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HitSong:
Stop talking trash.
NATO signed agreement with Russia not to expand to their borders, but today, NATO has almost surrounded Russia by building military bases around their bordering countries (old Soviet Union)
If your neighbor start keeping company or making friends with people whom you think are ritualists, criminals and drug pushers, will you keep quiet and say it doesn't concern you? Are you not going to be in danger of being a victim one day?
Make una no just dey side this evil America ignorantly. America has terrorized more countries than any other country in this world. America was the first and only country in the the world to have used nuclear weapons to kill humans in history.
Stop following the crowd to talk nonsense. Do your own research.

When and were was this agreement you speak of reached?

Deborah98:
Non human life like what? Elements of weather? Earth,rocks,sands am I correct? Biko explain

I suppose he means the other animals, insects, aquatic lifeforms, microscopic lifeforms, etc.

PastorMIsBack:
Yet you want atheists to be shown a bit of respect! Tut! Tut!!

Huh? How did I show you or Christians in general disrespect? I am pointing out that Jesus' supposed prophecies on war are just as much a guesswork as sukkot's. You can take offense but I didn't disrespect you or Christians. BTW I would say the same for any other religious figures making similar prophecies, just so you know.

Image123:
You said you don't know any of His words that has come to pass. i guess that's the little that you do know.

Yes and I asked you to fill me in but you refused so...

HedwigesMaduro:
Yeah. Science has explained the sprinkler came after an explosion, or changed overtime from being a piece of metal junk to a sprinkler. Very intelligent, believable explanations.

If that is what you think science says then you either must be getting your science from quacks or you just don't understand the science.

PastorMIsBack:
Amen

KnownUnknown:
Take note that the “chaplain” said amen.

PastorMIsBack what have you to say for yourself in encouraging this type of behaviour?

Evidenx:
A FOOL SAYS IN HEART THERE IS NO GOD.

In a thread that speaks to being decent to all you are gonna bring this then when someone replies you in kind you'll say they are full of hate. You perpetrate the hate with stuff like this.

Popsmoke2:
I am being to enjoy your channel. All these short stories you use in driving home your point is catching my fancy

PastorMIsBack is our NL Religion section chaplain. LoLz.

DeepSight:
There is something really curious about the age old human mind set which seeks to conjure into existence a creator of this world who is loving and merciful in a warm and cozy way. This can only be attributable to humanity's need to find some comfort and solace in what is otherwise a dark, perplexing, cold, brutal and nasty existence. People just have this inherent need to believe in this idea of some warm love awaiting us beyond the horizon, and it is in fact entirely understandable because without such crutches to hold on to, humanity may actually collectively despair.

When people look at the doubtless beauties and wonders of nature they exclaim "God is wonderful!" However each time I hear this sort of reaction I am just befuddled at how people are selective with respect to what they see. The truth about Earth life is far starker: every living thing must consume other living things in order to survive, living things are thrust into a desperate and competitive battle for survival and if there is anything that is certain about the wild - it is its sheer brutality. Nature is cold, pitiless and unrelenting - and it operates without any discernible sentiments - it is absolutely unemotional - the weak new born creature will die off quickly - often being killed by its own siblings or other creatures who will tear it up as a quick and easy snack - and the killing methods of most animals are absolutely pitiless. Many people try to say that the evil in the world is solely attributable to mankind, but one only has to take a look at nature and the wild to know that this is a massive lie: strife and brutal competition are hardwired into the very fabric and system of Earth life at all levels.

In addition to all of this, there is the existential conundrum of purpose faced by those creatures such as our selves who are sapient enough to contemplate death. No matter how lucky you may be in this life, no matter how long and prosperous your life may be - death still awaits you - and everyone you love. You will either mourn them or they will mourn you - and this is a best case scenario because it could always be that you all perish at once in some mass disaster or even die young. Humans throughout the ages have invented stories to comfort themselves about the cold reality of death but the truth is that probably no one has ever had any idea as to what happens at death and most probably no one ever will. All that we do is console ourselves with every manner of religious and spiritual myth and fantasy in this regard - and death - implacable as ever, remains un-appeased. There is thus a very significant possibility that everything that we are is and will be entirely meaningless in a short while for one and all and the universe will not even notice our extinction as a species.

Worst of all, life is, and always has been richly spiced with such unspeakable heart wrenching tragedies that one must shudder at the thought of existing on this plane at all, given the seeming randomness with which such events are flung into the lives of even the gentlest and kindest of us. When we are forced to wonder why we were born, some are wont to say that we had a pre-existence in which we ourselves requested to come to this world. While this is a thought that I must confess I myself have often leaned towards, the stark truth is that no one knows this for sure: all that we know is that one day we just open our eyes and find ourselves here and that's it: its a rat race of horror until death.

All of the above and much more grounds my belief that if a God exists who created this world, he/she/it can only be a cold and maniacal sadist of the worst kind imaginable.

I agree. We have to close our eyes to many of the horrors that take place around us to maintain our grasp on sanity. I remember how I was introduced to the stark reality of how brutal the natural world is while at the same time unleashing my own brutality on my environment but our managed perception of the world allowed me to separate my brutality and make me think I am special, not knowing I am a cog in the vast machinery of brutality.

sukkot:
brah its a buildup. a milion years to man is one day to the LORD. however we are here now. its about to get smoking hot. belie dat mayneeeeeeeeeeee

That's not what you said then. That time you insisted that war would start in October of that year, same way you are insisting it will start this month. No wahala make we dey watch.

Dtruthspeaker:
I did say Abraham corrected his error.

Corrected it how? He had other sons from other concubines so how did he "correct his error"?

All Lies by your Usual Misrepresentation and Discolouration of Truth, WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING VALID TO SAY. as usual with you son of Satan.

But most importantly, THEY ARE OUT OF POINT.

LoL! I didn't know you are this ignorant of the very bible you profess to love so much. Bwahahahahaha.

Matthew 1:3
3 Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram.
Matthew 1:5
5 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse,

And they are very much on point. Your assertion that your god punishes people for having sex with women that are not their wives is nothing but obfuscation. Tamar was not Judah's wife so where was he punished? How was Rahab punished for being a harlot? How was Abraham punished for having multiple concubines? How was Jacob punished for having multiple concubines?

And verily, the story showed that he was greatly disgraced, humiliated, scorned, ridiculed, shamed and almost destroyed, if not that he was indeed the Wisest Man ever.

For we hear David's Praise and Glory BEFORE HE CHEATED on his wife micah.

AFTER HIS CHEATING, IT WAS A STORY OF ONE DISASTER TO ANOTHER TO ANOTHER.

So, in the end, you did not say any thing.

NO ROAD!

LoL! David that married several women even before Bathsheba so what are you talking about? Besides he was clearly punished for his sin with Bathsheba while this your funny obfuscations did not come when he married more than one wife. Even before he died his family found him a concubine to warm his bed, why didn't your god punish him or is he in hell? LoLz.

STARKENNETH:
THANK YOU MA,WE DO NEED TO RECOGNIZE THE
SPECIAL QUALITIES OF HUMAN NATURE
WHICH ALLOW GOD TO BE MADE
MANIFESTED IN HUMANS.

I agree don't let your belief or lack of belief cause you to lose sight of our collective and individual humanity.

Image123:
Lol, you don't need to know then. It will be a waste of time.

Well, the little I do know indicates Jesus was no better than sukkot at predicting war since they both used prevailing circumstances to predict, you disagreed but are unable to show me the difference.

Dtruthspeaker:
So, you did not see that Saul lost his goodly spirit and became a murderous beast?

Or is it Samson?

Or David, who lost all his glory when he cheated on Micah his wife and got into troubles and destruction hence the Psalms of cries and pleas and confessions?

Which is why he even clearly warns in Proverbs about 3 or 4 times from chapters 5 to 9 and chapter 31;3 flee from women!

Men who sleep with women never obtain the Glory of God and nor enter into His Way of Life.

Check out all the people honoured by God, they stuck to their one wife. Even Abraham corrected his error and I am certain Jacob later saw that it was Leah that was his True female as proven by her blessings.

The story says Abraham had other concubines aside Hagar. The line of David/ Jesus came from the incest of Judah with his son's wife (let's even leave out all the apparent incest of Adam and Noah's immediate generations). Rahab the harlot was also a progenitor of the David/Jesus lineage. David had multiple wives. Where are you getting this idea that "Men who sleep with women never obtain the Glory of God and nor enter into His Way of Life", it's definitely not from the Old Testament of the Bible.

sukkot:
Sire. you cant stop the work of GOD

of course we see in part and prophesy in part so there is a margin of error but i am here to finish the work i started about ww3

LoLz. Remember how 7 years ago you predicted WW3 this same way? I just dey laugh.

Image123:
Then like i say, you don't know Him. Do you know any of His words that has come to pass?

Not sure, go ahead and tell me.

Image123:
You must be referring to Jesus of oyingbo

Nah I am referring to Jesus of the Bible.

Image123:
Don't waste eyes on him, turn your eyes on Jesus. Forget miserable guesswork.

Bwahahahahaha! Jesus' guesswork wasn't much better.

All eyes on sukkot.

Piptocoin:
[color=indigo]the dead are nothing but shells...empty of occupants. the real you is not a physical body with blood vessels. this is just a tent that is fated to be abandoned at some time in the future. we only get to experience this after death but many medical doctors are now of the opinion that consciousness continues beyond death having being witnesses to patients who have had near-death-experiences. some of this patients, while the operation was ongoing, could narrate accurately what transpired during the operation and said they saw their "bodies" lying there...to many it felt like they were looking at another person but they couldn't deny the fact that their consciousness and the physical form are but one person....

what I am trying to say is that empirical evidence is severely limited in determining what is real or true.[/color]

Yet you are attempting to quote empirical evidence to support your position. If you can please link to 1 meta-study whose findings indicate that consciousness persists after death or alternatively link 2 studies with that conclusion.

Besides the question of death is how do we know things. If you are of the opinion that there is some other method aside our senses, elaborate on how this other method works.

Piptocoin:
[color=indigo]by evidence you mean empirical evidence. obviously, you are among those peeps who believe there is no consciousness beyond the grave since life after the grave, by its very nature, does not lend itself to scientific examination. i believe that in pursuing knowledge one should also be open to truths which the physical senses cannot detect.[/color]

My view is there is no other way to gather evidence than with our senses so obviously the dead do not gather any since their senses are all offline.

Piptocoin:
[color=indigo]And you think every phenomenon without verifiable evidence is outside the calculable perimeter of existence...?[/color]

I don't know what you mean but we only know things for certain by having evidence. Our degree of certainty raises with the quality of evidence.

Piptocoin:
[color=indigo]There are billions of planets in the multiverse. There are trillions of stars all over the galaxy. The earth rotates on its axis causing day and night while its revolution round the sun causes the beginning and end of a season or year.

If you invented a sprinkler to automatically water a garden at set times of the day and left it perform the functions for which you designed it then would it deny you of ownership and design because science is able to explain the components of the sprinkler and how it works?[/color]

Science has also enabled us to understand where, how and who made the sprinkler system. As for the god we only have a who postulate which has no solid evidence backing it. The where and how can't even be postulated.

complexBoss12:
The most confusing subject, I have personally battled with in my head, for the greater part of my life, is whether God really exists or not??

If you observe closely, you would notice there is a strong supernatural force beyond your physical eyes. There are things that happen, that show you that a God should/must exist. Then, other things happen and you wonder why is God letting it happen??

But that's why they said you should have "faith" right?? Because you don't have to question, just believe. man's wisdom is foolishness before God. Then again, will God give you sense, and ask you not use it??

What is this strong supernatural force? What does it do?

AroleOduduwa2:
Sensational headline from media house hungry for traffic, you think google is the only one with coordinates, what happened to the good old compass

Not coordinates, traffic data, those are 2 different things.

zinaunreal:
Nairaland has become too toxic. Did you study toxicology? Ah ah

I guess you contributed your quota today. LoLz.

zinaunreal:
Useless atheist I should have known. My friend get lost. You have no value. Its only when you die you will realise your stupidity

Lol@ second wave. What a damn illiterate
Can't you see that's another subtopic.

Putin might be sending a second wave into Ukraine this fool is seeing it as second wave into Kyiv.
I used to be as stupid as you till my eyes shine. I just pity you. What a waste of existence

LMFAO! Who have the Ukrainians being fighting in Kyiv, can you answer that simple question?

zinaunreal:
Such a fucking fool. You haven't even brushed your mouth, you're looking for who to troll. Useless piece of nasty shiit. Go and develop yourself before I use vex hunt you down spoil your entire already useless life, do you think am here to joke?

LMFAO! I urge you to do your worst. Bwahahahahaha!

zinaunreal:
Bla bla you can't even read your own proof. They are not yet in kyiv you unupdated bladdy idiot. I don't give tramps like you audience .

LMAO! Look up the meaning of the word reinforcements. It even says in the picture you posted 2nd wave, like are you blind or something? Bwahahahahahaha!

zinaunreal:
They are not yet in
Kyiv you idiot. Don't quote my predictions you unupdated fool.

Bwahahahahaha! I guess the Ukrainians have been fighting ghosts. LMFAO!

zinaunreal:
Will Russian forces reach Kyiv? Yes, it will be a disaster if putin does not arrive Kyiv
Will there be more fighting? Yes
Will Nato forces Arrive? Yes
Will Russian forces remain In the Capital? Yes
For how long? Not Long
Will Russian forces Withdraw? Yes

Why? Turning back before having gone too far is a form of discipline by the Russian president which he has learned from history. Withdrawal is necessary and has always been his plan.

Why? Because President Putin has a higher purpose and such a resistance was not expected. For at least 10 years he will try to put things right from this disastrous war that will affect Russia. This war will affect Russia for a decade.

Mordern warfare is over.
There are no need for Nukes
There are no need for super powers
There are no need for Putin Biden and Xi Jinping.

LoL! How is this prophecy? The Russian forces have been fighting in Kyiv for a few days now.

NATO forces in Ukraine when Ukraine is not a NATO member? OK we'll see.

PastorMIsBack:
Hello followers

People have spoken out against the 'story with the most likes wins' and rightly so. They said the most popular people often win so it's not fair on others and I agree.

So I am picking your brains.

How should I run the next giveaway?

I could put all the names in a hat and draw out a winner or two but I'm sure some people would still moan about it

There are some people I interact with more on Nairaland. Should I simply give it to them?

I never knew giveaway can give headache

Anyway, ideas please before the next one in March

Modified to add: And should a previous winner still be allowed to enter the next draw?

Bear in mind, you can't please everyone
Duration: 58 seconds


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KFPQUDjzqU

Riddles and/or puzzles with a tier system.