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 Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 6:49pm On Dec 18, 2015*. Modified: 7:49am On Aug 20, 2018 |
THE OONI AS A CONFUSED MAN 'I am not ashamed to kneel down before God, the King of kings.' ~ The new Ooni of Ife. We're comedians in Africa. Trust me. The guy is not ashamed of the gospel. But he should've rejected the offer when he was picked by the Ifa Oracle, not the Holy Spirit. And having spent weeks communing with spirits in the forbidden forest, doing all the installation rituals, isn't it the right to come & kneel down before the King of kings? Why not replace the installation rituals in the forest with an installation retreat at the Redemption Camp? This is actually how most of us mix stuff & feel cool with ourselves. *shaking my head pitifully* 5 Likes |
| Sports › Re: Super Eagles Of Nigeria Thread: 2017 AFCON Qualifiers. by joseph1013: 2:29pm On Dec 18, 2015 |
TheGoodJoe:Funny, right? How can you pay the piper, and yet not be able to dictate the tune? The Federal government is really trying. Operating a lose-win situation year-in year-out. 1 Like |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 12:23pm On Dec 18, 2015 |
forgiveness:Okay sir. But abeg if you are Martins or you know him, I dey loyal o. I like Martins well well. Obagoal of life!  |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 12:22pm On Dec 18, 2015 |
shogz89:LOL. I know that I'm arguably Martins' biggest advocate on this site (I pushed vigorously for his last call-up), but even for me, I have not thought of bringing him to the Olympics. We are still weighing his contribution to the Super Eagles the last time he was invited and seeing whether he has done enough to be invited to the next Eagles' game. Now, someone is pushing his luck and talking of the Olympics. I was very confused! 2 Likes |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 11:23am On Dec 18, 2015 |
forgiveness:Are you Obafemi Martins? I was reliably told that Martins is on nairaland and quite active. Are you him? |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 11:01am On Dec 18, 2015 |
[b][size=14pt]Siasia Rejects Qatar Friendly For U-23 Eagles, Plans Early Rio Preparation[/size] https://i0.wp.com/www.completesportsnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Siasia.jpg?w=400 Nigeria U-23s coach Samson Siasia has told the Nigeria Football Federation that he will begin preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games in February next year as the list of players that will make the first phase camping will be sent to the football house in January, Completesportsnigeria.com can report. The former Nantes FC of France striker who led Nigeria’s U-23 Eagles to win the recently concluded CAF U-23 African Cup of Nations in Senegal has also rejected a proposal to play a friendly match in January, saying he needed time to rest after the efforts he put in to win the U-23 AFCON. According to a very reliable source in the football house, the federation wanted Siasia to play a friendly match with Qatar in January but he rejected the proposal and maintained that he can only open his camp in February. “Siasia said he needed time to rest after the U-23 AFCON in Senegal and that has made it difficult for the team to play a friendly match with Qatar in January,” the source revealed to Completesportsnigeria.com. Meanwhile, the Nigeria Football Federation has lined up a series of friendly matches for the team ahead of the Rio Olympic Games in Brazil. Siasia was close to winning the Olympic Games in 2008 in Beijing but lost to 1-0 to Argentina in the final to settle down for a silver medal. http://www.completesportsnigeria.com/siasia-rejects-qatar-friendly-for-u-23-eagles-plans-early-rio-preparation/?[/b] |
| Sports › Re: Super Eagles Of Nigeria Thread: 2017 AFCON Qualifiers. by joseph1013: 10:57am On Dec 18, 2015 |
[b][size=14pt]Nigeria: NFF Proposes N7.2 Billion Budget for 2016[/size] https://cdn.akamai.thisdaylive.com/0bef99d6-acf5-4e2c-9779-8fa02ba3fcd4/assets/NFF-logo-1007.jpg?maxwidth=400&maxheight=540 Abuja — The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) board has proposed a budget of N7.2 billion for the 2016 year. The board tabled the amount before the football stakeholders at the Annual General Assembly (AGA) held in Abuja on Wednesday. Much of the federation's revenue is expected to be generated via government subventions, local sponsorship, FIFA grants and local competitions. The federal government remains the biggest revenue stream for the 'Glasshouse' with its expected subvention for the forthcoming year put at N6.1 billion. Out of that amount, N5.8 billion is the money proposed to be spent on sporting activities, while N324,795,509 is budgeted for recurrent expenditure. The football campaign by Dream Team VI at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will gulp N369 million. The team handled by Samson Siasia recently won the African U-23 Championship in Senegal and will targeting Nigeria's second soccer gold medal since the unmatched feat by their forerunners at Atlanta 1996. The federation has estimated N89 million as the cost of international friendly matches to tune up the team, while another N279 million is set aside for the team during the Olympic football competition proper in Brazil. Sponsorship fees from Globacom, Guinness and other companies, amounting to N792 million will substantially augment the federation's revenue. International football bodies FIFA and CAF will provide as grants $250,000 and $100,000, estimated at N79million while income from the local league will amount to N34.5 million. http://allafrica.com/stories/201512180721.html[/b] 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 10:44am On Dec 18, 2015 |
PastorAIO:Oh, I know Mubarak. We've spoken before and exchanged messages too. I remember when the ordeal happened, he reached out to friends of mine on Facebook who alerted the Humanists Community in UK, who in turn contacted BBC to air his tribulation and save him from death. We even did contribute money for him. One of the most interesting stories about that time was how a supposed humanist called Gabriel Obinna actually dubbed some humanists under the pretence of using the funds for Bala. Here are the stories on BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28010234 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28158813 2 Likes |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 10:09pm On Dec 17, 2015 |
terzurum5:What's Siasia doing. We don't need Musa and Ighalo in the Olympics. The defence is what he should concentrate on. Keeper no dey keep goal o. We don't know if Daniel can single-handedly save us from disaster in Rio. 2 Likes |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:27pm On Dec 17, 2015*. Modified: 5:13pm On Jan 05, 2016 |
[b]THE MUSLIM WHOSE PRESENCE DEFIED CHRIST by Professor Pius Adesanmi Modees Usman, one of my protégés, was supposed to come and see me at the Ake Arts and Book Festival last month in Abeokuta. The gentleman is a patriotic Customs officer and, in my estimation, one of the brightest hopes for the sort of pan-Nigeria I envision ceaselessly in my public reflections. A devout Muslim, his sensibilities and advocacy for Nigeria reach across all our fault lines and bitter divisions. He is a picture perfect portrait of my ideal Nigerian. Suffice it to say, he did not make it to Abeokuta for our meeting. However, he sent a carton of non-alcoholic wine to me through another wonderful pan-Nigerian patriot, Remy Binte Oge. My protégé couldn’t make it to Abeokuta because he had to travel to Calabar to attend the wedding of his childhood friend. He was in fact the designated best man at the occasion. I sent word to him that his attempt to bribe me with a carton of wine would not work: he would still have to pay a fine for failing to somehow find a way to visit me during my last trip to Nigeria. I had no idea that a little drama was playing out in Calabar… Modees, obviously, is a Muslim. His best friend who was getting married is a Christian. A Muslim was going to be best man in a Christian marriage! The Christian groom and his Muslim best friend thought nothing of this until wedding day and the officiating Pastor somehow caught wind of the faith of the best man and refused to proceed with the ceremony. It was bad enough for Modees, a Muslim, to have come to defile the body of Christ in his church! To approach the pulpit as the best man in the wedding was adding insult to injury! All entreaties to the Pastor failed. No Muslims allowed here! The story of this foolish fundamentalist Christian Pastor in Calabar is the story of Nigeria. It is indeed the story of Africa. It is the story of the failure of critical intelligence. It could very easily have happened the other way round. It could have been Modees getting married and his Christian friend being bundled out of the ceremony for defiling a Mosque. The trouble with Nigeria, the tragedy of Africa, is that in a world of mutual connectivity and global influences and interactions, we have not figured out a way of making whatever we accept from the outside, whatever is forced on us from the outside, sit on the solid foundation of our own worldviews and humanity. We forget that Christianity and Islam did not invade Africa purely as faith. They couldn’t have for they are much more than faith. They are also cultures for they took on the cultures of either their places of origin or their sources of global dissemination. Europeans and Arabs injected a great deal of their cultures and values, of who they are, into the versions of the creeds that they introduced to Africa. Because he lacks critical intelligence in his embrace of these two religions, the African thinks that the African in him must die as a pre-condition for his being a true Muslim or a true Christian. This is the source of a strain of pathological fundamentalism that is strange even to the 'owners' of those religions in Europe and the Arab world. This explains why the modern Nigerian Christian – the sort who jots his Pastor’s sermon on an iPad – condemns the New Yam Festival in his village as a pagan practice while enthusiastically invading the Ikeja Mall to buy Halloween costumes for his children. That is why people demonstrate peacefully in Saudi Arabia whenever Europe draws cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed but Nigerians kill fellow Nigerians on account of ideological conflicts between Europe and the Middle East. That is why Modees was thrown out of a Christian wedding in Calabar. Modees was thrown out because Muslim and Christian faithful in Nigeria have killed the spirit of accommodation, humanism, and tolerance which informed the religions of their forefathers. They do not know that African Traditional Religions, like every other faith, also come complete with values that should inform their approach to the foreign religions they now practice. Nobody is saying that you should discard your Christianity or Islam and go back to worship Ogun or Amadioha. But, at least, reduce your ignorance of what they thought of the other; reduce your ignorance of how the faith of your forefathers handled difference. Let me invite one of Africa’s foremost thinkers, Professor Ali Mazrui, to instruct you. Let me quote in detail from Professor Mazrui’s book, Resurgent Islam and the Politics of Identity: “Of the three cultural legacies of Africa (Indigenous, Islamic and Christian) perhaps the most religiously tolerant is the indigenous tradition. It is even arguable that Africa did not have religious wars before Islam and Christianity arrived. Precisely because these two latter faiths were universalist in aspiration (seeking to convert the whole of humankind), they were inherently competitive. In Africa, Christianity and Islam have often been in competition for the soul of the continent…Indigenous African religions on the other hand are basically communal rather than universalist…By not being universalist in that sense, the African traditions have not been in competition with each other for the souls of other people. The Yoruba do not seek to convert the Ibo (sic) to Yoruba religion or vice versa. By not being proselytizing religions, African creeds have not fought with each other. Over the centuries, Africans have waged many kinds of wars with each other but hardly ever religious ones before the universalist creeds arrived.” There you have it. The Ogun worshipper did not seek to convert or kill the Sango worshipper. The devotee of Obatala did not try to break the ikenga of the devotee of Amadioha. Tolerance was the foundation of the faith of your forefathers. How does adopting this foundational spirit of tolerance and injecting it into the Islam and Christianity you practice in Nigeria today make you any less a Muslim or a Christian? How exactly does the presence of Modees as best man in the wedding of his Christian friend diminish your Christianity? In Zaria, you are even dividing and killing each other within the same faith along Shiite and Sunni lines imported from the Arab world – with the Army pouring petrol into the fire and committing possible crimes against humanity by mowing down civilians in a residence after clashes initial clashes on a road, all sides trading accusations. Yet, the Pastor who threw out a Muslim from his Church will not hesitate to break the law by organizing a Christian event to block major roads in Calabar and make life difficult for his fellow Christians locked in a hellish traffic jam. Every Friday, Sambo Dasuki, Nigeria’s greatest thief at the moment, still does very public photo-ops from the prayer mats of the Mosque he attends. Fundamentalist professions of Islam and Christianity have not stopped you from making Nigeria a cesspool of hate, theft, and corruption. Tolerance was the foundation of the religion of your forefathers. You are welcome to continue to spit on these ancient religions and condemn them as pagan or idolatry. That is your wahala. But, know this: any Christianity or Islam which requires you to forego the tolerance inherent in the religions of your ancestors is leading you straight to hell for you will steal, hate, and kill in the name of such a Christianity or Islam.[/b] 10 Likes 13 Shares |
| Business › Re: 15 Tips To Become A GREAT ENTREPRENEUR -winetapper by joseph1013: 3:25pm On Dec 17, 2015 |
You spoilt your list by asking people to acknowledge their Creator. Which Creator has Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Raymond Kurzweil, Will Wyatt, Larry Flynt acknowledged? If your acknowledgement is how people like Oyedepo, Adeboye, Oyakhilome fleece the gullible of their money, I will pass. The black man and superstitions sha. 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 3:02pm On Dec 17, 2015 |
[b][size=14pt]Siasia: We can surpass Beijing’s feat[/size] [img]http://cdn2.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/274x250xsiasia4.jpg.pagespeed.ic.YN0Aqtv1ZQ.webp[/img] Siasia, a veteran of football tournaments of sorts, won a silver medal at the 2008 Games, and after earning the right to be at the 2016 Games in Brazil, the former Super Eagles striker stated that with hard work Nigeria can win the gold. “I was coach of Nigeria during the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, when we reached the final, and in 2016 we will aim to do more than reaching the final by winning the (gold) medal,” Siasia said. Nigeria won the men soccer gold at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta USA and came to repeating the feat in Beijing, China. But Lionel Messi and Angel d Maria combined to score the only goal of the match and handed Argentina the gold. Nigeria U-23 players gave a good account of themselves in that match, much to the appreciation of Argentina legend Diego Maradona. Meanwhile the Dutch coach who led Nigeria to the gold in Atlanta’96 Johannes Bonfrere has backed Siasia to do well in Rio 2016. “He has done well with the youth sides in the past and his experience will be vital for Nigeria in Brazil. “But there are a lot of things that will still come into play, like getting a good draw and preparing well for the competition. “If they are lucky and get things right, they can win it again.’’ http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/siasia-we-can-surpass-beijings-feat/?[/b] |
| Sports › Re: Super Eagles Of Nigeria Thread: 2017 AFCON Qualifiers. by joseph1013: 3:00pm On Dec 17, 2015 |
[b][size=14pt]NFF to build soccer houses in 36 states 0[/size] https://sunnewsonline.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Dalung-Pinnick-702x336.jpg THE congress of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) rose from its annual general assembly yesterday in Abuja with a resolve to build football houses in all the 36 states of the federation. The Amaju Pinnick-led soccer federation also vowed to protect the welfare of players plying their trade in the nation’s domestic league with the enactment of a new regulation. The NFF which reeled out a 10 point communiqué posted on its official website disclosed that Osun, Nasarawa and Jigawa states would be the first beneficiaries of her football house agenda tagged the NFF Goal Project. The communiqué read in part: “Congress approved the NFF Goal Project as proposed by the Executive Committee. The project will see the NFF build modest Football Houses for the State FAs, beginning with Jigawa, Osun and Nasarawa States. States that already have Football Houses would have their structures upgraded….In view of the unsavory situation of some Clubs perpetually owing players’ salaries and allowances in the just concluded League Season, Congress empowered the Executive Committee to enact regulations to protect the welfare of players and officials in the Nigeria League.” Apparently still basking in the euphoria of the country’s exploits in age grade soccer tournaments, the Congress moved to protect young Nigerian players as it empowered the executive committee to enact a regulation for the protection of players of age grade National Teams and the establishment of a Young Players Development Foundation. The body while thanking the nation’s number one citizen, President Muhammadu Buhari and sports minister Solomon Dalung for their support , passed a vote of confidence on the leadership of Nigeria Football Federation headed by Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick. Sports minister, Dalung while addressing the congress which took place at the Abuja Hilton hotel, said he hopes the crisis rocking Nigerian football would no longer rear its ugly head following the recent successes posted by the country at the international scene, even as he charged the NFF to ensure all the national coaches are paid before Christmas. “The crises in Nigeria football have all been erased by the recent successes, and I therefore earnestly urge you all to work in unity and for the good of Nigeria football and the Nigeria nation… I have received a Save our Soul (SOS) message from our coaches and players, appealing to me as a father to beg the federation to source for funds to settle their outstanding bonuses and allowances. I hope the NFFwill do so before Christmas. Help them to celebrate the Christmas in peace. Draw my attention to where there are challenges,” Dalung stated. http://sunnewsonline.com/new/nff-to-build-soccer-houses-in-36-states/?[/b] |
| Sports › Re: Super Eagles Of Nigeria Thread: 2017 AFCON Qualifiers. by joseph1013: 2:57pm On Dec 17, 2015 |
[b][size=14pt]Nigeria: I'll Step On Toes, Dalung Warns NFF[/size] https://nationalmirroronline.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Minister-of-Youth-and-Sports-Mr.-Solomon-Dalong.jpg Youth and Sports minister Solomon Dalung has called on the Nigeria Football Federation to pay all outstanding salaries and allowances owed to coaches and players before the Christmas celebrations. The NFF recently declared itself broke and unable to meet its obligations to staff and the national teams under its scope. But Dalung who was speaking at the 71st congress of the Nigeria Football Federation in Abuja, stated that crisis should not be perpetual in Nigeria football administration. He noted that the successes brought by the Golden Eaglets and the Nigeria Under-23 team recently should be built upon so that crisis can be avoided. " I have heard series of complaints from players and coaches of how their salaries and allowances were not paid. From previous reports of crisis from the players camp, the issue has always been that officials took players money! Please pay them their money. An angel said to the three wise men behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy. This is Christmas season. Bring glad tidings to the players. Pay them all outstanding bonuses and allowances before Christmas". "However, I keep asking myself, after all the victories, what is behind the crisis in the NFF. " I want to borrow this phrase from Amaju. He said he will have to step on toes to move Nigeria's football forward. I will trample on toes . But crises should never be perpetual. The successes we are experiencing have erased these crises." Dalung, urged the Amaju Pinnick led board of NFF to work harder and take Nigeria football to new heights, and also continue to administer football with justice and fairness. Pinnick in his address gave kudos to the federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari for all the support it gave to the federation in the outgoing year. However, he said his board has recorded a lot of achievements despite the dwindling resources including the recent successes of the national U-17 and U-23 teams who won the FIFA cadet championship and the African championship respectively. He also stated that his board has further improved the standard of football in Nigeria with the numerous capacity building activities organized for the referees and coaches by the federation in conjunction with some of its partners. While reacting on the issue of allowances due to players and coaches, Pinnick said efforts are being made to pay them even as he argued that it is not a peculiar situation because of the prevailing economic reality in the country. http://allafrica.com/stories/201512170377.html[/b] 2 Likes |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 2:52pm On Dec 17, 2015 |
[size=14pt]MUSA MOHAMMED MAN OF MATCH IN WINNING DEBUT IN TURKEY[/size] https://africanfootball.com/bp_images/2015/12/Samm_2_July_4.jpg Flying Eagles skipper Musa Mohammed Wednesday night made a winning competitive debut for his Turkish Super League side Istanbul Basaksehir as they won 4-1 against Samliurfaspor in a cup game. The right fullback was the man of the match, providing two assists and playing the entire duration. Musa’s club led 1-0 before they turned on the heat against lower league opposition after the interval. Musa’s team will play a second group game in the cup on December 23 at Amedspor. They are also riding high in the Turkish top-flight league as they are placed fifth with 26 points from 15 matches. http://africanfootball.com/news/594370/Musa-Mohammed-man-of-match-in-winning-debut-in-Turkey |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 1:41am On Dec 17, 2015 |
forgiveness:@the bolded. Ever since safarigirl wrote her article about the Golden Eaglets and Age controversies, I have decided not to continue in a debate with anyone who cast doubt on Nigerian players who passed the MRI test. See you on another topic. 2 Likes |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 5:27pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
forgiveness:[b]Unfortunately, I mistakenly pressed SUBMIT before finishing my thoughts. You may see my elucidated points now. When we say that Mourinho does not like young talents, it is mostly in reference to foreign talents. Mourinho has shown alot of disposition to English players. In 2004/2005 season, he kept a mediocre players like Anthony Grant (18) and Joe Tillen (who was 19) on the squad. Glen Johnson (21) was a part of the squad. Mourinho bought Scott Parker (23). He retained Wayne Bridge (24), Joe Cole (24), Lampard (25) and trusted a 24-year old John Terry with the Captaincy band. You cannot accuse him of bias against English youth players. You can't! For those that are good enough, he used them. Or can you tell me of an English player that Mou rejected that went on to set the league on fire? Let's fast forward to 2015/2016 season. Mourinho brought from the youth team Ruben Loftus-Cheek. Notice that Loftus and Solanke played in the Youth team together, yet it was Solanke that was loaned out while Loftus was promoted to the main team. They are both English. What was very interesting about that decision is that Loftus should have been the one to be loaned out cos he had great competition in his position. Fabregas, Ramires, Matic, Mikel, and Oscar are players way ahead of him who can play the Central Midfield Position. What competition did Solanke have in his position? Remy and Costa. In fact it was so bad that instead of Mou to promote Solanke, he went to bring an off-form Falcao from United. It was that sad. You will have us believe that Solanke is the best Youth talent Nigeria has right now in Europe (because let's face it, if you say he is better than Kelechi, Awoniyi and Success who are arguably our most promising players, then you're saying he is the best), yet he was not good enough for a depleted Chelsea forward department. Bro, statistics are not in your favour on this.[/b] 2 Likes |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 3:55pm On Dec 16, 2015*. Modified: 4:31pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
forgiveness:[b]I knew you would include Iheanacho in your praise of Solanke, and I also knew you wont tell us that Iheanacho only got introduced only two months to the end of the season. Yet he single-handedly won them the International League Cup. How many games did Kelechi play in the Youth Champions League last season? Who was the highest goal scorer from the time Kelechi returned from injury in the Man City EDS? You said he was too much for the Academy and thus loaned out to the Dutch league. Yet an Iheanacho that became fit just two months to the end of the season did enough for the team such that a star-studded Man City could not do but include him in their first team where most fans rate him higher than Bony. Solanke was so good yet he could not even nail a 3rd striker spot in a Chelsea team even though Drogba announced his retirement, yet Kelechi was so far behind him that an accomplished player like Dzeko was sent on loan and a replacement was not brought in for his sake. Can anyone see the irony in your argument? You bet! Also, Solanke has played 14 times this season, mostly as a Starter (11 starts) yet has 4 goals and 1 assist. Iheanacho has played 13 times (2 Starts) in the competitive football in English and has registered 4 goals and 3 assists, mostly as a Substitute. Can you compare UEFA goal ratings of England with Holland? Should we move on to Isaac Success?[/b] 2 Likes 2 Shares |
| Investment › Re: Nigerian Stock Exchange Market Pick Alerts by joseph1013: 1:32pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
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| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 12:13pm On Dec 16, 2015 |
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| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:03pm On Dec 15, 2015*. Modified: 4:25am On Jun 06, 2016 |
[b]THE COMPETITION TO BUILD THE BIGGEST HOUSE FOR GOD Last year, Pastor Adeboye said he wants to build a 10km radius auditorium for God. This year, Pastor Oyedepo said he wants to build a 120,000 stadium-like capacity auditorium for God. Pastor Williams Kumuyi will soon unveil his 50,000 capacity church auditorium in Gbagada which he has almost completed for God. The competition to build the biggest house for God won't stop anytime soon in Nigeria. Other countries are busy converting churches to museums, schools, science lab, factories, and even sport centers but in Nigeria, we are happily converting Factories, Library, Science Lab, Stadiums and Museums to Churches. Nigerian Pastors are constantly competing among themselves on who can build the biggest and largest auditorium for God. I look at them and laugh at the idiocy of many church goers who contribute heavily for the destruction of our Libraries, Labs, Stadia etc...to be converted to churches even though many of their followers are struggling to pay their house rents. Nothing shows the backwardness of the average black man than the fact that in a continent where millions are homeless, billions are spent to build the largest and the most beautiful edifices for God.[/b] 17 Likes 9 Shares |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 1:52pm On Dec 15, 2015 |
[b][size=14pt]I WANT TO PLAY AT RIO OLYMPICS SAYS MIKEL[/size] https://africanfootball.com/bp_images/2015/12/Samm_7_August_1.jpg Chelsea star Mikel Obi has said he wishes to feature at next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as one of three over-aged players, it has been exclusively gathered. The 28-year-old Mikel has won almost every major trophy at stake including the UEFA Champions League and English Premier League, but he has so far missed out on playing at the Olympics. Incidentally, it was coach Samson Siasia who left him out from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after he had stayed away from the qualifiers for the competition. “He has made it clear he wishes to play at the Rio Olympics,’ a top official of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) specially revealed. “But it is left for the coach to pick who will be the overage players he will take along to Brazil next year.” For the 2008 Olympics, Siasia took along Ozase Odemwingie and Victor Anichebe as overage players. Nigeria, back under Siasia, will lead Algeria and South Africa to the 2016 Olympics in August after they clinched the U23 AFCON in Senegal at the weekend. http://africanfootball.com/news/594081/I-want-to-play-at-Rio-Olympics-says-Mikel[/b] 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 11:50am On Dec 15, 2015 |
[b]Humanists of Lagos Assembly had a guest speaker from the UK, Bill Flavell, on the 5th of December at the Freedom Park, Lagos, and here are his thoughts for Secular Nigerians: A PERSPECTIVE FOR SECULAR NIGERIANS Some jobs look so big you can be afraid to even start. Many secular Nigerians would love to relax the grip of religion and superstition on their country but are overwhelmed by the size of the task. The secular are so few and the religious are so many, so certain, so entrenched and hold the levers of power. And isolation, discrimination, abuse, even violence are risks for those who do not conform. But problems can appear much less daunting if you change the way you look at them. For Nigeria to approach the levels of superstition and religiosity found in Europe, Australia, Canada and parts of Asia will take several generations. So think of that as a direction, not as a goal. To motivate yourself and others to organise and execute plans, you need goals that can be achieved in a year or so. In the early days, you will have little impact on the 96% of Nigerians who regard religion as important in their daily lives. But you can have a big impact on the 3% who don't (Gallup Poll figures: 1% don't know or refused to answer). That's some 5 million people who likely feel alone and threatened. I would suggest your first task is to reach out to these people and create a safe refuge where they can socialise with like-minded people. So set goals that can be achieved within 12 months. Such goals could include a target growth in membership, the number of meetings to hold, the number of external speakers, building a website, better exploiting social media, getting press coverage of meetings and so on. As with any management task, keep track of progress and make changes as necessary to ensure you deliver your goals. Your second year goals should be more ambitious, such as starting branches in two further cities, making appearances on TV/radio discussion shows, getting articles published in the press. You may have enough resources in your third year to begin campaigning for change at a local or even national level. Corruption might be a target or some government policy that is unfair or unconstitutional. By this time, you should have the resources, media contacts and so on to launch a credible campaign. Your goal may not include winning these battles but will include gaining visibility and recruiting more members. You have a natural target to aim for--better educated people under 30 years of age. Smart people whose beliefs are not yet set in concrete. And you have the power of social media which no previous generation has had. This will be a decisive combination. You should be able to reach a significant proportion of this target group, and this group will become the next generation of parents. I am not trying to tell you what to do--these goals must be your own. But this is a proven way to make progress and, if you say it's too hard and give up, there will be no progress. There is a mountain to climb but people do climb mountains, and they do it one step at a time. Someone counters, "Bill, you have been spending to much time with Christians you are beginning to sound like them. Membership, growth, outreach. Ok we have no deity to worship but I think setting an organisation whose sole purpose is to counter religion may simply be heading down the same path". And I reply, the thing is Christians have been very successful because their recruitment techniques work (actually, political parties and brands use the same techniques). Unfortunately, Christians have used these techniques to fill our heads with nonsense. I am suggesting we use these techniques to foster clear thinking. That is all. If the backward state of your country is not a concern to you and if you do not worry about people, especially poor people, being exploited because of their gullibility then you have no need to do anything. Leave it to the people who do care. I can't help thinking, if I lived in Nigeria with Boko Haram killing and kidnapping people, I would feel a rather urgent need to see less religion... Religion is not an artifact of this brutality but its author. CC: djdoxxx[/b] 3 Likes |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 10:03pm On Dec 12, 2015 |
Daniel is my player of the tournament. His saves won us this tournament. 1 Like |
| Sports › Re: Super Eagles Of Nigeria Thread: 2017 AFCON Qualifiers. by joseph1013: 4:10pm On Dec 12, 2015 |
Ighalo scores again. Beast! 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 1:13pm On Dec 12, 2015 |
PastorAIO:Let me ask: why do you think masturbation is wrong and what's your source? Go back to my definition of Morality and the Nazi vs Jew confusion would be clear. Nazi forcing Jews to wear arm bands was but one of many psychological tactics whose intention was to isolate, harass, and humiliate Jewish people, and further embed Nazi ideology that Jewish people were different from everyone else by marking them out from the rest of the population. So based on my definition, is that a moral thing to do or not? How does that compare to banning diesel cars to prevent air pollution? |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 2:14pm On Dec 11, 2015 |
PastorAIO:Masturbation is not immoral. On the contrary, it is even healthy. It is the addiction, just like sex can be an addiction that is wrong, not even immoral. Religious zealots have a way of twisting that, though. But again, religious books have been shown not to provide objective moral truths. Air pollution is immoral, how else would you describe the ban on private cars off the roads this week by the Chinese government in Beijing as well as the Indian government ban on government diesel cars in Delhi. Really, it's easy to define if you look it up from the angle of how it affects others. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 12:53pm On Dec 11, 2015 |
PastorAIO:Well, you know it won't make sense to people if you say you are moral because you clean your room. Or say you are moral for feeding well. Most won't term them as moral acts, they won't even see the correlation. That is why Moral is not just right or wrong, but right or wrong as it relates to others. For most people, the activity has to be as it relates to other people for it to be judged as moral or not. From my study, it seems that's how Morals and Ethics are differentiated. Moral relates to others; Ethics could relate to oneself, maybe. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 12:30pm On Dec 11, 2015 |
BABY BORN WITH A BIBLE IN OSUN My own question is: Which of the Bibles did this woman give birth to? - The Catholic Bible with 73 books - The Protestant Bible with 66 books - The Charismatic Movement Bible with 86 books - The Orthodox Bible with 78 books - The Ethiopian Bible with 81 books Which one do they print in heaven? It is only in Africa you see babies born with Quran and Bible. Why are these babies not born with manuals on how to build planes, ships, satellites, TVs, etc? In any case, no baby was born with a Bible in Osun. If they show you the Bible, look up the fine prints and you will see the addresses of the printing press and the publisher along with the ISBN, complete with the bar codes. Let's move on to better things. 10 Likes 3 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 9:28am On Dec 11, 2015 |
[b]..BUT MORALITY IS STILL OBJECTIVE (PROBABLY) I have argued that objective moral standards, such as those found in the Ten Commandments, make no sense because actions have to be judged on the situation and consequences (see the link below for the full argument). However, there is still an objective aspect to moral decisions. Since morality is the extent to which human actions are harmful or helpful to others, we can in many cases, objectively assess the harm or help an action might cause. For example, imagine seeing a car rolling down a steep hill with only a small child, strapped into a child seat, inside. At the bottom of the hill is a deep lake. The car is moving slowly but accelerating and you are in your own car. You have a choice, collide with the car or leave it to accelerate down the hill. If you collide with the car, it will suffer damage and there is a small chance the child might be injured. If you leave it to roll into the lake, the car will be more seriously damaged and the child will very likely die. In this scenario, you can say quite confidently that colliding with the car is objectively the better option--the child will survive and the car will suffer less damage. Many moral decisions are even simpler than this and can be assessed objectively. However, sometimes we can only assess the outcome as a probability and sometimes we are not in possession of enough facts (or brainpower) to determine the objectively-best option in the time available. Sometimes, one of the facts we lack is knowledge of what the person affected would want. For example, imagine a situation in which a person is sure to break a leg but if I take action, I could reduce the harm to a broken finger. I would probably take action but may regret it if the person turns out to be a concert pianist who can play with a broken leg but not with a broken finger! Perhaps, the most difficult decisions people ever have to take are those that involve sacrificing one person to benefit others. Even here, there is probably an objectively-best (or least bad) outcome but I doubt we can ever be sure we have enough information to know which option to take. In conclusion, I think most moral decisions can, in principle, be made objectively even if we have to accept that some outcomes can only be assessed as probabilities and some are just beyond us. However, anyone who thinks morality can be reduced to a simple list of 10 do's and don'ts has not even started to grasp this problem.[/b] 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Sports › Re: All The News About The Olympic Eagles (U-23) HERE! by joseph1013(op): 8:40pm On Dec 10, 2015 |
Icon4s:If this team plays against the Super Eagles, I will choose the U23 to win. 1 Like |
| Christianity Etc › Re: My Thoughts And Questions About Religion by joseph1013(op): 7:58pm On Dec 10, 2015 |
PastorAIO:The question about the Sabbath is: Is it right for a Doctor to refuse to attend to someone who suffers a heart attack because the Bible commands that the Sabbath day must be kept Holy? That way it is easy to see how not working on the Sabbath affects accident victims. Morals/Ethics by definition is simply the principles of right and wrong; right and wrong with respect to other humans. NB: I just looked up the definition of Ethics. It gave me "moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity." That explains the Strong Work Ethic part. |
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