ella.b:
The Great Gatsby..
Dint like d way it ended but I can watch it a 100xs.

the book is rated number fiction book of d century. Just readg reviews of it on wikipedia got me curious abt it.
Not sure d movie wud do the book justice.

All super heroes must die (low budget crappy movie). Rushing to watch a movie cuz its recent is unwise.

The wages of sin is death.
If it is sin death will follow. Death like, marital crisis, no peace of mind,friction,weakening etc so tht in d end d union may b on brink of collapse or stale ,just coastg along. Ever notce tht most hollywood stars hav death in their marraiges? They hav d cash and fame but not d glue to keep d bond. Also no lov. Each partner clawing at each other ,thts y they hav all these pre nuptials.
With porn , ur buildg up sexual fantasies with some other than ur spouse and these will lead to dissatisfaction with wat u hav for a unrealistc standards.
Dyu hav d covetable bodies or skills of those ur watchg?
Soon u'll b comparg ur partner to them and feelg dissatisfied.
Not worth it.

Bugatti01: Thank u all for useful and candid advice, it's all been very helpful.
I'm beginning to buy the idea of self-learning thru books, ebooks, websites & youtube.
But let me quickly give a brief summary of my IT story, maybe it will help u advice me better...
I have a very strong passion for IT most especially programming & web design but my job and lack of the right advice had slowed me down over the years. Now I'm ready to venture into it big time but I'm still not very sure wat aspects or courses exactly I should be learning. I'm not looking to be employed with it, rather I need it to be able to actualize some ideas that I have been nursing for a while now, most of which are centered around designing/developing certain complex/dynamic websites which will surely require some good knowledge of programming in addition to web design.

if i were to advice sombody new to programming, i'd say expect to be in a haze for a long while until u can attain d programmer's mindset.
It's d programmers mindset tht makes d difference and there's no book tht teaches it, i'd peg it @ 3 years of intense solo effort bf it begins to come together . Sounds pessimistic but you'll agree in hind sight.
The exceptions ar ppl who hav a rigorous scientifc/logical background (math,physics,engineerg), or who hav prior programming experience.
After that u can evolve ur study path on ur own.

javadoctor:

I'm proud to say One of Oracle masters in africa of which.
there r only four,

the bolded must b clearly wrong, even as at the time of ur postg it.
The java master u talkg about is former SCJD now one oracle alphabet soup.

On these site alone,theyve been 2 ppl who reported bagging scjd/oracle java master certs.

The q is actually "how can i sell myself as a (untypical) programmer".
1. Tell them u're good! Ur dedicated and hard wrking and self taught?
Who isnt all of these?
It's lame.
2. Try a mor unique approach:
use ur logical mind.
A. Try to get a conversation with a prospect (very important)
it will giv u pix of urself in d real wrld cuttg a deal. If u cant persuade ur sunk.
B. Wen they say no.
It will hurt like hell,
get enuff no's till d hurt dont sting anymore.
U'll need this skill to sell ur products (software) l8r - if u get tired of being a wage slave.
C.
Broker a deal tht reduces risk 4 ur employer. E.g wrk 4 free, for c.v sake .
D.
Build an app - not toy stuff- something tht wud cost you 500 hours min.
That cud take you 3months+ (working @ 5hrs /day)
E.
Use jobber man etc.
Statiscally, this kind of trawler services wud favor only d brightest (on paper)
. Personally, me thinks d effectiveness of sites like jobberman is nil for 70% of all applicants.

Girls ask guys out a lot.
Nothing d big deal. Just tht most guyz ,esp those who its rarely happened to, dnt hav d maturity 2 handl it ( its like d high of being asked out by d babe makes them automically wanna play hard 2 get).
Get famous and women will just wanna drop their p.ants 4 u for
nothg.. You'll b wonderg y they 'v suddenly bcom so easy.


Personally,
i respect a girl who can look u in d eye and ask u out or cue things.
The respect is automatic.
But som girls show timidity and its dat timidity tht attracts contempt frm d guy.

Du u mean sexual molestation?
U shd have been more definite.

nobilis:

Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 says .... You have already declared it the truth and hav declared it factual. If I ask u now the basis of ur belief, u will tell me "my bible tells me so".

Let me ask u, my man, who wrote the book of Genesis. You will tell me it was Moses. If I ask, how did u know, u will tell me the bible said so.

I ask u: why is it that there is no other authentication for the bible except by d bible itself. The bible praises itself and raises itself to such high places. And if I ask u now: how did the bible come about? U won't even know.
Guy, please just open ur eyes.

ur right, u know my stand on this issue.
But like i said about d bible answerg scientic questions years b4 they were scientifcally verifiable, man discovering tht d wrld is roundish didnt make d bible more authentic?
It only satisfied man's intellectual curiosity. The bible isnt written to satisfy all ur intellectual probes, else it would be too big to carry.
It's a highly summarised book.
Tht it doesnt satisfy all ur intellectual queries doesnt make it less authentic.

Science is always behind d bible.
I made d case of d shape of d earth ,later discovered by columbus to b tru,
if d bible was written by man, like all things man it would b irrelevant in d light of new discoveries (so called cutting edge science) ,the koran on d other hand contains clearly scientifically
implausible statements!
Cop outs.
Scientists discovered in the previous century that sound waves cud damage physical structures! Exonerating the wall of jericho story in d bible from d age long prison of myth and ridicule.
- man cudnt think tht up. Else d man wud b ahead of his time!

Lastly, all science eventually rests on some statements of faith. Statements tht CANNOT b dtermined unambiguously by man's tool of logic and reasong.
READ up on d foundations of mathematics and u'll find this at its root.
Set theory on which all modern mathematics is built has disturbing root issues,theyre so amorphous and ambiguous tht instead of splitting hairs mathematicians simply decide whether TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE.
The bible is d same, and it makes a statement which d reader is given d choice to accept or reject.
Extra information doesnt do anythg. Ur choice doesnt change anythg.
Thats d nature of a fact. Nuetrality is impossible.

Genesis chapter1,
"in the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth ... "
(end of discussion: believe or disbelieve it is ur choice. Believing wont make it mor tru disbelievg wnt make it less tru.
Opinions ar irrelevant to a fact).

God sits on d circles of d earth,
- (paraphrased) man didnt believe it , decided to sail around d world , only to prove tht d wrld isnt flat as he formerly thought.
The bible was right all along.

dpuzo: WHOT!
http://nextapps.mtnonline.com/32018 my app link. This is a new type of social game;
-you can follow other players and they follow you back
-you can see activities from those you are following like STATUS UPDATE, NEW HIGHSCORE, and NEW GAME the person is playing
-you have an LEADERBOARD page where you see your chart topping followers
-you can invite someone with the app to play a MULTIPLAYER game with you whether the person is online or offline OFFLINE NOTIFICATION
-you can play with FOUR people and a CHATROOM is there for all gamers where you talk to everybody currently playing.
-you can search for anybody on SWALLI network using name or phone number
-you have followers that see your game progress and how good you are
-any status you update can be seen by all you followers and vice versa
-you can change the game wallpaper and font and make the game look your taste
So many other features you will discover when you try it. I'm sure you will be hooked.
Also it has a very clean and beautiful UI and a nice UX (user experience) and so easy to use

the ai 4 d initial game was noticeably weak and i suspect that the computer opponent is aided by cheating.
Out of memory error was d constant exception thrown.
I wanted to tighten d source but
you wudnt open it up? Y?
For a non commercial project u ar askg other programmers to try out yet gettg stingy with source-
man! Tht's unnecessarily defensive and stiffling innovation.

Jimmy hendrix died of drug overdose and choking on his vomit.
He was a rock n roller: like d beatles most of them ar satanist and their end is usually early death n tragic exits.
Investigate d deaths of d following.
Heavy d : died age 48
micheal j: age 50
tu pac : age 25
christopher wallace : notorious big - 24/25
ol dirty bastard (wu tang clan) :
circa early 30s - drug overdose
aaliyah (twenties) - plane crash (orchestrated)
rex n effect - gang shoot out.
Tlc (left eye) - auto crash
gwen guthrie - cancer

the wrlds music industry aint abt talent per se - the blacks ar given a piece of d pie if they do d biddg of d top dogs .
Beyonce's rise to fame and marraige to jz is alleged to b orchestrated and she's a freakg satanist.
The god they wrship is called baphomet and his symbol is a 2 finger sign most rappers display.
Sex for favours, homosexuality,
blood sacrifice is d norm within.
The aim and goal of the musc industry is total perversion of d minds of d listeners and commonization and debasement of sex.
Nollywood operates under a similar objective- rumours of sex 4 roles is widespread....

Few christians hav first hand encounters with witches but its documnted fact over here.
Stories of witchcraft hav been published in newspapers.
Like one story i read wen a long time ago.
The girl said her grandmom initiated her thru a meal of beans and fish.
Her havoc included getting d father retrenched, causg motor accidents by spreading corn grains on d road at night etc
anoda one my friend shared was of a woman who attended a women group meeting where there were given plates of food take away.
The woman kept hers in d fridge and forgot to prepare it that day.
The next day when she opened the fridge , she got the shocker of her life, there in d fridge and in d plate were a pair of flapping wings.
A very educated man shared with me his ordeal in d hands of a witch. The business he started 4 wife folded up and d wife almost lost her life during delivery. The doctors suggested cs but he refused it. He strted prayg and speakg in tongues in d labour room.
All went well.baby was safely delivered but it wasnt easy.
Next morning d househelp tht was brought frm d village was actng all grumpy. He barked at her to do her morning duties and thats when d confession came out.
She confessed tht she was sent to kill him,but since he's always sorrounded by fire , the target was his wife, the plan was to "sacrifice" the wife to the water queen, and d point was to b at the point of delivery.

Help her instead of gettg rid of her
. Treat her like u wud or wudve liked ur daughter 2 b treated.
Apart from d strange behaviours, is she a problem at all (heady,stubborn,recalcitrant)?
2.) pray and do ur homewrk b4 bringg sm1 into ur house .
Not after. This behaviour cud v been happeng b4 she came to u bt u failed to inquire . U just wanted ready labour.

@jbluv
quite a soap opera.
So sad though.
Was ur friend a christian? All these happening to him and he never sought spiritual help.
How many apples fell on newton's head b4 he got d hint?
How uncanny events wud beset ur friend b4 he got d hint?

He did it out of love.
Parents ar never wrong only children ar.
Children hav been indoctrinated 2
see their parents as "Gods" - always right, always virtuous.
Meanwhile these parents perpetrate all kinds of abuse and insults on their children and get away with it.
Som of these people shud b lockd up 4 the evil theyv inflicted on their children.
One father in lagos flogged d son to death. The son came hom very late. Yes , the son was wrong but
the physcal abuse had been going on 4 long and had been erstwhile justified under d grounds of parental discipline.
Anoda father, flogged the daughter to death 4 bed wetting.
He beat d girl systematically at different intervals thru out d day. Girl went to bed with swollen feet and never woke up.
All justified under the mantra of "parental love".

Medics07:

I dont really know about movies anyway.. but everthing one does should be as unto Christ.. One can watch a match, it doesn't necessary mean you love it, unlike others who can even kill because of it.

y is it excusable to b enthusiastic over a match and not music?
Music a person can listen to passively but football requires full concentration.
People dont kill and maim for a track but football hooliganism is rampant.
Escobar was a colombian killed not by industry bigwigs but an ardent fan! And all d pastors i know hav their ardent european teams.
Everything cannot hav bible verses in them, som songs are clearly devilish in origin, but many hav no perverse explicit dirty lyric
and are quite harmless entertainment.
All inspire in many ways .
E.g what wud u say of bob marley and lucky dube's songs?
These people's songs are liked for d inspirational messages they portray - without bible verses.
Wat of neyo's "independent woman". Many girls wud b spurred by listening to tht track.
Or
elvis presley's "in d ghetto". It powerfully captures d life and struggle of a young man growing up and trapped in a life of vice in d ghetto.
Nas n lauren hill - if i rule d world.
Coolio - i'll see u when u get there
(are collectors oldies and inspirational too)
3lw (2001) - no more - captured anger and dissapointment from heart break all teenagers go thru.

Tlc- don't go chasing waterfalls -
(is also collectors hip hop stuff full of gud advice too)

If ur teenager experiences heartbreak , u gonna play them a religious tune? Take it easy .
I'm doing so good - destiny child
carries a message to.
Tht sb cud leave d hood and make it in life.
Songs are timeless and songs define a phase in ppls lives.
Songs are spiritual too- cuz most fellows hav committed suicide after listeng to heavy metal rock music , that's where d element of control must b exercised otherwise i dont think excessive dogmatism is justified.

Ive heard people say they dont play non christian music on their
players.
Thats dogmatism, theyre tryng to b spiritual but other aspects of their lives reflect hypocrisy.
If u can enjoy the beauty of nature, u can also enjoy the beauty of intelligent lyrics and beautiful sound- everythg dnt need to b about preaching.

If any man b in christ he is a new creature - who is d any man here! ? The roman christian?

"if any man recieve me I and my Father will come and make our
home in him "(paraphrased) - one of the statements Jesus made in d bible.
Make his home where?
- in the receiver's heart.

The man in revelation's opening d door of his heart and the man receivg Jesus here ,had Jesus already?
Dyu open d door 4 a geust who already in d house?
Thse 2 individuals didnt hav d guest already. They had to let the guest in. They had d power to let or not let d guest in.

"A tru christian cannot backslide"
says who?
What of Judas iscariot?
Yes , he wasnt born again , but was a disciple . Jesus sent him out with the 70 on missions . They healed d sick,cast out devils etc - yet he backslid.
What of demas? He was a fellow labourer with paul , yet he forsook paul for "the world".
Get ur theology straight and stop guzzlg any c.rap some foreigner spews on his blog!

OLAADEGBU:

I agree that those verses are universal and applies to the unsaved but who was the letters in Revelation addressed to, believers or unbelievers?

who was the book of romans addressed to believers or unbelievers?
"if any man b in christ he is a new creature, old things hav passed away behold all things hav become new" is for a: believers b: unbelievers
is there any epistle written to unbelievers?

OLAADEGBU:

Revelation 3:20 gives us some interesting food for thought:



Is this verse a gospel verse appealing to sinners to accept Christ as their personal Saviour and Lord or is it calling the neutraist, self satisfying Laodicean church, worldly and compromising believers to repentance?

"if any man" is not of private interpretation sir.
It means wat it reads.
U set of confused folks like puttng som sick twist on d word.

Vivly: Let me get this clear. you mean, conmmiting suicide over these trival issues are justifiable?

not a yes no question.
There's no direct bible answer to d question. So any statement will b an opinion.

"Trivial issues" to you but not to d suicide fellow.
The weight of Pain isnt trivial.

Pain mainly, not common sense is wat drives peeps 2 commit suicide.

@7spirit
save ur religious chant.
I'm not anti-christian.
my write up is a chronicle of any strategy tht can b used to splinter and incapacitate any group-christianity included- and has been used to some effect against xtianity . Read ur bible.
Force and direct attack was used against d early church starting with d martyrdom of stephen.
Saul of tarsus who later bcame paul converted on d way 2 harrassing and imprisoning christians.

Introduction of doubt:
the serpent said to eve "you shall not surely die For God knows tht d day u eat of this tree you shall b like God ... ". Today's parallel,
various, e.g various doctrines condoning homosexuality ..

Factions :
again read ur NT,
paul quelled many factional disputes some groups formed saying "i am of paul , i am of appolos .. ". 1cor1v10-16.
Paul asked "is christ divided?"
in modern day we see churches splintering over issues like clapping, headwear, a woman preachg,use of make up perfume etc
writing tracks and pamphlets attackg practices of other churches instead of reaching d world with d gospel.

Confusion/dilution/adulteration:
thru d introduction of heresies,
traditions of men.
Back to d word again, Jesus spend most of his earthly life dismantling and disproving so many baggages tht had been added to the law. Making the adherence to d law of moses a burden.
E.g
the washing of hands b4 eatg ,he proved had no spiritual consequence,
doing good on d sabbath- he showed the sabbath was made 4 man and not d other way round.
Today we hav an entire sect returning to d bondage of d sabbath doctrine- 7th day adventist.
In d bible,paul quelled confusion about circumcision being a requirement 4 salvation.


@remyton and all:

ur daftness is apparent.
First is ur blindness to detect d literary device used.
Do some thinking b4 u reply.
I started by saying "there's is a pattern ... " and then enumerating d pattern. A lil use of ur gray matter wud see dat my write up was an enumeration and not a prescription.


It seems any form of intelligent thinking is too painful 4 d average christian.
No intelligent reply apart from hollow jest.
Smh.
"study to show urselves approved of God.." no wonder when an atheist poses a question u folks just keep mute. Nothing to say or contribute.

Christianity isnt 4 lazy thinkers.

Deep grief cud drive a person 2 it.
It's usually grief and a sense of hopelessness like when there exists no imaginable avenue for help.
One bus driver killed himself after commercial buses were banned in abuja.
He saw no way he cud recover from d ban.
A billionaire, infact many rich folks, commited suicide during d economic meltdown tht began in 2008.
Teenagers, especially , kill themselves over d pangs of unrequitted love. Kinda silly considering tht they've adults living b4 them who survived series of heart break and lived to
lov anoda day.

Its popularly held that suicide is a sin and d suicide is hell bound.
But d experience of many suicide survivors is that of being driven to commit d act.

It seems there's a pattern to derailing a former 'staunch' Christian or any Christian 4 that matter.

Christianity in it's essence means taking something some Person called God said as true . Even though u cant see the person.
Since you cant see God the only proof of his message is in recorded form. The bible.

To destroy christianity , the entity
and the recorded media hav to b convincingly debunked.



1.) deny the existence of God.
Flat out say God doesnt exists.
If God doesnt exist , tht brings a whole new perspective to life.

2.) redefine criteria for determing truth.
What is a truth?
A truth is a constant . A fact that may or may not vary with time.
Ingoring relative truth, a simple basic truth stays invariant thru time.

By redefing the bases for truth determination, to physical means, the entire goal of debunking the existence of God can b very easily attained.
Simply squeeze all stance for d existence of God into a physical 5 senses mould: if u cant contact it via the five senses AND logic it aint real!: Questions like "hav u SEEN/heard/touched etc Him before" is thrown.
Followed by the follow up . "how can u believe in something you can't see (contact with five senses and reasoning)".

The unspoken AND underlying premise of these approach is nothg but blind speculation. Yet it is promoted as fact.
I.e "all truths are subject to physical and Logical verification".
But lots of cases in history prove the approach isnt absolute.

3.) Shame :
shame and ridicule is one approach used to flagellate the stauncher ones who wont be persuaded by reasoning and
proof by the physical senses.
Enough booing can make the right person look like a fool.
The tool of shame can b used to curb christian evangelism. If preachg is made to look crude archaic out-of-fashion most people wont engage in it!
It's wrkg.

4.)
use of threat and force:

the use of threat and force is actually a counter proof of d reality of christianity and authenticity of d bible.
If something isnt real? Energy and resources wont b expended to exterminate and quarantine it.

Threat and force uses the tool of fear to dissuade the christian.

Christianity has more martyrs than any religion and despite it's non violent nature it is paradoxically the target of so much anger and violence.
Even by other so called peaceful religions.


5.) Adulteration:
adulteration is a dilutive measure. Adulteration and confusion is a powerful way to destroy christianity internally.
Instead of a full blown frontal attack, which clearly reveals the enemy and his intent, internal subtle but sure decomposition cud work the same magic.
E.g dilution cud b a clamour for toning down on d fervor of certain messages e.g against homosexuality, "being born again", sexual promiscuity etc.
Certain christian hav been diluted out completely.
Confusion wud lead to infighting factions and clashes tht would get christianity resolved to broken units of warring denominations tearing each other out!
Catholics fighting protestants,
different versions of the bible with confusing takes on interpretation on certain scriptures.
The more splits and factions in christiandom d less potent it is.
Theyre now more christian denominations and sub denominations than any other religion!
With public dissing among denominational leaders!
This strategy is working wonderfully well so far.

6.) Distraction

lastly, using d tool of distraction,
christianity can be derailled off path.
How?
Say get pastors focused on material pursuits giv them insatiable appetite for mor and
christianity wouldnt b about gaining more converts but
one big carnival. Where God is seen as one huge vending machine .
Get too many christians focused on being socially compliant keeing up 2 d latest fad and trend and they'll hav lil or no time 4 advancing d cause of their religion!

Logicboy03: Imagine you telling me that

a) A construction had a maker
b) Human beings have a maker
c) Everything has a maker

only to contradict yourself
d) God has no maker

lame wisdom really.
There has to b a point where the recursion ends.
If God had a maker, His maker would hav a maker who wud hav a maker ...
Thy'd be to busy producing descendant Gods to have time to do anything else!
U hav a planet and life - proof of God's holy work. We're waiting for science to create life (noy clone one) from non life. E.g a bunch of rocks, elemental gases and an explosion (recreate d big bang in a lab for d world to see).
Som1 said if u want to tell a Lie, tell d biggest you can think of.
Well, the devil sold the world d most stu.pid cra.p he cud think off and they bought it. Cuz inside they jus dnt want 2 hav anything to do with God.!

How about watching non-christian movies?
Music and actg are in d same industry. And most actors are cross over musicians.

How about cheering and rooting 4 a team in a football match?
Cud anything b more worldly?
I mean there's no 'God' in d event . ?

The manuscripts that became todays bible were inspired by the Holy Spirit.
And Jesus said these inspired words are alive i.e dynamic.
Any other word not inspired by God will be dead and futile even if endorsed and promoted by d powers of human governments and an army of human intellectuals and theologians.
Vanity upon vanity like the "preacher" would say.
Its all grasping 4 d wind.

Modify ur title to somthg more descriptve like: AI programmer needed for java project,
or java programmer 4 AI project etc to catch d attention of qualified prospects who otherwise wont click on a link with such a generic title.

Ur unlikely to get many hits ( relative to d pool of avaible java programmers) cuz Ai is more sciency than generic hueristics base programming which is d specialization of d typical coder
and unnecessary 4 most typical tasks.

codenature: Thanks @naija_swag. I agree with you to a reasonable extent; but the popularity of platform or language is irrelevant to what we are trying to achieve. (and, yeah, i know you could achieve the same thing in every turing complete language). But the cost of achieving it would be different.

I know clojure developers are rare compared with developers for other platforms, hence the question.

y clojure (java lisp) in a country with an entrenched IT culture like ours?

GeneralShepherd:

Oga justice is not about anger and revenge,please...

Why do you think mob action is considered barbaric in civilised climes?

Why do you think speedy justice is denied most times?

Its better to set 10,000 guilty men free than to kill one innocent man.
But God can kill babies because their fathers offended him. Wow

oga, stressing a point with som1 who doesnt understands d context u'r coming from is a futile exercise.
Read my previous posts b4 shooting. Ur knee jerks reaction are shameful.
I used 'mob' as an example of human anger and justice.
That the barbarity of mob action is frowned at suddenly adds wat to d point i'm making?
Supposing, ur boss issued a circular to all employees and an employee repeatedly defied his order , he got angry, and sacked all of them!? -
or supposing u left for wrk and left ur newly married wife to tend d house one day u returned earlier than usual to find her in bed with anoda man far gone in d act? Wat will b ur initial reaction?
Wat will b ur burning desire?
Oh.
U wont feel any anger. You wont feel hurt. You wont desire justice .
Ur rationality will automatically analyse the situation and you'll REASON things out with the errant employees and unfaithful wife!
Wat if ur daughter had a fever and u took her to get take an injection @ the nearest hospital. The careless nurse injects her with unsterilized needle givimg her HIV .
Wat will most highly educated atheists like urself initially do?
Will you feel an outburst of anger and desire justice ?
Wat u call civilized is being trained to suppress an emotion . The outward calmness of the aggrieved is a learned artificial behaviour.
In all these instances they'll b a desire 4 justice moreso if the wrong is perpetrated often.

If d point is above ur head ignore - instead of tryng to put words in my mouth.