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Pillar12:
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badinfluence:
Globally it is one of the biggest. When I say successful, I'm talking numbers and following. Contestants on the challenge were amazed with Tacha's following and how big BBN is.
The profit BBN makes for multichoice is massive.
As for content, you should realize that the environment matters. Nigerians are not into the scheming and mind games a few of you clamour for. You people don't even follow BBcan or BBus, where you'd see the content you clamour for. You guys enjoy BBN, but you enjoy hate watching it more.

elyte89:
Nigeria no ever Dey fifa na

elyte89:
Proposed New slots according to FIFA,

Asia - 8 countries

Africa - 9 countries

North America- 6 countries

South America - 6 countries

Oceania- 1 Country

Europe - 16 countries

Making it a total of 46 counties.

2 slots remaining

1 for Africa because Morocco have reached the semi-finals.

1 for play-offs.

Therefore ,
Asia 8+Africa( 9+1) + North America 6 + South America 6+ Ocenia 1 + Europe 16+ playoffs 1 will make it 48 countries.



Aw true is dis?

MaxInDHouse:
Atheists won't stop amusing people with their ideology "Illiterate questions" indeed!

Is that all?

MaxInDHouse:
Read stories when you're supposed to answer two simple questions, shey?

The fact that you can't see the relevance of the so-called "stories" to your illiterate questions is no one's fault but yours. Learn to take responsibility for your shortcomings

MaxInDHouse:
Throwing tantrums!

Says the man who can't read and cries about lengthy posts

MaxInDHouse:
Just answer this question in two or three even four sentences no STORY!

Go back and read the posts answering your questions. You are yet to address them. Enough people have done their best correcting your error, and all you've done is ignore. If you like, you can keep spamming those questions from now till the cows come home, and I'll keep directing you to the posts that you shamelessly ran away from. I'm not going to waste my mental energy on you.

"Casting pearls on swine", isn't that how you people say it?

MJBOLT:

The Chinese banned Eternals long before it was released,even before Shang Chi was released sef.
I believe the reason is because Chloe Zhao said things that put the Chinese government in bad light.

100naira:
so eternals has now been banned in Nigeria amongst other countries.

billyboy:

Eternals

jamesid29:
Technically (at least from a philosopher's point of view) to withhold or suspend belief for whatever reason does not make one an atheist (at least not under the standard definition).
The problem statement is, Does God exist? Theism give a positive answer of yes.
The "a" in a-theism should be considered as a negation, so if theism is construed as the proposition that God does exist, then atheism is an answer to the question by stating that No, God(s) do not exist.
And if theism is to be broadened to a set of religious beliefs then atheism is more broadly a rejection of all forms of religious beliefs, regardless of their position about the divine ( this was what the extract reed was trying to point out).
The answer "lack of belief" is just a claim about the state of mind of the person, not a claim about existence/inexistence of God. It is not an answer to the question itself.

With that being said,their are many people who don't fall under the standard definition but self identify as atheist or theist and to me that's totally fine. Their are those who are technically irreligious or "nones" who might subscribe to belief in spiritual realities but reject an form of organized religion who self identify as atheist. And their those who are truly atheist but do not self identify as such because they don't want to be identified with the New atheist movement (Neil deGrasse Tyson I believe falls under the category). And their are those who are theist(eg christians) who are practical atheist because even though they say they believe in a deity, they live as if their is no deity.
This view does make having conversations a bit harder cos we all have to define or redefine what we mean but that's just part of the complexity of human interaction (in my opinion).

So do I have a problem with people using "lack of belief" as their definition of atheism? Not really
What is kinda of unsettling is when people choose to make it the universal definition whilst willfully rejecting the standard definition(perhaps because it's unsettling to them and their worldview ); Especially since their definition is almost non existent amongst the people who study the subject matter for a living.

jamesid29:
Turns out that the definition of atheism as "lack of belief in god(s)" is almost non existent in the field of philosophy itself.
In almost all the encyclopedia & dictionaries of philosophy and amongst philosophers and in academia the standard definition of atheism is " the belief/view that there is no god(s)" or put in another way "The proposition that God(s) do not exist."

You can check
Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy( one of the most cited encyclopedia of philosophy)

Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy

Internet encyclopedia of philosophy

Encyclopedia Britannica

ismbook.com/ism-list/

The oxford companion to philosophy

oxford dictionary of philosophy

Blackwell dictionary of western philosophy

Cambridge dictionary of philosophy (the only dictionary to include the none-standard definition in a positive light but it itself holds to the standard definition as it's preferred one)

and so on

And it's what noting that the standard definition in this dictionaries/encyclopedias are written by atheist philosophers themselves.

So amongst the vast majorities dictionaries of philosophy and within philosophical discourse itself, the standard definition is used.

That I think begs the question why the vast majority of people on the internet and atheist activists still chose to insist that atheism is simply " the lack of belief in god(s)"? A definition that's almost none existent in academia itself.

jamesid29:
The proposition that God(s) do not exist.

jamesid29:
Yeah. So if the the question of the existence/inexistence of the divine falls under the field of philosophy, would you agree that the adequate definition of atheism should come from from the field of philosophy itself?

jamesid29:
Yes sir, they would fall under Philosophy.



Even though theology does tackle the same set of problems when it comes to the question of the divine and might use the same set of principles, the theologian comes to the table with a set of presuppositions the philosopher need not come with.
Theology is much more constrained in it's field of study.The word "Theos" is already baked into the theologians field of study.

LilMissFavvy:
I have more than enough examples and claims, but I do not really have interest going into long arguments. I don't argue religion, nope, rather to each his own. My advice was for the Op, he is free to listen or forget. I didn't say all, I said majority.

LilMissFavvy:
In my very first message, I mentioned that an old friend who claimed to be an atheist, is a cultist. It is same with majority of atheists. I thought an atheist is supposed to be someone who doesn't believe in God, a deity or the supernatural? So why should they belong in a group where they take blood oaths/oath, perform rituals, sacrifice and other strange acts? Why attend strange meetings on timely intervals where the restrict police/public interference, and keep their activities sacred. As for your opinion below, the day you open a thread and talk about Christians who belong to fraternities and cults, then I will also share my thoughts.

LilMissFavvy:
Truth is that a good percentage of atheists are into one fraternity or the other

ChristoBam:
Elites on Nairaland, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are the same. Doesn't matter the app. I used to think they were pushing agenda ni. But that's not the case.

Every year some certain housemates attracts some certain type of people. It's just unfortunate Erica attracted people with extremely low intelligence.

I'm not even saying it as a diss. It's a real observation. The way they analyse certain occurrences just shocks me sometimes.

There's always that ONE unfortunate housemate in every BB game. Sometimes, I like to imagine that even Erica is ashamed of her fans. The poor girl

Simran94:
Aunty, the big brother franchise is a Social experiment!! It gives an insight of what really happens in the real world.

It can be used to study human psychology, how humans reason the way they do and their actions.

Over 30 countries worldwide has the big brother franchise running(like big brother Australia, big brother Canada, etc) because they understand the use of social experiments

meobizy:
So this thread even has moderators? I am shooketh. See them, lazy youths. You people have made this unnecessary discussion hit 11,000 pages. I'm sure the OP is smiling to the bank.

jayjaycee0:
Fans of a simp. Cover your eyes in shame and go to bed. Your fave went from being a mere simp running after Nengi to a blatant nincompoop.
To make matters worse he tells lies now

Still off point. Anyways goodbye, you can have fun knocking down strawmen

jayjaycee0:
I love your simpitic incoherent position on what people feel about Ozo.
Ozo lost fans this night. Ozo is a complete fool. Big ass nincompoop

Simran94:
Lol, from where to where did Erica pop up from? These elites are delusional.

Shey na you confirm say nengi receive for bathroom, dumbites.

Nobody has even talked about Erica since because she's irrelevant, na laycon I blame sha