buddhists are in China. A large percentage of Judaism practitioner are in Israel. A large percentage of Taoists are concentrated in China and East Asian countries where China has considerable influence. A large percentage of Sikhs are in India. Baha'is have the largest population in the Caribbeans. Jainists have the largest population in India. Islam has its largest adherents in the Arabian Pennisula and other places it colonized. Christianity has its largest believers in the countries the Europeans colonized, from Africa to South America. Religion is ruled by geography. That says alot about the love of God for mankind. |
FOOD FOR THOUGHT TO THE RELIGIOUS BIGOTS If the Chinese had colonized Africans like the Europeans did, some of you would have been Buddhists and claimed it's the best religion. |
Jarus:Mr. Suraj, you have no idea. I was surprised you've never been here and other places we discuss football. Check the other ones: U-17 Thread: https://www.nairaland.com/2723782/golden-eaglets-nigeria-thread-u-17 U-20 Thread: https://www.nairaland.com/2721056/flying-eagles-nigeria-thread-u-20 Super Eagles Thread: https://www.nairaland.com/2315999/super-eagles-nigeria-thread-2017 |
While it's true that Manu's selections were appalling, I don't think Saviour's choice was a bad call. He, at the time, was a very good player. Remember that he was playing first team in the U23 team at that time. Infact he was so good in the U20 camp that Simon Moses was willing to recommend him to his club in Belgium. I'm surprised at what has happened to him. I hope he bounces back. |
sonOfLucifer:I refuse to answer your question. I'm scared of Lucifer. ![]() |
THE NULL HYPOTHESIS If you believe in a god and think you are rational, here's how to check that your are. Start by assuming your god does NOT exist and your religion is FICTION. This is your null hypothesis. Then look for validated evidence that definitively proves your assumptions wrong. If you succeed, you are justified in your belief. If you fail, stick with your assumptions until you can falsify them. Welcome to reason. It's nice here! |
Happy birthday, SuperNerd! You rock. |
[b]THE BIBLE'S BIG MISTAKE If God created life on Earth, I think I know how he did it. He started by making a simple, single-celled creature. His first shot at life were cells that didn't even have a nucleus but they could utilise external sources of energy and could replicate. God tinkered with these cells for the next two billion years making hundreds of tiny improvements. During this time, one of the important ideas he had was to provide a mechanism for photosynthesis (obtaining energy from sunlight). Then he had a brainwave. Reproduction would be much more efficient if the genetic material was enclosed in a membrane within the cell--he invented the nucleus. He tinkered again for over 500 million years. During that time he created many different versions of his creatures but they were all fundamentally similar. But one innovation would prove critical--he introduced sexual reproduction. This greatly increased diversity which made life more resilient and increased the rate at which life forms changed. Four hundred million years later, he came up with the idea of combining several single-celled creatures to form one multi-celled creature. This was a very important idea--ultimately it allowed humans to exist. That's probably why God took 3.3 billion years to figure out how to do it--he didn't want to make any mistakes. That innovation 800 million years ago was decisive. And it seemed to give God renewed creative energy. Diversity and complexity accelerated rapidly. He created animals with bi-lateral symmetry, legs, a central nervous system, a spine, a brain, eyes and more. This orgy of creation continued and just over a million years ago he came up with us, homo sapiens. It all worked out in the end but it was a very inefficient process, probably more than 95% of the species God created were flops and became extinct. The process was a bit like a child with a chemistry set using trial and error to see what useful chemicals he could make. It's a pity the Bible didn't describe the process like this. But it didn't, it said God made all species in a single day. It's hard to imagine how it could have been more wrong. If the Bible had described it as I have, it would have been consistent with the mountain of evidence we've uncovered and we would probably all believe God is real by now. Instead, only the young, the undereducated and the delusional believe God is real, the rest of us rely on hard evidence to determine how life evolved. And that shows the Bible to be a book of fiction and not of fact.[/b] |
tbaba1234:This guy is skilful. Thanks for the share. |
Abdul Jeleel Ajagun On 29 January 2015, Panathinaikos announced that 23-year-old Nigerian midfielder Abdul Ajagun will continue his career at Levadiakos on loan until the end of season. Ajagun was not in manager's Andrea Stramaccioni plans and his departure will free a foreigner's position, in order for the Greens to complete Lucas Villafanez and Rodrigo Moledo's transfers. Source: wikipedia |
[b]CHECKMATE CHRISTIANITY The first people to adopt Yahweh as their god were the 12 tribes of Israel around 1,000 BCE or before. Apparently, Yahweh spoke to prophets among these tribesmen and inspired them to write about how He created the universe, the Earth and all life on the planet. They also wrote how they were guided and helped by Yahweh and they documented the laws said to have come from Yahweh. These stories can be found in the Tanakh and are the foundation of the Jewish religion. About 1,000 years later a Messiah, now known as Jesus, is said to have been born. He was sent by Yahweh and a second religion grew up around him--Christianity. Christians referred to the old stories as the Old Testament and wrote new stories about Jesus which they called the New testament. Together these testaments form the Bible. So we have one god and two religions. Let's think about this. If the Israelites made up their stories about God, both religions must be made up. But, let's assume for now, the Israelites more or less faithfully recorded what they learned from God. If so, Judaism is a true religion worshipping a real god. What about Christianity? If Judaism is true can Christianity also be true? I don't think it can. Central to Christian theology is the idea of original sin. It is the reason Jesus was sent to us. If there was no original sin, there is no role for Jesus. However, Judaism rejects the notion of original sin. Equally important to Christianity is the idea of salvation through Jesus. Only by accepting Jesus as your Lord and saviour can sin be forgiven so you may enter heaven. Judaism does not accept this. Judaism says atonement for sin is achieved by seeking forgiveness from God through prayer and repentance. Indeed, Judaism sets aside a day each year for repentance known as Yom Kippur. In order to accomplish his mission to forgive sin, Christianity says Jesus is divine and a part of a triune God (God, Jesus & The Holy Spirit). Judaism does not accept that Jesus was divine nor that God has a triune nature. There are many other differences between Judaism and Christianity but, these three fundamental theological differences alone are enough for us to conclude, if Judaism is true, Christianity cannot be. This then is the quandary for Christians, if Judaism is made up, Christianity cannot be true but, if Judaism is true, Christianity still cannot be true. Where does this leave Christianity? Read that last sentence again. Take all the time you need. I would say this is "Checkmate Christianity", wouldn't you?[/b] |
forgiveness:Because I will not take him over the following players who can play Attacking Midfield based on current form: iheanacho, iwobi, etebo, mikel |
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