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Hmmm. Lunafish, your opinion makes more sense than mine.

Moving to travel forum.

Bad choice of title for a thread on a respectable forum like Nairaland!

You sincerely need to try to post in the right section next time

Ambassador miks_baby, I salute you for the above post.

;d ;d

IAH, if you marry a non-believing husband, he has to be tolerant. Let us explore this issue of tolerance.

Does it mean he has to:
- Go to church with you from time to time?
- Let you take the children to church when they'll rather stay at home with him?
- Refrain from teaching the children about evolution or making them doubt the word of God?

It's possible to be tolerant when there are just two of you, but once you have children there'll be no more tolerance!

Lauryn, don't you agree with me that the this car looks rather cute when you view it from a certain angle? It seems to be turning its nose up at us!

I hope you've employed a technician to install it for you since you posted this?

a biological reaction that lasts for few years

Some couples know how to reignite this 'biological reaction' over and over again. For them, it seems to last a lifetime! I think young people should take time to study those who are doing fine instead of rushing into failure.

It's a confession. Accept it and get ready for your heart to be broken. That's just part of the love game.

Bank assurance? how does that work?

Faith is a life choice, it's not a simple thing that can be swept under the rug.

I agree with you. It's sad, but true, that most people saying "yes" may not actually be able to tolerate the non-believer or respect his/her non-belief enough to create a healthy relationship. Tai Solarin had to import a white german atheist to be his wife, and Nigerians who are non-believers should be prepared to do the same.

Well it's just that jobs do not fall from heaven.

The LAN adaptor of my one and only second-hand laptop was bad, so I had to buy a new one. The monitor screen had problems, and a few weeks after purchase the hard disk died. So I don'd share your enthusiasm abt second-hand laptops without some warranty. Unfortunately, new laptops are just too expensive!

Thanks for sharing. Can you tell us about the process of exporting a product like the the palm oil to foreign countries? Some of us will like to export other things, but it'll be nice to know how easy/hard it is.

http://www.savingcapitalism.com/final.pdf <-- this will make you fall in love with capitalism again!

I’m a conservative. I believe in individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government, except for:

1. Social Security;
2. Medicare;
3. Medicaid;
4. Welfare;
5. Drug laws;
6. Public schooling;
7. Federal grants;
8. Economic regulations;
9. Minimum-wage laws and price controls;
10. Federal Reserve System;
11. Paper money;
12. Income taxation and the IRS;
13. Trade restrictions;
14. Immigration controls;
15. The postal monopoly;
16. Foreign aid;
17. Foreign wars of aggression;
18. Foreign occupations;
19. An overseas military empire;
20. A standing army and a military-industrial complex;
21. Infringements on civil liberties;
22. Military detentions and denial of due process and jury trials for citizens and non-citizens accused of crimes;
23. Torture and sex abuse of prisoners;
24. Secret kidnappings and “renditions” to brutal foreign regimes for purposes of torture;
25. Secret torture centers around the world;
26. Secret courts and secret judicial proceedings;
27. Warrantless wiretapping of citizens and non-citizens;
28. Violations of the Constitution and Bill of Rights for purposes of “national security”; and
29. Out-of-control federal spending to pay for all this.

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0604c.asp

Interestingly,

", Americans rate atheists below Muslims, recent immigrants, gays and lesbians and other minority groups in 'sharing their vision of American society.' Atheists are also the minority group most Americans are least willing to allow their children to marry."

http://www.religioustolerance.org/atheist5.htm

benbella, I'm glad your post is attracting attention. Can you tell us more about life as a palm oil exporter?

If you really need a job, you'll be thinking of how to start your own business.

Visit the nairaland business forum: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/board-24.0.html

So this forum is full of potential investors. I'm proud!

a perfectly or 100% free market only leads to monopolies.

Hmmmm. Well this is simply wrong. Every monopoly in real life enjoys some government protection. As long as you are earning money, other entrepreneurs will be looking for a share of your pie. Sometimes, your employees will defect and try to start their own companies. New companies will come up with new products and services that render yours obsolete. Market leaders, often mislabelled as monopolies, always have to be on their toes.

For example, Nairaland is a major online forum. Perhaps we get more traffic than other forums, but that doesn't stop others from getting a significant amount of traffic. Nairaland may seem so great, but if someone builds a new forum and gives people a good reason to migrate, our members will migrate. There will always be those who prefer smaller forums simply because they are small. The only way this site can become a monopoly is to bribe or swindle lawmakers into creating a law that makes it hard for others to start their own forums. For instance, a "minimum memberization" rule that requires all forums to have at least 10,000 members or merge with larger forums if they can't meet that number.

This is the real reason why big business seems so powerful; the politicians can be manipulated to pass stupid laws that favor large companies at the expense of smaller businesses. If the lawmakers are guided by free market principles they would not create such arbitrary laws. Now you understand why i'm an opponent of the recapitalization aspect of the Nigerian banking reforms - it favors the richest of the rich at the expense of all.

Responding to this implied question, a slashdotter wrote:
"Actually, power lies with guns (as it always has), whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive that it is the Duty of the People to alter or abolish it."

Someone replied by saying:
You're an idiot, and this is just an assaninely stupid statement.

What you seem to have missed out on is that in 1776, the guns the populace had and the guns the government had were the same, so the side that won was pretty much based on how many people you had, influenced by your ability to pay them, and their emotional/economic investment in the fight.

In modern day resistence, guns are so useless that they're only used against extremely poor governments. You might be able to stage a revolution in the Congo with guns, hell, you can even do it with enough people and some machetes, but there is just no way that you can keep a government like the US government honest with the treat of a firearm. The government is not threatened by a firearm - it is useless against their tank, and it is especially useless after the government has blown up your car.

Iraqi insurgents have guns. IRA had guns. Hamas has guns. What do these groups do with guns? They try to AVOID using them, because when they make use guns they are visible, and when they are visible people can drop a bomb on them. A gun is useless when your enemy is just going to send a missile into your apartment if they know where you are. They know that guns don't work, which is why they use bombs. Look at the number of Americans killed in Iraq by IED vs. firearm.

Even with bombs, you're not going to get what you want; all you succeed at doing is creating an environment of poor security, which leads to a poor economy. Even in a poor economy, the government is still better off than the populace. Once you've let the government get out of hand, it's too late: The best you can do is make your economy so bad that your government becomes militarily weak enough that they provoke someone to come and invade you.

There's a name for places like that: Bosnia.

A third poster agreed with the second opinion:
You're right. Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan had guns and, by golly, the bravest men any battlefield might've seen. What happened to them? B-52s flying in round-the-world-trips carpet-bombed them and their entire camp areas into oblivion. What remained of them wherever they were encountered in skirmishes were within hours of battle starting anihilated by rockets coming from submarines emerging thousands of miles away in the middle of the ocean and then submerging again. How can you fight that?!

If Al-Qaeda fighters, tough, hardened, passionate and insane, couldn't do it, then I very much doubt an American civil movement could; Americans were reared on an everyman-for-himself capitalist culture, and good luck to anyone who may try to summon in them the sort of passion, irrational dedication and resolve required for a revolution. You can't even convince Americans to care enough about their fellow citizens to adopt universal healthcare, let alone a revolution.

And if anyone thinks the US government won't use violence to suppress internal dissent, then look back at what they did to the leftist movements of the 1960s, they broke their back, they used live amunition on campus grounds to shoot demonstrators.

What is your opinion? Does political power lie with the people, or does it lie with whoever has the greatest amount of military power, be it guns or bombs? Will democratic governments unleash terror on the people they are supposed to be representing if there's any form of mass uprising against them? Who is really in charge of us?

I seriously believe that something like that would happen. Arbitrary regulations that favor big money.

Hello there,

There are some of us (Nigerians) who actually don't believe in God. We don't go to church, we don't go to mosques. Some of us can be quite moral, gentlemen, and not players. We are as faithful and honest (or dishonest) as the average Christians, and sometimes more so. But we just don't believe in God. At all.

Suppose you meet someone who is so sweet, so loving, so gentle, so understanding, so caring, so attractive, so charming, etc. Someone who is everything you have ever wanted in a husband or wife. But that person just doesn't believe in God and despite all your efforts cannot believe (or refuses to believe).

If that non-believer in God asks you to marry him/her, will you oblidge, and under what conditions (if any)?

Thanks a million!

I discovered a problem with laissez-faire. I have no problem with people being poor while looking for how to contribute to society, but I don't believe that people should be allowed to die or suffer serious physical/psychological damage due to lack of money. So I guess there are limits to capitalism. All other things being equal, an altruistic person will be less prosperous than an amoral one in a perfectly free market society.

I suppose by 'maternal' you don't mean female dominated, right? Their president is male, and so are most politicians!