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Religion / Re: This Is How A Christian Should View Homosexuality by NoContract(m): 12:11pm On Aug 13, 2017 |
I'm coming.
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Family / Re: Headless Girl Who Appeared In A Couple's Family Pic Causes Panic On Instagram by NoContract(m): 12:04pm On Aug 13, 2017 |
the level of foolishness on Nairaland is too much for me 1 Like |
Literature / Re: Horror In Two Sentences.. by NoContract(m): 8:48am On Mar 22, 2017 |
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Politics / Re: Dino Melaye's 2nd Semester Result With Carry Over At ABU Zaria By Sahara Reporte by NoContract(m): 1:57pm On Mar 21, 2017 |
joe4real12: Stupid stockholm syndrome victims.
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Family / Re: Man Catches His Wife Sleeping With Her Ex On Their Matrimonial Bed In Ibadan by NoContract(m): 4:29pm On Mar 03, 2017 |
DLondonboiy: Alagbos are lowlives? You have a serious debilitating mental condition. |
Politics / Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 93rd Posthumous Birthday Is Today by NoContract(m): 11:22am On Mar 03, 2017 |
kingthreat: You're a northerner? |
Culture / Re: Oba Aruna Ishola: "Any Oba Who Sees Me Will Die" by NoContract(m): 6:35pm On Mar 01, 2017 |
decatalyst: You are such an already sold British slave. To slap you just dey hungry me. |
Politics / Re: Owner Of 10 Gwagons Reacts To Whistleblower's Accusation (pics) by NoContract(m): 2:13pm On Feb 28, 2017 |
Travel / Re: Living In France by NoContract(m): 9:45am On Feb 14, 2017 |
summerflame: Hi, I like your honesty. Please can you update me on how you got your French tourist visa? 1 Like |
TV/Movies / Re: Post All TV/Movie Audition Notices Here by NoContract(m): 2:50pm On Feb 11, 2017 |
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Literature / Re: Which Book Are You Currently Reading? Share Some Thoughts! by NoContract(m): 6:56pm On Jan 25, 2017 |
abumeinben: You have an ePub copy? |
Nairaland / General / MMM Nigeria: Movie In Pictures 2017. by NoContract(m): 1:53pm On Jan 23, 2017 |
Food / Re: See What Was Killed In My Compound Yesterday Evening! by NoContract(m): 10:20am On Sep 28, 2015 |
Too much _idiots and senseless vagrant display of absolute stupidity from ignorant educated illiterates here on Nairaland these days. Chai! Education miss road. #AnotherKidPost 11 Likes |
Religion / The Christian God’s Stance On Slavery. by NoContract(m): 11:04am On Sep 06, 2015 |
The common apologetic response to the question of how God feels about slavery is that he definitely opposed the historical tradition. The long-time practice of holding innocent individuals against their will could very well be the worst crime humankind has ever committed. The Hebrew god, who is purported to love his people to a degree that we could never comprehend, would certainly have to declare some explicit opposition to slavery, wouldn’t he? Truth be told, the Bible contains not one mention of God’s desire to end slavery. Out of all the “thou shalt nots” and multitude of rules that he provides for us; out of all the chapters that God spends giving us intricate directions for making candles, tents, and temples; and out of all the chapters that God inspires the authors to spend on telling us who begat whom; not once does he ever take the time to abolish, admonish, or reject slavery. Because God is omniscient, he knew a time would arrive when the results of his silence would include the capture, torture, castration, dehumanization, and/or murder of tens of millions of Africans around the world. Even with his unlimited knowledge, God still neglects to spend two seconds of his infinite time to ensure that we have his documented denouncement of slavery. Using elementary deduction and common sense on this scrap of information, we’re already able to conclude that it wasn’t displeasing in the eyes of the Hebrew god for a more powerful individual to own a lesser. Does the presumably apathetic preference of God toward slavery mean that we’re left with a distant ruler demonstrably indifferent toward the institution? In such a case, perhaps he wants us to use our judgment on whether or not it’s morally acceptable to own other people. Regrettably, an in depth analysis of the Bible tells us that this cannot be the case either. As hard as it may be to accept, even for those doubtful of the Bible’s authenticity, God and the multitude of his appointed biblical authors are strongly vocal in their advocation of slavery. In fact, prior to the American Civil War, slaveholders worldwide used many of the passages we’ll examine to justify their nightmarish treatment of kidnapped Africans. The orders supposedly given by God are clear enough that I can honestly see how a mentally conditioned Christian would condone or support slavery. If society taught such individuals from birth that the Bible is infallible, even when it drastically varies from their own understanding, many slaveholders would separate from generated cognitive dissonance by submitting to the presumably superior knowledge held by the higher power. Those who broke free from the Christian mindset, illogically justified their way around it, or never supported such religious hatred would eventually coalesce as the abolitionists. In this modern age, we’d like to pretend that the upcoming passages couldn’t be found in the Bible. Even so, that won’t make them go away. Again, the church often neglects the Old Testament due to the uneasy feelings that its controversial topics, such as slavery, create. Consequently, this chapter may be the only opportunity that Christian readers have to investigate what information we can extract from these slavery-related biblical passages. Certain verses will prominently show that the so-called divinely inspired people speaking on behalf of the Hebrew god unequivocally state that he was in support of slave ownership. Before we start analyzing specific passages, however, I need to clarify a bit of terminology. The 1600s King James Version of the Bible often uses servant in the English translation to describe people with what we’ll temporarily designate as “freedom deprivation.” Since the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, and the Hebrew term ebed has an ambiguous meaning of slave or servant, some passages might be too vague to translate effectively without supplemental information. However, the New Testament was penned in Greek; and the Greek words doulos and douloi, meaning slave(s), are most often used to describe people with freedom deprivation. The Greeks had an alternative word, diakonos, for a hired servant or assistant. The authors only use this term when the circumstances obviously depict a voluntary work service. Because the writers of the New Testament knew exactly what they meant when using the term doulos, we can conclude that ebed refers to a slave when spoken of under the same doulos circumstances. We also have the luxury of relying on the enormous amount of context clues provided in Old Testament passages. Be careful not to let the KJV Bible fool you with its use of the term servant or any derivatives of the word (bondservant, maidservant, manservant, etc.) throughout the Old Testament unless they’re used in the proper context. The New International Version and many other modern translations of the Bible wisely correct most of these assuredly intentional mistranslations. The “Origin” Of Slavery The first biblical mention of slavery occurs during the lives of Noah and his three sons. After the flood, one of Noah’s sons, Ham, discovers the only man worthy enough to save from the flood lying naked and drunk in a tent. As Ham informs his brothers Shem and Japheth about their drunk and naked father, the two of them cover him up without looking. When Noah finds out about the seemingly harmless incident, he curses Ham’s son, Canaan, and, and orders him to be a slave to his two uncles. On this day, slavery is supposedly born (Genesis 9:20-27). Thus, the origin of slavery arises from a single young man whose father made the “mistake” of seeing his father in the nude. I find it entirely fitting that the root of slavery would be as ridiculous as the institution itself. As a matter of much lesser importance, God punishes yet another individual for the actions of someone over whom this young man has no conceivable control. The Bible later tells us that each of Noah’s sons went their own ways and repopulated the earth. We know Shem and his descendants stayed in the Middle East because Abraham, David, and Jesus were among his recorded descendants (Genesis 11:10-26, Matthew 1). In pre-Civil War America, slaveholders often speculated that the descendants of Ham and the cursed Canaan eventually ended up deep into Africa. For this reason, they deemed the kidnapping of innocent Africans to be perfectly justifiable since the righteous Noah initiated the practice. Moreover, God has already established his acceptance of punishing the offspring of those who make mistakes, as was the case for Ham and Canaan. Although slaveowners based their rationalizations solely on faulty premises, such deductions created a logical conclusion once you ignore their uninformed fallacy of accepting the Bible as indispensable truth. In this somewhat more enlightened society, most of us obviously realize that slavery isn’t a logical or humane concept. We should say the same about the decision to punish one person for the actions of another. I wish we could also say that God has made similar improvements. At one point, God even informs Abraham that his descendents would be slaves for four hundred years sometime in the near future (Genesis 15:13). What God is actually expressing to Abraham is that he’s not going to do anything to stop this imminent enslavement. Back in the real world, however, archeological evidence indicates that slavery existed throughout the region well before the lives of Noah and Abraham. Thus, these aren’t the true historical origins of slavery. However, if you believe that the Bible is free from error, your blind assumption forces you to deny the obvious conclusion based on scientific evidence and accept the orders contained in the rest of this composition as God’s true desires. Excerpts from Biblical Nonsense: A Review of the Bible for Doubting Christians Paperback – January 19, 2005 by Jason Long |
Nairaland / General / MH370: Plane Debris On Réunion Island Is From Vanished Malaysia Flight. by NoContract(m): 8:29am On Aug 06, 2015 |
If you want to hide something from a black man, put it in writing. An aircraft part that washed ashore on an island in the Indian Ocean last week is from long-missing Flight 370, Malaysian officials said, making it the first concrete evidence of the plane that disappeared 17 months ago in one of the world’s most confounding aviation mysteries. Identifying the part, a section of the wing found on the shore of Réunion Island, is a major break for the multinational probe into the plane’s disappearance, but it so far hasn’t yielded clues about the cause of the plane’s apparent crash. Experts will now examine the piece to try to determine how it broke off the plane. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed the piece’s origin in a brief statement early Thursday in Kuala Lumpur. Without taking questions, the prime minister vowed to “do everything within our means to determine what happened” to Flight 370. French authorities, who took possession of the part because Réunion is a French territory, were more guarded about the certainty of the finding, saying only it was very likely that the plane part came from Flight 370 and that analysis would continue on Thursday. The analysis of the piece could take weeks, and experts said it almost certainly wouldn’t be enough to answer the fundamental enigma of the flight: Why did a sophisticated jet, flying in calm weather, cease most communication with the outside world, turn off course and fly for thousands of miles over the Indian Ocean? After Malaysia confirmed a wing part found on Réunion Island was from MH370, some relatives of the missing passengers are still doubtful, thanks to a distrust of the government since the beginning of the search. To answer that question, investigators would have to find other pieces of the plane, particularly those containing the jet’s black boxes, which record conversations in the cockpit and the flight data. Those parts are probably lying somewhere at the bottom of the Indian Ocean under thousands of feet of water, investigators have said. Australian ocean modeling has showed that some debris could have drifted thousands of miles west toward Réunion from the area where investigators believe the plane went down. Still, the piece, which washed ashore on the French island about 500 miles off the east coast of Madagascar, gives new life to the investigation at a time when Australian officials had been contemplating ending the search. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said early Thursday that the country has no plans to scale back its efforts. The discovery of the debris has reignited pain for those who lost loved ones on the flight. “For a lot of us, today may be the worst day of our lives since March 8, because it takes away this sense of hope we’ve held on to for all these months,” said Grace Nathan, whose mother, Anne Daisy Nathan, was a passenger. Analysis of the debris now moves into a new stage, safety experts say, as the French technical team tries to extract clues from the part about how the plane may have crashed. “This is indeed a major breakthrough for us in resolving the disappearance of MH370,” Malaysia Airlines said. “We expect and hope that there would be more objects to be found, which would be able to help resolve this mystery.” In a statement on Thursday, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying expressed sympathies to the families and urged the Malaysian government to continue investigating the cause of the incident and to protect the rights and interests of families involved. Safety experts anticipate weeks of extensive laboratory effort, including microscopic and ultrasonic examinations to try to determine precisely what forces broke the part, known as a flaperon, off the wing. From that data, investigators hope to get closer to deducing the possible speed and angle of the aircraft as it hit the water. But that may stretch the capabilities of scientists and engineers, according to safety experts, because the part is a relatively small portion of the wing and may not represent the aerodynamic and impact forces likely to have affected the rest of the plane. “Establishing how it probably separated,” according to Robert Matthews, a former senior Federal Aviation Administration safety official, “is a far cry from determining what happened” to the rest of the plane. Furthermore, safety experts doubt that the piece, by itself, will go a long way to determining the central mystery of why the flight, which disappeared on March 8, 2014, veered sharply off its intended flight path from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane turned hard to the west and then flew steadily south toward a remote corner of the Indian Ocean. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said a piece of aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370. But the French team investigating the wreckage stopped short of confirming that the part is from MH370. “The analysis of this piece will not answer why this aircraft departed from its route,” said Jean-Paul Troadec, the former director of the French air accident investigation office. Structural analysis of the flaperon could answer some questions about the final seconds of the flight. “We may have some indication on the way the part detached from the wing,” Mr. Troadec said, including whether it was caused by an explosion or shock from striking the ocean. Mr. Troadec echoed the view the current search zone remains the most likely area the plane went down. Biological analysis of barnacles that have collected on the flaperon could provide more information on where the part traveled, Mr. Troadec said, even as he doubted it would yield very precise coordinates. Aviation investigators suspect that someone on Flight 370 intentionally diverted the plane with 239 people on board and then directed it toward the Indian Ocean. For investigators, the best chance of determining with any certainty why the plane went off course remains finding its black boxes, the cockpit voice and flight data recorders that store vast amounts of information on a flight. Malaysian authorities confirm that debris found on Réunion Island is from Flight 370, which is believed to have crashed off the southwest coast of Australia in March 2014. http://www.wsj.com/articles/mh370-search-plane-debris-on-reunion-island-confirmed-as-missing-malaysia-plane-1438798524 |
Education / Re: Top Ten Oldest Secondary School In Nigeria by NoContract(m): 12:12pm On May 22, 2015 |
princdebola201: You mean to tell me this is 2015 and the OP could not find the pictures of these veteran secondary schools? But every night club in Nigeria has a facebook page Nigerians, you see una yansh!!! 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Question Of The Day by NoContract(m): 10:27pm On May 21, 2015 |
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Celebrities / Re: Burna Boy Threatens Bloggers by NoContract(m): 6:14pm On May 12, 2015 |
You mean Burna Boy is 33 years old? ADONBILIVIT [img]http://photo2.ask.fm/494/006/778/1280003014-1s1hs8o-57qcqcr1tlkss1k/original/file.jpg[/img] |
Politics / Re: Doyin Okupe Speaks. by NoContract(m): 12:13pm On Apr 04, 2015 |
Doortun: You no catch me o |
Politics / Re: Doyin Okupe Speaks. by NoContract(m): 12:09pm On Apr 04, 2015 |
Okupe, you are a political bastard. Quote me at your own peril. 20 Likes |
Romance / Re: Gay And Depressed. by NoContract(m): 10:29am On Mar 29, 2015 |
Allureoftheseas: You're reta.rded. This is 2015, not 1400. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: “prepare For Nuclear War” Russia Warns Citizens As US Tanks Flood Into Europe by NoContract(m): 2:24pm On Mar 25, 2015 |
sukkot: Delusional paranoia has taken over you. |
Politics / Shocking New PDP Campaign Strategy *PICTURE* by NoContract(m): 2:19pm On Mar 25, 2015 |
Is this for real? Nigerians, is this your worth? 1 Like 1 Share
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Politics / Pictures: PDP Campaigns With Dollars« by NoContract(m): 12:55pm On Mar 20, 2015 |
These envelopes were shared by PDP Members. What do you think?
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Jokes Etc / Re: Hilarious: A Student Backing His Goat Along, Going To School...( Pic) by NoContract(m): 12:43pm On Mar 20, 2015 |
Nairaland has gone to the dogs |
Politics / Deleted by NoContract(m): 12:40pm On Mar 20, 2015 |
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Crime / Re: Gospel Singer Stabs Boyfriend To Death Over Dream by NoContract(m): 11:36am On Mar 20, 2015 |
Fools. When then tell them to read and invest in science and education na so so Quran (aka the War Manual) and Bibles go dey clutch. Ignorance is a terrible disease. Reminds me of my first experience with Sleep Paralysis. A lot of ignorant 'elders' told me I was under a spell or some demonic influence. Thank God for the Internet. I might not have been freed from the chains of the delusions of supernatural. Till today, a high percentage of mumunic Nigerians still believe if you hit you left toe, it is a sign of bad luck. Pathetic superstitionists 4 Likes 1 Share |
Religion / Re: ww3 to heat up before end of may 2015 by NoContract(m): 8:43am On Feb 19, 2015 |
Horus: Define greatness. LMAO. Africa is at the bottom of the totem pole. |
Religion / Re: Is Oral And Anal Sex Spiritually Hygienic In Christian Marriages??? by NoContract(m): 11:11pm On Feb 17, 2015 |
Indifferent: The hypocrisy of Nigerians is baffling. If every married sex was with the intent of making babies, then.... And na dem dey do family planning pass. Single choristers fucking like bulls in heat, yet na married matters these adulterous religionist put for head. |
Politics / Re: 30 Facts About Owners Of Nigeria’s Richest Oil Blocks In The Midst Of Poverty by NoContract(m): 8:35pm On Feb 16, 2015 |
modestbrowser: Wetin you sabi pass Nairabet and Jedi. People like you (and those that 'liked' your post) are one of the reasons Nigerians don't have basic amenities. Because the money supposed to be used are being looted by some certain oil block goons. Fool. Go play your Nairabet. Educated illiterate. If you want to hide something from a black man, put it in a book. They dont read. |
Travel / Re: Lets Talk About Estonia by NoContract(m): 9:46am On Feb 15, 2015 |
How much will it cost to process everything? |
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