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Ruq:
Hahn you do know that not all that exists can be proven.

UyiIredia:
All this just to prove that a particular God exists. Sorry I ain't playing.

ValentineMary:
Lettrrs written by the catholic icon blessed Theresa of Calcutta has shown that she might have been agnostic.



www.cbsnews.com/news/letters-reveal-mother-teresas-secret/

johnydon22:
FIRE OF THE GODS (advent of man's intellectual evolution)

"And for the little bushmen of the Kalahari, the rumble of a thunder is because the Gods has eaten too much and their stomachs are rumbling"
Narrator Gods must be crazy

A very rational conclusion for the bushmen of the Kalahari, it was a rational explanation born out of curiosity given to a strange and also curious phenomenon.

But to say rationalization is directly proportional to advancement, the level of rationality can be said to be improved when there is an advancement in study and empirical reliance - this factor however differs alongside historical timeline and civilizations.

Let us travel through time and back into when it all began, let our songs take us back to the birth of our enquiry, back through time to when man first queried his mind about himself, activities around him and the stars twinkling in the skies.

In our journey through this time, we head to a time when societies where not born yet - Primeval humans lived more in packs of close relations, a time when there were no pyramids or temples, when man's architecture could not boast better than that of a bird, the era without cities and politics, warfare or dynasties, the era when caves were a luxury and trees provided basic shades.

the time when humans were not better than the wild beasts that feed on raw flesh, when no fire flickered in the camp side, when clothing fundamentally was just for temperature regulation made simple from the sad providence of death plagued on other species.

We rewind back to when it was all young and simple.

Primordial humans were simple folks, they had same brain as us but lacked our tools and advancement but while we boast of these tools and advancement let us not quick in that ego deny the fact that our advancement was built on a fundamental bedrock that started with their enquiry, our advancement now is basically an intrinsic accumulation of all simple human enquiry starting from this primordial era.

-I would argue that our advancement is not really "Ours" as in referring modern humans of this age but Ours as a reference to ALL humans who ever lived, now live and will live …

These simple human folks lived no more than what we would attribute to wild beasts of the field, they had no houses but sort under the caves or a simple manipulation of trees and bushes for shelter.

Food was raw as no fire then was known to these folks even though surely there must be fires in places around the globe from natural sources like Volcanoes, lightening etc but they were yet to encounter one.

They had no large societies therefore politics never existed, everyman only had an allegiance to himself and those directly bound to him from the most basic fundamental ties that can hold humans - family.

They lived and died in these small family packs oblivious that there were others just like them thriving some where else , i doubt if having not explored through the stretching arms of migration many of them had thought there was more to earth than the expanse of the horizons visible to them.

They hunted and ate with simple preservative methods being spreading out food in the sun - A genius method that even till today we still use.
utilized basic tools for hunting and defence against other animals that shared the given habitat with them such as Hyenas, lions, tigers all caught in the cruelty of a close food web.

Man's encounter with fire is something almost certainly was accidental as most discoveries and even inventions were, it has been caught in the later developed myth of man like the sad story of Prometheus.

A remarkable eloquent and sad tragedy as told by the ancient Greeks to explain man's first encounter with fire.

To them fire was something that could not have existed naturally, Fire just had to be supernatural in fact was taken directly from the hearth of the divine so fire as the ancient greeks explained was an unnatural jewel born out of the divine.

As the story goes -

Prometheus was a young outre young Titan, was born of the Titan lepetus.

Known never to have been a measly subordinate of Zeus, in fact Prometheus was sometimes a challenger of the Father of the Gods' power.

In his most legendary dealing with the most powerful Zeus, Prometheus outdid himself in his epic trick of mecone .

The gods and mortal man had arranged a meeting at Mecone where the matter of division of sacrifice between gods and men was to be settled.

Prometheus slew a large ox, and divided it into two piles.

In one pile he put all the meat and most of the fat, skillfully covering it with the ox's grotesque stomach, while in the other pile, he dressed up the bones artfully with shining fat.

Prometheus then invited Zeus to choose; Zeus chose the pile of bones.

As an act of revenge, Zeus hid fire from mankind, leaving them cold and shivering at night.

Prometheus , however, out of pity stole it for them shortly after, incurring the further wrath of Zeus. Prometheus's punishment was to be chained to a rock and have an eagle pick out
his liver every day for eons.

the Liver would grow back after being picked out by the eagle who would then come back the next day and resume his unusual meal to the agony of his unwilling host.

It was a story of a selfless sacrifice, a pointer to how valuable fire was to man that in this story it was worth such a heinous retribution.

The greeks in the sandwich of human cultures coming up with explanations of fire were not the only to assume or portray 'fire' a divine projection.

worthy of note are few others like

-in the Hindu mythology, Mātariśvan also recovered fire which was taken out of human reach

-In the book of Enoch (Hebrew mythology) the fallen angels taught humanity technology and fire.

-Americas had the ideas that an animal did probably a dog.

and very many other cultures that showed fire as first being elusive to humanity until from an act of unparalleled heroism someone goes and retrieves it for the good of humanity directly from the restriction and disapproving gesture of the divine

It is fascinating, the ancients recognized fire to be a very important thing that it takes a divine value.

Fire is indeed so important, probably the greatest discovery man ever made because it affected man's development and well being so much that even as of today we boast of a very high technological advancement -take away fire from us - everything will ground to a halt, both technology and even science, we almost certainly will become extinct faster than one can imagine.

Fire was directly responsible for the technological advancement of humanity thus fire was the amber on which technology was illuminated.

When man controlled fire, he controlled Iron harder than the stones and sticks he usually used as tools thus a technological leap was made.

We have seen how rationally the ancients had seen fire more of a supernatural value manifesting naturally only because it was wrenched directly from the protection of reluctant Gods, a remarkable pointer to how 'Superstition' was the center player in the answers to the questions of the ancients who held philosophy in high esteem.

I have however in concord with modern scientific and historical speculation have the idea of man's encounter with fire being much accidental like very many of our discoveries.

I had imagined it to be something like a volcano erupting nearby both startling the naive curious man with it's loud rumbling and dark smokes rising up towards the heavens and also most certainly a nearby bush setting ablaze by the hot molten lava that flowed down the slope.

Or a near miss of a lightening bolt sparking up fire some where very near for 'someone to see it'

I can imagine his awe, surprise and fear as he sees the yellow amber dancing and eating away the fuel it burns dancing steadily with the gentle wind.

He must have ran away as fast as his legs could carry him at the strange thing but also when his safety seems guaranteed and his curiosity pricks him he'd go back to have a second look.

Imagine the excitement of the pack (family) when he reports his findings and they all run towards the strange 'thing' with held breathe to see for themselves what one of them had so remarkably painted to be out of the world.

Thus man must have met his next phase of evolution only this time 'Intellectual evolution' through an accidental encounter and discovery.

Continued....

KingEbukasBlog:
Lol . Try preaching to he robbers , touts or prostitutes and get mocked . North Korea is an atheist state and what do they have to show for it ? A megalomaniacal buffoon as a president . The top three countries with the lowest poverty rate are Taiwan , Malaysia , sorry I can't remember the third one and they are religious . Norway is the most advanced country in the world with the religious prespondent. The worst atrocities done to mankind were carried out by atheists - led to the death of 254 million people . Hitler would have added over 20 million but the breakthrough of conquering the Enigma obviated the disaster . Nk's president feeds people to dogs . Dogs !!! And capriciously executes people , even for venial offences . Should we talk of Sweden , whom most atheists , claim to have themselves preponderant with the quotidian reported rape cases . Police brutality in France or morally decadent South Africa. Where is this elusive proof atheists claim that makes them better than theists ? Where ?

Many are called indeed but few are chosen - that's what I can say for Christians who are morally depraved

KingEbukasBlog:
1. Most scums of the Nigerian society are atheists

2 . You have to prove atheism is beneficial . How are you better than any theists in Nigeria

Scholar8200:
Indeed, when a man's cup of iniquity is full, God may decide any mode of executing Judgement. We are talking here of one that enslaved Israel under murderous, criminally rigorous terms to the point of killing babies!

Temidayo9:
Thats what makes Him God, His taught is different from Ours. Kabio osi..... unquestionable God.

otemanuduno:
I have been saying it, ALL RELIGION WILL CEASE TO EXIST and everyone shall start using their God-given brains to achieve things for themselves, because that is what DOMINO REVERAD, the GOD who made the content of the universe with a Big Bang said. He hates being worshipped. He gave everything to nature, but the sons of Reverad thought to interfere with nature by asking the homos to be worshipping them instead of using their brains to make findings and do good to their neighbours.

Now the Kingdom of Domino Reverad is here, let Jehovah(satan/Allah) tremble because the real God of the universe is here. Read the DOCTRINE OF THE UFOS given to me by EARTUM the brother of Jehovah(the first son of God to establish religion). Check my signature.

johnydon22:
The day you'll understand magic are just professional tricks performed in a way that you see only what they want you to see, you will grow a little bit more.

why didn't you carry out a first hand test, get your own sharp blade and seek their permission to strike.
Get your own damn Gun and do the shooting.

johnydon22:
You sound more like you are mad at the atheist simply because they challenge your beliefs and argue against it.

Let me be very clear "Nobody is trying to disprove your God" the Onus is actually on the reverse here.

You have your beliefs, you are free to express it and let it out but why then do you feel the need to deny others the right to express their own opinion over it since it directly affects them as a virtue of it's position as an idea of human construct and has a direct effect on the society.

Any idea, coercion or belief directed at the public is the business of every member of this public.

So do not be mad at the atheist or beg that they leave your religion alone only you can do that by leaving the world alone with your beliefs.

But if you keep blaring it on the world then stop complaining about the stinging whips of criticism, scepticism, ridicule and scrutiny.

johnydon22:
Abeg oooo bros na time i no get oo

johnydon22:
Of course na.. I go complete am na

HardMirror:
John pls don't rush the story, the comic lustre seems to be diminishing as it seems you are trying to hurriedly round up the chapter. I dey gbadun u all the way

HardMirror:
Hehehehe
Or
Artist holds pencil, God draws
Prostitute opens leg, God quenches man's konji
Carpenter nacks hammer, God makes furniture
We can go on and on. God is wonderful!

Chazzyboy:
what about ur sins do u feel guilty? We all need a father everybody need God because u don't know how u were made

analice107:
Is it that you deny these things or they don't happen where you come from?
when i was a kid, there were these Jaz men who come to entertain us with magic, afterwards sell their wares. A man will use this knife Mae Suya uses to slice through their stomach, stick it into their eyes, nothing happens. A man will lie down and a plank will be place on him, a car will drive through him, nothing will happen to him, i have seen a man who lifted a car with his teeth off the ground. he stood erect with the car by his teeth.
An Hausa man came to my village, he never went into the River, How he did it, no one knows till this day, but he tied a robe to a stick by the bank of the river and spiritually tied an Hippopotamus and pulled it to the river bank and it was killed. He never stepped inside the water.
I have seen where a man took an empty giant Milo Can , opened it for us to see it was empty, closed it, shook it and open it again, steaming hot Jellof rice filled the Can, he scoped it out and people ate it to prove it was indeed rice.
Its either you are lying or you are living in denial.

Ultimatesammie:
I know right episode was cool.

SirWere:
Yea, but the problem is, what I anticipate usually don't come true..... Well, except 1

Jon Snow coming back to life.

I still have a sneaky feeling that he's going to die permanently before long.............by Ramsay Bolton

johnydon22:
Being busy with work brother, it has been a tight schedule at my work place...

johnydon22:
The story you are about to read is a fantasy, a fictitious work of the writer Johnydon22 inspired by the biblical myth of Job.

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By virtue of your beliefs if you'll find this work of literature offensive to your person or belief please DO NOT READ!!!





But if you care to read, see it as a work of literature inspired by a fascinating myth for your pleasure or as a tickle for some deep serious thoughts..

The writer is not responsible for how ever this story makes you feel, happy, sad or angry. That is sorely your business.


I'll be posting episode by episode

kennycanny:
Pls , you and hardmirrow do not need to be childish about this whole thing.

whichever side you belong , you can still be mature about it.

JackBizzle:
lol...the guy would need to employ staff because the amount of silly comments on Nairaland he would have to got through.....

Baddestguyp:
what is saw sha.

even on the net I saw many posts that kishi isn't the one drawing

JackBizzle:
I tell them that I'm a muslim. It works well


If the christians need your tithes, they will tell you that any sin can be forgiven....even your blasphemy. They will first ask you to explain your blasphemy in detail.....

HardMirror:
I pay my tithe regularly, things must not be tight for me. I will get out of it and share my testimony after I pay enough to kill the publicity