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FREEDOM

The sense of Freedom is something which has not been understood by Humanity yet. Very serious mistakes have been made about the concept of Freedom, which is always presented in a more or less erroneous way. Certainly, we fight for a word: we come to absurd conclusions, commit all kind of abuses and shed blood on the battlefields.


The word Freedom is fascinating, everybody likes it. Nevertheless, we have not true comprehension of it; confusion exists in relation to this word. It is impossible to find a dozen people for whom the word Freedom has the same meaning and in the same way. In no way could the term Freedom be comprehensible for subjective rationalism.

Each person has different ideas about this term: people's subjective opinions lacking in any objective reality. When the question of Freedom is laid out, there is incoherence, vagueness, incongruence in each mind.

Freedom, beautiful word, charming term; how many crimes have been committed in its name! Unquestionably, the term Freedom has hypnotized the crowds; the mountains and the valleys, the rivers and the seas have become stained with blood by the spell of this magic word... So many flags, so much blood and so many heroes have succeeded one another in the course of history, every time that the question of liberty has been put onto the gambling table of existence.

Unfortunately, after every independence achieved at such high price, slavery continues within each person. Who is free? Who has achieved the freedom everybody talks about? How many people have emancipated? It is painful to answer this...

The adolescent yearns for freedom; it seems incredible that many times, although we have food, clothes and shelter we want to run away from the house of our parents searching for freedom. It is incongruous that the teenager who has everything at home wants to escape, to run away from his home, fascinated by the term freedom. It is strange that enjoying all kinds of comforts in a happy home we may want to lose what we have, to travel around the world and be submerged in suffering.

It is right for the unfortunate one, the pariah in life, the beggar, to yearn truly for leaving the dirty hovel, but for the well-off child, mother's golden boy, to want to escape, to run away, is incongruous and even absurd; however, this is how it is; the word Freedom fascinates, bewitches, although nobody can define it in a precise way.

That the maiden may want freedom, that she may yearn for changing home, that she may want to get married so as to escape from the home of her parents and live a better life, is partly logical because she has the right to be a mother; however once she is living as a wife she finds that she is not free and that she must continue carrying the chains of slavery with resignation.

The employee, tired of so many rules wants to be free and if he manages to become independent he finds himself with the problem that he is still a slave of his own interests and worries. Certainly, everytime that we fight for Freedom we find ourselves disappointed despite triumphing. So much blood shed pointlessly in the name of Freedom and yet, we continue to be slaves of ourselves and of others.

People fight for words which they never understand even if explained grammatically in dictionaries. Freedom is something that can only be achieved within ourselves. No one can achieve it outside himself. Riding upon the air, is a very Oriental phrase which allegorises the sense of genuine Freedom.


Nobody could really experience Freedom as long as his consciousness remains bottled in the oneself, in the myself. Understanding the self, me, what I am, is urgent when we very sincerely desire to attain Freedom. In no way could we destroy the shackles of our enslavement, without having previously comprehended all this question of "mine", all that has to do with the "I", with tie myself. What does slavery lie in? What is it which keeps us enslaved? Which are the obstacles? All this is what we need to discover.

Rich and poor, believers and nonbelievers, all are actual prisoners although they may consider themselves free. As long as the consciousness, the essence, the most dignified and decent part within us, continues to be bottled in the oneself, in the myself, in the self, in my cravings and fears, in my desires and passions, my preoccupations and violence, in my psychological defects, we will remain imprisoned.

The sense of Freedom can only be wholly comprehended when we have annihilated the fetters of our very own psychological prison. As long as the "self exists, the consciousness will stay imprisoned; to escape from that prison is only possible through Buddhist annihilation, by dissolving the "I", by reducing it to ashes, to cosmic dust. The free consciousness, devoid of "I", absolutely lacking the myself, without desires, without passions, without cravings and fears, directly experiences true Freedom.

Whatever concept of freedom is not Freedom. The opinions we may hold about Freedom are very far from being Reality. The ideas we may form on the subject of Freedom have nothing to do with genuine Freedom. Freedom is something we have to experience in a direct way and this is only possible by psychologically dying, by dissolving the "I", by ending the myself forever. It would be of no use to continue dreaming of Freedom, if at any rate we carry on being slaves.

It is better to see ourselves as we really are, to carefully watch all these shackles of slavery that keep us imprisoned. Auto-knowing ourselves, auto-seeing what we interiorly are, we will discover the door of authentic freedom.

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PastorAIO:
So you just came to Nairaland to insult people and be an idiot. Enjoy it.

Hence I suggested you work on your grammar and comprehension...
Stay on course boy...the subject matter is about a dirty, filthy church... Uhmmn could just be your church maybe, Mr pastor aio. Won't be surprised one bit at this rate.
Because your shoe pinches.


Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one!
I advise you be warned boy.

PastorAIO:
The touchy one is the one that supposedly has his own and yet he has time to get up from his house to go and snap photos of somebody else's own to post on the internet. The Church is for the church people, it is kind of you to care for their 'IMAGE', However you really ought to save your energy for your own. Otherwise you'll find that you have to wait for an oyinbo artist from austria to come and fix your shrines for you.

Disgusting ignorant thought process.
Kid yourself not.
I don't give a rat's arse about their image boy.

Now you go get a life and work on your grammar and comprehension.

while at it, Do this for siesta boy...

otemanuduno:
I have been serving in a particular 'poor man's mentality' church for a long time, until one day I stared up and saw cobwebs of ancient ages over our heads, yet we have been seeing it as a norm, with our tithes and offering sinking into the potbellies of the leaders of the church. That was when my reasoning opened and I left that church to another where they hardly emphasize on hell fire but on faith in god(but not miracles). I was in that rich church for a short term. The painful memory I will never forget was when the pastor under the anointing of JESUS CHRIST, pushed a lady on crutches and she fell with a heavy thud to the concrete floor. I was expecting that she would rise up and start walking but lo and behold, they raised her up and gave her back her crutches.

THEN MY BRAIN OPENED, AND I REASONED, WHAT'S ALL THIS FOR? SHE FELL, YET NOTHING GOOD CAME WITH IT. THEY ALL SPEAK IN TONGUES, YET NOTHING CHANGES. Few weeks later, the revelation of EARTUM began to come to me and it's far more appealing to me than the impractical doctrines of JEHOVAH and his JESUS.

Seek and ye shall find,
Knock and it shall be open,
Ask and it shall be given.

These are true words.

We must endeavour to know how to truly seek, knock, and ask without been a manipulated conditioned parrot in the shackles of cold blooded fraudulent disguised pastors and preachermen of hypocritical churches and its so many actors and actresses members unleashing deceit on each other.

Be vigilant.
Watch and pray.

Muafrika2:
I only see abit of waste that the cleaner was probably coming for after sweeping the compound, if you had hang around for five more minutes you would have caught him/her.

By the Grace of Alagbara Olodumare baba ola ati ogo, may I never hang around for rubbish.
Ase.

You probably think folks are 'hangers' like filthy robotic church goers day and night who have made worship nothing else but a hobby, unemployed with nothing better doing with their time, not even to clean the entrance of their so called church.
Hang around for a cleaner? Child please!

Many times it's best not to speak about things we don't know thereby hiding ignorance. Are you the cleaner or his or her employer to know this? Does it appear that they have a cleaner, even a volunteer cleaner?
Hitherto you surely miss the key thing here dude... THEY NEED A TRASH BIN! Hope that's loud and visible enough for you.

Today is Wednesday, those earlier photos were received Saturday with the gates closed. Now, With the church sign showing their schedule, service was likely held on Tuesday.
These photos received today Wednesday, with gates open for service say you should hush. Probably it's not 5 minutes yet!

It is apparent they are oblivious to filth and stench, 5 days and counting. It is who and what they are. Their innate essence. Noise and stench polluters.
Compromising neighbors health and welfare.

Dirty on the outside, dirty on the inside (mind, thought, brain, spirit and soul.

No silly excuses for stench.
The Holy Trinity has no blemish and must not be tainted with sinful filth.

PastorAIO:
What does Osanyin shrine look like in your village?

Oh, we got a touchy so and so on air. Must have struck a nerve...

The shrine is honorable and respectfully
adorned with sanctified aura of sacredness and holiness like it is meant to. With good behavior and cleanliness, a thorough appearance makeover in and out, you may be invited to visit and learn.

Secondly, it is an anomaly drawing comparisons or parallels of any house of worship with this disgrace in the above photos. The church is a non-starter and just ain't worth it bro.

This 'church' is embellished with dejected abhorable despicable nauseating filth which it is not meant or expected to.

Responding with sarcastic transference does in no way absolve the gutterish cesspool identity of this sorry excuse for a so called 'church'. No decent fella will embrace or defend the shithole. Maybe you do share same feather. Surely and hopefully not Adeboye.

It is in the least about IMAGE dude, something that appears to have flown over your cuckoo's nest. What a repugnant eyesore!

So boy, who put you up to do a man's job?
Don't even go there with moi, don't even dream of starting. Take your garbage elsewhere. I ain't got time for your likes boy!

I share these photos courtesy of a friend.

Obviously the so called 'church' in the photos below are oblivious to the general parlance that Cleanliness is said to be next to Godliness.

With all the offerings and donations collected from 'zombie' members by this disgraceful, nasty, filthy excuse for a 'church', they see no need for a TRASH BIN...simply pathetic.

Now if the pastor and officials (if any) are blinded to filth, are the members/ church goers also blinded? What a lousy hole in the wall parading as a church.
What keeps me in awe is that folks actually do patronise such a dump on a Sunday etc with their Sunday special fancy clothes to this 'gutter'...

So much wasteful energy spent on noise pollution and disturbances of the public peace by the likes of such a cesspool called a 'church' - Empty barrels make loud noise; yet no energy for simple hygiene. Since birds of a feather do flock together then church members/ patrons are also likely dirty, nasty and filthy.

Filthy on the outside, filthy on the inside!
By their fruits they shall be known.
The grace of the Holy Trinity is certainly unlikely to make a stop amidst such a filthy cesspool and any other so called 'church' like it.

I ain't 'churchy', but I suggest they take a page from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which in my opinion is one of the cleanest.

SHAME!!!

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The global family.

THIS LIFE

Although it may seem incredible, it is certainly very true that this so much hackneyed modern civilization is frightfully ugly, it does not fulfill the transcendental characteristics of aesthetic sense, and it is devoid of inner beauty. We boast a great deal of those same old hair-raising buildings which resemble real mouseholes. The world has become tremendously boring, the same streets as always and horrible housing everywhere.

All these have become tedious, be it North or South, East or West of the world. The same usual terrifying, nauseating and barren uniform. "Modernization!", the crowds exclaim. We resemble vain peacocks with our fine clothes and shiny shoes, although all around us and throughout the world there are unhappy, undernourished and wretched millions.

Natural, spontaneous and ingenuous simplicity and beauty, without any artifice nor conceited make up, have disappeared in the female sex. Now we are modern, that is life. People have become dreadfully cruel, kindness is not found, nobody has compassion for anyone any more.

The display windows of luxurious stores are glimmering with extravagant merchandise which the less fortunate definitely cannot afford. The outcast in our society can only gaze at silks and jewels, costly bottles of perfume and umbrellas for the rain; look but not touch, a torment similar to those of Tantalus.

People of these modern times have become extremely gross. The perfume of friendship and the fragrance of sincerity have radically disappeared. People cry in anguish, overburdened with taxes; the whole world has problems; we are owed and we owe; we are taken to court and ordered to pay money, having none; worries ravage our brains; nobody lives in peace.

Bureaucrats, with their smugly curved paunches on which they psychologically sustain themselves, juggle mentally with politics in absolute unconcern for the grief of the peoples. Nowadays nobody is happy, least of all the middle-classes, who find their backs to the wall, facing the sword. Rich and poor, believers and nonbelievers, merchants and beggars, cobblers only exist because they have to live, they drown their torments with beer and wine and become drug addicts in their search for escape from themselves.

People have become malicious, suspicious, distrustful, cunning and perverse; nobody believes anybody any more. Every day new conditions are invented: certificates, all kinds of restrictions, documents, credentials, etc, and anyway, none of these serves its purpose any more, those who are crafty mock all this nonsense, they do not pay, they evade the law even if they may be imprisoned. No job brings happiness.

The sense of true love has been lost and people marry today, divorcing tomorrow. Family unity has been lamentably lost, organic modesty does not exist any more, lesbianism and homosexuality have become commonplace.

To know something about all this, to try to understand the causes of so much corruption; to inquire, to search, is certainly the purpose of these shared moments and writings with you, here on.

Be our guests.
Opinions welcome.


Thank you.

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halfricanadian:
A mans reward is either in heaven or on earth

Nd sometimes his children pays d price so dont b too excited cos nothing happen on earth c

Kindly share your personal experience of something that happened in heaven.

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First, thoroughly clean out your liver (the chemical factory of the body).

Contact me if this doesn't remedy the situation.

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