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Gombs:
You're almost there Buddy... Why let these guys bother your serenity?

I'll take this to mean you don't know too.

Gombs:
Well... Another of my favorite preacher, Arch Bishop Ben Idahosa.

Gotta love that man.

So, where did Chris get his PhD from? I used to think he got it from Oral Roberts University, but I guess I'm wrong.

Esdb3:
I should read a theory formulated bÝ bias atheists. No thanks.

Since when did history become a theory?

^^^ Seems like a load of trash.

richybanky:
U ar free den, dats how it supposed to be

Alright, thanks a lot.

richybanky:
I uploaded 2 pix bro, is it d first one or d second one?

Yeah, the 2nd one.

tunde4top:
did u revalidate or register as fresh ?. Things like signature cannot should not have effect on your mobilization status, since you have your call-up no. We all took it serious, and gave it element of douth on our mobilization status, since it was showing no valid signature. Since yours has stoped showing without your influence, then the cause of the little element of douth has been defeated. You will manually sign on your printed green card in camp. Cheers!

OK, I hope you're right. Thanks.

richybanky:
Check d pix below and tell me which one is showing on ur dash board

The one below.

Ademat7:
d topic of how to check signature status is on nysc front page

On nysc main website

richybanky:
U didn't upload ur signature wen regustering? I doubt it if is possible to register without scanning ur signature

I did when registering but after logging in, I was still asked to upload it again but before I could upload it, my dashboard stopped requesting for it. As far as I know, other people uploaded theirs before their dashboard stopped requesting. Don't know why mine is different.

tunde4top:
no..... You are free to go!

My worry is that I didn't upload any signature. So, which signature is there now? Is there a way I can view my signature?

Pls, my dashboard has stopped asking for signature even though I haven't uploaded my signature. Is this a problem?

Pls, my dashboard has stopped asking for signature even though I haven't uploaded my signature. Is this a problem?

Paykobo is for real. Just got my 1gb of data. Please paykobo, I don't know if I've been subscribed for the roll over service. If I have, how can I deactivate it?

Dishonest davidylan. Luke 22:1 clearly states that the feast of unleavened bread is also known as the Passover. And Jesus made references to eating the Passover in verses 8, 11 and 15. At the meal, Jesus says in verse 15:
"...With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer"

It's clear that whatever Jesus ate that night with his disciples was the Passover to him. Whether it was bread, akpu, amala, pork, lamb or whatever is no business of ours. As far as Jesus was concerned according to Luke, he ate the Passover. Saying otherwise is accusing Jesus of lying or being mistaken.

I miss this young man bawomolo. RIP still.

Depressedguy:
Being gay is my life regret, i have questioned God and myself how i got to this stage. I just feel like commiting suicide.

Here is my story, my name is Frank, 26, a banker. I am the envy of most women, because am 6.2" tall, fair and very handsome. My nickname is Ramsey Noah, this is to tell you how good looking i am. But i have a very BIG problem, i am attracted to the same sex.

This is a problem i have come to notice at teen, i love girls company more than guys, i play all the girl plays and hate football, am guessing that could be where my formation was transposed. I ended up liking what girls like when am not one. But i have come to change a few things becuase i went to a boarding house and was always ridiculed for that. So i changed so many things there, the way i talk, the way i walk, and my gestures, also i love football now more than anything, but my sexuality has refused to change.

I have all it takes to get a woman, i have a good job, a car, and live alone. But at this age, i have not seen a womans pants not to talk of getting in between. But i have so many female friends, so many that the always take me for a player. Am jovial with them, buy them gifts and treat them well, but am not sexually attracted to any of them and have no feelings whatsoever. Am just a good guy, i know that, because that is the best i can do to cover up my little secret. And they(ladies) love me too and many are dying for my attention. I have been asked out so many times by ladies. One even offered to pay all the bills just for us to get intimate, but i declined, lying that i have a girlfriend i dont want to cheat on.

To make matters worse, i hate being gay, sometimes i go celibate for as long as six(6) months simply because i hate my life and my sexuality. Am always alone, indoors all through the weekend, because going out with guys will result to girl talk and i have nothing to contribute, me of all persons, so hard to believe. I also hate gay companies, so many regrets afterwards as to why i am this way. I envy straight guys to the core, i so much wish i am one. When i see a guy and a girl holding hands and taking a walk, i have this feeling of giult amd hatred for myself that i quickly get depressed.

Here is the problem, i want to marry early, at least before 28 or max 30. I need to connect to a woman and force myself into a relationship. I need to get attracted to a womans body, and get turned on by that. And finally, i need to learn how to tolerate a woman, and live with thier baggage. Am comfortable as a single man, i dont mind living alone till i die, i can cook well and am not a sex freak, i can live for years without it. But i want kids, i love them and cant wait to have a daughter. I have once told myself that once i get married and have kids, i will divoorce my wife and live alone then the kids can stay anywhere. But this idea is pure foolishness.

I am very religious, as a matter if fact, this conditionn is the only sin i battle with, i know we all have one. I hardly commit any other sin. But i know that just this one is very mortal, but we are all strugglling because we are all flesh. It takes the grace of God to overcome sin generally.(Please dont come and critisize, we are all going to the same hell: homosexual, hetrosexual; and no sin is worse than the other.)

This my condition is getting me more depressed by the day and sometimes i wish to end my life. But i like my life more than anything, so am thinking of patronising prostitutes at least to get feel of what it takes like. But am afriad of STIs.

Please help a brother...

I used to know a "transgender" guy by the same name as you, but your description is totally not him. That's by the way, anyway. Seeing this post, I just thought I should let you know you're perfectly fine and there's nothing wrong with you. Being gay is just another sexual orientation, and we do not choose our sexual orientation just the way we do not choose our ethnicity or race. Attempting to change one's sexuality is akin to attempting to change one's race- an effort in futility. Even if you think you succeeded, at the end, it'll all amount to self deception. Your sexuality is an intrinsic part of you. You can't change it. Even animals exhibit this apparently tangential sexual behaviour. My pets did. Truth is it isn't tangential. It is just one in the spectrum of sexuality. No sexuality is more normal than the other in this natural spectrum. Attachment of normalcy is wholly human.

Reading your post, it's so clear to see why you feel depressed and really bad. You feel bad because of the way you think about yourself and state which consequently affects the way you feel. The way you think is heavily influenced by our society. A society of religious hypocrites and zealots who were gladdened by the recent criminalization of homosexuality. A people who think homosexuality is taboo when even some of their forebears tolerated homesexuals in ancient times. A people who due to lack of understanding and irrational fear, think that homosexuals are somehow the worst set of the human species and deserve the most inhuman punishments that even the politicians that have robbed us of our common wealth do not deserve. The social stigma is just incredible. It is this kind of thinking that has crystallized in you. You won't be feeling this way if you'd been raised in a society that encouraged you to accept yourself just the way you are.

So, what do you do? Learn to change your thinking. There's this thing psychologists call Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It is very effective. Also, learn to accept yourself. There's also an acceptance therapy. I won't tell you it's going to be easy performing these exercises, especially while still living in a society that reminds you constantly that you're filth and a criminal for just being yourself. OP, if you have the means to leave Nigeria to a saner society, please do. It will help a lot.

PS: Human beings are a really interesting phenomenon. They cry, moan and remonstrate when they're in the minority and are being oppressed by the majority. But they do not even pause to think before meting out the same inhumane treatment to others when the tables are turned.

So joagbaje hasn't paid up yet. Whatever happened to let your yea be yea...? What's popping, pastor Jo? Surely the tithes and offerings, the gifts and first fruits down to the 12th fruits can pay this debt, yet leaving an humongous largesse for you and your minions to feed on. Didn't the Bible say somewhere to "owe no man"?

striktlymi:
Yes you are right in a sense but it is not exactly that straightforward.

If you read through Luke: 12:47-48 you may realize that the belief Jesus and the Apostles spoke about is also tied to the individual's level of exposure to what is 'true'.

Not everyone is gifted with the Christian faith; and for some, whatever it is they practice, they perceive that as the truth because of their level of 'exposure'.

For those who are exposed to the Christian faith, for which the Spirit has revealed the 'truth', they have a responsibility to believe.

For them "belief" becomes a prerequisite for salvation. This is not applicable to those who do not have such exposure. For these category of persons, their exposure to the natural law as guided by 'right conscience' should suffice.

So, according to this, a Muslim who adheres to his religious text's command to kill nonbelievers would be judged by his religious text which is his own truth and could still go to heaven.

Even the passage you referred to doesn't entirely preclude punishment for the ignorant. It only alluded to a lesser punishment. It even lends credence to the belief that there is a universal objective truth because there are obviously things "worthy of stripes" which he was ignorant of. If he was to be judged by his own subjective truth, why punish him at all?

I concede that your view is more humanistic and less sadistic than what the Bible actually says but I think the Bible is unequivocal in letting us know that only belief in Jesus ensures salvation. Even Jesus said he's the only way to the Father. No two-way about it. This is the motivation for Christian proselytizing.

Wow! This is even more interesting than the biblical tale. The gnostic texts always have sympathies for poor Judas.

striktlymi:
'The wager' doesn't make much sense to me cause it assumes two extremes:


1) A disbelief in God, necessarily leads one to destruction.

2) A belief in God leads one to salvation.

It's not as clear-cut as that.

But isn't a belief in God necessary for salvation? Didn't Jesus say he who believes will be saved and he who doesn't will be damned? Isn't faith and belief inextricably linked? For by grace are ye saved through faith.

adeyemi2015:
Some only make comments after reading the existing ones. ISIL is a very deadly Terrorist Group ever formed in the World history. They are more deadly and powerful than Al-Qaeda. They do not even recognize all Muslims except you are a Takfiri. And they believe killing the "infidel" both Muslims and Christians who do not believe in their ideology is the right thing. The World is finding it hard to contain them in Syria and Iraq. They don't play play and hide seek game, or fighting Guerilla war. They fight like gallant soldiers and fully committed to die as Martyrs.
We shouldn't handle every case with politics. This is a serious issue and needs a quicker attention. We need to wipe out BH before they grow wings and start unleashing mayhem to the nooks and crannies of the Country. They would not limit their operations to the North-East alone anymore, if truly they've joined ISIL, rather touch every part of the Country. Remember our Security system is weak and porous. It will only take them bribing Police par Checking Points to get arms and ammunition across all states of the Federation. Forget the Propaganda that Buhari is sponsoring BH, cos you yourself know is a blatant lie. Forget the cluelessness of the Presidency, rather let work for the common goal.

Thank you!

The Biggest Mountain in Our Solar System Is on
Mars

Sorry Mount Everest — you’re not the king of the
solar system. That honor belongs to Olympus
Mons, a massive mountain on our planetary
neighbor, Mars. Olympus Mons is a giant mound
of red dirt and rock. This volcanic behemoth is
2,400 meters, or 80,000 feet tall, which makes it
almost 15 miles high. Everest is a mere dwarf in
comparison. This giant Martian volcano is either a
mountain climber’s wildest dream, or worst
nightmare.

Europa is one of Jupiter's moons.

One Million Earths Could Fit Inside The Sun

Even though there are a lot of stars out there, none
is more important to us than our own sun. When
compared to other stars, it’s fairly small, classified
as a G2 dwarf star. But that doesn’t mean we’re
complaining. Approximately one million Earths
could fit inside this dwarf star. It might not be the
largest star in the universe, but it gets the job done
as far as sustaining life on Earth goes.

We Are Made Out of Stars

Human beings are literally made out of star stuff .
Almost all of the chemical elements that make up
a person come from the stars. Any element heavier
than hydrogen originated in the stars, and we are
definitely composed of more than hydrogen.
Calcium, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and
around 60 other basic ingredients make up a
human being. Since hydrogen and helium were the
only elements around before the stars “cooked” up
some more, it’s a safe bet that most of the
substance that constitutes the “physical” you
comes from the stars.

An Asteroid Might Hit The Earth in 2029

The greatest chance so far, according to
astronomers, of a large asteroid colliding with the
earth and wiping life out is in 2029. Asteroids have
hit the planet before, and caused mass extinctions,
so there is some precedent for it happening again.
The culprit this time is the Apophis Asteroid
(99942 Apophis), which is headed our way in
2029. There’s a little less than a 3% chance that
this bad boy will crash into terra firma. Let’s hope
Apophis gives the planet a miss, otherwise you
can stop paying into your retirement account right
now.

A human body, or any object on the Earth, is never
at rest. Even when you’re asleep in bed, you’re
moving pretty fast. Our Milky Way Galaxy is
rotating at 225 kilometers per second, and hurling
through the cosmos at an estimated 305
kilometers per second. Add those figures together,
and we’re racing through space at around 530
kilometers, or 330 miles per second. So in one
minute’s time, you’ve traveled almost 20,000
kilometers, or more than 12,000 miles. And your
friends always complain that you never go
anywhere.

Educative threads like this don't make front page. Big ups quivah!

Mattpopson101:
Why zero is even
The standard definition of "even number" can be used to directly prove that zero is even. A number is called "even" if it is an integer multiple of 2. As an example, the reason that 10 is even is that it equals 5 × 2. In the same way, zero is an integer multiple of 2, namely 0 × 2, so zero is even.

It is also possible to explain why zero is even without referring to formal definitions.[2] The following explanations make sense of the idea that zero is even in terms of fundamental number concepts. From this foundation, one can provide a rationale for the definition itself—and its applicability to zero.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_of_zero

Exactly.

Mattpopson101:
There is no universal agreement about whether to include zero in the set of natural numbers. Some authors begin the natural numbers with 0, corresponding to the non-negative integers 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., whereas others start with 1, corresponding to the positive integers 1, 2, 3, ....

That's what I find interesting. This means an examiner must specify what is actually meant by natural number or else assume that the students know which convention is meant. Do you know that zero is considered an even number in some context?