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RomanceRe: Is It Wrong To Have A Sugar Daddy for School Fees? by Serendipity: 6:07pm On Aug 14, 2013
moppie123: There's money everywhere. Underground, on the surface and even in the air. There's a lot of money in agriculture sef let alone the talent u have in u. So u see dear, money is so common. Why then would u want to give up a priceless asset for COMMON money? No matter how much u get from runz u'd still be seen as CHEAP. What will now happen after graduation and the jobs are not forthcoming? U would definitely continue the runs girl biz. I know u are in a very dicey situation but Just be careful, think well and pray. There are opportunities lurking arnd in every corner . u just have to search and think......
Crass ramblings, money everywher and we still have people in squalic state, lets be realistic and not utopian.
RomanceRe: Never Trust A Woman Who... by Serendipity: 10:51pm On Aug 13, 2013
gibberish and balberdash indited by a green and pliable stripling
SportsRe: Watching Football Is Nothing But Sheer Tomfoolery! by Serendipity(op): 9:46pm On Aug 09, 2013
cito us: [font=Berlin Sans FB Demi]Serendipity, you sound a lot like my boss at work who thinks football is not a sport and that baseball is rather what is called real sports. No offense mearnt, are you American? I ask because only Americans have this kinda bias against football as aginst the almost 6Billion inhabitants of the earth. They even refuse to call if by its rightful name , preffering to call it 'soccer'.
To answer your question, competitive sport has been in existence since time imemorial, and it is a way to decompress for some people. I live a normal life and football balances it. I eat , breath and drink football especially on my days off after a hectic week at work. I dont know what you do at your spear time, but for most people its sports following.
Some people take whatever they do to an extreeme, be it alcohol drinking, drugs, sex or sports following. So calling Football following a 'tomfoolery' is akin to baring your bottom in the public. You are making a mockery of your age[/font].
RomanceRe: Have You Ever Loved Someone Who Didn't Love You Back ? by Serendipity: 9:39pm On Aug 09, 2013
Gabson91: yea n it was dis gal i met a batch b corper n i ws batch a,i askd her out initialy but she refused dat we sul b fwends,later she started actin lik she luvd me,i ws hapy,she passd out n we wer comunicatin,den i did sumtin funny,i hackd in2 her facebuk account n saw dis chat wit a guy were he ws askin her if she is datin sum1,she said no,she hasnt sin d guy she liks,only 1 guy has made her fal in luv n he ws out of d country,men i ws down,dis is a gal i gave my all,tinkin she luvd me..i hate d word love n i vowed neva to fall 4 it anymore.
I don't know why people like leading others on or giving them false or forlon hope.
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Once I sense that my relationship with a person is getting to another dimension I had not envisaged, I call it to order.
I have vowed never to waste any girl's time.
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On the other hand, It is time we accepted that people have the right to be happy and when they feel that with us that can no longer be guaranteed we let them go.
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Unfortunately we may like some people who don't give a hoot about us.
RomanceRe: Girls' Question That Makes Guys Dumbfounded; How To Escape It. by Serendipity(op): 8:18pm On Aug 09, 2013
Ajekpako: Funny thing is 9 out of 10 girls would jump into bed with you if you tell them blatantly that all you want from them is sex!

They'll be taken aback initially because thats not the answer they are expecting and would also be intrigued by your confidence. ofcourse they'll feign anger to show they are not cheap & that's when you go in for the kill by telling her how your likeness for her wont let you lie to her.......the rest they say is history.

I've never had to lie to a girl about what i want or my relationship status & 9 out of 10 times, i get what i want with no strings attached.
Anyway. Most will say you ere too raw
CareerRe: It Is A Fallacy That No Knowledge Is a Wasted one by Serendipity(op): 8:14pm On Aug 09, 2013
Saint Chukz: Do you know it is sheer arrogance to want to force your own beliefs and opinion on others? Please define truth for me? What is truth to you may not necessary be the universal truth to others. Stop for a minute and try to view the world through the eyes of others with recourse to your own views. On the pitman shorthand example you cited, what if you are appointed tomorrow to a position in government circles that would require the use of such a skill or is that not a possibility as well? Again citing the example of the relevance of the spanish language vis-a-vis the Hausa language doesn't even hold a bearing on this discussion for the following reasons ; (1) The Spanish language was propagated by Missionaries, Merchants and Slave masters from the Spanish kingdom to several other nations where they traded centuries ago hence the wide coverage of the language, was the hausa language propagated in a such manner? (2.) if you are an indigent hausa born, would you require going through extra-mural lessons to learn it? It is with the coming of globalization that we are now beginning to see the need to learn foreign languages, i once watched a feature on tv where a european man living in Northern Nigeria could speak not only hausa language but also the native indigent language of the people he was living amongst. So it should be same for you, if you will be going abroad, you can always learn the language when you get there, but then when you get back home and you no longer have a need of that language you learnt, would you call it a waste of knowledge? When it wasn't during the period you needed it, so why should it become a waste now that you don't need it? In countries like America and Canada that are predominantly english speaking, do you know that the knowledge of the spanish language would still be an invaluable asset to you, because as far as i know there are still a sizable number of spanish speaking communities in those countries. If truth is to come from only one source, what then is the credibility of such truth when it hasn't been tested by others?
Without sounding immodest or denigrating anybody, I think your problem is selective perception, you have chosen what you want to believe, regrettably.
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You went on the voyage of adventure when quoted out of context my analogy with Spanish and Hausa languages--- kindly go and twig what I stated which is as clear as day. Whether it was propagated by whoever is non sequitur and not the message I tried to convey.
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With regard to the Pitman Shorthand example, you said that I could be appointed to a government position which could require such skill; a riposte I find laughable. I posited that the operative words are THE RATE OF INCIDENCE OR POSSIBILITY.
Now, how many government positions could require one to make use of Pitman shorthand?
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Your bringing in truth here can as best be termed inapt and incongrous...
CareerRe: It Is A Fallacy That No Knowledge Is a Wasted one by Serendipity(op): 7:40pm On Aug 09, 2013
Saint Chukz: ^ Please provide your answers to this MAN'S query.
CareerRe: It Is A Fallacy That No Knowledge Is a Wasted one by Serendipity(op): 7:38pm On Aug 09, 2013
adedayor08: using the lawyer's case as a typical example;
as a lawyer, you need evidence to win cases in the court. Imagine in a murder case where bromate is found on the corpe that could be the missing piece of puzzle to uncover the whole truth. Fink carefully bro
I'm afraid, in such cases, expert evidence will be used.
RomanceRe: Girls' Question That Makes Guys Dumbfounded; How To Escape It. by Serendipity(op): 9:44am On Aug 09, 2013
HARDDON: but ofcos! there is nothing a guy would say to you gurls you wouldnt think thus.

and yes, they are all players(dogs) clueless and therefore tell all them dolls just one tale. ( lol P)




as i would always say, gurls are like money, the more you chase them, the more they take off, sendless(develope yourself), and they would come after you in torrents.

so the best thing to do, is never to mention S in the speech. way up, is the way down.

kinda crazy though, gurls ask such Qs? guess the guys are to blame: feed her with all sorts of crazy surprises, she would be too awed, too weak to think straight. and b4 her name, the forbidden fruit has been eaten.


THIS QUESTION AND EVERY OTHER DEMEANING QUESTION OF THIS SORT, ARE FASHIONED FOR ONLY THE POOR GUYS!

go figure
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CareerRe: When Nature Limits Us by Serendipity(op): 9:41am On Aug 09, 2013
Serendipity: This is not to discourage anyone.
I have always been a realist. One of the snags I have with motivational speakers is that they say innumerable things which are at best chimerical and illusory.
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They will see a dumb person and encourage him that he be an orator; they will see
dwarf and urge him to become a basket ball player.
They never agree that any form of limitation exists. This to me is the acme of foohardiness.
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In reality, THERE ARE LIMITATIONS nay natural limitations. For example, if you are impotent, deaf or dumb, or have any form of impairment, you cannot be say a priest. You have been limited by nature.
Again, if you are below a certain height, you cannot be a member of say, the armed forces. These are some of the ginormous examples if natural limitations.
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It is, however, counselled that one be working with the air that there is no limitation as this will make one exert oneself hence achieving ones maximum potentials.

AT ANY RATE, it is politic to accentuate and dwell on ones 'selling points' and achieve success with it .
Cheers.
CareerRe: It Is A Fallacy That No Knowledge Is a Wasted one by Serendipity(op): 9:40am On Aug 09, 2013
Serendipity: Please elucidate more on what you mean because I can't see a nexus
CareerRe: It Is A Fallacy That No Knowledge Is a Wasted one by Serendipity(op): 9:40am On Aug 09, 2013
Saint Chukz: Ok...Waiting to see what you want to unveil this time.
Look up
CareerRe: It Is A Fallacy That No Knowledge Is a Wasted one by Serendipity(op): 9:39am On Aug 09, 2013
Saint Chukz: Now, with emphasis on the word "smattering", i'm trying hard to figure out how you would have done that if no single amount of time was put into it to gather the little knowledge you termed "smattering". Mind you the knowledge of a thing doesn't have to be acquired in full for you to term it actual knowledge. You also opined that having a particular knowledge of a thing that has no modicum or bearing on what the future tends to hold for you is sheer waste of time because you may never get to use it. I would say you were wrong there in that assertion because, how would you actually get to know what lies ahead of you when you haven't even gotten there? Or do you have a foreseer gift of telling what the future will bring? In my own candid opinion, i would rather opine that no knowledge is actually wasted until it is left unused. It has to be so because you never can tell when that little "survival skill" you garnered at one time or the other would become very handy to you at a critical point in your life, so i would rather not dismiss any knowledge no matter how irrelevant it may seem at a particular time on the premise that it is never going to be useful to me, when i know we all live in a constantly dynamic world. Finally, i think it is best to make myself feel "important" at any particular stage in life rather than feel "impotent" at a near unforeseeable stage in the future.
It becomes foolhardiness and unbecoming when we are unreasonably obstinate to the extent that we fail to admit the truth.
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I stated unequivocally, that one had better acquire knowledge that there is high possibility of one using. In everything there is an opportunity cost, the opportunity cost of acquiring the knowledge of Spanish is that knowledge of Hausa language I would have acquired which will now be forfeited.
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Now, there is a possibility that I will get to use the knowledge of Spanish, but the possibility is lesser than that of Hausa given that If would go abroad, definitely, it wouldnt be to a Spanish country. Or what's the possibility of my serving as an interpreter?
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THE OPERATIVE WORDS HERE ARE: the possibility of using the knowledge.

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At certain point those days, I wanted to buy a Piano and then get a trainer, but on mature reflection, it became clear, that the possibility of my using that is infinitesimal and that it would be more politic to choose something that will have bearing on my life. And I did.
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It is better to use my time judiciously in acqisition of knowledge that use it in nugatory things.
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Now how do you reconcile the example of Pitman Shorthand that I cited with your rejoinder?
RomanceRe: Why? by Serendipity: 1:13pm On Aug 08, 2013
Anything is possible, so anything may be the cause, it could be that he was overwhelmed by your beauty and vivacity.
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I will advise you to be less sensitive in life.
If people are laughing, don't conclude that they are laughing at you, if after a date someone doesnt call again, don't conclude that maybe something is wrong with you, just see it that maybe you too are not compatible.
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Just be less sensitive and avoid unhealthy comparison.
CareerRe: It Is A Fallacy That No Knowledge Is a Wasted one by Serendipity(op): 8:23am On Aug 08, 2013
Saint Chukz: @ Op...i think in one full swoop you have succeeded in contrasting your own opinion in the initial post. In the opening line you opined that -no knowledge is wasted appears to you as axiomatic and as arguably sacrosanct, and in your last line statement you then went on to say that it would be stellar to have a "smattering" of many things.
Nice to have you around Saintz.
That something 'appears' to be something doesnt mean that it is so. So there is no contradiction when I said that is appears axiomatic and sacrosanct. Ok?
Coming back...
RomanceRe: Girls' Question That Makes Guys Dumbfounded; How To Escape It. by Serendipity(op): 8:16am On Aug 08, 2013
Odunharry: i hate homos...i sweari gad she stays at d boiz kuater....
CareerRe: When Nature Limits Us by Serendipity(op): 8:16am On Aug 08, 2013
Empedocles: [i][/i]firstly i would like to say dat d veil btween fantasy is indestructible........secondly most pple project their DREAMS into fantasy.....which makes their dream dead from d very onset.....thirdly d power of d mind is undisputably enourmous and enigmatic but it as well as limits .....jst like d first speaker as said even d statement "if u ve faith u can move mountain" the"mountain" is nt mountain u knw wot i mwean
Bonzer
LiteratureRe: My Complicated Love Story by Serendipity: 6:12pm On Aug 07, 2013
Lakotai: Yemi nice Advise.

You should always introduce your characters.
I got that advise from Malcom Gladwell: the author of the tippin point. When he writes he always fully introduces his characters from their hair to their toes.

Keep it up chistar. Compile your story as an e-book and share for free it will spread like a virus.

I will do my best in promoting it too.
Nna guy, where can i get that tipping point?
CareerRe: It Is A Fallacy That No Knowledge Is a Wasted one by Serendipity(op): 11:23am On Aug 07, 2013
duality: @ op, You seem to be intelligent but the the following never occurred to you

- "Applied Knowledge" and
- " Transferable skills"

Research about these two and reread what you wrote.
Please elucidate more on what you mean because I can't see a nexus
CareerRe: It Is A Fallacy That No Knowledge Is a Wasted one by Serendipity(op): 7:08pm On Aug 06, 2013
Gaining knowledge

CareerIt Is A Fallacy That No Knowledge Is a Wasted one by Serendipity(op): 5:10pm On Aug 06, 2013
Undoubtedly the saying that no knowledge is wasted appears axiomatic and arguably sacrosanct.
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In his book ''Think Big'', (pp. 200-212) Ben Carson argues that you never can know what you will be doing fifteen years from now hence one should grab every available knowledge.
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He cited an incident where he was before an interviewer who mentioned en passe that he had heard about a concert and he also quipped that he too had heard about it which visibly left the interviewer surprised and they then started discussing classical music..
He contends that that knowlege of classical music was instrumental in his success in that interview.
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MY OPINION
Methinks that having or acquiring some knowledge is sheer and utter waste of scarce time and resources.
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For example, I don't see how the knowledge of how to prepare a cake or sew clothes would have a significant bearing on my life if I were a lawyer. This is truer given that I may never get the time to come and be sewing clothes or making cakes for either myself or family.
Even if I would get to use them in future, wouldn't it be once in a blue moon as in Ben Carson's case.
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In high school, I was very good at the use of Pitman Shorthand. An aeon has elapsed since I left junior secondary, and I have never got to use not even a vestige of the knowledge I acquired in that subject.
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Again, acquiring some of this otiose and apparently irrelevant knowledge may be at the expense of knowledge which would have been more apt and handy. In other words, you may be wasting time acquiring knowledge that has not even a modicum bearing on your life or knowledge you may never get to use due to your discipline.
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At any rate, I suggest that it would be stellar to have a smattering of many things.
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Your methodical views are welcome!
RomanceRe: Seven(7) Things That Make Ladies To Be More Happy & ... by Serendipity: 9:00am On Aug 06, 2013
... That make ladies ''happier'' and not 'more happy'

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... That make ladies ''happier'' and not 'more happy'




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... That make ladies ''happier'' and not 'more happy'
CareerRe: Qualified Chartered Accountants In Here..pls Help The 2013 ICAN Aspirants!!!. by Serendipity: 6:32pm On Aug 01, 2013
akanbijm: O.N.D will start from A.T.S 3 if you study Accounting.
no banking and finance
RomanceRe: Why Men Want Respect And Women Love by Serendipity: 4:24pm On Aug 01, 2013
This is a crass gibberish and baloney.
What makes you think that men want respect alone. What kind of woolly and grim conclusion is that.
I'm a man and I NEED LOVE TOO. So the need for love is neither exclusive nor peculiar to women.
Hacked off...

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