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KingEbukasBlog:1. An opinion that something belonged to the period of Solomon is NOT PROOF that Solomon existed. Duuuhhhhh!! ![]() 2. Baseless conjecture. Gosh, even if true , how does the existence of Hezekiah, who supposedly live 300 yrs after, prove that Solomon existed ? A blood line can also be made up to link Hezekiah to Pharaoh Ramses or even Zeus or any historical figure for that matter. Duuuhhhhh !! ![]() 3. Another red herring. |
KingEbukasBlog:Kingebukasblog, Comprehension comprehension comprehension ! It's either you , like many unfortunate half thinkers, have serious comprehension problems, or like many Yahweh apologists, you are very disingenuous. Non of the links provided above proves nor even attempted to prove that Solomon existed. For example, the phys.org link supposed quoted an Israeli archeologists who says that a certain ancient copper mine dates back to the 10th century BCE, during the ASSUMED era of King Solomon. Saying that a relic belonged to the era of the mythical Solomon is NOT PROOF Solomon existed. Likewise , saying that a relic belonged to the first century AD, the supposed era of Jesus, is not the same thing as proving that Jesus existed. Stop fooling yourself , thinking that you're fooling someone here. |
Kekule11:You should have shocked me by saying something sensible. |
cescky:The hypocrisy on display here escapes you. We have dozens of televangelists streaming and pumping religious propaganda 24/7 on radio, TV, billboards, buses, streets, in our universities, in every nook and corner in Nigeria. But here, an innocuous opinion on the religion section of Nairaland threatens you and the entire edifice of Christianity. Pls check you religion very well sir. Perhaps it is not founded on firm footings. |
wolexini:So? Because you came across it on Naij.com , that makes it fact? On your own, couldn't you sift the wheat from the Shaff? The so called TSA benefits are more of a wish-list than actual achievements. |
Keneking:The TSA was proposed by GEJ. But economists advised that its implementation be suspended, to work out a piecemeal method of implementation without strangling the banking system and monetary systems, and by extension, the entire economy. Common sense prevailled, and it was put on ice. Then Mr ignorant came, unable to understand simple economic principles that underpin the economy, went ahead and dropped the equivalence of an economic nuclear bomb on the Nigerian economy. The fallout is just beginning. Economic nuclear winter is going to be with us for long while. |
tomakint:https://www.nairaland.com/3130801/tsa-how-buhari-nuked-nigerian |
These are lies, conjectures and innuendos. Just follow inconsistencies, and then see that this is just another paid social media civil servant trying to earn his/her pay. The TSA implementation Nuked the Nigerian economy. Of course , the government needs to track its funds and that of the various agencies. There are software programs for that. There is nothing wrong with the TSA. It is the reckless implementation, the sudden withdrawal of N3tr , about 4% of GDP, from an already struggling economy that guaranteed sudden death to the Nigerian economy. The effects of this nuclear bomb on the Nigerian economy will ripple all across this country for many many years. Stay tuned. |
Jaideyone:Bullshyte. I guess sanitized, in your narrow definition, means NEPOTISM and Northernization of the apparatus of political power and security in Nigeria ? ![]() Buhari is corrupting everything thing in Nigeria . The rule of law, democracy , separation of powers, freedom of speech and assembly, harassment of political opponents and critics. How about the destruction of Nigeria's fledging and fragile unity? How about the fight against CAPITAL and the nuking of the economy? Buhari is a medieval tyrant. He has nothing, absolutely nothing good to offer Nigeria . The HUNGER GAMES are just starting . |
Just look at the Ooni Of Ife, the custodian of Yoruba cultural heritage,.a heritage that predates christianity by thousands of years. A heritage whose legends and mythologies are as colorful, more interesting and enigmatic as the Hebrew mythologies. Look at the Ooni If Ife , clowning from one Church to another, saying that geezus is his father. It makes me wanna Cry . ![]() |
paxonel:Pure gibberish from another fragmented mind. Basically, you're saying that lack of understanding and wrong interpretation of Scripture by Africans are the reasons for atheism? Silly argument, considering that mainstream atheism is much more prevalent in formerly Christian Europe, from whence the scriptural translations emerged. |
Though I have told my story before, no harm in repeating it here. I , like many southern Nigerians, was born into a religious family. My father's side of my extended family are Catholic, some white garment, though my dad never showed much interest in religion. My mom's side are Methodist and some Catholic. So, naturally, I was pulled into the different churches by all sides. Catholicism never never had any appeal to me. Everything about it seemed weird. I gravitated towards the Methodist Church. However, right from childhood, I had always questioned everything about religion since about 5yrs of age. Unlike most people here who say they were once religious, I had NEVER had a religious feeling in my life. It actually scared me while growing up that I tended NOT to like or do what everyone else did. I thought something was wrong with me. Yes, I believed everything initially about Jesus, Yahweh, the Israelites ,etc. But I also, quite early on, felt that some things were odd about the entire narrative. As I grew older, between 8-12yrs of age, I still wondered what all that big story had to do with me , an Igbo boy, in Nigeria, Africa. The entire narrative was supposedly about a people, far far from Nigeria, long long time ago. Jesus, who lived long long time ago, dying to save me , an African,from what I didn't understand, and still don't understand, resurrecting and ascending to heaven, made NO sense then, and still hasn't made an iota of sense, even in this day. So by the time I entered secondary school, I had stopped going to church for religious reasons, except to see my then heartthrob who was in the choir. What was very interesting though, was that even though I was apparently born with NO religious bone in my body, the fact that majority of people around me were obsessed with it, made it a subject of great curiosity and intense interest. I needed to see what others saw that I couldn't see. It was in my late teens that I actually realized and accepted that I was a Contrarian ( one who goes against trends, against the herds) for a reason. In Sunday school, I was always rooting for the Philistines to conquer the Israelites. Religion never made sense to me because it never makes sense , anyway you view it. I still believed in God and Jesus, even after discarding the virgin birth. But I as I started reading history, philosophy and scientific rationalism, I stopped going to church entirely. Church sermons became annoying and irritating because of the their inherent contradictions. As time went on, I began to search for Jesus and God outside of religion. And I found them both . I found God in the evolving human mind. I found Jesus in the manger of ancient religious archetypes. It shocked me and took me a small while to ACCEPT what I had found. Thereafter, I ACCEPTED that God was a product of the human mind. It had been a long journey, a long search. Everything about religion now made perfect sense. Therefore, atheism is an ACCEPTANCE, rather than a rejection. N:B It's important to mention that I also spent part of my formative years abroad. No doubt, that added to my outlook and worldview on religion and it's role in society. The fact that Africans cared a lot more about Jesus , a non African mythical hero, while Caucasians cared less about him, troubled me and made wonder whether it was the same God and Jesus that Africans worshiped. |
eagleonearth:Just imagine the kind of crap a typical African mind is suffused with. I weep. |
olatunjithomas:You don't seem to get it, or just being hypocritical. Can the Queen of England, the titular head of The Church of England, for example, covert to Catholicism or Islam, while still Queen of England? Africans stuupid. Simple. N:B Being King is a lifelong calling. It's not a side job. You can't be consumer or promoter of Middle East religious bullshytes , while moonlighting as the Ooni Of Ife. |
eagleonearth:The laugh is on you. When was the last time a Jew, a Jewish Rabbi, a custodian of Hebrew culture and religion, acknowledged the lordship of your Christ? What does the Ooni Of Ife , a Yoruba sovereign, an African, know about Hebrew mythology that the Rabbi's don't know yet ? What privileged information does he have that the Jewish Rabbi's do not know about the myth of Christ ? ![]() Africans, brainfxxed since AD1800. ![]() |
anonimi:100%. Of course. It is economically imperative to make imports costlier. Necessity is the mother of invention. If we don't do everything within reason to discourage imports and our appetite for imported goods, industrialization and employment creation will forever remain a pipe dream. Naira needs to find it's true market value, no matter what it is. |
cktheluckyman:And I supposed, substitute Oduduwa myths with the Yahweh myths and all the immoral and barbaric practices of the stone age middle East ? Wow!! He must be very bright indeed. When was the last time a foreigner , a cultural sovereign of another culture, abandon his cultural heritage to embrace yours or any African culture ? Africans are the most pitiful on Earth. The slave trade continues. |
sammyj:As long as we import a great percentage of what we consume, any hope of a strong Naira is just baseless fantasy. As long we run a generator economy, any hope of industrialization, economic diversification, and low unemployment are just wishful fantasies. There is absolutely no economically fundamental basis for a strong Naira in the near future. But then, wishes , dreams and fantasies are Free. |
cktheluckyman:Then he should be calling himself Pastor of Ife, not Ooni Of Ife. Africans are very very stuupid set of people. Here, we have an educated man, crowned Ooni Of Ife, custodian of Yoruba religious culture, a culture that predates the middle East myths of Jesus. Rather than uphold and promote the proud legacies of Yoruba traditional culture , beliefs and their philosophical underpinnings, he is going around town supplicating to, and promoting the very foreign myths that is and has been antagonistic to everything African, everything Yoruba and everything traditional culture. ![]() What a great shame. This Ooni will mark the final obliteration of Yoruba culture, the one of the very few that have survived the onslaughts from middle East stone age religions. Pitt. |
What an irony. Buhari is the greatest threat to Nigerian unity since the civil war. All the nation building, the Pan- Nigerianism stitched together over the past 16 years has been shredded in just the past 1 year. Buhari appears as someone who is so angry at the mere thought of a truly United Nigeria. With great haste, he is dismantling every thread of national unity and cohesion. Buhari , like an army of occupation, treats Nigeria and Nigerians like the booties of war, with great disdain. |
Akissani:Yes. Nigerian politicians are very selfish lot who seek power for pecuniary gains. But when they get into trouble, they try to whip up all sorts of sentiments. Nigerians should learn to fight for justice and the triumph of the rule of law, not for individual politicians on the basis of ethnicity. |
cramjones:Bravo This ought to be etched in stone as the stuuuupidest statement ever uttered in the 21st century. The only honest thing here is the acknowledgement that Buhari is dictator. Dictatorship = CORRUPTION x infinity. Haven't we learned enough in this country after 6 dictatorships in our very short history ? ![]() Our very short memory spans do not serve us well. ![]() Anyone who thinks that a 21st century dictatorship portends one iota of positive outcome for Nigeria is a pitifully veeeery shallow mind. |
Omooba77:Lol. "Evidence of things HOPED for.." Can't you spot the contradictions therein? |
iliyande:Contradiction Alert!! If you Hope for something, it means that there is a high degree of uncertainty concerning what you you're hoping for. Whereas, if you know that something is real, it implies that you or someone else has taken the effort to verify its veracity. So, Hoping ( uncertainty) and Knowing ( certainty) are mutually exclusive. |
Adminisher:Another load of crap spiced with lies. First of all, there is NO such thing as money recovered from TSA. Infact, there has been hardly any real monies legally recovered , except for the crooks that supposedly voluntarily returned loot. Most importantly, every loan, no matter what intended purpose, is motivated by good intentions. This is how Greece, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, not to mention Nigeria, before 1999, got themselves into DEBT slavery. This government has is not only a government of conquest and occupation, but a government of debt slavery, as the young generation will realise in the next couple of years. |
Tribalism, Sectionalism, NEPOTISM and Cronyism are the grand parents, and the mother and father of CORRUPTION. Therefore, this government is not only corrupt, but is actively promoting CORRUPTION. |
salamialfred:Really? ![]() OK. Enlighten us how Kano State, for example, has qualified ambassadorial nominees while Ondo state, for one, has NO qualified ambassadorial nominee in the entire state. |
ChelseaDr:A joke, a tragic joke indeed. Imagine Qualifications has taken on an entirely new meaning with these jokers. |
coolhumble:Actually Sir, the fact that I am questioning, repudiating the official NARRATIVE of a government that has ZERO credibility, speaks volumes about my imperviousness to bullshyte, my courage and my cranial dexterity. |
menstrualpad:You would surprised that a lot of the people feeding on this shiit are educated people, whose educational experience should easily enable them the ability to separate the wheat from the Shaff. What a pitiful state. |
anonymousreport:Kindergarten logic. ![]() |
wristbangle:Oh bros, I don't deny that I am frustrated. Aren't you? Who isn't frustrated in Nigeria watching the beginning of what is surely going to be an intractable tragic comedy in governance ? ![]() Who? ![]() |
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