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Kobojunkie:You're obviously a completely pointless person to engage cos you don't even bother to put forward anything resembling cogent, substantive arguments. What can one do when you outline the roots of our moral systems in evolving human civilizations and a completely pointless person just claims you "spew forth brain fart after brain fart". The classic case of playing chess with a pigeon - knocks over the pieces, shits all over the board, and struts around as the victor. Enjoy your bliss. |
Kobojunkie:That's not what "dogmatism" is. Many religious people either misunderstand what atheism is (because they're incapable of grasping what an absence of belief is) or they love to play games by redefining atheism. Again, religion requires a dogmatic belief system, rituals and practises, and organized community and structure. Even if I grant your proposition that atheism is "dogmatic" (which is nonsense), it doesn't satisfy the other criteria of what a religion is. |
Kobojunkie:I took your comments in the context you intended it and you've gone further to confirm that context, so I have no idea what you think I "truncated". Your argument seems to be that every society has at the very least some small surviving population of religious zombies, therefore human society can't "survive" without religion. This is incredibly fallacious. I might as well claim human society can't function without murderers and rapists because every society has murderers and rapists. Religion is irrelevant to the "survival" of Japanese society cos it plays no role in public life. Its utility value is largely in cultural identity and history - same as most Europeans see Christianity as cultural identity rather than an actual religion, and their churches are basically museums with beautiful architecture and art. I've already told you the roots of human morality, which you didn't address, so it seems you're arguing "meaninglessly". |
FreeStuffsNG:Which "whole West". Only the US and Israel launched the war and they've been trying to recruit other countries to join them - and they all refused. Even the Gulf States that have been attacked by Iran (because they host US military bases) have refused to join the war. |
Kobojunkie:No. Atheism is not a religion. A religion requires a dogmatic belief system, rituals and practises, and organized community and structure. And it's not built on any falsehood - unlike sky daddy believers. |
Kobojunkie:You made a false statement that I addressed. You'll have to elaborate on what you mean by "survive without any form of religion to it". What is the relevance of religion to Japan or Scandinavia? As far as I can see, you seem to be "dribbling" yourself by conflating correlative factors (every society has at least a small fraction of religious people - however few) to causative ones and trying to create massive extrapolations from small fractions of religious people in such societies. Morality is a product of our human consciousness. Humans evolved over tens of thousands of years from very primitive hunter-gatherers to building civilizations through cooperation - allowing us to co-exist. Humans cannot co-exist without the implicit agreements and rules that make coexistence possible. We imbibed moral systems that allow us coexist the same way we learnt engineering or advanced medicine. Claiming humanity learnt not to kill each other because some nameless person wrote "thou shall not kill" in a book in the Jewish Torah is obviously ridiculous. We didn't develop a moral system because of religious texts. We developed the moral system and expressed it in the religious texts that we wrote. Assuming that our morality is a product of religion degrades human beings as little more than animals operating only on our basest instincts if a sky daddy isn't given us moral instructions. |
Kobojunkie:Completely false. Plenty of societies live cohesively and purposefully while being highly irreligious. Japan is a great example of a harmonious society with a very strong social fabric where religion plays next to no role in public life. |
Good day all. Pls who knows what it costs to replace the screen of a Samsung Galaxy A15 phone? |
maiunguwar:I was not voted into office, I don't work for the government. I'm in no position to profer "solution" to anything. Stop consoling your self with the "there's crime everywhere in Nigeria". Everywhere is not the same. Residents of Borno or Yobe being terrorized by Boko Haram might as well also engage in the same coping mechanism by claiming there's crime and banditry everywhere. I know how many times I've booked airline tickets for my mum to travel to and from Anambra and we had to factor Monday sit-at-home in our plans. You can't even get flights on that day even if you wanted. Worrying about riffraff harassing, maiming or even murdering one for choosing to do business on a Monday is the status quo of a failed state. Until Anambra can rid itself of that stupidity, Anambra is a failed state. A state where the lives and movements of its citizens is controlled by the diktat of mindless, faceless thugs who constitute a parallel government is a failed state. The real estate market in Anambra is far bigger than whatever you have in Delta state, I reside in both cities. Onitsha and environs is the fastest growing conurbation in the whole of Africa. The reason Igbos invest in Asaba is the same reason they invest in Lagos and AbujaWhy do you reside in both cities? Why not make all your investments in Anambra as the committed patriot you are? You can delude yourself all you want, but the exodus of Onitsha businessmen to Asaba is a very real phenomenon. I know family members who did so, because of the volatility IPOB/ESN's stupidity has created. They still own shops and maintain a residence (usually rented) in Onitsha, while going to Asaba to actually build their homes. And now pay taxes to the Delta government. Please, all of you that claim to love our land more than the critics should not invest a kobo outside the SE - including in Asaba. I've already seen Ndigbo b'anyi online with the same usual nauseating chestbeating about how we "developed" Asaba. You patriots should cease and desist from all this foreign "development", biko. We should desist from demarketing our homelandMba. This is nationalistic nonsense, not patriotism. Patriotism requires us to critically and honestly grapple with our flaws. Toxic nationalism requires us to mask our flaws, so that we can engage in empty chestbeating against adversaries. No one has done more to "demarket" ala Igbo and Anambra than IPOB. I spent years here warning people that allowing faceless, jobless riffraff to create a parallel security infrastructure will boomerang badly, creating anarchy and chaos and Nnamdi Kanu's cult responded with nothing but insults. We're reaping the fruits of our stupidity. And we deserve to reap the fruits of our stupidity. We demarketed our homeland by ourselves, and no amount of propaganda will reverse people's perception of our homeland (even foreign embassies warning its citizens to steer well clear of our homeland) until we've successfully purged ourselves of one of the dumbest political movements in Nigeria's history and their toxic influence. |
Eboofa:Nothing I stated has absolved our leaders of their responsibility. We're not the only region in the country with corrupt, incompetent leaders. I live in the so-called "centre of excellence" of the country that Yoruba people brag about like it's Zurich and Amsterdam combined - and it's a putrid, filthy, chaotic, ugly, unplanned, overpopulated mess of a city with glaring failed leadership. Where we're different is how we have voluntarily destabilized our own states and spread anarchy - giving licence and opportunity for the worst criminal elements to thrive. Our stupidity is the reason the Asaba real estate market is one of the hottest in Nigeria (Delta also now has one of the top 3 IGRs in the country) - because middle to upper class Anambra residents are fleeing there to get away from the criminality, destabilization and chaos. |
abuzz33:Your brains are certainly working. It's remarkable the number of times I argue with Ndigbo b'anyi who would claim that after Lagos, Anambra is some kind of industrial and commercial nerve center of the country. And spin conspiracy theories about us actually having among the most populated regions in the country when all available data (such as active telecom subscribers and fuel allocation) makes it clear the SE is the least populated. Many of us are simply disconnected from reality about the SE and its strategic importance in Nigeria. To worsen matters, it's also one of the least attractive investment destinations in the country. Already, we were not quite bequeathed by nature with the resource abundance (natural and mineral resources, arable land, strategic geographic location etc) of the Middle Belt, Niger Delta or the South West - then worsened it with the IPOB/ESN stupidity, sowing and bountifully reaping unrest and anarchy in the region in the name of separatist activism. How many sane industrialists would see Anambra as an attractive investment destination, instead of Ogun or Oyo or Delta or Rivers? To come and do sit-at-home on Mondays? |
IGBOPROMISE1:I don't understand many of you here. Nigeria is a unitary system of government. The Federal government holds most of the power and determines how resources are allocated. Except you have the resources of Lagos or Rivers state, it would be foolish for any state government to make itself an opposition government to the FG. Even in the US, a true federal system where most of the constitutional power and resources are controlled by the constituent states rather than the FG, state governments try to maintain good, cooperative relationships with the Presidency, so they can be favored in Federal projects and investments, disaster relief etc. Especially when you have a man like Trump in the White House who acts like a mafia boss, it's wise not to get on his bad side even as an opposition party governor. It's a very good thing for SE governors to look to build good, harmonious relationships with the Federal government. They can attract projects to benefit the state and tap into ecological funds for erosion control and flooding. That has nothing to do with "selling out" Peter Obi - a man that can't even bring the multiple factions of his Labour Party together. His ambitions cannot be conflated with the needs of Anambra taxpayers. Ndigbo b'anyi are a very proud, very emotional people who seem determined to broadcast to the world how little we need anybody's alliance and help. Then spend a lot of time crying about how nobody is there to ally with us or help us. It's all very incoherent and symptomatic of belief systems and ideologies built entirely on resentment and hubris. |
This entire thread - both the contributions of the Nigerians and the South Africans - is just the millionth evidence that sub-Saharan Africans have the lowest IQs in the world. The black race is utterly hopeless and doomed to remain the pits of humanity for eternity. |
udemzyudex:Thanks. I don't have that device. What I did is open both my laptops, then swapped their SSDs. The suspected faulty one from my Elitebook also failed to boot on my Probook when I plugged it, but the functional SSD from my Probook also worked on my Elitebook. Which means it's most likely the Elitebook's SSD is faulty. Having done these, do I still have to try it with the external casing? |
udemzyudex:Up to that. Anyway, I've confirmed it's a problem with my Elitebook's SSD by swapping with my Probook's SSD. Is my data recoverable from the failed SSD? |
Good day all My HP Elitebook 840 G6 is no longer booting up, showing "BootDevice Not Found. Please install an operating system on your hard disk. Hard Disk - (3F0)". I suspect my hard disk is faulty. How much is a 1TB SSD replacement? |
Bobodee09:Do you mind linking to all these "receipts" here. Some of us don't live on social media. |
wonder233:It must strike a foreigner as very strange the way Nigerians are obsessed with questioning the age of every single celebrity and public figure. Very weird stuff. Check the vast majority of Nairaland articles about ANYONE celebrating their birthday and you're guaranteed to see multiple clows run along to dispute the age of the celebrant. Many people with fake birth certificates and affidavits seem to believe EVERYONE has fake birth certificates and affidavits. |
These are not the fastest growing economies in the world. It's the projected growth rate of selected countries. Look at all the witless monkeys jumping around for misleading, out-of-context statistics. Imagine cheering the economy of the poverty capital of the world growing at only 3+% when our inflation rate is over 20%. Our population growth rate alone (in a country where we breed like rats) is almost that 3%. Country of morons. |
Snazzynho:Yet, people that haven't eaten "belle full" still continue to breed like rats, so that their children that haven't eaten "belle full" (and their children after them) will continue to kill every wild life they can get their hands on so that they can eat "belle full" for a few days at most. An absolutely savage culture. Nigerians are a plague on humanity. |
Abufo:It's not just an Anambra thing. I live in Lagos which is an astoundingly filthy and chaotic place. Very basic environmental enforcement barring hawkers, road side sellers, shanties, open urination and defecation, littering, illegal waste disposal etc is rocket science and beyond the state government. The only thing they know how to do is mobilize ndi agbero to extort everyone going about their legitimate business. Nigeria in general is a failed state whose citizens have an inferior mentality to Middle Age Europeans. |
0bjpmb:Do you have any stats for this claim? As far as I'm aware, only Air Peace and United Nigeria run flights to Anambra airport - usually one flight per day and not even everyday - while other airlines like Dana and Ibom Air also run to Enugu and Owerri. The last time the very lousy FAAN published figures for air passenger traffic for 2023, Enugu, Owerri and Asaba airports all had greater air traffic than Anambra airport. Most times I buy tickets for my mom, she still prefers going through Asaba given it's much closer to Onitsha and also closer to our hometown. From all available data, Owerri has consistently been the busiest SE airport. The Anambra airport was marketed as a "cargo airport" to justify building it - which any serious person knew was nonsense cos air freight is very expensive and not a viable means of transporting most goods. What is the tonnage of cargo that is going through the airport? They also lied it would be funded through a PPP initiative and ended up wholly funded by the state coffers. The only reason we built it was for chestbeating purpose ("anyiwa nwekwa airport nke anyi"). But at least, building an airport is not THAT expensive (even Ebonyi managed to build one that nobody uses) and any state in Nigeria can afford it. Saddling yourself with debt to build a metro rail line is pretty mad stuff. |
Jonjam269:This is a very dumb comparison - and I'm not Peter Obi fan. Nigerians kneel before royal fathers or religious clerics - a mark of respect for traditional institutions and the divine (even though I consider it retrograde). That is very different from a politician debasing himself and kneeling before another politician, communicating to the world that he is beholden to the politician as his benefactor. Even a beggar should never kneel before a politician. It shows the Nigerian mentality is still incapable of grasping that in a so-called "democracy" politicians are public servants who work for the taxpayer, and not our rulers and masters. |
EasternActivist:This chest-beating is not a serious argument and has nothing to do with anything I've posted. Until we see what is budgeted for this pie-in-the sky, white elephant and HOW it will be funded, there's not much to say. It doesn't seem like a serious project. There's nothing special about the airport project and most states in Nigeria have an airport. Even Ebonyi built one after us to much fanfare, despite having very little air traffic (making it a glorified car park), and Abia have embarked on theirs and will become the last SE state to have an airport. The legacy of Anambra airport remains to be seen and is among the airports FAAN classes as "unsustainable" due to very little traffic: https://nairametrics.com/2023/05/10/most-state-owned-airports-are-not-commercially-viable-but-necessary-md-faan/ But a metro rail system is a far more ambitious, complex project than an airport. Many major cities in the US have no metro rail. If you're going to build one, you must be able to fund it without crippling yourself with debt, you must be able to run it sustainably and profitably (or it will rot), and it should have significant economic impact. As far as I'm concerned, if a major driving force of your local economy isn't white collar jobs (like Lagos, Abuja and PH, who can't even run sustainably run or complete their rail systems), investing in metro/light rail is a dumb waste of taxpayer money and state revenue. |
Stolen:There's nothing of substance here to even debate with. Is this another Chino account? |
Stolen:Because, like any serious democracy in the world where accountability matters, there should be serious questions about the cost and viability of such a project and how it would be funded - not simply applauding any white elephant, pie in the sky proposal that a governor makes regardless of the cost to the taxpayer. Rail projects are very expensive capital projects. The one that Lagos state started since the days of my childhood when Tinubu was governor (about 20 years ago) is still barely half-way completed with both the blue and red line. Basically only Lagos and maybe Rivers, Delta and Akwa Ibom (if they don't loot all their oil derivation funds) are capable of funding a serious rail project. It also remains to be seen whether Lagos that has an operating line can run it profitably. Ordinary BRT is failing and decaying. Abuja's light rail is an epic failure and grotesque waste of taxpayer money (plus the debt that the FG are still servicing). Kaduna-Abuja rail is another grotesque waste that will soon be rotting away. Amaechi squandered N40billion of Rivers state money on a rotting monorail project (which is several hundreds of billions in today's money accounting for naira depreciation and inflation). Just because something sounds good because it's working in Europe or Japan or Dubai or wherever doesn't mean it will work here. There is a lot of basic infrastructure lacking in many areas of Anambra that can be more immediately remedied (expanded rural and urban road networks, water supply, electricity etc). Or extending gas pipelines to Anambra industrial parks (which massively boosted Ogun state as Nigeria's industrial capital). I can absolutely guarantee you a rail project (which will extend far beyond Soludo's government and his successors) will be money flushed down the toilet on a white elephant project, after the contractors and state government officials have collected their share while saddling the state in unnecessary debt. The debt part is especially important. Anytime governors come up with these proposals, they must be asked how they intend to fund it, and if they intend to borrow and incur massive debt, tell them to fuukk off and go and find another way to steal money. |
shivisee:Your lack of self-awareness is quite astounding. You just chastized the person you're addressing for "generalizing a whole tribe" based on the Twitter posts of uncouth tribalist. Then you proceeded to do EXACTLY the same thing you chastized him for by generalizing Igbos based on his post. Can you not see your hypocrisy and lack of self-awareness? |
lapintoz:How many Igbos voted for Obasanjo? How many Igbos voted for Yar'Adua? How many Igbos voted for Jonathan? How many Igbos voted for Atiku in multiple elections? Why do many of you clowns pretend the 2023 election is the first in Nigerian history and that it's somehow evidence that Igbos always vote for their tribesman? |
essentialone:I'm obviously dealing with a low IQ imbeciile who also happens to apparently have never been engaged in any professional environment, but again, just to help you out, you are not allowed to go around any respectable workplace (whether as an employer, employee, contractor or whoever) "toasting" women. Being a jobless reetard, I can see why you think that is how the world works, but it's really not how the world works. Rambling about my "prostitute" mother (this seems like a projection of your own tragic circumstances as the product of a prostitute) doesn't do anything to mask how much you're embarrassing yourself. |
essentialone:There are professional ethics guiding people in every workplace, which you wouldn't understand because you're obviously a jobless mooron, but you don't go around in the workplace "toasting" women (as your reetarded claim describes it). That would make the workplace an unprofessional, hostile and intimidating environment for those who haven't solicited your "toasting". Educate yourself and stop embarrassing yourself, exposing your ignorance for the world to see. |
Thundafireseun: essentialone:Yes, you reetards, "toasting" is sexual harassment when it is unsolicited and when leveraging a position of power to create an intimidating environment where a person feels compelled to accede to your sexual advances if they want to progress in the workplace. Many Nigerians have not evolved their reasoning beyond the mentality of cavemen and hunter-gatherers. "Toasting" ko. |

What level of madness is this?? Is there’s any tribe that come close to Yoruba when it comes to been tolerant and accommodating?? Most of the rubbish you idiotic IPOBs bring to the Yorubas can you tolerate half of it?? You opened your sewage mouth to call Yorubas tribalistic even when the world knows that tribalism is the second nature of the ibos??