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This piece is a reflection on the consequences of telling lies about other people. It says that those who deliberately set out to assassinate other folk's characters are evil persons and receive negative consequences from their anti-social behaviors.

Igbos Lying And Its Negative Consequences For Them

Ozodi Thomas Osuji

There is an eternal debate as to whether human beings have freedom or not, whether they are determined by external forces and do not have choice regarding what they do. Science seems to suggest that people are the products of evolution and are determined by their environment and that any talk of choice in their behaviors is misinformed.

The social sciences, especially sociology give people the impression that they are totally determined by social forces beyond their control, that they have no freedom to choose their behaviors. Thus, folks use the rationalizations of the social sciences (the social sciences are not rigorous; their conclusions are just a bunch of unverified hypotheses) to give themselves excuses to do what hurts other persons and believe that they could get away with such behaviors, that there are no consequences for their choice to harm other persons.

Love is the right behavior; any behavior that is not based on love for one's self and for other selves is evil.

People do receive the consequences of their behaviors. When they receive negative consequences attendant to their evil (that is, non-loving) behaviors, interestingly, they turn around and tell us that they are the victims of other people's evil behaviors and ask for our sympathy.

If it is true, as they seemed to believe, that human beings have no choices why then do they seek our understanding for the alleged unjust things that other people did to them? If there is no justice in the universe, as Charles Darwin made it out to be, if the entire world is a place where animals jostle for survival and some use others to survive, why cry foul? In an amoral universe we should not complain when the weak are exploited by the strong. If we live in an amoral universe where there is no freedom, no good and bad why cry out when other people seem to do bad things to you?

You ought to be logically consistent and take it on the chin when amoral persons stick it to you, as you stick it to other persons; you should not go about being amoral in your behavior and when other persons are amoral towards you, you suddenly talk about the need for justice for you! What is good for the goose ought to be good for the gander?

Let us dispense with childish argumentation and reiterate the eternal verities of human experience: we live in a moral universe; we have choices; there is good and bad; we do receive the consequences of our good or bad behaviors.

I do not have any need to prove these assertions; I just know them to be true. If it suits you, you can attempt to ignore them and behave in an amoral manner; however, if you do you must be prepared to receive the effects of your chosen evil behaviors. Don't come crying to me asking me to understand your plight when your evil behaviors catch up with you. No one escapes from the universal fact that our behaviors have consequences (only petulant vituperating children think that they can escape from universal laws of human behaviors).

As the year came to an end, I found myself reflecting on the behavior of some Igbo members of Nigerian Internet forums. These folks deliberately make up false stories about other Nigerians and write about them on the forums. They consciously aim at damaging folks reputations. They consciously do what they do and in their minds, apparently, believe that they are at war with those that they say nasty things about. As it were, they believe that they are engaged in propaganda war and that as such they are entitled to misrepresent the reality of those they believe are their enemies. As they say, at war all is fair game (or is it?).

These people try to outdo Joseph Goebbels in telling lies about other people . They hope that folks who read their lies (almost always written in bad English) would believe
them. Apparently, some of their Igbo compeers believe
the lies they befuddle their minds with but non- Igbos
automatically understand that they are telling lies and
tune them out.

The liar only deceives himself, not other people, for human beings have the capacity for discernment and can tell the truth from lies.

If you tell too many lies people come to associate you with lie telling and no longer take whatever you say as true. Thus, these days many Nigerians have reached the conclusion that Igbos are liars and do not take anything they say as true (while their fellow Igbos believe in their peoples lies and thus deceive themselves).

This nonsense is now stale

PassingShot:
Another sad day for wailers who will never see any good in this country.

The bad news they pray for shall be their lot.

[size=20pt] AMEN [/size]

Lagos will be the Number liveable city in the world by the time those flat headed yibooos leave lagos for us.

He made those statements on exile in Ivory coast

neocortex:


Guy you cracked me up for hours, even those around me were scared.

To the bolded what verse of the Quran is that ?

Lol..guy, free me oo. Those guys really provoke me today. I so much hate to be addressed by what they are calling me. I hate everything about gay. I had to do that to them.

christianity and rape are like tea and sugar.

Igbo flat head always looking to start trouble. May God punish all trouble makers.

YES, the only fomer disastrous president of this country.

stale

Like father like son

hehe

Deejavuu:
She doesn't look like a conductor to me

Looks like she was talking with someone outside the bus. Op what's your * sauce*

Thank God I wasn't the only one that is seeing it as well. This thread is more like a stunt. Lala doesn't have any credible news to put up, he just decided to throw this stunt at us.

ionsman:
Media stunt for what? Even if you are told Buhari ironed his cloth(just an example), you will say it's media stunt.....Na wa for wire road.....

At least he is still better than Gej who would drink ogogs(ogogoro) from morning till night.

hahahahahahahaha that ogogoro drunkard was a great misfortune ever happened to this country. Thank God we sent him back to his village.

vizkiz:
yeah, its ekiti again. All those shiit about them being intelligent is crap! Them no know book at all, na only pussay them sabi

hahahahahahahaha lol

chuna1985:
Just free d guy sha.

Pay no attention to that b*tch. I am not a gay. I have already put up curse that if I am a gay, may I die miserable death. I am not a gay. Pay no attention to those guys. They have no clue of what will befall them and their entire family. Don't tap from it.

Team Tecno

ECOTERRORS:
if all these were true then Ooni will still be alive because the spiritualist will give him a longer life. Don't wait for Obama to come to Nigeria before you come out from your closet. Be happy about it. Its your sexual preference. I will still respect your political opinion but I will forever see your lifestyle as very disgusting.

If your father is now a gay, I am not a gay. Tell your father to be happy about it. its his sexual preference. Stop calling me what I am not.

ECOTERRORS:
I can say that Rilwon is a GAY but his religeon will not allow him to practise pedophilia

And If I am not gay contrary to what you guys are spreading around, If I have never engage in gayism: Thesonofmark, truckpusher, severusnape,and Ecoterrors.

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ALL FORM OF ADVERSITY AND MISFORTUNE WILL BEFALL EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU
MAY YOU ALL NOT FIND GODS FAVOUR IN EVERYTHING YOU DO
MAY YOU ALL NOT FIND PEACE IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE
MAY YOU ALL DIE AN UNTIMELY DEATH
MAY EACH OF YOUR PARENTS BURY EACH ONE OF YOU BEFORE THIS YEAR RUNS OUT.
MAY EACH OF YOUR FAMILY DIE A MISERABLE DEATH AFTER YOUR DEMISE. [/size]

Tó abáwó èsú. Kórì bèe kósè bèé. Asèè wàà.

SeverusSnape:
Wow!!!... What a revelation!

Who Is that Francis Tony?... He need to be summoned to this court for proper justice. There shouldn't be any sacred cow!.

Francis is my friend on the religion section. We have been following each other since 2013. Read the thread and see for yourself.
But If I am not gay contrary to what you guys are spreading around, If I have never engage in gayism: Thesonofmark, truckpusher, severusnape,and Ecoterrors.


[size=15pt] ALL FORM OF ADVERSITY AND MISFORTUNE WILL BEFALL EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU
MAY YOU ALL NOT FIND GODS FAVOUR IN EVERYTHING YOU DO
MAY YOU ALL NOT FIND PEACE IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE
MAY YOU ALL DIE AN UNTIMELY DEATH
MAY EACH OF YOUR PARENTS BURY EACH ONE OF YOU BEFORE THIS YEAR RUNS OUT.
MAY EACH OF YOUR FAMILY DIE A MISERABLE DEATH AFTER YOUR DEMISE. [/size]

Tó abáwó èsú. Kórì bèe kósè bèé. Asèè wàà.