₦airaland Forum

LordReed:
If god is nature why does nature need worship? Or belief any how?

Sure you don't need to be bothered by people who don't acknowledge your god as long as you don't bother us in return.

God needs worship? Lolzz.
Really, I give it to people that respond to your scoffs. You lot are funny, walahi.

Do you, my man. I busy.

LordReed:
How can you trust something that has no way to prove its reliability or in certain cases has been shown to be no different from natural processes?

God is Nature. He is the totality of existence itself. And His reliability is never in question. Perhaps only to those who are stubborn to acknowledge it. We can't always be bothered by such people now, can we?

Every aboki with him kettle.

Shokoloko:
Congratulations. I am very happy for your family.
We praise God

This is me too. I am so sooo happy for you guys. All the best, henceforth.

We thank God, but it is quite unfortunate that the kind of world we live in now, is one where one person needs to have a problem, for another to find a solution.

Continue doing the bit you can handle and don't beat yourself to the point where you'd start goofing around like some charity case, begging for acceptance. Lest, you become undesirable, even to that fiance of yours, trust me.

Kaii. Someone cannot give good advice in peace again.

raphy:
Where u de stay na ogun state or where no lol them again take it as let man and woman so u go get plenty meat o

Wow.
Four people liked this post. One person shared it. And here I am, in desperate need of an aspirin.

Life indeed, is a mystery.

I had a gooood laugh. I appreciate you.

Animal story.
Bull and cockerel

Made me remember this pic I came across. Hahaha.

Karlovych:
Really? But when he commanded Saul to slaughter those he didn't like, Saul went ahead and did it leaving only some animals alive (which he was punished for). Was that also by faith?

The simple answer is No.

Truvelisback:
What is now the difference btw Blind faith and faith? I'm yet to understand ur long epistle. Do u refer the blind faith as doubt(unbelief) or a kind of foolish act people do?

Is English your first language?
Lemme try again;
I'm saying-- Faith is an umbrella term for Blind Faith and Reasoned/Informed Faith...End of. From my human perspective, of course. Capeesh?

It is exactly as I have said it...Don't nitpick to make conversation or try to find imagined slights or connotations that are nonexistent.

Workch:
Abraham's act is not based on reason but also on blind faith.

The fact that God even came up with such a silly game questions his omniscient nature.

I don't know it all, but I very much doubt that Abraham would have agreed to go ahead and sacrifice his son, if he had been asked to, by just any body. Neither would the most of us. Believable stories told of God by his antecessors, outside documented and undocumented personal encounters with God, most certainly have had something to do with his compliance.

Ohooo..ntoin to all of you. That's what you get when you give a show, more hype than is due it. I could barely catch the news on national security and other real issues, because even people that were still running around on panties, back when it ran its first course, wouldn't let me drink water with their give us GUS, give us GUS...as though Chuck Noris would make a comeback in it.
I'm glad all your eyes have cleared now and just maybe, you'd discontinue being intentional about drying up other people's brain juice with your boring updates.

Misinformation. Somewhere somehow, cultists entered the matter sha, but the girl dying, was not a consequence for burning down the school. Rather, it's the other way round. She and her boyfriends (cultists maybe) were being chased by vigilantes, who were summoned by the school principal, after they'd beaten up a teacher who'd asked her to return home to change her uniform to sportswear. Burning down the school was a reprisal after she'd ran into a ditch and drowned.

Very very wrong narrative.

I won't be surprised if same thing is said of someone that studied in China. I heard they don't allow black students touch cadavers, not to speak of living humans over there. But this matter of not knowing what an obstetrician does, is another matter entirely.

Spherical77:
Interesting

Meaning you must have graduated with a good result in your first degree to propel you for a full/partial funding

Not necessarily... There are so many schools in just the US alone before even reasoning others. You just have to research which one is combinable with the first degree. GRE/GMAT score kind of matters more. I knew someone with a strong 2:1 (4points) and 320 GRE that only got partial funding -prolly because of impatience. And I also know one that had a first cgpa of 2.8 and a GRE of 290 that got fully funded. Just research research research. Interestingly again, some courses are even given GRE waiver in some schools.

I didn't use to put mouth in all these kinds of mata before, but it really vexes me by the day, when I see people doing yama yama, just because they don't have access to quality information.

calculator123:
Never pay for a Ph.D.

In countries like the USA, Canada, etc, you do your degree with a full tuition waiver, in return, you work as a teaching assistant or research assistant where you get paid a monthly stipend, enough to cater for your wellbeing and that of a loved one.

You receive the best of education with a chance of getting PR or even citizenship after school.

When you compare the above with the dilapidated state of our education in +234, the "god" behaviour of Professors/lectures alike, ASUU strike, non-availability of research grants, PHCH wahala, etc, you will agree with me that it's plain, undiluted, and crass idiocy to pay for a PhD in +234

If you can, do it overseas, you will be better for it.

Thank you!
It is an abomination in my family to even pay for masters abroad sef, not to speak of PhD and then in Nigeria for that matter. If beta GRE score or supervisor too hard you to get, just manage get partial funding, then come over and find TA or RA to complete the program...Otherwise, remove our surname from your name forever and ever.

Yankee101:
Time

Best answer yet.

To act purely on faith is good. But you know what I find to be even more interesting? To act on testmonies. In some sense, I could well be talking about the same thing. Simply put, the matter of faith goes deeper.

Faith could be blind on the one hand and on another, reasoned and informed. It suddenly occurred to me that the most of us, like to think that we do the blind faith thingy more often than the latter. But I hereby rain on your parade, as you really do not.... Ndo.

BUT what then is it, that uplifts this notion that our faith as Christians, really ought to be blind, without true understanding?

Abraham, who the bible references more than once and is one of the most obvious embodiments of faith, due to his pliancy when it came to sacrificing his dear Isaac, followed God’s order, using his powers of reason- not blind faith. Based on what he knew of God, he thought things through. He knew God’s nature as a faithful God and remembers God’s promise to raise up a nation through Isaac. Now, Isaac could very well be brought back from the dead to fulfill God's word, no? Abraham knew God could do that and so acted accordingly-- on a reasoned and informed faith.

Owning the ability to think and reason is not something to fear or remove yourself from. It is after all a gift that is both God given and affirmed by St. Paul, who encouraged us to ask God for wisdom which "He gives generously to all without finding fault". IMO, it can even be offensive then, if not put to use.

We might not always be opportune to see crystal clearly, the grand scheme of things and might be expected to roll with the tide, exercising faith, but that doesn't always mean it is blind. For we do that from a position of trust, based on all the knowledge we have of God that has been conveyed to us by teachers, personal and others' testimonies or experience series.

You took really nice shots. I love them. It's incredibly beautiful in these pics.

uncleck:
If you're not a politician or a celebrity, just calm down and stop being paranoid. Nobody knows you. VIPs use Uber in Nigeria and nobody reason them. But in case you're still scared, just take an Uber to a hotel not too far from the airport. Sit at the bar or reception and book another one to another hotel in another location. You're good to go. Make sure you don't speak Queen's English.

This!
@OP, Basically, just calm down. I know what it can be like with even fellow Africans asking stupid questions, trying to dissuade you from going back home, but calm the EFF down. Nobody knows you, indeed!
You may even walk on egg shells all you want at the airport and heaven forbid, the kidnap might still be arranged by the "loved ones" you're going to meet at the family compound...
Just pray and be street smart, but not paranoid.

philasine:
This English " I was like" how often should it be use in a conversation? I get tired hearing it in conversation

It's a go-to phrase, mostly for Nigerians, when their word bank is going southwards. It's really just band-aid.

You need to do a family meeting with that multiple-faced nobody you're dating.

A one year old said whaa..? Smh. Bad press.

Nana Ko Bediako II...my Ghanian primary six teacher. He taught me a guiding mathematical principle that stayed with me throughout the remaining years of my formal learning and even till tomorrow sef, I still apply it to practice. The principle is ---> "Will it be more or less? If less, more device. If more, less device". Lol.

Sample question; Mr Franco dedicates his salary of N40k to hosting monthly town's meetings. How much would he need to spend in March and August, if he then decides to use only a quarter of his salary, after a 20% pay raise?

Solution: 40k= 100%
20% increase= 120%
(I must speak this English in my head);
If 100%=40000
Therefore 120%, would it be more or less? It would be more, if more, less device!
40000÷1 ×120÷100
Answer ÷ 4 = Semi final answer
Semi final answer × 2= Final answer

Our Further Maths teacher once flogged the entire SS2 Science class for not being able to answer a number 1 simple interest question correctly. Including me. Only for him to start solving on the board, solved from up to down, cleaned it after giving people time to copy into their books, continued at the top again just to get the answer I got in just four lines.

And I was like, 'Hey dude, so why did you flog me nauuuuu? I got that same answer." And he was like, "What are you talking about, did you even attempt it? Lemme see your book".

He'd completely missed it, because he didn't expect anyone to answer correctly and he was cane-happy. He stared forever at my solution, hanging his head low in shame until the sound of the bell released him. But the big head had already flogged me.

God bless Nana Ko Bediako jare. Wherever he is now. I've tried to connect with him so many times on social media platforms- Facebook, LinkedIn.., but that name never comes up on search results. He could even be dead for all I know. Bless him, wherever he is.

Hardgun:
God punish everybody watching the BBN God punish the BBN self

Hahahaha. Idk why, but I feel like saying amen sef

Haryhomyidhey:
the day i can remember vividly was on the 29th of november 2020.... I was driving home that night while it was raining cats and dogs. I was in my car and i entered the estate where i live... Suddenly, while still driving, a naked life wire dropped right infront of my car and was sparking, i was flabbergasted... I parked my car right infront of this naked wire and i got down. The wire was still Sparking right on the ground.. The security guards came around and an electritian was called.. Had it been i did not see the wire dropping, only God knew what would had happened, when i got home that day, i couldn't thank God enough..

Hopefully, there won't be a next time, but it is safer to have stayed in your car, than stepping out of it in that situation. Unless there's a fire, NEVER get out of a car with a power line on top of or close to it. Even at that, you'd have to hop out of it. There are YouTube videos to teach you this. Thank God for saving you though.

I also don't think that you should accept food, from everywhere it's being offered.

If you never try, you'll never know.

They say the sit-at-home remains, but I hear that your Onitsha market has not shut down for one day. Or is it no longer part of the proposed biafraland?

E don done for Nigerian police. How wonderful of karma to have come this soon to bite this shitty organization in their asses. Alas, the good apples will also suffer. Die the endsars case all you want in your Nigeria. Your international counterparts will not suffer fools gladly. Pretty soon, this same blow would also encompass certain privileges like medical care and would be felt by a certain crop of people.