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Exmilitant:
Then allow us to stick to the one answer that nearly satisfy our worry.

You worry that you'll grow old and die? Why worry about the most inevitable thing about life on earth? Not even your beliefs can stop it nor does it even try.

Exmilitant:
Is there a plausible answer to the question; why do we grow old and die?

I don't understand what you mean by plausible answer. We have no record of any person who didn't grow old and die.

Exmilitant:
our developed method of investigating our environment has only raised more questions. That is why most of mankind still cling to the "more primitive aspect of our investigations."

Attempting to answer those questions is the sign of progress. Regression is clinging to primitive views of our environment while others have moved past that.

18wheeler:
The north east.

Makes sense that you can do that over there.

18wheeler:
My own standard has been one month’s salary. I never take an apartment that will cost me over a month’s salary. Two is still fair anyway but is extreme for me.

Where do you live?

petra1:
Cases differ. Im sure you yourself can’t deny the multiple cases of complications and deaths all over the world as a result of the shots.

You guys insist that ANYONE who takes the the vaccine will see advere effects without exception so I am asking when my own advance altered DNA effects are going to show.

Tobdek:
I'm an atheist. Something strange happened to me today and I can't stop thinking about it.

Someone mistakenly sent me airtime this morning. He called me to resend it because he wanted to send it to his father. A while later, he called me to thank me and gave the phone to his father who thanked me profusely and prayed for me. His father told me that he was an ifa priest from Ile ife.He told me to go and buy pure water and call him back in exactly three minutes. I decided not to but I was curious to hear what he wanted to say.

I called him and to my surprise, this man told me my surname! It felt so strange. He told me to ask for three things I want. He asked me if I had gotten the pure water, I told him no and he said I should go and buy it and call him back. I don't know if he's a scammer or a real priest. This has never happened to me before.

Cc Hahn
Hopefullandlord
Seun
Martinez39s
Johnydon22
Lordreed
Hardmirror
Pansophist

LoLz! Dude have you heard of Truecaller? Plus other telephone number look up services?

Oyindamolah:
Your annual rent shouldn't exceed your two months salary. If it does, you're in the wrong apartment.

This would be sound advice in general but in certain places its impracticable. Abuja for instance, you have people whose salary is about 80k a month. I very much doubt you would find any decent housing for 160k in Abuja and its environs. In my area in Abuja a self contained is between 400k-600k, in Kubwa its about 350k. That is an 80k salary earners 5 months salary.

kkins25:
Twitter would be streaming world cup..

Yeah maybe Musk should turn Twitter into a streaming service, might be better for his $44billion.

kkins25:
Give it time my man.. hah

It's a shit show right now whatever it may eventually become.

hopefulLandlord:
This story sounds like it's been garnished with salt and Maggi just to make it sweet

Abi o! LoLz!

raumdeuter:
If DJTJ was giving 10% to the big boss then that will be a criminal act worth investigating.

I guess the trial against the Trump organisation will reveal that.

SlyFoxx4Life:
No one made his business public. He made his own business public. He was the idiot who left compromising pictures and documents on an abandoned laptop knowing he is the son of a high profile politician who obviously has many enemies.

If this same kind of information was leaked about one of Trumps sons I have no doubt the democrats would be doing the same thing so spare me with the sanctimonious talk. That’s just politics for you in 2022.

DJTJ cheated on his wife and went to hunt endangered animals what did Democrats do with it? Did any of them include it in the election campaigns?

SlyFoxx4Life:
Basically Joe Biden was using his influence as VP to help his son broker shady business deals with companies in China and Ukraine and receiving a 10% kickback from the money he was making from these deals. Hence “10% for the big guy” that was seen in Hunter’s leaked business emails.

That’s the allegation and it’s more than enough circumstantial evidence to obtain a search warrant from a friendly judge if the Republicans choose to go that rout once they gain power.

Normally stuff like this would be ignored because of the long standing norm in US politics of not investigating former presidents but now that the Democrats have broken that precedent, it’s going to be open season on all ex presidents from now all. Third world country style.

Joe Biden was a private citizen for the 4 years of Trump's presidency and for 2 of those years Republicans had the presidency, house and senate, yet nothing was done. When he announced his candidacy for president and these allegations were floating around Trump's appointed AG did nothing. And please save the bs excuse that presidents are not investigated because Clinton and Nixon show it to be the bs it is.

SlyFoxx4Life:
And you think there are no valid charges on Hunter and Joe Biden? Lol wait there.

Besides you don’t need a “valid charge” to get a warrant. You need what’s called “probable cause” which is largely at the judges discretion. Why would you get a warrant after charging someone? You get the warrant to obtain evidence required to charge someone. Pls go back to law school.

And what is the probable cause for Joe Biden?

SlyFoxx4Life:
Oh that can be arranged don’t worry. It’s called “judge shopping” and the Democrats taught us how to do it during Trumps administration.

Without a valid charge you can judge shop till hell freezes over. The 60+ election lawsuits should have taught you that.

SlyFoxx4Life:
Once we regain the Whitehouse and appoint republican attorney general, there will be a full scale DOJ investigation of Biden’s involvement in his sons shady china and Ukraine deals. Thank God the democrats have set the precedent of investigating former presidents themselves. Will send the FBI to raid his house in the middle of the night.

With no warrant? Really?

HisSplendor:
Many Christians appear to hold to the mistaken belief that atheism is a cheap cop-out. Atheists are often viewed as cowards who don’t really believe what they say they believe; it’s merely a position that’s adopted for the sake of being allowed to live a life freed from any moral authority, it’s assumed.

“There is really no such thing as an atheist,” has smugly crossed the lips of more than few of my conversation partners over the years. That accusation was even thrown in my face several times by Christians when I was an atheist. Trust me, that doesn’t encourage atheists to listen to whatever else is said by the Believer, including any gospel presentation that might follow.

By God’s grace, though, I am no longer an atheist, having repented of my sins and placed my faith in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ over 15 years ago. Because of my past and present (and glorious future), I am frequently asked by those who are praying for atheist friends and family members, “What caused you to stop being an atheist?”

That’s a legitimate question derived from a worthy concern, and it deserves serious consideration. What does cause an atheist to break free from atheism?

The Sunday school (and correct) answer, of course, is the work of the Holy Spirit. All sinners who have ever turned in faith to Jesus have done so because the Spirit has replaced their heart of stone with a heart of flesh; they have been given new life in Christ. But, as true and reassuring as that answer is, that’s not the answer that people who are concerned for their atheist friends and family members want. They are looking for practical things they should be saying and doing as they share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the unbelievers in their life.

Unfortunately, that’s not really a question that can be easily answered with a series of objective truths that are practical in their implementation. My experience of renouncing atheism and turning to Christ is unique, as are the experiences of other atheists. Much of what the Holy Spirit used in my heart is neither repeatable nor advisable, like the time a fortune teller in New Orleans unknowingly took part in the destruction of my atheist worldview.

As a committed skeptic of all things supernatural, I entered the dimly lit parlor that reeked of incense solely to appease my ex who was Wiccan. She had offered to pay for it, after all. To keep her happy, all I had to do was sit there and keep my mocking thoughts to myself.

Settling into the hard chair as the lady turned my hands over, palms up, I knew how the “con” of fortune telling worked. When the fortune teller began by predicting that she could see great artistic success in my future, I knew that was simply a product of having working eyeballs in her head. Anybody with half a brain could’ve realized that I was in the arts in some product of having working eyeballs in her head. Anybody with half a brain could’ve realized that I was in the arts in some shape or form by how I presented myself. Except, as she continued, moving past the expected “well, duh” observational based predictions, the fortune teller began to reveal very specific information about my past and present. Information that there would have been no way for her to know unless someone had told her. I hadn’t filled out an information card prior to pushing aside the hanging beads and stepping into the room. No assistant had asked me questions about myself before I sat down. To this day, I don’t know if she was just a good guesser or something demonic was at work. Regardless, I’m thankful that the Holy Spirit used that fortune teller’s insights and words to help shake me loose from my purely materialistic outlook on the world.

However, I would never encourage anyone to take an atheist to a fortune teller. In fact, I would strongly advise against it.

The most valuable words of wisdom I can offer those concerned with the eternal state of an atheist is to be faithful in lovingly sharing the gospel and to pray and then pray some more. And don’t be afraid to say something as simple as “God loves you.” There is no way of knowing how the Holy Spirit is working in your atheist friend or family member’s heart; you have no idea what other things are being used as weapons to break his or her heart of stone. Even a brief word can be used by the Holy Spirit in ways that you could never predict. That’s what happened to me.

A few months before my encounter with the fortune teller, unsettled by the rampant hypocrisy and legalism among the political activists around me, I decided that I needed to renew my passion for progressive causes as well as reconnect with my counterculture forebears. A Jack Kerouac inspired trip, a la On the Road, was needed, I concluded.

Throwing my packed duffle bag onto the books scattered across the back seat of my Pontiac Grand Am, I traced my finger along the route highlighted in my giant atlas and began driving towards San Francisco. I was filled with hope and anticipation for what lay before me.

Like Kerouac, I made several prolonged stops along the way. And, again mimicking Kerouac, one of those stops was in Denver. along the way. And, again mimicking Kerouac, one of those stops was in Denver.

The Denver International Youth Hostel was one of the oddest youth hostels that I had ever stayed in. Odd in a creepy way that drove me out of my room as soon as I had chosen a bunk and unpacked.

Located just a mile or so from Denver’s famed 16th Street, I slung my bookbag over my shoulder as I stepped out of the hostel and began the roughly 15-minute walk. At the time, and maybe it still is, 16th Street was filled with chain restaurants and stores; not my usual scene, in other words. However, since I was hungry, I popped into a well-known casual dining chain restaurant and headed to the bar without even pausing at the hostess stand. I was hungry, irritable, and wanted to get out of there with as little human interaction as possible.

While placing my order, I barely noticed the man sitting two stools away. When he attempted to strike up a conversation, I was less than thrilled, wanting to read The Trial in peace while I waited for my black bean burger. He was persistent, though, and gregarious, so I grudgingly engaged him.

He asked me what I was doing and seemed curiously amused by my Kerouacian journey. During the conversation, I managed to let slip that I had grown up a preacher’s kid. He made some vague religious comments that I wasn’t really listening to, replying that I was an atheist. And that was that. Or, so I thought.

Paying my bill, I gave no thought to my unwelcome dinner conversation partner who had left a few minutes before me. My only goal was to walk back to my hostel so that I could get some rest before driving to the Garden of the Gods the next day.

It was late as I stepped onto the sidewalk. Turning in the direction of my hostel, I felt a hand on my bookbag. Assuming I was in the process of being mugged, I angrily wheeled around, ready to swing.

The man from the bar sheepishly stepped back, grinned awkwardly, and said, “Sorry, I was waiting to talk to you.”

He then asked if I minded if he walked with me. The whole thing felt weird to me, but since I didn’t own the sidewalk, I shrugged and replied, “I’m headed back to my hostel, man. Walk with me if you want.”

After a brief, awkward few steps, my unwanted travel companion stopped, looked at me, and bluntly said, “I want to tell you that God loves you.”

What?!?

I was stunned. Out of all the possible things I was expecting to hear in the middle of the night in downtown Denver, that was not it. He continued.

“Look, I don’t want to argue with you. I get the impression that you know more about the Bible than I do, but I felt compelled to wait for you to tell you that God loves you and someone is praying for you.”

With that, he turned and walked away.

Stunned, I stood there with tears beginning to stream down my face. In that moment, all I could think of was my mom on her knees praying for me.

I was also angry. Angry at that man. Angry at my mom. Angry at myself. Angry because those words were too specifically poignant to be a coincidence. Prior to that night in Denver, my atheism had been unassailable. But it felt like an unseen hand has just taken a tire iron to my worldview.

The thing that angered me the most, and speaking from my own experience, atheism was not something that I had arrived at lightly nor easily. Regardless of what some misguided Christians believe, turning my back on Christianity was not easy. It had cost me something.

My early childhood, when I huddled in my bed at night afraid because I thought that since I didn’t believe in God I was going to go to hell, cost me. My youth, when I worked hard to suppress questions and doubts because doing so made it easier for me to find an equilibrium that helped me navigate the strict rules of Christian fundamentalism. My turbulent years at Bob Jones University. All of it had been hard and painful at times. I didn’t become an atheist because it was easy. I became an atheist because I had looked at all the evidence and concluded that God did not exist. I did so only after fighting the “truth” I had been taught my entire life. Worse, emptying myself of the thing – Christianity - that had controlled and defined my entire childhood and my family meant that I had willfully placed a wedge between myself and many of those whom I loved. To be sure, my parents, family, and friends still loved me, but, whenever we were together, it was obvious that I didn’t really belong with them. That hurt, but it was a consequence of being honest, I thought.

I didn’t become an atheist because that’s what I wanted; I became an atheist because I believed it was the truth.

So, standing on that sidewalk while trying not to think about my mom praying for me, I cursed a God I didn’t even believe existed. That late-summer night in 2003 was the beginning of a nearly year-long fighting and cursing of God. That moment when that man told me that God loves me was the first cognizant moment for me that something was happening. Looking back over my life, that was the moment when the Holy Spirit began to reveal His work in my heart. The moment that signaled that God was initiating the downward slide that terminated in the end of myself and my finally turning to Him through repentance and faith in Christ.

So, yeah, to those who wonder what it was that caused me to turn my back on atheism, it wasn’t one thing. It was, first and foremost, the work of the Holy Spirit. It was the love of my parents who cared enough about me to share the gospel with me and pray for me without ceasing. It was the small word of a stranger in Denver.

Say something, anything, to your atheist friends and family members. Tell them that God loves them and that you’re praying for them if that’s all the time and courage you have. Share the gospel with them. Pray for them. Pray for them some more. But say something. You have no way of knowing how the Holy Spirit might use even the smallest act of love to break a sinner’s heart and bring them to repentance and faith.

Taken from:
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/how-to-convince-an-atheist-that-god-exists.html

This sounds like a highly embellished story. How can a preachers kid who knows the Bible very well be surprised or whatever by someone saying god loves you and someone is praying for you. Either that or the person never let go of their religious trauma. As a former Christian it won't tickle me in the slightest if someone said god loves you or I am praying for you, not even you are going to hell would get an emotional response. But I guess there are atheists of all kinds, even the ones that get all emotional because someone said to them god loves you.

budaatum:
kkins25, here's people who value themselves do when their boss tells them they can't say "guys".

They remove the chains and tell their boss to stick his job where the sun don't shine.

$44billion shit show.

OLAADEGBU:
Let the late Sir Fred Hoyle answer you.

Source

LMAO! Fred Hoyle didn't believe it was your god that did anything, he thought it was aliens so stop using him as a prop.

kkins25:
Calm down guys, the technical aspect is not the only issue Elon is dealing with. There are thousands of "gender is a continuum staffs" that literally hate his guts. Give it time, Twitter would pick up. Facebook, Amazon, and a load of other tech companies also laid out thousands of staff. Why are you leftists acting like republicans? I thought y'all supposed to be the sensible ones?

When are you going to admit to yourself that the $8 blue check mark was a terrible idea especially from someone as experienced as Musk. Do you wanna bet that it is not returning?

@Truthwords, Maestro21, petra1

372 days after my first shot, still here. Why is it taking so long? LoLz!

OLAADEGBU:
Who said I cannot read atheists' minds? It is plain for all to see.

OLAADEGBU:
You can't think crooked and walk straight.

Stop lying.

Dtruthspeaker:
Everyone already knows these things including you, even if you are exercising your power of playing ignorance.

LoLz. So freaking weak.

OLAADEGBU:
We are talking about the age of the shell of the snail which your evolutionary "science textbook" teaches that it has been carbon dated to be 27,000 years old. Don't change the topic.

No we are talking about the age of the earth which was what your post was about.

OLAADEGBU:
Quote where I said you "said" or forever hold your peace. I was only referring to your crooked way of thinking.

Oh you read minds now, still a lie since you have no way of knowing my mind if I don't express it. Stop lying.

OLAADEGBU:
I know that in your weird and bizarre thinking you will say that given enough time that is a possibility.

Quote where I said that or have you started lying again? I thought you had repented from lying? LMAO!

OLAADEGBU:
And what biological organism is excluded from your mythological evolutionary change?

I asked a question first.

OLAADEGBU:
Have you now conceded that the shell is not 27,000 years old?

You are the one saying the earth is not millions of years old it's up to you to show that this shell proves you right.

OLAADEGBU:
When it is a living fossil it means it is not extinct and since your so called evolution theory insists that all living things evolve by adding information to its gene, why has the "400 million" year fish not evolved?

Again were in the theory does it say all biological organisms must change into something else? Can you quote any evolutionary text that says so?

OLAADEGBU:
What are the odds of a boeing 747 plane being assembled after a bomb explosion?

LoLz! Ask a mathematician or physicist to calculate it for you.

OLAADEGBU:
It disproves the lie that the snail shell is 27,000 years old, which you all swallowed up hook, line and stinker.

LoLz. Why don't you go conduct your own test and tell us what age the shells are.