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The Force, The Lord of Light.


May the Force be with you all.

. We rub the ‘Swab’ up-and-down
the mouth to get some epithelial cells
from around the cheek bone. In the
nucleus of every cell, there is DNA. Once
we collect that, we purify, extract and
then multiply it and get the genetic
profile which we then send to DNA
laboratory abroad for testing.
What happens in situations where DNA
samples do not match as we saw with
someDANA victims?
So many reasons could be responsible
for that. We have had a case in which a
boy went to an hospital to claim the
body of his deceased dad and on testing
him, it was found that he was not
fathered by the dead man. The genetic
profile of the boy does not match with
that of the man he claimed to be his
father. And DNAs don’t lie. The medical
experts conducting these tests have
nothing personal against the people that
come to them for testing. Every human
being take half of the genetic profile
from either parent. Therefore, it is a
matter of case closed if the genetic
profile of the living does not match with
that of the dead man. He is simply not
that father.
Source: The Nation

Is paternity testing becoming an issue
in Nigeria?
We have seen that there is serious need
for it because in many homes things are
happening that are scary both to the
lives of children and their parents. And
for the general statistics that is now
available, it is found that three out of
every ten men are not the fathers of
their babies. Similarly, three out of every
ten children are not fathered by men
they have seen as their biological fathers.
What we have found out is that, anytime
we take ten men, at least three of them
eventually found that they are not the
fathers of the children they call their
own. And these men would have taken
care of the children for all their lives.
Now, the global statistics is 100, 000 out
of every 300, 000 men. But what we
have found that is that the situation is
higher in Nigeria than other places. For
example in our laboratory here, 50 per
cent of the cases comes out negative.
And we also realised that majority of the
first-borns are affected. You only need to
be here to see big men cry like little kids
and watch children weep in agony. It
has been that bad. And I dare say it is
becoming something every home must
do and you may be quite surprised at
the level of dastard revelation.
About thirty per cent of fathers are
unknowingly bringing up children who
are not biologically theirs. And it is
suspected that this percentage may be
on the increase due to sexual
recklessness. According to recent trends
in sexual health, especially in Nigeria, it
was suggested that unprotected sex and
multiple partners are comparatively
common occurrences with a large
proportion of conceptions still
unplanned. So, more than half, that is, 50
per cent of all paternity tests carried out
by our lab comes out negative and the
most affected are first-borns, except in a
few cases.
Do these cases happen mostly in
matrimonial settings or in casual
relationships?
In both matrimony and casual
affiliations! I tell you, we have had series
of married men come here and go back
home devastated. In one instance, a man
came here with his wife. Out of the five
children he thought were his own, he
discovered that only two belonged to
him. And they are both duly married,
living together as husband and wife. You
see, the major problem we have in our
country is that most of these cases are
not duly documented. So, people don’t
know we have such issues among us. In
fact, some even don’t know where to go
for the test to determine their child or
children’s paternity. And I tell you, if you
go to ten homes as we speak, you will be
amazed to find that in almost all of them
the children there do not belong to the
men. It is that rampant.
If it is that rampant, how would you
describe the three years since you
started testing men?
Now, the general statistics by the
American Association of Blood Banks is
that globally, 100, 000 out of 300, 000
men are not the actual fathers of their
presumed children. And like I said earlier,
the Nigerian situation is even alarming.
Also, Duess International, the condom
manufacturers, once noted that Nigeria
has the most reckless sexual life. So, you
can then imagine what the outcome
would be like if we say okay, let’s start
taking statistics one-by-one.
How many families do you attend to
each week?
We test about 15 to 20 families. People
come here as a result of various types of
controversies over the paternity of
certain children. You know, families have
come to us with claims that a child
neither takes after the mother nor the
father in looks and character. So, the
man of the house would be curious to
ascertain facts. And when they come
here with such children, the fears of the
fathers have often been affirmed.
Fathers usually have the doubts; maybe
he has been hearing some rumours, and
you know, men are often the last to hear
such things about themselves. Until
many of them come here to take the test,
they have nurtured other men’s children
before realising it.
What does it take to do a paternity
test?
Technology has made it so easy. It is just
like any other deoxyribonucleic acid
(DNA) test. In less than two seconds, we
take the sample from the man. We use
the Helix Swabs like a “big cotton buds”
to extract some cells from the man’s
mouth. Continue......

truthislight: Thats because the muslim God cannot defend itself like the christian God, so, it followers must take action

Y do you christians always sufferfrom amnesia?
Need I remind you people fought for Yahwah and that didnt make any less powerfull.

You are on your own.

Frosbel,
Don't you consider your recent vigorous effort at challenging widely accepted beliefs blasphemous?

And when the Quran and muslims make similar observations about the gravity of such beliefs, you call it blasphemy.

Pukkah: These are reasonable questions to ask but which unfortunately have never been clearly and unambiguously answered by anyone. I believe in spirituality but the type of questions (simple yet complex) you have there just muddle up religion. It's almost like the case of the more you look, the less you see.

Just follow your heart and do what you believe is right. Or swallow hook, line and sinker the pre-programmed answers you will get to your incisive questions.

The whole religion thing is

Just my thought, as for me today am a religionist tomorrow Am an atheist asking critical questions. Am not sure which path to take, every option (christian, muslim, atheism) seem to make equal sense to me. Every path seems to be the ultimate truth!!! Depending mostly on the enviroment I find myself.

The fusing together of Hinduism and christianity is a pointer to the fact that both have polytheist features. The true religion, the monotheism of moses and our father abraham will never fuse in anyway with hinduism.

toba: u didnt read the first part of my post. pple started attacking islam because of some of the messages u preach and the intolerance in the quran. Now the bible encourages us to lve our enemies and not to kill them. bible says we shouldnt call pple unbelivers like u pple call us. the bible never said we shdnt marry muslim women like ur quran prevents ur women from marrying us. so many differences and hatred are being taught in islam. as a human being, i cant relate with u well when ur holy book directs u to treat me as an enemy. the main cause of roaring against islam is the message it teaches. Just imagine the segregation being practised in islam. some of ur ladies keep telling me that aside frm religious differences, they see no reason why they cant marry a christian.

all these makes pple sick

The issue of not allowing Muslim women marry non muslims is clear.

Let me ask you: If I allow you marry my muslim sister , who is a dedicated muslim , what will be your greatest wish about her?

Yes , converting her will be your priority. And as her husband you have considerable influence over her.

Your first step will be to rid her off her Hijab; next I know she's dressed half unclad with her boobs Popping out for all to see(Jesus doent care bout our dress he only cares bout our hearts).

Pray ,tell, Can you go out to a function with your wife dressed in an islamic attire .

The bottom line is the pressure to convert will be too much.

Haba, I doubt anybody has received any logic texts. With all these email add displayed around. Enough harvest for spam artists. I havealready started recieving strange mails.


Anyways anybody wwith copy couldsend to hrsuperfine@gmail.com

The doors leading out of scriptural
literalism do not open from the inside. The
moderation we see among
nonfundamentalists is not some sign that
faith itself has evolved; it is, rather, the
product of the many hammer blows of
modernity that have exposed certain tenets
of faith to doubt. Not the least among these
developments has been the emergence of
our tendency to value evidence and to be
convinced by a proposition to the degree
that there is evidence for it. Even most
fundamentalists live by the lights of reason
in this regard; it is just that their minds
seem to have been partitioned to
accommodate the profligate truth claims of
their faith. Tell a devout Christian that his
wife is cheating on him, or that frozen
yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is
likely to require as much evidence as
anyone else, and to be persuaded only to
the extent that you give it. Tell him that the
book he keeps by his bed was written by
an invisible deity who will punish him with
fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every
incredible claim about the universe, and he
seems to require no evidence whatsoever.
Religious moderation springs from the fact
that even the least educated person among
us simply knows more about certain
matters than anyone did two thousand
years ago—and much of this knowledge is
incompatible with scripture. Having heard
something about the medical discoveries of
the last hundred years, most of us no
longer equate disease processes with sin or
demonic possession. Having learned about
the known distances between objects in
our universe, most of us (about half of us,
actually) find the idea that the whole works
was created six thousand years ago (with
light from distant stars already in transit
toward the earth) impossible to take
seriously. Such concessions to modernity do
not in the least suggest that faith is
compatible with reason, or that our
religious traditions are in principle open to
new learning: it is just that the utility of
ignoring (or “reinterpreting”) certain
articles of faith is now overwhelming.
Anyone being flown to a distant city for
heart-bypass surgery has conceded, tacitly
at least, that we have learned a few things
about physics, geography, engineering, and
medicine since the time of Moses.
So it is not that these texts have maintained
their integrity over time (they haven’t); it is
just that they have been effectively edited
by our neglect of certain of their passages.
Most of what remains—the “good parts”—
has been spared the same winnowing
because we do not yet have a truly modern
understanding of our ethical intuitions and
our capacity for spiritual experience. If we
better understood the workings of the
human brain, we would undoubtedly
discover lawful connections between our
states of consciousness, our modes of
conduct, and the various ways we use our
attention. What makes one person happier
than another? Why is love more conducive
to happiness than hate? Why do we
generally prefer beauty to ugliness and
order to chaos? Why does it feel so good to
smile and laugh, and why do these shared
experiences generally bring people closer
together? Is the ego an illusion, and, if so,
what implications does this have for human
life? Is there life after death? These are
ultimately questions for a mature science of
the mind. If we ever develop such a science,
most of our religious texts will be no more
useful to mystics than they now are to
astronomers.

The Myth of “Moderation” in Religion
The idea that any one of our religions
represents the infallible word of the One
True God requires an encyclopedic
ignorance of history, mythology, and art
even to be entertained—as the beliefs,
rituals, and iconography of each of our
religions attest to centuries of
crosspollination among them. Whatever
their imagined source, the doctrines of
modern religions are no more tenable than
those which, for lack of adherents, were
cast upon the scrap heap of mythology
millennia ago; for there is no more evidence
to justify a belief in the literal existence of
Yahweh and Satan than there was to keep
Zeus perched upon his mountain throne or
Poseidon churning the seas.
According to Gallup, 35 percent of
Americans believe that the Bible is the literal
and inerrant word of the Creator of the
universe. Another 48 percent believe that it
is the “inspired” word of the same—still
inerrant, though certain of its passages
must be interpreted symbolically before
their truth can be brought to light. Only 17
percent of us remain to doubt that a
personal God, in his infinite wisdom, is likely
to have authored this text—or, for that
matter, to have created the earth with its
250,000 species of beetles. Some 46
percent of Americans take a literalist view
of creation (40 percent believe that God has
guided creation over the course of millions
of years). This means that 120 million of us
place the big bang 2,500 years after the
Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew
beer. If our polls are to be trusted, nearly
230 million Americans believe that a book
showing neither unity of style nor internal
consistency was authored by an
omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent
deity. A survey of Hindus, Muslims, and Jews
around the world would surely yield similar
results, revealing that we, as a species, have
grown almost perfectly intoxicated by our
myths. How is it that, in this one area of our
lives, we have convinced ourselves that our
beliefs about the world can float entirely
free of reason and evidence?
It is with respect to this rather surprising
cognitive scenery that we must decide what
it means to be a religious “moderate” in the
twenty-first century. Moderates in every
faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or
simply ignore) much of their canons in the
interests of living in the modern world. No
doubt an obscure truth of economics is at
work here: societies appear to become
considerably less productive whenever
large numbers of people stop making
widgets and begin killing their customers
and creditors for heresy. The first thing to
observe about the moderate’s retreat from
scriptural literalism is that it draws its
inspiration not from scripture but from
cultural developments that have rendered
many of God’s utterances difficult to accept
as written. In America, religious moderation
is further enforced by the fact that most
Christians and Jews do not read the Bible in
its entirety and consequently have no idea
just how vigorously the God of Abraham
wants heresy expunged. One look at the
book of Deuteronomy reveals that he has
something very specific in mind should
your son or daughter return from yoga
class advocating the worship of Krishna:
If your brother, the son of your father or
of your mother, or your son or daughter,
or the spouse whom you embrace, or
your most intimate friend, tries to
secretly seduce you, saying, “Let us go
and serve other gods,” unknown to you
or your ancestors before you, gods of
the peoples surrounding you, whether
near you or far away, anywhere
throughout the world, you must not
consent, you must not listen to him; you
must show him no pity, you must not
spare him or conceal his guilt. No, you
must kill him, your hand must strike the
first blow in putting him to death and
the hands of the rest of the people
following. You must stone him to death,
since he has tried to divert you from
Yahweh your God. . . .(Deuteronomy
13:7-11)
While the stoning of children for heresy has
fallen out of fashion in our country, you will
not hear a moderate Christian or Jew
arguing for a “symbolic” reading of
passages of this sort. (In fact, one seems to
be explicitly blocked by God himself in
Deuteronomy 13:1—“Whatever I am now
commanding you, you must keep and
observe, adding nothing to it, taking
nothing away.”) The above passage is as
canonical as any in the Bible, and it is only
by ignoring such barbarisms that the Good
Book can be reconciled with life in the
modern world. This is a problem for
“moderation” in religion: it has nothing
underwriting it other than the
unacknowledged neglect of the letter of the
divine law.
The only reason anyone is “moderate” in
matters of faith these days is that he has
assimilated some of the fruits of the last
two thousand years of human thought
(democratic politics, scientific advancement
on every front, concern for human rights,
an end to cultural and geographic isolation,
etc.).

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beliefs inspire the worst of human
atrocities. Harris argues that in the
presence of weapons of mass destruction,
we can no longer expect to survive our
religious differences indefinitely. Most
controversially, he maintains that
"moderation" in religion poses considerable
dangers of its own: as the accommodation
we have made to religious faith in our
society now blinds us to the role that faith
plays in perpetuating human conflict. While
warning against the encroachment of
organized religion into world politics, Harris
draws on insights from neuroscience,
philosophy, and Eastern mysticism in an
attempt to provide a truly modern
foundation for our ethics and our search
for spiritual experience.

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Such a FUSS over a silly anti-Islam movie!
As I type these words, riots have erupted all
across the middle east. Protesters attacked
the US Consulate in Benghazi and killed the
US Ambassador. In Cairo, protesters have
surrounded the US Embassy and chant for
the Americans to get out. In Iraq, Yemen,
and a dozen other nations, the same is
happening.
The consistent theme in all these protests is
that America must leave.
The US corporate media tells a different tale.
According to ABCNNBBCBSFOX, all this anger
is over a silly little movie bashing
Mohammed. The film, produced by An Israeli
with Jewish donors a Coptic Christian (to get
Israel off of the hook) a CIA/Mossad asset
who the heck knows, was intentionally
created to be as offensive as possible to
Muslims. The fact that it was a contrived
piece of propaganda from the start is
obvious. The entire cast and crew has gone
public saying they were duped into making
the film, with its offensive content added in
during post production. In Hollywood, the
normal behavior is to have ones name on
everything one works on. That this film's
producer worked so hard to keep himself
hidden betrays the propaganda agenda.
But the American corporate media is trying
to sell a message that all Muslims hate
Americans without a good reason; that the
riots are solely over this film, and since those
eeeeeeviilllllll mooooooslims don't respect
the First Amendment right to free speech,
real patriotic Americans should believe that
the Muslims have over-reacted.
But the rage seen across the mideast has
very little to do with the film. They don't hate
us for our freedoms, or for our religion.
Those people in the nations invaded and
subverted by the United States through a
decade of overt and covert wars on behalf
of Israel hate America because every time
they see their friends and neighbors blown
to bloody bits before their eyes, the shrapnel
is stamped, "Made in the USA."
Do the citizens of those invaded nations
have reason to hate America, other than that
silly little film?
Well, yes, they do.
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So, you think all that anger and rage is just
because of a provocative movie?
If what you see above was being done to
your family and friends, how would you
feel?
That is how they feel. Their countries have
been invaded on the basis of lies, their
government subverted to serve foreign
interests, their women and children killed,
their places of worship bombed, their
cultural history buried under rubble.
So why the big lie on American TV that this
is all about a movie? To obscure the reality
of what these invaded people have suffered
at the hands of America by trivialities their
rage. To demonize the Muslims by making
their anger seem entirely out of proportion
and unreasonable.
To ignite a wider war.
In the months before 9-11, there was a
sudden surge of embassy attacks, all blamed
on Osama Bin Laden. Those embassy attacks
were the "warm up", a pre-sell of the idea
that America was under threat from "Radical
Islam" to prepare them mentally to believe
the official story when 9-11 itself finally
happened. And I greatly fear we may be
seeing a repeat of this tactic.
For months, Netanyahu has been pushing
for the United States to commit to as war
with Iran, before Israel's elections in
October. President Obama, knowing that
Americans are weary of wars on Israel's
enemies, wants to wait until after the
November elections in the US. That
Netanyahu cannot do, as absent a war to
wave at the Israeli voters, the Likud party
may well lose to the Kadima party, which
means a pink slip for Netanyahu.
Netanyahu is in a corner, and desperate. His
only remaining option is a new false-flag
attack to be blamed on Iran, something
spectacular enough to "motivate" the
American people to throw their children
onto the Iranian bayonets, something that
will trick Americans into supporting Obama
when he joins Israel's attack on Iran. Lastly,
a spectacular false-flag attack, blamed on
Iran, would undermine the Russian and
Chinese commitments to defend Iran if
Israel and the US attacks. If it is all "Iran's
fault" in the eyes of their citizens, Russia and
China may have to back down.
False-flag attacks are nothing new. The
Lavon Affair was a classic example. So was
the attack on the USS Liberty. So was 9-11.
So what is Netanyahu considering?
Obviously if it involves a nuclear weapon,
Netanyahu can say that it proves he was
right all along that Iran is a dangerous
nuclear threat. Where will that nuke be
detonated? Opinions vary, from the Golden
Gate bridge to the aging and about-to-be-
retired USS Enterprise. But given that Israel
obtained their first weapons-grade
fissionables here in the United States, the
possability that they already have a bomb
inside our borders cannot be ruled out.
But of one thing I am certain. This current
provocation of anger across the Middle East
could well be the warm up to Israel's final
push to trick the stupid Muslims and stupid
Christians into killing each other off.
Please, don't be stupid.

hardbody: I have tons of these brain wrackers in a compendium of Logic texts, although it is in soft copy. Any interested NLander can send an email and I will send a copy to them. Although I must confess I never read beyond the first few pages. Fortunately I am gainfully employed and so would not b needing those question and answer sessions. Before I forget, Accenture embarrassed me with one of those questions way back in time, I felt very stupid when I got home and realized I goofed.

Pls send a copy to hrsuperfine@gmail.com .thanks

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pls anybody with the logic text should send to hrsuperfine@gmail.com

Pls anybody with d logic text should send to hrsuperfine@gmail.com

O.K he said "IF IT IS POSSIBLE...." . Tell me what is impossible before God. This condition doesnt rule out the fact that Jesus wasnt willing to die and showed his preference for a better alternative. If God could relief Abraham of the burden of killing isaac why cant He wave his magic wand and forgive Humans instead killing an unwilling Jesus who already was sweating blood.

[quote author=Mr_Anony]I know this because Jesus Christ made the prayer and the bible makes it clear that Jesus Christ is the Son of God manifest on earth.
God always hears His prayer. . . . .so much so that our prayers are only valid if they come with the signature of Christ.

Jesus talking to the Father:[i][color=#990000]
“Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. [b]And I know that You always hear Me[/quote]Now if u claim Gods always answers Jesus, and he will not make a wish or prayer that God will not anwser, I WILL REMIND YOU OF THE PRAYER JESUS MADE ON THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EVENT , THAT "LET THIS CUP PASS OVER ME". AS IF TO TELL THE WORLD OF HOW GOD REFUSED TO ANSWER HIS PRAYER ,IT IS CLAIMED THAT HE CREID ON THE CROSS "WHY HAS THOU FORSAKEN ME".

@ Fellis ,Thanx for your concern ,
I am still muslim mostly because of the kind of parent I have.
My father is staunch member of the Tablegh movement as such if I go down the atheist path he will surely disown me.
This people kinda go violent when it comes to religion.

Am a recent graduate still job hunting (HR Job if u cud be of any help) and need their support as much as possible.
Only when am fully independent can I make such Life changing decision.

Can u imagine I almost got a banking Job , my father was the only reason I couldnt land the offer........yea u guessed right ,Ribba (Interest).

fellis: OP are you a Muslim or an atheist? Your posts confuse me.

Am a muslim SKEPTIC still hand-cuffed by the fear of Hell.

Exactly most topics that make front page are on politics or celebrity gossip that does not affect the price of anything.

Toyibat group of schools , Medina , Estate ,Gbagada , Lagos. (day and boarding)

The school is a little expensive and with reasonably good standard.
We used to have lots of foreign student whose parents brougth them home to study secondary school.
Am an alumnus 2005 cohort (Senior Prefect).

If not for this mysterious doctrine of God the Majestic coming to earth to Die on a cross, a lot of muslims today wud be christians..

God is not the author of confusion and wouldnt make the most important Foundation of his Path or Religion a Mystery to the very People he wants to save.

The ages old doctrine has always been, Believe in the One God creator and follow his messangers as simple as that without need for mystery.