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chrisd:
On the other hand you'll live a life of peace and tranquillity.

Do you mean you use your energy for other stuff?

Whatever, I'll pass

chrisd:
Especially when you see the movies Noone wants to get in trouble with Italians.

That's the only reason I don't date Italian men, really

chrisd:
And who told you I care what your mother thinks.

No, chrisd, I'm not going to date you. Thanks for asking, but men, especially Italian men, are not my type

chrisd:
Or jeolosy perhaps.

How can you be jealous of excessive vanity?

damygurl:
yea a girl sure can do anything 4 d food. but umm d food not gon do it for my mom and yea she luvs italian just don't want her daughter marrying one.

What possible reason can she have to take that position, except for prejudice?

chrisd:
Depends what you mean by that. If it means you wait for the man because you done your part is not very mature. I think that they do what has to be done. Sometimes couples deisagree, but still something has to be done. Aren't they supposed to trust each other and not be too tight about things all the time.

I think you know what I mean. If both partners go out to work, you cannot expect your wife or partner to do all the household chores while you relax in the sofa with a glass of wine

You role is what you want it to be. The only thing that matters is that noone is forced into a role that he/she is not interested in. It's very mportant that the overall work in the household should be shared by both partners.
And even more important, no-one is commander in chief, important decisions are made jointly

perculiarrose:
this question is for KAG... please r u a christain. if u don't believe in God then shut up.

Why should anyone that doesn't believe in God shut up (by the way, there are also people that believein God and are not Christian)?

Seun:
What is "technical management"?

Things like purging the databases, optimising the software, developing an deploying new functionality, moving and merging threads, user administration, ...

Moderation, would include the tedious monitoring of the posts, intervening and warning users of infractions, ...

Seun,

Why don't you take an adminsitrator for the technical management of the board and some moderators for monitoring the content?

Advinchi:
wuwu wiwa!!!!!!!! That's ship's damn cool. But I won't take the risk of boarding that, not after what happened to its senior brother.

You shouldn't worry about that too much. Those new luxuary cruise ships are properly designed with enough security in mind. Do not forget that, if something like that were to sink nowadays, the insurance claims alone would complete bankrupt the owner/operator of the ship

Hunter:
i'm the only not african

No, you're not, but I acted as a stand-in for my wife

I would love to take a cruise on one of those, but, alas, my limited funds cannot be diverted to something as unproductive as that. Maybe one day

kenflavor:
nferyn, Please do. On NL u should be able to represent your wifey.

If only she wasn't so affraid of computers

Could all the Edo and Yoruba people that are into their history have a look at this thread:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-5002.0.html
anyone who help me further will receive much praise

mizkay:
nferyn - MUCH praise to you!!!! from the pics and the way you allude to your lovely wife, surely you are the purrrrfect dad and husband! I am still praying for my own beloved and kids.one day one day.but anyway, you have you there a very lovely little family.parlez vous francais?

Enter autres, mais je ne suis pas francophone, je suis néerlandophone (I'm not a native French speaker, my mother tongue is Dutch)
Merci à tous pour les compliments

I want to see the results of this poll, but I can't vote because, as I'm not Nigerian, none of the labels apply. Can I choose Edo, as my wife is?

nikkylolly:
Depends on where u think your own beleive comes in.

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. My beliefs are firmly rooted in material evidence and rationality.

nikkylolly:
U just dealt with the necessity question. "Science can and will tell u how but it does not deal with the why question".

Indeed, but that does not, by default, mean that religion deals with it in a satisfactory manner.

nikkylolly:
I think best thing to do is; offer our scientific believe when it's necessary n vice versa.

I do not see any necessity for religious beliefs. The only place where there could be place for it - of course in my opinion, don't take it for gospel - is in giving meaning to life. Science can and will tell you how, but it does not deal with the why question.

nikkylolly:
I think when we think about science n religion, we just tend to ignore it because it took us too far in thinking. I think best thing to do is; offer our scientific believe when it's necessary n vice versa.

You need to define necessity here. You positions can mean a lot of things.

nikkylolly:
Most scientist here, means leading scientists like Galileo, Alexandre, Newton and so.on and scientist that believe in their works n those ffg their footsteps.

There was very little else to do in that time but believe. In face of the existence evidence at that time, it was a reasonable position to take. Most leading scientists nowadays are atheist or deists. There are very few theist scientists. This is only natural, as our knowledge increases, the gaps the God-of-the-gaps can hide in are getting smaller and smaller.

There are two problems in the co-existence of science and religion. It's not that they cannot exist together, but the relationship between the two beliefs will be problematic at least in some respects. Both problems try to limit the scope of science in one way or another. The core concept of any religion is faith, the belief in something without evidence, a belief that rests on prior acceptance of the basic premises of that religion.

1. The treatment of the religious source material (texts and tradition). You can read that material in two distinct ways. Either you take them at face value and consider them as a literal source of your religious conviction (e.g. the Bible is the literal word of God and all that is said in the Bible is correct), or you consider that material in an allegorical way, where you need to put it into context to understand the deeper meaning or message of that material. If you follow the first approach (like many protestant, fundamentalist churches do), you immediately come into conflict with science, because it is in direct contradiction with these texts. Some elaborate apologetic attempts have been tried to reason away those differences, but they always fail. Only people that don't have a clue about what science is about could be convinced by these arguments. Either that or they deliberately ignore the scientific findings.

2. There is an epistemological (source of knowledge) problem with bringing together faith and science. The application of reason in the real world requires a rational treatment of the available evidence in the natural world. By having faith in the principles of a religion, you accept these premises on authority. You remove them from rational scrutiny. In effect, you put a wall between those beliefs on faith and what reason can bring you to.
In effect, you limit the scope rationality. You are saying that rational thought cannot investigate these premises. This leads to the famous God-of-the -Gaps, a God that exists only there where science does not have the answers yet. Mind you, by taking that position, you are behaving irrational. This is exactly what many Christian scientists do and in most cases it doesn't cause any problems because their field of expertise does not overlap the domain of their God belief.

This last series is far better than what came before

thx again for the compliments

Malherbe (1555), Consolation à M. Du Périer (1598)

Ta douleur, Du Périer, sera donc éternelle,
Et les tristes discours
Que te met en l'esprit l'amitié paternelle
L'augmenteront toujours !

Le malheur de ta fille au tombeau descendue
Par un commun trépas,
Est-ce quelque dédale, où ta raison perdue
Ne se retrouve pas ?

Je sais de quels appas son enfance était pleine,
Et n'ai pas entrepris,
Injurieux ami, de soulager ta peine
Avecque son mépris.

Mais elle était du monde où les plus belles choses
Ont le pire destin,
Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses,
L'espace d'un matin.

Puis quand ainsi serait que selon ta prière,
Elle aurait obtenu
D'avoir en cheveux blancs terminé sa carrière,
Qu'en fût-il advenu ?

Penses-tu que, plus vieille, en la maison céleste
Elle eût eu plus d'accueil ?
Ou qu'elle eût moins senti la poussière funeste
Et les vers du cercueil ?

Non, non, mon Du Périer, aussitôt que la Parque
Ôte l'âme du corps,
L'âge s'évanouit au-deçà de la barque,
Et ne suit point les morts