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The power of the unusual. A man shopping for tomatoes in an open market with a baby strapped to his back would also get a lot of attention.

StoneColdBiceps:
My problem when some pips think they are overly smart or strong-willed and believe there is no God or there is nothing like Ancestral course especially in Africa. I can bet you have heard but prolly not experienced it, and feel it doesn't exist. But do you agree there is "witchcraft"? Mr Seun.

No, I don't. See: Do Witches And Wizards Exist? I Don't Think So!.

We just need to export more stuff. Floating the currency will lead to this outcome. The currency will weaken, making exportation more profitable. Government should make it very easy for anyone who owns an undeveloped piece of land to start a cocoa farm and export easily.

I locked the thread because there's no more to discuss. Apparently some people still have more things to say, so I've re-opened the thread.

Somebody took advantage of a weakness in our software to use an automated script to send all those emails. This has been remedied by us.

pomide:
a sultry dressed female church goer sitting beside me..

What's bad about that? It's the one thing that can draw someone with my religious beliefs to church.

Why did you choose the religion section and not the health section for this? (serious question)

Don't worry. It's not going to happen again. Just delete the mails and forget about it. Don't mark them as spam or you may lose legit emails.

Acidosis:
Generational curses are real. In some families, it is uncontrollable anger. Theft runs in some families. To some, it is late marriage (does it mean all the female and male in the family smell badly, illiterates and mannerless?). In some families, their men don't live beyond certain age. There are many people today who are living under bondage that the sins of their forefathers has brought them under.

Have you observed/experienced this personally, or are you just regurgitating what some deliverance minister said when you were at church?

You remember the death of students in ALUU? Truth is that those guys (and their children) will pay for their sins. When that happens (perhaps through a deadly accident or strange illness), an atheist would most likely blame the poor health care facility or reckless driving.

It's mathematically quite likely that some of those guys, or their children, or grandchildren, or great-grandchildren, will experience deadly accidents or strange illnesses. Bad things happen to everybody and the larger the group you're considering, the greater the likelihood that something bad will happen to at least one of them. 1 person may have 4 children, 16 grandchildren, and 64 great grandchildren, making 85 people. It is quite likely that at least one of these 85 people will experience something bad, but that's simply because, in life, shit happens.

Gift101:
So the situation whereby a family has brilliant children but none of them has ever graduated from the university is Genetic right ?

It depends on the reason for not graduating in each case. If you have an example, give us the details so we can explain it to you properly.

otemanuduno:
And if he does who's gonna believe it? Everyone will say it's me

Trust me, we'll know if it's you. Let him join and let's talk to him.

Can't the doctor just create a Nairaland account?

Earthkumy:
If you read it properly and slowly sir, you will know I used the word "we had cases" meaning I'm not suggesting is all issues. And u saying is not biblical shows you don't study the Bible.

How do you know which cases are due to the so-called "ancestral curses" and which cases are due to genetics, education, bad decisions, etc?

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I'm glad that you survived, but I bet it has more to do with your seatbelt and airbags. You should give thanks to the folks who designed them.

diehard1:
People will be dropping calls before 3mins and then call again so no tax.

Exactly. And some people will just summarize what they want to say within 3 minutes and end the call. It's just a thoroughly bad idea.

NanagistBlog:
“There are several ways we can raise additional revenue to finance the increased expenditure that is needed to engender fast and sustainable growth in the economy,” Emefiele said. “I think we can consider introducing a negligible telecom surcharge to be entirely borne by the initiator of a call.

This is like saying. "There are many ways to get the water that we need to fill the swimming pool. I think we can consider fetching 100 buckets of water from the swimming pool every month for this purpose."

How can the chief economist of a country think that raising taxes on long phone calls, which will depress spending, telco revenue, and ultimately telco jobs, will help an economy in recession?

Earthkumy:
THE ANCESTRAL CURSES THE WAY OUT
INTRODUCTION

We have had cases where a good Christian had suffered a particular sickness, hardships, marital problems, a particular habit or other problems that had being following there family lineage, just as the case may be. And they had tried in many prayers, fasting and the problem remains until an anointed man of God prayed and breaks those cures.

If a particular illness runs in your family, it is probably because the disease is genetic in nature. For example, there are families in which every woman develops breast cancer at a particular age. Scientists have found that certain genes are responsible for their tendency to have breast cancer. Angelina Jolie discovered that she has this gene and decided to go for a preventive double mastectomy in order to avoid it. She has also opted to adopt kids so she won't pass the genes to the next generation. Some families tend to have a lot of sicklers, and this is because of the sickle cell gene. The solution is for people from such families to marry people who don't have the gene at all. These are medical issues, and not spiritual. When you attribute medical issues to evil spirits, you prevent the victims from seeking the medical help that they need. How wicked!

If marital problems run in your family, it's probably because nobody in your family knows how a healthy marriage works. Almost everything you know about marriage comes from your parents, and you are likely to make the same mistakes that they did. The solution is to educate yourself on marriage from external sources like books, the Internet, etc and to make sure the partner you choose is very compatible with you and preferably comes from a healthy family. And to seek counseling from marriage counselors, not your pastor who may not know much. If both partners in a marriage come from broken homes, it's highly likely to fail, unless both of them work really really hard to make it work.

If financial problems run in your family, it's due to lack of financial knowledge and education. The solution is to break that cycle by getting educated in an economically viable profession (not Yoruba Studies) and being enterprising. Also, it would be foolish to make financial decisions based on your parents' advice if your parents are poor or financially illiterate. You need to have advisers who know more than they do.

If bad habits such as alcoholism, smoking or drug addiction run in your family, the solution is to never expose yourself to these vices. Never take a glass of wine. Never try cigarettes. Never try drugs. Never keep a friend who does any of these things. Never go to a party or night club where you will be pressured to try these things. Because you are likely to be more susceptible to addiction than most people. One sip of wine could place you on the path to ruin. So don't risk it! However, if the habit bothering you is masturbation, don't worry about it. It's normal.

The suggestion that any problem that runs in your family could be caused by imaginary "ancestral curses" is damaging because it distracts you from the real causes of your problems and the real solutions. It's not even biblical anyway, in my opinion.

damogul:
Heresay without proof seun. You are a forum. learn to filter information first regardless of your leaning.

Yeah I noticed the source after typing that. He's always going on an on about Yahweh being Satan.

@otemanuduno, can the doctor in question come here and share his stories with us? Can he send me some docs to prove that he's a doctor?

Wow, I always suspected that things like this could be happening, but I never imagined that it could be this bad. People need to know about it.

Audray, you need to be more clear about who you're addressing and what message you are trying to pass across to them. Don't be ambiguous.

Good question. Note that mentioning a large number of people is considered to be a form of spamming.

Richard Dawkins gives the analogy of a puddle of water telling itself, "isn't it lucky that I am situated in a pothole that's exactly the right shape for me? Someone must have intelligently designed the pothole specifically for my benefit"

jide219:
he did a lot of things,he brought revival to Edo state,God used him to deliver me

What did he deliver you from? Can you describe exactly how it happened and its lasting impact on you?

Audray:
Seriously?

You need to be more coherent than this

Gift101:
ATHIEST, are we so lucky on Earth that everything Coincidently worked inorder to favour Man and Animals?

The earth was not built to favor life. Rather it is life that has adapted to the earth through the process of evolution. When life started, there was no oxygen in the air so life was dominated by autotrophic microbes which get their energy from the sun through photosynthesis, such as algae. Through their activities, the atmosphere became rich in oxygen which enabled air-breathing organisms to develop through evolution. The earth has at many times been hostile to life, leading to numerous mass extinction events like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. It is life that adapts to the environment in which it happens to find itself.

Now here's my question for you. If God created the entire universe as an ideal environment for hosting life, including human life, why is life only present on earth which is a very very very very small part of the universe? If the universe was made for life, why is 99.9999999999% of the universe hostile to the life it was created for? Out of the billions of billions of stars and planets that God is supposed to have created in six days, why is only one of them a home to life as far as we know?

DangotePikin:
For me disclosing your belief in atheism doesn't make good business sense. Some religious fanatics can choose to leave Nairaland because of it.

Yes, I'm aware of that, but there's more to life than money. There's a satisfaction that comes from helping people to know the truth and be free.

JackBizzle:
I know such a person who abused me for years on nairaland because I was a dirty unbeliever against his religion. Recently, the guy is back and he is now a much calmer agnostic.

I guess that shows that having endless debates with apologists can work. Kudos to you guys for being willing to invest your time in them. Kalatium seems to be on the right track.

Gift101:
Bro don't underestimate the power.

He has the power to provide the name of the person, right? So if someone else coincidentally has a vaguely similar experience we will know that it's a different case.

How old is she? I hope she didn't get a slapsgiving or bad mouth odor for exposing this cheap trick.

The existence of God is not synonymous with the archbishop's ability to raise the dead. If the story is false, that doesn't mean that God doesn't exist. If the story is true, that doesn't necessarily imply that God exists. These are different things.

Who is this addressed to? Can you name the person?

Gift101:
Seun, i've seen when a pastor prophesy to one barren woman for about 12-13 years that she'll give birth to twins by that time the next year; Surprisingly the next year after that prophesy, the woman came to give testimony about her giving birth to twins.

She might have been pregnant when he gave the prophecy. In that case she might have told someone who told someone who told the pastor. It's also possible that the pastor didn't prophesy to the barren woman directly. He might have asked all the barren women in the church to come out and prophesied that God says they'll have twins. In a large group of barren women, the probability that one will have twins due to fertility treatments is quite high. That woman will testify to the amazement of the church while the others, who didn't conceive, won't say anything.

naijadeyhia:
Would telling you the "full story" suddenly make it a physical experience for you or turn you into the doctor or his family? I said clearly that stories are not what you should be looking for.

So you won't tell us the story? Not even to glorify God? Are you afraid that we'll be able to debunk your story without any physical stress?