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Events / Re: Wedding Bells; Pre-wedding Pictures Of A Nairalander's Friend by otiwisdom: 5:43pm On Mar 23, 2019
May God bless this couples
Crime / Re: A Newborn Baby Dumped In A Dustbin Bayelsa (Disturbing Photos) by otiwisdom: 5:29pm On Mar 23, 2019
cry cry cry cry cry
cry cry
Celebrities / Re: Chinneylove Eze: Bambam Is The Most Unprofessional Actor In The World by otiwisdom: 5:02pm On Mar 23, 2019
Another nonsense news on front page again. Mods please stop downgrading naira land

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Crime / Re: Thief In Tears After Being Nabbed During Robbery Operation In Delta. Photos by otiwisdom: 4:59pm On Mar 23, 2019
I know most of you we be criticizing the boy but one thing you people should know is that Nigeria youth are greatly in need of help,they are dying.
See this boy alone is enough to make me cry.

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Family / Re: Four Generations Of Nigerian Men Family Picture by otiwisdom: 4:04pm On Mar 23, 2019
Wow

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Celebrities / Re: My Mini Baby Is Here - Regina Daniels As She Flaunts Her New Whip (Photos) by otiwisdom: 1:14pm On Mar 23, 2019
OK ,you have the right to enjoy the fruit of your labour but that does not mean you @raginadaniel we destroy your self, common you are still a kid for God sake
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 1:06pm On Mar 23, 2019
IAmSabrina:

Impress me
So now,have you believe that the king of king exist or you want more proof.
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 12:38pm On Mar 23, 2019
IAmSabrina:

Impress me
Read this
Source:Wikipedia
In the narrative of the conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua, the Battle of Jericho is the first battle that is described. According to Joshua 6:1-27, the walls of Jericho fell after Joshua's Israelite army marched around the city blowing their trumpets. Excavations at Tell es-Sultan, the biblical Jericho, have failed to produce data to substantiate the biblical story,[2] and scholars are virtually unanimous that the Book of Joshua holds little historical value.[3]

Battle of Jericho (biblical)
JSC the battle of Jericho.png

Depiction by Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld (1794-1872)
Location
Jericho
Result Decisive Hebrew victory
Belligerents
Israelites
Canaanites
Commanders and leaders
Joshua
King of Jericho †
Strength
40,000[1]
Unknown
Casualties and losses
Nil
Herem
Joshua 6:1-27
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The story of Jericho is told in Joshua 6:1-27.

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible tell how Noah cursed Canaan to become a slave, and how God gave the land of the Canaanites to Abraham and his descendants. The children of Israel (descendants of Abraham) themselves became slaves in Egypt, but through Moses God brought them out of Egypt and to the borders of the promised land of Canaan. There Moses instructed them to seize the land by conquest, and placed them under the command of Joshua.

Joshua sent spies to Jericho, the first city of Canaan to be taken, and discovered that the land was in fear of Israel and their God. The Israelites marched around the walls once every day for six days with the priests and the Ark of the Covenant. On the seventh day they marched seven times around the walls, then the priests blew their ram's horns, the Israelites raised a great shout, and the walls of the city fell. Following God's law of herem the Israelites took no slaves or plunder but slaughtered every man, woman and child in Jericho, sparing only Rahab, a Canaanite prostitute who had sheltered the spies, and her family.

Origins and historicity


In 1868, Charles Warren identified Tell es-Sultan as the site of Jericho.[4] In 1930–36, John Garstang conducted excavations there and discovered the remains of a network of collapsed walls which he dated to about 1400 BCE. Kathleen Kenyon re-excavated the site over 1952–1958 and demonstrated that the destruction occurred c.1500 BCE during a well-attested Egyptian campaign of that period, and that Jericho had been deserted throughout the mid-late 13th century BCE.[5] Kenyon's work was corroborated in 1995 by radiocarbon tests which dated the destruction level to the late 17th or 16th centuries.[6] A small unwalled settlement was rebuilt in the 15th century, but the tell was unoccupied from the late 15th century until the 10th/9th centuries.[2]

Most scholars agree that the book of Joshua holds little of historical value.[3] Its origin lies in a time far removed from the times it depicts,[7] and its intention linked with a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws (the covenant) set down in the book of Deuteronomy, rather than as history in the modern sense.[8] The story of Jericho, and the conquest generally, probably represents the nationalist propaganda of the kings of Judah and their claims to the territory of the Kingdom of Israel after 722 BCE;[9] these chapters were later incorporated into an early form of Joshua written late in the reign of King Josiah (reigned 640–609 BCE), and the book was revised and completed after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly after the return from the Babylonian exile in 538.[10] The combination of archaeological evidence and analysis of the composition history and theological purposes of the Book of Joshua led archaeologist William G. Dever to deem the biblical story of the fall of Jericho as "[not] founded on genuine historical sources" and "invented out of whole cloth."[11]
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 12:11pm On Mar 23, 2019
IAmSabrina:

Forgive me then for I assumed your whole argument is an analogy.

And I said yes, surely you saw that

Also, afraid of what, if i may ask?
So with what we have being saying so far it means that if I take an event from the Bible which God did and I gave you an empirical and variable evidence that God himself did it,you will believe he exist.
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 11:42am On Mar 23, 2019
IAmSabrina:

If the newspaper has provided empirical, verifiable, objective evidence (those three words are important!), doesn't contradict itself, and isn't full of hearsay and illogical statements, then yes. If it hasn't met those criterias, it remains speculation...

Notice how the bible, upon close examination, fails at all the conditions i listed above.
I am not talking about the bible now or you are already afraid. And please did you say yes
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 11:33am On Mar 23, 2019
IAmSabrina:

SMH

I believe and can observe that a bomb exploded
I don't believe you planted and/or detonated the bomb
So if you were on the place the bomb exploded 10 years ago and you saw a news paper on that place and that newspaper was published when the bomb exploded,in that newspaper it was written that I planted the bomb and even old people that lived there said I planted the bomb will you still believe that I planted the bomb
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 11:24am On Mar 23, 2019
IAmSabrina:

What you fail to understand is that there are two layers to this story:

I saw the effects of the bomb at said location, thus, i can conclude and believe that a bomb exploded
However, you said this...

This is an unsubstantiated claim that i'm asking you to support with evidence.

I can see that a bomb was detonated at a certain spot, the question now is WHO planted said bomb?
You asked the question, i expect you to see the parallels by now....

TLDR; That i can see the effects of the explosion doesn't prove the cause...
So you are telling me that you believe that I planted a bomb but you don't know who planted the bomb.
Sports / Re: Messi Leaves Argentina Team After 3-1 Defeat To Venezuela by otiwisdom: 11:19am On Mar 23, 2019
finesounds01:
ronaldo didn't play for Portugal since after world cup and Portugal has been winning not until ronaldo joined them yesterday for qualifiers which they played draw.
Shut up

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Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 11:12am On Mar 23, 2019
IAmSabrina:

I can only believe if you prove YOU planted the bomb like you said.

So, again, have you any proof?
What are you saying, didn't you read what I wrote.
I said I took you to the place and you saw the place the bomb destroyed and you even saw some little remaining part of the bomb will you still believe. Were not the one that said other planet like Venus exist because you can see them
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 11:00am On Mar 23, 2019
IAmSabrina:

Can you prove to me that YOU planted the bomb?
Let's say i took you to the place and you saw the place the bomb destroyed and you even saw some little remaining part of the bomb will you still believe.
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 10:50am On Mar 23, 2019
MJBOLT:
wisdom is far from you


So please explain how wisdom is far from me.
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 10:48am On Mar 23, 2019
beatmonster:


Those beliefs are not natural. Nobody is born a believer. Parents, Religious Leaders, Teachers, Siblings... start brainwashing a child immediately he can hear and speak. The child grows up with this forced upon intuition.

Now, the origin of God came as a result of gap of understanding. Remember when lighting was caused by God of lighting and thunder? Today we know better.

I assume you mean God in generic term not Yahweh, Allah, Krishna... etc

I am still waiting for an answer to my question.
Sir you did not answer my question
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 10:46am On Mar 23, 2019
IAmSabrina:

You are trying to establish the fact that "we can't see planets" as proof of your god. ROFSMDHLOL! grin grin grin

Sorry to burst your bubble but not only can you see Venus the best with the bare eye( Its the 2nd brightest after the moon), but you can also see Jupiter, Saturn and Mars at least.

If you have the time, download the Google Sky Map for Android or SkyView if your phone is overpriced. You can use those phone apps to locate stars, planets, and constellations near you, based on your location.

Here's a list of what time each planet rises and sets, you can change the location https://in-the-sky.org/data/planets.php and it even has a sky map in another part of the website

As for your god, well, i've seen NOTHING to suggest he exists. Feel free to change my mind smiley
Thank you very much for what you have just said. So please answer this my question with you right mind. "If I plant a bomb on a place and the bomb exploded and 10 years later I took you to the place where the bomb exploded and you saw how the bomb affected the place after 10 years will you believe that I planted a bomb on that same place 10 years ago"
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 10:34am On Mar 23, 2019
beatmonster:


how old are you?
Answer my question and stop changing the topic

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Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 10:23am On Mar 23, 2019
IAmSabrina:

Lol cheesy grin

You've got to be kidding me...
How am I kidding you.
Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 10:17am On Mar 23, 2019
[quote author=beatmonster post=76907595]

Sorry, there is sth called telescope. Try again[/quote
So you are telling me that if you buy a telescope from a shop and you look outer space through the telescope and you saw a planet then you will believe that there is a planet, but now you all are saying that the Bible was written by men to deceive people.So how are you sure that the telescope was not built by men to deceive people.

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Religion / Re: A Question To My Friends Who Are Believers by otiwisdom: 9:55am On Mar 23, 2019
Question to you:why do you believe that there exist another planet outside earth but you have not seen.
Blessed are those that believed but have not see

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Sports / Re: Lionel Messi Takes Precautionary Leaves Aftet Losing Argentina Return by otiwisdom: 9:19am On Mar 23, 2019
Ok
Science/Technology / Re: Man Kills Big Python Under His Bed (Photos) by otiwisdom: 9:03am On Mar 23, 2019
LIKE IF YOU THINK IS PHOTOSHOP

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Politics / Re: Chris Adighije's 74th Birthday Party: Orji Kalu, Umahi Spotted by otiwisdom: 8:52am On Mar 23, 2019
A common Nigeria man will be struggling through out the day just to feed and yet another man will be using our money to bake cake.
Politics / Re: Senator Dinomelaye Causes Stir With His Bike In Abuja. Photo by otiwisdom: 8:47am On Mar 23, 2019
Dino
Crime / Re: Man Machetes His Wife Over Alleged Infidelity In Ogun State.(Graphic Photo) by otiwisdom: 8:16am On Mar 23, 2019
Oh my God
Sports / Re: A Homeless 8-year-old Nigerian, Is Now A New York Chess Champion by otiwisdom: 7:59am On Mar 23, 2019
When God says yes,nobody can say no
Sports / Re: Ini Umotong Graduates With 1st Class Degree In University Of Southampton England by otiwisdom: 7:56am On Mar 23, 2019
cool

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Crime / Re: Policeman Arrested For Allegedly Raping Woman At ATM Point In Anambra by otiwisdom: 3:15am On Mar 23, 2019
Nigeria police
Politics / Re: Atiku Wishes PDP Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus Happy 64th Birthday by otiwisdom: 9:38pm On Mar 22, 2019
Like for Atiku,share for abubaka.
Hug transformer for buhari
Crime / Re: Man Gets BRUTALLY Kicked In The Head By Ghanaian Police (video) by otiwisdom: 9:19pm On Mar 22, 2019
cheesy grin

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