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chiefolododo:
he is not that great

MizMyColi:
Both Matter.
And whether you agree or not, among your publics, you have a reputation to protect.


You call it character, they call it reputation.

MizMyColi:

Someone said and I quote:-
"Worry about your character, not your reputation. Character is who you are, Reputation is what others think you are

^^^ I agree and I disagree

Character and Reputation go hand in hand.
Reputation is the root of being in a position of leadership or influence. It is built over a period of time....One deed at a time, one action after another.

It is easily lost!

You should never down play one at the expense of the other.
Reputation is built as a result of character.
If there's a massive change in character, because it cannot be hidden, there will be a massive change in reputation too.
(Except of course, a person chooses to lead a dismal false life).

^^^ Against this backdrop, on both counts, you should be worried.
No man exists in and of himself. We are social and dependent beings.

It is only natural for every human to want to maintain goodwill among his fellow humans, it may even be bad will......depending on how he or she started out.
I believe that there is a yearning in every sane person to self improve....to project self towards the path of perfection, to be a better person, for the greater good.

How each person defines "better and perfect" remains relative and at best what they should decide for themselves.

But one very important and cannot be ignored factor we can use to measure our progress vis a vis our character and relations with others is -- Public Opinion

Publics differ for different people, and are similar in some cases.

Publics in this context would mean small (and sometimes large) groups of people who follow you very closely. They are well informed about you and also have a very strong opinion of you. They tend to know more about you than the "average" person, and, therefore, exert more influence, because these people care so deeply about you that they donate time, treasure and talent to you than "others" (outsiders) ordinarily would.

Simply put; Without Them, There Would Be No You.

This is not to say that you should commence living your life based on your publics opinion......

No No.
Wisdom Remains Profitable To Direct

Be Your Best Self
Be Original
Do Whatever Pleases And Makes You Happy.

But as a checks and balance of sorts......just know that people are watching.

Ultimately, we serve our reputation best by putting forth our best self and letting our character speak for itself.

djon78:
OBJ is the biggest problem that has been bedeviling this nation, and he must get his reward, he wont escape it. He sowed the evil seeds that messed up this present democratic era, and he is not a sincere man. It was only Abacha who does nt respect anybody knew how to handle his type, it was just grace of God that saved him and when he came out from prison he did worst things.
It is those that have nothing meaningful doing that will waste their prescious and valuable time to read something from a dishonest, insincere, vile and wicked man like Obj. But one thing I know is that he will not go unpunished.

ItsMeAboki:
Quite on the contrary, you are the one lacking in intellect and objectivity to appreciate an openly factual point without giving it a bias twist.

I still stand by my statement; you can twist it as much as you like, its out there for all to judge, as there was no disrespect or intent to disrespect Christians.

Yes, I said the global media is dominated by Christians; pls tell me if that is not true and show me how could that possibly be construed as an insult or attack against Christians.
Its is also my opinion that said media often portrays Islam in a bad light (though again, you are free to disagree) - how is that an insult or disrespectful?

The only religious bigotry you need to fear is the one in your mind as none has so far been expressed either by the OP or in any of my posts.

Your so called bone of contention is baseless because the videos clips were simply to corroborate my point rather than a prediction of the demise of Christianity or a call for conversion nor a forecast of my fate in the after life (though hopefully heaven) -yet again, its all in the figment of your obviously wandering imagination.

ItsMeAboki:
My friend, refer to my post again and show me where I inferred he was disrespectful or where I took offence to what he said?
You'll find none; so pls do not twist things into what is not there.

BTW, your diversified religious family background is quite irrelevant to the issue at hand - no disrespect.

I still maintain my position i.e. that though it be news to the OP (and the likes of him) that Muslims (in this case, allegedly a cleric) converted to Christianity; while it is no longer news to us Muslims (though highly welcomed) to note Christians (including prominent ones) converting to Islam because it has been happening all the time - there are so many examples out there in youtube etc.

See documentary on famous ppl who converted to Islam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5NiO9ZDoKM
Why Vatican Priest Converted to Islam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHBY2nGxJS8
BBC1:Why Islam fastest religion in UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4nUIUrNoOs
Islam fastest growing religion in UK as Churches Decline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmqrFK4-OfQ

ItsMeAboki:
@op:
Sorry to burst your bubble, more Christians are converting to Islam than the other way round. In fact Islam is currently the world's fastest growing religion, even with all the negative publicity through the largely Christian dominated global media (though I am sure you'll want to disagree).

There many more examples of prominent Christians, including holy men converting to Islam; here is one - its nothing new, we are used to it:

A catholic priest from the island of Java in Indonesia who has woken up from a 17 month long coma has converted himself to Islam after the man claims Allah spoke to him and showed him “the beauty of the heavens”.

Here is more of what he had to say:

“I know nothing of Islam. Never once have I read the Quran but God spoke to me and asked me to follow him to the heavens and the Holy light shone through my entire being and behold the golden gates of heaven appeared before me and God told me his name and it was Allah” told the newly convert to a journalist of the Kalimantan Press.

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/catholic-priest-wakes-up-from-coma-after-17-months-converts-to-islam/

akinsadeez:
Akwa Ibom stadium was built with $2 billion. It should be number one on d list. This list is crap

akinsadeez:
Akwa Ibom stadium was built with $2 billion. It should be number one on d list. This list is crap

dreydee:
This ain't making Front Page!!!

lilflipnerd:
We don't want all we want is good leadership either from the west, South, North East