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Whose Fault?

Take a pause and look.

This woman has a naked big-headed baby strapped loosely with 100-year-old wrapper to her tanned back that smell of garri and kerosene.

On her rough brown hair is balanced a plastic bowl of cold, vapour-emitting sachet water. She runs faster than moving vehicles on traffic snail-time, shouting "pure water here". She races happily with no smile when a thirty tongue says "come", and the innocent baby giggles at the Sun.


Now there is another of her sex. Inside a LandCruiser she sits with the AC eliminating the hit. Her left hand is on the wheel, and the right gently taps on the pretty iPhone. She horns impatiently at the stuck traffic and sips water from her cold bottle.

Finally the road clears, and as she moves her car, the woman with a baby on her back runs to respond to a late "come". The vehicle hits her and she falls. The baby hits his head on the tar, and it was his end.

So, who is to blame for the child's death?

A) The Mother
B) The Woman in the car
C) The Person that wanted to buy water
D) The Traffic
E)The Government
F) Destiny
G) Devil
H) God

Think, and answer with reasons. God bless!

eneji50:
My pocket My concern

Seriously? That's your approach to life?

A Hundred Years From Today

Jim would be happily married to his dog, and the constitution will clap for it.


Jenny would go on honeymoon with a 3-year old as a husband, and it will not be strange.

Oslaka will slit his children's throats, and the government will pay him for it.

Emy will have no access to water, education or healthcare because she does not belong to a fraternity.


Churches will be framed as terrorist organisations and human rights infringers.


There is nothing this world will not get to, if we - God's people - fold our hands, and do nothing.

We must pray, and spread the Gospel.

A Hundred Years From Today

Jim would be happily married to his dog, and the constitution will clap for it.


Jenny would go on honeymoon with a 3-year old as a husband, and it will not be strange.

Oslaka will slit his children's throats, and the government will pay him for it.

Emy will have no access to water, education or healthcare because she does not belong to a fraternity.


Churches will be framed as terrorist organisations and human rights infringers.


There is nothing this world will not get to, if we - God's people - fold our hands, and do nothing.

We must pray, and spread the Gospel.

First, he was called a blessed child. At age eight,
he won the 1000
meters race in his school sports competition in
twelve seconds beating
the senior boys who believed they were faster
than speed. At age twelve, he chased and caught up with the
mab that stole his
mother's purse in the market. Then, he was called a cursed child. At fifteen, his
little brother
fell terribly sick in the middle of the night. There
was no vehicle to
take him to the hospital, and he was dying. He
offered to take his brother there on foot. His mother refused. He
insisted, remimding them
of how fast he could run. When all alternatives
were exhausted, his
mother allowed him have the boy. "Don't let him die." His mother pleaded in tears. Without saying a word, he jetted off. When he
ran, it was as if he
flew, with the wind propelling him. Just a little
distance from the
hospital, he slipped and fell. His little brother fell
down too, and stopped breathing. He looked at his little brother
with blood oozing
from his head. His cry ran through the dark, silent night as hot
tears took solace on
his dry cheeks. He ran home to tell his parents.
Hell broke loose. He
could stand the blame, insult and curses from his
mother, and his father's silence. But he could not stand his guilt.
He ran away from
home to a distant town. His name is Osama. Osama was found sleeping in an abandoned car
by Uncle Sly. He told him
his story, and Uncle Sly took him home. He lived
there in quiet and
depression. He had swore never to run again, no
matter what. Then he was twenty one. Uncle Sly's wife gave
birth after twenty years
of marriage to a boy. It was joy in the house, but
Osama could not
come out of his room to see the baby. He would
remind him of his dead brother. Three nights later, the baby fell sick. His skin was
sore red, and his
temperature could boil water. It was 1AM, and no
hospital was close
by. Uncle asked his wife to clime the motorcycle
with the baby, but the motorcycle refused to moved. He kicked and
kicked, but got noise
in return.

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rheether:
You are as clueless as GEJ.

Really? A clueless man became the president? I will see what you -with clue- will become.

I know all Nigerian students will agree with this. Let's go!

1) Put Air Conditioners in our classrooms and hostels: The heat is killing our brains.

2) Give us federal bursary: Like 50,000 naira each is not a bad idea.

3) Free Internet Access on campus: Free Wi-fi. We'd all browse and research for free.

4) Free food at school bukas: We read too much, we don't have time to cook.

5) Hostels of one or two persons per room. A very big room.

6) Free visas for us to travel abroad for research purposes.

7) Stable electricity in our campuses: We need 24/7

Fixing of CCTV in lecturers offices: Will reduce molestation.

9) Free books at the start of every session: WE are tired of spending our allowances on photocopy.

10) Bodygaurd for each student: Those cultists will stop harrasing us.

11) Revive sports

12) Most importantly, free brand new Apple laptops.

Who is with me?

Velocitron:
You can't prove with concrete facts and logic that God exists, by faith alone is God revealed to man. Neither is the power of salvation in your hands, simple as that.


OP, help me out here as I'm somewhat clueless. Is that a poem or is it some kind or reference to a war or a plague or something?

Just a simple poem.

Weah96:
That's not true. I'm certain that your God doesn't exist. I arrived at that conclusion by following the verification process that was allegedly written by the God himself.

If you do not believe He exists, why would you follow your claimed 'his verification process'?

onetrack:
Well, I don't believe in any god, so I can talk about any god any way I like.

If you really do not believe in any 'god' as you claim, you will not even talk about them, especially in an ill-way.

plaetton:
Lol.
The above confirms the fears that many faithful secretly harbor. If you have to write this, then you are already not sure that he is out there.
This is more like fearful cry for reassurance.

I believe your baseless beliefs compelled you to misunderstand me. I am more sure that God is out there than I am more sure I am alive.

onetrack:
If this is what the world is like with God alive, I'd say he is doing a terrible job. He should be sacked and replaced with a new god immediately.

Seriously? It's painful enough that in all your mess, God will never speak ill of you like you say of him.

DProDG:
So I made a few changes to the op...

The beautiful thing about all is this: deep within your heart, there is a conviction that God is real. You may choose not to listen to it, but it doesn't erode the truth.

The Year God Died

So God died, and was laid to rest. Then, as expected, hell broke loose.

Satan turned the world upside-down. We ate frogs as food, and it was just one frog a week.

We had no water - not even our urine- for drinking. We drank our tears.

Demons taught us in schools without books. Our classes held in the dark. The sun was nowhere.

Chickens lived longer than children. Corpses were like grains of sand. Death was a friend.

So many more I cannot tell.

Pause. Breathe in. Breath out.

There is no such year. It has not been, and will not be.

My friend, God is not dead. He is still very much in charge!

Just want to find out. Which of these can be an individual's greatest weakness?

1) Dishonesty

2) Pride

3) Anger/Wrath

4) Impatience

5) Others. Please specify.

Lemme know.

An2elect2:
God will work obedience in us

If our will, decision and action are irrelevant as you paint, then we are no more than robots.

God's spirit in us is our strenght to obey, but we must choose to yeild. God never compel us. We choose, even salvation.

An2elect2:
genuine faith in God will produce good works that's what James means

Yep!

That means, if there is no good work (fruits of obedience), then one's claim of faith in God is questionable.

God don't expect us to be without mistakes, but He doesn't want us to be disobedient fellows.

An2elect2:


No 3 is not a disobeying believer. You can't gain eternal life by your works but by grace which rests on the finished work of Christ on the cross

You choose to call us disobeying believers, God sees and calls us otherwise. And that's where i fall.

Good you know your stand.

Of course, it's not by works. But without it, our faith is dead.

So says the Bible.