₦airaland Forum

Holycity:
Except what

BIAFRONIGERIAN:
This is good
Looking at it politically,Buhari/Osibanjo led govt have been busy since 2015( blaming past govt, fighting corruption, travelling around the world) BUT NOT productive ( increasing poverty, corruption,hunger,unemployment etc)
The more reason why well meaning Nigerians should Atikulate.

Saffi:
Darling, the species of nl men do not even take up to 1/4 of Nigerian men. They come online and live a contradicting life in reality. If you take anything that they say serious, you’re creating unnecessary headache for yourself.

I met a guy on nl earlier this year, very outspoken and misogynistic on this site. When I met him in person, very timid and pathetic. No offence, I won’t mention his name, but from that point I just knew nl is not to be taken seriously.

konkonbilo:
"the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills". These the definition of intelligence from google.

Medical Definition of intelligence. 1a : the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations. b : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests).

I wonder why people then measure fleuncy in English as a form of intelligence..

Adiwana:
Mental Slavery is the worst form of Slavery. If you ever wanted to know why our ancestors were sold for a mirror,dont look too far.Just come on this thread and see evidence.Thats why practicing your tradition is considered an abomination but believing in the White man's Jesus's is true thing.smfh

festwiz:
Ready to kill every first born son of the Egyptians 'cause the Israelites were captured.

Africans captured, killed and sold, their god be like "I've already sent myself to be killed. That should be real plenty no? Enjoy the slavery. Everything is my will"

Several hundred years later, their god's will is still abound. Mental slavery, hypocrisy, corruption, retardation (no offense), suffering, poverty, misery etc

Sad!

#peace

johnydon22:
Many here know me as an atheist and so may probably mistake this write up as a typical atheistic attack on the religious enterprise and in so doing divert the message of this work due to sentimental reasons harbored towards the messenger, I plead this may not be so..
The tone and points of this article should be the subject of interest to the reader not my person, this is a message inspired from my society, the world of the poor sadly the world of the foolish.

In every corner of the country there is a soulful Christian crying out fervently to the heavens for favors, a profound Muslim bowing to the ground In homage to the heaven sincerely praying for a better world, there is a sincere hope in these supplications, a lingering opium for a wanting mind.

The Nigerian society is an intricate chain of problems met unfortunately with an incessant web of blames. In every level, point or societal ladder of our world, the Nigerian world, the African world, the global community in a broad sense it is always an incessant sometimes ludicrous chain of blame shifts.

Rape victims are blamed for their ordeal while the men are excused with the idiotic notion of being seduced by their clothing or subtle hints, child molesters blame devils for the actions directly as a result of their own volition, the government is blaming past administrations and the masses for their own bumbling ineptitude and the people blame the government for their every predicament even self inflicted ones – its an endless chain of causalities giving rise to needless blames most times as a result of complete idiocy.

For this work I am going to focus on the masses aspect of this unending misplacement of priority and with this I am going to address the overly spirituality of the average poor man out there since it makes up not only a vital but an inexcusable cause of our societal structure – The masses are both poor and stupid indeed .


Religious pilgrimage subsidy

The country subsidized dollars for pilgrims heading for the hajj at an unprecedented huge bite on the country’s coffers.
Religious pilgrimage just like tourism can be satisfying, beautiful and enlightening in many ways but just like tourism is a personal matter and not a matter deserving national importance at least not to the extent of being in our financial burden.

This is a country where there is hardly enough dollars for the business enterprise, the government is unforgiving to the business world in terms of forex policies not to talk of subsidizing dollar at an affordable rate to ease the pain of Nigerian business which as we know can directly or indirectly affect generally the Nigerian economy, but no we would rather import spirituality and in so doing keep enriching another nation.

The forex policies which are cruel on even the Nigerian students studying overseas are diluted for those going to pray in a special house of god that cannot be found elsewhere. God somehow require a special visit to a special place in a special house for a special prayer just to feel better towards us, there is no scam ever more clearer than that.

Our athletes are underpaid if they are even paid at all but we have enough to hire prayer warriors for state and national prayers.

Our dependency on spiritualism has proven to be a leash on the neck of the society, our inability to judge from a realistic and objective sense but would rather rely more on things unseen, vague and shadowy practises, faith and undiluted spiritualism that has not produced desired result since we first started relying on it.


Sell and buy god
Our spiritual reliance is so unfortunate that it deserves pity, it’s a societal can of worms that needs to be checked or it will walk hand in hand with our doom.

The enterprise of ‘’god selling’’ is the most booming business in the Nigerian setting, a venture so lucrative that it comes even with it’s own illegitimate immunity in our judicial sphere.

For a platter of shouty promises buttered in the ever thunderous amen of the ever hopeful people, tithes and offerings overflow enriching not the pockets of god but the man who merchandise god.

There is hardly money for food but there will always be money for the church who rake in millions on weekly bases all mined from the bloody sweat of the poor lot.

Less work, more prayer

Xun zi of china [312 – 230bc] once remarked
‘’pray all you want the heaven cant hear you, its not going to stop the winter because you are cold and its not going to make the earth smaller cus you don’t want to walk so far.

You may pray for rain and it rains but this has nothing to do with your prayers, sometimes you don’t pray and it rains anyway.
If you act wisely good things tend to happen, act foolishly and bad things tend to follow, don’t thank or curse heaven- its just the natural effects of your action.

If you want to have a better life educate yourself an d think carefully about the consequences of your own actions.’

If there is a thing Johannine theology taught me it is that a full profession of faith or conviction must be accompanied with a likewise action.
James 2:26 ‘’faith without works is dead’’ forms a good part of catholic teachings and this implies if you pray for the hungry, feed them and take your work as your faith in action.

But there is a contradiction in this idea championed in the very fabrics of Pauline theology which relegates works and upholds more faith – this line of thought I think is prevalent in the Nigerian spiritual setting.

We tend to rely more on vague hopes and faithful expectations of help from the heavens instead of banking more on our own abilities to AFFECT the changes we seek.

A student would read less and pray more for an exam, strange illness are met with more prayers than with suitable medications or a nudge towards medical research.

This is a disturbing practice prevalent in our psychological compass, we tend to float more prayers than works and this explains why we are easy prey for the wise to extort in name of God.

The everybody but me mindset
The average Nigerian will blame everybody or everything else for our predicaments especially the ever popular spiritual forces – God, Gods, devils, demons, witches, uncles in the village but never ourselves for even effects that are so clearly as a result of our own actions.

I can never trust someone who blames something else for his life, never trust someone who do not or cannot take responsibility for their own circumstances.

It is always the devil’s handiwork, it is always the fault of those witches in the compound or office or the fault of that weird looking uncle in the village who didn’t reply my greetings.

It is never our fault – this reliance on superstition to channel blames for our own circumstances limits our potentials cus it makes the person the victim of his circumstance not master over it who has the ability to change what he can.

This always leads us into the futile attempts and wild goose chase of securing spiritual remedies for our circumstances; I wonder why we are not living a utopia right now if this somehow works.

Misplaced priorities, ill placed blames
There is a certain observation that is very obvious and clear even to the blind, I listen to ‘’Amen’ by fela and his message not only was valid, still is valid and if care is not taken will always be concerning the particular issue of simplistic practice of spirituality.

If you go to any community in this country, no matter how poor, backward or small there almost certainly will be a church or mosque in these communities, edifices amounting to millions of naira and sometimes mega auditoriums all dedicated to spiritual purposes amounting to billions.
But one look around the community surrounding these churches or mosques is enough to make you weep. In the deep rural areas of kogi most cement block buildings are mosques the people make do with mud walls.

We spend millions, billions in building houses for the god, neglecting our own human needs, the funds are raised from the collective pain staking efforts of these masses. We pray to God for help, we blame the government when help doesn’t come and we still go back to get robbed in the name of god.

Here is a question we should all mull over.

‘’is the well beings of humans more important to God than magnificent houses in it’s/his/her name?’’

it all depends on what your answer is.

If ‘’yes’’ then isn’t it appealing to logic that god would rather have us channel this collective communal funds from our very sweat and blood towards projects gunned towards our own well being and betterment.


Why should we spend billions for a building when we have no good or consistent water supply, when our roads are death traps, when our school intellectually murders our kids, when our hospitals are morgues in disguise due to lack of equipment.

Simply put we have a misplaced priority cantered on the very fact that we are too ludicrously dependent on spiritualism.

We spend millions to build a place of prayer so we could go and pray for water..

We blame the government even for basic things we could collectively achieve for ourselves, we lay our hope in the heavens and our expectations in the government all the while the power to change things are forever under our nose but the spiritual caused ill placed priorities will never let us see them or utilized them – ensuring an ever growing spiritual enterprise is ever more important to us than anything else.
We are indeed a silly lot.

Let it not be mistaken that I am in entirety condemning spirituality, not at all. It can be edifying and satisfying in some sense but our overly dependency on spirituality at the expense of our reason has cost us more than we should afford.

This is not a call to condemn but a call to reason, a call to work more and a call to not depend on the heavens to do for us what we could have easily done for ourselves.

A mere glance at the events all over the world there is no telling how unclear the so called powers of god and devils, we must not only minimize our faith in help from the heavens but look towards ourselves for our own salvation.

In the long run the power to save or mar ourselves rest sorely with us.

carammel:
Did they force them or why are they looking sober?

Wuraola01:
No cos I aint ready to.

Wuraola01:
I never said I don't like him

greatnaija01:
thanks for the MENTION.... now lets address this with some wisdom sprinkled here and there.

FIRST, understand that most intelligent guys love to have friends who are LOGICAL.... and I'd say you fit that profile.... BUT over time "just friends" become STRONG FEELINGS.... so whats the solution... RUN YOUR TESTs on him.

FIRST TEST.... ask him for candid advice about a guy you are interested in dating and how the guy has been disturbing you for an answer... let him know you plan to say yes but you do not want to sound desperate..... BOOM!!!!! do not listen to whatever he says... JUST WATCH HIS REACTIONS FROM THEN ON. He may change towards you SLOWLY or DRASTICALLY.

SECOND TEST..... wear a RING... then when he asks you tell him you just started dating some nice guy.... HIS REACTION WILL BE PRICELESS.... then you will now tell him how some other guy you met on facebook got angry that you are now in a relationship but he had been a friend without being MAN ENOUGH to tell you his true intent so he lost.... i HOPE YOU GET?

THIRD simply never include him in your own plans and see how he reacts in the long run.... then let him know you love people who are straight forward and you are not interested in any relationship right now.

FOURTH (my best).. download an app for FAKE CALLS and set the time of call and the NAME OF CALLER to HUBBY/LOVER/SHUGA/MY WORLD.... and ensure he is with your phone at the SET TIME and let it ring in his hands.... then you watch his reactions when it rings.... IF HE PICKS then JEALOUSY has been born... IF HE GIVES YOU THE PHONE... PICK IT AND TALK ROMANTICALLY AND SAY OUT LOUD THAT YOU ARE WITH A "FRIEND" then walk away to discuss and laugh.... JUST 5 MINS is enough for him to get the message.


IF THESE FOUR METHODS DO NOT SMOKE OUT THE RABBIT meaning expose his hidden logical intentions then he is DEEP and you should RUN... but if it does, then watch if he will still be a friend after knowing you are in a "RELATIONSHIP" and if he maintains the friendship.... without budging... HE IS A KEEPER.


errrm Wuraola01 DO NOT APPLY THIS FOR ME O... else I will block you on whatsapp for 9 months then join MFM for your matter

solasoulmusic:
what I think she meant was that to avoid any kind of stories that touch she avoids putting them in close proximity intimately. It can be interpreted to mean she doesn’t trust him but in her views she’s just trying to avoid the obvious it’s more like a preventative move as opposed to being ignorant that these things happen

YouareaBITCH:
Mothers abuse their sons, but this is extremely rare
Unlike fathers, neighbor,uncles ,step dad. Etc

solasoulmusic:
I see what she was trying to say it came out wrongly though chai

Emaprince:
The husband is finished.. And she revealed this to the public.

How will a woman feel when the husband come out on a public show to tell the whole country that he trust his wife but he must get DNA result of all his kids due to the numerous cases of paternity frauds?

How will she feel?

Women are usually selfish and seriously act irrationally towards men and expect their actions to be treated lightly..but when a man does same, they start crying..

kmcutez:
I support her statement o. Prevention they say is better than cure. According to most men conji is uncontrollable. All they see is the poosie. They don’t even care if it belongs to their mother.

YouareaBITCH:
She's being a protective mother, that's all.


Alot of girls abused by their dads, their mothers didn't see it coming.. They all trusted their men too.

Prevention they say is better than cure.



I know of a lady, that has told her little daughter to keep her distance from her uncle's room
Is not like she doesn't trust her brother,she's just acting according to recent happenings

But in all, it shouldn't be the kind of thing to be made public.

kereman1:
Altho I hvnt read d Quran, and I don't know much about d religion. But I feel d Bible is a story book made up by d Roman or whatever nation, for them to blame their inefficient and shortcomings on some1 or something,
Right from the beginning when God created Adam and Eve, why did he plant d apple tree in their reach?
Wat is d usefulness of d tree?
Why sud God punish every1 for one person's mistake.
Why do we have more than one religion wit diff God and method of worship.
The Bible is simply filled with stories that never existed,

I also don't believe in diabolical this, harvesting humans part for ritual, charms, all those thgs are bullshiit.

gloria34:
Girls have been asked time without number what they can offer, now u are saying girls who bring their capability to d table Dont make good partners. Realy, men are confused