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On The Origin of Evil by Nobody: 8:28pm On Oct 09, 2025*

The concept of "evil" has perplexed human thought for centuries, with philosophers, theologians, and scholars of various disciplines attempting to understand its origin. The question of where evil comes from—whether it is inherent in human nature, a result of societal influences, or a force external to humanity—has given rise to a broad spectrum of theories. In examining the origin of evil, it is essential to explore the views offered by religion, philosophy, and psychology. Together, these perspectives offer a complex and multifaceted understanding of the forces that contribute to the manifestation of evil in the world.

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by Nobody: 12:00am On Oct 10, 2025*

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by FarahAideed: 12:17am On Oct 10, 2025

Melanin impedes intelligence

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by ednut1(m): 1:33am On Oct 10, 2025

The so called developed world was not like this 100 years ago. They also had diseases and low life expectancy. We are at the bottom today doesn’t mean in 100 years time we can be better

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by Nobody: 3:19am On Oct 10, 2025*

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by Nobody: 3:28am On Oct 10, 2025*

On The Origin of Evil. It is ok.

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by Racoon(m): 3:29am On Oct 10, 2025

It is really sad we were never ready for progress making. Seems the colonial masters gave us independence when we were never ready

See the man inhumanity to man in Nigeria today. Check out how progressively worst human governance have been in Nigeria till date. What about our ethno-religio-regional bigotry sentiments that has widened the divide? Chai! "Nigeria; My Believeth Country" by Funmi Adams is now meaningless.

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by Nobody: 3:45am On Oct 10, 2025*

Evil is Evil

Re: On The Origin of Evil by ednut1(m): 4:03am On Oct 10, 2025

SeraphicWind:
Brother, I believe you are in Canada. Are you not seeing that Canadians of today are far more civilized than the ones that inhabited that land 100 years back?

I don't doubt that Nigeria MAY rise up one day. But it is a hard rise. Let us be real.

When you look at Nigeria of today and how Nigerians behave, do they look like people that can be better in the next 2000 years? This is not a curse but a sad reality.

Nigeria and Nigerians are retrogressing.

The sad part is that they are not even aware.

Look at the movies of 20 years ago and their storylines. Compare them with what is obtainable now.

Look at our women of 30 years ago. Compare them with these generation of lost souls we have now masquerading as youths.

My point is that even if Nigeria is not progressing, Nigeria should stop retrogressing.

To make it more easier for you to understand, why can't we be like UK of 200 years ago if we can't be them of today? Are you aware that UK of 200 years ago is far better than Nigeria of today?

Nigeria is sadly becoming UK of 2000 years ago when they were still savages and life had almost no meaning.

It is real.

South Africa of today is almost at the status of UK of 30 years ago. Look at Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria. Actively developing. China (Asides human rights abuses) is almost surpassing UK if they have not done that already.

Why is Nigeria going backwards? That is my point. Lagos of 50 years ago had more civilized humans. The pictures below I believe were before independence.

You can see people organised in a traffic. If this was 60 years ago, this means the humans there should even be more advanced and well behaved by now. But is this the case today?

From Ikeja to Abule Egba to Mushin to Agege to Lagos Island to Lekki to even the almighty Victoria Island. Extremely disorganised human beings.

I am using Lagos as a case study before the tribalists arrive. The vast majority of Nigeria is almost retrogressing.

the people that develop a society at less than 0.5% of the population. The average human is not smart. Nigeria has retrogressed due to actions of the elite and politicians. Same Nigerians can be influenced to be better later in future

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by Nobody: 4:11am On Oct 10, 2025*

Evil is bad

Re: On The Origin of Evil by Ozinlex: 4:20am On Oct 10, 2025

This is so very sad; truth remains there is something fundamentally wrong with the black race...!

Re: On The Origin of Evil by Blankstare(m): 4:22am On Oct 10, 2025

Black man. Black mind, when I look at African countries of congo, Burundi I give up. We haven't given the world anything od note

Re: On The Origin of Evil by Kaczynski: 4:25am On Oct 10, 2025

ednut1:
The so called developed world was not like this 100 years ago. They also had diseases and low life expectancy. We are at the bottom today doesn’t mean in 100 years time we can be better

This

Decades ago rome and greece was big dawgs now they are too shmitty

Re: On The Origin of Evil by Kaczynski: 4:30am On Oct 10, 2025

Technology <// Education

The more educated a blavk man is the more he tends to develop his surroundings, see this in kenya, cities in rwanda, south africa where the technology and access to quality education
has made their lives easier

Re: On The Origin of Evil by IbnB: 5:22am On Oct 10, 2025

SeraphicWind:
Brother, I believe you are in Canada. Are you not seeing that Canadians of today are far more civilized than the ones that inhabited that land 100 years back?

I don't doubt that Nigeria MAY rise up one day. But it is a hard rise. Let us be real.

When you look at Nigeria of today and how Nigerians behave, do they look like people that can be better in the next 2000 years? This is not a curse but a sad reality.

Nigeria and Nigerians are retrogressing.

The sad part is that they are not even aware.

Look at the movies of 20 years ago and their storylines. Compare them with what is obtainable now.

Look at our women of 30 years ago. Compare them with these generation of lost souls we have now masquerading as youths.

My point is that even if Nigeria is not progressing, Nigeria should stop retrogressing.

To make it more easier for you to understand, why can't we be like UK of 200 years ago if we can't be them of today? Are you aware that UK of 200 years ago is far better than Nigeria of today?

Nigeria is sadly becoming UK of 2000 years ago when they were still savages and life had almost no meaning.

It is real.

South Africa of today is almost at the status of UK of 30 years ago. Look at Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria. Actively developing. China (Asides human rights abuses) is almost surpassing UK if they have not done that already.

Why is Nigeria going backwards? That is my point. Lagos of 50 years ago had more civilized humans. The pictures below I believe were before independence.

You can see people organised in a traffic. If this was 60 years ago, this means the humans there should even be more advanced and well behaved by now. But is this the case today?

From Ikeja to Abule Egba to Mushin to Agege to Lagos Island to Lekki to even the almighty Victoria Island. Extremely disorganised human beings.

I am using Lagos as a case study before the tribalists arrive. The vast majority of Nigeria is almost retrogressing.

The main problem of Nigerians is Selfishness

The average Naija person is even too selfish to bother applying his own brain properly unless food, sex or cash is immediately involved

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by Predictor3: 5:32am On Oct 10, 2025

SeraphicWind:
One has to fear "ATTRACTED CONSTITUENCY" projects na

See what a Sinator in Nigeria attracted. Damaged after just 1 year.

These people have no value to God, Humans and the Earth.

He even wrote it boldly that he attracted it .

Oga, stop attracting that kind of thing to the Biafran nation. At the right time and God willing, people like these will be banished from that region permanently. Wicked Souls.

What will it take these people to construct a bridge that will last 200 years for your people and benefit them for generations?

How stupeed can a human being be!

There's an individual who calls himself kemetian. I'm sure he hasn't noticed this thread. Once he does he will show up and tell you how the black race invented pretty much everything and that it has always been the most progressive race.

I grew up in Eleyele Ibadan. In the early 90s we could swim in the clear water of the Eleyele river. You could see the fishes swimming at the bottom of the river at some points of the river. Today that river is so polluted with refuse and sewage no one goes near it. Is that progress or retrogression

Re: On The Origin of Evil by shox: 10:30am On Oct 10, 2025

Predictor3:
There's an individual who calls himself kemetian. I'm sure he hasn't noticed this thread. Once he does he will show up and tell you how the black race invented pretty much everything and that it has always been the most progressive race.

I grew up in Eleyele Ibadan. In the early 90s we could swim in the clear water of the Eleyele river. You could see the fishes swimming at the bottom of the river at some points of the river. Today that river is so polluted with refuse and sewage no one goes near it. Is that progress or retrogression

in Kwara State where I was born. The taxis were mazda 323 while the buses are Toyota hiace . Now the taxis are replaced by keke and the buses are now korope.

Is that progression or retrogression

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by Ttalk: 10:44am On Oct 10, 2025

shox:
in Kwara State where I was born. The taxis were mazda 323 while the buses are Toyota hiace . Now the taxis are replaced by keke and the buses are now korope.

Is that progression or retrogression

Whao.

Iam speechless

Re: On The Origin of Evil by shox: 10:49am On Oct 10, 2025

Ttalk:
Whao.

Iam speechless

talk as usual.

I no fo

Re: On The Origin of Evil by nairalanda1(m): 10:57am On Oct 10, 2025

The reason why life is better in oyinbo land is simple

1. Developed countries , most people pay massive taxes to their government. As a result they are incentivized to hold their government to account. And government has funds to pay for good roads and so forth.

Nigeria is in the same position USSR was years ago. Trying to provide good roads on limited income. We don't rely on taxes, we rely on oil money that cannot feed 10 million people talk less of 200 million. Less than 30% of people pay tax to the federal and state governments. And you expect good roads and people holding their government to account?

2. Most developed countries rely on diversified and industrialize economies. That means enough cash for good roads.

Nigeria, we rely on 1.8 m bod of oil to feed our government revenue. Again , that money is not enough for a nation of 10 million people.

And the person complaining won't vote for a government that would guarantee industrial economy and diversification. He would vote for people that share the money. That's why we have leaders like tinubu

Re: On The Origin of Evil by Nobody: 12:35pm On Oct 10, 2025

nairalanda1:
The reason why life is better in oyinbo land is simple

1. Developed countries , most people pay massive taxes to their government. As a result they are incentivized to hold their government to account. And government has funds to pay for good roads and so forth.

Nigeria is in the same position USSR was years ago. Trying to provide good roads on limited income. We don't rely on taxes, we rely on oil money that cannot feed 10 million people talk less of 200 million. Less than 30% of people pay tax to the federal and state governments. And you expect good roads and people holding their government to account?

2. Most developed countries rely on diversified and industrialize economies. That means enough cash for good roads.

Nigeria, we rely on 1.8 m bod of oil to feed our government revenue. Again , that money is not enough for a nation of 10 million people.

And the person complaining won't vote for a government that would guarantee industrial economy and diversification. He would vote for people that share the money. That's why we have leaders like tinubu

No one is talking about money Sir. I am talking about the mindset of some black people.

shox:
in Kwara State where I was born. The taxis were mazda 323 while the buses are Toyota hiace . Now the taxis are replaced by keke and the buses are now korope.

Is that progression or retrogression

Predictor3:
There's an individual who calls himself kemetian. I'm sure he hasn't noticed this thread. Once he does he will show up and tell you how the black race invented pretty much everything and that it has always been the most progressive race.

I grew up in Eleyele Ibadan. In the early 90s we could swim in the clear water of the Eleyele river. You could see the fishes swimming at the bottom of the river at some points of the river. Today that river is so polluted with refuse and sewage no one goes near it. Is that progress or retrogression

Re: On The Origin of Evil by nairalanda1(m): 12:48pm On Oct 10, 2025

SeraphicWind:
No one is talking about money Sir. I am talking about the mindset of some black people.

No you aren't. The thing is, you want changes and I am suggesting how we should go about it.

We got to do more than identifying problems

Re: On The Origin of Evil by Predictor3: 1:02pm On Oct 10, 2025

shox:
in Kwara State where I was born. The taxis were mazda 323 while the buses are Toyota hiace . Now the taxis are replaced by keke and the buses are now korope.

Is that progression or retrogression

Re: On The Origin of Evil by brain54(m): 5:37pm On Oct 10, 2025

Beautiful thread...

Op you are 100% correct. I laughed when I saw the picture of the abbatoir you posted. Though it's a very sad reality of what is happening and not a matter to be taken lightly.

Why is Nigeria retrogressing is a big question that requires a 10 volume page answer.

At least some African countries are stable even though it's mediocre to use them as reference based on the huge potential the African continent as a whole weilds.

I laughed at the picture of the abbatoir you posted because I lived close to an abbatoir in Jos for some time. I left after about 5 months even though my rent wasn't due.

I was changing curtains almost every month, always getting catarrh from the smoke from whatever it is there were burning there, and my eyes would hurt from the smoke.

This abbatoir to my house was a considerable distance not like it was close by.

I always liken Nigeria to a jungle or Thomas Hobbes state of nature where life is considered brutish, Short and of the least quality.

Even if we are poor we can't even manage to leave a decent lifestyle.

It's a shame and sometimes I get tired of complaining about these things!

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Re: On The Origin of Evil by CorperKola: 6:21pm On Oct 10, 2025

FarahAideed:
Melanin impedes intelligence

Dey play
What about all the unexplainable cancer cases in the west
All these problems also apply to the west sone in the same degree and others to lesser degrees

The real issue is cutting edge knowledge which leads to power and wealth and are then used to maintain that cutting edge knowledge and technology and it becomes a self sustaining cycle
No african country has a nuclear weapon
There is no area of technology where an african country is on the forefront

Dont get it twisted, Might is still right

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