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Romance › Re: Relationship Ideals. by postmann: 9:21am On Sep 12, 2016
sllay:
I wonder what Chroníque and the several Nairaland guys she duped think about the pseudo-sanctimonious, pilfering, love-scam-scheming philandering OP and her hypocritical thread...

Little wonder people tag most folks who frequent this section fake.

Supposedly Messrs Nice Guy being exposed as brute cultist, 'friendly' girls exposed as paid moles by their brothers, mulattoes who are partly Ukrainian turning out to be fugly, teenage paupers who beg females for money, supposedly pretty, fair-skinned OAPs exposed as darkskinned, fugly insecure females (EstharFabian comes to mind)... They go into hiding for days when exposured then try to blend in like nothing happened.


Shameless dimwits!

You came slow like a heavy hammer
Dragged by the weight of indignation
And you hit it with a thunderous clatter
Oh Sllay, your brutal demolition
Romance › Re: Happy Sunday! by postmann: 12:04pm On Sep 09, 2016
saintfellow:
true sir, where hav u been?
Been up and down, fulfilling man's obligation.
Romance › Re: Happy Sunday! by postmann: 2:44pm On Sep 08, 2016
saintfellow:
hi oga postmann?
Hey Sainty! Long time no see. Greetings to you!
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by postmann: 1:23pm On Sep 04, 2016
Toks2008:
WEhat on earth is going on here? why all these obayagbon grammar?

No be me create the thread so why bringing me to this? Please free me abeg.

I know you didn't create the thread. I was simply responding to your reaction in your quoted response to lezznjr who likened tonyebarcanister - the OP - to you.

And by your last thread, I was referring to your last thread on love being nonexistent among humans.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by postmann:
Toks2008:
Why bring me into this?

Young man let me advice you..it is a sign of mental shallowness to curse and abuse on an interactive forum. Infact I ignore people who act as you do cos they are a threat to themselves as the act wricks lack of mental cohesion and good psychological well being.

When you read an opinion of another just learn to calm down and tender yours. Being educated goes beyond the ability to write grammar but it also involves the intellectual prowess to hold up arguments without vulgarity.

Donald trump may never get close to the white house due to this appalling nature you just displayed ....cursing while you should be discussing issues intelligently is a low life atitude.

Please adjust and don't bother cursing me cos you will only be wasting your time..I am too intellectual matured to troll.

Have a great day


I would like to fault you on the grounds of sedimented build up of condensed hypocrisy.


Donald, like lezznjr whom you quoted refused to be politically correct in the face of an ever-increasing hypocritical world that is ready to sell its values for acceptance. In the face of deep, unfathomable insult to the over 170mil Nigerians on an open, wildly-spread internet forum with international outreach by comparing Nigeria to Kenya in a misleading manner, can produce an indignation as blazing as an angry volcano. And the young man simply responded with a matching, unyielding patriotic gusto.

I understand your grudge in feeling slighted with the dishonourable comparison; but you showed your core when you honoured your handle above the dignity of your fellow countrymen.

Like your last thread, you once again measured humanity by your narrow-mindedness and personal cognitive limitations.
Family › Re: How True Is This? by postmann: 5:23pm On Sep 03, 2016
joseph1832:
That woman is drunk with delusion.
grin grin grin
Family › Re: How True Is This? by postmann: 4:01pm On Sep 03, 2016
Berbierklaus:
Thanks for your input,but I think you should dissect the Writeup and not the writer
[b]The writer is responsible for the Writeup. She's trying to set a dangerous precedent. She couldn't have escaped my onslaught.

Berbierklaus:
inasmuch as it puts an imbalance on ideal gender role,don't you think she has a point?

Tried as I might, I couldn't see any. She's a confused woman with mental and hormonal conflict as expressed in her facial ambiguity.

There are clear gender roles as biologically supported. Though life has its ups and downs and people or couples can adjust in response to financial or physical challenges, it can't and shouldn't be accepted as the norm.

Berbierklaus:
1)Life will be much easier having a man own up to his responsibility as a father,not as a helpmate
Don't get you. This is clearly not about irresponsible fathers who wouldn't take responsibility for their actions. Or does being a father to you entails sitting at home and nursing an infant while the mother is in the labour market, in an office wasting her breast milk at the restroom sink?

Berbierklaus:
2)A woman supposedly working as an adult responsibility not a helpmate[/b]



Pre.sVa
Timbou.ktu

Working or otherwise, it doesn't change her disposition as a helpmete.
Family › Re: How True Is This? by postmann: 3:14pm On Sep 03, 2016
Berbierklaus:
Could this be another feminist hullabaloo or she actually makes sense?

lalasticlala wink


This actually made it here at the Fam section.

Well, what the eyesore was simply saying in essence is that there are no gender roles in matrimony/and society.

She's a victim of gender dissatisfaction accrued to biological and spiritual limitations bearing on her inordinate ambitions and ideals - ideals falling out of several askew relationships which has developed into a hardened stance of recalcitrant postulation.

Unable to resolve her personal woes, she finds herself at cross-purpose with life, society and herself.
Forum Games › Re: 2016 Nairaland Couples' Competition Planning Stage by postmann: 1:19pm On Sep 03, 2016
joseph1832:
I don't know what you mean bro, I honestly don't know. huh grin

Booyaka!!!. grin
Ok
Forum Games › Re: 2016 Nairaland Couples' Competition Planning Stage by postmann: 9:12pm On Sep 02, 2016
joseph1832:
Hell No!. They're two very different person. Just like a dick and vagina is different.

See it this way, Lezz, the guy who won't flee when a vagina is show him. Postmann, the guy who would shut his eyes and run like hell when a vagina is shown him.

I'm sure you can tell the difference now, can you? grin
Your moment came and you wouldn't miss it. Like a hunter's last desperate shot, you took your aim and fired.

Gbumm shakalah!!!
Romance › Re: Wish 5 Romancelander A Happy New Month by postmann: 4:14pm On Sep 01, 2016
Lsofdk:
[color=teal]OP 5 too small nagrin
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Wishing a happy new month to these friends of mine… Together we'll enjoy the new Month to its fullest.[/color]

cc: Smellymouth lezzlie Suzan404 Ogorwyne Creamish

postmann Thesonofmark smellinganus xoella khalifasparkles

Vizkiz iykekelvin slyisaac Airsultan obiorathesubtle

Mzpecs Oyind17 milonis Ivvy 4rmthewest

babzilla iamlegend1 handsam makydebbie berlyn

olihilistic jubrealguy naijaboiy cherlene Dino

qhutetomsel vicstar confistifiedundecided demilagold
Thanks bro. A wonderful and joy-filled new month to you and yours.
Romance › Re: My Boyfriend Makes Me Drink His Sperm All The Time by postmann: 6:48pm On Aug 31, 2016
FTBOY:
you mean, after he discharge and cum with 'ah!'?

cc- postmann.. grin
grin grin grin
Pets › Re: Why I Named My Dog ‘buhari’ — Joe Chinakwe by postmann: 8:49am On Aug 18, 2016
StOla:
Why are some people so self-destructive, suicidal and craving for conflict and anarchy?

The Northerners did not misconstrue his intention. They know him to be a hateful Igbo, the likes of which vent their frustration and misery on this forum and other online media. Now an Ipob member who has forgotten he is not in Aba, has met his match in Buhari's tribesmen. Even if the complainant is claiming to have Buhari as his father's name / surname, it is evident that both defendant and plaintiff are fighting a tribal proxy war over President Buhari.

Can he name his dog Ojukwu or Azikiwe? Imagine a Yoruba man in Nnewi naming his goat Ojukwu, or a Fulani man in Aba naming his dog Nnamdi Kanu and parading it around the IPOB meeting centres? That is the suicidal attribute the Igbos are known for. Imagine using such a revered name in a community populated by Hausa-Fulani? Even if he had named the dog Awolowo, I know his Yoruba hosts may find it repulsive, but would not react violently, resulting in the boldness of the Igbo man who then concludes that Yorubas are cowards and are docile.

Since the Igbo man welcomes bravery and detest the peaceful Yorubas as weaklings, let him celebrate and enjoy the bravery of his Hausa-Fulani neighbours. It is stupidity such as this that was displayed by Igbos in the North, that led to their slaughter in the Northern pogroms as a Northern civilian reaction to the Jan 1966 coup killings of Northern politicians and Army officers.

However, whether the coward directed his friends of hate to eat up his own dog is irrelevant as no case exist here, talk-less of an implication. Nevertheless, the arrested man is safer in that police custody as his bigoted life will be wasted without a second thought, the moment he steps out of police "custodial protection".
We all know the Hausa-Fulani, they don't need to mouth hatred and beat their hollow chest to teach an equally hateful lesson.

See what hate has caused now? His days of peace are over in that community. Except he is released by the police directly at Aba, where his fellow bigoted clansmen will welcome him as a hero who had to runaway from Yorubaland because of Hausa-Fulanis who are his fellow settlers.

After his brain was reset at the police station, hear him declare eternal love for Buhari.

You're by far a bigger bigot than those you're trying to drag over the coals.

You're a sad news to an enlightened society and in consternation I see hate all over your write up, depicting you as someone who isn't comfortable in his own skin and your blood springs from the fountain of bitterness.
Nairaland General › Re: Dear Seun by postmann: 1:39pm On Aug 15, 2016
Fairytales:
When does the violation of rule 2 ever justify a 5-6 months ban?

Last week two willing and happy e-brawlers gleefully took to the ring to exchange punches to generate traffic on a dead thread that was avoided like the plague here:

https://www.nairaland.com/3282150/bibliophobia-moribund-art-reading/4#48425469

Yet a mod who was supposed to be an umpire lashed out a 5-6 month's ban for rule 2 against the non-aggressor, lezz while the aggressor and known troll saintsamurai, gets a one week ban.

It of note to say lezz, who is the victim of this
vindictive ban has made an official complaint by mail to the super mods but has not received any correspondence in rebuke or redress.... none whatsoever.


It behooves to ask, don't bans like these portray the office of the Moderators as biased, vindictive, personal and vengeful? Especially as it is a forum wide ban.

Not withstanding the fact that lezz was provoked and lured into the fight. And one keeps wondering why alternates are scattered all over the forum.

Mr. Seun I don't know if you gave your mods guidelines on the length of bans to implement, or if it is left to their discretions ,but I know tribal insults, genocide endorsement and threat to the existence of Nairaland carry lengthy bans, not rule 2 which is bullying and insulting fellow nairalander.

A quick look at lezz's profile will show he's a thread-creator and debator and only trolls when pushed as was the case that happened here that occasioned a 5/6 months forum-wide ban.

Thank you.

This piece isn't written to protest the ban but the length of the ban which portrays a vindictive and punitive act rather than correctional.
Seconded!
Phones › Re: The Actual Difference(s) Between The Camon C9 And Camon C7 [photos] by postmann: 8:54pm On Aug 14, 2016
MizMyColi:
I don't work for Tecno.
Tecno did not pay me for this post.

Allow me the pleasure of interrupting your chatter;

You invoked my moniker in a coven of intellectual dishonesty -- and I choose to respond to your assumption here -- I deliberately refused to fan the weak flames of a cheap circus show of attention craving by staying away from that thread, but you did me the disservice of etching my name therein.

You should know that for all of the similarities between postmann and lezz, there are ample difference.

Postmann isn't lezz and I believe you're smart enough to know that.
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 7:47pm On Aug 10, 2016
bukatyne:
You are welcome and gratitude is a nice attribute smiley

I still believe 'payment' whatsoever especially monetary should be scrapped.

It has lost its relevance.
C'on Bukky, not you too. You're a Christian. cheesy

How does it sound if someone said that children obeying and respecting their parents is no longer relevant?
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 12:59pm On Aug 10, 2016
joseph1832:
And I suppose you're the Architect of Knowledge?
I must say a resounding welcome to joseph1832 cheesy
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 12:58pm On Aug 10, 2016
lezz:
The truth is the first victim of war! Do not give in to European journals of Africa's state of affairs during colonialism and slavery; Do not be a willing post-colonial slave of Western propaganda. Africans sold mainly slaves to Europeans as slaves. Slaves of rival communities and tribes from the spoils of war.

Besides, Africans enslaved up to 1.5 million white Europeans in the 14th-16th century in the Barbary slave trade



Only a smattering amount of our ancestors in Calabar did that! Our ancestors in Western Nigeria and beyond worshipped them! Besides did not majority of Europeans burn scientist and opinionated people alive at an institutional level? See ya life?
And the West are so damn ingenious they invented the internet and social media and Yahoo boys are reaping them out in millions of Euros for decades now? Use your head.



You mean like the Pharos? Did not European kings do worse? Were not European kings who ordered and sanctioned the genocide of peoples in Native America, New Zealand, the aborigines of Australia, Congo, Ethiopia? Or the premeditated starvation to death of their own people in Ireland?


Your preconceived submissions are a sharp pointer to one who's a willing victim of mental and psychological defeatism.

Africans are a communal lot who never abandoned thier old parents or relations. Unlike the West where the government are forced to set up old people's home to look after aged folks whose sons and daughters are in the cities enjoying the Kaleidoscope of city vanity.

Folks die and are buried with strangers at funeral rites....damn!

Why don't you paint yourself with native chalk to be white....It's cheaper than the path you tread.
Your name is murder
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 5:12pm On Aug 09, 2016
5minsmadness:
I hear u grin
There's a 99% probability that with all this your making mouth, your family will still give a list to your fiancee and you will blush with pride when he fulfils it all grin


I left the other 1% out for the sake of statistics grin
Now, I'll be a hypocrite if I deny this got me cracking up. grin grin grin
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 11:02am On Aug 09, 2016
byvan03:
You and physical /spiritual realm are like 5 n 6 cheesy. In that case, the biblical method of serving the girl's father for a few years will suffice, am sure there won't be any cow required afterwards.
You're right about me being holding fastly to biblical truths. However, there is no biblical standard of servitude for a prospective husband towards the bride's father. The case of Jacob and Laban was not GOD's standard but Laban's, exercising his divine right over his daughter in deciding what he required as bride price for them.
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 9:37am On Aug 09, 2016
byvan03:
I can't wait for every damn thing to be scrapped, let's see what is there to hold onto. You totally got the drift. The koboko method should be the bride price, since they need something to win, money is too disposable . I doubt any man will subject himself to that without being blind,deaf and crippled in love. This method certainly will be more preserving for the institution. When you want behave like the devil's sanitary pad and remember how many strokes you endured to win her, you comport yourself.
Have you read about the "koboko" method in the clime where it is practiced? Or what it signifies?

Well, for the fulanis, it's actually an act of warriorhood; that the man can actually protect his wife! grin It's synonymous with the manly rituals undergone by some male adolescents to register their manhood in some other cultures.

And yes, the fulanis pay bride price of herds of cows and other expensive items too.

And if you think the absence of bride price negates a husband's authority over you, then you're under deceit. Infact, your father can give you off for free to your husband. And he has the powers to do so. It wont makes you any less his wife and he has authority over you in the spiritual and physical realms.
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op):
cococandy:
Surprisingly guys are the one who want to uphold the practice of bride price. Even though they sometimes claim it is exorbitant.
And not surprisingly you're the ones who bring it up when you want mock women. "After I paid your bride price" bla bla bla. Most guys I've come across in this forum bring it up as avenue to mock women whenever the issues of equal treatment being discussed.

Does it take Einstein's IQ to deduce that the only reason why men want it continued is so that you can have something to hold over the woman for the rest of her life? Not that you care so much about culture. You only care about culture when it's the one that massages your egos and put women in a secondary position.

You and OP and the rest of you dudes should spare us your pseudo concern for 'our culture'. We know what you really care about. your fragile egos.
It goes beyond just tradition! It's very spiritual in all of its essence. Sometimes, I'm forced to tone down the spiritual signifance of a subject of discourse just to accommodate all views, but what is of GOD is of GOD. And marriage is of GOD. Humans only try to hijack HIS gifts thereby playing the thief.

For every institution established on earth by GOD there is a deep significant purpose.

Eg: Father-child relationship A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? Mal 1:6

Except we realise our parents are worthy of our respect and honour not just because they provided for us, we'd miss the true essence of such a relationship which actually is a symbol of GOD being our heavenly FATHER. GOD setup an earthly system of what is prevalent in the spirit that we may have a taste of what life entails and learn to live by HIS divine wisdom and will.

Husband-wife relationship
It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the best man is simply glad to stand with him and hear his vows. Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success. John 3:29

CHRIST is called the bridegroom by GOD HIMSELF. Now for any who don't recognise what a bridegroom is, will never come to respect and give honour to her husband. Neither will she appreciate the bride price. Scripture tells us CHRIST bought us over with HIS blood and HE is likened and Infact called THE BRIDEGROOM and we HIS BRIDE.


You see, marriage like most institutions GOD set up, has deep spiritual undertone. But the rebellious would never come to terms with it. They're too proud to be governed by the law of wisdom. They can actually think for themselves.

Bride price preserve marriage to a good extent. It creates a great sense of responsibility and solemnity to marriage.

For the many who have been corrupted, it should just be a matter of spoken words. Then it would have been an open door where all sorts of character go in and out as often as they please.

But sorry, the marriage act is ritualistic and it's beyond the grasp of scholars who have lost their senses of origin.

It takes a woman of pride (and pride is just one of the many faces of insecurity) to reject or abhor bride price.
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op):
bukatyne:
@Bold:

The Bible says a man will leave his father & mother and cleave to his wife....

Isn't the husband the one to leave his family? Shouldn't women be the ones paying their husbands? At least, we have such in India and Britain (till it was cancelled).

@OP:

I really agree with byvan03 though we don't collect money and the wife's family present some gifts to he hubby's family and hosts the ceremony.

The term 'price' connotes a transaction.
Here you are at last!!! cheesy

Your savoury altruism in the last miss NL contest lingers. (I can't believe I just sounded like lezz!)

I'm still humbled and grateful.

Back to topic;

The scriptural citation above shouldn't be taken out of contest. It was given in the understanding that a woman leaves her father and mother by the act of marriage and goes into a new family unlike a man. So GOD was emphasising on the man detaching from his mother and father so he can become one with his wife.

It's like the scripture that said, man love your wife and woman respect your husband. Taken out of context, many interpret it to mean it's not obligatory for women to love their husbands and not also obligatory for men to respect their wives. When in essence, scripture was putting more emphasis on whom who is more prone to default.

Does a man cleave to his wife in her father's house? Or are his children given by her traced through his wife's descent? Of course not! So, there are no basis for a woman paying the bride price.

Yes, the bride's family play Its role in the ceremony too. That's not strange.

We understand the word "price" chiefly from a monetary point because, well, English is an adopted language to us. But like I told byvan03, in the bribe price context, see it (price) as a requirement.

A good example was King Saul requiring a 100 foreskin of the Philistians from David as the bride price requirement for his daughter, Michal.
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 11:00am On Aug 08, 2016
omakay:
The bitter truth is that people are beginning to use this harmless traditional rite as a commercial means to an end. People now see the bride price rite as an opportunity to extract money and valuables from others all in the name of keeping tradition.

If we are really to go back to the original bride price requirements, we would truly discover now that 'padding' did not just start in the federal sector. It has being actively practiced in the traditional marriage sector too.

#PovertyIsAVirus
You're right.
Education › Re: A Teacher Beats And Wounds A Pupil (photos) by postmann: 10:31am On Aug 08, 2016
SalomonKane:
Can we see a link to the facebook age, OP? And verify if the story is accurate?

Lalasticlala, Dominique, please take note.
You made a lot of sense, bro. So far the story isn't verifiable and people have come to conclusion already.
Or maybe they want to sneak in the Western system where pupils can't be disciplined no matter the offence.

If the above photo holds true that a school teacher did that, then let him be prosecuted for high handedness. But getting the photo is just as easy as knowing the school the boy attends, hence fishing out the teacher.

Bloody propagandists!
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 10:17am On Aug 08, 2016
byvan03:
"Unclad wisdom" really? I can't even begin to punch holes on their "Unclad wisdom", too tired for that. The only thing returned is the token monetary price, what happens to every other thing on the list which they also accepted in cash or material? Why should the father be appeased? A culture mostly driven by greed and too much want. My opinion is born out of careful consideration and not prevailing circumstance. What do you think about the entire list being scrapped and the token itself which is always between 5-20k maintained? Don't you think it will make the process less commercial?
Until one comes to the reality of what marriage is, the significance and importance of bride price might not be truly appreciated.


The bride's father and family are appeased because a daughter they have nurtured all her life would be leaving them. If you're conversant with the bible, you'd understand this principle. The process of being married out, deserves some fanfare.

Now, GOD is the originator of marriage and HE left nothing to chance concerning it's rules and requirements. Bride prices are fixed. Man has corrupted the process no doubt by his greed but still, bride price is necessary and symbolic.
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 9:46pm On Aug 07, 2016
byvan03:
Why is it that your threads never escape a showdown? People end up cursing out themselves angry.
It's not restricted to my threads and I can't control what anyone types. So far, I'm still trying to maintain the route of civility. grin
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 9:42pm On Aug 07, 2016
byvan03:
The assertion that the ancestors are full of wisdom is only for those that refused to think beyond norms and chose not to question conventions .
The ancestors are full of wisdom no doubt. Theirs was pure, naked wisdom. They walked closer with the gods and learned firsthand.All the best books on wisdom were written by them. Theirs was an imperfect world too. But if we allowed most of their values to prevail, we would be safer.


byvan03:
You said it means a lot to men, I suppose the same feeling you get when you buy an expensive car. The matter at hand has nothing to do with a woman's placement , whether out caste or free born, as a matter of fact totally unrelated.
That comparison is most unfortunate. And it must have been birthed from a mind conditioned to think negatively by prevailing circumstances.

It is manly to fight and earn a woman. Not as a property but as an act of being able to take care of her.

And yes, a woman belongs to her father. In marriage contraction, bride price is a form of gratitude or appeasement to her father and her father's people.

byvan03:
There is nothing honourable about being priced, a woman's true worth should be priceless. A symbolic item would have made more sense than the long list and a few coin. Do you know that bride price is haggled? What's respectful about being priced like a commodity?
There's honour when a man recognises the fact that his woman is priceless and that if she actually was to be sold, she definitely couldn't be bought. The bridal list of requirements and process may be flawed in some climes, but then again, men who know how valuable their women are will go for it bringing honour to their women, she's worth it and more.



byvan03:
Being a requirement doesn't change the fact that it is monetary , humans should be priceless. It's hardly different from being sold.
Even after the bride price is paid, even after several years, the process can still be reversed with the bride price returned. It was never a matter of buying and selling as the antagonists would like everyone to believe.

It is simply a matter of symbolic traditional requirements for man and spirit.
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 8:29pm On Aug 07, 2016
byvan03:
Okay ooo, to each his own. A symbolic item like calabash, cowries e.t.c will serve as better price. I don't see anything symbolic about goat, yams, kolanuts and a few change. The term " price " is even worrying, very commercial . One will have to stick it out for this life time,i guess some things never change.
It all makes one big, symbolic, never-to-forget ceremony. And It means a lot to men too.

Don't see "price" from a monetary point of view. See it as "requirement".

A woman who belongs to nobody is an outcast. And she is vulnerable and without defence. A woman belongs to her father, and her father belongs to his kindred. The bride price is symbolic; an act of honour and respect that a woman has been well and honourably given out in marriage.

There's this brashness and arrogance with this generation and they assume a lot. Part of that assumption is that they know better than their forefather and yet to live out a hundred years is beyond their grasp.
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op):
byvan03:
People get hitched because they want to forge a life with the one they love . It's not a favour to either party, so I can never understand purpose of the list. It makes it look more of a commercial activity , where the buyer expects to derive maximum utility from goods purchased undecided.
Irrespective of what various tribes or ethnicities might have conjure up on bribe price, it remains a very symbolic aspect of the great transition called marriage. If marrying a woman required no "manly ritual" such as bride price, I tell you, the institution of marriage would have suffered a total collapse and loss of value. It would be as simple as walking into a bathroom and working out.

Bride price protects the sanctity of marriage, making it dear and symbolic. It also has a spiritual signifance -- where man and spirits are appeased. True there are marital problems even with bride price, but without it, it would be worse..

I don't know your religious tenets but mind you, marriage was never initiated by man. It's not the property of our ancestors.

But then, a woman who wants to give herself to her man without bridal requirements is free to do so if she will.
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 4:16pm On Aug 07, 2016
byvan03:
I don't see how giving out a list and a few farm animals = honour for any woman . I really do hate the concept of bride price, a tradition that neither had usefulness nor purpose undecided.
To each his own, but perhaps your tenet on marriage would shed more light to understanding your views on bride price.
Family › Re: 4 Categories Of Women & Their Views On Bride Price by postmann(op): 3:05pm On Aug 07, 2016
crackhaus:
Hmmm, this your list is inconclusive.

Our so-called Nigerian feminists still dey give list and collect brideprice before person fit marry dem na...why the confusion? undecided

Your Category 5 should be:

[size=18pt]THE POST-MODERN CONFUSIONIST[/size]
Thanks for the complement -- a very crucial and factual one! grin

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