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Interesting thread, asides the slurs being flung back and forth. Let me jump in on the current debate - existence and non-existence.

In my opinion, it is possible for something or someone to exist or not exist. The question, however, is what parameters are used for judging said existence. I think too often, we juxtapose "life" and all it's related tenses with existence. Let me explain with an analogy.

Take Harry Potter for example. As far as we know, no human boy that wears round glasses, has a scar on his forehead and was prophesied to defeat the dark lord ever lived on This earth. So to the average mind, Harry Potter does not exist and has never existed.

However, the very mention of the name "Harry Potter" evokes thoughts of a magical boy on a mission to rescue the world from evil forces. If Harry Potter Does not exist, how come we can have such thoughts that not only put a story to "him" but also attaches a persona and even an appearance when we know that If something Does not exist in the true sense of the word, then we cannot even have the slightest idea of what that thing is or should be like?

So Does/did Harry Potter exist in the physical sense of human existence? No (unless there's something J.K Rowling is not telling us). However, the fact that the mention of his name evokes thoughts of a person with a story, a persona and even an appearance is a pointer to the fact that he Does exist - just not in the physical sense but in the fictional and ideological sense. The pointer here is that a physical presence is not the only parameter by which existence is measured. In fact, the first proof of some form of existence is an idea of what that existence entails. For instance, If someone walks up to me and asks if someone named Donald Hilary Bush Kennedy-Clinton exists, my answer would be a profound no, since I can't attach any memories or ideas to any such person, whether real or imaginary. However, If the person asking has created a fictional character that goes by such a name and has attached attributes of physicality and ideology to the character, then the character Does exist - even If only in the mind of the creator.

Well, I don't think flavor is mocking her. Not directly at any rate. He has Nothing to benefit from doing that. This looks to me like a situation where you see a funny picture and it cracks you up so much you feel you just have to share it. It's not like the picture is followed by any personal comments by flavor himself mocking her or taking any position on the matter. But then bloggers would want to spin it their own way to drive traffic and emotional Nigerians would react. It's an old formula.

This is what you call "drink, remain for me"

My problem with Bobrisky is not the whole male barbie thing. I mean, his life, not mine. My problem is that the guy is just........ I'm sorry, daft! I'm not sure I've ever heard him speak about something worthwhile. I saw someone mentioned Bisi Alimi up there, well at least Bisi talks about HIV and promoting safe sex practice and all that. That's something worth talking about. All Bobrisky does is weep, bat his eyelashes at the camera, flaunt money we can't frankly say he earned or owns and talk about "bae". Talk about offering nothing to society!

His sexuality is not my business. However, I do feel concerned that he may be influencing other people to think it's okay to offer nothing to society and expect everything in return. If he did all of this privately, well, I could care less, but once you go public you're intentionally or inadvertently putting yourself up as someone to be emulated.

On the flipside though, we're the ones that made/make him popular. If only some of us had ignored his snaps....

Wait o....

Is it their money?

kinibigdeal:
So Enugu state is an APC state. A typical Enugu man will never vote for APC, only Okon Abang can give APC victory in the East

When they say people should learn to read, they would refuse. Now see yourself. Did your eyes skip the part where those that challenged the emergence of both candidates/lawmakers are also PDP members or did your brain just fail to process it? Where did you see that APC was involved in the lawsuit?

Uggh, some Nigerians on the internet really!!!

Are you sure that's not her real face?

The acquisition of knowledge doesn't always result in the same thing. For some, acquiring more knowledge makes them stronger religious adherents. For others, it pushes them to swap one set of religious beliefs for another. For yet others, they drop religion and theism altogether and become atheists.

And for yet others, it changes absolutely nothing.

I can't pray your kind of prayer because I don't know I have the truth; I only assume I do.

My prayer is that whatever the truth is ,I will find it and stick with it.

Sorry, has anyone actually verified if this is indeed true?

I mean, we Nigerians are pretty notorious for using whatever is currently trending to further our personal interests. Before today, I never knew something like IgberenewsTV (which is it, news or TV?) existed. Same as abiainfoonline. I'm sure Buhari has bigger critics to put away if that is his modus operandi. Why go after the relatively unknown IgberenewsTV or radio or whatever?

Is any reputable Nigerian media outlet reporting this?

Dude, give it up already. You won't be Nigeria's president

Tripleoluwa:
They don't need to remove it with machine. By Feb next year, when the lagoon would be highly salty, the weeds will die off

You can't wait for nature to do a job you can do yourself. That would mean putting water transportation and everything else concerning the coastal region that's affected by these weeds on hold till nature "does it's job". What if, for some freak reason, nature fails to deal with it? That would mean all that time spent waiting would be a complete waste.


Besides, water hyacinth aren't the only debris floating in the Lagos lagoon.

Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just scrap the whole thing?

But, of course, due to vested interests, a scheme that has outlived it's usefulness and is no longer socially relevant would be perpetuated.

Anoruo:
no peace for all them wicked.

Buhari was sent to savage this country. agree or no.

Savage or salvage?

Our death sentences of late are largely cosmetic. Most of them end up being commuted to life. Still i think the death sentence is archaic and should have no place in modern law and justice.



Except in certain cases of crimes against humanity.

Tlol, what do you know ; Nigerian politicians have started kissing babies for public support!

Let's see what grace and life look like if you don't pay their salaries for three months

They shouldn't even try it

If he's willing to change his parents, friends, ideology and hair color, then sure, he can change your sim card.

Could they quit celebrating and actually start planning How to develop the state over the next four years and the best ways to execute those plans?

Show of hands, Nigerian parents; how many of you remember your parents blaming you for something bad that happened when you were growing up? It could be for something you did cause (like running in naked to the parlour when they had visitors, causing untold embarrassment – I was almost guilty of this but just as I was about getting to the parlour, one magnificent backhand sent me back in the opposite direction). Or something you didn’t cause (like not having a white bed-sheet on resumption day in spite of the fact that you had REPEATEDLY reminded your mother that she hadn’t bought it yet and she insisted that she had. Only for her to turn around when you get to school and insist in front of your housemaster that you never told her a white bed-sheet was on the list – seriously, that shii is still paining me till now). Either way, at some point, our parents have blamed us for something – some of us getting blame more frequently than others. If your Nigerian parents have never blamed you for anything, then congratulations, the doctor dropped you headfirst on the floor the day you were born and you’ve been in coma since. Chances are your parents might have blamed you sef for being too slippery. You’re still too unconscious to hear it.

Another show of hands; how many of you, now parents yourselves, have blamed your kids for something? Be honest, I can already tell some people are trying to justify certain situations, but that’s not the point of this article. The point of this article is that a lot of Nigerian parents unconsciously destroy or diminish their child’s self-esteem, trust and self-belief by constantly blaming them for any and everything. You failed an exam? You didn’t study hard enough. You were too busy watching film. She doesn’t know that your teacher is terrible or you just don’t have an aptitude for that subject and that you actually tried your best but it just didn’t work. You broke a glass cup? You were definitely careless, prancing around the kitchen like a horse in a field, high on steroids. He doesn’t know someone else left the tumbler at the edge of the kitchen table, you didn’t see it and hit it by mistake and it fell. Situations like this abound where kids may be at fault or may not be at fault. And the first instinct for a lot of parents is to blame.

But why do most parents want to throw blame first? Well, one primary reason is fear. One huge fear a lot of parents have is being thought as bad parents or not being good enough. So whenever there is a situation, that fear causes them to want to push the responsibility for the situation to someone else, usually the child. It’s a natural feeling.

But here’s the thing: growing kids don’t know anything about responsibility. At least, not enough. Even when they are at fault for whatever the issue is, they want to know that first of all, you would deal with it. The best way to teach your kid about responsibility is not blaming him/her for his/her perceived failures (or even yours, because, let’s face it, as parent’s, you will fail your kids at some point. It happens to all parents). When you do this, your kids will learn to hide possible future issues from you, which is even worse because hidden, the issue would gradually escalate and, by the time you find out, it would have gotten out of control. Lots of parents wonder why their kids don’t trust them with their problems and what’s going on in their lives. It’s because of their experience with your blaming – they know you’ll just blame them for it before/instead of helping them resolve it. So they’ll keep it to themselves, choosing to share with their peers who are less likely to judge and more likely to come up with ideas to solve them – even if some of those ideas are stupid.

Here’s a better approach: When your kid is having an issue or when a situation comes up, 1) find a solution! This will build your child’s trust in you as someone that can deal with situations, not a blame giver. 2) Find the cause: This will help you figure out what brought up the situation in the first place, how to avoid it in future and give you an idea of what to say in the next step. 3) Talk to your kid about it – even when you’re at fault and be honest to admit if you were at fault. Let them know what was done wrong, why it was wrong and what to do in such a situation next time. 4) If you choose, punish the child fairly, IF the child is guilty.

Unfortunately, most Nigerians follow in the reverse order, then complain later that their children don’t talk to them about personal issues. Try this first and see if it would work a bit.

Goodluck!

https://completelytier./2016/10/02/nigerian-parents-quit-blaming-your-kids-so-much/

Like those kids know what the hell they're doing. And another round of using hapless Nigerian youth to play politics begins!

Is it marching pass or marching past?

Who moves these things to the front page sef? Can't you correct the grammatical error?

Errrr, in this your write-up, all I've been seeing are inter-parleys between Christians and Muslims. You do realize there are loads of other religions out there,right? Has the pope gone to a Hindu temple for their festival of lights? Or something similar like that?

Besides, all these things you are talking about are hardly novel. For all their well publicized official animosity, Christians and Muslims get along pretty well, and that's not a new thing. Remember morning assembly prayers in primary or secondary school? There were Muslims there who learnt to say amen to prayers. Has the one-world-religion materialized since then? I guess not.

shadeyinka:
Just a little help!
Time is a measure of interval between events. Without events, there will be no reference with which to measure time.

Space cannot be zero!
Black holes, Supernovae, Singletons all take place in space. A Singleton may have zero dimension, it doesn't mean that the universe also have zero dimension.

All of us are still learning including me...I don't know half as much of physics than some guys I've met on Nairaland

Actually, in theoretical physics, space can be zero. Of course, in practical physics such an event can't be created. Even singularity has a space value of 1 so practically, space can't be zero. However, his point was that if space WERE zero, nothing else would exist, including time and the event intervals it measures. All events occur within space so whenever space went from zero to any value more than zero, time started.

loooool, this thread is the funniest thing i've seen in ages.

Errrr police?

Could someone show me what a pentecostal suit looks like. Is it those very big one with shoulder pads that makes you look like Voltron?

Lol, has the KAI officer been dancing etighi on the floor for two weeks? Look at his pants!

Sorry o, but....

What is the spirit of hybrid??

DoctorAlien:
This is just like asking me to provide a verse in the Bible where GOD says we should not masturbate or smoke cocaine. But We know that GOD is not in support of these things.

However, consider this: "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach..." 1 Tim. 3:2 Do you see that monogamy is one of the qualifications of a bishop in GOD's church? Do you see that a polygamous man is not allowed to lead GOD's church? Does this show that GOD supports polygamy?

A careful and unbiased study of the Bible will reveal that polygamy was never and will never be GOD's plan for man.

This is directed just at bishops na. It's just like a university saying all students of computer science must own a laptop of theirs. It doesn't mean the school is saying all students of the school including those in other departments are required to have laptop. Just that if you intend to study this particular course, this is the prerequisite for it.

So God stating it for Bishops doesn't mean it's also his intention for everyone else.

stylochime:
English Refereeing Dis Season Has Bean Absolute Sh*t

Should we borrow you guys refs from Serie A?

United ehhhhh