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1) RB Sparkman The Art of Manipulation

2) The Unseen Hand by Ralph Epperson (haven't finished but boy o boy)

3) In praise of Idleness By Bertrand Russell

4) The Spiritual Laws by Vincent Guillem

5) 1 × 1 is 2 by Terrence Howard Dashon

6) Reasonable Doubt and Turbulence by Whitney G (Erotic novel with a very distinct storyline that I had to reread again. Lolzz)

They're not limited to these. I've read posts by people here on nairaland.
Helpyourself, Ubunja, Benee1000, Zuby77
I think I have a post here for that. I'll update and send the link

LIVINGICONREBOR:
Give me a list of your top ten books(the ones you have read).

Mary wasn't a virgin. How could she have given birth to Jesus if she was a virgin?
And please don't tell me immaculate conception. I was a Catholic before renouncing that lie

MrPresident1:
Jesus Christ is not a proper noun, like the name of anybody. It is just a codeword for the man anointed of the LORD, the eternal King of Israel.

In mathematics, when you are given an unknown value x in an equation and have to solve for x, the value that fulfils all the parameters of the equation for the unknown x is the x we were looking for.

Jesus Christ is from the loins of David, born of the virgin Mary

The problem with all these churches you've mentioned and the others littered around is this: The Bible

It has undergone massive editing over decades past to be made reader friendly today.

One core truth that the Bible thoroughly deviates from is the real reason Jesus was sent to earth—it definitely wasn't to die for anyone's sin, if not, he would have just committed suicide and not wait to be murdered. Oops.

What??

Calculus Of Christianity Equals God won't Help You Commit Suicide
https://www.nairaland.com/8561954/calculus-christianity-equals-god-wont

Yes.
The below is a copy and paste of a reply I gave earlier

The word becomes flesh when you practice what you preach

The Word= what you claim to stand for — I can't take a bribe, I can't cheat on my partner, I can't overlook evil...

Became Flesh= You, after life has tested you on the principle you claim to be all about.

In a world where true leadership is embodied, conventional envangelism would be eradicated
Because if people have seen that you've practiced what you preached soo much that it gives you results that they want in this life too, then they will come and look for you, NOT YOU GOING TO LOOK FOR THEM TO DISTURB with a message not necessarily reflecting in your life

Martin Luther King Jr was word became flesh. He died for what he believed in. He could have ran away.
Gandhi was word became flesh too.
Jesus was word became flesh.
Charlie Kirk also...
Jesus too

And If you dig further, you'll find that religious institutions should made soundproof. New churches should be soundproof else no go ahead to operate. Existing churches should be given 6months to meet criteria or face closure. Stope disturbing the neighborhood of mixed religions and belief with noises

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2) The Error Of Conventional Envangelism
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ikorodureporta:
I see the gospel as a way of life. Christ taught many positive things.
Before Christ were many on this earth.
He was after the people going astray...

For me, being a Christian is not all that matters.
What matters most is having that positive attitude Christ tried projecting....

That's why I cannot see someone and start preaching on the basis of converting the person to Christianity.... doesn't make sense to me.

Lol
Other religions should eat dust then.
hahahahaha
People like you travel abroad and complain of racism, forgetting that the same characteristics you just exhibited can be found in most racists.

orisa37:
CHRISTIANS ARE THE RIGHTEOUS, THEY ARE TRAINEES, STUDENTS, GRADUATES AND PROFESSORS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
GOD BLESS THEM ALL.IJN AMEN .

Now this post doesn't encourage us to start judging or labeling anyone. It's just a call to reminder to be careful. We wear a sweater for the cold. When we're in a hot environment, what's the need for the sweater again?

But first, you don't just want to pull off your sweater when you don't know or haven't grown yourself to be able to tell if an environment is hot or still cold.

Remember, people aren't walking with their life history hovering over their forehead for our human eyes to see.

This concept of Time Saturation and Unsaturation lead to 2 unique terminologies like Time Distortion and Time Consolidation.

Time Distortion: A period in an Unsaturated time container where events need to speed up to accommodate the closing time restriction. For example, a football match at 90 minutes will have you see players performing their very best 10-15 minutes to the closing bell...because that's like die-minute

Time Consolidation: ... To update later

What Saturation means.

Lol. This might seem funny to you because it isn't taught in school or in books. This is like mad science...I just figured it out. Hahahahaha

Time, as I've said, is a container for events to happen. But there's so much that one can do or can happen in that container.
This brings us to the term Time Saturation a situation where time has held the maximum number of events that it can hold.

Flip this and you'll get 'Unsaturated Time'

I'll digress a little...

Time, I believe, is not fully responsible for making fruits ripe.

Human babies can be engineered to spend 3 months or less in their mother's womb.
This is the logic behind GMO food: there's when to submit to time and when not to

https://www.nairaland.com/8572877/illusion-time-when-submit-time

Reality will work the way reality has been coded to work. It's not for you to argue about why it takes less effort for a river to flow downhill as opposed to uphill; it's for you to position your boat downhill, in the direction of the river.

Some, when travelling, instead of checking if their vehicle is in good condition, will tell themselves "I've pasted a chosen sticker on my bus, so I'll be safe"

Some will try to use hard-coded logic in interpretation and communication while wooing girls, and they complain that girls are difficult to understand.
Reality cannot work the way we want it to. It'll work the way it is. Lear how reality works.

If reality works the way I want it to, and it works the way you want it to, and it also works the way your sister or brother wants it to, then what will reality be? Malleable to people's feelings or wants? You think you'd want to be in that kind of world because you'd be able to get what you want, untill you find out that someone wants reality to make all human except them extinct.

I'll update later. I tried posting two pictures twice but was banned

Lol
You must be a BDSM practicing Christian.
Pleasure to meet you

MrPresident1:
You will never be found. It is YOUR duty to crawl to ME on you knees!

I showed you the Bible and this is your riposte? do...
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Who's guilty and who's innocent?
How would you even know the answer to that?
It's not like people are walking around with a life history hovering over their forehead that displays all their actions in this life and motivations for carrying out those action. Wouldn't that be so awesome?
Knowing what a person is all about on first meet?
You'll be able to know if someone is worth your time or not.
If someone should be stayed away from and if they should be brought close.
We'll feel protected because we'll be in THE KNOW.

But that's all fantasy. Wake up!

Over the last few weeks, I've had experiences that shaped me to become the person who writes this post.
It has always been in my mind but for some reasons, I skipped. Now it's time.

Humans are humans—learning, improving, experiencing. Some have matured enough in love to outgrow their childish tendencies —both physically and non-physically, while others are stuck at childhood, especially non-physically. YOU CANNOT KNOW WHO IS WHO, or which is which, so don't you think it'd be foolish to be a doormat for everyone all in the name of love—that you really don't even know what it's fully about yet.
This is why you have to be the ruthless watchman of your life.
I know someone who's close to me that have told me that he has raw sex with girls that have fine skin—because of course, fine skin girls cannot have infection—if not their skin won't be fine. Please don't laugh now. This person is so close to me that the way I'll distance myself from him when he finally contacts the STI, he'll be so shocked—especially when that STI is severe. A dog with lice infestation is not a dig I'll cuddle. I'll love it, but from afar. There can be no foolish lover, long-term.

You'll meet ungrateful people that even if you give them your last card—foolishly of course, they will still nag that you're not doing enough for them. Then you'll see yourself believing their judgement of you and start feeling sad. Why?!
Don't you have things in your life that you want to do with your money? Are you here to wake ungrateful people up?! Can
You want to empty a gallon inside a teacup? Why don't you pour a teacup size liquid inside the teacup so you don't get hurt or attached to your giving?

I know people that are terrible at spending cash—and these are elderly people. They'll spend it on the most ridiculous of things like prayer oil, door stickers, rosary and what not. I even know someone who would rather send his money to the village to pay for a burial levy and starve in Lagos while they're burying a dead lifeless corpse in the village—probably because he's scared of what people will think if he doesn't. I just laugh. I've told the person that burial party is a mockery of the dead—do whatever you can when someone is alive. When they're dead, simply put them in the ground and go your way. Don't use guilt for being absent in their life as a driver for your spending on their burial. Then they'll counteract with "it's the tradition of our people..."
Whenever this person asks me for money, most times, I tell him that he's rich but he doesn't realize yet…that he should cash out and spend on himself for once.

In Lagos, you're pressing your phone in a bus in traffic. You don't value that phone.
"But I've not stolen anyone's phone in my life...why would they steal my own?" hahahahaha

Do you see it now?! In a world where evil continually grows and is being celebrated, your goodness will not spare you from these evil people! If you like, have a pillow heart or puppy face and be doing smeh-smeh

Have your boundaries, while respecting other boundaries. Reject silly biblical notions like turning the other cheek and all that nonsense, especially when you don't even understand what it means. If angels were turning the other cheek anytime a demonic entity attack them, don't you think the angels would be extinct?! Know when to turn the other cheek and when not to—or is it not when you're alive that you can turn the other cheek? If you're dead because of your ignorance, who'll turn the other cheek? Your corpse??
Don't become a doormat for anyone in your life, even your parents. You can be respectful how you go about this.

There is so much experience I wish I could insert into this post, but know this:
because you didn't bite the lion first, doesn't mean the lion won't bite you. Because you kept yourself a virgin doesn't mean you'll get a loyal and loving partner while you're not watchful.
Because you're calm and respectful doesn't mean you'll always meet calm and respectful people—this is reality. This world is not filled with calm and respectful people. Just look around you.

Because you're a church goer doesn't mean you won't get kidnapped or die in the most ghastly of accidents. Even a whole God son was murdered here on earth because he was spoiling church business. They even edited the Bible to say he came to die for our sins, just because he didn't defend himself—a reason that was functional to his journey here on earth—when instead he was murdered.
A whole God son…who then are you to be spared from evil people?

Because it was prophesied for you to live long, doesn't mean you'll cross the express blind and not get hit by a trailer or a danfo. You dare test God?
I know someone that once violently argue that the money that God gives cannot finish even if he spends it anyhow. Lol. We learn everyday.

Go to NYSC orientation camp. Those who have served know this. Go to the toilets of the “men and women” corpers—the leaders of tomorrow…those fine girls you admire...you see them and you feel "awnnnnn…cuties"
Go to the ladies toilet and you'll find that it's blocked because some threw their pads and tampons inside. This inconvenience was caused by some of those you admire. How would you know which of the ladies did it? How would you know how considerate or responsible a lady is when you're busy with nonsense talks and activities during the talking stage? When you choose to be blind because “she's fine and I want fine babies…”
Some use toilet and they don't flush—not because there wasn't water, but because fetching water is stressful. Lol. Some will use the bucket of water that you fetched for your use and will drop your bucket in one obscure location after…you'll just be wandering ‘are these people still humans?’

Some girls have purposely sacrificed their womb so they collect energy from whoever they sleep with, and you're here thinking you're protected when you double the condom and use anointing oil as lubricant. Lol. Soon you'll be asking why life is unfair when you miss series of job opportunities.
Even science is soooo not advanced at this point to detect new, advanced or evolved infections, that you'd be deluded thinking that a simple STI test is enough, because you love raw sex. Same science that treats the absence of sickness as good health.
“you don't have Malaria or high blood pressure, so you're not sick” lol.

If you snooze, you lose. If you're constrained in ways to protect yourself all because of a lifeless religion or because of dead elders or scientists or corrupted society, then you'll lose. A foolish death to me is like suicide. You killed yourself.

Read the complementary posts or you might never understand where I'm coming from.

I paid for a certification course during my NYSC days. While preparing for my exams—as it should be, I messaged the facilitator when and how the exams is going to be. He said nothing concrete. I just overlooked it and thought they'd forward the date of the exams to us later.

Only for me to find out that I had a project management professional certificate in my name that I didn't write any exams for. It was presented on the day of our POP

I dare not use it for any job application, because I know it is impersonation... something I can't defend—and I suspect the academy—ARPTechnology, in partnership with the esteemed University of Ibadan, have a track record of issuing certificates without candidates writing qualifying examinations

I wasted 20k as a corper...all for nothing

You're lost. It's YOUR job to let go of your arrogance and ignorance and find your way. Hopefully my posts here on nairaland helps

MrPresident1:
This is foolish new age nonsense.

Jesus is the personification of the word. the Word became flesh. There is no teaching under the sun or in the entire universe that is greater that Jesus' teachings.

He is the blessed and only Potentate. The only Wisdom in the universe

The teachings are not from him.
What do you mean by "His teachings"?

By believing that Jesus is HIS teachings, you miss out on the fact that the teachings cannot come from someone else. You miss the wisdom from other teachers that aren't Jesus. All because of what? Religious superiority?

'THE word' became flesh, not 'HIS WORD!'

You too can become 'the word made flesh' by walking your talk. When you say(word) and do(flesh).
It is not limited to one man

MrPresident1:
Jesus is his teachings. He is the personification of the Word and Law and Prophets, and Truth

Jesus is dead. Murdered by people like you and I, with the scriptures edited to show otherwise. To follow Christ in death, you know the actual path to take, but would Jesus want that for you? Would you even want that for yourself?

The flesh being temporary, fades away with time. For one to truly become immortal, they have to transcend flesh and become something that lives forever: an idea—and this was what Jesus became when he was presented a choice by the powers that be who were angry that his teachings was making people stop coming to physical buildings (churches) and causing the offering boxes to become empty: to renounce his teachings publicly or to be killed. A tamed wolf is way better than a dead one.

What choice did you think the son of God choosed? It's simple if you really think about it.
If someone pointed a gun to your head and give you a choice: don't breathe or you'll be shot. Which would you choose?
Is that even a choice at all?

Learn to understand the distinction between following Jesus and following his teachings. It's on you to find that how to. A pointer I'll give is that you'll do so by understanding that another person can come and still teach same teachings, but in another body that isn't Jesus. That's where Mohammed, Krishnamurti, Martin Luther king Jnr, comes in. The message is the key. You get it not by following men who disguise themselves as the path to Jesus or in fancy buildings. We were made in truth, so we can recognize truth, especially when we shut off that part of us that loves being lied to.

You called Jesus 'the son of God' because the Bible recorded his miracles. But, ask yourself, who was he before then?!
The son of a carpenter. What does he even know?

If Jesus passes by you, oh you followers of Christ, would you even recognize him?
So if not for the miracles he did, you'd have labelled him a scam?
So because Mohammed and other teachers didn't perform miracles like Jesus, this should mean they're fake, correct?

You begin to see how ridiculous it is to follow the messenger and not the message.

Little wonder why Jesus wasn't born as the son of a rich man. Because people so consumed in materialism would have immediately followed the messenger and the messenger would mostly capture people engrossed in materialism.
A word is enough
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To complement what I said about Jesus murder and not suicide.
Jesus is dead—and no, he didn't come to earth to die for your sins—if not he could have killed himself—committed suicide.
He was murdered for preaching truth that'll take people from the church. Truth which is needed now but the current heavily edited Bible doesn't have.
Truth such as what this post contains

Calculus Of Christianity Equals God won't Help You Commit Suicide
https://www.nairaland.com/8561954/calculus-christianity-equals-god-wont

Like...don't you people sit and think at all. You're making decisions that affects millions, yet you're acting like baby economists

You need to give loans so you can rope the government with interest rates. Those in the government allows this cannot go scor free.

Blood of Jesus washing away sins or stoning the devil cannot, will not and has not saved anyone.

There's a way that seems right to us, but the end is destruction. What makes you think an author need your help, that you'd go to offer it in the most detrimental of ways to the author?

Sharing a physical book you bought with others is not piracy. Digitalizing said book and making it available to readers is piracy. I've said it before: flexibility is key. There's a middle ground and people often take advantage of it, like now—whats being insinuated

Even in copyright claims, there are fair use. For videos or movies, you can take a portion of that video that doesn't represent the core message of that video and use it for educational purposes—be it even for criticism. Imagine taking a 2hrs movie that a movie company invest millions of dollars only to release a spoiler of 2 minutes, because you want to make content or 'help the movie company make their movie popular'
Lolz
Either you haven't suffered the effects of piracy before or haven't been sued properly

Be explicit in your dealings. Don't threaten people in the copyright section of your book/ebook and be expecting them to help you share your ebook. Tell the readers what you expect and how they can use your ebook

EXPRESSSMAN:
Sharing a book you bought with others is not piracy. It is even helping the author to be popular. Libraries lend books out to readers. Piracy is reproducing and selling the book to others.

It's long, but the white spaces —the gaps, made it look longer
Every author needs to know about white spaces and its negative effects on their readers attention

SEGLIZ:
this case is long o, who read the thing to conclusions.

How does your mind communicate that something feels off or needs to be done?
​One way is through your emotions—they act as internal signals.

Envy, for instance, sometimes reveals a desire for a life you feel restricted from living, especially when you see others living that very life. Yet you must carefully examine what kind of life you are reaching for, ensuring your desires lead toward noble growth rather than destructive paths.

​Sadness, on the other hand, amongst other reasons, echoes a deeper internal friction: the heavy weight of breaking a genuine commitment to your highest values—doing something your conscience knows you shouldn't do, or failing to do what you know you ought to.

What's your sadness trying to tell you?

It's stealing. This who do it do it to satisfy the greed and arrogance in them
Greed in the sense of basking in their actions (sharing free PDF) at the expense of another (the authors) and arrogance in the sense that they feel that by being of help to others even via stealing, their actions are justified. They feel in a corner of their mind that by being an helper to the assumed 'needy', they're morally superior, but what they don't understand is

i) that there are options available, and
ii) what is meant for someone, will come to that person, as long as the person is open and on the lookout for it. The path will show itself when you start walking it. If not, and you know how the journey will end, what's the fun in the experiencing?

iii)Also, nothing is free in a sense. If you want something, you have to get it. If not, how can you tell that you're worth it? Oxygen is free, but only to those who don't block their nose. Paying for what you want registers your seriousness and gives the paid good value to you. Most of the pirated e-books then had in my phone, I rarely found the time to even read them. Lol

iv) Stealing isn't only when you take what doesn't belong to you. It also occurs when you give what isn't yours to give.

I was once active in it—free ebooks, movies, songs....name it. I knew the pirated sites to download them—even song albums.lol. But I realized how an author feels about piracy after I became an author. That, amongst other experiences, sensitized me to change.

There are alternatives. Piracy is not a be-all ,end-all—coming from someone who had enjoyed pirated contents all his life. For movies, even youtube has copyright free movies that you can watch, but they are mostly old or non-blockbusters.
For songs, you can watch songs videos on YouTube.
You came to this world without it, and you'll go without it. It's on YouTube. Switch in your data, watch, enjoy and go. When next you want to listen or watch, switch in your data...simple.

For ebooks, there are copyright free ebooks. Most authors don't renew their copyright, but these books are mostly old books—but with effective contents.

Please you have to learn to be flexible. You know the truth to become good liars. It's not always black and white. There's a middle ground, but most people tend to take advantage of this middle ground
https://www.nairaland.com/8758997/flexibility-key-know-truth-good#140806867

Here's a Zen story that I so much love on flexibility

A senior monk and a junior monk were traveling together. At one point, they came to a river with a strong current. As the monks were preparing to cross the river, they saw a very young and beautiful woman also attempting to cross. The young woman asked if they could help her cross to the other side.
The two monks glanced at one another because they had taken vows not to touch a woman. Then, without a word, the older monk picked up the woman, carried her across the river, placed her gently on the other side, and carried on his journey. The younger monk couldn’t believe what had just happened.

After rejoining his companion, he was speechless, and an hour passed without a word between them. Two more hours passed, then three, finally the younger monk could contain himself any longer, and blurted out, “As monks, we are not permitted a woman, how could you then carry that woman on your shoulders?”

The older monk looked at him and replied, “Brother, I set her down on the other side of the river. Why are you still carrying her?”

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3) I Want The Things Money Can Buy, Not Necessarily The Money Itself
https://www.nairaland.com/8626659/want-things-money-buy-not

Fine. Someone spotted an idea and worked to create a game that makes her money while keeping people engaged. There’s no strict right or wrong to the actions of the game creator—there’s a middle ground.
If the idea was presented to me and I had the power to kickstart it, I might click go trippppple times. Lolzz

But that’s beside the point.
This post is to draw your attention to the virality of the game. What really happened here? A game that simulates reality has people living in reality running into it? lolzzz.. Something feels...weird.

In a world where people are now being identified by how productive they are to companies, and not who they really are—their insecurities, struggles, fears, dreams—games like this are going to go viral. It speaks to the fact that we’ve lost something fundamental and aren’t strategically working to regain it.

Why do people stuck in reality run to games that simulate the exact same reality they’re living? I can think of 3 reasons

1. The Collapse of Natural Human Connection
When was the last time you walked up to someone—a stranger—and complimented them about something you found genuinely exciting about them?
When was the last time you used your boyish pick-up lines on a stranger girl you admired?
To the ladies: when was the last time you complimented the wooing you’ve received all your life by wooing a guy yourself—just to live in the experience of that moment? When was the last time you felt tense wooing a stranger?
I have spoken to a couple of beautiful girls who reply with something along the lines of " Guys are supposed to approach us," and guys replying with "O boy, I’m chasing money. Women will come later..." lolzzzzz.
We’re losing that natural instinct to build connection—especially with the opposite sex—not for sex, but for the pure sake of human interaction. So when genuine human connection has been mentally ticked off the options, a void is create and artificial connections like playing games, addictions easily tried to fill it.

2. The Time Trap and the Dilemma of Automation

Now, I understand the immediate counter-argument: it takes time to actually be out there, to woo or be wooed. But where is the time?
With the rise of machinery, automation, and artificial intelligence, AREN’T work hours supposed to be reduced? Shouldn’t unemployment or reduced labor be celebrated in society as AI takes over unnecessary tasks?
Machines take over jobs and improves output, prices drop, and you can afford things for yourself and your loved ones, even if you’re working a job you love but doesn’t pay as much.
The rise of automation should stimulate society to structure itself around 4-hour workdays Monday through Friday, or 8-hour workdays Monday through Thursday.
Instead, tech is doing the opposite of liberation to us.

3. The Pursuit of Illusions Over Purpose
How can a healthier reality be achieved when the people who could build it are either creating games that serve no functional purpose, or are playing them—so distracted by the illusion that they forget that once the screen turns off, they are right back to the very life they thought they were escaping?
We, at whatever level we occupy in society, are supposed to look around and ask ourselves: "What’s my place here?" "What problem do I have the skills or passion to solve?"
Instead, everyone is chasing... chasing what?

Again: what Shalom Rayhamen did with Lagos Life sits in the middle. She spotted a compelling idea, built a product that resonated with millions, made money, and will use that money to take care of her own life. But should that be all?
Is this how deep we are that we can reach into and put into the world that we and our loved ones live in?

Lagos Life isn’t just a game to pass the time—it is a mirror reflecting a society that has traded real living, free time, and genuine connection for... what, exactly?

Hi. This post has been moved to another section. Here's a link to read https://www.nairaland.com/8764043/lagos-life-simulating-life-dont#140884277

2) Messiah

Manu of us weren't alive the time when God messengers like Jesus or Mohammed or Buddha were on earth. We might have had a physical encounter, probably in our past lives, but the mercy of reincarnation for most of us, wiped out memories away to offer us a blank slate to grow without the attachment to the past.

Those days of old, we were told that mankind was primitive, using stick and stones to navigate life—a blatant lie at that. Lol. Ancient civilization were soooooooo advanced that the greatest of man's invention today, dwarfs what our forefathers had then. The effects of wars make both parties engaged lose great value

Now imagine you have a chance to see how it'll be like if one of God's messengers were to come to earth? How would he look like, how would he talk, how would he eat? Lol
Would he have wings at his back?
How does he handle so much power at his neck and call without the ego of arrogance getting in his way?
How would he exude humility?

Well, ladies and gentlemen, there is one movie that perfectly captures your curiosity and answers them gracefully.
I present to you, Netflix's series,Messiah

Hopefully, you'll come to understand the reason why Jesus, like Martin Luther king Jnr, Charlie Kirk, Gandhi, etc had to be killed. You'll come to understand why the Bible, Quran had to be edited by the religious leaders that you look up to
https://www.nairaland.com/8561954/calculus-christianity-equals-god-wont

Excerpt from the series

Look around you. What do you see? Is your world good? Is it evil?"
"Ask yourself: who is guilty? Who is innocent? What are you? Now look at your neighbor. Look at your neighbor. Be brave enough to see yourself... your own reflection cast back at you. Each reflected in each."
"Look where you stand. In a shiny city on a hill. In the land of the free and brave, standing for liberty and justice. How true do those words ring for you? When did you bring liberty? Where did you cause justice?"
"I stand at the gate of a nation...a nation where power is not invited. I stand at the gate, and I look out upon you, and you look back to me. But all I can do is reflect what I see."
"If you have come to receive, you will go away poorer. If you have come here to understand, you will leave here lost."
"For those who have understood, for those who have received, it is time."
"Returning to your scripture will not save you. Bending to your knees will not please anyone."
"That time has passed. This time is now."
"You are the judged. You are the chosen. I'm here to break the mirror so you shall see on what side you stand. What you see...will be your choosing."

It's the weekend. Happy weekends. Lol

Time...time...it's soooooooo not available as we think.
Previously, the factory I work in run on a 12 hours shift. I thought I would die of exhaustion—that time wasn't enough to spend on myself. That in a full 24hrs, I'd spend 12 hrs working! Like?

Now, we're on 8hrs shift. I'm still complaining…I feel exhausted right now…I completed my 8hr shift yesterday. Time is not enough. It'll go like zooooommmmm. You'll think you have it, and procrastinate…coulda, shoulda, woulda…hmm.

Time…the present—this present. It's a gift. But if I gift you a designer and you turn it to a rag, you've just told me that you may not like the designers I gave.

Now imagine using the time that you've realize you don't have enough off, to watch movies you'd regret halfway into. Hahahahaha. It hurts, really, and that's the core reason that drove me to create this post.

We continue.