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Has Mr. Grinch finally succeeded in stealing Christmas? The spirit of the season seems to have been lost, and each year, there's less and less hype and excitement about the whole thing.

Not only that, even other seasons like New Year and even birthdays seem to follow the same trend.

Did Christmas feel less exciting for you the last time around? Take a minute and share why that is.

Human reactions to offence vary widely, from the instantaneously explosive, to the reserved seething and internalized boiling. Meet Human Incinerators!


HUMAN INCINERATOR: ANGER AND REACTIONS TO OFFENCE.

Everybody feels. It is not very practical to live in the midst of other humans without taking offence at one thing or other. Though some might be able to mask it more than others, the fact remains that, everybody feels. But with that established, the question is, how do you react to offence?


THE PRE-INCINERATOR MAN: OPEN EXPRESSION OF ANGER.

The pre-incinerator man is the one who openly expresses anger.
Before incinerators, refuse was burnt in the open air.
When the pre-incinerator man gets trash dumped on him(is offended), he burns it outside and releases all the heat immediately. The heat is external, and hurts him less. That’s a merit.
On the down side, the pre-incinerator man, being the one who openly expresses anger, doesn’t mind who is affected by his expression of anger. Talk about the furniture that gets broken, the neighbor whose sleep is interrupted, the dog that spends the night hungry, the kid or parent that gets a glare, the lover that gets a cold shoulder… His reactions to offence are explosive.
As it turns out though, people who openly express feelings actually tend to be healthier.


THE INCINERATOR MAN: INTERNALIZING ANGER AND OTHER FEELINGS.

The incinerator man internalizes all the feelings. He is an automated machine. Nobody has to feel any of the heat, except the incinerator man. Nobody has to know what the offence is, many-a-times even the one that has caused the ‘hurt’ is not aware.
But there is a big downside to this. By storing the ‘trash’, it has time to rot and fester. Each time you remember the wrong done to you, you see it under different lights. It seems more grievous than the last time you considered it. This is because the trash has rotted further and stinks worse than the last time. Each time you see the party who has caused you offence, and you are immensely biased towards them.
However, sometimes, the trash can rot till there is nothing left of it. It all goes away, dies off naturally, and you are no longer disturbed by it.


“INCINERATOR MAN, IT’S NOT A SUPERPOWER.”

Effectively shielding others from having to bear the heat of his anger and the rot of his hurt might seem to him a noble act, the ‘matured’ thing to do. And maybe it is. But there is a problem here.
Remember there is a threshold for what the incinerator can take. When he has burned so much inside, eventually, the incinerator itself begins to burn.
Did you know people who internalize negative feelings can get sick because of it? They could get acute pharyngitis, constant fatigue, depression, increased proneness to infections and cardiovascular diseases!


MIDDLE GROUND: HEALTHY EXPRESSION.

So what do I do? Well,
hit a ball,
write or sing it out(some of the best works of art, poetry for example, come at the peak of feelings or emotions),
draw or paint,
verbalize,
gestalt,
talk calmly with the other party.


YOU MIGHT BE HURTHING SOMEONE WITHOUT REALIZING IT.

If everyone expressed their feelings openly, if you wronged someone and got a reaction almost instantly, it would have been better.
But there are incinerators! What if you keep wronging a person and get no reaction? Well, careful, you’ve been dumping trash in an incinerator. If you don’t watch it, the incinerator is going to burn out, then all the bottled heat is going to boom out and lick you up. All that stored up ash and soot is going to choke you. But by then, it would be too late.


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ZinoFasisi:


Praying in tongues is not a gift

Speaking in tongues is a gift.

Praying in tongues na scam, Jesus never said anything about it

Speaking is a gift of the spirit not a fruit which means only few people will have it

Praying in tongues is a must for all baptised Christians is a big scam

You're right in that it's not a fruit of the spirit, I very much agree. There're only 9 of those. Rather it is a gift of the spirit.

You say Jesus never said anything about it, but didn't he say "I shall send the comforter(the Holy Spirit) unto you?"

Did you see where the Bible says, "building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Spirit"? Hope you understand what it means to pray in the spirit? It's same as saying praying in tongues.

Another thing, you say praying in tongues is not a must for all baptized. Do you mean water baptism or spirit baptism? They're two different things. Water Baptism is done for it's significance, as it's analogous to dying(to sin) and resurrecting(to righteousness). That's just the significance of it.

But baptism in the Holy Spirit? The evidence that you see when you get baptized in the Holy Spirit is speaking in other tongues.

When the Holy Spirit was first poured out as recorded in Acts, it is recorded that(paraphrased) "the place was shaken where they were assembled, and there appeared unto them cloven tongues of fire, and it sat upon every one of them, and they spoke with other tongues."

There are many other recorded instances as such.

Hello! Let's look at it from a purely grammatical, literal point of view. I don't like to get into an argument, but let's just consider it together.

1 Corinthians 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

This is KJV. A little groundwork, 1 Cor 13, the whole chapter, is talking about love(which KJV translates as charity).

Now, this first verse, like many other verses in this chapter, is a conditional statement. " 'Though' I speak", some translations say " 'If I speak' ".

It is not saying speaking with other tongues sounds like tinkling cymbal. Rather, it is relating spiritual experiences with the topic of this chapter, which is primarily "LOVE."

So it says, "if I speak in tongues, but I don't have love in my heart, then my speaking in tongues is useless, just noise."

If you proceed to Chapter 14, it deals with speaking in tongues. Somewhere, the Apostle Paul says, "I thank my God that I speak in tongues more than ye all!" He speaks in tongues more than the whole of the Corinthian church!

So, why then would he say that speaking in tongues is noisemaking? He would be contradicting himself.

To clarify again, it's clear that what 1 Cor 13:1 is saying is this: "If I don't love/care for other people, and I speak in tongues, then I'm only making noise."

It's like saying, "if I'm telling everybody I'm going to China, and I don't even have a passport, then I'm only making a noise and disturbing myself."

Love is a core christian value. If you don't have love, you're not a true christian.

That's another way of putting it literally, striping off all the figurative expressions.

Read through Chapters 13 and 14, and may God give us deeper understanding.

hopefulLandlord:
After independence, in order to build a great nation, each country went to work. But in Nigeria, after independence, our people went to pray and fast. So, while we were praying, Malaysia came here and took our palm seedlings and built a great factory of it. While we were praying, Singapore went into investment in technology. While we were praying, India went into ICT. While we were praying, China went to massive industrialization. While we were shouting Allah Alakuba! UAE went into massive infrastructural development. While we were binding and casting Lucifer, Japan went into technological development. While we were speaking in tongues, Denmark went into education of her citizens. While we were mounting big speakers in our places of worship, USA was mounting man on the moon.

After our prayers, God, being a wise God decided to reward us according to our labour. Since those that went into industrialization, technology, infrastructural development, ICT, education etc have been rewarded accordingly. It's only wise God rewards us with our efforts in prayers. That's why today, Nigerian pastors are competing in building the biggest churches.

That's why there are more prayer houses and worship places than hospitals and schools. That's why people rush to prayer houses for medical and business solutions instead of hospitals. That's why we don't do business proposals before jumping into business since we are going to back it up with prayers. And when it collapse, we blame devil. That's why it's a sin to say anything negative about pastors and imams. That's why our pastors don't consider the opinion of engineers while building and blame devil when building collapse. That's why faith in God replaces building pillars and when it collapse we blame it on Lucifer. That's why our pastors are making sure they plant church branches instead of schools in every streets in Nigeria. That's why we always wait for gods to do that which ability to accomplish we already have in us. That's why we want our teachers to labour on earth and go to heaven for their rewards. Nigeria is a prayer loving, god fearing nation. Religion has taken the place of technology, infrastructure, education and all. When we are traveling, we ignore all the necessary road requirements, servicing of our vehicles and pray. And, once we pray, we can put a half fit vehicle on the road and blame our step mother or mother in law if anything goes wrong. That's why there are more people dying on our roads. Because, we pray and fast and leave everything to God when we have all we need to survive and build a nation....... I hope it made sense to you

Hello sir/ma. It is indeed interesting that you have taken time to type all these. Seems to me like compassion and patriotism. I've seen things along the lines of this.

But going by the rules of critical reasoning, one is supposed to consider all sides equally, without bias. But from all I've read of your comment, I haven't seen much of anything that doesn't stem directly from bias towards Faith and Religion.

Really sir/ma, if we will reason critically on this, how do you blame all the faults of a nation that's over a century old, on prayers, and nothing but prayers alone? I don't see how. You mean to say, the lack of infrastructural development, the lack of good roads, the poor health care, the violent elections, the poor educational system, the prevalent corruption, the endemic poverty, and every thing else, is due to the simple fact that we pray?

Really sir/ma, I would like to reason with you if only you'll provide a link, even in one of those instances, where the problem has been caused by prayer. You say prayer is the problem, okay fine. But my analytical mind cannot but stop to reason, why? Why is prayer, and prayer only, and you mean absolutely nothing else but prayer, the root of the problem? How? I would appreciate if you would answer this sir/ma. Really, it's all one question severally rephrased.

You cited a lot of nations where there has been development. You stated that these developments have taken place "while we were praying."

But I have to wonder, really? How old are these nations, compared to a nation of such immense diversity composed of scores of smaller nations that were amalgamated barely a century ago?

Okay, let's move on from that. I do not know much history. But hey, I've seen some. You imply that all these other nations you cited as the "better examples" don't pray? Is that so? Perhaps you haven't heard about the huge tent revivals that were prevalent in the late 1800s and early 1900s? And in "America". Yes, that's USA, United States of America! These meetings recorded hundreds of thousands of people, human beings, in attendance. And there wasn't only one of these meetings. Many of them were going on simultaneously across the country.

Do you mean to tell us then, that during those years, USA wasn't developing, wasn't progressing at all? I mean, there were hundreds of thousands of people attending tent revivals, there were thousands more on missionary fields across the world, so who is left to "develop the nation?" Isn't that a major part of the nation's workforce? So, if prayer was the problem, I think we can "reasonably infer" that USA should have had no development at all in those decades. Or what do you think?

Men like Kenneth E. Hagin, Smith Wigglesworth, Oral Roberts, and women inclusive, spent hours and days doing nothing but praying. Kenneth E. Hagin could go on for hours(4, 5 hours or more) on end doing nothing else but praying IN TONGUES! And he wasn't the only one.

So, why didn't America stop progressing.

Did you hear of the Scottish Revival? Yes, in Scotland! A revival so strong that it ran the alcohol businesses down for many years after. So, why isn't Scotland stuck in a mire of underdevelopment?

From what you've commented here, sir/ma, it doesn't appear like you enjoy praying very much. I don't like to, but your comment forces me to wonder, "what have you contributed to grow the nation, since you don't pray?"

Of course, it's not a one man job to build a nation, so I don't expect that you do it alone. I just wonder.

Now, all these nations you've stated, say USA now, they're not very much on the faith anymore, even though they have the inscription, "IN GOD WE TRUST" in every courtroom and every government building. It's part of their national identity. But again, do you mean there are no churches anymore over there, no one prays anymore? Then why are they still progressing?

Let's talk Dubai, located in a strict Islamic state where many people would miss their 3 meals a day before they can miss their 5 prayers a day! They pray! Why is there so much prosperity over there? Why do they have some of the best, most modern infrastructure over there?I mean, they pray and prayer should stop all progress, as I gather from your comment, isn't it? But if that were to be the case, Dubai should be just as good as some backwater city over here.

Let's see, since you want us to believe prayer is the problem.
The budget for the annual salaries of 109 lawmakers is about 3 times more than the educational budget for over a million undergraduate students in the nation. Over a million undergraduates, that's not counting the average of 1.5 million that take UTME every year. That's not counting the students of the secondary schools and pupils in primary schools. The postgraduates have not even factored in. Of course, lecturers and professors will be paid from that. Yet, the budget is three times less than that for 109 senators.

And you say prayer is the problem? Really?

Combine the health budget for over 200million citizens, and it's still less than the budget for 109 senators.

And you still tell me prayer is the problem?

Government officials reshuffle public funds to suit their pockets.

But still, we blame prayer for that?

First class graduates are "honored" with special teaching jobs with under 40,000 naira per month as salaries.

How does prayer take a fault for that?

The list could go on and on, but I've typed so much already. I'm not saying you're wrong, why would I? I just hope that you can explain how all the problems that beset a one-hundred-and-some year old nation all tie on prayer? How? Really, how? I have considered it critically, and I see no reason in it. I hope that you can show me some iota of reason in that claim, and I would be most glad to follow along in your reason if it appears to be reasonable.

But sir/ma, I would like to invite you to try something. Try prayer. Just for two minutes, close your eyes. You don't have to plan ahead what to say, just try it. Just express your heart like you were talking to a friend. You don't have to say it out. Just make an attempt. I really would appreciate it you did. I promise you one thing, you'll see that prayer works. Prayer doesn't create problems, it solves them. If you want reason on that, I'll give it.

Pardon if there're misspellings or messed-up sentences. I haven't taken time to edit.

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In this situation, what do you think your performance would be like?


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THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR HYPOTHESIS: BEFORE OR BEHIND?

Baby monkey looking at it's reflection in a mirror
Reflection in a mirror.

LET’S BEGIN WITH A MIRROR STORY.
There’s Jane Doe coming from a wild night out-maybe a little too wild. She’d had a lot of fun, and maybe a little more than she should have. And she knows too that it’s not perfectly safe out there, and she’d be safer inside. Aside it’s relative safety, staying inside had it’s benefits too, else, she would rather be out there where all the real fun can be had.



As she approaches the entrance, she finds that she can see inside. She appraises the situation. To her pleasant surprise, she finds that she’s actually on the inside already, sort of, there’s a placeholder for her. Though she can’t fathom it, it excites her to no end. She thinks, “If I’m here, and I’m simultaneously inside there already without being actually there yet, then...

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THE REAR-VIEW MIRROR HYPOTHESIS: BEFORE OR BEHIND?

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Reflection in a mirror.

LET’S BEGIN WITH A MIRROR STORY.
There’s Jane Doe coming from a wild night out-maybe a little too wild. She’d had a lot of fun, and maybe a little more than she should have. And she knows too that it’s not perfectly safe out there, and she’d be safer inside. Aside it’s relative safety, staying inside had it’s benefits too, else, she would rather be out there where all the real fun can be had.



As she approaches the entrance, she finds that she can see inside. She appraises the situation. To her pleasant surprise, she finds that she’s actually on the inside already, sort of, there’s a placeholder for her. Though she can’t fathom it, it excites her to no end. She thinks, “If I’m here, and I’m simultaneously inside there already without being actually there yet, then...

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stephenponti:


I had same challenge to buy one last year.
And the only option was to order it online from

Aliexpress, NGN 15,807.67 34%OFF +2300 shipping |

Phew, sorry I've been off NL. Seems you're going on a pro level with it. I'm chiefly on keyboard, but I've had a thing for harmonica for long. The sound is soothing, really.

I should check out the alibaba definitely. Thank you for the lead.

stephenponti:
Did you eventually get the chromatic harmonica?

I never have, not even on online stores. Your comment will be the first stirring.

Do you have any leads?

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History- World Innovation Gradients |(interviewing Primeval Man)


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INTELLIGENCE GRADIENTS AND INNOVATION GRADIENTS ACROSS THE WORLD.
There is a steep gradient of innovation across the continents, such that we can classify nations as developed or developing, and as it happens, the lowest point of this gradient is brought up by the arguable origin of all nations.

THE ORIGIN.
Homo sapiens evolved somewhere in Africa some 200,000 years ago, as evidenced by fossil records and comparative cultural practices across parts of the world.

About 80,000 years ago, some of them began migrating out of the ‘African jungles’ to other parts of earth, acquiring adaptations as necessary along their path so they can continue to survive and propagate life, settling some 60,000 to 80,000 years ago in Asia, Indonesia some 45,000, Europe at about 40,000 years, and 35,000 years ago, they were established in the Old World.
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INTELLIGENCE GRADIENTS AND INNOVATION GRADIENTS ACROSS THE WORLD.


There is a steep gradient of innovation across the continents, such that we can classify nations as developed or developing, and as it happens, the lowest point of this gradient is brought up by the arguable origin of all nations.

THE ORIGIN.

Homo sapiens evolved somewhere in Africa some 200,000 years ago, as evidenced by fossil records and comparative cultural practices across parts of the world.



About 80,000 years ago, some of them began migrating out of the ‘African jungles’ to other parts of earth, acquiring adaptations as necessary along their path so they can continue to survive and propagate life, settling some 60,000 to 80,000 years ago in Asia, Indonesia some 45,000, Europe at about 40,000 years, and 35,000 years ago, they were established in the Old World.

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