silvermania: Lol, I dey come join una noo i go pass una jor, it SILVERMANIA again see am not hating when will Nigeria start celebrating good music? To me dx songs are noting compared to dareys pray for me or timi dakolo's wish me well, even Asa 's eyo or even dija' s aww, am forced not to do my music in Nigeria, songs dat cannot contest for grammy rubbish, where kenyas are winning grammy, the ones trying to get there are not being apprecited, quote me if you have something reasonable to say.
Darey and Asa sing good songs. Timi Dakolo does too, but the average Nigerian on the street doesn't care about those up there; he doesn't really care about those lyrics that blow you apart. He only cares about the song with the loudest beats, and the ones with the craziest dance steps.
And you wouldn't wanna dance to Asa's Eyo, would you?
As for me, I say "oyya shakiti bobo, mo fe ra ferrari bobo, aye ni Parisi bobo, oya shakiti bobo....."
PS: Nobody gives a hoot about your Grammy Awards. Grammy can go and die!!!
johnydon22: Lol...I have no problem with such literally works...
i am atheistic not an anti-theist or religion. . So rather any piece of writing whether with a religious tilt is always an enjoyment to me not torture
So in a literally work i read and sieve the part that is useful to me and agrees with my reason. . after all i was still theistic when i read that e-book...lol...
You definitely can't imagine the height of the astonishment I felt after poring over the preface alone (took about 23.3349 hours). Firstly, I never expected to get a piece that had so much of fanatical theism hidden it's pages from you. Secondly, the language of the author was just too marvelous; it had me blown away!
And, prepare your next batch Johnny, as I'm wrapping that piece up in a few days.
joseph1832: Which yeye intelligence? Abeg go sidon joor. You just have half brain, like your blood is half, so is your brain, in fact, everything about you is half.
coogar: jigsawkillah isn't top tier. i don't eat lower mammals......my appetite has always been for the bigger cats in the jungle. if i clash swords with jigsaw, the mods would ban me for child abuse.
Hehe. Is this part of the pre-battle 'gra-gra-vation' or just a sheer display of pomp?
But joseph1832, do you think we really have to drown ourselves in the rivers of self-pity over Nigeria? No, do you think we have a right to do that, even? I was watching the news last night and there was a special feature session about illegal Togolese immigrants crossing the land border in Semé, then I thought it out that if the Togolese population could be trying so hard to get into this country, then we still have reasons to be thankful.
Coincidentally, I was just about to ink a piece on how self pity destroys the self, rather than meloriate it.
joseph1832: I wish I could stand and bask Without wearing a mask, In the magnificence, Of your former presence
This stanza is awesomely beautiful. I'm quite sure, though, that your analysis of it wouldn't match mine if we were to try that.
There's a slight typographical error in the last line of your third stanza. Please do a check on that.
As simple as this poem presents itself to the naked eye, it actually cloaks a beautifully and complexly structured piece of art. I think I can indulge myself and lay the blame on the complex structure for not quite being able to make meaning out of your second stanza. I'd really appreciate an analysis, brother. Above all, this is a beautiful piece that strikes.
And, gtim4uall, have you ever thought about punctuating poetry?
JigsawKillah: were you cursed by a naked witch? Your foolishness is innate and so far, seeing the words you're typing, I wonder if foolishness is not a talent. You should be another Mr Bean, but no, Mr Bean's qualifications are undeniable. Show us your results and a pic of you in graduation gown. Agbaya.
Who failed JAMB? Is it possible to fail something you never wrote? You should focus your energy on your dwindling career and come here spewing rubbish.
Pant-Hanky the clueless one. Specialist in failure. No wonder you are supporting Gayners.
JigsawKillah: yes, he's a Manure fan. it turns out he ain't the only one stalking me either. I think 2 other nitwîts too. I'm taking them all as they come.
I'm a Man-u fan too, and you can't imagine how the win makes us feel, so you could have cut your brothers some slack, couldn't you? They are hyper-active tonight, and it's quite understandable, isn't it?
JigsawKillah: let's just say I'm tired of being at the recieving end of the e-fights. each of the dumbfûcks are getting a dish as big as the size of sinizia's head.
Adema250, what's the news? Have you been able to talk to the super-moderators?
And you, Demigods, how are you sure his claims are false? It does one more good shutting up when one has nothing good to say than opening the mouth to utter trashy stuff that won't do anyone any good. I'm quite sure you don't know that.
I don't think I believe you. You're saying it's a coincidence? You mentioned a name randomly, and it became yeyenatu? Do you know how probable that is? Probably 1 in 10 billion.
I thought it would be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear too small for Voyager to make out any detail. Our planet would be just a point of light, a lonely pixel hardly distinguishable from the other points of light Voyager would see: nearby planets, far off suns. But precisely because of the obscurity of our world thus revealed, such a picture might be worth having.
It had been well understood by the scientists and philosophers of classical antiquity that the Earth was a mere point in a vast, encompassing cosmos—but no one had ever seen it as such. Here was our first chance, and perhaps also our last for decades to come.
So, here they are: a mosaic of squares laid down on top of the planets in a background smattering of more distant stars. Because of the reflection of sunlight off the spacecraft, the Earth seems to be sitting in a beam of light, as if there were some special significance to this small world; but it's just an accident of geometry and optics. There is no sign of humans in this picture: not our reworking of the Earth's surface; not our machines; not ourselves. From this vantage point, our obsession with nationalisms is nowhere in evidence. We are too small. On the scale of worlds, humans are inconsequential: a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.
Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings; thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines; every hunter and forager; every hero and coward; every creator and destroyer of civilizations; every king and peasant, every young couple in love; every mother and father; hopeful child; inventor and explorer; every teacher of morals; every corrupt politician; every supreme leader; every superstar; every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there—on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings; how eager they are to kill one another; how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity—in all this vastness—there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we've ever known.
The pale blue dot.
This is an excerpt from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. It talks about the photo of the same name, Pale Blue Dot, taken by Voyager I on February 14, 1990.
Adema250, I don't know when the Nairaland administration deems fit for threads like yours to be moved to the homepage, for it's quite evident that this your thread looks dead on arrival as there aren't enough aggressors here, ready to push things to the next level for you. Well, the aggressors always made it happen. Your spamming of threads with the link to this thread won't help either, and I'm quite sorry to say that.
It would be really helpful, though, if you get in touch with the super-moderators by mail with links to the two threads and they let you know what more is needed before they can embark on any propagation causes. They could ask for more proof sha.
tpiander: but the person who typed Judas wrote his own in caps with no problems whatsoever.
Well, maybe nairaland thinks Judas is bigger than Jesus.
I believe that the 'upper-case-to-lower-case' effect is only working on the word 'Jesus' because it was programmed to do so, and I think it was programmed to do so because it was evident to the programmer that a large number of Christians typed, or will want to type 'Jesus' in upper case letters.
And you know, the Nairaland administrator might not have felt so comfortable seeing the word 'Jesus' typed in all upper case letters.