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You recognize beauty. Beauty is simplicity, it is functional. Beauty is... Didi2d: |
Truth inspires choice. Keeping people in the dark and expecting them to make a genuine choice in that darkness is deception. But there's also the decency of merciful lies. Being truthful always doesn't always build the strongest of relationships https://www.nairaland.com/8718786/white-lies-relationships-decency-merciful
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Cc: Olaolar In response to your recent post where you said you're conflicted on the man you're becoming |
Cc: Olaolar In response to your recent post where you said you're conflicted on the man you're becoming |
Cc: Olaolar In response to your recent post where you said you're conflicted on the man you're becoming |
Cc: Olaolar In response to your recent post where you said you're conflicted on the man you're becoming |
You're welcome, CharisseAimee Truth truly inspires choice. Keeping people in the dark and expecting them to make a genuine choice in that darkness is deception. I'm glad you found this post early ![]() CharisseAimee: |
Also, religious institutions should be soundproof: Get your members to contribute money and get your god a hearing aid. Don't disturb my sleep and the quiet of the society with your mega phones and loudspeakers. If your message was that worth following, it should reflect in your life ( Economics teachers are heavily in debt, Agriculture teachers are complaining of hunger etc) and people who see that the word has become flesh, will flock around you seeking to make their life like your own through learning from you. That is true Envangelism, not the disturbance that is going on today. |
A country with more religious centres should, in theory, have more morally upright people. But look around. We have churches, mosques, prayer camps, vigils, crusades and religious programmes everywhere. Yet corruption, fraud, rape, murder, robbery and dishonesty remain part of everyday life. So what exactly are all these religious centres producing? My problem with religion isn't simply that people believe in God. It's what happens when belief becomes a way of escaping responsibility. A rapist says, “She seduced me.” A man who has made terrible financial and or moral decisions says, “My village people are responsible.” Someone cheats you, goes to church, asks God for forgiveness, and considers the matter settled. But what about the person he cheated? now ask yourself: Who would you rather do business with? Someone who takes accountability when they wrong you and tries to correct it? Or someone who believes that after duping you of your hard-earned money, they can simply ask God for forgiveness and move on? And you care to know something, the bitter truth is you cant always successfully deceive yourself, and that’s the beauty of cognitive dissonance. lol. You know the truth because deep down inside you, you were created from the truth If you steal my money, I still want my money. YOUR belief be damned Forgiveness should not become a substitute for accountability, neither should forgiveness be always mistaken for justice Then there is the issue of independent thinking. Once you teach people to accept something simply because a pastor, prophet, imam or religious book says it is God's word, you create people who may stop asking the most important question: How do you know? If God was literally sitting in the clouds, eagles and pigeons would probably make better pastors than humans. At least they'd be closer to Him. And no, I'm not saying every Christian is irrational or every Muslim is brainwashed. Far from it. Religious people can be intelligent, honest and compassionate. Atheists can also be foolish, dishonest and cruel. The real issue is whether a person can think for themselves and take responsibility for themselves. Because if your morality depends entirely on the fear of divine punishment, what happens when you stop believing in that punishment? And if your answer to every failure is “God will fix it,” what then do you actually fix yourself? Maybe the problem isn't that Nigeria has too many religious centres. Maybe the problem is that we have built too many places where people learn to pray about problems they should be taking responsibility for. Remember, your prayer points in Nigeria is what the Government of other countries are providing for their citizens. lol
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Complementary posts: 1) The Worship Of Memory And The True Purpose Of Human Intelligence https://www.nairaland.com/8711265/worship-memory-true-purpose-human 2) The Sign Of A Failed Government Is Job Creation: The Rise Of Unnecessary Jobs https://www.nairaland.com/8714728/sign-failed-government-job-creation |
Suffering is not hardwork https://www.nairaland.com/8603403/moral-continued-hardwork-morality-slaves
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Imagine a society of 100 people. Some are engineers, scientists, accountants, programmers and other specialists. They spend years learning how to create the things society depends on. The rest of us use what they create. I use Gemini/Chatgpt to edit my writing, but I have no desire to learn programming so I can build an AI. I love eating food, but I have no desire to become a cook. Lol And there is nothing wrong with that. The problem begins when specialization becomes a measure of human worth. The producer begins to think, “I'm doing all the work. Everyone else is just enjoying the results.” The user begins to think, “What am I contributing? Am I even useful?” One feels cheated. The other feels guilty. And that guilt can become dangerous. People begin desperately creating titles, professions, associations and institutions—not necessarily because society needs them, but because they need something to prove that they matter. Meanwhile, some specialists become so fused with their professions that their profession becomes their identity. But perhaps we've misunderstood the arrangement. You don't have to build the thing you use. The engineer doesn't need to be a writer. The writer doesn't need to be an engineer. The farmer doesn't need to manufacture the tractor. And the person who eats doesn't need to become a chef. Society works because we specialize—not because we all do everything. The real problem begins when we confuse being useful with being worthy. And as machines take over more of the jobs we've used to define ourselves by, perhaps we'll finally be forced to ask a more uncomfortable question: Who are you when your job title is taken away? Not your profession. Not your appearance. Not your money, status or achievements. Who are you when all the things you can lose are removed?
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Where's the scale you used for this claim? Where's the scale of love? Please show me For verily I tell you that it's possible to love 5 women. Notice that I didn't include equally? It's your ego looking for equality. Just love. Don't measure Jayjayconcept: |
True beauty is functional. A coat of many colors is nice, but why wear it under the scorching sun? Beauty serves a purpose. What's the essence of POP that people use for their house ceiling? Name your reasons, and find out how many house owners who installed POP know of these reasons? It's mostly because it's the trend, hence their reason for installation The price of Authenticity is attachment. To be original and true to yourself, you have to be willing to let go of something or someone or People who aren't comfortable with your originality. This is the reason why iPhone don't freak me. They're not functional in my life at this time, and I'm not going to be pressured to own it because others are using it. I'm typing this post with a tecno spark 7. When I get the money, I'll upgrade to a Xiaomi of fast charge, good storage and good battery. That's beauty to me. I believe a phone with such upgrade will come with a befitting camera. Nokia closed up shop because the masses are forgetting what true beauty is. Same with the songs and movies of old. If you're a sensitive person, you'll notice that you cannot compare the energy of early 2000s to now. The energy was arrrgghhh...alive. Humanity has embraced ugliness and it's depressing in my opinion. |
An extension: * Night-shift payment in companies should be different from that of Morning shift * How our stomach/body responds to food at night vs during the day. That's why growing up, I was used to hearing "the stomach closes at night dot dot dot" Probably what they meant was that there are food suitable for our bodies at night, and food suitable for our bodies in the morning |
1) All learning should begin from passion https://www.nairaland.com/8598916/chimamanda-adichie-case-choiceless-children#138129653 2) Some jobs are not necessary https://www.nairaland.com/8714728/sign-failed-government-job-creation 3) The value of humans should not be attached to their productivity alone. Humans are humans first, before workers |
The people are waking up. As I've come to understand, I don't necessarily need money. What I need are the things that money can buy https://www.nairaland.com/8626659/want-things-money-buy-not#138609280
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Hmmm. It is well, hopefully with the gift of time and understanding. Hardwork should lead to smarter work, and not continued hardwork. These smart work would make many unemployed... Now I ask, would you view that created unemployment as a bad thing or a sign of progress? |
This tomorrow. You can't change the world. You can change your world. Do your part and free your conscience. You tell yourself "I have done what I can" That's the reason why I am struggling to collect my PVC. Not sitting in the sidelines anymore. Those who stand for nothing, can fall for everything FriendsAndFans: |
There's are free energy patents that have been locked up under the Patent Secrecy Act. Why fight for oil when energy can be affordable and free for everyone? I really don't understand
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Learning to give and receive without guilt A few years ago I came across a man on Nairaland—one amongst the two I follow here, who changed how I think about all this. A real spiritualist — not one of those clout or trend prophets, but someone with actual insight and spiritual gifts. I read through his posts for a while before finally sending him a DM. He told me his fee, and honestly, it threw me off balance mentally. In my head, he was a servant of the Creator, so his guidance should be free. Why would a spiritual man charge for his sight? That question sat with me for a long time, uncomfortably, before I understood why. The answer came from looking at my own daily life. I walk into a barbershop, get a haircut and pay without a second thought. I take my clothes to a tailor to mend and pay them too. Why? Because they're human. They eat, they pay rent, they need tools for their trade. A spiritualist, or a writer, or anyone with a craft, isn't exempt from that. The gift might be spiritual, but the person carrying it still has bills. You give to receive, or receive to give. Even a "free" gift isn't really free — you pay for it in character, in how you carry yourself. Nobody hands out gifts to people acting entitled, or to people who aren't vulnerable enough for people to detect they need something. There's always some exchange happening, even when money isn't involved. Still, most of us flinch when it's time to actually give to someone what they've earned or to collect what we've earned. I watched the latter play out with my roommate while I was a corper in Ekiti. He helped a seemingly well to do landlady who also seems to be fond of him, find tenant for one of her property renting at 70,000 Naira, and she offered him a small commission — well under 5%. He said no, surprisingly enough, and by virtue of being close to him, i knew he really needed that money. When I asked why he turned it down, he just shrugged: he wanted to help "from his heart." lol To me, I view that as survival guilt — this weird shame that shows up the moment you accept something you actually need...feeling guilty for being a survivor. But hey, he could have his reasons I ran into the same wall when I wanted to set a price for my e-books. I'd put real effort into the writing and ISBN registration, and I genuinely thought the content mattered—still do. The public needed to read these e-books, but I felt guilty setting a price for these eBooks, even knowing fully well that I need money, especially when its from the output of my toil. I couldn't stand the idea of putting a price on my own thinking—one which I was able to be with from mostly downloading and accessing pirated materials/contents. lol It took some deliberate soul-searching to get past that and eventually price it at 2,000 Naira, with a separate Amazon listing. Setting that price wasn't greed — it was the moment I stopped believing I was unworthy. It was realizing that my past mistakes doesn't make me unworthy of giving love to myself, or receiving love from others either. I also stopped downloading pirated materials knowing how hurtful piracy is to creators income. Refusing to charge for your work isn't humility. It's a boundary problem. It's acting like your life costs nothing to maintain. That said, pricing shouldn't be rigid or predatory either. One shouldn't buy a good for #500 naira, only to sell it for #5000 naira, all because of "branding and other "sophisticated labelling". Such an action, regardless of how realistic and profitable it appears to be, could cause negative effects in the economy, that could come back to hurt the initiator. Charge a wealthy executive six figures if that's what the market bears, and adjust for someone with less. But discounting yourself into bankruptcy isn't generosity — it's self-sabotage. Give only what you can actually afford to lose. And if you're the one receiving, negotiate honestly so nobody feels used. Another subtle gear running underneath all this is how we've been taught to see the giver as somehow above the receiver — that the hand that gives sits higher than the hand that takes. That idea breeds a quiet kind of arrogance. People chase the role of giver because it feels morally superior, and avoid being the receiver because it feels small. But that hierarchy doesn't hold up. Giver and receiver are equals. Night isn't superior to morning. A man isn't superior to a woman, and the person handing over value isn't superior to the person receiving it. Action and reaction although opposite, are equal. Let go of needing to be the "better" one in an exchange—you're not a hero that eats praises instead of real food. Own your status as a survivor despite your labelled 'ugly' past, and be convinced in your heart of heart that you're charging for real value and not superficiality, and the guilt goes with it. I hope you found this reading insightful ![]() |
All these humiliation rituals...for what? Whoever does this to their fellow human, have done something soo terrible to themselves that they can't imagine. It's how arrogance works—the burden of equality. Most people can't live with being equal to another—that's where all there iPhone vs Android, tribal, religious, skin color, alpha male, better bust size wars come from, so they come up with this solution: Deny others their humanity by putting them down to sub-human levels, like these humiliation rituals, so that they can rise above and feel good temporarily You doubt me!? I dare you to try this exercise then As a man or woman, look at a stranger—really look at something you find really exciting about them, like a virtue or physical possession and not try to put them down so as to escape the feeling of wanting their possession for yourself A man tries to woo a lady he considers very fine, she rejects him, making him feel terrible about himself. To escape this false feeling (because he attached his sense of worth to getting a yes always from people), he tells himself— " Who does she even think she is? After all, I even heard she sleeps around, so why am I feeling bad that she rejected me" Or you see a nice shoe on your friend leg, and to escape that false feeling of not having so for yourself, you tell yourself "it might even be a fake version. Who knows" ![]() The Burden of Equality It's the ego phases: Vanity, Pride and arrogance. It's the work of humans on earth to overcome in order to properly give and receive love. It's also what those sages mean when they say "empty your mind" or "clear your head" or "meditate" I've written briefly about it here https://www.nairaland.com/8703930/ego-phases-ego-simplified |
PS: Here's the link to my substack. I find that platform article friendly, in terms of its presentation https://iroakazichristian.substack.com/ |
I'm interested. I'd be using my profile topics for my portfolio. The contents are mine—original, as you'll see from how controversial they seem. I use Gemini for editing, correcting blunders and punctuation errors, but if you want strict human editing and content writing, I'm still here for you. You can check my older posts here for proof of work regarding this too. Blazing99: |
The body is like a clothe...a container for we to inhabit and experience life on earth m imagine burying clothes, or throwing expensive burial parties for containers. The living should be celebrated while they're alive, not when they're dead Once again, burial party is a mockery of the dead. Anything you can do for a person while they're alive, do so and halt procrastination. You can't really do anything for the dead, except you're a seer or a medium Let the living celebrate the living, let the dead celebrate the dead ![]() |
I receive a call and I place the phone close to my ear... minutes later, I develop this headache. Like a very terrible ringing in my ears. I don't know if I'm the only one that experiences such. It's makes me feel bad that I have to hurt myself because I want to communicate. What exactly are the telecommunications industry holding out on the masses? |
The poorer you are, the closer you might actually be to real food. Tomato paste isn't tomatoe, Groundnut oil doesn't comes from crushed groundnut anymore, and vegetable oil doesn't come from crushed vegetables. Butter doesn't come from animal milk. The characteristic of water is clean. When you pour sand in that water, you'd call it dirty water, but is that still 'water' itself? What is dirty soap? If soap cleans dirt, and the dirt is later transferred to the soap, does it make it a 'dirty' 'soap'? How can it be 'dirty' and still be a 'soap' whose job it is to clean? Tomatoes should naturally begin to perish some days after when cut. If it doesn't, then it's no longer tomatoes. It's something else, an entirely new word not affiliated to any meaning, say[b] "Tofaro"[/b] or[b] "tododo"[/b] It should no longer be called tomatoes, because its consistuents has changed by virtue of including sugar, stabilisers and other ingredients which didn't come with tomatoes which mother earth gave to us. And you might begin to ask yourself — does it matter? What's the point? The food industry will tell you that preservatives were included to make tomatoes last longer for transport sake to places that don't have it or do have it but not for immediate use. That's a strong point if you ask me, but here's where the rubber meets the road: The new product formed when natural tomatoes is mixed with artificiality in the name of preservation should have a separate food class! Tomatoes was grouped as "Vitamins" because of its natural constituents, which were studied by the science of old—because it came from the ground as "tomatoes" But now that sugar and salt and soya has entered the equation and chemically altered "tomatoes", it has now become "Tododo" or "Tofaro"—remember that dirty water/ dirty soap analogy I presented earlier— so it should logically have its own separate food class and "nutrients given to the body per serving!" Because it'll be false for believe that your body processes it the same way as it does natural tomatoes. Consider milk. Science teaches that Cow milk gives protein, but that was the milk gotten from cows naturally! What does cow milk + pasteurization + artificial addition of vitamins and other minerals which supposedly were naturally infused with original cow milk in its fluid state but were pasteurized away, give to the human body? Don't tell the masses it's protein. Don't, because that's what should be gotten from cow milk, not from "dirty water", neither should you tell us that our body processes that new chemical creation the same way. For all we know, powdered milk could be carbohydrate or an unnamed class of food whose characteristics hasn't been properly studied and characterized enough by the various food organization whom the unsuspecting masses depend on for this needed awareness Don't confuse the masses that they derive Vitamins from consuming tomato paste, when they might as well be getting “gytrhredffd”. Who knows? “gytrhredffd” because it's a new word not associated with any known meaning This chemical confusion affects everyone! Both rich and poor, powerful and weak, because when you sit with your family drinking tea made from milk you think would supply your children/loved one the needed protein that'd make them have strong bones and teeth, don't be surprised when they're still looking lean with swollen tommy or even with flexible bones of low densities(butti), after all the attention, treatment, and supposedly “quality food” you've given them. When you've been told you keep adding weight but you're soo damn sure that you hired a dietician to calculate the nutrients and calories in your daily portion in a bid to know what just eat to start losing weight, make an attempt to check the ingredients of these artificial food you consume Either Modern science is not perfect to tell you how many calories are in a single portion of food with confusing ingredients or the tomatoes paste you're using thinking you're consuming vitamins was just gytrhredffd all along! You've miscalculated your dietary combinations all these while so you cannot get the results you expect to get thinking you were consuming real food. Let's not also forget the body builders/gym enthusiasts who also consume this confusion of the food industry. You thought that you've been eating quality protein and carbohydrates, and exercising as you should be, but you're still not looking like someone who has been exercising. Lol. I can relate, trust me. Your gym buddies who seem to have some visible results will only try to sell you the idea of a complementary whey protein, or if they're so concerned about you, you'll be offered some steroids to “bring out the best in you” lol So ask yourself: an artificial whey protein and steroids—which were supposedly deriived from natural sources—can bring out my muscles but not the supposed “natural food” that I work stressful jobs to raise and spend thousands of naira to buy? C'mon! Your food wasn't natural. Protein aren't proteins and carbohydrates aren't carbohydrates anymore. They're abnormalities being packaged to you. A quote from Tyler durden of Fight Club comes to mind, and I paraphrase: “You work jobs you hate to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't really like” Now I'm guessing you're a bit curious to know—Does Reverse Engineer eat foods made with tomatoes paste or packaged protein food? Yes, sparingly Why? Because I'm broke now—sometimes I eat my simple foods, other times, I'm given food that if I do reject, I'll starve. Hahahahaha But mind you, I don't delude myself thinking I'm consuming real tomatoes or proteins when i consume tomato paste or sachet milk that I run off to the gym and base the rest of my life on false foundations, expecting musculary results that'll never come. This institutional rot goes deeper, all in the name of entrepreneurship via capitalism which should be discouraged when the necessary goods have been created and given growth incentives. Capitalism, especially in vain and developed societies like Nigeria or the United States, is a bubble would should naturally be agreed upon by people wanting the best for themselves and others, to burst because its purpose has been achieved, and then we transition to Communism or socialism structured around love and care for self and others. We build a bridge to cross, not to get addicted/attached to building bridges that we forget to cross. Water now have sachet and plastic bottle companies—with sizeable yearly/quarterly budgets—one projected into a future where natural affordable drinking water MUST NEVER BE, lest it threatens their sales and bankruptcy of their company. We'd be correct to assume that companies like this are anomalies which thrives on the destruction and contamination of natural water sources for continued sales This artificiality in the food industry didn't just happen by chance. It was slowly and carefully introduced, like all destabilizing change that has ever happened in history, through the distortion of the true meaning of Balanced diet— a term which has been into existence long before I was born and still thrives because people haven't begun asking the real questions: Same way you can't eat bread and red oil “comfortably” (I know some people are weirdos here. Lol), is same way some classes of food should never be combined in the name of balanced diet Just because two elements exist in the same ecosystem (the Periodic Table or 'Classes of food') does not mean they are chemically compatible in the same test tube (your stomach) at the same time. That's why those who live long aren't found in cities but in remote/village areas. They were spare the artificiality of life by virtue of being poor. Yes. they lived long because they were too poor to afford packaged confusion. Sadly enough, it doesn't seem like the poor will be spared for long, now that packaged food like some “entrepreneured” spices and tomato paste are seemingly cheaper than the real deal. So while you can my dear readers, count your blessings, name them one by one. Credit: Gemini, my beautiful editor ![]()
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Hmm. Nice point about clay pots. But haven't you noticed that the speed or propagation of sound at night is like twice that of morning? I remember hearing about an actual scientific formula for this phenomenon. And come to think about it, body cream or related skin medication seems to work when one applies it at night before bed. You think humidity could be responsible for these two observations, amongst others In the post? RealityKings1: |
I've observed something about night. I'd warm a pot of food in the morning say by 8am, and I can leave that food in the pot till 5-6pm, and if I'm not dipping spoons inside, it'll still maintain its original taste and smell. But then comes night, and everything changes. From that 6-8pm going foward, it's like the rate of decomposition or decay is doubled! I wish there was a way I could actualize this experiment, you know. It's like the conventional hot and cold water experiment where a scientist dips his hand inside both water to measure the waters sensitivity difference, except that for morning and night, there's no way I can manufacture "night", neither is there a way I can get a food at "normal" Really, you must have observed similar too. Why do you brush your mouth when you wake in the morning after a night sleep? But you don't really see the need to brush your mouth when you wake from an afternoon/late afternoon sleep? I wish I could put this correctly without sounding weird. The bacterial decomposition at night is twice the speed at morning. A special kind of magic happens at night that conventional science doesn't really talk about. I'm from a science background and only found this out myself. Also, to further cement this "conspiracy", I've found out that if you want to make a fruit ripe fast, cover it with a black sack or deny it sunlight. See for yourself. If this night magic where bacterial decomposition on substance is heightened were to be true, then hospital patients with open wounds would face the highest susceptibility to bacterias at night than in the morning. This amongst many implications could be thought of by you, my dear readers. Hey there are also animals that are made for the night itself. Science calls them 'Nocturnal animals'. Like the night itself is like a separate world on its own, different from Morning This isn't all. It goes deep into spirituality too. There's a particular time in the night when one is likely to get susceptible to temptations or the lack thereof (clarity), especially when its what one has been pondering on about without being definitive. There's even a quote in the bible to complement this, and I paraphrase: "...and when men slept, the enemies came and sow weed". It had to happen only when men slept. That bible passage was making reference to Night! Now here's something to ponder on: If morning is powered by sun and we could create a solar panel to power out houses and factories. Now think, doesn't the moon power the night? What could we actually achieve with moonlight? What do you think? Does this conspiracy sound relatable to you? Let's discuss |
Someone once said that there are rules to food combining and balanced diet as we're taught is a lie. Even in the periodic table, not all elements can be combined, talkless of combining protein and carbohydrates in the name of balanced diet Make your research |
Imagine if guardian angels with their might and beauty could be comfortable being invisible to us. Like... Imagine that We claim for that top post to be devoted followers of our various religious authorities/founders, but we forget that it's in stages. Invisibility is a form of power to, if only we could conquer pride and arrogance Pride= Inability to be vulnerable to receive and give love, except to close family relatives etc. in here love is like a currency —if we're giving, we must receive it back, with interest if necessary. Lol Arrogance: the feeling of superiority over another with sayings like: the hand that give is untop while the hand that receives is below. Lol People give because it makes them feel superior, not because they genuinely care about improving the condition of others in need |
Financial scam, similar to increasing corpers alawee and minimum wage Reduce the standard of living, and you don't need to increase any salary. Back then when 1000# could cook a pot of egusi soup That's what I'm talking about |

