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1) Most are realizing the truth.

Learning should be centered around craft. Most children are studying what their parents force upon them, and not what they have the passion to study.

It gets depressing as a teacher trying to force these needless knowledge upon children. A hairdresser has no business studying geography.

https://www.nairaland.com/8598916/chimamanda-adichie-case-choiceless-children

Hope the content of the link help you understand my point


2) Suffering isn't hardwork.

Suffering as a teacher by standing to teach or manually photocopying notes on the board from textbooks doesn't make you a hardworking teacher.

We work hard to create smart work. Hardwork isn't an end. It's a means to an end. We build a bridge to cross. Image we so get attached to building a bridge that we forget to cross.

The morality of continued hardwork is the Morality of Slaves

https://www.nairaland.com/8603403/moral-continued-hardwork-morality-slaves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN0gaXS8dQE?si=eNRjwb7MqexL_FEn



"Well everybody's running, but you don't know where
Time is running thin
Everybody's looking for somebody to love
But we're scared to let 'em in"

As I've understood, most people are scared to be vulnerable to people whom they want love from, but yet they claim to want to be loved by these people whom they've shut themselves from
Which leads us to the twist of proud people

They believe they're alone/ not worthy of being in the company of people, so they take actions that makes them feel alone, which further cements their thinking that they really are alone

Here's my prompt to Google's Gemini and the reply I got

MY PROMPT: "The twist of proud people: They believe they're alone, so they take actions that makes them.feel.alone, which further cements their thinking that they really are alone "
Please help me understand this statement with practical everyday examples and scenarios

GEMINI:

That statement describes a self-fulfilling prophecy rooted in a specific type of pride—the kind that equates "independence" with "superiority" or "invulnerability."

In short: Pride creates a barrier. Because the person is too proud to admit they need others, they push people away. When they look around and see no one there, they don't blame their behavior; they blame the world for "not being there for them."

Here is a breakdown of how this cycle plays out in everyday life:

The "I’ll Do It Myself" Colleague
This is the classic workplace scenario. A person feels they are the only one capable of doing a job "the right way."

The Belief: "No one here is as competent as I am. I’m carrying this whole team on my back."

The Action: They refuse to delegate, stop sharing information, and act martyr-like when they stay late. They might even snap at coworkers who offer to help, seeing the offer as an insult to their capability.

The Outcome: Coworkers eventually stop offering help to avoid getting their heads bitten off.

The Twist: The proud person sits alone at their desk at 8:00 PM, thinking, "See? I knew it. No one cares about this project but me. I really am alone in this."


2) The "Emotional Vault" in Relationships

This happens when someone views vulnerability as a weakness. To them, being "proud" means never showing a crack in the armor.

The Belief: "I don't need anyone's pity. I can handle my own problems."

The Action: When they are going through a hard time (a loss, stress, or sadness), they go silent. They pull away from their partner or friends because they don't want to "seem weak."

The Outcome: Friends feel shut out and eventually stop checking in to give the person "space."

The Twist: The proud person feels lonely during their crisis and thinks, "Nobody even called to see how I'm doing. I guess I really can only count on myself."


3) The "High Standards" Socialite

Sometimes pride manifests as a belief that no one is "on your level" intellectually or socially.

The Belief: "Most people are superficial/boring. I'm waiting for 'real' people to connect with."

The Action: They attend a party or a gathering but remain aloof. They don't ask others questions, they judge small talk, and they wait for someone to "prove" they are worth talking to.

The Outcome: People perceive them as cold or stuck-up and gravitate toward friendlier, more open guests.

The Twist: The person leaves the party early, sighing, "There was no one there worth talking to. It’s so hard being the only deep person in a shallow world."

Here's a excerpt from Vincent Guillem Free PDF, The spiritual Laws (available online for free download)

An understanding that we have to not only receive love to be happy, but also to give love too

"Yes. Imagine that we gather all humanity together in a gigantic square to share all the love that exists in the world. First we ask: “Who wants to receive love?” We will see that one hundred percent of the people raise their hand insistently saying: “Me, me. Me first. I am the one who needs it most”. But if we now ask: “Who is willing to give their love?”, we will see how quickly the square becomes empty and only a few of those who were there remain to raise their hand.

What will be left to share? Just the love that a few give. Well this is what happens in your humanity, only the love of a few sustains the world, because the majority is only willing to receive, and not to receive love, but principally to satisfy their egoism.

We wait, like passive subjects, for love to come from outside. For this love from the outside to reach us by the art of magic, and make us happy, without our having to do anything, as if it were a drug. But as I say, even though we receive everything that we need, if we remain passive, if we have not fought to conquer our egoism, those beings that loves us will arrive to give us everything that they have inside them and we will say “It is not sufficient, I am still not happy. I still need to be given more”. And we will demand more and more because it will never be sufficient to fill our empty interior. And we will never appreciate what has been given to us, but rather we will only see what we have not yet received.

Any small obstacle in life will be a motive for complaint. If it dawns cloudy we will complain because it is cold, if it dawns sunny we will complain because it is hot. And all of this because we seek incorrectly. That emptiness that we feel can only be filled with the love that we ourselves are capable of generating, in an active way, for ourselves and for others. Therefore to be happy, it is just as necessary to give love as to receive it"

The ability to deactivate account that isn't active for 6 months or less. This gives an actual number to nairalanders present.

A lot of process can be automated. But jobs have to be created because people believe suffering equals hardwork. This is just one reason. Find out more in the link below

https://www.nairaland.com/8603403/moral-continued-hardwork-morality-slaves

TheVictorOye:
The very next day, I returned and this time around, I got the chance to process my application for regularization and correction of names. The network issue was something else, the madam attending to me was complaining and threatening to leave if the network will not be stable. I was scared because , I had still waited that day. I had returned from WAEC office because my original WAEC result was requested. I had two sittings and I went to obtain my GCE at the office. I was told to begin application and wait for a whole year . Thankfully I had already obtained my other certificate at the secondary school I attended. I eventually finished at JAMB office the next day and I thought my problem was over.

I was given two idemnity forms to be approved and signed by my institution before JAMB could continue the process. One form for the regularization and the other for correction of names. I headed to the academic office at Ahmadu Bello University, where I finished. I faced no small delay just to submit these two forms. They were busy with screening new students and had no time for any other business, I kept on going there every day following them bumper to bumper, they would promise me tomorrow only to tell me tomorrow to come next week, I spent three days there. The second day, I got the chance to submit my regularization idemnity form. I was told I would need my academic file to apply for correction of names. I was directed to a staff there who promised to see me by 1:00pm the next day, when I went , he said he doesn't have time to look for my files, I should come back next week, and that was it! I was frustrated but never gave up, I met his colleagues, and I was directed to where I can go find my file, he told me that they might not attend to me as they are very busy, truly they were busy and I went helter skelter, it was stressful. I was lead to a room where I searched for my file myself and I found it!
After submitting all my applications to the academic office, I was told that was all that I should check my email and JAMB portal for feedback. I was happy thinking that was all.

Today, over 1 week later, since, I did not receive any update, I called the academic office only to be told that my forms are still with them because the registra is busy, everything will be done latest 3 weeks if the registra is less busy.


Is this how things happen elsewhere? This is just my thought. I really don't understand why all these processes have to be slow, frustrating and stressful. Is it because we are in Nigeria?

If you see a quote, or a way of life written by a Muslim or Buddhist that feels spiritually enlightening and thought provoking, would you not pay herd to it, all because it's "not in the scriptures"

You'd compare it to the scriptures first to see if it correlates?

If your 'eyes' will take you from the kingdom of heaven, cut it off

SeriouslySense:
It would have be nice to add scriptures that talks about the unforgiving servant. Like the parable of the unforgiving servant, who was forgiven his debt but wouldn't forgive the debt of a borrower.

Thank you Jesus for forgiving me my sins and i forgive those who sin against me. Thank you God for what you did on the cross of calvary, you did it all, and you loved us first and purchased us with your precious holy blood. Now i am full of gratitude and forgive all who sin against me.

Purpose is what we choose, not what society, our parents, or peer group choose for us

Please take time to read through. I hope this helps you.

https://www.nairaland.com/8591634/what-wanted-ask-it-shall

https://www.nairaland.com/8570219/surprising-importance-balance-creation

NwaliE01:
Awesome piece. I think I was in the middle of this story.
Having left Nigeria in 2022 to study abroad. I primary gaol was to achieve a perfect GP in my academic, lead and top my department, break records, etc. I missed a good opportunity to make amazing friends. Now, I deeply feel lonely and wished I learned my lessons on time. I am no more in the school and life has pushed me to a corner where I have accepted that life is beyond making money and academic qualifications.
There's this emptiness people abroad feel in the closest when all the voices have gone silence.
I really wish I knew better.

Most are not ready to learn.
You're just here to compare notes to what you've already known. How do you call that learning?

You mistake forgiveness for justice. What you sow, you'll reap.

Nothing happened for you on the Cross of calvary. Jesus was murdered. if he came to die for your sins, he would have committed suicide. Check my signature or my other topics to understand this better
You messed up the toilet and you expect your dad to call your uncle to come help you wash it. Wouldn't that take accountability from you?

You'll reap everything you sow. Reincarnation is justice for you to come reap your sowing, by experiencing what you make other people go through, through pairing with people in same ego category as you

SeriouslySense:
It would have be nice to add scriptures that talks about the unforgiving servant. Like the parable of the unforgiving servant, who was forgiven his debt but wouldn't forgive the debt of a borrower.

Thank you Jesus for forgiving me my sins and i forgive those who sin against me. Thank you God for what you did on the cross of calvary, you did it all, and you loved us first and purchased us with your precious holy blood. Now i am full of gratitude and forgive all who sin against me.

HeatSeeker:
Order is a form of control and therefore an attribute of Power! There is only order when a dominant force is present to actualize it. Disorder only occurs when there are forces that are in contest to either maintain the established order or rearrange it to favour different interests. Divinely or physically, power is power! And love has nothing to do with it.

I seem to understand what you mean. I hope the content of this link helps
https://www.nairaland.com/8476339/variety-spice-life-musing

To be loved, you have to be known

To be loved you have to be open and vulnerable to the right people, especially the people you'd love to receive love from.

If you dislike Onion in your food, shouldn't you be open and vulnerable to your soon to be partner or friend about your 'weakness'?

Imagine your partner or friend prepares an ingredient-rich food, and sliced onions in that food, how would you feel?
Of course you'd think you're being witch-hunted! You'd think your friend don't want you to eat that food!

But how would your innocent friend know that you don't like eating onions?
Are they a mind reader? Are they a seer?!
Even if they were a seer, aren't the better things in the world to seer about than something you willingly choose to lock up about yourself.
Wouldn't that be infringing your privacy by reading your personal thoughts?

Yet you claim to want to be loved, when you don't give love out. Love is vulnerable with the right people. If you refuse to give your vulnerability out, you won't be loved.

Your girlfriend is the kind of person who loves to hug the whole street and you feel ashamed to tell her you're not comfortable with it. Lol
It's not part of the alpha-male drills you've been wrongly thought. You think revealing your vulnerability will make you feel 'beta male'. Alright.

What you sow, you reap.
You've sown 'Not-Love' by being invulnerable, now you're reaping 'Not-love'.

It's not to late to change though

Being orderly is also a form of showing love
https://www.nairaland.com/8605829/being-orderly-form-showing-love

Order Is a Form of Love

Order is a form of Love: God is love. God is orderly. The ways of God can be learnt by man

Don't get discouraged by the spiritual begining of this post.
I promise if you read on, all will make sense.

Order is a form of love because disorder is a telltale sign of impending manipulation.

If it starts raining at this very moment but stops abruptly and the sun begins to shine, and this pattern happens repeatedly for years, this will lead to chaos in creation.
Farmers, as a good example, would be thrown off guard. They wouldn't be able to plan what crops to plant with the unpredictable weather conditions, and this could lead to a lack of food in a society, if not a global food shortage.

If the inflation rate flipped back and forth between negative and positive percentages with no degree of predictability, then citizens would be thrown off guard. They wouldn't be able to plan their spending and savings, thereby throwing them into a mental state where no government would be able to govern them.

If a woman or man you're interested in gives you conflicting emotional signals in a bid to show their spontaneity at the expense of your mental health, then such a person is not one you'd want to have a relationship with. They're just manipulators who toy with your emotional state in a bid to control you at your weakest.

Order is a form of love. Disorder is the opposite. It's a telltale sign that you're about to be manipulated or you're being manipulated

But here's where it gets really interesting.

There is a crucial flaw in the 'kindness' of the master that forgave that servant, and I'll leave that to you to decipher by explaining what unconditional love is first.

To my understanding, unconditionally love is love without conditions. And one can love without attaching conditions to their love when they've learnt to give what they can afford to lose, and also understand that there is a divine force at play that is active in creation.

The condition that one attaches to their giving arise when they give MORE THAN they can afford to lose. Please read that sentence again if you have to.

For example, if you have #500 naira and you know in your heart that #10 naira is what you can afford to give without feeling attached to the outcome (whether you were insulted after your act of kindness, or if you weren't appreciated publicly enough etc) then give that #10.

But if for whatever reason you give past that #10, then attachment has been invited into your equation.

Understanding this analogy deeply will help you understand what people mean during heated arguments by "after all that I've done for you"
They gave more than they can afford to lose.

Fathers feeling disappointed in their children.
Girlfriends feeling disappointed in their boyfriends
Citizens feeling disappointed in their choice of candidate after elections.

Now, to help you decipher a carefully hidden biblical 'lie': The "Master" in that story, which could be likened to the divine, SHOULD NOT have gotten angry with that unforgiving servant!
It reveals attachment to the giving of the master (The divine), which is a far cry from what Jesus, also a divine, preaches.

External Credit: Google's AI, Gemini, for finishing touches

The title of the book is The spiritual laws, written by Vincent Guillem

It's a free pdf the author made available online to all

Liballo:
What book is this? Could you recommend some other insightful books as well?

Engineers should be Philosophers with a positive foundation

https://www.nairaland.com/8603065/engineers-should-philosophers-positive-foundation#138205213

https://www.nairaland.com/8603403/moral-continued-hardwork-morality-slaves

The continuation

I guess you're far off

What the poster is talking about is what I recently got exposed to and wrote about here on nairaland in one of my posts: The morality of continued hardwork is the morality of slaves
https://www.nairaland.com/8603403/moral-continued-hardwork-morality-slaves

Humans purposely sabotage the efficiency of machines just so they can create Jobs for themselves. They see hardwork for hardwork sake as good.

Hopefully, there'll come a time in humanity where unemployment caused by the efficiency of machines will be celebrated

Sirmwill:
There are people who will get the highest paying salary jobs there and won't come that day

Or do any aptitude test or anything


Wake up!

Become an employer
The earlier the better

Hope your experience teaches you that the morality of continued hardwork is the morality of slaves

https://www.nairaland.com/8603403/moral-continued-hardwork-morality-slaves

Why do we suffer?
To learn the lessons from our suffering so as not to keep suffering

Why do we work hard?
Until there's no need for hard work.

At the initial stage, hard work is important, until we, as a society, create an automation/device that reduces our time and effort we put into work.

Hardwork is a means to an end. It's not the end. The end is a life of efficiency and leisure created by the availability of automation which compels us to seek our passions, which strangely hinges on the activities we do that doesn't necessarily generate revenue/money. Example, painting with no intentions of selling, flirting with girls...

The inefficiency of using firewood to cook inspired the creation of gas cylinders. But should gas cylinders be the end, considering its hazard and the rising cost of gas prices?
Now imagine the technological shock when you hear people celebrating using firewood to cook all because it makes them look hardworking while chopping wood.

Imagine someone telling me that I should have paid a human book cover designer instead of using AI to design the cover of my two eBooks. Literally judging my ebooks by its cover. Imagine people celebrating hardwork for hardwork sake.

We build a bridge to cross to the other side, but imagine being so addicted and attached to building a bridge that we forget to cross.

Humanity should have gone past the need for hardwork and I'll tell you why hardwork for hardwork sake is still being celebrated

1) We create products that do not last/ Planned Obselescence/ Artificial Scarcity just to create Jobs

We work hard to create/ buy things we do not need to impress people's we don't know

a) The "Sealed" Smartphone: Most modern phones make it nearly impossible for a layperson to replace a battery. When the battery naturally degrades after two years, the consumer often buys a whole new phone.

The Result: We create a massive amount of "e-waste" to maintain a high volume of sales that keeps tech stock prices—and their employees' 401ks—growing


b) The "New" Fast Fashion Cycle: Clothes are now designed to last only a few washes (Planned Obsolescence) and to go out of style in weeks (Perceived Obsolescence).

The Social Pressure: Social media creates a scenario where wearing the same outfit in two different "posts" is seen as a social failure. People work overtime to buy "disposable" clothes to maintain a digital image for an audience of people they barely know.


Artificial Scarcity in the sense that inventions that could take humanity out of the crude oil stage have been hidden via the Patent Secrecy act.

2) We view Hardworking people as good people and non hardworking people as bad people

Labor is seen as a moral duty and "idleness" is viewed as a character flaw. We often use "hardworking" as a shorthand for "reliable, disciplined, and virtuous," while "lazy" becomes a shorthand for "selfish or irresponsible.

In many office cultures, the employee who stays until 8:00 PM is viewed as a "good" team player, even if their actual output is the same as someone who leaves at 5:00 PM.

Teachers are recommended to stand while teaching because it shows a sense of commitment and sacrifice, all of which are needless if the children they tutor can learn if their tutor sits.

In Nigeria, most primary, secondary and even university teachers are recommend to copy texts from the textbooks we already own, to write on the board, so that students can copy into their notebook.
Why can't textbooks be notebooks, or shouldn't there be digital alternatives that blends notebooks into textbooks? Why are markers and board still recommended in most schools?

This is the reason why most children close late from school, like they're working 9-5 like their parents, all because the time that could have been used for productive activities are being spent writing notes on the board for them to copy into their notebook. Has Nigeria reached the peak of intelligence that a solution to this anomaly can't be proferred?

3) Humans haven't learnt what they should do with their free time created by efficiency of machines/automation

Sociologists call this "Leisure Paradox"—we strive for efficiency to have more time, but once we have it, we feel anxious, guilty, or bored

Scenario 1: Online banking and grocery apps save you a trip to the store (saving ~2 hours). Instead of using that time for a hobby, you spend it managing email filters, updating app permissions, or researching the "best" vacuum cleaner on Reddit.

The Result: You feel just as busy as before, but the work is now invisible and digital.

Scenario 2: A machine now washes and dries your clothes in half the time. Instead of sitting on the porch, you use that time to listen to a "high-performance" podcast at $1.5x$ speed or track your sleep data on a smartwatch.The Result: Even your rest becomes a "job" where you are trying to meet a metric or "level up."

Scenario 3: An AI tool writes a report for you in 5 minutes that used to take 2 hours. You now have a "blank" block of time. Without a plan for how to use your mind, you spend those 115 minutes scrolling through a social media feed.

Scenario 4: Remote work technology saves you a 60-minute commute. Instead of using that hour for breakfast with your family, you start checking Slack messages from bed because the "office" is now in your pocket.

The Result: The boundary between work and life dissolves, and "free time" becomes "on-call time."

Why is this happening?
We haven't developed a Philosophy of Leisure. Historically, leisure was seen as the highest form of human existence (the time for philosophy, art, and community). Today, we view leisure only as "recovery time" so we can go back to work

The "Boredom Gap": When a machine takes over a task, it removes the "rhythm" of our day. If we don't replace that rhythm with a personal purpose, we experience a sense of vacuum that feels like anxiety.



Credit: Bertrand Russell, in praise of idleness

Google Gemini AI, for creating ideal scenarios

Logic has to be balanced with emotions.That's because perfection, as I've come to understand, is a disease.
Nothing is ever perfect. Women are not emotional creatures: they're mostly emotional with a touch of logic, while men are mostly logical with a touch of emotions.

Imagine if it was only night we experience in creation. That means we humans and animals would never experience the beauty of morning and all that comes with it.
How would life feel for you if you experienced only the rainy season within the dry to complement it, or if you never experienced the morning sunshine? On that note, I strongly believe an engineer's logic should be balanced with the emotions of philosophy that make them aware of both the positive and negative effects of their inventions.

An engineer who creates a pocket-friendly atomic bomb without regarding its adverse effects shouldn't only complain when such a bomb detonates and hurts them or their loved ones. They should make an attempt to correct their error.

'Engineers' aren't limited to those who studied engineering alone. Those programmers and tech gurus also fall in this category.
Why create a 'Digital Rights Management' program that cannot allow people to download their Netflix movies directly into their phone.
If buying isn't ownership, why should piracy be stealing? (Mind you, this is not an eye-for-an-eye argument. Don't complain about what you brought upon yourself. Make your attempt to find your moral alternative to Netflix.)

Engineers should properly make an attempt to understand philosophy, and I do not mean the philosophy of dead and confused men who we were taught of in university just so we could boost our CGPA, but I mean the actual philosophy of love and truth.

Why create a beautiful product only to sabotage its characteristic because you're scared that if such a product lasts long, people would take longer to patronize you?
That was the logic behind the birth of 'planned obsolescence.' Now most 'engineers' no longer look for a problem to create a solution to; they now create a problem and sell their solution.

Most engineers should also come to realize that the morality of hard work is the morality of slaves. There's no nobility in continued hard work. Hard work should be a means to an end and not an actual end. The end to hardwork should be a life of efficiency and leisure created by early hardwork, which we don't feel guilty of by replacing it with more hardwork, because most people believe if you're not hard-working, you're lazy and lazy person= Bad person

We build a bridge so we can cross to the other side, not so that we can get so addicted to building bridges that we forget to cross what we've built. We suffer so we can learn not to suffer anymore. If we suffer and don't learn from our suffering, then we waste our suffering.

Hard work is necessary at the beginning, until we create an automation that can perform the hard work for us, so we can perform another core part of why we were created: Live by enjoying our passion...the one we choose for ourselves, not with the help of religion or a peer group.

Releasing different versions of a phone by sabotaging the previous version's functionality just to drive continued sales is evil and drives the need for needless work by the masses.If an engineering head/group had made that one phone thoroughly, without sabotage to any of its functionality, then there wouldn't be any need to gather and pay thousands of workers to create a 'better' or 'pro' version at a later time.

This then brings to light a truth: that unemployment should be a good thing that is supposed to be celebrated in the society. As machines take over jobs, and we humans start creating products that actually matter and are built to last, then our need to work should slowly be reduced. Clothes brands create flashy clothes with cheap materials that were created not to last, just to drive sales. If the clothes being produced actually lasted because they were made with quality material, would there be a need for cloth factory workers to come to work?

Shouldn't the efficiency created with machines and positive philosophy actually put them out of jobs?Shouldn't the time created by efficiency be used to chase their passion, instead of filling it with more work?

Credit: Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness.

Scribbr, Grammar Check

An eye for an eye would make the world go blind, the same way as an equal return of the kindness you received, at your expense.

What do I mean by this?

You owe someone #100,000, and your creditor was kind enough to forgive your debt.

But does that mean that you should also equally wipe the debt of someone else owing you #100,000?

Remember, you know your financial situation better. Doing an act of kindness that makes you grudge or regret later only taints your act of kindness.

In this case, you could permit your debtor a flexible payment plan, so that instead of paying you the #100,000 at once, they could pay in instalments.

In this manner, you've also shown someone an act of kindness, same way you received. You have passed the light forward, but in a way that keeps your own lamp burning.

This post has been moved to the proper section. I'm sorry for the Inconvenience

I'm going to draw a story from what happened to Chimamanda Adichie to pass on a message that I feel most need to know so we can learn the importance of respecting people's choices (free will), especially if the 'people' are your children, whom you feel you need to force-groom in your image in order to carry your legacy on.

I don't know the full story of Nkanu, but I can imagine that if that anesthesiologist, at a young age, had told his parents that he wanted to become a DJ or a carpenter, I'm sure they'd have threatened to disown him.
Most of our politicians, engineers, and religious leaders are incompetent simply because it wasn't their choice to enter these professions.
It was mostly forced on them. They were manipulated/sweet-talked into these professions (by their loved ones) and made to remain there or face the consequences of leaving (disowning, etc.).

I've found that it's quite hard for those we dislike to manipulate us, because that dislike we feel towards them acts like an anti-manipulation shield, which protects us from their suggestions. This means that those we feel positive emotions for are those we're open to being manipulated by. Your enemies find it hard to manipulate you, but your friends easily can. Take heed. Only Judas could have betrayed Jesus.

The passion to learn wasn't there, by virtue of being forced to become something they willingly didn't choose for themselves, so they learned just to cram and pass exams, not enough to know what the profession/truth was about.
Choiceless children become incompetent. Leaders tomorrow

Most of the people blaming our incompetent government in Nigeria are parents who force their children to become lawyers, doctors, and engineers. Tomorrow these children become incompetent professionals, and they complain.

We thank God for the gift of karma and reincarnation. We suffer to experience to learn. If we don't learn from our suffering, we waste our suffering.

For more insight on how I've come to understand free will and the importance of respecting people's choices, you can read the contents in the link below.

https://www.nairaland.com/8591634/what-wanted-ask-it-shall

Hmmm.

I don't know the full story, but I can imagine that if that anesthesiologist, at a Young age, had told his parents that he wanted to become a DJ or a carpenter, I'm sure they'd have threatened to disown him

Most of our politicians, engineers, Religious leaders are incompetent simply because it wasn't their choice to become these professions. it was mostly forced on them.

The passion to learn wasn't there, so they learned just to pass exams, not enough to know what the profession was about

Choice-less children become incompetent leader tomorrow

Most of the people blaming our incompetence government in Nigeria are parents who force their children to become lawyers, doctors and engineers. Tomorrow these children become incompetent professionals and they complain

We thank God for the gift of karma and reincarnation.
We suffer to experience to learn. If we don't learn from our suffering, we waste it

https://www.nairaland.com/8591634/what-wanted-ask-it-shall

The petroleum industry is scared that solar industry will take away their oil.money, so the cripple the solar and other renewable energy industry.
Look up 'Patent Secrecy Act' and try find the inventions of which their patents are not allowed to be shared to the public

People are scared of AI, so that means the whole of humanity's progress should be at a halt, because of the insecurity of some people

First of, I believe AI/ machines make work easier. It's just that we humans obey our basic instinct/thought instead of positive feelings to share to the world the capabilities of AI

Human Authors are scared AI will take their jobs, so when you go to Facebook, you find some groups against the use of AI book covers, even if the book covers are lovely, like my two ebooks are

If you really come to think about it, unemployment should be a good thing, because it means the effort that we put to get results in our society have been given to machines, so that we humans can rest and focus on things which AI cannot give: Reproduction, family upbringing/care, following our passion instead of working jobs we hate to buy things we don't like, to impress people we don't know

On that note, here's the prompt i gave Gemini, Google's AI

My prompt: "Truth inspires choice'.
please help me explain what this means with practical everyday examples"

Gemini:
"Truth inspires choice" is a powerful way of saying that accurate information is the fuel for meaningful freedom.
When we don't know the truth, our "choices" aren't really choices at all—they are just guesses or reactions. Truth gives you a map; without it, you’re just walking in the dark.

Here is how this concept plays out in everyday life:

1) The "Hidden Ingredient" (Health & Consumerism)

Imagine you are at a grocery store. You see two boxes of cereal. One is labeled "All Natural" and the other is a generic brand.

The Ignorance: You "choose" the All-Natural box because it looks healthier.

The Truth: You read the back (the truth) and see it actually has 20g more sugar than the generic one.

The Inspired Choice: Now that you know the truth, you are empowered to make a choice that actually aligns with your goal of being healthy. Truth didn't just give you a fact; it gave you the power to act effectively.

2) The "Honest Friend" (Relationships)

Imagine you are planning to invest your savings into a new business venture with a partner.

The Ignorance: You think the partner has a clean financial record, so you "choose" to sign the contract.

The Truth: A mutual friend tells you the truth: this partner has filed for bankruptcy three times for fraud.

The Inspired Choice: The truth "inspires" (or triggers) a new choice: to walk away or ask for more security. Without that truth, you weren't choosing a partnership; you were unknowingly choosing a disaster.

3) The "Dashboard Light" (Problem Solving)

Think of the warning lights on a car dashboard.

The Ignorance: If the light is broken, you keep driving 80 mph, thinking everything is fine. You are "choosing" to stay on the road, but it's a dangerous choice based on a lie.

The Truth: The light flickers on, showing your engine is overheating.

The Inspired Choice: The truth forces a choice: pull over now and save the car, or keep going and ruin the engine. The truth makes the stakes clear, allowing you to choose the path of least regret.



Why "Inspires"?

The word 'inspires' is used because truth doesn't 'force' you to do anything.
You can know the truth and still make a bad decision. However, truth provides the "breath" (the literal meaning of inspiration) that brings a choice to life. It moves a decision from being a random roll of the dice to a deliberate act of will.

Summary Table: Knowledge vs. Action
The Truth (Fact) | The Inspired Choice (Action)

1) "It’s going to rain in an hour." | You choose to bring an umbrella or reschedule the picnic.

2) "This job offer has no room for growth."
You choose to negotiate for a better title or decline the offer.

3) "I am actually burnt out, not just tired." | You choose to take a sabbatical instead of just a nap.

"The truth will set you free,"
as the old saying goes. It sets you free specifically by giving you the options you didn't know you had.

Yes.
Freedom has become expensive.

The opposite of happiness is depression, and happiness is strongly hinged upon freedom/ freewill to make choices. (Also allowing others to Make their choice)

Knowing the truth gives people room to make informed choice. And if we can't make informed choices, it means we're not properly exercising our freewill, hence we become depressed. This depression gives room for all manner of addiction (porn, gambling, smoking etc) and suicidal thoughts.

Truth inspires Choice: to choose to do or not to do.

Most of what we're taught by government and Religion and society aren't truth. They're just knowledge. Truth isn't knowledge because knowledge can be lies. They just teach us enough to make our choice limited so they can control us.

Christianity teaches that Jesus came to die for our sins,. instead of telling the truth that.jesus.eas murdered by the church leaders for making people think for themselves, hence making people stop going to church to be manipulated by selective scriptures. If Jesus came to die for the sins of the world, why did he wait to be murdered. Shouldn't he have Commit Suicide long ago?

Science teaches that germs are everywhere and germs cause diseases. But if this were so, why isn't everyone sick now?
Mosquitoes go to still waters. Mosquitoes DON'T CAUSE still waters..

It's a whole new world for someone who just decides from now to start thinking for themselves. Religion, society, peer group have been thinking for us. Most of us have never made choices for ourselves. We're just alive for others.

For more insight, try go through my signature and my other posts and threads. Good luck

To understand money created at its basic and shocking level
You can watch other videos inside the YouTube playlist



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDe5kUUyT0?si=Oi6hNuRr480KTIOx

The opposite of Happiness is Depression.
Depression gives room for all manner of addictions and suicidal thoughts

Happiness= Love + Freedom to make your choices/ allow others make their choice

BANK CHARGES: "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"

We the slaves in Golden chains. We know that we're slaves, but the chains that bind us are too shiny that we're blinded to what it actually is: A chain.

In our quest to exchange our unregain-able time and physical effort to get paper money, majority of which are electronic, that we can't even hold physically, we seem to have forgotten one critical point: Paper money is not wealth, same way the menu is not the food, neither is the word we call an object, the actual object itself.

And as we dwell on this our forgetfulness, we are being stolen from.

The reward for labor is slowly becoming invisible, first with the creation of paper money which is backed by nothing but faith of the people in it, and secondly with different unsuspecting financial policies/declaration, one of which is Bank Charges: the amount you pay to your bank for using your hard-earned money how you want

Sadly, the people we look up to have been compromised as we now have 'economists' around the world justifying and creating ways for us to manage this evil being done to us, instead of rubbing minds together to seek ways to eradicate this subtle form of slavery, because, think about it for a minute, when you're not free to withdraw your physical hard-earned money from the bank without limitations as to how much you can physically withdraw, what does that make you?

For most of us who aren't aware, Slavery was NEVER abolished. It just rebranded. This time, each slave was given an opportunity to not live on the slave masters property but to go rent houses far away, earn an illusion, and send their children to schools which mostly teach their children how to not think for themselves, hence ensuring a continued supply of slaves for the slave masters.

Central banks operating under a fractional reserve banking model are just beating around the bush with their various criminal financial policies because of the fear that the masses might soon realize that creating money is effortlessly done by computers from their ends.

The money you deposit in the bank isn't what creates loans for the next customer. The banks create new money electronically when they give out loans.

Google it and you'll see: Electronic money is always greater than physical cash in any economy that operates on a fractional reserve banking model

Where do those electronic money come from enough to be greater than physical cash in an economy?

Printing paper money doesn't cause inflation!
Creating electronic money does.

Central/Commercial banks are just scared of bank runs again.

They've done ponzi scheme with their customers physical cash and are now trying to protect themselves by limiting how much of OUR paper money we can withdraw because they know one truth which has happened before: If every bank customer were to walk into all the banks in Nigeria to demand our physical cash, the banks CANNOT meet our demands

Why?

Because they don't have the physical cash in the bank or their various branches. What they have is the electronic version of 1's and 0's on your computer screens. Hence you see all these withdrawal restrictions coming up: for bank customers to slowly get use to withdrawing an amount set by the banks and seeing nothing wrong with the limitation.
It's for the status quo of slavery to remain.

Sadly, this financial slavery tactic may not be the end, especially in Nigeria, the land of misplaced priorities.

I wish you could get a copy of Ralph Epperson book, The Unseen Hand.
True power lies in the collective acceptable of the people

Here's him talking about why he became a medical doctor all because he felt his mother didn't need him, so he felt that by becoming a doctor, he'll feel needed by his patients


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cYcSak6nE?si=zhKiszlRj7PDOFap