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Liposure:
You two are just friends with no benefit.

Princessjoke:
I cheated on my boyfriend and he found out...he saw all the chats. Now I'm loosing a relationship of 3yrs plus..,coz of a fling that's not even up to 2 month... I'm done for...I'm finished where will I start from. He's heartbroken, he couldn't believe I could do such...it's just one time...he should be able to forgive and forget...

SonofIssachar:
Below is a Daily Dew insight on the advised disposition to take when confronted by the truth, no matter how long you have lived or operated in error.

Now…Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the Lord given by Moses…Thus it happened, when the king heard the words of the Law, that he tore his clothes. – 2 Chronicles 34:14, 19

The passage above presents us with a scenario; the people of Israel and Judah had lived for so long without a knowledge of the commands of God. They had done things and inter-related the way they thought best for years without recourse to the tenets of God. To them, ignorance was indeed bliss.

Then, out of the blue, a priest stumbled on the Book of the Law, which they read and then realised that they had been living in error for so long and had severally offended God beyond endurance. They saw all the divine injunctions they were meant to live by in black and white as well as the specified retribution for violating them.

Meanwhile, once the contents of the Book of the Law was made known to King Josiah, he became broken and agitated, considering the number of years they had lived in impunity. He immediately sent emissaries to hear from God and make entreaties to Him, so that he and his people would not be consumed by wrath. When God saw his earnestness, He decided to suspend the judgement that was about to fall until later when he (Josiah) would have died.

The attitude of Josiah is our learning point today. His response, when he encountered the truth, was both spontaneous and instantaneous. There is no doubting his sincerity. He wanted to make amends immediately; he wanted to appease God and prevent a divine judgment from pouring upon his people.

The question is how do you respond/react when you are confronted with the truth about any aspect of your life? Do you become earnest enough to change your ways like King Josiah or you are the type that rationalises, excuses, jokes or explains their inabilities away?

You will succeed in Jesus Name!

Also read:
https://daily-dew.com/psalm-1-as-a-business-principle-3-2/
https://daily-dew.com/psalm-1-as-a-business-principle-4/
https://daily-dew.com/psalm-1-as-a-business-principle-3/

Venerable612:
Bro, I studied philosophy in my first degree, and I was the best grad student in my set and as such I am quite familiar with renegade thoughts like yours. I can easily mention 10 logical fallacies inherent in ur arguments.

I will start from the rare. Fact is not objective. Facts are situational. Something may be a fact today and tomorrow it isnt. By the very nature of the word fact, nothing can be a fact if it is subject to change. Nothing can be a fact today and not be tomorrow.

By way of example - it used to be a fact that the Earth was thought to be flat, now it is not. Gravity could seize t exist tomorrow, God forbid the world ends and the earth crashes. Religious facts operate in the same manner. Observable today and tomorrow not observable to the five senses.

I won't take you to kant's concept of Truths but you could read further on this.

The planets hang in space because of gravity. That's the force that literally keeps them in motion in relation to other bodies.

Gravity is a human nomenclature. What exactly is gravity? Can man recreate gravity? How does it hold the planets? Of what form? Character is it? How does it hold all the planets and objects in the galaxies? What formed gravity? Why are the planets just 12? Why are humans only on earth? Why do we have the moon? Science can't explain all of these. At best it can only raise conjectures.

We have what we can observe to bring up hypothetical situations that can be further researched and that's why we have other scientists who bring up other models to explain the origin of the universe. Btw, science doesn't make claims of the truth.

The whole of scientific enquiry is a pursue of truth. Read Karl Popper for more information.

n relation to this, the fact that a lot of people believe in something or have faith in something doesn't necessarily prove it's authenticity. It only proves that they believe. Also, people have literally bombed others because they believe they will meet 72 virgins somewhere. Their belief doesn't make it worthwhile or true.

True. Belief is subjective and it doesn't make itself worthwhile. But that's the whole point of belief.... And this applies as well to cultural norms. In fact authencity is never acheiveable in a world as complex and relative as ours. And that's why we have the Law. Any moral or religious practices that goes against the common good is criminalised.

Venerable612:
Btw, I'll still like to know what convinced you that Christianity is the truth out of more than 3000 religions in the world today? I'm very much interested.

Obakovicho:
Got same symptoms again. Migraine,fever,shot of breath. If i walk to my fridge i pant like i did a marathon

Venerable612:
Bro, I studied philosophy in my first degree, and I was the best grad student in my set and as such I am quite familiar with renegade thoughts like yours. I can easily mention 10 logical fallacies inherent in ur arguments.

I will start from the rare. Fact is not objective. Facts are situational. Something may be a fact today and tomorrow it isnt. By the very nature of the word fact, nothing can be a fact if it is subject to change. Nothing can be a fact today and not be tomorrow.

By way of example - it used to be a fact that the Earth was thought to be flat, now it is not. Gravity could seize t exist tomorrow, God forbid the world ends and the earth crashes. Religious facts operate in the same manner. Observable today and tomorrow not observable to the five senses.

I won't take you to kant's concept of Truths but you could read further on this.

The planets hang in space because of gravity. That's the force that literally keeps them in motion in relation to other bodies.

Gravity is a human nomenclature. What exactly is gravity? Can man recreate gravity? How does it hold the planets? Of what form? Character is it? How does it hold all the planets and objects in the galaxies? What formed gravity? Why are the planets just 12? Why are humans only on earth? Why do we have the moon? Science can't explain all of these. At best it can only raise conjectures.

We have what we can observe to bring up hypothetical situations that can be further researched and that's why we have other scientists who bring up other models to explain the origin of the universe. Btw, science doesn't make claims of the truth.

The whole of scientific enquiry is a pursue of truth. Read Karl Popper for more information.

n relation to this, the fact that a lot of people believe in something or have faith in something doesn't necessarily prove it's authenticity. It only proves that they believe. Also, people have literally bombed others because they believe they will meet 72 virgins somewhere. Their belief doesn't make it worthwhile or true.

True. Belief is subjective and it doesn't make itself worthwhile. But that's the whole point of belief.... And this applies as well to cultural norms. In fact authencity is never acheiveable in a world as complex and relative as ours. And that's why we have the Law. Any moral or religious practices that goes against the common good is criminalised.

lefulefu:
but this is no excuse to be an excessive masturbator though .too much of everything is bad but what I attack is when ppl give baseless claims like someone just said just now dat masturbation removes the strength in ur penis .if a layman makes baseless claims on masturbation but shey u a medical doctor or a medical practitioner and u making claims on social media that masturbation lowers T level or shrinks penile length or reduces ur penis strength it makes ppl question u If u really in the medical profession.just like a former minister of health in south africa who was arguing that using water to wash ur penis can rid u off hiv infection

Righteousness2:
When your Brain is Spirtually and Physically Empty and you Never have anything Reasonable to put out. you Follow and pursue us up and down with cause you are desperate to be Popular .

Okay take some Popularity!

Nairalanders Behold your boy! He needs some Fame.

lefulefu:
of course it does not have any effect on T levels but our resident scientists on nl would argue otherwise .the side effects u might get from masturbation are more psychological than medical

lefulefu:
It is not different
The same effect u get from having constant sex and ejaculating with a woman is the same effect u will have jerking off
If masturbation reduces testosterone according to resident nairaland health experts then constant sex can also reduce a man's testoterone

ametormi:
you are wrong joh nah chief of man o war senior all of them

gaius01:
Arrrrrrrh


Atheist be like, 'this can't be'


God works in mysterious ways. There's nothing impossible with him.

PoliteActivist:
Ok, let's compare today's deaths:
(Note: THESE ARE DEAD MOTHERS AND FATHERS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS. Not just numbers.)

9ja pop 210m
9ja covid deaths today - 23

US population 330m
US covid deaths for today - 3,922

UK pop 66m
UK covid deaths today - 1,564

ANY QUESTIONS??

texas1990:
am tired of all these lie lie jare, even if someone died from motor accident don't be surprised fg go say na coro kill am, fuvk coro and it's followers.

felong:
He died of advanced malaria and typhoid. There's no such thing as Corona virus here in Nigeria. Our government just claimed it's here so that they can have their own share if the money world Bank end Europe union was sharing to poor African countries.

May his soul rest in peace.

Venerable612:
Yes, you should find some to visit TB Joshua's church.

mansakhalifa:
Some interesting facts up there...

Got my problems with number 2 though.

Got my reservations about it. Hitler didn't exactly help with the designing of the Beetle. The designing of the beetle was a combination of Ferdinand Porsche and Komenda's intellectual geniuses.

Saying that Hitler helped Porsche in the design is actually giving the man far too much credit than he actually deserves.

For one, his sketches were never accepted or even used. He was never really that great at drawing stuff after all.

So, only two men should get the credit, Porsche and Erwin Komenda. Hitler? What Hitler?

Only thing Hitler and his government ever did was give political backing to Pörsche in order to actualised the whole 'people's car/wagon' drive or idea.

Had to get that off my chest.

Venerable612:
For clarity, I will oblige you this rejoinder.

1. "Enough" is a subjective word. At what point is evidence enough and by whose standard? I would rather stick with evidence or lack of evidence for completeness.

It's therefore irrelevant to argue if the experience on which people base their belief is negligible or significant. What is important is that people genuinely build their faith on these experience.

2. Whether we have access to original copies of the Bible cannot be verified. The same applies to oral accounts. The bible is passed down from ages - and yes, the present versions may not entirely be on all fours with the original versions.

But then again, what's important is that we continue to witness the experience narrated in the bible. These serves as evidence that the contents of the Bible are true today as they were ages ago. Even if the stories have been altered, we know God is able to those things and many more, because we ourselves continue to bear witness to these things in our lives.

3. Benefit is subjective. If I told you God blessed me with perfect health last year and I never took any medication throughout the year, this is a personal experience. You cannot fault it, because that is essentially my own personal reality.

In the same vein, the principle of causality CAN never explain spiritual benefits. Causality is based on empirical association - so that an event occurs because it is caused by another pre-existing, independent event. By its nature causality must be explainable in physical terms otherwhise it seizes to be causation.

P benefits are not explicable in terms of physical events. Something entirely incorporeal brings about physical effects - so that a Pastor may pray in Jesus name for a man to receive his sight and does so instantly without him touching the blind man. In this instance, causality cannot be used in explaining spiritual benefits.

You only talk of causation in terms of scientific corporeal explanations.

michlins:
one thing about astronomy is that you can't learn about it and still believe the story of creation