AdmiralDru:


Brother, I know the theory you mentioned and it's pure nonsense. The big bang is there so atheist can have something to masturbate about when asked about the origin of life. Even with all our knowledge, we can't create the simplest cell, we don't know how to start or where to start from. If see how a cell operates, you will be amazed. Miniture machines far more complex than anything humans have created. How did they assemble themselves, where did the information of each cell come from? Information mean intelligence which means consciousness. Just use your logic instead of following theories that can never be demonstrated. Just think about this. Humans have a brain, how did a brain come to being by something brainless? Tell me how? How can ignorance create intelligence?

euromilion:


I do have some friends that was thinking like him few years ago,he probably will know some of them if he’s truly in Limerick for 22yrs,some of these friends went back to 9ja yrs ago now,they’re still calling me on phone begging for money,some of them want to come back but they can’t.

dainformant:
My experience in Ireland so far has been trailed with mixed feelings due to the coronavirus. The country is experiencing its worst ever pandemic - with nearly 3000 confirmed cases of the virus and 54 deaths recorded. The government has ordered a lockdown for some months to curb the spread and minimize the effect of the virus in the European country.

The nationwide lockdown has left the country’s public spaces hushed and deserted amid overwhelming public support for extreme measures to control the pandemic. Dublin city and other usually bustling urban centres are now like ghost towns..

In my area in Limerick city, the vast majority of the population appear to be following appeals to stay at home except to buy food, care for vulnerable people, do work deemed essential or briefly exercise.

The government has taken a very good measure to cushion the effect of the pandemic on its residents. Residents whose jobs and businesses closed due to coronavirus are being paid 350 euro PER WEEK. Those enjoying this benefit include Nigerians and other nationalities (both students and workers) who are living in the country. Many Nigerians received their alerts today being Tuesday and were greatly overjoyed.. People are being paid to stay at home and be safe. The payment will go on for 12 weeks...that's 3 months. Just chill at home and get paid.

€350 X N420 (about N147,000) per week.
€1400 X N420 (about 588,000) per month.

Monthly rent is €325 while €50-€70 (depending on your spending capability) can go for groceries for the month. This only happens in civilized countries where the government take good care of their people.

Focusingmore:


Bro let's stop arguing, please get my point. If you are qualified get out of Ireland.

Love you bro

Focusingmore:


Ive worked with several companies, they don't promote you for years.

When you look back your life is gone.

You have bigger better opportunities in the uk.

Please tell me how many multi nationals are in Ireland all together.

Are you telling me you can't see people are struggling? For real.

Half of the Irish population are on low income jobs like retail, admin , hospitality etc.

Brah be honest it's not great, after many years you'll realise you're making a big mistake especially if you are well educated.

Trust me , I'm not trying to be mean, just honest.

nextstep:


The Big Bang Theory is a model used to explain a broad range of observed phenomena, and currently offers the most reasonable explanation of how things came to be. In short, the universe is expanding (this is observable), and thus was likely smaller in the past. Follow this thinking to its logical conclusion and you'll get an infinitely dense pin point - a singularity which combined all matter and energy, when all the fundamental forces (gravity, electromagnetism, weak and strong nuclear forces) were all combined into one.

Many of the phenomena we can observe corroborate this story, so yes, I would accept - given our current understanding about the world - that the Big Bang is real.

We don't fully understand it, and there is a paradox that if all mass is energy (E=MC^2), was there 100% energy and 0% mass right before the Big Bang? Take an atom, it's 99.999% empty space, save for nucleus and electrons. Take a quark that makes up the protons, etc... 99.999% empty. We don't yet know what makes a quark and right now they understood to be the fundamental particles. It wouldn't surprise me that we discover that the next thing down is 99.999% empty. Keep going, and it starts to dawn on you that all the things we call "mass" and "objects" are actually forms of energy interacting with the fundamental forces. In other words, it's all energy.

As an aside, squeeze enough molecules into a space, the molecules start to attract themselves, then under immense pressure, nuclear fusion occurs, and bang! "mass" is annihilated and energy is released. There are billions of such bangs in our galaxy... one of them is our Sun. And there are billions of galaxies, all stretching away from each other.

My position is: if theists can accept the idea of a sentient entity always existing - the source of all creation, they should not have any trouble accepting the idea of a singularity event... the source of all creation. The former was the explanation before physics, and the latter is the explanation after physics.

nextstep:


The Big Bang Theory is a model used to explain a broad range of observed phenomena, and currently offers the most reasonable explanation of how things came to be. In short, the universe is expanding (this is observable), and thus was likely smaller in the past. Follow this thinking to its logical conclusion and you'll get an infinitely dense pin point - a singularity which combined all matter and energy, when all the fundamental forces (gravity, electromagnetism, weak and strong nuclear forces) were all combined into one.

Many of the phenomena we can observe corroborate this story, so yes, I would accept - given our current understanding about the world - that the Big Bang is real.

We don't fully understand it, and there is a paradox that if all mass is energy (E=MC^2), was there 100% energy and 0% mass right before the Big Bang? Take an atom, it's 99.999% empty space, save for nucleus and electrons. Take a quark that makes up the protons, etc... 99.999% empty. We don't yet know what makes a quark and right now they understood to be the fundamental particles. It wouldn't surprise me that we discover that the next thing down is 99.999% empty. Keep going, and it starts to dawn on you that all the things we call "mass" and "objects" are actually forms of energy interacting with the fundamental forces. In other words, it's all energy.

As an aside, squeeze enough molecules into a space, the molecules start to attract themselves, then under immense pressure, nuclear fusion occurs, and bang! "mass" is annihilated and energy is released. There are billions of such bangs in our galaxy... one of them is our Sun. And there are billions of galaxies, all stretching away from each other.

My position is: if theists can accept the idea of a sentient entity always existing - the source of all creation, they should not have any trouble accepting the idea of a singularity event... the source of all creation. The former was the explanation before physics, and the latter is the explanation after physics.

stupidity:
Today I witnessed the most bizarre of stupidity in the history of Nigeria.


You tell people to stay indoors to help fight disease spread, you tell this same people to come out and line up in queue to receive one “derica” cup of rice each. What if that person one way contacts the disease he or she is avoiding because of our leader’s stupidity and take it home to share to families?


I was in shock mhen........ I shar know this Coro nor fit kill me. I can’t die now.

If una like make una use stupidity spread am well.

nextstep:


I don't know that I would call it pure nonsense... I mean, theories about the Big Bang are why you can microwave your food and get accurate GPS from objects orbiting fast enough that their local clocks are slower than the ones on Earth (time dilation).

We don't fully understand life or its origins, but you only need to look at the evidence that suggest the theories have merit. To discount a theory - an attempt at understanding - because it cannot replicate life is not useful.

Life existed for billions of years before humans came on the scene. The theories and evidence for it are explained by the same type of unencumbered thinking that brought you vaccines, X-rays, and computer networks. I wouldn't be so quick to discount their ideas about life's origins.

Imagine if you lived at a time before the indoctrination of Christianity... would you be using the Yoruba pantheon to disprove theories?

Also consider: there are billions and billions of stars, and the likelihood of life being on some of them is not zero. Would each life-bearing planet have its own God? What about the ones where our level of intelligence has yet to surface? Or the ones with creatures 1 million years ahead of us on the intelligence spectrum?

nextstep:


Two things: equipment, and haze/glare.

We have a haze in our cities, from dust and pollution. Our skies are also almost always gray with clouds (i.e. it's rare to see a genuine blue sky). These have a lot to do with the picture quality.

If you went North to a clear place, or to more rural areas in the South free from pollution, the pictures also look very nice.

I'll also have to admit that the quality of camera makes all the difference. Look at the pictures shot by Tay0AinaFilms ... they are also high quality, unlike most pictures you'd take with phone cameras.

Pathfinder121:


Ireland has the highest concentration of multinationals companies in Europe. It is defacto silicon valley of Europe. It is also about getting the right/relevant qualifications and excelling at the very competitive interviews.

UK pay less in comparison to Ireland but not that significant. There is always a trade-off in one or two things between the 2 countries.

A number of factors will determine career progression and the industry/ sector you will work in.

Focusingmore:


That's 4 k a month , not great same as taxi drivers earn but don't have to declare.

If you add Dublin expenses, you'll realise you're just getting by.


When treasury bills were good , some people with 70 million invested were earning close to your salary without lifting a finger.

Anyway I'll stop here ... Thanks for listening

stupidity:
Today I witnessed the most bizarre of stupidity in the history of Nigeria.


You tell people to stay indoors to help fight disease spread, you tell this same people to come out and line up in queue to receive one “derica” cup of rice each. What if that person one way contacts the disease he or she is avoiding because of our leader’s stupidity and take it home to share to families?


I was in shock mhen........ I shar know this Coro nor fit kill me. I can’t die now.

If una like make una use stupidity spread am well.

Pathfinder121:


It is all making sense now. Honest living is one of the puzzle missing here for you oga. When I came across your contributions and Lamentations, I was incline to you being a taxi driver or in the shadow jobs with easy tax avoidance.

Nothing is ever enough for .....

InvestorsMind:
Smh..... There's no worse disease than ignorance. But some people can lie sha ... Ireland is actually a fantastic country. Once the richest country in Europe years ago. At the moment it is only lazy people with entitlement mindset with unrealistic expectations will call Ireland a shithole:


From FORBES-


Ireland

GDP $332 B
As of December 2018
At a Glance
GDP Growth: 7.2%
GDP per Capita: $69,300
Trade Balance/GDP: 8.5%
Population: 5.1M
Public Debt/GDP: 69%
Unemployment: 6.7%
Inflation: 0.3%

Forbes Lists

#11 Best Countries for Business

Profile:

Ireland is a small, modern, trade-dependent economy. It was among the initial group of 12 EU nations that began circulating the euro on 1 January 2002. GDP growth averaged 6% in 1995-2007, but economic activity dropped sharply during the world financial crisis and the subsequent collapse of its domestic property market and construction industry during 2008-11. Faced with sharply reduced revenues and a burgeoning budget deficit from efforts to stabilize its fragile banking sector, the Irish Government introduced the first in a series of draconian budgets in 2009. These measures were not sufficient to stabilize Ireland’s public finances.


In 2010, the budget deficit reached 32.4% of GDP - the world's largest deficit, as a percentage of GDP. In late 2010, the former COWEN government agreed to a $92 billion loan package from the EU and IMF to help Dublin recapitalize Ireland’s banking sector and avoid defaulting on its sovereign debt. In March 2011, the KENNY government intensified austerity measures to meet the deficit targets under Ireland's EU-IMF bailout program. In late 2013, Ireland formally exited its EU-IMF bailout program, benefiting from its strict adherence to deficit-reduction targets and success in refinancing a large amount of banking-related debt. In 2014, the economy rapidly picked up. In late 2014, the government introduced a fiscally neutral budget, marking the end of the austerity program. Continued growth of tax receipts has allowed the government to lower some taxes and increase public spending while keeping to its deficit-reduction targets. In 2015, GDP growth exceeded 26%. The magnitude of the increase reflected one-off statistical revisions, multinational corporate restructurings in intellectual property, and the aircraft leasing sector, rather than real gains in the domestic economy, which was still growing.


Growth moderated to around 4.1% in 2017, but the recovering economy assisted lowering the deficit to 0.6% of GDP. In the wake of the collapse of the construction sector and the downturn in consumer spending and business investment during the 2008-11 economic crisis, the export sector, dominated by foreign multinationals, has become an even more important component of Ireland's economy. Ireland’s low corporation tax of 12.5% and a talented pool of high-tech laborers have been some of the key factors in encouraging business investment. Loose tax residency requirements made Ireland a common destination for international firms seeking to pay less tax or, in the case of U.S. multinationals, defer taxation owed to the United States.


In 2014, amid growing international pressure, the Irish government announced it would phase in more stringent tax laws, effectively closing a commonly used loophole.


The Irish economy continued to grow in 2017 and is forecast to do so through 2019, supported by a strong export sector, robust job growth, and low inflation, to the point that the Government must now address concerns about overheating and potential loss of competitiveness. The greatest risks to the economy are the UK’s scheduled departure from the European Union (“Brexit”) in March 2019, possible changes to international taxation policies that could affect Ireland’s revenues, and global trade pressures.

Rankings:

Trade Freedom 21

Monetary Freedom 8

Property Rights 19

Innovation 21

Technology 41

Red Tape 10

Investor Protection 14

Corruption 19

Personal Freedom 1

Tax Burden 4

Source- https://www.forbes.com/places/ireland/

Should we go ahead and post that of Nigeria?

AdmiralDru:


I don't refute the many advantages of science in our everyday lives. Microwaves, vaccines, GPS and the rest have little to do with the big bang. Regular science research work is different from space science. Space science has lots of bogus claim, what-if, could, and would etc. scenarios. I don't think the earth is flat and stuff, but how can you say with certainty that there are billions and billions of stars, and the likelihood of life being on some of them is not zero . You only think that way cause that's what you were told. How're you even sure there are 9 planets. Creationist blindly believe in their gods and can simply claim 'god did it', it takes more guts to think believe the big bang really happened.

Also, if what you understand of the theory is what you read. Then it's what I also know about it. The reason I'm saying this is cause when I discuss this with atheist on the atheism sub Reddit, their first point of defence is to call you ignorant and say you don't understand the theory.

Believe whatever you want, I'm not against that. Just don't go about blindly believing anything these space scientists dish out.

Focusingmore:


Ireland is fantastic on paper, average in reality.

That's why I keep saying you can't understand things just by reading online.

Did you know that the high gdp in Ireland is bogus and most of the growth is due to the multi nationals?

They inflate the GDP to attract investors and lower their co operation taxes .

The 2008 recession exposed Ireland for what it is when most of those companies left.


Brah you don't know jack shit , Irish people are predominantly farmers... Everything else.... Mostly is via fdis.

All in Ireland is definitely better than Nigeria but a horrible place for an ambitious well educated young Nigerian.

dainformant:
Local man had to go for shopping today. Had to restock my groceries. Social distancing is very well observed in all the supermarkets and shops as measures have been set in place to fight the virus. Some shops only allow one customer at a time to enter. I spent about 32 euro on my shopping today and hope the foodstuff will last me for a while.

nextstep:



I can't make a distinction between "regular science research" and "space science" since it's all based on scientific principles. I mean, if somebody told you that we could use gravity assist to swing around planets and fling probes out of the solar system, what would you have called that? Conjecture? Bogus?

We can say with certainty that there are billions and billions of stars because: we put a telescope on many of the points of light, and there's a shit ton of them. And some of them appear to have a shit ton points of light in them. This is directly observable.

We're sure about the number of planets in our system because we've looked. Using our understanding of gravity (e.g. that the Sun itself is perturbed ever-so-slightly by the orbiting planets based on their mass and distance), we can be certain that we have 8 planets, and a bunch of planetoids (Pluto got demoted). I don't think there are genuinely bogus claims... there are best guesses and what ifs scenarios. Give me an example of a bogus claim, and I'll see if we can walk through and debunk it (or accept that's plausible).

On the flip side, I am conjecturing (i.e. not certain), about the possibility of life elsewhere because if you consider our definition of life (which includes plants, bacteria, and to some extent viruses and self-replicating proteins)... there's no reason the same processes that obtain on Earth cannot obtain elsewhere.

Our discovery and understanding of electromagnetics (including microwaves) led us to discover the cosmic microwave background and redshift... which led credence to the Big Bang Theory (I keep using the word theory because it's our attempt at explaining). I'm open to other explanations, but this is so far the most credible one.

For the theists, how can you be so certain that God didn't create life on many planets? Perhaps as insurance in case a few planets got wiped out by asteroids or a supernova? (allow me a little creative license). Or how can they be so certain that the only "created in his image" is the humanoid form? For as long as people have been around, we've used the lack of evidence as proof, when in actuality, we don't know. It could well be that there is a God, and all the religions in the world were right, but interpreted their understanding differently. We don't know.

funmike83:
naija sorry oo but with all this i still consider my country safe . God bless my country

dainformant:
I shared pictures of my experience, you no gree. Someone shared information from the internet, you no still agree. But you want make we gree your own talk abi. You can't even make arguments cos you lack facts and points. You said people were not paid 350 euro, I showed you proof before you kept quite and now you are still talking off point. I really pity for you. Ignorance is very bad.

ERockson:
But Nigeria government won't pay anything regardless of your financial responsibility. Let's praise any country that give little

tolexy007:





you are right bro, those useless Chinkos must pay for this. I just dey fear wetin go happen to Nigeria in d next 30 days

pocohantas:


I didn’t say it can’t be compared, but some people are always quick to convert FCY to LCY. It isn’t that straightforward because of the relative cost of goods and services in both countries.

Things like this is what makes people hop on the next flight to different countries. Oh you’ll be paid $1000 a month. A Nigerian brain quickly converts it to Naira, tells himself he would be earning more than bank managers. The Nigerian brain forgets to ask- would I spend the money in Naira? NO.

Cc: Ishilove.

Focusingmore:


Ive worked with several companies, they don't promote you for years.

When you look back your life is gone.

You have bigger better opportunities in the uk.

Please tell me how many multi nationals are in Ireland all together.

Are you telling me you can't see people are struggling? For real.

Half of the Irish population are on low income jobs like retail, admin , hospitality etc.

Brah be honest it's not great, after many years you'll realise you're making a big mistake especially if you are well educated.

Trust me , I'm not trying to be mean, just honest.

Focusingmore:


Here's what you are missing, where are the multi nationals concentrated ?

What is the cost of living where these multi nationals are?

What is the household income in Ireland?

How much contract work is in Ireland , like those project manager, etc jobs?

Keep decisiving yourselves, even Irish people are migrating to Canada UK Australia..

You never see anything, even if you get lucky and get work, dey no go promote you.


Bookmark this site... I have lived it...

Smart people move , I didn't because I had your mindset .. not saying go to Nigeria, go somewhere else.

Focusingmore:


I'm not saying Nigeria is better than Ireland, but Ireland is not as great as the picture he's painting.

I said UK is better. Ireland is only good if you're raising a family but trust me you won't be rich.

You'll also be extremely bored as it is a conservative country.

Canada, UK other countries are better for young educated people with ambition.

dainformant:
I shared pictures of my experience, you no gree. Someone shared information from the internet, you no still agree. But you want make we gree your own talk abi. You can't even make arguments cos you lack facts and points. You said people were not paid 350 euro, I showed you proof before you kept quiet and now you are still talking off point. I really pity for you. Ignorance is very bad.

Phelixblaq:



Don’t mind all this people that went to another mans country on a visitor visa