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overtlyderanged:
I'm not even speaking about any individual right now, I'm talking generally.

But even the Einstein you're praising sef, do you know how much work he put in before he came up will all the stuff he did? If you have detailed reports about how he came up with them on a whim, then you may be onto something...however marginally concrete.

Everybody puts in work, but a genius will do it faster and technically better.

Sorry, but I must take us back to Edison and Tesla. Even Tesla said Edison wasn't a genius.

History has it that way and it's pointless equating hard work to genius. Hard work is found in every human. But genius is not.

overtlyderanged:
That is only a problem if you've had access to prior knowledge yet you keep fumbling around for the right answer.

For example, if you're able to reverse engineer something successfully after multiple attempts based on little to no information, how do you describe that?

Trial and error will never be genius.

The world celebrates the genius of Einstein and the doggedness of Edison.

Reverse engineering doesn't take genius, but rather good observation. It takes genius to engineer.

overtlyderanged:
Does being a "trial and error" person make him less of a genius? Are there people that get everything they set out to do at the first attempt?

99 times shows that you don't know what you're doing, but you're learning as you go along. It means you lack skills or genius. That's why it's called trial and error.

Israel5:
names cnnt define a person? Are you serious?! Then i advice you name your seed gehazi, jezebel, judas, etc and then pray for them to leave a different life. Why do people like you avoid such names? A prince is an overcomer and doesn't struggle abi? Please what does he overcome? Is it not when one stands after a struggle that they become overcomers? Check out the true sons of david and see if they were not army trained(solomon was sidelined because of hs bckground), jonathan was a warrior that fought with hs father saul, many other princes except those too young. Man hs authority to... Fine! God will not step into what he didnt start. You do smethng on your own and you expect him to bless it? He gives grace to those who submit to tally to him and hs will(the humble). Times have changed sir! Give God every chance! To whom he names, He gives grace.

Till the present day, children are still names Judas. People do name their children Jezebel. That people associate a name with a negative character does not mean the name is wrong/bad because of the deeds of somebody who had it before. Jezebel was not the first woman named Jezebel. There were probably other women by the name, but she chose to live her life as a seductress. Gehazi was not the first Gehazi to have existed. It was probably a common name. But it doesn't mean nobody can answer the name because one Gehazi misbehaved. It's like saying your child can never be called Adolf because of Hitler, when there were many people bearing the name before him and and the same time as him and even after him. The name not make one a murderer.


Greatness is not by name, but by grace.

Israel5:
fine! Go ahead or perhaps you've named all your chldrn already and you don't want a bitter pill but i must tell you that every christian parent(especially fathers like you) must seek God's face on every child conceived. If every parent seeked God's face on their children, things will be a lot easier. Our last born came as a surprise to my parents bt my father got a name(JOHN) nd a revelatn showing a map. On the day of naming, the officiating minister saw a map again. That was a revelation about the life of the baby to touch the world. How did the two Johns fair in the Bible? They were always on the move. I never said Israel is a bad name. It's not a perfect name for every or any child. Certain names are best given to help work the fulfilment of certain destinies. I've been told severally by God that i'll be great just as He told the Israel of old but greatness was to be fought for. Perhaps you feel a 'prince' is handed a silver spoon but in those days, a prince must fight and struggle like a soldier. It's nt like now.

Perhaps that was a unique trend in your family, in which your father named you all based on revelation, but man was given the authority to speak and it will come to pass; choose a name for his offspring or whatever may be the case...

In those days a Prince was a man bathed in oils and drunk in the tents. Which princes in the Bible were known to be warriors?

There is the difference between an earthly Prince and The Prince of God. The Prince of God is favored at all times, flourishes at the river bank, is an overcomer and cannot struggle in life.

The most a parent cab do for a child is to pray for it and nurture it. Not all this nomenclature hassles. Any regular name you give your child is good enough.

Names cannot define a person.

Greatness is not by name, but by grace.

OgidiOlu3:
If by trial and error you mean, doing, failing, then doing again with another method, then Edison was a genius. It takes only a genius to do "trial and error" and be successful with it. For someone that isn't "truly educated", he has invented a lot of things.

Genius hits it head on. Trial and error hacks away.

Look at Tesla. He achieved a lot more than Edison did.

Trial and error doesn't need genius. It needs persistence and strength.

Judeoxide:
The theory was really radical as of then.. It took 2014 abi 15 to discover it including high tech equipment...a genius is priceless.

Same thing happened to Thomas Edison...
But they never gave up or even cared about wealth.

I think thats one of the main reason they succeeded

Edison was not truly educated. He was more of a trial and error person. Not exactly genius.

dejavski:
Did u attend unilag? I yes then u should know of a certain Dr fashanu. He took us then...you'll never hear a word during his lectures, the only time he tries to be audible is when he shouts "are you with me"

I did not attend unilag. But your lecturer sounds funny.
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dejavski:
Did u attend unilag? I yes then u should know of a certain Dr fashanu. He took us then...you'll never hear a word during his lectures, the only time he tries to be audible is when he shouts "are you with me"

I did not attend unilag. But your lecturer sounds funny.

Israel5:
yes the name matters. I'ld like you to use a name that has been given to someone in the bible so we'll have a clearer picture of things here. I'm not going to argue abt other names yet but mine and why God should name. Adam gave names after he saw the character of things evidently obvious to him not unborn. GOD who sees the end from the beginning being all-knowing is in the best position to name an unborn children or provide a platform for a name to be given. To whom He names, He gives grace...

Man was given the authority to name all creation, including their children. Why are you trying to saddle God with that again?

Prince of God is not a bad name. The origin doesn't matter.

Just like we don't know the origin of the name Jezebel, but it means "unmarried". But we all know Jezebel was married to Ahab.

NOETHNICITY:
So agriculture is one private biz that deserves FG subsidy? Ok! In ur matured imagination some private biz deserve subsidy while some others don't? Isn't this what is called HYPOCRISY?can't u see? Pls I am not interested in joining issues with you! Simply purge ur heart of ethnic hate and experience jus how sweet life is! Thnk u!

Who is joining issues with you? You are ethnically inspired in your own "literate" and "mature" way. When you realize the reasons behind the subsidies (one is for all farmers, while the other is to appease marauders) you will question the figures.

You're welcome.

Israel5:
i'ld have suggestd you used a biblical name bt can you tell me the origin of kingsley? I bet not. I'm talkin about a name with an origin and a trend. Do you as a christian suggest you give your children any name you want. I agree, the meaning of a name makes for greatness but you should knw that no one was born great. There was always a story to tell. Call your son Jesus and watch him ascend to heaven na. God should give names is my point. To those the name is given, grace is given.

The origin does not count, but the name does. Will people called patience begin to search for the origin of their names, or just simply accept the meaning of the name? You might call a child beauty when the origin of the name lay in somebody who ironically called their child that many years ago. Point is, it's the meaning and not the origin that counts.

Whether you like it or not, or think so or not, Israel is a perfect name, just like Michael. It has a good meaning.

How can God name every child? Even Adam was given the job to name every creature as he pleased, even his children. Man is meant to name things.

Greatness is not by name, but by grace.

dejavski:
Runge kutta is a topic in Numerical methods in 400l advanced engineering mathematics(GEG 401) it's quite tedious and very tricky.
Goons from unilag will attest to this

Yes , but it's one of the easier aspects in numerics. I enjoyed the brain play and flow with it.

Maybe the person who taught you made it seem tedious. And please, don't call them goons again.
Unilag goons

Israel5:
Christians do believe in the power of names and it dates back to the beginning. If you don't as a christian, you shouldn't be called christian in the first place because the name 'Christian' connotes a representation of christ. It is said that not all that glitters, is gold. I could say thesame for names, particular names from the bible. Using my name as a case study, the Name Israel is a name birthed by God himself when Jacob encountered him, He changed Jacob's name to Israel which in hebrew means "a prince with God or God's soldier or A victor". The name Israel alone is very attractive, beautiful and appealing to the senses but people seem not to bother themselves with the storylines. Christian parents just pick names from the bible as if it's Konga and give their children. I was lucky cos my late father being a pastor named me by divine utterance after God gave him a name when i was in the womb(or so i was told). Many of such wonderful names like samson, solomon, paul, lucifer, moses et al are given to children by their parents forgetting the history made around such names.
To my point, Israel as a people; being God's soldier fought a lot of battles of which it is to never end till the end of time. This i've noticed is spelt out in the life of so many Israels i have come across. I know because if i find out you're my namesake, we get acquainted asap.
Israel as a people were what we christians today term "rising nd falling believers". They're in christ(hot) today, tomorrow they're cold. It's like a struggle to live Holy. Many Israels today(my story before) struggle to remain holy atleast for a month; struggling with easily besetting sins of lust, pride, etc.
Israel as a people were gifted as i've seen many Israels today in that light talking about music, the word et al but they still struggle to make it. So it seems when a parent gives the name to his child, you have sealed his faith to be a soldier by force. I was happy at first when a woman called me and said she had name her new baby boy after me because she liked God's grace upon my life as i'm good in the word, music, drama and admin but i became sad after i thought about the name. If only she knew how i struggled... I wished the child well tho. In all, don't give your son this name if God did not ask you to.
P.s: the fewer we are the better sef. LOl

Do you know the meaning of the name Israel? It means Prince of God.

Until you know it's meaning, you're going to keep drowning yourself in beliefs that will only serve to make you gloomy. So if a man is named Kingsley (which probably has to do with something like: King-like) and the first man by that name was a pauper, does that mean he must live the life of those who bore his name in times past?

You really need to differentiate between the meaning of a name and the lives of people with the name.

Greatness is not by name but by grace.

NOETHNICITY:
I read that man's post and do not see where he mentioned anyin Ibo, so there is no question of him being anti ibo! Why is it that when somebdy supports govt policy he automatically becomes anti ibo? Why is it that Nig is the only country where Fgovt is blamed for evrtin! When govt does not act it gets blamed, when it acts it also gets blamed! Why aren't we criticising FG for proposing to invest over 500b on agriculture which is also a private biz? Over the years FG have alws subsidised fertilizers for our farmers,isn't farming also a private biz? Why is 940m all of a sddenly such a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge sum of money that is causing such a national outcry? It goes to show the level hate ibos ve for fulanis! Its not even as if govt wants to put the money in their(Herdsmen) pockets, rather govt only seeks to settle them at reserves to make it easy for them to be monitored, censored and taxed! How is this diff frm Lagos govt building shops and shopping mall for traders? U will quickly tell me that traders pay rent,now who told us that herdsmen will not? Govt has a responsibility to provide infrastructure for any biz that pple re interested in, moreso that this reserves will put an end to an aged-long bloodshed! Why is bigotry now soooooooo endemic in Nig that even educated pple ve turned illiterates? If u can do away with hate, bigotry and hypocrisy u jus might see the good in this!

Why have you not confronted his earlier rants against Igbo people? Instead you are so ethnically pure of mind that you jump to your conclusions.

When did telling somebody who was very clearly raving against Igbo people to stop being bigoted become anti government? Yet you claim to be literate. Yet you want to "enlighten" others.

Remove thou the specks you think you see, but bear thee thine beam comfortably.

Farming fertilizers are for everybody in the whole country to use, and they are subsidized What we are being made to understand is that the sum of money you quoted is to be used to settle the private affairs of certain Libyan herdsmen, rather than bringing them to book.

Of course, you see nothing wrong in that. I mean, agricultural money should be of great benefit to Libyan herdsmen who destroy farms as they plow their way through the country killing people, because we are all literates and pro government and not anti Igbo in any way at all.

Meanwhile, everybody in the country owns the commodity crude oil, but by no means should the impoverished people of those communities be provided for. In fact, they need to be bombed out, because we are all literates and pro government and not anti Igbo in any way at all.

No ethnicity = much ethnicity.

How on earth do you reason that 940m should be used for grazing reserves for the private business of some Libyan terrorists and try to justify it all? Is subsidized fertilizer not for everybody? Do the people who use it still not buy it? Shouldn't everybody in the country practising agriculture also receive free land and then when the profits from sales are made it enters their own personal pockets? Are the Libyan cows government property? Or will the herdsmen not claim ownership of them? No wonder ethnic lines have been drawn. When you want to reward evil with good, what else do you expect?

Saimeritus:
Good people of Nairaland, I will be rounding up my Industrial training with NLNG in few months time and I want to buy good Android between the price of 30-40k for my mother who is her early fifties, She is not conversant with all these high tech phone, pls I need your advice on a phone that will be easier for her to use. Thanks and waiting for ur candid response

What does the relevance of LNG have to do with your post?

Seriously, if you wanted to tell everybody that , you didn't have to add the rest of it. I suppose nobody else has done their internship in LNG. By the time you announce it on ground, too, and have your haters do something more "spectacular" than interning at LNG to you...

Smh. Nigerians and their need for unnecessary details just to show people what they don't care for.

dejavski:
Fourier series, Runge Kutta(that one na die!!!), - advanced calculus
Bernoulli equation, compressible flow
- fluid mechanics
Zeroth, First, 2nd and 3rd law of thermodynamics, carnot cycle, rankine cycle, vapour power cycle, clausius-clapeyron equation..
Power transmission, cams, gears and gear train, governors, gyroscopes- Mechanics of machines
Turbomachinery
Refrigeration cycle
Viscous Flow theory(one of the most difficult courses )


Shout out to all Mechanical Engineers in the house!!
#respect

When did the Runge Kutta become something deadly? That is one of the best parts of mathematics. Likewise the Laplace transformation.

greatness22:
Op, is dat a snake or an earth worm?



Make i relax for here first. Who nose were dis thread is heading to?

You certainly can smell something cooking. You nose this very well.

Jhappy:
Don't even try to down play it! Ibos hate yorubas! Its beyond competition! Ibos can't do witout hating others!

I'm not Igbo, but do you not think it could also be the other way around too?

You sound so full of hate, so bigoted, so very Mohammedan. All your posts on this thread show you to be so full of hate for igbo people that you begin to reek of the very thing you think you're condemning.You people (Mohammedans) are an intolerant lot. You hate everything that's not one of you. Yet you claim to be peaceful.

diegwu01:
What you are asking is similar to a question like "Why should the government Build roads for me to run my private Business"?, its the culture of the Herdsmen to move around and feed and grow cattle its as old as civilization itself. If you decide to rear cattle , you can use the reserve, everyone is welcomed.

But this isn't the idea behind creating the reserve, the aim is to curtail the excesses of of the Evil and murderous terrorist amongst them. the Herdsmen issue has been in the governments burner for a very long time, thousands have been have been killed in clashes between them and farmers in the middle belts and northern region, if the government plans to restrict their movement, save lives and avoid clashes by purchasing reserves, i dont think its a bad idea

Your comparison between roads and personal business is just analogous.

Why is it that supporters of the bill do not demand free fertilizers and land for other people doing their PRIVATE, PERSONAL businesses?

What makes a bunch of marauders so much more important than states that such a chunk of the budget should be allocated to making them comfortable.

Call a spade a spade. What are the true reasons for funding all this?

Rather than using the military to CRUSH/BOMB OUT these herdsmen, the decision has been made to give a lot of money to making terrorists from Libya (to borrow the words now being used to describe Hausa people) more comfortable. It's this the serious stance of the leader who Nigerians voted in?

Can we treat violence with gentility in all aspects nationally, or is it a selective preference?

Is the government going to appease everybody or only just the strangers from Libya with guns, instead of disarming them and deporting them?

Be honest with yourself. Stop being so anti Igbo and try and see beyond the colors of bigotry.

Every day another story.


Can there be just an ounce of transparency on this issue?

One moment all the girls are missing, the next moment we have people telling us they will rescue them all and that they know where all of them are. How? When some have blown themselves up, when we were told that they've been split across the BH caliphate in Africa and the world beyond. How can they all be rescued?

Why should there be confusion about who the girls are? Don't they have a list of names and don't the girls know their own names?

Why were we told that the girls were sitting for their final papers in secondary school, and now there are SS1 or JSS1 students involved?

Why do they miraculously turn up just before the 29th of May? Is there something prophetic or political about that?

More clarity is needed. More honesty is needed. Because people are starting to think that nobody was kidnapped to begin with.

Kingsasian:
There is no evidence to show that it is human flesh.

It might as well be. Look at the other thing in his bag.


One thing is that that man could be unwell mentally. He should be sent for a psychiatric evaluation. That meat could be anything. He sounds grieved about something to do with his son.

Aren't all atheists opinions negated by their belief in the supernatural?

solaceseeker:
I obtained the Western Australia Certificate of Education (WACE)

If you're in Abuja, go to the ministry of education.



Good luck.

Did you do those subjects in your IGCSE/HIGCSE/IB?

UyiIredia:
How can someone believe in spirits and still call himself an atheist? Those two don't rhyme mate.

How can they claim to believe in the supernatural but not in a god? Isn't God supernatural?

How is there a difference between the imagination of supernatural things and miracles that happen? Are atheists biased or do they really have grounds for disbelief in God? Anybody dumb enough to believe in the supernatural should just add God to the list.

What I've seen so far is that atheists will make excuses for the supernatural as if it isn't as unbelievable as God. Isn't the devil the opposite of God? If you can believe in supernatural activities believed to emanate from the devil or certain spirits out there, why are you so scared or offended to believe there is a God? Isn't God a supernatural entity too?

Inconsistency in atheism. Superstition is different from supernatural. And let that sink into the skulls of all the thoughtless atheists who try to sound sophisticated by talking about "supernatural" as though theism doesn't found itself on supernatural.

It's disgusting and pathetic to see atheists who believe in the supernatural as if theism isn't of the same stock.

As you can see, the models are Chinese.

quivah:
I watched a prank video.
A man claimed to be selling some magic drink that can instantly give you power..
First, he showed them a practical, there was a heavy bell shaped material constructed on the road,but it has an handle at one edge.. An old man was sitted beside it.
The magician first tried lifting the heavy stuff but he couldn't, he drank a bottle of his mixture, and went ahead to carry the material again..this time, he could. Hmm
One person from the crowd volunteered to put him to test.. He tried lifting the stuff,but he couldn't,drank the mixture and went back to lift the material.. He was successful and people thought the mixture was for real. All this was happening in their korokoro eye o
Then
One by one people started going to lift the heavy stuff, failed at it and went back to collect the nixture(free of charge),tried lifting the stuff again..and it was very easy as though they were lifting paper.
This was something that was very very heavy , in fact the stuff as I see it was constructed by the govt or any organization.. So it had always been there .

How were these people able to lift this stuff??

PS; it was just a prank video, not magic whatever
They showed us how they were able to perform this prank..
If this same people wanted to act like magicians, they would have succeeded

Possibly.

quivah:
Hmm madam!
He lifted the car with his teeth? What part of the car did his teeth hung to?
Cause I'm wondering if there's any part of a car that can easily or perfectly fit into someone's mouth.. The car's side mirror? Tire? Car's door handle?

Lol!

plaetton:
Which medical practitioners?

Third world doctors , even when well trained, don't have modern medical equipment to quickly diagnose most modern diseases and cancers.

So, it's very easy for I'll equipped doctors to give up when ailments fall beyond the diagnostic capabilities of their equipments.

But how come we only hear this kind of stuff in semi primitive societies?

The key denominators being SUPERSTITION and technological challenges.

"Juju" isn't limited to primitive or "semi primitive " people.

Why do Westerners have ghost hunters and haunted houses, etc? What is a Ouija board used for? Is that a function of primitivity? Science just can't explain the soul and spirit, there is no equation or container for it.

The first person I heard speak openly about witchcraft was not a primitive/semi primitive or a even a black or an Asian. It was a white atheist. And we were in a place quite advanced technologically. So you really need to stop guessing. You make it sound like people in third world countries are thoughtless.

You will find doctors in advance climes call a disease "idiopathic". A more primitive person will call it what it is. The idea behind not having a scientific explanation for it is still the same.

If an atheist can believe in supernatural powers, then God is not far from them. It takes the same amount of mental docility to be superstitious.

cloudgoddess:
Ok. You're still accusing me of saying things I genuinely do not recall ever saying, without providing any proof. Feel free to abandon this conversation whenever you choose but just keep in mind that false accusation is dishonest (and I'll remind you that it's a "sin" as well, since that might be relevant to you).

Also, recognize that your perception isn't necessarily an accurate representation of reality. You may very well be attributing arrogance and concete to my posts because you personally feel belittled by having your beliefs questioned. Doesn't mean I'm trying to belittle you, those are your internal emotional reactions biasing the way you read my posts, and causing you to extract insults that aren't there. Similar to what I explained above.

Sin? Belittled? I would laugh if that weren't just not funny.


I think you need to read your past posts. It's the general sentiment. Nothing like all the psychobabble you're brewing.

First off, I'm open to all religions/schools of thought. So the last thing to belittle me will be the exposure to a little more thoughts from another person. Nothing you've said is new, your logic is standard, but the manner in which you put it across is conceited. Most conceited people don't even know that's how they are and would not like to believe it.

Secondly, you really need to see your posts. You keep avoiding that.

Thirdly, I'm not the first to perceive you in that way. It points to a trend. Through out your posts, all you do is beat on your deductions from "logic and rationality, as though you have something spectacular we haven't seen before to point out very insultingly to us. Hence the reason I do not read your posts, save one or two lines.

There was the time I got to understand that you are a teenager. Or something of the sort. For that reason I decided to steer clear.

You believe you are in the right, and nothing anyone says can change that, be it on matters of religion or on points noted in interactions. Good and fine.

The only thing that got me quoting you, in the first place, was that you sounded civil. I would assume so from the little I read. And that's a huge surprise.

cloudgoddess:
You still aren't showing me where I called you dumb... So I'm just going to assume you took offense to something I said that was not meant as an insult.

If this is relevant:
Words like "uneducated", "ignorant", and "indoctrinated" tend to be taken very offensively since they carry negatively connotations, but that doesn't mean they are inherently attack words. How else might one describe a person who is legitimitely not educated on certain topics? Or a person who actually has been raised to think a certain, dogmatic way? These words can indeed be used in a genuinely matter-of-fact fashion. And none of them necessarily point towards any innate innadequacy in someone, like say, the word "dumb" would.

I intentionally refrain from using any word like dumb to refer to theists because that doesn't reflect a proper understanding of the situation. But the terms I do use have a purpose and that purpose is not to offend, although offense can happen as a byproduct.

Awww. That's a lot of defense, for such little guilt.

You do remember you claimed I was some case, right? And blatantly said I was not intelligent. If you didn't mean to come across that way, why did you come across that way? You either are saying what you mean or you are silent. That's how it works.

Well
, as I said, most people(theists) who have encountered you in here know what they know about how you try your hardest to be overbearing and insulting if possible when others don't agree with your view and your self acclaimed "logic".

It would help if you stopped looking down on the intellect of the people you try to argue with. It's conceited and pathetic. We are all educated. We all read accounting and differential calculus and studied the sinuses and know of the origin of stars, etc. The only difference is in matters of religion, and that doesn't make you better off intellectually. Because that's exactly what you sound like every time you mention me, conceited and arrogant (except today, of course. Are you not in a good mood today? I'm sincerely concerned. )

Not ready to start another round of mentions and counter-mentions. So, see you later.