Mechonu dia! Who is begging her? I will burn down this house if Tinu dies, I will kill Chris Oduah, his popsy and who again... if you don't bring Tinu back to life. When I say you, I mean you, Millieademi.

So work the magic, twist the pen, but Tinu must live.

#TeamTinuMustNotDie

millieademi:
Okay....

I'm mad and this is a rant.


I'm not opposed to you asking questions but you flat out condemning my work as complicated is ANNOYING.

There's freedom but let's not abuse it.

Thanks.


AND THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR 255K VIEWS.

Millieademi, eku ise. But you know that your work is wonderfully complicated nau. Lol. Don't allow such comments get you mad. It's your style. Yes, it is!

The typical Nigerian (Lagosians especially) is impatient. So they expect you to cut the chase and get to the end of the story quickly, especially as the story appears like one of those with an end (some stories have no intended end - just a mash of different loosely connected experiences).

They want Tinu and Chris to earn their freedom, Roselle and Co issues done with, Dele and Seyifunmi finally married, etc. But that's not your style, right? You are on a detailed scene by scene analysis which some of us have gotten frustrated with.

But it's your story and we're enjoying it. Your consistency is even surprising. One of its kind! If I say your story is complicated, just smile, shake_your_head_for_me, and move on.

Bring it on, Millieademi. Nothing do you!

millieademi:
Dapo!" Felicia shouted out of her sleep. She sat up, panting like she had run a marathon. Sweat stuck her nightgown to her body. She shook her head as tears streamed down her face.
......
She put on her shades and left the ward.
Margaux crumpled and crashed unto the nearest sofa, scared for herself and her family.

Is that all? Just when I had adjusted to read it... Receive power(electrical), inspiration and concentration for something massive. Like 4K words... Did I forget speed?!!! Receive speed too in Jesus ' name. Amen!

OK nau; let's have more...

New mummy...obviously in collusion with the evil men who had initially abducted the boy. Something sinister is cooking; maybe ritual related or even child trafficking.

Millieademi, keep up the good work!

icekidmuktar:
Dude! I hope you are aware that you are derailing this thread with your Evangelical comments, just go and open another thread and preach whatever shit you want, seriously I'm tired of you already or just go and pray to Jesus to come and do as he wish with us apostle Ohibenemma

icekidmuktar:
Man just get the f*ck outta here, what are u now? Jesus defender or what?

Prymestrr:

Sir...what you call balance is infact irritating chaos and an unnecessary one at that. You do not find his ideas intriguing or you find them in contention with your rigid beliefs... simply keep your distance from the thread and the story. From more than 3 years that I've been following this story, I've never read where Centino forced his opinions or beliefs on anyone. You must not hang on to the thread if you feel it isn't healthy for your religious well-being.

Clap for yourselves, sirs! They that know the truth know the truth. Sycophancy alert!

Maybe someone needs to look up the meaning of derailing. Was my original original comment off topic or about it? Is your uninformed defence on or off topic?

millieademi:
I promise this part of the story will end this month.

If my phone like let it run mad, I'll make sure to complete it this month.

If heaven want to fall, it will fall. Laziness is out the window.

So announcement,

If the characters are a bit fuzzy in your memories, I strongly advise going back to read again because everyone is important. Nenye and Nonso will be coming back in book two and Mayowa and Roselle in book three. Folarin and the Badmuses will play a significant role in book two. Ose too.

So every character is important.

And if you feel there are too many characters, I'm sorry. But that's how this story jumped into my head.

I try to connect the dots sometimes, but I know the story will even out at the end of the day. Can you refresh our memories on every line? I don't think so. You were out a long time, but I think it was for a good reason.

Many have abandoned their stories or failed in their schedules for very flippant reasons, but you've bounced back against all odds.

I don't see the rush for the story to end. Izit ya story? Author, tell it the way you feel. I'm cool as long as your updates aren't unnecessarily delayed (which, wonderfully, hasn't been the case since your return). We await more.

Beautiful! It just ain't never enough. More ink to your pen!

Centino:


Glad you came back. I wondered when I saw your earlier comment. Too magnanimous in the circumstance because I wanted you to see what I wrote. Now that we understand each other, you can do well and open another thread like I advised or work your ideas into your own stories.

I have no problem with criticism or dissenting views. But you must respect what I'm doing here especially when you noticed others were jumping on your back to cause distraction. I have had many contact me privately who were uncomfortable with something I said and we were able to reach some understanding. Forcing your thoughts on my thread is looking for notice you can't get otherwise.

Uncle, I am a proud unbeliever. And that is what I advise everyone to be. QUESTION EVERYTHING including what I say because what I have come to know is that the more you know, the more you realize that you know nothing.

You know nothing of the Christianity you profess I must tell you. I know where I've been. If you've been there you'll be more circumspect when flying your "believer" flag. Some people don't know how lucky (or unlucky) they are that their spiritual experiences end with going for services and attending Sunday school.

You're shocked I went that far? Bros I'm thorough. I investigate. That's how I can write what I write.

I wasn't happy about yesterday because I don't like arguments on this thread. So I stayed up all night and made sure I updated early so we can go back to talking about the story. Then what did I see? A new disciple of yours jumped on your idea to celebrate even more ignorance. Bros I repeat: YOU KNOW NOTHING. Go and read and listen to the still small voice within you and start a worthwhile thread.

Don't come back here.

This will be my last reply to you on this particular issue.

Magnanimous? That's because I let bygones be gone. I had made my point and moved on.

You surely do dislike criticism, even though that was never my aim in the first place. I was only setting aright a perspective so others don't swallow a fictional disposition hook, line and sinker. Some others have reached out to you privately? Not everyone will or should, after all the gaffe was made publicly. Forcing my thoughts on your thread? That's the reason Seun allows comments on this site. Otherwise, there would have been no need for comments,sir. You can create a diary for your story and do all the commenting yourself.

You're a proud unbeliever? I'm happy you've made that clarification. Instead of the previous claim that Cosmas believed in Christ. Some Christians here were beginning to swallow his deliberately distorted interpretations of the Bible - which was what inspired my initial comments.

I know nothing about Christianity? I may not know it all - no one does - but I know better than to learn about Christianity from an unbeliever. Had you been as thorough as you claim, you'd realise I'm one big critic of organised Christianity as we have it today. But should New Age practitioners become the standard for a faith they know nothing about. Why are you guys always fixated with distorting Christian beliefs? Why not islam, why not the others

I'm glad you updated quickly because of those comments. Maybe this will cause you to update even quicker. I look forward to that.

I was considering leaving the thread as you so desire, so we have no more dissenting views, but that still small voice has asked me to stay put. There has to be some dissent, sir, for balance.

NB: The more we think we know, the more ignorant we tend to appear. Are you sure that's not the case here? Remember Irikefe, an Urhobo, isn't supposed to be under the authority of the Itsekiri Olu of Warri? So much for investigative thoroughness.

Until some other topic, sir. Twas nice debating you. Peace.

Centino:



If I had known the man that started all this wasn't a fan I wouldn't have bothered to respond to you in the first place.


But let me ask, why do you religious people have this morbid persuasion to defend your God so much? Is He that weak?

The statement of the man that started this on New Age religion and sexual depictions shows a painful paucity of thought and laziness of the mind that made me to go and look him up here on Nairaland. I found that he has created 46 threads of which 17 are stories in this section. He has even spent 9 times more time on this site than I have. So why didn't he go and pick any one of those stories and defend his Bible there? Or better yet start another thread. I'm sure he will find people like you to follow him.

I thought this was done and dusted when I read today's update and commended the author earlier.

But...seeing this now, I wonder

How bad could it get? I would never have associated you with such crassness. Imagine going as far as looking up my profile to come up with this Probably, I expected too much of your person.

What's your definition of a fan? Someone who will lick your droppings and tell you they taste good? I stumbled upon the Part 1 of this story over two years ago and have followed the story ever since. I may not drop comments everyday, but from your investigations on my profile, you must have seen that I do comment at times. It's funny you could react thus.

46 threads and 17 stories? I didn't even know those stats. Since you went that far, you should have seen that I have sometimes gone against organised Christianity, as we have it today. The deliverance in Magdalene depicts as much. The Man and the Prophet is another.

Religious people? I think that's a funny and uninformed tag. I am not religious, I am a Christian. And I don't see how anyone was defending God up there. Has any Christian taken up a cutlass against you on account of the heresies you bandy? Since when did factual debates become a defence of God?

I'm happy you are making your stance clear today. Cos, what I thought was mere literature, which I feared many were taking literally, was way more than that. It is you promoting your intrinsic values. My comment had been simply to advice those people.

At least, now the Christians should know better than accepting distorted biblical Interpretations from an unbeliever (Christianly speaking).

Peace.

okpanachil:


May God bless you and yours for this wonderful writeup.May HE bless you again and again and again.,...,.Amen

Amen and Amen! Thanks.




May God have mercy on whatever banned me yesterday while commenting here.


Centino, Up YOU for today's update!

tsharp:


if you say Elijah was an exception why is it that when Jesus asked his disciples "who do people say the son of man is" they replied saying John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah or one of the prophets? this aligns with what centino or Mr cosmas is saying that the jews of that time knew about reincarnation and did not limit it to the coming Elijah. it could have been any other dead prophet meaning they believed dead people came back and could say it confidently to their master.

The idea of reincarnation has been played with from time immemorial, not just by the Jews, but by the Persians, Babylonians, Chinese and even in our beloved Africa. So it isn't surprising that the disciples were quick to restate that general opinion that Jesus was a reincarnation of one of those great prophets of old because of the works they saw him do.

My grandmother loved to smile a lot, she had a tooth gap and was a master at preparing the egusi soup; now my daughter exhibits same traits and the automatic assumption becomes that she is a reincarnation of my granny. That becomes widely accepted and reinforced especially by all who had an encounter with my grandmother. Then my sister delivers a baby with very similar traits and everyone is confused about who is the real reincarnation. Did she share herself between them? Sometimes, it is about birthmarks.

We have seen this pattern even with the Obas of Benin Kingdom, where a new king, at coronation, assumes an official name which could be the name of a past great king, then parralels are drawn between him and that past king and everyone assumes he is a reincarnation.

Did Jesus mean that John the Baptist was a reincarnation of Elijah? It was never stated. So why are reincarnation apologists insisting that that was what he meant? But he implied that John had come in the forceful mode of Elijah, if we take a cursory look at his ministerial mode.

Did Elijah ever undergo a prison term? Did John ever call down fire from heaven? Was Elijah's head ever served on a platter? Could he even be arrested

What the New Age seeks to achieve is to present (heretic info: Christian speaking), and distort Scriptural positions, while hiding under the garb of select pickings from the Bible. Sister Esther
is a good example of this. She can engage in wanton sexual immorality, yet simultaneously exude great spiritual power.
Is that what the Bible teaches? Is that the general experience we have seen around?

I maintain that 225, Katakata Street has been a greatly entertaining piece of literature for years now, but should it become a life manual like some are turning it into

Centino:


Danger kwa!

Mr. Cosmas believes in Christ!

He is one of those who know that there is more to what they are being told! Christ often told his disciplines that there was so much more he could tell them but He feared that they would not be able to handle it (John 16:12). He knew that if he told them everything, in their myopia they would call it New Age. So he left them with a promise that another would come. And also charged them to seek....

Mr Cosmas' words will only strike those who carry in them a spark of truth. Those who adhere to the admonition to seek!

Bro, he who has an ear let him hear (Matthew 11:15)

Hmmm, you are only confirming what I have said earlier. Seeking the truth is one thing, the source of that truth is another thing entirely.

Jesus, speaking in John 16, spoke about the Spirit of truth as the source for the heightened knowledge, not philosophy and logic. and not the esoteric arts, as is probably the case of Dan Brown. Verses 13, 14 and 15 went on to list some qualities of that Spirit. Mr Cosmas' views have failed to glorify Christ on many an occasion, for instance. John 14:16&17 speaks about this same Spirit, The Comforter . And this refers to none else than The Holy Spirit. We mustn't confuse this with Eastern inspired philosophies, at least not for those who say they are Christians. We have seen same trajectory when you discussed sex, premarital and extramarital.

I enjoy your work for its literary value. I admire your matured presentation and boldness in presenting your facts, but my views are in reply to those who are beginning to confuse Mr Cosmas' logical leanings for sound Christian doctrine.

New age stuff from Cosmas (Centino) here!

I am okay with that trajectory for its literary value, but readers must be careful about patterning their beliefs after Cosmas' (Centino) postulations in this piece.

It is even more dangerous, considering the deliberate fusion of these views with Christianity. It is either absolute Christianity or absolute New Age!

It is same danger that the works of Dan Brown portend

Now on the story, I think Irikefe's brashness is becoming unbecoming. He needs to tone it down or he would be toned down. With Jide and Fumbi, the boy overdo. Power can be so intoxicating sometimes.

I think Chisco, somehow, won't fall into Enyoyam's trap. But na Centino know how E dey go laslas.

Nice one. Following till....

millieademi:
Hi guys,

How are you doing?

Update will be on Friday, God willing.

I'm sad today. I'm mourning when AnyBooks used to be free

Is today still Friday? OP, wipe your tears and do your thing. Did you know that some of us have been mourning the absence of an update too? ...

Please, help us wipe our tears too.

millieademi:
Hola mi amors,

So I hope you enjoy the last update. Comment please.

So, I need motivation to finish this book this week and start the next installment.

Who wants to help?

Nice update. Short though. What do you need help with?

As much as some characters are yet to come alive to my mind's eye, I think they will eventually come through. Please, Millieademi, just CONTINUE and allow us piece it together as we continue.

One guy has done such reviews twice, but it usually ends in futility as he'd still relapse into a long hiatus, negating the gains of the review.

Just give us constant updates and leave the rest to the readers. Keep up the good work...

Wonderful story you have here, with lots of lessons embedded therein. It's just that many of us are still trying to put the pieces together. And build momentum. I'm sure the comments will come aplenty once that is done.

I think Dele should forgive his dad. It's only mutually hurting to do otherwise. He may never forget, though.

Keep it up, Millieademi!

I love this... Super dad Father!

Nice job

biggiyke:

Thanks. Boredom can bring out something hidden in you

Yea, it's really in you!

Just stumbled upon this...and I have had so grins already. I like your style - simple, entertaining and engaging.

Happy birthday, wishing you many happy returns all your days.