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Forum Games / Re: Partake In This Weekly Politics/general Knowledge Quiz Competition To Win N,5000 by nelsonoba: 12:28am On Apr 07, 2020
Loris576:

Pls how are winners selected..

The quiz questions have been uploaded now. For this edition, there is N10k up for grabs. N2k each to the first top 4 winners, and any random participant not among the top 4 would be the 5th winner. Winners will be announced on Friday. Winners will be contacted via the chatting system on the platform. Simply clicking the name of participants on the results page would take you to their profile to send them a chat message. So expect a message in your chat inbox from Admin if you win by friday evening
Celebrities / Re: Partake In This Weekly Politics/general Knowledge Quiz Competition To Win N,5000 by nelsonoba: 3:04pm On Apr 04, 2020
A new quiz will be uploaded on sunday evening or monday evening. it will be on the new website at https://uknow-591ad.firebaseapp.com/home

however, going on the old website and clicking on the start quiz link there will redirect you to the new website. A few practice questions have been uploaded to the new site for testing, but the main quiz questions will be uploaded on sunday or monday evening.

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Politics / Re: Partake In This Weekly Politics/general Knowledge Quiz Competition To Win N,5000 by nelsonoba: 3:03pm On Apr 04, 2020
A new quiz will be uploaded on sunday evening or monday evening. it will be on the new website at https://uknow-591ad.firebaseapp.com/home

however, going on the old website and clicking on the start quiz link there will redirect you to the new website. A few practice questions have been uploaded to the new site for testing, but the main quiz questions will be uploaded on sunday or monday evening.

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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Partake In This Weekly Politics/general Knowledge Quiz Competition To Win N,5000 by nelsonoba: 3:01pm On Apr 04, 2020
A new quiz will be uploaded on sunday evening or monday evening. it will be on the new website at https://uknow-591ad.firebaseapp.com/home

however, going on the old website and clicking on the start quiz link there will redirect you to the new website. A few practice questions have been uploaded to the new site for testing, but the main quiz questions will be uploaded on sunday or monday evening.

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Forum Games / Re: Partake In This Weekly Politics/general Knowledge Quiz Competition To Win N,5000 by nelsonoba: 3:00pm On Apr 04, 2020
A new quiz will be uploaded on sunday evening or monday evening. it will be on the new website at https://uknow-591ad.firebaseapp.com/home

however, going on the old website and clicking on the start quiz link there will redirect you to the new website. A few practice questions have been uploaded to the new site for testing, but the main quiz questions will be uploaded on sunday or monday evening.

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Forum Games / Re: Partake In This Weekly Politics/general Knowledge Quiz Competition To Win N,5000 by nelsonoba: 9:32am On Mar 31, 2020
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Ok.....I will upload one quiz session by this weekend. Possibly Friday or Saturday. N10k up for grabs shared among top 5 winners

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Programming / Re: [Career Post] "What Are My Chances Of Getting A Job As A Web Developer?" by nelsonoba: 10:10pm On Mar 15, 2020
Codysseus:


Bro please kindly advise me on which path to follow in becoming a self-taught web(and mobile) developer. I'm ready to learn the whole day. I just need a guide on how to start and where I can get free resources for learning as I can't afford these bootcamp training in Lagos. Thanks
Maybe send me a dm
Science/Technology / Re: 170-Million-Year-Old Stegosaurus Dinosaur Footprints On UK Island Discovered by nelsonoba: 9:36am On Mar 13, 2020
ReneeNuttall:
My qstn is,How do they discover these things?Cuz we were told Rhinos ,Dino's,And stygos existed millions of years ago,even though the Bible said the world started existing thousands of years ago.And these scientists were non existent then.

For all I can imagine that could be a Print of maybe a stone or an object that once landed there during a volcanic eruption.I'm just thinking out loud.

The bible does not record any idea of how long ago the earth was created. It only begins keeping records of time from when Adam was created. God had already created the heavens and the earth long before Genesis chapter 1:3 when God began to 'recreate' the earth by speaking and saying LET THERE BE LIGHT.

Genesis 1:1 was the beginning when God first created everything on earth including water which you won't find mentioned again as being created during the 6 days of recreation starting from verse 3, because it was already mentioned as being there on earth in verse 2 before God said let there be light. If everything was created in the 6days of creation as some of our Sunday school teachers had erroneously told us (without studying the bible properly), then on which of the 7days did God create the water we see in verse 2 before the 6days of "creation" began

In summary, bible scholars believe a lot of things happened in between Genesis chapter 1 vs 1 and vs 3 which were not recorded in the bible, and one of them was the fall of Lucifer. They also believe it's highly likely that God had created other beings on earth before the earth was destroyed by water in Genesis 1:2, and God was merely recreating the earth again when he created Adam. There could be elements of truth in this, but the most important thing is that we don't know how long ago the earth was created, could have been thousands or millions or even billions of years ago
Science/Technology / Re: Earth Was A 'Waterworld' Covered By A Global Ocean 3.2 Billion Years Ago by nelsonoba: 6:01pm On Mar 03, 2020
I honestly don't know how this is coming as "news" or a "new discovery" to these "Scientists". It's been recorded in the bible from thousands of years ago (Genesis chapter 1 verses 1 - 2) that the whole earth was covered in water for a period of time (which we weren't told the duration) between when God first created the heavens and the earth in Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 and Genesis chapter 1 verse 3 when God began recreating the earth and called for dry land to appear out of the waters, and at the end of the RECREATION, God created Adam on the 6th day.

I have heard many people who haven't read their bible properly attempt to claim that "the bible said the earth is about 7,000years old", to which I always wonder IN WHAT BIBLE DID THEY SEE SUCH INFORMATION? While we can clearly deduce from the genealogy recorded in the bible from the time of Adam that God must have created Adam about 7,000years ago approximately, that by no means indicates that God created the earth only 7,000years ago.

The bible only began keeping record of time from day 1 of earth's RECREATION when God called for light to appear in Genesis 1 verse 3. Between Genesis chapter 1 verse 1 and verse 2 is a period of time we have no idea how long it was. The bible does not record anything about the timeframe inbetween.

For those still thinking this is a made up story and that God created everything in 7days, have you asked yourself when within those 7days God created water In verse 2 even before God started recreating the earth and saying LET THERE BE LIGHT, we can already see that water was in existence at that time.

Just maybe when people start taking the bible seriously, we'll understand science more.

Johannes Kepler, one of the greatest modern scientists who ever lived said "I study science to discover the patterns and principles hidden in God's magnificent creation". Some modern scientists now think "There is no God".........and that is why they are only just discovering what even ancient people who read the bible already knew.
Family / Re: Newborn Brazilian Baby Frowns At Doctor Seconds After Delivery, Turns Meme by nelsonoba: 2:23pm On Feb 27, 2020
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Religion / Re: Proportion Of Christian Nobel Prize Winners by nelsonoba: 9:51am On Feb 12, 2020
BeLookingIDIOT:
Are you guys saying now that christains are the main proponent of the "anti-christ theories" sad
How was the research conducted exactly
How is this magic even possible undecided
Almost everyone in the academy of sciences and the royal society and other distinguished academies are atheists/agnostic,and this survey was determined by direct questioning not assuming people's religious beliefs simply because they come from a certain religious background(xtianity is main religion in the west,at least nominally,so it's expected) and are not vocal in their atheism.If not we would also had erroneously concluded that those in those academies are christains.

Oga try and use your sense na......this is not a "survey". It is DATA REPRESENTING FACTS. You can go Google the entire list of Nobel winners between 1901 and 2000, then Google the personal lives of each of them.

It is fallacy to claim All or most members of academia are Atheists. How many of them have you met personally to confirm?
Just because you are a scientist doesn't mean you have to be a fool.

Aren't there members of the academia in Covenant University? Aren't there members of the academia in Israel that has the highest number of orthodox Jews in the world? Just because a certain propaganda is continuously pushed by the Western society's mainstream media does not mean it is true. Everyone who went to university in Nigeria or even outside Nigeria probably knows one or more Christian Lecturer they had while in school.

So stop sounding surprised that Christians have been working hard in science and winning the Nobel prize

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Education / Proportion Of Christian Nobel Prize Winners 1901 - 2000 by nelsonoba: 7:27pm On Feb 10, 2020
Whenever I hear the regular lie Atheists have been told that Christianity and science are not compatible or that if you believe in the bible, it means you are stupid or a science-denier, it just makes me feel sorry for whoever it is that is so narrow-minded that they couldn't even look through their history books to access basic factual information beyond what they've been hearing from the biased Left-wing dominated media. BETWEEN 1900 & 2000, THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS WERE CHRISTIANS AND JEWS......AND IT HASN'T CHANGED SO MUCH TODAY. But the Atheist dominated mainstream media and Academic institutions would never want people to know the truth. Each time I remind Atheists that the inventors of the aeroplane were two devout Christian brothers whose father was a Bishop, they always sound surprised to hear it because THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD THAT BY THE LIARS WHO CONVINCED THEM THAT SCIENCE HAS BURIED GOD.

Most of the time when I encounter Atheists who believe they "know and believe in science, and that science has proven God does not exist", I try to engage them in a scientific conversation, and 100% of the time, they turn out to be people who have far less understanding of the laws of science (Maths, Physics and Chemistry precisely) than I do. And at a certain point in the conversation, they always go like "well, I never claimed to have all the answers and science is still evolving"..........but these were people who some moments ago were very adamant that I was stupid and that they had the answers in science and not the bible, and that I was crazy for believing a bible with stories that don't sound "scientific".

HOW "SCIENTIFIC" IS IT BELIEVING IN A BIG BANG THEORY YOU CLAIM CAUSED THE APPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE WHEN YOU HAVE NO EXPLANATIONS WHATSOEVER TO GIVE WHEN ASKED WHO/WHAT CREATED THE MATTER AND ENERGY THAT CAUSED THIS BIG BANG? WHERE DID THAT MATTER AND ENERGY COME FROM, GIVEN THE FACT THAT BEFORE THE UNIVERSE WAS FORMED, THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING?

One of the most ridiculous answers I got from one of these wannabe Scientist Atheists was "well, the matter and energy was there already before the big bang" ����

If the matter and energy were there before the big bang, then the big bang as you claim was not the origin/beginning of the universe because you have just asserted that something existed before it!

THIS IS ONE OF THE SO MANY REASONS WHY IT IS VERY HARD TO BE AN ATHEIST IF YOU ARE USED TO EXERCISING YOUR THINKING CAPABILITIES AS AN ADULT HUMAN. IT'S EASY TO FAKE BEING ATHEIST, BUT IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BE A REAL ATHEIST AS AN ADULT .

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/List_of_Christian_Nobel_laureates.html

Religion / Proportion Of Christian Nobel Prize Winners by nelsonoba: 7:17pm On Feb 10, 2020
Whenever I hear the regular lie Atheists have been told that Christianity and science are not compatible or that if you believe in the bible, it means you are stupid or a science-denier, it just makes me feel sorry for whoever it is that is so narrow-minded that they couldn't even look through their history books to access basic factual information beyond what they've been hearing from the biased Left-wing dominated media. BETWEEN 1900 & 2000, THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS WERE CHRISTIANS AND JEWS......AND IT HASN'T CHANGED SO MUCH TODAY. But the Atheist dominated mainstream media and Academic institutions would never want people to know the truth. Each time I remind Atheists that the inventors of the aeroplane were two devout Christian brothers whose father was a Bishop, they always sound surprised to hear it because THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD THAT BY THE LIARS WHO CONVINCED THEM THAT SCIENCE HAS BURIED GOD.

Most of the time when I encounter Atheists who believe they "know and believe in science, and that science has proven God does not exist", I try to engage them in a scientific conversation, and 100% of the time, they turn out to be people who have far less understanding of the laws of science (Maths, Physics and Chemistry precisely) than I do. And at a certain point in the conversation, they always go like "well, I never claimed to have all the answers and science is still evolving"..........but these were people who some moments ago were very adamant that I was stupid and that they had the answers in science and not the bible, and that I was crazy for believing a bible with stories that don't sound "scientific".

HOW "SCIENTIFIC" IS IT BELIEVING IN A BIG BANG THEORY YOU CLAIM CAUSED THE APPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE WHEN YOU HAVE NO EXPLANATIONS WHATSOEVER TO GIVE WHEN ASKED WHO/WHAT CREATED THE MATTER AND ENERGY THAT CAUSED THIS BIG BANG? WHERE DID THAT MATTER AND ENERGY COME FROM, GIVEN THE FACT THAT BEFORE THE UNIVERSE WAS FORMED, THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING?

One of the most ridiculous answers I got from one of these wannabe Scientist Atheists was "well, the matter and energy was there already before the big bang" ����

If the matter and energy were there before the big bang, then the big bang as you claim was not the origin/beginning of the universe because you have just asserted that something existed before it!

THIS IS ONE OF THE SO MANY REASONS WHY IT IS VERY HARD TO BE AN ATHEIST IF YOU ARE USED TO EXERCISING YOUR THINKING CAPABILITIES AS AN ADULT HUMAN. IT'S EASY TO FAKE BEING ATHEIST, BUT IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BE A REAL ATHEIST AS AN ADULT .

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/List_of_Christian_Nobel_laureates.html

Politics / Re: Oke Umurhohwo: What Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial Could Teach Nigeria by nelsonoba: 12:35pm On Feb 07, 2020
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Patrioticman007:
That Dumb Trump has scaled his scandals not because he is innocent, but because he has majority of buffoons in the Senate. However I pity Nigerians that are supporting this devil incarnate, for Dumb Trump, Nigeria is a shithole its doesn't matter you're a Muslim or Christian, the immigrants visa ban is just a tip of an iceberg.

The world capitalist capital will continue to exploit us economically just like they did during the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade in the 1600's down to coming of Christianity with her Colonial Husband the Union Jack ( "They asked us to close our eyes & pray, when we opened back our eyes, we had the bible but our land were gone" O. Daniel. 1911). These neocolonialist will keep using their divide & rule tactics on Nigerians till we understand there is no free meal in free town. Those who know, know.
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Rantings of a self-delusional ignorant soul who doesn't even appreciate the fact that slavery started long before Christianity, but it only ended because some whitemen who believed in the Judeo-Christian values for human life in the 19th century decided there was no justification for carrying on with slavery. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican who believed in the bible went to war with his fellow whitemen to ensure there was an enforcement of the ban of slavery. Without white Christian men like Lincoln, you would still have slavery going on today because there was absolutely no indication that our fellow black men who were slave raiders had any intention of quitting their lucrative trade of capturing black people and selling them to whitemen to be transported abroad for forced labour.

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Politics / Re: Trump's Acquittal: Femi Fani-Kayode FFK Reacts by nelsonoba: 2:16pm On Feb 06, 2020
Jesse25:
Trump is so arrogant and he hate blacks I still don't know why stupid Nigerians support him

I think you're the STUPID one for believing twisted narratives coming from CNN and calling us stupid for merely being able to see clearly what you fail to see

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Trump Ignored Nancy Pelosi's Handshake Before She Tore His Speech by nelsonoba: 12:21pm On Feb 05, 2020
recievesense:


https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Trump+lies

Ok.....so you've sent me articles from the Radical Leftist New York Times that does not attempt to hide their hatred and bias against Trump?

I had asked you to tell me which lies he told for which he should be impeached, but your article was not specific.

One of the things your article said is that "No one believes Trump". That statement alone shows me that the New York Times is so far Left that they are now out of touch with reality. So no one believes Trump, but he promised he was going to bring back jobs while Obama was campaigning and ridiculing him saying "what magic wand does Trump have to bring back those jobs he claims he will bring back"? And today we know the American economy is at its strongest in many decades. Unemployment is the lowest in 50years and unemployment for Black Americans is at its lowest in history. Trump said he will build the wall, and we have all seen videos of the border wall being built even though it's not going as fast as Trump may want cos Congress is deliberately trying to starve the project of funding.

So all these promises from Trump were lies?? And you mean to tell me no one believes Trump, but his campaign rallies are always packed full even to overflow whereas Joe Biden and other Democrats struggle to fill a 5,000 capacity venue in their campaigns?? You obviously haven't been seeing Trump's rallies, and that is why you can deceive yourself to come and say no one believes Trump. If Trump was the liar that New York Times and CNN claim he is, why then is his popularity increasing?

In case, you are not aware, Trump's favourability among black Americans as at December 2019 was at 34.5% according to Rasmussen poll......up from 8% in 2016. You need to ask yourself how come more people keep joining a man that the media has been calling a liar for 3years if that man is who the media said he was
Foreign Affairs / Re: Trump Ignored Nancy Pelosi's Handshake Before She Tore His Speech by nelsonoba: 12:03pm On Feb 05, 2020
recievesense:
don't mind the asshole called trump.Trump has broken the record of most lies told by a human being in under 3 yrs. His supporters are bunch of illiterates and he is riding on Obamas success. He joined politics to enrich himself and give billionaires tax cut while the poor languish. Bernie 2020!!!!!!!

Whenever I see CNN Zombies like you and I ask them to list the "lies" Trump told for which he should be removed from office, they have never been able to come up with anything verifiable and coherent. So please can you list 5 of Trump's lies you know about for which he should be removed from office so we can know?
Religion / Re: Bishop Oyedepo Curses Boko Haram, Miyetti Allah Over Suicide Bomber At Winners by nelsonoba: 3:16pm On Feb 03, 2020
ghettokid1:
Why all the curse??
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Jesus's last prayer:
"Forgive Them Father, For They Do Not Know What They Are Doing".
So why all the curse??

Oga there is a time for everything! Even the Jesus you are quoting on several occasions looked at the Pharisees and Saducees and told them "Woe unto you brood of vipers!"
Politics / Re: Presidency Reacts To US Visa Ban On Nigerians by nelsonoba: 6:25pm On Feb 01, 2020
helinues:
Nobody will tell US to reverse the policy by the time they start to feel the economic impacts..

We have the population on our side..

Modified: To those who are quoting me, sebi those migrants that they are about to stop dont pay for visa as Usa to Nigeria is visa free, flight ticket free and they always travel to Usa empty handed

YOU SOUND LIKE SOMEBODY FROM THE STONE AGE WHO IS SO PRIMITIVE IN HIS REASONING. America just finished a trade war with China that lasted almost 1year before China eventually succumbed and agreed to negotiate with Trump. They finally signed the revised trade deal that Trump had been demanding for only a few weeks ago.

If the US can impose tariffs and trade restrictions on China for 1year and the US economy kept growing while China's economy continued to decline all through that period, then who is Nigeria to affect the US economy In case you don't know, the US economy is worth over $21Trillion. How much is Nigeria's economy worth?? Is the entire budget for 2019 not less than N12trillion which is not up to $34billion Try and educate yourself so you wont be writing this kind of comment you just made

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Travel / Re: Why US Is Mulling Visa Ban On Nigeria, By Diplomatic Sources by nelsonoba: 11:18pm On Jan 26, 2020
TEYA:

China was once worse than Iran and Singapore once begged to stay with Malaysia. These two countries did not attain first world status by having the kind of servile mindset you have. They worked hard and stayed independent of America. The journey to greatness is not a one day walk. Under Abacha, Nigeria survived American sanctions and fared well. I resound it, "you need urgent help, you have a serious self esteem problem". See pesin wey get sense.

Name one country that is as prosperous as the USA and their citizens enjoy personal liberty and basic fundamental human rights, including freedom of speech. I am waiting undecided
Foreign Affairs / Re: Trump Threatening A Damaging New Trade War With The United Kingdom After Brexit by nelsonoba: 9:15pm On Jan 25, 2020
DexterousOne:



You are one of these religious fanatics

I should have known undecided

Ok......you obviously can't name one outside America. But as usual, your Leftist inclination will not allow you argue with facts and logic, so you have to resort to name-calling and emotional tantrum.
Foreign Affairs / Re: Trump Threatening A Damaging New Trade War With The United Kingdom After Brexit by nelsonoba: 9:03pm On Jan 25, 2020
salford1:

I wanted to reply this post above, but realised it's not worth it. You admitted getting your news from Alt-right, racist, white supremacist and neo Nazi news agents.
This is beyond me; hence, I will pass. It was nice meeting you.



https://www.nairaland.com/5623334/iran-plane-crash-victims-ukraine/6#85720681

And how does getting facts from any source change the truth? Your problem is that you have been brainwashed by the likes of CNN and BBC. You obviously don't know that since 2017, CNN's ratings and viewership in American homes have drastically plummeted after people began realising that Trump wasn't lying for calling them fake news. As a matter of fact, Fox News now rates as the number one cable news television channel in America, CNN is not even 2nd. Go and Google it for yourself. By the way, see your CNN below. Also find out why they were sued for $275million by that teenager and why they eventually settled by paying out $20million to that boy......but you keep getting your fake news narrative from them

Travel / Re: Why US Is Mulling Visa Ban On Nigeria, By Diplomatic Sources by nelsonoba: 8:55pm On Jan 25, 2020
TEYA:

Low self esteem is destroying you. Look for help.

Look at yourself in the mirror and see the figure of a soul in need of light and wisdom. You think your hatred of America changes the facts? How far with Iran nah? Is it not the same Iran that chants "death to America" that was recently almost begging for America to use their sophisticated equipment to analyse the downed Ukrainian airline black box data How many countries do you know that have prospered financially while they were under sanctions by America?? When they tell people like you to have sense, you think we're asking for too much
Foreign Affairs / Re: Trump Threatening A Damaging New Trade War With The United Kingdom After Brexit by nelsonoba: 8:47pm On Jan 25, 2020
DexterousOne:


Oga
Whether a country is religious or not has no bearing with religion



America is the only G8 country with more than 60% of the people being religious


On the other hand
There are dozens of religious countries that are shithole failed zoos.


There are also countries that don't believe much in God and are very prosperous

And there are atheist countries that are struggling (you see that In eastern Europe )

So once again

You argument is inconsistent

You are one of those who like to be wilfully blind to truth. Go and read my post you responded to again. You are not God. God himself is clear that any people who serve him and follow his principles will be blessed. You obviously have not read the American declaration of independence and what factors they considered to draw up their constitution. For your information, so many thing were literally drafted from the bible! Go and study it and stop making noise over matters you don't understand.

America literally has "IN GOD WE TRUST" on their currency and you are here trying to deny what you don't know.

I will say it again to your hearing; AMERICA IS THE GREATEST BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE BOTH IN GOD AND THE PRINCIPLES OF GOD. What other country do you know that a majority of them believe in God and the principles of God? Name one!
Foreign Affairs / Re: Trump Threatening A Damaging New Trade War With The United Kingdom After Brexit by nelsonoba: 5:00pm On Jan 25, 2020
DexterousOne:


China that is more developed than most countries on earyh
They are mostly atheist


Just so you know

Your analysis is flawed

Africa is most religious and is backwards

China and some other countries in Asia that are devt is atheist

For a start, The US is far more prosperous and powerful than China in every sense.....except maybe in terms of 5G technology.

The only area where China is more than the US is in population. And even with almost 5times the population of the US, China's GDP is still not up to 70% of the US GDP.

Secondly, you talk about China being a model of development, let me ask you; what sort of development is that when the citizens are not free? In China, you are policed by the state, you can't criticize the government without going to jail. You can't freely practice any religion of your choice as you wish. You can't decide to have 5 children if you so wish without being frowned upon by the government. You can't work and keep most of your profits to yourself because of excessive taxation by the communist government which believe every citizen is working for the state.

What sort of "development" is that?? I would rather have the type of development the US offers where I can thrive and enjoy personal liberty than the sham offered by China.

Africa is religious and backwards, but you also forget that North Korea is Atheist and very backwards. The average Nigerian under Buhari's failed government lives a far better life than the average North Korean who is not a top member of the ruling communist worker's party. Go and check this fact and stop using religion as a yardstick in your fake analysis.

America is more religious than Nigeria, but they are prosperous because they follow the principles of prosperity outlined in the Judeo-Christian values whereas in Africa, most religious people do not understand principles! The Judeo-Christian principles for prosperity will work for any society that applies them, whether that society is very religious or not, it doesn't matter! God is not a respecter of persons, so his principles will work for anyone who applies them. This is why rain falls on both good and wicked people.

America is great because they understand these principles as a nation and apply them. And just to mention one of these Judeo-Christian principles that America applies - Foreign Aid! America is the largest foreign aid donor by far! One of the principles of prosperity apart from hardwork is GIVING! God said if you give, it will be given back to you in good measure pressed down shaken together and running over. The same bible says that it is more blessed to give than to receive. The same bible says the hand that gives is greater than he that receives. America spends tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid every year, but have you ever heard Nigeria or any African country giving yearly aid, even to any other African country that they are better than?

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Trump Threatening A Damaging New Trade War With The United Kingdom After Brexit by nelsonoba: 4:36pm On Jan 25, 2020
salford1:

I don't know what you are on about. 76% of Europeans believe in Christianity compared to 65% of Americans. If it is by religion, Nigeria should ideally be the most developed country in the world.

If we are to use "believe in God", the percentage would even be higher due to the large Muslim population in Europe.

You must be talking about another Europe. Certainly not the Europe on planet earth. And very specifically, I said Western Europe, which seems to have the most developed countries of Europe.

Let me ask you; have you ever heard any European president or prime Minister give a speech and end it with "God bless you" or "God bless Britain" or "God bless _____ country"?

But when American Presidents give a national speech, they would usually end with "God bless America".

Donald Trump himself constantly says it in many of his speeches that "In America, we don't worship government, we worship God". Which other European country have you heard their president say such kind of thing?

And to be clear, when I say "believe in God", I am not talking about any kind of god. I mean the Judeo-Christian God. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So you don't need to bring in the middle eastern countries. And even if you decide to bring in middle eastern countries, look at Israel, the only free democracy in the middle east, and the most technologically advanced nation in the middle east. They are so advanced that America buys some weapons systems from Israel. And they are the only country that has a majority of their population believing in the Judeo-Christian God.

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Family / Re: My 14-Year-Old Daughter Was Caught In Hotel With Boys, Smoking, Drinking by nelsonoba: 4:25pm On Jan 25, 2020
Gaggi:
Every parents greatest nightmare. I still find it difficult blaming parents for the behaviour of their wayward kids. We have seen kids from very good home become bad and kids from very dysfunctional homes become good.

Giving them gadgets doesn't translate to spoiling them per say. Sometimes you also want your kids exposed and to have access to stuff.

I advise you keep talking and praying. Also lead by example. Always counsel, be a listening ear and be a friend.

However, pikin wey wan spoil go still spoil, hopefully all you taught them will likely be at the back of their mind and lead them back to the right path. Some kids can resist peer pressure and some cannot. We have seen cultists become pastors and pastors kids become cultists.

Be hopeful.

100% true! I can use myself as a practical example. I was born into a dysfunctional home where my mother and father were not married. They were just doing boyfriend and girlfriend even though my father was already married to another woman at that time and my mother was already divorced from her previous husband. My mother had 3 kids before she met my father from her divorced marriage, and she then had me and my younger sister for my dad. My father was never a part of our growing up and my younger sister and I were both exposed to a lot of things kids should not be exposed to, and to be honest, there was every opportunity for us to become wayward.

But guess what? As at when I was 12 years old, I gave my life to Christ and I had enough sense to tell myself that I don't want to live the kind of life my mother and father lived. I was determined to correct the lifestyle instead of living the same life of my parents and blaming them for not showing the right example for me. I was fortunate enough to have other distant people in church I could look up to, and they made me understand that if I don't want to end up the same way my parents did, I must find out what they were doing wrong and do the opposite.

At this point, I concluded that I WILL NEVER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH PREMARITAL SEX. SEX MUST BE WHEN I GET MARRIED.

By the time my younger sister was 19, she had gotten pregnant for her boyfriend and had to drop out from school, only to go back years later. I got married at 32 and my wife was the first woman I had sex with on that wedding night. It was not easy, and things almost happened in my previous 2 relationships that would have made me cross the line when the temptations were so intense, but thank God for his Grace that helped me on those two occasions and I was able to stop the kissing and touching that had already started and was almost certainly going to have led to sex.

What I want to highlight here is this; me and my sister were exposed to the same dysfunctional home experience, she chooses the wrong lifestyle and ends up getting pregnant out of wedlock twice while I chose to say no to the wrong lifestyle in order to make something good for myself. LIFE IS ABOUT CHOICES. YOU MAY COME FROM A POOR OR DYSFUNCTIONAL BACKGROUND, BUT YOUR CHOICES CAN CREATE THE OPPOSITE RESULTS FOR YOU. There is only so much we can blame parents for. The best gift any parent can give a child is not expensive mobile phone or gadgets, but rather helping them to know Christ. There are so many nonsense in a teenager's life that a genuine relationship with Christ will automatically correct. Today, I find a lot of adults who are my age mates or even older and they are just beginning to understand some wisdom and sense about life that I already understand when I was a teenager simply by studying my bible.....especially the book of Proverbs

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Trump Threatening A Damaging New Trade War With The United Kingdom After Brexit by nelsonoba: 3:51pm On Jan 25, 2020
Albert0011:
So he still have the guts to threaten UK their mother country.
He should remember that power doesn't last forever.
Britain was once like U S far back 18th to 20th century.

Britain was like the US until from the period around World War II, when most of Britain and Western Europe began throwing away their old values centred around belief in God, and they started embracing atheism. From that period onwards, the power disparity between The US and Britain began to increase. Today, the GDP of the US is more than the Combined GDP of all countries in Europe combined.

Unfortunately, we still have some idiots in Nigeria who now tell us that when societies embrace atheism and get rid of religion like has been largely done in Britain and Western Europe, that such a country would experience fast development. They forget that The US which is the most prosperous and powerful country in the history of mankind is a country where over 70% of the population still believes in God!

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Travel / Re: Why US Is Mulling Visa Ban On Nigeria, By Diplomatic Sources by nelsonoba: 11:40am On Jan 25, 2020
helinues:
USA will do so tey they will stepped on many countries toes, those countries will renegate against usa and relegate them in the top world country .

Even if you over eat, you go purge

Looks like you don't live on this planet o. So you think most of the countries working together with the US are doing so because they love to play second fiddle to the US?? In case you don't know, the US is number one in the world by far, and if you choose not to work with them, you will only be damaging your own country. They don't have a choice but to cooperate with the US. The US economy also is larger than all the economies of Europe combined, so understand it that there is nothing like them ganging up against US and succeeding. There is a reason the US refer to themselves as God's own country, as against most of Europe where majority don't believe in God

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Crime / Re: Nigerien Man Accused Of Stealing Penis In Umuahia (Video) by nelsonoba: 9:37pm On Jan 23, 2020
Izigha:

so why did papa Ejima not ask christ to return the missing manhood? just asking grin

And papa Ejima told you he believes in Jesus, right? And even if he goes to church, he told you he is a strong Christian who understands the bible, right??
Crime / Re: Nigerien Man Accused Of Stealing Penis In Umuahia (Video) by nelsonoba: 6:01pm On Jan 23, 2020
ENEMYOFGOD6:
grin grin

how do we get here as a country ? it is impossible for a man to take another Man's Penis.we have been hearing the Penis lost since 13AD, but nobody has a concrete evidence to back up their allegedly disappeared Penis.nonsense liar.

Of course he has to be a "liar"! Going by your name alone, I see every reason why you will claim he was lying. It's deluded people like you who like claiming there's no God or there's no devil or witchcraft. Just wait for the day it may be your turn to encounter the devil. This nonsense in your eyes will clear that day. You won't need anyone to advise you to run to Christ on that day.

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