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I'm currently doing my coursework in one of the Nigerian Universities. Considering the constraints of time, money and difficulty in assessing materials/equipments needed for research in Nigeria, i'd appreciate if you all learned folks especially those who have passed through this hurdle to kindly assist me with a "do-able" reseach area/topic that one can do considering all the constraints listed above. i'm fully aware of the implications of plagiarism and do not intend to copy or reproduce an already made work done somewhere else. I could of course improve on a previous work if its possible. Thanks to you all.
NB: I may be required to model my project with any of the algorithms/programming languages e.t.c..i'd like you all to consider this in perspective. God bless y'all.

Owiii:
Campaign For The Release Of Very Rev. Father Adeyi John.


The Reverend father whose picture is attached, is the Vicar General of Otukpo Diocese in Benue State. He was kidnapped by unknown gun men 13 days ago and the security agencies in Benue State are handling the issue with no sense if commitment since he is not a politician. please let thus information get to higher authorities to necessitate his release. MOD help me move it to front page.

Oyine Abole. Where u dey now. Unfortunate incident this.

Sirlanister:
This school looks like Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi. UAM. college of science to be precise.
well, may God bless the guy and makes him a celebrity in the face of his mockers.

Bros u Bleep up..mehn u dull ehn..y u fall hand lyk Dis.

I know the name of the school. its somewhere in the middle belt but I won't say the name.

Siena:
[color=Blue]Patwilly and KC007 added. Thank you for your interest guys![/color]

Thanks Siena. Bless you.

ghostofsparta:
@ Luyeanka

First of all, as I'd expected before clicking to read, you made the mistake of presenting Blood Money as Money Ritual which are entirely two different things.

Secondly, your write-up which pretends to reveal "the truth" behind a complex and gargantuan subject is nothing but a bland opinion of yours that fails to informs us on something 'typically uncommon' but somehow seems exhilarating to you because you just stumbled on figuring it and decide to share it.

Well, for your information, I haven't heard of the 'truncate-bleak future-to-ease-in-a-money-filled-one' MR, for I suspect this thread to be yet another another attempt to malign Yoruba believe system in general for it implores readers to pronounce the verdict you implied silently.

What I know is, a child whose destiny has being revealed to be 'dire and unfortunate' can be adjusted by doing certain rites and appeasement, therefore it is so-so unrelated to 'money ritual' because 'dire and unfortunate' not only refers to said child's financial status but to the totality of his success in every other thing in his/her future e.g. fame, marriage, child-bearing, business, etc likewise could a child whose future is revealed to be 'bright' can be disturbed (not destroyed). So how do they relate to MR ?


Finally, given to the catchy title of this thread one would think it would be as in-depth and gripping as the front-gracing one I wrote here The Unvarnished Truth About Money Ritual I am thinking of writing a part II because I've garnered more information ever since I wrote that, NL most times sickens me these days because of the continuous surge in olodo population that has dominated it, replacing it core system which used to sustain intelligent, analytical and educative responders with one that now promote an arena where the most wittiest, sassiest, insulting and discriminatory gladiators wrestle for First To Comment, Let-Me-Just-Post-Something-Even-If-It's-Irrelevant-To-The-Topic among several zany tournaments.

What do you want to do with answers that are way beyond your understanding, just visit the link I gave to the OP to first of all know the difference between Blood Money and Money Ritual which everyone erroneously use interchangeably.

MODs and SuperMODs if you can't repost informative threads on front page, here are some interesting ones:
What Will Happen If An Unstoppable Force Hits An Immovable Object

Can Nigeria Be Better Off, If Our Leaders Swears By Our Ancient Deities

Exodus:Gods & Kings: Why The Film Shouldn't Be Regarded More Than Its Entertainment Value

ṢANGÓ - One of the 401
Mispercieved ÍRUNMO̩LẸ Force

Gorgeous Guys - More Of A Curse Than Gift In Nigeria

Until They Can Operate At Zero Visibility, Stealth Fighter Jets Are Incomplete

This post is very inspiring and intellectual. A shame Nairaland has had its standards thrown to the dogs, the more reason I'm calling out for Seun to create a intellectual sub forum on here just like sports, career etc. Somewhere persons with more than an average interest in intellectualism can stay and jaw jaw away from the maddening, juvenile crowd that pervades Nairaland these days.

dubemnaija:
I once had an encounter with the man, but I doubt if he would remember. The world is indeed a small place

Tell us. What was the encounter.? What were your impressions of him. I want to know because he's from my place.

melodyj:
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

#I_Represent_Onyagede_Ehaje_In_Ohimini_
LGA_Benue_State.

Exercising One of my fundamental Right So Help Me God.

Oyi you go tar Ogobia to Onyagede road? so I go campaign for you. I'm very serious.

Dappymotors:
Factory ac Leather seat Automatic gear Cd player Power windows Power steering 102k mileage 4plugs engine Alloy wheels
Pls call dappy motors on 08161178354 Bb pin 5BF2AE7F

What is wrong with the car? why do you want to sell it?

Siena:
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Baba Siena, pls add me to the group. ..07056843152. God bless you Sir.

HVILLE:
I have been following this thread since inception but i have been invisible reader, but my passat 2006 fsi is displayingEPC' on dashboard and the movement of the car is not OK i mean the acceleration is really bad is not going more than 20-30km, Plz what can I do, thanks

Pls my brother. I'm madly in love with this car and hope to purchase it. can u give me a lowdown on the car? by this I mean its present market cost,(Tokunbo), maintenance cost, fuel economy and availability of both spare parts and mechanics. you may include cost of spare parts as well. God bless you as you do so. I live in Lagos.

Nigerian football's crisis has taken a bizarre twist with an attempt to appoint a dead referee for Sunday's match between Warri Wolves and Giwa FC.
It comes as Chris Giwa continues to challenge Nigerian Football Federation president Amaju Pinnick.
A Nigerian court has ruled Giwa should replace the Fifa-recognised Pinnick and in a move to wrest control he has named the weekend's top-flight officials.
However, among those selected is Wale Akinsanya, who died in January.
Giwa's NFF rival group sent notice of its actions to the chief operation officer of the league management company on Wednesday.
It has raised the possibility that two sets of match officials - those appointed by Giwa's group and those appointed by the NFF - could turn up for the fixtures.
Football's world governing body Fifa issued a warning last week saying Pinnick and his board must continue in charge of the NFF or Nigeria would face a global suspension.
Meanwhile, the Giwa-led faction has rejected
a reconciliation committee set up by the country's sports minister Solomon Dalung to resolve issues within the NFF.
In a statement signed by the group's chairman of chairmen, Effiong Johnson, it urged Nigerians to disregard the action of the minister.
Former NFF boss Ibrahim Galadima is the head of the seven-man reconciliation committee, which has one week to submit its report.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/3..._the_day&ns_source=facebook&ns_linkname=sport
cc: Lala

Analysiscorner:
Why does one need to prove those equations?

Search Me. I never got round to knowing why then. But now, I realise they are just a small part of mainstream knowledge one in the sciences should know and apply. key word here is Apply! But the Nigerian educational system messed it up as usual.
Even Maxwell equatilns- A whole lot of lecturers in the academia don't understand why and how those equations are even important in the first place. LA cram LA pour. its pathetic my brother.

Schrödinger's equation in my 300level electrical engineering material course burnt some brain cells I haven't recovered till date. You stood the risk of being abnormal at the end of proving those equations.

Daremee:
When she is busy doing photo shots and 24hour makeover pictures advertising her butt, why won't her husband be busy enjoying himself with someone who is not so self obsessed at a restaurant?
There is something missing in this mans life which she is too vain and self centered to provide. The man simply needs companionship and she is too busy in front of the mirror or posing in front of the camera for her next IG self promotion pix.

Why is no one liking this beautiful post. This explains it all!!!

greenmonk:
Is there really anything like high voltage engineering or is it a new branch of enginnering.

I assure you there is.

Ngasky:
be very specific with your question to receive helpful response

OK I'm writing a report sort of. in classifying phenomena in high voltage Engr..can they classified as e.g lightening phenomena, dielectric phenomena, breakdown phenomena or is it a different thing entirely. Basically the question says to write a report on phenomena encountered in high voltage engineering..I'm confused as to the specifics as that's quite a lot..any contribution is welcome please.

Elect/ power engineers.. pls help out..boil down to specifics if you can. Thank you.

Laycawn:
Thanks so much for the concern and for responding. I haven't gotten the course list yet. I will be glad if you can help me with it. Thanks so very much

Hey bro. I'm seeing this just now. my apologies. How's your shoulder? have you made it to lectures yet?

Laycawn:
Thanks so much for the concern and for responding. I haven't gotten the course list yet. I will be glad if you can help me with it. Thanks so very much

Hey bro. I'm seeing this just now. my apologies. How's your shoulder? have you made it for lectures yet?

colossus2:
Lol, I am not in Makurdi sir

I'm not in Makurdi myself lol

kilode100:
Unfortunately, I have a thing for short men...
Ride on Hell-Rufai...



Just take a look at his short sexy stumps

This is one of the funniest comments I've read on Nairaland!

edaz01:
Are u looking at getting a tokunbo or naija used? With ur budget its best to sought for a tokunbo...possibly toyota corolla 04/05 since ur more about fuel economy, mostly comes with 1.8L engine, u can go for honda civic 05/06 too or any other durable compact car with small engine capacity

Tokunbo of course. What's the price range of these cars?

Alright, so I'm a novice in the whole car ish..here's asking experienced gurus to put me aright.. I'm thinking the Passat 1999/00 model or one or two if the Toyota series.. I'm particular also about fuel economy and maintenance. Thank you.
cc; Autosbay , Siena, Gazzuz , laslasticala and all other car gurus in the house. Pics of these cars will be most welcome. Thanks.

colossus2:
Nice one. Number 10 is the key. Hardest part for a learner. You go shout tire

I concur! Even me sef never fully master am. You go teach me?

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The Scattered: Spiritual Reasons for Black Failure
This essay is directed toward persons who are of black African descent and toward all observant Jews and Christians. If you don't fall into these categories, that's fine and it's okay if you comment, but for you, the premises on which this essay is based don't apply.
We watch as set after set after set of black Americans blunder short-sightedly, most recently in Ferguson, MO, and in nearby St. Louis and it gives me one basic feeling. Fatigue.
I am tired. Tired of the stupid stuff. Tired of the desire for Selbstmord. That last word is German for 'suicide,' and, to me, since I occasionally think in German, it is more descriptive of what I have in mind: not personal suicide, nor even group suicide. Selbstmord connotes--at least in my mind--the psychosis behind following after those who would help your death along and the demonization of those who want to save you--even those of your own number who don't want to follow you into oblivion.
What the Hell is this...this insanity...about?
Like many others, I’ve considered the perennial plight of black African-descended persons and occasionally wondered whether it is due to some defect in our nature or plain old "bad luck." But, I refuse to believe that God assigns differing potential IQs for different ethnic groups and I don't believe in luck. However, if those notions are discounted, then what is left?
A proper perspective; it’s difficult thing to gain, for many reasons. When considering the truth of a matter, perspectives can take many sizes, shapes, and agendas; some straight, some skewed; others -centric, -phobic, or -supremacist; still others too large or too narrow.
But what about spiritual perspective? Why do we--especially we who are Christians--not view the plight of black African-descended persons from a biblical perspective, especially considering that black persons are specifically mentioned in the Bible?
Answer: because we don't want to. We Christians tend to ignore what God says about black persons in the Bible, and we do so out of two emotions which God says are sins: pride and fear. Well, I'm tired of both of those emotions, in myself and in others, so, Christians, let's walk in truth, without fear and with humility. If we believe that the Bible contains narratives which are true, let's face them and let's walk in that truth.
What the Bible Says
The plight of black people is documented in the book of Genesis and that plight is the result of the disobedience of two of our forefathers--and the consequences of that disobedience have lasted for four thousand years.
If we accept that the sons of Noah were the first to be separated by race and that Ham is the father of the black race, we have but to read and comprehend. So let's read first.
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the unclothedness of his father, and told his brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the unclothedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s unclothedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
--Genesis 9:20-27 *
6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim and Phut, and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Haviah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sathchah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
--Genesis 10:6-10
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime they had for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of the earth.
--Genesis 11:1-9
From these passages, and from what we know of the subsequent history of Africa and black African-descended persons, we can only conclude that black people were scattered on purpose. The whole reason that Nimrod built the Tower was to keep his people from being scattered--in direct disobedience to God. So when God confounded their languages, they ended up being scattered anyway and remain so up until today. And every misfortune, every curse, which has befallen black people as a whole is a result of that disobedience in one form or another. We have never wanted to admit this. But if we are indeed the children of Ham, how can we look at the last four millennia of African history and the history of African-descended persons on other continents and believe otherwise?
Are we cursed via the curse of Canaan? Yes. But the curse of Canaan affects only a small portion of Ham’s descendents—he had other children, as mentioned. However, we are largely cursed through this means, this act of pride and hubris from Ham’s grandson, Nimrod, whose name means ‘rebel.’ The Bible history of black African-descended persons explicitly spells out the terms of the Canaanite curse and the terms of the Babel curse are implied: the scattering.
I submit that any black African or anyone of black African descent who is not covered by the atoning blood of Jesus the Christ is still under the terms of the Babel scattering and the Canaanite curse and will still feel the battering of them.
Through the Babel scattering, the entire earth began to speak in different languages, but, in my opinion, the brunt of it fell on Nimrod’s people. One look at the hundreds of languages existing on the African continent makes that plain. If God blesses a people, can He not curse them? To deny the latter is to deny many other Biblically-recorded blessings and curses by God upon other peoples.
God, being merciful, decided to take the terms and effects of these curses and use them to provide the opportunity to lift the curses on some of us by showing us how to be saved. He did this by allowing us to go into captivity into two areas of Christianity: Europe and North America. It is in both of those places that many of our ancestors first heard the Gospel, believed it, accepted it, and relied upon it; and, conversely, it is how we were rescued from the curses and the main snare of the Enemy: idolatry—the chief form of which is known as Islam.
Most black people, even those who say they are Christians, don’t want to look too far back into the dismal history of our African ancestors because focusing on it tends to support the long-held allegation that we are genetically inferior to other races. The "inferiority" is not genetic, but spiritual. And the mistake that many have made in researching Africa and Africans isn’t only that many don’t go far enough back in history.
There are more fundamental mistakes: we don’t want to accept the Word of God as history, and, on top of that, we don’t want to accept the judgment of God for the actions of our ancestors. Acknowledging that the judgment exists is the first step toward grabbing hold to the dismissal of that judgment: accepting Jesus the Christ as Lord and Savior. If we don’t take the first step, we find ourselves blundering through our lives as individuals and as a people.
A Comparison With Another People
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
--Genesis 12:2-3
These were God’s words to Abram, whom He later renamed Abraham. Of course, that great nation is Israel, aka the Israelites, Hebrews, or Jews. (And let's not forget that God has punished the Jews more than once for disobedience.)
But if God blessed the Hebrews to be His beacon to the world—to send His Son down to earth as one of them—why should God’s curses not be in effect when another people remain outside of the Lifter of curses, Jesus the Christ, the one to whom God refers to in this line: "in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed?
The Scattering
The enemy was the author of the Babel scattering and he is the author of scattered thinking--confusion. Confusion produces chaotic action. We have but to look at the aftermath of the Babel scattering to see how our forefathers' actions have affected us.
Hundreds of different languages on the African continent, resulting in
Forgetting the Living God and turning to idolatry
Tribalism (enslaving and massacring each other) and as a result, failure to unite against invaders from other continents—mainly Islamic
Enslaved and nearly wiped out (through the killing and castration of black men and boys) by the Islamic Civilization; joining with Islam in order to save ones skin and becoming slavers of other black Africans themselves, which softened the continent up for
Enslavement by Europeans and Americans, and
Colonization of most of the African continent by Europeans. (Ironic that the western version of slavery and subsequent colonization likely kept Islamic slavers from wiping black Africans out, the 19th century crimes of King Leopold's Belgium notwithstanding.)
And the present
AIDS, Ebola and other epidemics (much of the deadliness of these plagues is due to primitive, idolatrous practices)
Tribal wars continue
Islamic genocide, enslavement and colonization continues
Colonization by China
America
After slavery, second-class American citizenship (Jim Crow and other black codes) lasting until the mid-twentieth century
My (step) dad, 72 years old, says that his generation of black Americans failed the succeeding generations by failing to instill the love of the Living God in them--a characteristic which sustained black Americans through slavery and through legislated discrimination. According to Dad, it was his generation of black Americans which was the first to reach adulthood in real freedom. They could obtain real education, get real jobs, live where and how they wanted—they had freedom of choice, but most of them made the wrong choices, the chief being the abandonment of real Christianity and Christian value of the family. Black women were lured by the government into widespread harlotry, which funded them when they had children without being married. This nearly universal phenomenon has resulted in,
Not recognizing the re-enslavement (dependence on the children of Shem and Japheth)—the terms of the Canaanite curse. In fact, we view the New Slavery as our just due.
Black criminality out of proportion with the rest of the population
Self-contempt resulting in black-on-black murders and abortion far out of proportion
Contempt for all other races resulting in mindless brutality for sport (Newsome-Christian Murders, Wichita Massacre e.g. the knock-out game)
Feral gangs of black youth
Robberies and burglaries resulting in most homes in black neighborhoods with barred windows
Internalized inferiority and anti-intellectualism resulting in the widespread idea that a black person who does well in school and in life through legal means is "not really black"
Drug use far outside of proportion
Venereal diseases far outside of proportion
Women behaving like men and vice versa (more than just a reference to homosexuality)
Hard-heartedness; self-centeredness
Oath-breakers; believers in subjective definitions for words and concepts
Nasty attitudes; not bothering to subscribe to the rules of politeness and not teaching those rules to the children
Just for the sake of argument, let’s assume that the Biblical phenomena to which I've referred are not connected with the black race. Looking back in our history—and observing our present—how could we tell the difference?
How God’s Judgment on Black People is Related to God’s Judgment on America
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, a Messianic Jew, published the much-acclaimed novel, The Harbinger , in 2012. In the fictionalization, he points to ancient Israel’s downfall--a curse from God--as a result of that nation turning away from God and shows how that pattern relates to the USA as a result of that nation turning away from God since the Supreme Court decision of 1963 which put Yahweh out of the public sphere.
God warned ancient Israel what would happen to it if it fell to idolatry and the curses were many, but one stands out in relation to my topic.
43 The stranger [foreigner] that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
--Deuteronomy 28:43
Ancient Israel turned away from God many times, but He gave them chance after chance to repent. But at some point, God had enough and gave them no more chances (for a while). After the downfall of ancient Israel, the prophet Jeremiah laments the many consequences, including the following.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
--Lamentations 5:8
Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of the United States in 2008 and reelected in 2012. And while there are many questions yet to be answered about his citizenship, background, and heritage, one thing is for certain: he is of black African descent. (In spite of the well-circulated, but culturally ignorant assertion that President Obama’s alleged biological father is mostly Arab, one look at a photograph of the latter refutes this,
as does real research into the ethnic group of the Obamas: the Luo tribe .)
There has been much speculation that the president is not a Bible-believing Christian due to a ton of circumstantial evidence and one large piece of solid evidence: his twenty-year membership at Chicago’s Trinity Church, where the doctrine subscribed to is Black Liberation Theology.
If it is true that Barack Obama is not a US citizen and not real Christian and that black persons who are not covered by the blood of Jesus the Christ remain cursed to be slaves and servants to the children of Shem and Japheth, then Barack Obama—the stranger, the servant--is one of the curses on America for turning away from Him! Adding to this theory is that Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States. The Biblical number for judgment is 44.
It should be stressed that, were a black American, Bible-believing Christian to become the President of the United States, none of this would apply.
The hidden elite powers that rule this world—who have no religion other than worship of the Enemy--believe that all blacks should be killed. They believe that we are inferior and are a trash race of no use to the ascending New World Socialist Order which they plan on ruling and the course of our history seems to prove them correct.
But I suspect that the actual reasons that the earthly powers and principalities want to be rid of the black race are twofold: 1) The black failure at Babel—caused by lack of secrecy--to successfully infiltrate the Kingdom of their enemy—Yahweh—and the four millennia-long result, and 2) they recognize that blacks are a physically and spiritually gifted people. These powers fear what would happen if blacks as a whole were to nullify the Canaanite curse and the Babel scattering by accepting the Redemption of and submitting to the Lordship of Jesus the Christ. I think that we have the spiritual tools to be a powerful weapon for Jesus’ coming Kingdom. So it is that the blacks have been long targeted by the Enemy and his human servants, including black ones--to be enslaved, to facilitate the enslavement of their brethren, to scatter their own progeny (through eschewing of marriage) and, finally, to murder their own flesh. The last has been going on in earnest since 1973.
Assuming that any or all of my conclusions are true, what are we to do with this information? That’s easy. Getting out and preach the actual Gospel—the Good News that Jesus the Christ died for us and rose again and sits at the right hand of Yahweh, His Father—can still be done freely, though one wonders how much longer that will last.
The difficulty lies in penetrating the layers of pride that have been indoctrinated into the black American psyche. The idea that any type of pride is anything less than a sin is one of the great deceptions put forth by the Enemy. The notion of Black Pride has resulted in a two-pronged idiocy:
1) that anything said about the black race must always be positive, and
2) that anything negative said about the black race is a result of racism or self-hatred, depending on the speaker. Veracity has no bearing on the latter. Neither does genocide.
Saying what needs saying takes faith, courage, humility and wisdom. All of these attributes are gifts of Yahweh for the asking, but they begin with the fear of God.
I asked, and this essay was the result. I am no Bible scholar, nor am I a historian. I’ve simply taken what I know, what I’ve read, what I’ve seen, and put those things together at the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And I’m willing to be told that I’m wrong and to have the reasons explained to me.
God means more to me than my pride and I’m certain I’m not alone.
*All biblical quotes are KJV.Source:
baldilocks-talking..nl/2014/10/the-scattered-spritual-reasons-for.html?m=1

The Scattered: Spiritual Reasons for Black Failure
This essay is directed toward persons who are of black African descent and toward all observant Jews and Christians. If you don't fall into these categories, that's fine and it's okay if you comment, but for you, the premises on which this essay is based don't apply.
We watch as set after set after set of black Americans blunder short-sightedly, most recently in Ferguson, MO, and in nearby St. Louis and it gives me one basic feeling. Fatigue.
I am tired. Tired of the stupid stuff. Tired of the desire for Selbstmord. That last word is German for 'suicide,' and, to me, since I occasionally think in German, it is more descriptive of what I have in mind: not personal suicide, nor even group suicide. Selbstmord connotes--at least in my mind--the psychosis behind following after those who would help your death along and the demonization of those who want to save you--even those of your own number who don't want to follow you into oblivion.
What the Hell is this...this insanity...about?
Like many others, I’ve considered the perennial plight of black African-descended persons and occasionally wondered whether it is due to some defect in our nature or plain old "bad luck." But, I refuse to believe that God assigns differing potential IQs for different ethnic groups and I don't believe in luck. However, if those notions are discounted, then what is left?
A proper perspective; it’s difficult thing to gain, for many reasons. When considering the truth of a matter, perspectives can take many sizes, shapes, and agendas; some straight, some skewed; others -centric, -phobic, or -supremacist; still others too large or too narrow.
But what about spiritual perspective? Why do we--especially we who are Christians--not view the plight of black African-descended persons from a biblical perspective, especially considering that black persons are specifically mentioned in the Bible?
Answer: because we don't want to. We Christians tend to ignore what God says about black persons in the Bible, and we do so out of two emotions which God says are sins: pride and fear. Well, I'm tired of both of those emotions, in myself and in others, so, Christians, let's walk in truth, without fear and with humility. If we believe that the Bible contains narratives which are true, let's face them and let's walk in that truth.
What the Bible Says
The plight of black people is documented in the book of Genesis and that plight is the result of the disobedience of two of our forefathers--and the consequences of that disobedience have lasted for four thousand years.
If we accept that the sons of Noah were the first to be separated by race and that Ham is the father of the black race, we have but to read and comprehend. So let's read first.
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the unclothedness of his father, and told his brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the unclothedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s unclothedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
--Genesis 9:20-27 *
6 And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim and Phut, and Canaan.
7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Haviah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sathchah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
--Genesis 10:6-10
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime they had for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of the earth.
--Genesis 11:1-9
From these passages, and from what we know of the subsequent history of Africa and black African-descended persons, we can only conclude that black people were scattered on purpose. The whole reason that Nimrod built the Tower was to keep his people from being scattered--in direct disobedience to God. So when God confounded their languages, they ended up being scattered anyway and remain so up until today. And every misfortune, every curse, which has befallen black people as a whole is a result of that disobedience in one form or another. We have never wanted to admit this. But if we are indeed the children of Ham, how can we look at the last four millennia of African history and the history of African-descended persons on other continents and believe otherwise?
Are we cursed via the curse of Canaan? Yes. But the curse of Canaan affects only a small portion of Ham’s descendents—he had other children, as mentioned. However, we are largely cursed through this means, this act of pride and hubris from Ham’s grandson, Nimrod, whose name means ‘rebel.’ The Bible history of black African-descended persons explicitly spells out the terms of the Canaanite curse and the terms of the Babel curse are implied: the scattering.
I submit that any black African or anyone of black African descent who is not covered by the atoning blood of Jesus the Christ is still under the terms of the Babel scattering and the Canaanite curse and will still feel the battering of them.
Through the Babel scattering, the entire earth began to speak in different languages, but, in my opinion, the brunt of it fell on Nimrod’s people. One look at the hundreds of languages existing on the African continent makes that plain. If God blesses a people, can He not curse them? To deny the latter is to deny many other Biblically-recorded blessings and curses by God upon other peoples.
God, being merciful, decided to take the terms and effects of these curses and use them to provide the opportunity to lift the curses on some of us by showing us how to be saved. He did this by allowing us to go into captivity into two areas of Christianity: Europe and North America. It is in both of those places that many of our ancestors first heard the Gospel, believed it, accepted it, and relied upon it; and, conversely, it is how we were rescued from the curses and the main snare of the Enemy: idolatry—the chief form of which is known as Islam.
Most black people, even those who say they are Christians, don’t want to look too far back into the dismal history of our African ancestors because focusing on it tends to support the long-held allegation that we are genetically inferior to other races. The "inferiority" is not genetic, but spiritual. And the mistake that many have made in researching Africa and Africans isn’t only that many don’t go far enough back in history.
There are more fundamental mistakes: we don’t want to accept the Word of God as history, and, on top of that, we don’t want to accept the judgment of God for the actions of our ancestors. Acknowledging that the judgment exists is the first step toward grabbing hold to the dismissal of that judgment: accepting Jesus the Christ as Lord and Savior. If we don’t take the first step, we find ourselves blundering through our lives as individuals and as a people.
A Comparison With Another People
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
--Genesis 12:2-3
These were God’s words to Abram, whom He later renamed Abraham. Of course, that great nation is Israel, aka the Israelites, Hebrews, or Jews. (And let's not forget that God has punished the Jews more than once for disobedience.)
But if God blessed the Hebrews to be His beacon to the world—to send His Son down to earth as one of them—why should God’s curses not be in effect when another people remain outside of the Lifter of curses, Jesus the Christ, the one to whom God refers to in this line: "in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed?
The Scattering
The enemy was the author of the Babel scattering and he is the author of scattered thinking--confusion. Confusion produces chaotic action. We have but to look at the aftermath of the Babel scattering to see how our forefathers' actions have affected us.
Hundreds of different languages on the African continent, resulting in
Forgetting the Living God and turning to idolatry
Tribalism (enslaving and massacring each other) and as a result, failure to unite against invaders from other continents—mainly Islamic
Enslaved and nearly wiped out (through the killing and castration of black men and boys) by the Islamic Civilization; joining with Islam in order to save ones skin and becoming slavers of other black Africans themselves, which softened the continent up for
Enslavement by Europeans and Americans, and
Colonization of most of the African continent by Europeans. (Ironic that the western version of slavery and subsequent colonization likely kept Islamic slavers from wiping black Africans out, the 19th century crimes of King Leopold's Belgium notwithstanding.)
And the present
AIDS, Ebola and other epidemics (much of the deadliness of these plagues is due to primitive, idolatrous practices)
Tribal wars continue
Islamic genocide, enslavement and colonization continues
Colonization by China
America
After slavery, second-class American citizenship (Jim Crow and other black codes) lasting until the mid-twentieth century
My (step) dad, 72 years old, says that his generation of black Americans failed the succeeding generations by failing to instill the love of the Living God in them--a characteristic which sustained black Americans through slavery and through legislated discrimination. According to Dad, it was his generation of black Americans which was the first to reach adulthood in real freedom. They could obtain real education, get real jobs, live where and how they wanted—they had freedom of choice, but most of them made the wrong choices, the chief being the abandonment of real Christianity and Christian value of the family. Black women were lured by the government into widespread harlotry, which funded them when they had children without being married. This nearly universal phenomenon has resulted in,
Not recognizing the re-enslavement (dependence on the children of Shem and Japheth)—the terms of the Canaanite curse. In fact, we view the New Slavery as our just due.
Black criminality out of proportion with the rest of the population
Self-contempt resulting in black-on-black murders and abortion far out of proportion
Contempt for all other races resulting in mindless brutality for sport (Newsome-Christian Murders, Wichita Massacre e.g. the knock-out game)
Feral gangs of black youth
Robberies and burglaries resulting in most homes in black neighborhoods with barred windows
Internalized inferiority and anti-intellectualism resulting in the widespread idea that a black person who does well in school and in life through legal means is "not really black"
Drug use far outside of proportion
Venereal diseases far outside of proportion
Women behaving like men and vice versa (more than just a reference to homosexuality)
Hard-heartedness; self-centeredness
Oath-breakers; believers in subjective definitions for words and concepts
Nasty attitudes; not bothering to subscribe to the rules of politeness and not teaching those rules to the children
Just for the sake of argument, let’s assume that the Biblical phenomena to which I've referred are not connected with the black race. Looking back in our history—and observing our present—how could we tell the difference?
How God’s Judgment on Black People is Related to God’s Judgment on America
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, a Messianic Jew, published the much-acclaimed novel, The Harbinger , in 2012. In the fictionalization, he points to ancient Israel’s downfall--a curse from God--as a result of that nation turning away from God and shows how that pattern relates to the USA as a result of that nation turning away from God since the Supreme Court decision of 1963 which put Yahweh out of the public sphere.
God warned ancient Israel what would happen to it if it fell to idolatry and the curses were many, but one stands out in relation to my topic.
43 The stranger [foreigner] that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
--Deuteronomy 28:43
Ancient Israel turned away from God many times, but He gave them chance after chance to repent. But at some point, God had enough and gave them no more chances (for a while). After the downfall of ancient Israel, the prophet Jeremiah laments the many consequences, including the following.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
--Lamentations 5:8
Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of the United States in 2008 and reelected in 2012. And while there are many questions yet to be answered about his citizenship, background, and heritage, one thing is for certain: he is of black African descent. (In spite of the well-circulated, but culturally ignorant assertion that President Obama’s alleged biological father is mostly Arab, one look at a photograph of the latter refutes this,
as does real research into the ethnic group of the Obamas: the Luo tribe .)
There has been much speculation that the president is not a Bible-believing Christian due to a ton of circumstantial evidence and one large piece of solid evidence: his twenty-year membership at Chicago’s Trinity Church, where the doctrine subscribed to is Black Liberation Theology.
If it is true that Barack Obama is not a US citizen and not real Christian and that black persons who are not covered by the blood of Jesus the Christ remain cursed to be slaves and servants to the children of Shem and Japheth, then Barack Obama—the stranger, the servant--is one of the curses on America for turning away from Him! Adding to this theory is that Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States. The Biblical number for judgment is 44.
It should be stressed that, were a black American, Bible-believing Christian to become the President of the United States, none of this would apply.
The hidden elite powers that rule this world—who have no religion other than worship of the Enemy--believe that all blacks should be killed. They believe that we are inferior and are a trash race of no use to the ascending New World Socialist Order which they plan on ruling and the course of our history seems to prove them correct.
But I suspect that the actual reasons that the earthly powers and principalities want to be rid of the black race are twofold: 1) The black failure at Babel—caused by lack of secrecy--to successfully infiltrate the Kingdom of their enemy—Yahweh—and the four millennia-long result, and 2) they recognize that blacks are a physically and spiritually gifted people. These powers fear what would happen if blacks as a whole were to nullify the Canaanite curse and the Babel scattering by accepting the Redemption of and submitting to the Lordship of Jesus the Christ. I think that we have the spiritual tools to be a powerful weapon for Jesus’ coming Kingdom. So it is that the blacks have been long targeted by the Enemy and his human servants, including black ones--to be enslaved, to facilitate the enslavement of their brethren, to scatter their own progeny (through eschewing of marriage) and, finally, to murder their own flesh. The last has been going on in earnest since 1973.
Assuming that any or all of my conclusions are true, what are we to do with this information? That’s easy. Getting out and preach the actual Gospel—the Good News that Jesus the Christ died for us and rose again and sits at the right hand of Yahweh, His Father—can still be done freely, though one wonders how much longer that will last.
The difficulty lies in penetrating the layers of pride that have been indoctrinated into the black American psyche. The idea that any type of pride is anything less than a sin is one of the great deceptions put forth by the Enemy. The notion of Black Pride has resulted in a two-pronged idiocy:
1) that anything said about the black race must always be positive, and
2) that anything negative said about the black race is a result of racism or self-hatred, depending on the speaker. Veracity has no bearing on the latter. Neither does genocide.
Saying what needs saying takes faith, courage, humility and wisdom. All of these attributes are gifts of Yahweh for the asking, but they begin with the fear of God.
I asked, and this essay was the result. I am no Bible scholar, nor am I a historian. I’ve simply taken what I know, what I’ve read, what I’ve seen, and put those things together at the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And I’m willing to be told that I’m wrong and to have the reasons explained to me.
God means more to me than my pride and I’m certain I’m not alone.
*All biblical quotes are KJV.

Seun:
Atheism.

Well, the praise worship part of church is nice because it can help you to lose weight and build your physical stamina. It's like dancing at a club.

Were you ever religious Seun? At what time in your life did this consciousness arise and what circumstances gave rise to it? Thank you.

Okudiover:
These damsels are not 60s or 70s but early 80s and at worst very late 70s. Look at the jerry curls hair style and your would know . Besides I know the one on the extreme left but can't tell ya for good reason (Ex wife of a prominent Igbo politician).

I hate people like you . what is wrong with telling us her name. For all you know she could have a long lost son on nairaland who has this same pic?? kidding bro. tell us her name na..