₦airaland Forum

AntiChristian:
You should create a thread on that separately!
Is this not called red herring in logic?
Be logical!

I thought this thread is about violence in religious text. Let's talk about it in both religions and compare

As per my last paragraph, go back to the previous thread and answer the question if u dont want any distraction.

AntiChristian:
You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:5

Numbers 21
1 When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the Israelites and captured some of them.
2 Then Israel made this vow to the Lord: “If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy their cities.”
3 The Lord listened to Israel’s plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.

Now imagine if the verse was like this:
When the leader of Medinah heard that Muhammad and his men were coming along the road to Medinah, he attacked them and captured some of them. 2 Then the Muslims made this vow to the Allah: “If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy their cities.”3 Allah listened to Muslim's plea and gave the people of Medinah over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.

Christian apologists will talk about how violent Islam is but now that this is in the Bible, you'll be hearing its the Old Testament.

By Bashir Lucas Samson

I really don't know what that means. Is it that their own version of God changed through the times or what?

Tell us about the Jews living in Medina in the 7th century?
I heard Muhammad had their men slaughtered, raped the women or turn them into sex slaves and then enslaved the children. Muhammed also looted their property- that was the only way to rid himself of poverty and end his banditry career.
Why? because they disagreed with his lies n were about to expose him as a false prophet.
What a great example of prophet to follow at all time.

Besides I'm waiting for your response re my previous challenge. Dont run away when told to defend the Qur'an
Show me the name of Muhammad's parents as stated in the Qur'an. Or did drop from heaven?

irumole1975:
I don't think so. He must have been told that thing. You don't know how far out people can go to deceive Nigerians about what they're missing by not being in the abroad

To believe it then we must conclude his brain is leaking.

Dreadlock69:
I don’t feel anything for her not again or before ,
I’m only driven by lust towards her. How do i tell her to go or make her go away without being harsh or rude.

above reason why some men struggle in life. They gather only for their sweat to scatter aimlessly.
You dont treat human beings this way. They are not thrash...except it was transactional sex.

lhordspy:
NATO keep projecting themselves as peace maker but in real sense; they are the real troublemaker, the aggressor.

You are trying to encircle Russia with nuclear weapons by expanding along its border, placing weapons in its surrounding country and you expect Russia to fold its hand, close its eyes and go to sleep?

Something the Hypocritical Un!ted State wont take from anyone. A country that almost nuked its neighbour; Cuba in 1962, just because Russia started building military base there. If not for Russia pulling out and allowing peace to reign. Cuba would have evaporated into dust by now just like Hiroshima and Nagasaki (both nuked by this same US).

What of Nicaragua, Venezuela and some other countries bordering US, dealing with Russia in weapon trade. They are under heavy sanctions from un!ted state just for that. Cuba cant even import cocaa cola. One out of the two countries in the world where coca colaa is not in the market. Just because of Un!ted state sanction.

Something the U.S cant take, they go around dishing it to others. Afterall they control the media and the mind of the people. All they had to do is spin the narratives like they are doing the world a favour by trying to create unrest and war everywhere.

Peacemaker indeed.

But Mexico plans to join BRICS Aand SCO- Shanghai cooperative organisation. The later organise military drills amongst her member countries.
Have u seen America foaming in the mouth and threat ING Mexico not to join.

BidenDTrounced:
"The effect on the dollar is positive. This simply means that the market need more dollars (increase demand for dollar) which will consequently hike the exchange rate as buyers compete for more dollar"

It's noteworthy to mention that the fluctuations in the exchange rate of the dollar is not exclusive to the oil market.
In addition to the hikes occasioned by the irresponsible fiscal policies of the US, there's a massive dump of the dollar for prudent reasons.

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China trims US Treasury bond holdings
By SHI JING in Shanghai | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2023-01-20 06:47

$870b figure in Nov lowest since June 2010, shows financial management

China continued to lower its holdings of US Treasury bonds as the US Federal Reserve is expected to maintain its hawkish stance over the following months, market observers said on Thursday.

According to Treasury International Capital data released by the US Department of Treasury on Wednesday, China decreased its holdings of US Treasury bonds by $7.8 billion in November, marking the third consecutive month of selling. With this, China holds about $870 billion worth of US Treasury bonds, the lowest amount since June 2010.

In October, China cut its holdings of US Treasury bonds by $24 billion, according to TIC data.

Yu Yongding, a member of the Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said China's reduction in its holdings of US Treasury bonds is a measure to adjust the country's balance sheet of overseas assets, which can enhance the security of its overseas assets and increase the net returns on overseas investment.

In November, foreign official institutions sold $12.2 billion of medium-and long-term US securities like Treasury notes and bonds, according to the latest TIC numbers.

Past TIC data show that several central banks sold US Treasury bonds for 49 months since October 2017. Analysts from China International Capital Corp interpreted such selling as a worldwide trend of "de-dollarization".

While the US dollar used to be a global safe haven, economies have been reducing their US Treasury bond holdings over the past few years to lower their over-reliance on the greenback. Such risks of over-reliance became apparent last year during the geopolitical tensions in Europe that were followed by Western financial sanctions on Russia. Diversification of foreign exchange reserves has been more widely adopted by central banks, said CICC experts.

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202301/20/WS63c9c892a31057c47ebaab84.html

Also countries have succesfully developed mechanisms to carry out trade using other mediums that attenuates the need to posses the USD.

Dollar cannot be dethroned. At least not in the nearest future, no other currency can shoulder that responsibility.
All these BRICS currency swap is just academy at best. It can't dent the might of the dollar.
For a currency to be a global currency, there should be more of it in circulation outside her nominated country than inside. Now the consequence is that the holding nation must run a current account deficit. That's the only way the rest of us can have sufficient amount of it.
China will never allow a trade deficit or a budget deficit. China do not intend the yuan to be traded btw 2 other nations like the dollar. All reminbi must end up in China under a tightly regulated currency control.
No other country has a big economy to even be considered.
euro could have been an option but the world will simply end up becoming slave to Germany as the rest of Europe. And with all the financial trouble in EU, euro isn't viable to be used outside of the zone. It will quickly run into problem.
Even India had told russia they will only pay for oil in dollar after the Indians discovered the rubble-ruppee swap deal was making the ruppee lose value against other currency.
What else will Russia buy from india in terms of trade...not much. Thus a lot of ruppee had to go into buying few rubbles to ensure Russia isn't selling her gas cheap.
Leave all these political talk, they carry no weight. Economic pragmatism is different and it shows dollar will remain king for a long time.
Even China will abandon BRICS if it pushes yuan where it shouldn't be

NakedTruth4eva:
This guy and his funny comments. China just brokered peace between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The only country Saudi had issues with was Iran, they do not need US military presence anymore. Besides, China is helping them build their missile systems and other military infrastructures

China wants peace so they can continue to trade to all and sundry. The saudi-Iran peace deal was a big deal and kudos to China for making it happen. We pray it last though I'm skeptical.
China is also looking at brokering a deal btw Russia and Ukraine. If they can pull it off, China will position itself as a true world leader that the rest of the world can look up to.
America will still remain relevant but will have to adjust to the new reality of just being an option.

Guy except u dey collect riba from that work, that job can never get u anywhere. Imagine begging for a 11,000 per month job.
I can't even send that money to anybody in naija, dem go ask me if I no know wetin market dey talk. Na grumbling thank u I go collect.

Your writing isnt that bad. Pls delve into the world of freelancing or digital marketing. U dont need to be IT guru to make money out of it. U can be advertising for people online or acting as the logistic intermediate personnel.
Just be be very hardworking, commited and focused. Trust me it's far better than whatever nonsense u do for that wicked soul u call boss.

AntiChristian:
Quote the verses where he was preaching (not just a one time preaching) about!

Quote different verses where his lifestyle prior to 30 yrs was highlighted just like his last three plus years was detailed!

Stop writing without quote exept we can agree you are ignorant of Books or the Bible left that much details off.

For example, we can talk about Joseph, his childhood, adolescence till he became Youth...
Open up Jesus like that with Bible verses!

Muslims and the habit of finding what's not in the bible. So, what's the purpose of above, what is the relevance of knowing his customers. People knew him as a carpenter, that tells he had customers.
Jesus started his ministry at age 30, that was when he fully went about preaching the gospel.
The story in Luke 2 was written to show he knew he was the son of God even as a teenager.
Joseph childhood was given in detail because it had bearing on circumstances that changed his life as an adult. Jesus lived a conventional teenage years.
A summary of his childhood was given in Luke 2.51-52. If u not happy, then I can refer u to the infancy gospel of Thomas, the syriac gospel of Jesus and gospel of pseudo-matthew. They gave lots of details about Jesus boyhood some of which the Koran copied.
Sorry I can't quote the verses because they are apocryphal, but you shouldn't have a problem with that since u guys read and believe the half-truth hadiths. Unless u are a koranist, I believe u won't have a problem accepting the answers in those gospels.

Now, I equally challenge unto tell us the name of Mohammed's parents as stated in the Koran. Tell us how he became an orphan and those he lived with while growing up according to the koran. pls dont quote hadiths because we Christians dont believe in apocryphal literatures.

Also tell us how many times a muslim should pray per day, and how to pray according to the Koran. Pls I want u to quote koranic verses and not some apocryphal text written 200 yrs later that u guys don't even believe the whole content.
Koran is meant to be a complete book that answers everything for Muslims so pls show me the above in the Koran.

ChybuzzDD:
Many of you talk like this when you haven't traveled.

As an average Nigerian who naturally loves wealth acquisition and as well as "peppering" of friends and relatives down home whenever he visits Nigeria, do you think just having a goog standard of living abroad is enough?

If so, why then do many Nigerians abroad who enjoy these things still resort to crimes from time to time?

My dear, good standard of living without that physical cash(savings) is just not enough, and it has been proven over and over again.

Then she should come back home. All these recent migrants are just entitled spoilt brats.
Dem don carry naija mental laziness go abroad. What were they expecting? To be picking dollar on the street.
Nigerians want that 30 HR/week stress free job that earn 10 thousand dollars per month. Not that such job don't exist but are they willing to put in the effort and skill to get the job? No, but will have time to go YouTube and upload lamentations upon lamentation.
Is that not same Yankee that Indians are now the richest ethnic group in America. They've bought the whole hotels n gas station in America. They came into America with nothing just like naija immigrants.
Do u think the older naija migrants had it easy. Or because they only show off their success stories I think they didn't have it rough initially. These new ones are just lazy, they expecting everything to fall on their laps without any effort.

AntiChristian:
So he worked as a carpenter from 1-30 yrs?
He was obedient to his parents while growing yet they called him out of his mind in Mark 3:21?

What happened during his adolescent? Did he attend schools/learning centres? Who were his customers? How does he relate with people?

For your world, person go dey do same thing from age 1-30 yrs!!!! Person no dey grow up in Islam or do u guys suffer from arrested development?
Read the passage well. Jesus was found in the temple preaching the word of God at age 12yrs, that's adolescent.
Now do u know what that meant? he knew he was the son of God as a teenager. He told his parents he was in his father's house.
Remember he was worshipped as a baby.
You guys can continue to deny the truth, but everything in the bible points to Jesus as God.
He equally worked as a carpenter in his young adult 20s

truthCoder:
True.

In addition, some models would stop working or not work in the long run. How do you want to survive in Nigeria when you simply cannot charge your customers fees. You want to compete with Opay et al? Ordinarily sms alerts that GTB charges once in a while, Nigerians wont let Twitter rest.

We have more fintechs here than in any other African country.

Someone commented that why do i need to have 1,000 ways to pay for a yam.

Unfortunately, many of these fintechs are the same solution with no new innovation. If you are planning to start a fintech and your major solution is still deposit and withdrawal, copying kuda, opay, palmpay and the 150 others, then you might fail.

Yes payment method is saturated. But what about other sectors like health, applying data solution in finance and business, security, transportation, even games. Have there tried online bank like we have here in western countries..

Stanislause94:
The oily pepper stew eating people said the guy used his son for rituals. Why this people dey envious like this?

Seun zero tolerance for tribal comment

AntiChristian:
Where is this in the Bible about Jesus 1-30 Yrs?

Revelations 22:18 If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book

Luke 2.41-52 He was also obedient to his parents while growing up.
He earned a living working as a carpenter b4 his ministry. He didn't have to live off the wealth of any sugar mummy to survive. Mark 6.3,

AntiChristian:
So tell me what was Jesus doing from 1-30 years?

He was on his father's house listening and teaching the word of God, he was growing in wisdom and knowledge, he found favour is site of God and men. Even his mother was amazed and kept those things in her heart.
Jesus is the best role model to follow, no stain can be found on him. Unlike the other false prophet who started his ministry as a bandit n ended it as a sex freak

dominic17:
What an Irony, this is a hight shamelessness.the less civilized tribe claiming to be most civilized. Truth be told if not that Lagos was the capital of Nigeria even the less developed place in the north would have been more developed and civilized than the entire Yorubaland.

Note: I don't respond to tribal bigot

Seun another one

skj1377:
Once we get rid of Nigeria we rebuild our civilisation. I just wonder how a political player there will say he does not think in Yoruba. It will easy to deport him. All developers located in the region will behave if not their visiting visa will be cancelled. Nigeria brings out the worst in every tribe.

Seun, mods ..this is a tribal bait.
Deal with this scoundrel decisively, let's be aggressive about the zero policy to instigate tribal hatred on nairaland.

Respect is earned not given. Those ones shouting China. Which African country can stand toe to toe with China in any relevant sphere of human achievement.
If u don't want American security taking over your airport, don't invite their president. Simple.
Then work hard and develop your continent so they will be forced to come and visit at your own terms and conditions because they got no choice.

When we say we need a leader like Awolowo, what we actually mean is a visionary leader. Someone that can take the bold initiative towards development. Someone who has the genuine passion of his people at heart. Someone who has the capability and the ingenuity to bring ideas to reality.
That's what we talking about. Nobody is saying we should build another cocoa house or start another free education.
Whether we admit it or not,, no southwest has surpassed Awolowo achievement. His legacy of more than 50 years old still stand strong. And that's a shame because it shows leadership is failing.
Tinubu is just a political leader with zero economic intelligence to transform any desert into a paradise. Don't expect much from him even if his health is not another albatross the nation ahs to deal with.
And for the person talking about subsidy. Don't worry, petrol and power subsidy will go before the end of the year, then we will all see how hunger and poverty disappear from Nigeria, and everyone will have enough to eat.

mzeepositive:
which come be professional

Sorry meant to say care job

hikiki:
Tanks for your respond sir...but I never said me n my family! Only said myself and wife alone...

Its the same thing. Don't leave your good job to come to UK except u coming here to work as a professional. Note care job is not a professional job.

hikiki:
Abeg oo,for those wen dey UK. As me and madam dey reason come that end. Madam Sha dey come for masters degree,me dey come into dependant. And I hear say Dem dey pay 10 pounds per hour. Make una no vex oo,with all this tax bills etc..Shea I fit still save up to #400k month? Pls I need mature ansaa. Me na full time hustle I dey come do. Pls I need honest ansas. Tanks in advance

If your plan of relocating to UK is to build a mansion in lekki or maitama u better stay back in naija.
Except u are a professional and u coming straight out of the plane to work as a professional, saving 400k per month with a family to feed is a mirage.
It will take u at least 4 to 5 good years of hard work, acquiring new skills, determination and little dose of luck to be able to save 1000 pounds monthly. UK at the moment is not a joke. U need to have a good job to enjoy the place.
So if u have a good job in Nigeria I wouldn't advise you to come.

wildikeman:
WHY ARE YOU GUYS IN THE UK SO LOUD...PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES, GERMANY, SCANDINAVIA AND SOME OTHER WESTERN NATIONS AREN'T THIS LOUD O.. NOW PEOPLE IN CANADA HAS JOINED IN ALL THESE . MAKE UNA CALM DOWN ABEG NA STILL EARTH UNA DEY AND NOT PARADISE

Nigerians Americans are the most successful of all migrants yet u won't see them constituting nuisance on social media.
Pls naija migrants to UK and Canada, if those places no pay u return to naija. Don't be disturbing our ears, we've heard enough.
They will be the first to star complaining about UK as if the embassy use visa beg them to relocate.

SKIBiNSKI:
Satan doesn't exist, it is just an imagination created in ignorant mad people's head. When i was a kid i visted my grand parents house they had a picture hanged on their house wall. A picture of a black man with two horns and a tail. Underneath was written Satan and on the same picture a picture of a white man (angel) stamping his foot on the head of the black man. And i thought, even as a kid i was, does that mean that me as a black man is Satan? By the way that kinda picture has being banned all over Europe and America co's it is said to be racist . But yet in Africa brainwashed idiats who calls themselves christians still kept these pictures and believes that satan (black people) exists and that angels are white blonde people. Satan do not exist, unless satan is really a black man! then maybe yes!

Don't quote me to yap rubbish about some unexistence white God or some white guy called Jesus who lives in the skies and created the whole world or coming soon to save me please. That shit doesn't exist either. All that shit are fairytales used to brainwash hopless lazy brainless Afrikkkans.

There was Christianity in Africa before it got to Europe. U are the one to know your history.

ChiefJusticeFuc:
You are really naive.

GEJ's troubles began the day he began ordering the then CBN governor and Ngozi Iweala to look for alternative means of wealth storage in the face of USD crashing .

At this same time, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela had already began refusing payments in USD for Venezuelan oil . He had prior nationalized all oil assets and companies . This did not disturb the criminals in Washington but the minute he decided to refuse USD as payment for oil, he was assassinated and the Venezuelan oil sector was crippled with US sanctions.

The Saudis are the only one not bowing to US pressure as the monarchy there is confident that they can not be overthrowed after MbS did a massive purge after he was declared crowned Prince .

MbS is the defacto and substantive leader of Saudi Arabia and he has continued to SST his kingdom adrift from US meddling .

Conspiracy theory at best

Afamed:
Your problem will solve, the day you begin to hold your leaders responsible in your region.


Yorubas are not the reason why Okowa has not paid the retirees their benefits while Hausa/ Fulani is not the reason why your Gov in Abia has refused to do any projects since he came to office

I think this argument is stale. Let their regional leaders be.
The issue here is the national cake. The other leaders in charge of the national cake are not doing any better. They milking the rest of the country.
Nigeria must return to regionalism, that's the only way out otherwise the drums of civil war will start beating again.
The international community will never allow a civil war therefore they will come up with another unworkable solution.
Regionalism NOW.

I think she's the most beautiful girl u ever dated to be tolerating this nonsense from her.

ChiefJusticeFuc:
The USD is forced on the world by the US as both a means of international trade and as a reserve currency.

What do you think all those aircraft carriers are for ? To maintain global peace and security ?

The US has foisted itself on the world since 1945 after WW2 when it emerged as the only developed nation not scarred by the war.

Nixon then pulled a major heist and took the USD off the gold standard.

Meaning it isn't backed by anything other than the US military might to ensure it us accepted.

All energy stock are traded in USD but all OPEC countries were mandated to save or invest most of their earnings back into the US economy at the detriment of their own economy hence why we have something called Foreign reserves that only serve western banks and their economies.

GEJ attempted to diversify from the USD and also open a trading house for Nigerian oil and gas in Lagos . For this they took him out and had a stooge Buhari come in and gave him all the debt he demanded that now we are owned by western banks with no way to repay back in a hundred years. Obi was meant to be a continuation of Buhari's puppet govt .

Nobody is stopping u from buying oil in non dollar denomination. China has already signed a deal with Saudi to buy oil in yuan. Lets see how it pans out.
By the time theres strong demand for yuan outside of China, you will see how Chinese govt will severely limit the amount of yuan that can leave China.
That's why the world use dollar, there's no cap. U can have as much as u want outside of America.
The day China floats reminbi, I will take them serious to challenge the dollar.

Adjovi:
Like you said if you sell in your currency your economy becomes stronger, isn't that what we should be doing in Africa. Was that not Gaddafi wanted to do before the west killed him.

That's the problem with the world started by the west. They will be affected the most because they do not have the mineral resources like Africa does , this is why Russia is still thriving amidst sanctions.
There will always be buyers I repeat . Always

Now u making sense. I agree Africa should develop its own currency and use it to trade within the continent backed by gold if possible.
That's the only way we can be immune to any global economic shock. But to think the world can do away with dollar despite the strong inter global trade...u gotta be kidding

ChiefJusticeFuc:
It depends under which realm you fall under.

Globo Homo or BRIC.

Unfortunately Nigeria is deep into shit creek Globo Homo .

The US Feds want the banks to fall and the US stock markets to crash so they can wipe clean the over $30 Trillion US foreign debt and start afresh with the Great Reset e-currency.

Emefile is currently testing a prototype digital currency for his Jewish masters in Nigeria .

The world is set to be polarized into two halves : the neo liberal Judaic corporatist liquidity based sphere (to which Nigeria falls under) or the BRIC alliance of productive nationalist governments led by Russia

Brazil is no longer under BRIC owing to the Marxist coup that saw Silvia rigged back into office. That leaves Russia, China, India, Iran, Syria and N Korea.

Pls I don't deal with crazy conspiracy theories. Pls bring facts and figures, then can debate.

Adjovi:
There will always be buyers. If you want by goods by it in my currency too and I'll do same for yours shikena. Na by force to use one single currency. Wether the USA likes it or not the fall of the dollar is inevitable and nothing like global recession anything. Nothing go happen

U deluded my friend. Go and learn basic 101 economics.
The more a nation sells in its own currency, the stronger it becomes and it's export becomes less competitive.
Why do u think China, the world biggest exporter sells most of her goods in dollars. They are not being benevolent, they are just pragmatic.
The global consumer market is concentrated in just 3 regions- America, Europe and China- it's 2/3rd of global market. That's the market u target if u want to make money and be prosperous. Have u seen any nation becoming prosperous without exporting to Europe or America?
If u depending on China to carry the burden when the west crash, good luck. China will never allow it's country become a consumer nation. They will continue to make it very hard for importers. China is an export driven economy and CCP will maintain the grip on that policy.

ChiefJusticeFuc:
Russia has not touched that Jewish filth aka dollar for over a year and they are the ones having an economic growth.

There is a contagion spreading in the US banking sector that has seen 3 regional banks so far collapsed.

The US Feds now have to print and pump additional $2Trillion into circulation to prop up the big banks without increasing interests rates higher in an already over inflated and under producing economy.

There is only one way this can go and its down the toilet for the tissue paper USD.

So which currency will replace it?