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leave QuinQ / QuinQQ boyfriend alone

DiarisGodoo:
So embarrassing. Caught in a blatant lie. Tells us what we already know: other posts are also lies.

I have never seen someone so proud to be an illegitimate descendant of enslavers and enslaved.
Different if we didn't know the circumstances of his ancestry. This Igbo proverb below aptly applies.

LouisdeFrance:
That's why David is not in your lineage. Ha, ha,

QuinQQ:
Thank you. And I also said especially if the dad rejected DNA at birth

DMCA:
Rapee Batard ou Bastardo

Where ma viewing panny at?

DMCA:

leave QuinQ / QuinQQ boyfriend alone

DiarisGodoo:
So embarrassing. Caught in a blatant lie. Tells us what we already know: other posts are also lies.

I have never seen someone so proud to be an illegitimate descendant of enslavers and enslaved.
Different if we didn't know the circumstances of his ancestry. This Igbo proverb below aptly applies.

Diamond098454:
Light skin and dark skin wahala have been there since time immemorial

QuinQ:
You mean fiancé

CanadaOrBust:
It is also bewildering to me. You'd expect such a person to keep a low profile when ancestry is discussed

QuinQ:
@bolded, what a ridiculous statement. Wipe who out? My man thinks US is the world!
I've told you before, your hypersensitivity to skin colour is because you are from US and have never been out of US. Also you are a Louisiana Creole - a result of rape or sexual coercion that was entirely colour based (of African women by mostly European slavers).
Ukraine and Russia are wiping out each other and they're all white, Rwandan genocide they're all black, etc. Here in Nigeria it is all about tribe and hardly anyone notices your skin colour!




He's lying as usual. It is easy to tell that the Moors were dark-skined.
Photography was only invented in the 19th century while Moorish rule in Europe ended way back in 1400s. But there were paintings, and more importantly sculptures - because sculptures are difficult to alter. NONE of the art from that era showed ANY Moor as the pictures he displayed. Moors, wherever they might have come from, were dark-skinned!

QuinQ:
Guyman picks any tangential French guy and makes him his ancestor after giving him a funny colour - same way they have this 100% West African lady looking like this below!

LouisdeFrance:
# Okonkwo: The Big Man and His Little People

In the heart of Umuofia, power did not just walk; it stamped. It breathed heavily, spoke in the language of fists, and accumulated yams like a god collecting sacrifices. This was the world of Okonkwo—the self-made colossus who cast a long, terrifying shadow over everyone in his compound. To the village, he was the ultimate "Big Man."

But a shadow cannot exist without the light, and a tyrant cannot exist without the compliance of the crowd. Look closely at Okonkwo’s story, and you will see it is not just a tragedy about a proud warrior. It is a cautionary tale about the "little people"—the wives, the children, and the fearful neighbors—who inadvertently feed the monster of corruption by placing their faith in mortal flesh rather than the Almighty.

### The Cult of the Earthly Giant

In traditional societies, the line between earthly authority and spiritual deity often becomes dangerously blurred. When a community loses its anchor in the true living God, it naturally seeks out human substitutes. Okonkwo became one of those substitutes.

The little people around Okonkwo did not just respect him; they worshiped his success. They looked at his three wives, his overflowing yam barns, and his prestigious titles, and they treated him with a reverence that should be reserved for the Divine alone. They sought his favor, trembled at his anger, and molded their lives around his volatile moods.

This is the classic trap of humanity: when we stop fearing God, we begin to fear men. We look up to the wealthy and the powerful, hoping that a crumb of their earthly glory will fall into our laps. We treat the "Big Man" as a gatekeeper to prosperity, forgetting that true blessing and breath come only from the Creator.

### How Fear Feeds Corruption

The tragedy of Umuofia’s little people is that their unwillingness to have absolute faith in God directly allowed Okonkwo’s domestic corruption to thrive.

Consider his household. Okonkwo ruled his compound with an iron rod because he knew no one would stop him. His wives accepted his unwarranted beatings in silence. His children suppressed their tears and altered their personalities just to avoid his wrath. Even when Okonkwo broke the sacred Week of Peace—a time meant to honor the divine earth goddess—the initial reaction of those around him was driven by a fear of *Okonkwo's* anger, rather than a pure devotion to the divine order.

By bowing down to his tyranny, the little people enabled him. Their silence was a vote of confidence in his brutality. They lacked the spiritual courage to stand up and say, *"You are just a man made of dust. We fear the Lord, not you."* Because they placed their survival in his hands instead of God’s hands, they became complicit in the very system that oppressed them.

### Shifting the Fear to Whom it is Owed

Okonkwo’s life ultimately collapsed because a human being cannot sustain the weight of being a god. When the British colonial forces arrived, the illusion of the Igbo "Big Man" shattered overnight. The little people realized that their earthly idols could not save them from a changing world.

The deep spiritual lesson hidden within Okonkwo's downfall is a timeless one. Human corruption grows in the soil of human cowardice. When a society chooses to fear a mortal leader more than they fear God, they inherit a fractured world.

True freedom begins when the little people look past the earthly giants, lift their eyes to the heavens, and remember that there is only one Throne worthy of absolute surrender. When we give our awe to God alone, the "Big Men" of the world lose their power to terrify us.

***

**What do you think?** Does modern society still create "Big Men" like Okonkwo, and are we still guilty of worshiping them? Let’s discuss in the comments below.

QuinQ:
It is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. It has you wondering if you living in some sort of alternate universe, where people are proud of what they ought be ashamed of!

DiarisGodoo:
Whoever wrote this doesn't know what he is writing. Probably barely read the book. It is so annoying!
WHY NOT READ THE BOOK YOURSELF?
Traditional Igbo society was very egalitarian. There were no "big men" or kings. That's why this your fixation on "big men" looks weird and ludicrous.
Okonkwo was no "big man" at all and no one worshipped him. He had serious insecurities about failing because his father was a total failure, and he had anger issues. Like in all Igbo families he was head of his family as the man but that was where all his "big man" ended.
READ THE BOOK!

DMCA:
very soon we go announce
delulu weds schizo
officiating minister: Yaba

QuinQ:

You get wet panny for making me laugh. But I'll put it as my DP. You have to go to my profile to see it!😆

DMCA:

d slimier d better
ur kind of person (mind) go dey very interesting for dza odza room earnestly

LouisdeFrance:
.

DiarisGodoo:
I tell ya, honestly gives me vibes of a grotesque danse macabre of some sort

QuinQ:
Please what is this "big man" supposed to mean? Is it supposed to be praise or insult? And of who exactly?

QuinQ:
That's the word I've been looking for,
"grotesque"!
LouisdeFrance that's the feeling we get when we see a child being jingoistic about a father who enslaved and very likely raped his mother to have him!

QuinQ:
LouisdeFrance go kill you o!
I lost some weight lately. You think this is ok or lose a little more?

LouisdeFrance:
Are you offended by the truth?


According to biblical genealogies, David is a direct descendant of Shem through the lineage of Judah, while Goliath’s specific ancestry from Ham is traditionally inferred because he was a champion of the Philistines and from Gath, a region historically associated with Ham's descendants (such as Canaan and Mizraim).

David’s Lineage (Shem): Traced in the biblical text (such as in Ruth 4 and the Gospels) from Shem down through Arpachshad to Abraham, Judah, and eventually King David.Goliath’s Lineage

(Ham): Goliath was from Gath, part of the Philistine city-states. In the Genesis Table of Nations, the Philistines and the geographic regions of the Canaanites/Anakim are widely interpreted by biblical scholars and traditional commentaries to fall under the broader posterity of Ham.

QuinQ:
Aren't you a bit too old and not-totally-illitereate
to be posting this Sham-Ham-Japheth stuff??
Read below

DMCA:
schizo rights matter
schizo opinions matter
respect schizo opinions

QuinQ:
Aren't you a bit too old and not-totally-illitereate
to be posting this Sham-Ham-Japheth stuff??
Read below

QuinQ:
That's the word I've been looking for,
"grotesque"!
LouisdeFrance that's the feeling we get when we see a child being jingoistic about a father who enslaved and very likely raped his mother to have him!

QuinQ:
Louis what u think of these below?
Diarisgodo LouisdeFrance