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Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor Adeboye’s Bold Request For Billions Sparks Online Buzz by plaetton: 5:03pm On Aug 10, 2025
Jakumo:
Those lemmings and slaves grow to love their chains. They bask in their ignorant acceptance that the jet-setting fast talkers who fleece them while living high on the hog will miraculously alleviate the plight of the impoverished congregation that wallows in abject poverty while waiting for Jeeesus to give them free lunch as a charitable replacement for their donated salaries grabbed by the cult leader.
More like a mental labyrinth.
Sad indeed.
Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor Adeboye’s Bold Request For Billions Sparks Online Buzz by plaetton: 4:47pm On Aug 10, 2025
themanderon:
Truth is the church has people that are donating that much if they are not doing so he would not be asking for such and if the money is meant for the expansion of the church and for doing the Lord's work who are we to question him?
Spreading the gospel is not free of charge but we mustn't make Christianity all about acquisition of material wealth.
We must make people understand that if your name is not in the book of life then giving your billions will not take you to heaven. This should be the message of Christianity not mindless acquisition of wealth while there are poor people everywhere.
I find this not only hilarious, but on a more serious note, a great insight into how an enslaved African mind works.

When the Europeans brought Christianity to Africa, it seemed, on the surface, to be free of charge.
But beneath that surface, Africans paid a huge price for accepting that Opium, in terms of the natural resources we allowed the Europeans to exploit.
The more darker side is that having the minds of millions of Africans permanently enslaved to the toxic waste from the bronze age Middle East then, the fallout from that trade is still affecting the African mind today.

Isn't it interesting that the Europeans sold us , or should I say granted us, the gospel of Jesus, supposed son of God, for free.
But the same Europeans protect their intellectual properties in science and technology, and makes everyone pay for access to their knowledge?

For example, if an African youth writes to a European or American church and asks for a free Bible, that youth would probably recieve 100 bibles in return. But if that same youth requests for a free book in beginners Physics or Chemistry ,that child is guaranteed to get No response.


The funny twist is that the modern African promoters of European Middle Eastern religious myths, such as Adeboye, insist on charging money to their fellow Africans for selling the same toxic garbage that the benignly cunning Europeans gave us for free .

What a sad irony for the Children of Africa.
Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor Adeboye’s Bold Request For Billions Sparks Online Buzz by plaetton:
[quote author=lagostrendboy post=136404958][/quote]When one understands the very dark psychology that underpins faith, religiosity and the power that religious figures wield, then you would not longer be shocked when criminal charlatans like Adeboye do these things.
Politics › Re: Bandits Kill 38 Hostages In Zamfara After N50million Ransom Payment; Lawmaker by plaetton: 5:18pm On Jul 29, 2025
DeepSight:
Are you saying anything one doesnt know?

Wait a minute.
Is it that you are not aware of the international dimensions of terrorism in the entire Sahel and how the proliferation of small arms started there?

Or you are saying merely knowing it amounts to "blaming others?"
We know that are pockets of terrorists elements in Pakistan, for example.
But when a band of terrorists crossed over to India several years to commit acts of terrorism, the Indian state responded appropriately to send potential copycats a loud and clear message.

If terrorism is flourishing freely in certain parts of Nigeria for quite a while now, then the Nigerian state has failed.., failed as in a Failed State.
Politics › Re: Bandits Kill 38 Hostages In Zamfara After N50million Ransom Payment; Lawmaker by plaetton: 4:44pm On Jul 29, 2025
DeepSight:
Understood but what Western powers did in Libya had a cascade / knock on effect in producing much of the terrorism in the Sahel and Northern Nigeria.
We are still blaming others.
Nigeria is ,we are repeatedly told, a 65yr republic, and today, a democratic republic that the most populous and economically powerful in all of Africa.

The primary purpose and responsibility of government, above all else, is the PROTECTION of its citizens.

When the senseless slaughter of 38, 50, 100 ,300 citizens on a daily basis no longer makes headlines, no longer engender emergency press conferences from government security agencies, then it should be obvious that what we call government are themselves nothing but an assemblage of bandits, albeit, a slightly different type of bandits.
Politics › Re: Bandits Kill 38 Hostages In Zamfara After N50million Ransom Payment; Lawmaker by plaetton: 3:16pm On Jul 29, 2025
DeepSight:
grin

Although we have to agree that neo imperialism is both real and insidious. See the activity of France in the Sahel and many Western interests in DRC.
Imperialism and Neo-Imperialism is not a new thing in phenomenon in human political culture.
In fact, self interest is ingrained in the human psyche. Self interests ( taking advantage for one's gain ) of nations has been the driver of human civilization, and one might even say, progress.

Does Nigeria have a Self interest?
What is Nigeria's Self interest?

Nigerians kill, rape, loot and plunder Nigeria and Nigerians than had any colonialist power ever did.
That is fact.
Politics › Re: Bandits Kill 38 Hostages In Zamfara After N50million Ransom Payment; Lawmaker by plaetton: 11:02am On Jul 29, 2025
ayusco85:
This is what is happening, the globalist and capitalist of the west are sponsoring these killing of local farmers in remote villages so they can run and leave their fertile farms, then big industrialised agricultural companies will take over these lands left and start planting their evil GMO seeds. Only God can help us.
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There is something about conspiracy theory nuts with room temperature IQs that compels them to reveal themselves at every opportunity.
Politics › Re: Sowore Comes Down Hard On Buhari -"We Do Not Mourn Tyrants" by plaetton: 3:03pm On Jul 14, 2025
attackgat:
Sowore didn't spare Buhari on his Facebook page:

Muhammadu Buhari slaughtered hundreds of Shiites, men, women and even children

He ordered soldiers Of the HQ Nigerian Army to open fire on peaceful #EndSARS protesters waving the Nigerian flag.

He "disappeared" Dadiyata.

He ordered the massacre of young southeasterners he branded IPOB.


He disobeyed court orders, jailed critics arbitrarily, destroyed the economy, and ruined everything he touched.


And now, because he's dead, some people with selective memory want us to mourn or worship him?

Shameful.

NO, we do not mourn tyrants. We remember their victims.
Well said.
Nigerians are hypocrites.
Politics › Re: Buhari’s Body Will Be Returned To Nigeria As Cargo Consignment, Chidi Odinkalu by plaetton: 2:36pm On Jul 14, 2025
OnionBandit:
These people celebrate every evil that befalls others. They celebrated the death of even Yaradua back then, but today, they tell us Yaradua is the best so far. Nigeria has only one problem, these people!
Death is not evil that befalls people. It is the inevitable end to everyone and everything that lives. The death of rulers, especially failed despots who leave a lasting legacy of desolation should always be a sober reminder to currently living despots intoxicated with the allure of corruptly acquired affluence and power that power is very transient.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 3:58pm On Jul 07, 2025
DeepSight:
I am warning you to disembark now. I said climb down now. Come down now from that horse. Jump down now.

Yes it was a query.
No, you link does not answer.

Discuss Salmon.
Lol grin
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 3:47pm On Jul 07, 2025
DeepSight:
This is from your link -



Is this what you want anyone to take as a serious answer?

At all events, note the last paragraph.
Honestly, I don't understand you anymore.

I could have posted the answers I got from ChatGPT, but I decided to give you more simplistic explanations from individuals on Reddit.
And still complain.

I am completely lost as to what you are seeking on this thread.
Is this an exam for those of us who accept TEO?

If over the years ,you have become an expert on TOE, and have discovered answers to the gaping holes, then I beseech you , Sire, to share that knowledge with us here.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 2:21pm On Jul 07, 2025
DeepSight:
How did you conclude that this is a discussion or a debate and why?

I trust you see from my flip of the script how ridiculous your responses have been.
If this is not a discussion or debate ,then what is it, a query ?

But why pose a scientific query here on Nairaland?

Even Reddit is sufficient to answer your questions.


https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/14got6r/how_do_learned_traits_evolve_to_become_instinct/
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 12:57pm On Jul 07, 2025
DeepSight:
Let us flip the script for a moment.

How would you see it if you pointed out some flaws and gaps in logic of some religious doctrines and the adherents of that doctrine came back to you saying the following -

- Nairaland is not a theological academy if you want serious answers you know where to research

- We dont have to answer your questions

- You are ignorant of theology

- You are resourceful enough to research and find the proper answers

- You are not sincere in your inquiry

I hope you realize that this is exactly all you have done on this thread.

Whereas, flipping the script again, the proper thing for the adherent of the religious doctrine you queried to do, would simply be to provide a proper explanation for why it is sound.

Of course, if he is not so inclined, he should simply walk past and keep silent.
First of all, you started the thread ,not me.

Secondly, I would not come to Nairaland to seek clarification on a deep theological subject when I can do the research myself. I can only do so when I already have the answer, and ready to bamboozle my opponents with the answer at the right moment.

I can, and would certainly use the results of my research to refute their arguments if the need arises.

You ,oh wise one, surely you know the difference between a discussion and a debate.
In a discussion everyone is free to offer educated opinions. In a debate ,you come with facts to buttress your position.

What is your position in this debate and what are facts that you come with ?

Your position here has been ; answer my nagging question or else .
Else what ?
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 11:59am On Jul 07, 2025
triplechoice:
You still don't get it . As at the time the Wright brothers we're perfecting their craft it was regarded as not science, not scientific , by those within the scientific community. Go back to read history and come back and tell what I just said isn't true.

You don't take your time to read before replying.
I don't know where you get your own facts.
Who said that their flight project was not grounded of science?
You seem to making up your own stuff as you go.
I think you're making these erroneous arguments from from a false premise.
I never stated that one had to be grounded in science to challenge a scientific idea. No.
What I continue to state is you must argue or refute a scientific idea with science( whether you're a scientist or not).

Saying that something shows evidence of design is an opinion, but it not a scientific argument.

The Wright brothers were not the first to attempt controlled flight, neither did they succeed at first try.
It was a trial and error, with adjustments in the wings ,the flaps, etc.
Indeed, there were plenty of skeptics who didn't think they would achieve controlled flight.

The idea of controlled flight did not originate from the Wright brothers. That idea ,that dream had been for thousands of years.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 11:48am On Jul 07, 2025
triplechoice:
please on focus on the main thing, TOE so you stop arguing deceptively to win an argument.

Your comparison is inappropriate. The op is highlitimg real issues , the limitations, within TOE and seeking for answers. Instead of focusing on that to provide relevant answers, you're all over the place deflecting to an imaginary and not relevant object, Uranus ,together with gravitational theories.

Sincerity of him not wanting to know the answer shouldn't stop you. For the sake of others like myself following the thread, please provide the answers

Thanks in advance
I agree that the OP is pointing out limitations to TOE. So are we all.
No one disagrees that there are unknown or yet to be discovered mechanisms in TOE. That's why it continues to be a scientific enquiry: A never ending enquiry.

Is the OP here to merely discuss the limitations to TOE or simply wants Nairalanders to answer nagging questions for him ?

Nairaland is not a science academy.

You still never get my point .
You keep insisting that I answer his question.

Answer his question or what? huh

If the OP is sincere about getting his answers, I assure you that he is resourceful enough to find it.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 9:38pm On Jul 06, 2025
triplechoice:
The bolded is incorrect. It's similar to the usual excuse used by incompetent teachers to dissuade their students from questioning them about a topic they can't explain very well. Religious people also use the same tactics when they say one must have the holy spirit to understand biblical text


There's no where it's stated in the sciences that " You question science with science. You just invented that yourself.

What it takes to question science is an inquiry mind and the ability to ask the right question concerning any scientific theory that one find inconsistent with the evidences that support it.

The Wright brothers were ordinary bicycle repairers who aren't supposed to question science according you, but through their project to invent something new, they question the prevailing scientific theory of their time which stated that nothing heavier than air can float in the sky ,and the result was the airplane.

Well, you already answered the op without realising it. You can't explain it and so waiting for other scientist who know better to come up with an answer so you can re-echo it.
Lol.
Imagine the false twist to the Wright Brothers story.
In fact the story of the Wright Brothers vindicates my position.
The Wright Brothers did not attach feathers to their backs to defying conventional understanding of physics.
Rather, they scientifically ( yes, scientifically) demonstrated in the most practical way how the laws of aerodynamics acts upon objects in the air.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 4:25pm On Jul 06, 2025
DeepSight:
I already told you that the question you should be wondering about is if the physical laws that make such occur are random.
The laws of nature are immutable.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 4:24pm On Jul 06, 2025
Everyday247:
Again I'm not talking about facts.

You earlier said that people can't subscribe or unsubscribe to scientific theories because they are facts.

My point is that to "subscribe" meant to "agree" with as opposed to that your reply.
I never referred to scientific theories as facts.
They are the accepted scientific understanding , often incomplete, of natural phenomena.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 4:22pm On Jul 06, 2025
DeepSight:
Its possibly done by a civilization that was obliterated before this current civilization arose.
I hold that opinion too.

If our Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and organic life is several million years old, it is not out of place to suppose that a much more advanced civilization once inhabited the earth or at least visited.
A lot of evidence points in that direction.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 4:16pm On Jul 06, 2025
DeepSight:
A valid question and while I cannot account for it, it stands to reason to me that there exists an ultimate source of all things, and that is what I personally call God. It is not the Abrahamic version of God, it is not a person as understood in the anthropomorphic sense either. It is a transcendantal and ineffable element.



There are actually things in nature the complexity and specificity of which actually logically presuppose design. Its not a question of a God of the gaps argument - rather the question should rebound to those who claim that certain evidently designed things were not designed. There is an age old analogy about this, but I dont want to cite it. It has to do with a watch or a clock. Suffice to say that if you investigate the workings of a single cell within your body, not to speak of the staggering workings of the human brain - which far exceed the workings of the most complex computers, you will find that it is rational to presuposse that there is evidence of design in these things. You will find that it is that person who claims that there is no element of design who really has questions to answer.



Questioning evident gaps in the Theory of Evolution does not mean one does not understand it.
Observing evidence of design in nature also does not mean that one does not understand evolution.

I actualy believe in evolution but I dont believe it's all that accounts for life as we know it. In my view, it works side by side with many obvious elements of programming and design.
I cited the beauty and symmetric complexity of Snowflakes earlier on this thread.

Do you believe or are inclined to believe that snow flakes are intelligently designed?
Even you believe they are, the answer is they are not .
Snowflakes are formed by random atmospheric flux. No two flakes are ever the same. That should scream ' INTELLIGENT DESIGN '. But it's not.
The fact that no 2 Snowflakes are ever the same tells that there are no 2 identical atmospheric conditions ever. The atmosphere is in a never ending flux. Similarly, the entire universe, on much grander scale, is in an eternal flux of particles, atoms, subatomic particles, innumerable types of cosmic and electromagnetic radiation.

If our localized atmosphere in the northern hemisphere can be producing unique, beautiful, geometrically and symmetrically perfect Snowflakes in a twinkle of an eye under certain atmospheric thresholds , then it should blow our minds what the entirety of the universe can Similarly produce in 14 billion years and counting.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 4:00pm On Jul 06, 2025
Everyday247:
It's not about what's true or false. It's about opinions.

Eg. Take the question: did aliens build the pyramids?
Some believe so while other do not.

We can also say that some subscribe to the idea while others do not.
The enigma of the pyramids is where there is various shades of opinion.
Whilest everyone is entitled to an opinion, opinion based on evidence would always be a superior opinion.
For example, if humans built the pyramids, what can we look for to substantiate that ?
Can we scientifically pinpoint when exactly they were built? Were there available tools, workforce, food, mathematical and engineering know-how at such a period ?

If superior technological knowledge built the pyramids, then what clues should we be looking for ? Do we find such clues ?

These are the basis upon which one can put out a rational opinion on that enigma.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 3:44pm On Jul 06, 2025
Everyday247:
It's not about disbelieving in the gravitational theory, it's about replacing the theory with something else.

If someone doesn't believe in the gravitational theory, they can simply make up an alternative explanation to it. Kind of like intelligent design to counter evolution.
I agree to some extent.

But Intelligent Design is not a scientific alternative to TOE. It is not based on any testable science.
Is is just wishful thinking by people who cannot accept the absence of a Creator or designer in the scientific Theory Of Evolution.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 2:44pm On Jul 06, 2025
DeepSight:
As I said science can be questioned with logic and indeed science is based on logic.

It is with logical questions that science gets replaced eventually with better science.
Agreed
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 2:42pm On Jul 06, 2025
DeepSight:
You are all over the place.
Come down from your horse, I said come down now.
grin
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 2:42pm On Jul 06, 2025
DeepSight:
There is much in nature that strongly suggests design.
And my dear good friend, as I have stated in the past, NOTHING in nature screams ' INTELLIGENT DESIGN ' like snowflakes ❄️.
We can start ascribing that beautiful, perfect symmetrical design to good ol Santa 🎅.

We all know that snow flakes , the beauty, the geometry and perfect symmetry are simply created by random atmospheric flux .

Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 2:32pm On Jul 06, 2025
DeepSight:
This lazily suggests that the TOE is as complete and proven as is Gravity.

And that is false.
Unequivocally.
TOE has not been refuted after 150yrs of rigorous scientific enquiry.
Even if 60% of the central idea has been validated so far, it only means that we are yet to understand the remaining 40%, not that it is half-truth.

Wait, huh

Correction!

Scientific Theories, by definition, are half-truths.
That's why the questions and enquiries continue
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 2:25pm On Jul 06, 2025
DeepSight:
The for Pete's sake drop the pretentious arrogance.
grin cheesy grin
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 2:24pm On Jul 06, 2025
DeepSight:
Who says it is not questioned.
Did Einstein not propound a newer version than Newton's?
He sure did, but with scientifically sound new ideas of his own.

Question science with science.
Refute science with better science.
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 2:22pm On Jul 06, 2025
DeepSight:
And yet not once has there been evidence that you yourself have done this.

I have repeatedly cited even evolutionary biologists when I raise my questions.

Yet you revert with the same old tired tropes.
I am not an expert on the subject, and I don't have to be.
There are volumes of published materials on the subject.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3312679/

Where would I even start from ?

If he hasn't exhausted all the available materials on protein synthesis and evolution, why does he think I or anyone else owes him that knowledge here on Nairaland?
Christianity Etc › Re: Inexplicable Instincts by plaetton: 2:07pm On Jul 06, 2025
Everyday247:
The bolded is wrong because the world is filled with billions of people who do not subscribe to scientific theories.

To subscribe means to agree with.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

How many people do not subscribe to the Gravitational Theory ?
Best way to register that one does not subscribe to the theory of Gravitation would be to test it and jump from a multi-storey building.

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