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You can do more with Instagram than just posting pictures and videos. There's money to be made on the platform, if you know how to use it.

Here are six ways to make money on Instagram:

1. Become a brand ambassador

2. Publish sponsored content

3. Sell photos

4. Manage pages for individuals and businesses

5. Use affiliate links

6. Sell products

If you would like to learn more about these ways of making money on Instagram, you can read the article linked here:

https://connectnigeria.com/articles/how-to-make-money-on-instagram-in-nigeria/

These job vacancies are updated weekly on the site.

Some of the latest job vacancies in Nigeria for the third week of July 2021.

1. Mobile App Developer, CredPal

2. Communications Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation

3. Senior Java Software Engineer, TechAdvance HQ

4. Business Manager, Remittance Distribution, Ecobank

5. Junior Brand Manager CEWA, Beiersdorf

6. Junior Sales and Marketing Manager, NACK Apparel

7. Sales Data Analyst, M-KOPA

And more.

Read about these job vacancies, their location, and how to apply for them here: https://connectnigeria.com/articles/latest-job-vacancies-in-nigeria-third-week-of-july-2021/

Hello Nairalanders,

Has anyone here invested with any company offering crowdfunded real estate investments?

I'm referring to specialized real estate investment companies like Coreum or ABiT Crowd, or companies offering it as one of their investments, like Wealth NG or Rise.

I would like to know what your experience has been with them.

If you have invested with them, please share your experience here.

(Please, I'm not asking for investment offers. Just anyone willing to share their experience).

Thank you.

Hello,

I would like to find out how much a backlink costs. If you currently sell backlinks, how much do you charge? I need a price range.

Please get in touch if you can. Send me an email at nwachukwuikenna55(at)gmail.com.

Thank you.

Government runs society.

That’s what you have been told. It’s received wisdom. You have believed this perhaps since your guardians explained it to you as a child.

Every other person you know takes it for granted. Anyone who dared to challenge the right of government to rule wound up in prison—whether they were robbers or revolutionaries.

Sometimes, by some stroke of luck, the challengers have won against government. But then they became what they challenged. They became the government.

So everything points towards government as necessary. No matter how shadowy it seems, regardless of how far removed it appears. It runs things. And we accept that it’s in charge.

But is the very idea of government an oppressive fraud? Can we stop to reflect on this question for a bit?

Here's my article tackling this issue: http://thelatewire.com/2020/07/12/is-the-idea-of-government-a-fraud/

How do you create a business model that generates significant revenues?

Like every other process, there are steps to follow if you want to make this happen. Your business won't function at its highest possible level unless it takes a form that really works.

It's not the easiest thing you will ever do, but the results will reveal that it's worth the effort...if you follow the steps right through.

The things you'll need to do to build a revenue-spinning business model are laid out in the article linked below:

https://connectnigeria.com/articles/2020/07/how-to-build-a-business-model-that-generates-significant-revenues/

I hope you find it as helpful as I think it is.

For a simple introduction to the Biblical concept of faith, see the video below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0tyRvSIEH4

(Hint: the video hints at why the OP's argument against faith fails).

Have a look at InspiringPhilosophy's other videos as well, if you're really interested in proper Christian responses to atheist objections like the one contained in the OP.

Michellekabod2:
Although the meaning of faith has been bitterly debated, and the people who succumb are fanatical in their deference, faith, when examined, when it is chased from the camouflage of scripture and ritual, is an apparition, a deceit upon which the façade of religion is constructed.

“Hawaii is moving toward Japan,” “Jesus rose from the dead,” “The solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago,” “Mohammed flew on the back of a flying horse.” These are all truth claims and while none of them can be absolutely certain they differ in their credibility.

Empirical knowledge is obtained through observation and is fundamentally verifiable and falsifiable. Evolution—the predominant anathema for the faithful—is verifiable. It can be observed in the selective breeding that has been used since prehistory to produce new varieties of plants and animals. The cultivation of new species was practised by the Romans and was established as a scientific practice during the British Agricultural Revolution in the 18th century
1. Evolution can be observed in the laboratory. Radiation of the fruit fly has produced more than 200 different populations. Scientists have even selected them “backwards” by returning them to the original ancestral environment

2.Evolution is falsifiable. If homo sapien remains were discovered and dated to the Precambrian era, approximately 530 million years before the first emergence of mammals, the theory of evolution would be eviscerated. Belief in empirical knowledge can be disambiguated as trust.

3. To trust is to believe based on evidence that is both verifiable and falsifiable. We trust in evolution.

Faith is relied upon when evidence is lacking but we want to believe something anyway. To have faith is to assert knowledge of something without reliable evidence and to even continue that assertion in the face of refutation. The proposition “I have faith in God,” does not contain the proposition “Maybe God exists,” or even that “I hope God exists,” it is the claim that “I know God exists.” It is a knowledge claim that cannot be justified by empirical evidence.

4. It is a self-deception and the self-justification of a desire for something to be true.

It is impossible to determine the veracity of so many multifarious and contradictory faith claims.

5. Christians believe that salvation is obtained through Jesus. Muslims believe that it is through adherence to the five pillars of Islam. While these beliefs can both be false, they cannot both be true. Muslims can not enter Paradise without accepting Christ as their saviour and Christians are doomed to perdition without total submission to Allah.

6.There is no way of ascertaining the veracity of any faith based claim. A Christian's faith in Jesus is no more or less valid than a Muslim's faith in Allah, a Hindu's faith in Vishnu, or a psychiatric patient's faith in the flying spaghetti monster. The Christian and the Muslim, the faithful and the insane, all have unwavering faith in something that cannot be substantiated or refuted.

Belief that there is no God is refutable. While the medicated denizens of psychiatric institutions demonstrate the unreliability of subjective claims to divine knowledge, if God, being omnipotent and therefore presumably a polyglot, were to commune with the entire population, to all the inhabitants of Earth, existential scepticism would be expelled.

If human remains were substantiated to be Jesus of Nazareth thereby disproving the ascension of Christ, would Christians relinquish their belief in his divinity? If a parchment were discovered documenting Mohammed's renouncement of all divine inspiration, if he had admitted to being a charlatan, would Muslims apostatise?

Some may renounce their beliefs, but those more profoundly entrenched within their tradition would not. There would be no evidence, however well attested, that they would accept. Their faith is beyond doubt and beyond evidence. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines this type of certainty and incorrigibility as a delusion

7. Holding a belief as incontestable is to be delusional. It is only the prevalence of that dissimulation that keeps the men in white coats from their door.

However, the pervasiveness of a belief has no relation to its truthfulness. It was once believed, perhaps by the entire population, that the world was flat, that the sun orbited the Earth and that sickness was caused by an imbalance in the four humors. The preponderance of those beliefs, or any belief, has no relation to its veracity.

Using faith in other aspects of life is incredulous, it is unsound and just plain inadvisable. I would be terrified if, without inspecting my car, a mechanic informed me that my brakes were operational because he had faith—he felt it in his heart—that my brakes were functional.

It does not matter which prophet we follow or which book we revere. It does not matter how much faith we can muster. All faith traditions coalesce into one panoptic delusion. It does not matter which celestial door we knock upon or in what manner or how many times. It does not matter how often we pray, or in what direction, there will always be someone else praying to an alternate God with the same solemnity, with the same certainty, and with the same faith. Whether religious or secular, faith cannot be defended with rationality, and is therefore promulgated through propaganda, ostracism, and ultimately violence.

Crisis of faith, or doubt, is not a Divine test. It is rationality ascending like a phoenix from the ashes of an indoctrinated mind. Faith is a vitriol to knowledge and understanding. It is claiming something we don't and can't know, it is insidious and unreliable. It is a delusion, an epistemological conjuring trick, an investiture of truth which can be, and often is, applied to any puerile absurdity imaginable. Faith is an asylum for the gullible, the obsequious and the unthinking. It is a refuge for fools.

By Neil's Brown, Atheistrepublic.com

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