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illuminated93:
By October 2016, I was done with my nysc, while in service I met friends who advised me to go into internet scam so as to cope with life after service,but I'm a human being who believes in karma,i chose not to do that. After service,i held talks with my parents on the next step to take in life;my dad opted for me to continue with school,but I felt all these paper qualifications and yet one might not get to the level of Dangote! I've always wanted to be a business man, My fiancee just gave that wish a life by advising me to learn a business,so I told my dad i'd like to learn a business,then after learning i'd like him to invest on the business rather than investing on school bills. Presently, i'm learning a trade somewhere in lagos among the igbos.

The essence of this write up
It's been 1month and 2 weeks since I started learning. The truth is, I don't know if to say I'm hating everything that connects to the business. The traders,i mean the guys I get to see from Monday to Friday are uninspiring,basically illiterates,whenever I get to go to the shop,i just pray for my wristwatch to read 5pm so I can get back home. My boss,even if he understands his business, is basically an illiterate,i guess a pry6 holder or a secondary school graduate,he tries to dominate,and at times when he talks you just know this guy is an illiterate,but you can't challenge him. Recently, a cold war has ensued between us,cos I'm someone who is not easily controlled. He acts like I'm in some competition with him, he says things like this business I'm learning is harder than school, he tries to paint this picture of an education not being important and lesser,but, money greater. Even when he say all these, I don't reply,i basically don't talk to him or the traders around on a friendly basis,I just try to be professional in my dealings with them. I try to observe and pay attention whenever he's transacting a business, and I must say there is nothing hard about the business. Getting to stay with these guys make me sick,whenever I get to remember that I need to resume the shop the next day,i just go depressed.
I planned learning from him for just a year,it's clear I'm not happy with what I'm doing. But a 9 to 5 is something I wouldn't want. It's not as if I hate the business,infact i'd be happy the day I get start the business on my own,but this learning period, getting to learn from someone who hates what he can't conquer is depressing enough. Nairalanders,i typed this from the innermost chambers of my heart,just advice me in a constructive manner, I still want to be a businessman though,but it's clear I'm not happy with the environment,how do I cope?
Cc
Seun,i'd lyk your input too,knowing you're a businessman

Mynd44
Lalasticlala
Tonyebarcanista
Harddon
Conquerewest
Bennyann
Blueagent

Bro, what you're facing is normal, very normal. One thing you should note is; whenever you're with people like that, they feel intimidated by the mere fact that you're educated and would do anything to lord over you....but that's no problem.

My happiness is that you're passionate about the business you set out to learn. There's never a sweet learning curve, even in school, lecturers treated us like glorified animals.
You've just got to be focused on learning the business very well. Let the learning process be your motivation, your driving force, allow your passion to learn be paramount to you. Try as much as you can to relate with them, come down a bit to their level, that's the surest way of learning business secrets...very vital! Your staying away and being all professional isn't helping, that makes them feel you're feeling like you're better than they are, just because you're educated. Trust me, I reside in Onitsha which is predominantly populated by these type of people. Some times you've got to play the fool to fool the fool. Learn how to get along with them, learn their mindset, because you will deal with a lot of them when you eventually start of your business.

Lastly, and most importantly, stay focused on your objective for being in such an environment and these things won't deter you.

jonbellion:
lol they did a cutaway of that in family guy
Bin laden repented at the last minute and made heaven
This
This bullshit is what christians believe

It is no bullshit! This is how deep God's love for man is. Like I said on another thread, God has already made provision for the whole world to be saved through the death of Jesus. You just only need to repent, and regardless of your sins, you will be forgiven. God doesn't desire the death of the sinner, but that all should come to repentance.


I don't know why you guys just hate anything God does? How could people come to hate their Creator this much?

You accuse him of genocide, of so many atrocities, and even criticize his desire to save anyone who repents.

The Bible says " if you confess your sins and forsake them, I am faithful and just to forgive you and cleanse you of all your sins".

Jesus' death on the cross has made provision for anyone and everyone to be saved, even you!

maclatunji:
Let us get one thing right first –I am not a doctor. Now, that we got that out of the way, I can continue with my article from my perspective as a layman and patient to some doctors. Remember, if there are no patients there would not be need for doctors.

I was very inquisitive as a child with many questions running through my mind, one of the ones I remember vividly is: what happens to the food we ate? Do we have eba in our head for example or rice in our hands? Of course, I later learnt digestion in primary school (I cannot remember the class but I am sure it would be about the same class where you learnt it too).

Another big question which was quite logical to me at the time is: who do doctors go to for treatment when they fall ill (or sick as we say in Naija English)? Up till today I have not gotten a clear answer. Sure, I know doctors see other doctors for treatment but what I am not sure of is if they do so willingly or grudgingly. You know like Doctor Hope is examining Doctor Faith and the latter is thinking in her mind –‘what does she even know sef? I was smarter than her in med school’. Is this what happens to some doctors or do they willingly revert to the role of the patient that follows the doctor’s advice (pun intended)?

Another way of looking at this is the economics of it; why should one doctor pay another for a service that in theory at least they can provide for themselves? I might think like this if I were a doctor and I would love to know what doctors think and what their experiences are on the subject.

Source: http://www.opinions.ng/doctors-go-treatment-fall-ill/

See question oo....

They go to native doctors na...

GrizzlyBear:
What's not serious about my post? You haven't said anything to counter the points raised.

This is the reason why we keep asking you to accept Jesus in your life, so you can discover your purpose in life, and know that there is more to life than what meets the eye...

Please consider giving that option a try.

otemanuduno:
It is for the Thummim(prophecy to be fulfilled) which says:
"And He shall live by example, giving his best to do good to humanity, one of whom he is...."

I am not like Faulkin(Jesus of the Neanderthal period) who said, ANYONE WHO CALLS SOMEONE A FOOL IS IN THE DANGER OF HELL FIRE and the NEXT DAY "HE SPENT ABOUT TEN HOURS CURSING AND CALLING THE SADOSIS AND FARHESIS FOOLS...

IS THAT HOW TO LIVE BY EXAMPLE

Now as per not worshipping a god, but USING THE BRAIN, it is the use of the brain that is actually the worship of ALMIGHTY GOD. The use of the heart frequently to think and meditate is the cause of the fear of the gods.
USE YOUR BRAIN AND DO GOOD TO HUMANITY IS THE KEYWORD.

Many are mad, but very few are aware that they are.

hopefulLandlord:
I really wanna know who takes time to read that guy's posts

they're long, too long, so long that sometimes I scroll and scroll and scroll in an attempt to go to the next post but realise his post is still longer than where I've scrolled to and scroll again and again and again

Chai!! its emotional abuse

Guy, you're silly .. I mean it in a good way

You just made laugh like a mad man....

dikeigbo2:
Hausa speakers has reached 120 million including cows,donkeys and camels.
This is laughable and should be moved to jokes section

They just sit in their rooms and churn out numbers anyhow. Do these people think we're demented or what?

Some of this baseless statistics, seem insulting to me.

4everGod:
He has a philosophical view which doesnt mean his musings are true but they just make him ask more questions like a man wishing to ensure everything makes sense which is tantamount to him wanting to download all of God into his mind which is impossible. God cannot be rationalized and everything about Him cannot make sense in as much as we are not on the same level as He is.

Thats his dilemma

No one can ever understand God and the universe using the carnal mind. The world we see today came out of the supernatural. He can only have his doubts cleared, if only he yields to the Spirit of the living God. The Bible teaches us that the Holy Spirit will lead us into ALL TRUTH.

AngelsAndStars:
that is not really necessary though.

It's really necessary. You have really been saying some contradictory stuff. Eg, you are also a Christian...you don't want to say ill of Christ...really? You also said Jesus might have taught something else... elucidate.

In fact, that post of yours is full of contradictions...and you say you're a Christian?

I need to know your stand, it will help me know how to reason your posts.

Seun:
Please do this!

And why am I not surprised?

AngelsAndStars:
hmmm
I am also a Christian so I wouldn't want to talk ill against Christ.
this is the same hypocritical attitude religion holds, who knows? Jesus might have thought something different.

if you read my thread in my age one. different religions started in different areas of the earth. everyone should be considered victims of life mystery and puzzle. each people made up a religion to help them learn about the creator. and the creator didn't kill anyone.

many stories in the Bible cannot be verified. but rather believed by faith.

I will open another thread about the creation story and you'll see clearly that it's only but a myth. except you choose to block your reasoning as always.

meanwhile, the creator knows humans are helpless, we didn't create ourselves. we didn't ask "adam" to eat fruit. how can we pay for sins of someone we don't even know?

if the creator can be so petty(i doubt) then I'd say we humans have better sense of judgement than him.


do not insult God

Hmmm... I really do not have strength for this.

Maybe you need to tell me where you actually stand.

AngelsAndStars:
there is no real God or fake. religions are channels to get to the creator.

the only religion I dislike is Islam. it's philosophy is archaic and they never want to change it.

I beg to differ with you on this. Jesus is the only channel to the creator, and that's what it is.

They're fake gods, but my God is the God of them all.

AngelsAndStars:
“When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.”
“From the perspective of the latest physical theories, Christianity is not a mere religion, but an experimentally testable science.”


—Professor of Mathematical Physics Frank Tipler, author of The Physics of Christianity and The Physics of Immortality. Tipler is one of the two founders of the famous anthropic principle regarding the fundamental physical constants necessary for the origin of life. He became a Christian as a result of his science.

This why the Christian God, is the real and authentic God.

For those who always ask which God is the real one.

Seun:
We are lucky to have been born centuries after Isaac Newton died, so we know many things about the universe that Isaac Newton didn't know.

Oh really? Please tell me more!

AngelsAndStars:
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.


Isaac Newton

Seun, come and see... I guess you're more knowledgeable than Isaac Newton.

AngelsAndStars:
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Isaac Newton

That's deep...

AngelsAndStars:
if you understand my quote you'd know we are saying same thing...

Sure na...
Just trying to look for trouble

AngelsAndStars:
many great scientist laughed at atheists. Albert Einstein a prominent one believed in God, but not the religious one.


"it is foolish to say there's god but more foolish to say there's no god"

AngelsAndStars 2016

I no gree your own.

It is only a fool that says in his heart, there is no God.

And we both know them...no be me talk am o, na so e dey for Bible..

Seun:
Like monkeys?

Sometimes I have find it hard to know your actual stand....

Seun:
Dude you are embarrassing yourself. It is not meaningful to say that the human body is made from the dust of the earth if the elemental composition of the human being is so different from what it was supposedly made from. Why would God use the soil to create man which means he would need to first reconstitute the dust at an elemental level, mostly removing some elements like silicon and aluminum and adding massive quantities of others like carbon before recombining the elements into the proteins, lipids, and bones that our bodies are actually made up of? It makes no sense at all. The trouble with being an apologist is having to defend the undefendable.

The problem with being an unbeliever is not knowing the power that created the universe.

Do you mean to tell me that the One who created the universal could have any difficulty doing what you just stated above?

MrMontella:
he got it wrong...an error bro

Nice one, MrMontella...

jonbellion:
lol he lied he was coming back didn't he

Of course, He's coming back, and that's why you need to have a rethink and give your life to Christ.

jonbellion:
they believe that woman was formed from a rib and they come to laugh at evolutionists

Yes, believe it, because our God said so, and He doesn't lie!

jonbellion:
Wow so nobody's views were changed
Maybe it's because of this

Not even close bro...

And that's why I asked for the little details which will enable us understand what evolution really is, but no one seems to have that...

socialmediaman:
The Image manipulation was poorly done. Here is another manipulation that makes girl headless also. Graphic designers will be laughing at the poor job

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Good work! So, I think it's safe to say that the two pictures were not originally there, but were imposed, right?

Seun:
Evolution is a fact. The speculations I'm talking about are the minute details of evolution that are not fully clear based on the current evidence. Such speculations may not be so reliable, but at least they are based on some evidence. The biblical myth has no evidence at all. Some old Jew probably made up the stories to entertain his grandchildren and it was passed on until people forgot that it was made up.

If the minute details which make up the whole isn't reliable, then, how can the whole be reliable and termed a fact?

EyeHateGod:
What made us homo sapians in the first place?

Nawa oh! My brother, Eye.... I don't understand your game oh...

Seun:
We don't have the [b]minute details.We can Only speculate[/b]. Such speculations would be uncertain, but still infinitely better than creationism.

Question for creationists: when god created the male from the dust of the ground, which is rich in silicon, where did all the silicon go?

The bolded is enlightening! Speculate, right?
So, what makes you think your speculative assumptions, hold more water than the biblical perspective?

EyeHateGod:
Trillions of Neurons was fired in homo sapians that's why we are what we are "Wise man"

Please, I need details of the above stated process...minute details...not just claim.

jonbellion:
we got into a different environment that required such for our survival
When we started walking upright it gave an opportunity for brain growth but it also reduced the pelvis for women not that yeye super story in thy bible about pain during childbirth being a curse
And we are not the only homindea that use tools
Gorillas have even been taught sign language effectively so they are not as dumb as you might assume
Can you understand sign language

Are we not cohabiting in this same environment with these unintelligent apes, right now?

How did language come about?

And my main question which everyone seems to be avoiding is, at what point did we get into this environment that caused these massive changes come about? Details.

EyeHateGod:
Can you compare 12th century to 15th venture and then 15th century to 17th century? And then 17th century to 20th century?

Are you implying that the passage of time made us this intelligent, and different? So, why do we still have unintelligent apes now?

Do you know that as far back as the 12th century humans were already known to be very intelligent, industrious and inventive? I can't compare our physical condition, and the rest, but in terms of natural intelligence, it has always been the same.

If by any chance you're insinuating that the passage of time made us this intelligent, and left other monkeys or apes unintelligent, then I wouldn't know what to say.

MrMontella:
for the 1001 time..humans didnt evolve from apes...
And your questions....really?
nigga?..really?

We didn't just evolve from monkeys. We are monkeys. Look at your face, then look at a monkey's face. Look at your hands, then look at a monkey's hands. We still have forest dwelling, tree climbing, furry monkeys because they didn't compete directly with us as hominids did.


The bolded is Seun's comment, isn't it? And now my question is, at what point did we become different from monkeys as we know it today? How did we become this intelligent, and different from them? I want to know details.

Please anyone who is not ready to address the question, shouldn't quote me..