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jaephoenix:
Its grammatical inadequacies not grammar inadequacies

So that you should stop embarrassing yourself and not so you should stop embarrassing yourself

posts here are filled with grammatical errors and not post here is filled with grammar errors

Yes, I can use crack in that context of abstracts like atheism. Crack can mean a deficiency or inadequacy.

You don't know what's is is wrong. You don't know what's is correct. The is is redundant. (Hope you know what it is)

The possessive pronoun ish is intentional. It's an autocorrect that's stuck with my keyboard app which, in time, I learnt to ignore. Thanks for pointing it out. I have to actively 'impinge' on that app.

Continue to reply again with your very bad English is wrong. Continue to reply again with your very bad grammar is correct.

See, its not that hard to learn English. But you were smoking weed when all the learning were going on. Your parents need to take their refund from that hinterland secondary school. Hope you attended a higher institution to improve yourself, bro.

Clown.
Grammar inadequacies is correct . I don't expect you to know anyway. You don't know the difference between grammar and grammatical . I guess you were never taught attributive nouns in the mushroom school you attended .


You have used the word ,crack, like an illiterate who wants to impress others and now defending it foolishly.

I never boasted at anytime that I speak perfect English. Correcting me is meaningless and wayward You started this whole nonsense which has exposed you . Everything you're doing now is just to save face.

I can correct myself if I spot the errors on time, but in your case you cannot. That's the difference between you and me

You thought you found something in my reply which you could use to mock me .But it has unfortunately worked against you.

Your major preoccupation on Nairaland is to mock others whom you assume you're more intelligent than, whereas nothing in your head.

You can continue with the denial and self deception. That's your business.

Just look at how you're now using the excuse of auto-correct for your inability to differentiate between its and it's.

Even if that were true, why have you not been correcting them after you hit the submit button?
You don't because you don't know the correct one to use. That's the truth.

And you reply again is filled with errors, Mr English teacher who also claims to be a medical doctor that corrects his patients grammar in his consulting room.

A medical doctor using the word, legit, to qualify prescriptions he gives to his patients.

You put "your medications on the spot" to see if they were "legit" and "They all checked out" lol

Impostor! You can deceive others not me.

Go and take "your medications" they are actually "legit".

Modified. I'm not sitting for an English language exam. If I were, I would make sure I edit very well what I have written before submitting my answer script.

Your pettiness is what has led to your disgrace. You want to correct another person when you cannot even correct yourself.
You started this nonsense.What I have done is to show the world that you're worse.

Even your conclusion in your latest reply is terrible, poor expression everywhere.

SMH.

jaephoenix:
I love this. Thanks for the correction. Appreciate. That one was actually an error, not a auto-correct like you claim, to hide your grammatical inadequacies.
Actually, I put atheism to the test several times. The only crack was Pascal's Wager

Look at this clown still talking.

A spelling mistake committed just once and accidentally, which I would have corrected myself if I had seen it earlier, is now evidence of grammar inadequacies?

Go and check for the meaning of grammar inadequacies so you stop embarrassing yourself.

Most of what you post here is filled with grammar errors. Even this latest reply of yours contains blunders everywhere and you still want to brag.
What's the meaning of "The only crack" . Do you take crack cocaine?

The mushroom secondary school you attended has done you great damage. I really pity you. You don't know what's is correct grammar and what's not.

Since you started posting on Nairaland you have been using the possessive pronoun ,its instead of , it's ,Mr "Grammar inadequacies" .



You should worry first about improving your own inadequacies and not wasting your time about others.

You put someone on the spot and not something on the spot. I highlighted that in that your gibberish post but you were blind to see the blunders .

How do you put something on the spot? A dunce who doesn't know the correct way to use an idiom.
Go and employ a private English language because everyone of your post is very painful to read.

Don't hide behind it's "paining me" and think I would be moved by that.

And who bothers about spelling mistakes here on Nairaland when a serious conversation is going on. If not that you started the nonsense, who cares?

Maybe that's the only way you think you could force you points.

Continue to reply again with your very bad English. You're ignored.

jaephoenix:
How is one supposed to prove his Christianity? Is there a Christian-o-meter? We just believe they said so, same way we believe you are. Though we can't say for sure, since there are no meters.
About the belief in god, there is no verifiable evidence of his existence.
Do you see the difference between the 2 notions?

Mr English teacher,

"How is one supposed to prove his Christianity"? Haba! .which kind "egrish be dis na. My head dey turn me o!


No consistency in expression.

How is one supposed to prove one's Christianity?

"Do you see the difference between the 2 "notions" (statements)?

Let me free you. I'm done with you. Next time behave well and stop being petty.

jaephoenix:
Yeah, atheism makes you take everything around you with skepticism, even your existence. I put all of my attributes into test. I put them on the spot and critically examined them bereft of bias. I put my paternity(whether my father was my biological father), my profession(whether my prescriptions were actually legit and made patients better ie if medical science was true or just trash being paraded via conspiracies) etc. They all checked out. I didn't take any of them as a given.
I put my religion on the spot and it failed time after time. At first i was sad, but one has to be mentally strong to handle disappointment

With the above, it's about time you employed a private English language teacher.

Today is Saturday,my day of rest.

I shall be following your comments bumper to bumper in any thread on this board to highlight your poor grammar.
I will put "all of your attributes to test" even "your existence"
I hope you don't "take any of them as given"

Your atheistic position would be put " on the spot" to see if you're "mentally strong to handle disappoinment"

Techobeys:
What I’m saying is if destiny was ever taken then it wont be with you, but you always have your destiny so it’s never taken. It’s always with you, you’re the one who refuse to walk in it. The enemy only distracts you from walking in your destiny but he can’t take it.

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

I don't think you understand me. Nobody can take your destiny. It's why I placed "taken" in quotes in my reply

Go back and read my initial reply here to understand me better.

jaephoenix:
Lol bro. Nigerians think a lot themselves. Many of my patients call it kneel, and I correct them all the time. And I bet this particular one isn't a typo but you can't bring yourself to agree. I also bet you are amongst those that point to the bone in your back and call it spinal cord. Please take your L in peace

It's not about thinking too much of one's self, but that you're slow , petty and childish.

If I had made that same mistake in the past then you have a case. I have used that same expression before. This is not the first time.

Because you lack common sense ,you want to use one instance to compare me to your patients who obviously speak directly to you and not typing from a phone that has auto correct which can lead to this kind of thing .

I usually notice the same in the comments of others here and don't see it as anything. As long I understand the person,no problem.
I always try to edit my comments before and after posting. If not that I was immediately taken by another activity I would have noticed that and corrected it because I certainly know the difference between the noun ,knee and the verb ,kneel.

But what about you? A very dark pot.

Here below are some of your comments replete with grammatical blunders and spelling mistakes.

1. Poor grammar. Difficult to read you as you struggle most times to get your thoughts out.
2. Punctuation. Poor
3. Use of the wrong tense in the subjunctive mood.
4.. You don't know the difference between ,its and it's .
5. Using a transitive verb without a direct object.
And others too. Chai! Na this olodo wan correct person? I don see sometin for Nairaland.

jaephoenix:
Lol. You drop some gibberish and expect something magical to pop out from there. Or when your opponent cannot make head or tail of the gibberish, you declare yourself winner and run off.
Its a regular antic of yours we are used to.
If you think that post makes sense, rephrase… it

Its instead of it's.

Spelling mistake.
Poor expression.

jaephoenix:
Does that thing you wrote mean anything to you? If it means something to you, then rephrase

Another error in the above. I bet you cannot spot it yourself.

jaephoenix:
Oh Unintelligent One, destiny is predetermined . Its not changed

And again, using its Instead of it's. This cannot be typing mistake. You don't know the difference.

jaephoenix:
Good.

And this is the dictionary meaning


destiny
/ˈdɛstɪni/
Learn to pronounce
noun
the events that will necessarily happen to a particular person or thing in the future

That means no matter what you do, its still your destiny. If my destiny is to die this morning, even if I like let me hide inside a room locked up, I'll still die. Earthquake fit happen come kill me.
So if someone marries a bad wife, or wastes his time in a church(like depicted), its still his destiny, nobody took anything.
If my destiny is to be very poor, then I can't help it.
And one more thing, not everyone is destined to be rich, like your psycho pastors tell you. They even say rich men harvest 'destinies' from poor folks. Some of them even call it 'star'. I mean, how? How can Ned Nwoko steal the destiny of Portable?
Are you guys mentally unstable?

Finally, ladies and gentlemen, Nairaland English language teacher using its Instead of it's everywhere in the above. How many can you spot.

If you make a mistake once ,you could be forgiven. But when you keep repeating it, then something is wrong. And you want to correct others? Take your medications first

Other errors too. Who can spot those?

I don't want to be caught doing this kind of thing, but to put you where you belong, I just have to.

I hope you rest now and know you're among the nonentities in Nigeria whenever you scream, "what is wrong with the water in Nigeria"
You don't know but you think you know. People like you are a problem in any society.

An atheist who doesn't know the difference between superstitious belief and fact.

Predetermined by flying spaghetti monster.

jaephoenix:
1. It's knee jerk, not kneel jerk
2. So what if every action was first an idea. How is it of importance to personal destinies?

It's very important because your predominant thoughts which are embedded strongly in your unconscious mind (subconscious) creates your personal reality which then greatly influences the things you say and do.

Unfortunately, most people are only concern with external actions and not fully conscious of how behaviour is controlled from the inside . It's for this reason, they erroneously believe their destiny is set by external circumstances beyond their control.

There's a more detailed explanation in modern cognitive science of how the human brain stores information to control behaviour. Everything is not known yet but at least, the knowledge they have provided at this time, is invaluable for anyone to make use of .

I expected someone like you who claim to be a medical doctor, and a self acclaimed expert scientist who know everything, to have this kind information, but it's obvious you don't. You're not current at all.

And the worst part, is that, without realising it, you have been arguing blindly like a religious fanatic and superstitious person each time you insist destiny is predetermined and cannot change. Just like an ignorant theist who thinks scientific theory means belief or speculation not backed by fact because that's how a dictionary has made him understand it.

If you say destiny is predetermined and cannot change, then the question you should ask yourself is, who, what has set the events that must play out in the future?

Is it your personal god or a flying spaghetti monster?


Are you really thinking of the things you type before you hit the submit button?

Do you even understand the actual reality behind the words you have been using all along to discuss the op?


You don't really understand what destiny means because you don't know how dictionaries compilers do their work and think that every dictionary entry of a word has a description that's enough to make you fully understand it all.

It's very obvious from your comments here that your understanding of destiny is still influenced by what you were taught in Christianity before you became an atheist.

An atheist who believes in predestination? I never seen this before. You're confused.


You need to wean yourself of your past Christian indoctrination before discussing this any further.

If you like focus on finding spellings mistakes in my reply and not the meat of the matter.

I will come back shortly to fully address your pettiness and craziness concerning the mountain you want to make out of a mistake which has happened to everyone here and most especially you. You very much guilty of the same thing . Yours is even worse.

I thought I was engaged in a conversation with an adult .
SHM.

You think you can throw snaky comments and veiled insults at me and get away with it?

I will tell you why you need more of the medications you give to the mad people you claim consult you all the time as it appears they have infected you with their insanity.

jaephoenix:
1. It's knee jerk, not kneel jerk
2. So what if every action was first an idea. How is it of importance to personal destinies?

It's typo ,Mr English teacher. You don't expect me not to know how to spell the word, knee.
I have something to do now. I would respond to your number 2 later.

jaephoenix:
Wtf?
So if I dream and think like Elon Musk, I end up like him?
Is there something wrong with the water in Nigeria?

Lol. A kneel jerk reaction from you.

Everything that has been achieved or created by anyone in this world first began as an idea, thought, in the head of an individual before steps were taken to bring it to fruition.
Hope you understand me better now

Thoughts precedes actions

jaephoenix:
What is destiny

One's destiny is the result from the thoughts and beliefs one hold on strongly to.

Techobeys:
Don’t you think abandoning destiny isn’t the same as destiny being taken? If something is taken then it’s not with you, but if you have it right there with you and refuse to perform it then you’ve only abandoned what’s with you. If that’s the case, don’t you think destiny cannot be taken?

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

I have placed taken in quotes

Someone who takes something must have taken it from somewhere else or from another person
So, I don't understand what you mean by if something is taken then it's not with you.

Yes, it can be taken, but not in the way it's believed in these parts.

When you're "tricked" into abandoning the plans you have for your own life by others around you, who don't really care about your own well being, then your destiny has been "taken"


For instance, if you spend nearly all of your time and money, in your local church or mosque without you benefiting much in return to take care of your own personal needs, then your destiny has been" taken"

A church or mosque is not the only place this could happen. It happens nearly all the time in any kinds of personal relationships or other situations ;friendships or marriages, where you work, football fanatics who spend most of their time supporting their favourite team ,and of course those addicted to Nairaland.

And one thing that's common with the different categories of people listed above , and which makes them easy victims, is that they're always in the habit of putting first the needs of others before theirs .

Please don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you should not first consider others in anything you do. But don't overdo it.


Common sense is needed all the time if not you stand the risk of having your destiny "taken"

A reckless and very annoying write up, filled with lies, written by Femi Adesina to promote the CBN's cashless policy of 20k Maximum withdrawal limit which he doesn't even understand very well.

So he wants us to believe if he had transferred 8k into his driver's account ,the driver wouldn't have been able to buy fuel using an ATM card in Abuja of all places?

Ok, 20k is the only money Femi had as at that time. Nothing in his numerous bank account to the extent he has accept a loan from his poor driver. Lies upon lies

It's obvious this man, like a lot of Nigerians right now barely understand the real reason behind the CBN'S cashless policy , hence the unnecessary complain and resistance .

Nobody has said that you can't or should not spend the thousands or millions in your bank account,(adopt shoestring budget) but do so through ATM card transfers, POS and bank apps.

If most of us agree to change to this, (some people, like drug addicts, are still stubbornly insisting on spending and receiving physical cash in large sums) the current scarcity of both the old and new notes wouldn't be felt.

The new naira notes should mostly be made available for rural dwellers without bank accounts, those not having immediate access to any banking institution and those engaged in petty trading and buying.

If you're living in the cities or major towns,any transaction more than 1k ,use your ATM or do.
bank transfer. If the person you're dealing with refuses transfers ,then go elsewhere if possible. Some petty traders due to drop in sales from the current cash scarcity have started to accept bank transfers.

POS agents are starting to reduce their excess charges. It's just a matter of time things return the normal.

Let's play our part to support the government to make things work in this country. We want change but resist it when it comes.

The 20k physical cash Femi had in his possession maybe too much. He should be leading by example by writing something on how people can spend their money by using alternative channels, and not this lying "shoestring budget$ write up.

AntiChristian:
They are not the same. Jesus in the Bible is not the same as us. He should know that Mustard seed is not the smallest seed!
It's not about them happening! It's about them containing lies unbefitting for someone of Godly status!

The audience for any parable don't see it as lies. They understand from the word go that the story within it is not true ,and know they are not being deceived.

You can only lie to someone who's not in a position to know the truth. The audience for that parable have seen a mustard plant before and know it can grow into that size described in the story.

So where's the lie?

How's it possible to lie to somebody, who you're aware, already knows the truth of what you're telling them?

Your problem is that you're struggling to understand what a parable is or just clutching at straws to defend your already failed op

The mustard seed in that parable is symbolic .It represents something and not a real seed. This is what you still don't understand.

As long as parables are not deliberate falsehood anyone , no matter their status, divine or not, can use it to teach.

The disciples of Jesus, in the Christian Bible, understood very well what he was doing using a parable , and accused him of not speaking directly to the audience ,who they felt, may struggle to understand the symbolic meaning it contains.

He wasn't accused of lying .

You're not different from Christians who create threads to criticize your religion, Islam, with the limited knowledge they have

Read below where the disciples questioned him about using a parable and show me where he was accused of lies

AntiChristian:
The entry that birds nest on a Mustard tree is a mistake! The assertion that a mustard seed is the smallest seed is also false. Mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds.
Can you quote another parable of Jesus that contains mistakes like this one?

How many times do you want me answer the same question. Shouting won't help you in this case. You're already doing so in frustration..

I already explained that within the context of the parable it's not a mistake to give those description of the mustard plant. Outside of it, it's

What's difficult to understand in that?


A parable is an imaginative story meant to illustrate a particular principle. The story in a parable must not agree with what's obtainable in the real world. It's very silly to use the story in parable to determine what's true or not true

The narrator has the licence to say anything, whether true or not, to help illustrate the moral truth or lesson behind it.

The message is the most important thing in a parable ,and if you understand the message in the parable in contention then, you can easily see why the mustard plant was described as that which can grow into a tree when it shouldn't.

Why is it difficult for you to understand this simple explanation that even a child in primary school would easily grasp?

I think it's becoming obvious now that the idea of using parables to illustrate something is completely lost on you. You certainly don't understand it at all


For the other parables of Jesus in the Bible , it's also known that they were fictional stories meant to illustrate a moral truth.

So don't understand why you're asking for other examples, or do you expect them to
also contain a mustard seed description?

Fiction is fiction. It doesn't matter how it's told or what it contains

I think I am done with you. Everything has been explained by me. Nothing more.

AntiChristian:
A Parable is a short fictitious story that shows a moral attitude or a religious principle.

So you can see that the story in every parable is fictional. It's always the imaginative invention of the narrator to illustrate a moral truth or any other truth in life


It's the message in the parable that's the most mportant thing. I already mentioned that the truth in that parable is timeless and transcend Christianity.



Parables can be liken to idioms. If I tell you , for instance, that it rained cats and dogs yesterday in my area, you understand cats and dogs didn't actually fall from the sky , but that it rained heavily.

It's only an illiterate ,who doesn't understand what an idiomatic expression is, that would accuse me of falsehood in that instance.

I understand why you continue to drag this matter. Your Op seek to establish that the narrator of the parable of the mustard seed used deliberate falsehood to mislead his audience, or that he doesn't have the correct information about the mustard plant

But it's you who doesn't know the difference between a parable and a true story, or you know ,but just want to pretend because of the Op.

Just rest.

AntiChristian:
So falsehood can be permitted in Parables?

What's the definition for a parable?

Please answer that first. You have refused to answer that question in a thread you yourself created to discuss it. Very strange.

AntiChristian:
A Parable should still be be concise and correct! What if He had said ..."One of the smallest common seed...." And saying Mustard tree grows into a tall tree that supports birds nesting is another "lamba".

No. That's why it's called a parable, a fictional tale. It's not meant to reflect the real world as it is.

The message behind the fictional story should be your focus and not the fiction in it.

You can only find fault if the narrator were recounting a true life experience, but in this instance he wasn't.

The "certain man" who planted the mustard in his garden, is a fictional character. He doesn't exist. The garden also doesn't exist. But you're only focus on the description of the mustard seed and want it to real.
Why?

Lol,

Another failed attempt at damage control after been found out.

Can anyone explain this,

A nairalander ,who's not insane, has reasoned that the best place and way to respond to a question asked in one thread is to take it to another unrelated thread , here, with the excuse of an history that should be forgotten.

And what was this history, a quarrell ,which he dug out first and expressed bitterness over as if it just happened yesterday, and then wait until the next day to answer the question that he was originally asked and expect me to be believe he is being sincere and honest?

What difference would it make if the question was responded to in the place where it was originally asked.

Wow! Notin person nor go see 4 Nairaland.

Not going to quote any pretender.

But some people have mastered the art of lying to themselves. No shame

MaxInDHouse:
Instead of formulating opinions in your head and attaching it to JWs why not ask us?

Well we do respond to any form of greetings by saying "Thank you"

I don't need to ask you to know that JW don't respond to New year wishes like others.

Thank you is not the normal response , but either ",I wish you same or Happy New year".

You don't respond like others do, due to what you believe about the celebration, and people like me respect you for that.

But if you're always at the receiving end and always responding with "thank you" "thank you" and never for once wishing others Happy New year first or replying with the expected response, it wouldn't be long before others around you start sensing you're different and may just understand that you're trying to separate yourself from the celebration , but just want to play along for acceptance

Is that not true? Or do your group now join in the New year celebration.

Of course, I know that as individuals some JW could wish others Happy New year, but it's not sanctioned by your organisation. My sister is a witness so I can confirm that.

The person I directed that question to , understand what I was driving at. It wasn't meant really meant to disparage JW in anyway, so don't take it personal.

Thank you

budaatum:
Triple! You should not make up imaginary things to believe. I don't avoid you. Would love to know what you suspect though.

If you like call this verbiage as you usually do and tell me you didn't read it. I know you very well.

But I will be using the above quoted comments of yours to show something you want to deny.

You have quoted me here on this thread after several months with this,"+1 ".

At first,its significance wasn't clear to me. It was only when you failed to immediately respond to my New year wishes , that it started to dawn on me there was some ulterior motive behind it all; you were trying to pick up from where you stopped in another thread by indirectly drawing my attention there

To clear any doubts and be sure of this, I decided to use the opportunity of asking why you failed to respond to my New year wishes. I was certain that your response would confirm things for me. And it worked.

Initially , you wanted to hide and pretend that it wasn't the case. But if you go back to what you said up there you could see your initial attempt to pretend and deny the very obvious, You said that I shouldn't not be imagining things and believing it, meaning that your motives were pure and not what I was thinking.

But you were engaged in bold face lie because when I replied that we should forget it, the next thing was you quoting me immediately in the exact thread I was suspecting you were trying to draw my attention to, the "Mind and Matter" thread

What sort of behaviour is that?

Yet , you're now accusing me of lying and trying to induce you into a fight, whereas you have been secretly stalking me for months to look for an opportunity to use my comment on this board against me, after you declared you were done with me and not ever for once after then quoting me. But you failed woefully, as you have been found out.

Such pettiness and childish behaviour coming from a very pained individual who is unwilling to swallow the hate speeches, in the form of unrestrained use of sarcasm and innuendos, he takes delight in dishing out others under the delusionof having superior knowledge.

If you think what I discussed in the Mind and Matter thread is the same as someone here talking about demons, then you're very naive and ignorant.

OBEs and NDEs in case you don't know, I know you don't know, is currently being investigated by those in the main body of sciences, and not just individual scientists working on their own, to understand better the phenomenon ,so as to bring it into the realm of the exacting sciences for further investigation in order to established its reality different from what religious people are saying about it. I mentioned Aware11 and 111 in that thread, and they just released an update on their recent findings.

No member of the main body of the sciences anywhere as ever investigated demons or God to find out if they exist or not because such claims are regarded as supernatural claim not worthy of scientific investigation. But not so anymore for OBEs and NDEs. You still live in the past. That's it.


You say it was "a mistake to bring here" and discuss NDE whose true meaning you don't even know? , quoting my comments to another person here on this thread to indirectly make your point known to me? I didn't not miss that if you thought I did.

I have never said this to anyone here, not even offline, but you have pushed me to the wall, so Please stop quoting me as I don't want to be dragged into your negativity anymore.

If you like continue to do so. .No more response from me and not even from this reply.

I hope others, Lordreed, unknownunknown, in that other thread ,who have since moved on despite the heated conversation we all had, would read about your latest antics and judge for themselves.

You have shamelessly gone back to your stale vomit after several months. You don't want to let sleeping dogs lie

SMH

budaatum:
You must be tired of your fight with others and think you can entice buda into one.

Good luck with that.

And you quoted me after so many months to continue the fight you started months ago.

You just wait. I will address your nonsense later when I'm less busy.

budaatum:
That said, triple. I do not usually maintain conversations with individuals who need to lie to justify their positions as I do not tend to see the point of stating the obvious fact they must know they are lying.

Then ,What I was suspecting was true after all.

You have shamelessly gone back to your vomit after your " your time is up" declaration.

I will respond to your latest craziness later in the day
I have some job to do now.

budaatum:
Triple! You should not make up imaginary things to believe. I don't avoid you. Would love to know what you suspect though.

Then don't bother .

But are you now a JW that wouldn't want to respond to New wishes from those they consider unbelievers?

budaatum:
+1

You have not replied to my New year's wishes..

Your non response has made me to start imagining the reason you choose to qoute me after so many months that you avoided me or we avoided each other.

Anyway, your reply or non reply to this, would be a confirmation of what I'm suspecting. I just hope it's not.

Kobojunkiee:
Triplechoice, while I am not able to read those pages at this time, are you able to at least provide references to some examples of the direct records of Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita and how they directly connect to that which was taught by Jesus Christ? Also, recall that the teachings of Jesus Christ apply only as far as the House of Jacob is concerned. Did Krishna suggest that he is instead a deity to all or to some?

Then read only the one on ,"The world's sixteen crucified saviours". By keysey. Go to the exact page that explains the parallels between Krishna and Jesus and get the answers to all your questions. It wouldn't take you up to a hour's reading

Whether it applies to the house of Jacob or anything else shouldn't be your immediate focus, but to first solve the puzzle of the strange similarities that exist between the two saviours; why did the life of Jesus parallel that of Krishna.

If you were accused of plagiarism , you can't defend it in any law court by arguing that since the audience for whom your plagiarized work was directed to is not the same as the one you copied from, then you have no case to answer.

How do you judge somebody who reasons that way?

AntiChristian:
The Tower of Babel Genesis 11:1-9

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

1.Was there truly a time when the whole world was speaking a language?
2. Can Crude Building with mortar, tar and brick ever reach heaven?
3. The speech ascribed to God was inappropriate. How can God come down and confuse their language when what they were trying to do was even impossible?

It seems this story never happened in reality or probably figurative!

You're correct. It never happened. There was never time the same language was spoken everywhere in the world.

But there's an underlying meaning to that fictional story. The ancients have their own way of teaching certain truths about life once they discovered them.

AntiChristian:
Thank you!
But it is agreed that the verse is a mistake. Orchid is a more commoner and smaller seed in Palestine at the time. Even the Mustard seed does not grow to trees for birds to nest on!

Yes, a mistake if the narrator was narrating a true story, but he was telling a parable, a fiction, in order to teach something. So he can't be accused of making a mistake.

Or do you have another definition for a parable?

A parable is a short fictional story that's meant to teach a moral truth or any other life lessons.

The fictional tale in the parable of the mustard seed shouldn't be used by anyone as a scientific guide in determining
the smallest seed in the world as the story is not meant to reflect the real world as it is.

This is something that can be easily understood by those who are familiar with imaginative literature, and this is exactly why I have asked previously for the meaning of a parable..


Parables are examples of allegories where animals are made to talk even when we know that's not possible.

The imaginative invention in a parable is actually meant to stimulate the imagination of the audience ,for whom it's directed to ,in order to reinforce in their minds the actual message behind the parable so they don't forget it easily.


It's obvious that the audience for the parable of the mustard seed were
mostly agrarians who cultivate such plant all the time , and for this it would impossible for them to easily forget what they were taught.

I'm not a Jesus worshipper, but I know that the parable of the mustard seed contains a truth that is timeless;
If you begin a project, don't be discouraged by how small you start. Keep faith and focus your attention unwavering on what you want to achieve and you will surely achieve it . That's the message.

It's a psychological fact that most people who attain great success in life are those who have great self belief and trust greatly that they would succeed in whatever they set out to accomplish, no matter where they begin from.

The Op is just chasing shadows and trying to divert people's attention from the real thing.

Instead of pushing for an extension, they should first demand to know the reason for the scarcity, and once that is known, they can then offer their own advice on how the problem can be solved.

If it's extending to July and the scarcity still persist, it would then mean another extension. That's nonsense.

We have never had this kind of problem in the past when this country changed its currency. Why now?

Why there's scarcity of new notes is the question they should be asking CBN and the banks on our behalf, and not pushing for an extension maybe for their own selfish interest.

100 days is more than enough for everyone to exchange their old notes for new ones, but CBN and the banks should ensure the new notes are available.

hotseat:
The problem is with the FG, the CBN and the banks and not just the CBN alone.



If all do their jobs appropriately, changing of bank notes shouldn't be such a huge problem.



Everything boils down to ineptitude, the usual Nigerian factor!



Nigeria is not and won't be the only country to change its bank notes!



Everything in Nigeria is upside down!



Tufia!

I think the real problem is the difficulty of knowing who to believe amomgs the three.

The Government and CBN have announced that they have given enough to the banks for distribution and that there shouldn't be any shortage of new notes.

But banks are still giving out old notes and if you ask them why, they tell you to forget what CBN has announced that they haven't been given enough.

For me I don't want any extension. This is not the first time this country is changing its currency and we never experienced what we're experiencing now.

I suspect there's some hoarding going on or other things that may be responsible that we are yet to know of.

There shouldn't be any extension so we know who is lying between CBN and the banks.

I don't see how any bank in this country , especially the ones still issuing out old notes,would continue to do so after the deadline.
And if they're unable to give their customers the new notes by next week Tuesday, then the banks and CBN would need to explain to Nigerians what has happened ,and then we would know the truth.

AntiChristian:
So in parables "smallest" becomes "smaller"?

Abeg!

Lol.

I expected you to have answered my question first instead of your usual emotional rant.

Again, what's a parable?

You must not respond to the question if you don't want to. Others can do that, so we can use it to know if the Op makes any sense.