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Agboriotejoye:
Well... Religion too especially Christianity which I practice can be tested. It asks that we examine ask things and hold that which we know to be true.
That it has a place for faith does not render its premises invalid. Science also has beliefs as you noted. It's simply because it offers a way out of morality that most of you seem comfortable with it.

First of all Christianity cannot be tested, else I will tell you to test it for me by drinking a bottle of sniper and live to tell about it.

Science beliefs are based on physical evidence. The beliefs are explanations for repeated tests and experimental results.

Science has nothing to do with morality, that's the purview of religion.

Agboriotejoye:
And you believe you're of superior mind to the religious because you chose to believe science over religion. Have you seen a dinosaur before? How come you believe carbon dating being interpreted by scientists to be the gospel. If you believe chemistry, anthropology and physics textbooks without seeing for yourself most of what is written there, how are you better off than those who believe religious texts?

Religious texts has no basis, it is simply based on force of cohesion and imposition. It appeals to the simple mind, answering all answers to complex problems with very few simple answers.

Science on the other hand is painstakingly laborious. It took centuries of enquiries, experiments and tests to arrive at conclusions, which are most times not even sacrosanct. Better tests and experiments might render prevailing theories and explanations obsolete. It's a never ending quest to understand our physical universe and reality.

Most people that is interested can test science and scientific theories. In schools and universities, you not only have text books, you also have science practicals to demonstrate and prove what is written in text books.

Adjovi:
American petroglyphs

.and various carvings that shows man lived with dinosaurs are everywhere. Alexander the Great during is conquest alleged that his soldiers faced dragons that lived in caves..

False man could not have lived with dinosaurs. The dinosaur carvings and legends of dragons were based on dinosaur bones found by primitive man. As man has problems with dealing with the unknown, they build up various legends and fabled creatures to explain unknown skeletons of animals of bygone age.

maak400:
This poster is always bringing up unfounded and cooked up history of million years ago based on so called scientific carbon dating shit. I don’t know why mods keep pushing unsubstantiated stories like this to front page. Is the earth even up to a million years?

But your biblical fables aare based on founded history?

Who told you dinosaur dating is based on carbon isotope?

No the earth is not millions of years old, it's billions. I know to you its less than 10,000 years.

Ignorance on display.

RealMrNigerD:
Thought you were the first guy that quoted that comment, oops!

I can't get my hands right now on where the data was covered BY RACE for 2019 and previous years and I don't have time to start looking all over for it but I clearly remember it was whites highest, then blacks, then Hispanics ... and not to mention blacks commited about 55% of crimes.
Anyway if you do your proper search you'd be able to verify it and if it's a lie, I'm here for you to call me out.
You guys need to emancipate yourselves from the control of media and social media and verify everything with hard facts. That's being smart.

If you that made the claim don't have time to look for the source, how come you expect me to have time to look for it for you?

If blacks truly commit 55% of all crimes in the US, should that not be a source of concern for you, if you are black? Should the black academia and intelligentsia not study the root cause of the problem instead of using it as a weapon to denigrate black Americans in general?

So what do you think is responsible for the disproportionate high crime rate in black American communities, and do you think that justifies the disproportionate white on black violence that is growing in the US?

Abbeybailey:
Trump can't censor any social media in America. He has no constitutional power to do that but being a dictator that he's in his mind, he think he's a king. Twitter is not even afraid of him because they know he's all noise and nothing else.

You think his cult worshippers know that? They think Trump is a God.

RealMrNigerD:
Please reread my modified post. It will educate you better and go do your fact check. it's out there on Google already. I ain't got all the time.

Your problem is the analysis is probably too much for you. Is it too hard to get that people can tilt what obtains to a narrative that favours their agenda? Read my modified post. For one who claimed to be informed on police brutality, I'm disappointed you don't even have the data.

I reread the your modified post several times and I am unable to locate the link. Please highlight it so I can click on it.

No one is claiming to be informed about police brutality, only you are, and you are refusing to share that information. People are only reacting to what they see and read on social media and the news.

900warriorz:
On a more serious note, If only Africa can rise up to the giant in them, shun ethnic bigotry, mediocrity, racism and develop the continent, no continent would have been greater than Africa...the only reasons why they hate us is coz we have what they don't and that is why they always rise in technology thinking we can feel inferior with it.


Fvck that shit...



#WE ARE UNAPOLOGETICALLY BLACKS

How can we when we eat white food, wear white cloths, speak white languages and worship white Gods. We crave white skin, white hair and white physical features. In fact blacks hate other blacks including themselves.

Goldmaxx:
will crazy Nancy even bring it up for voting?
They know it will get to benefit conservatives because they are the main victims.
I hope when republicans take over the house, this matter would be seriously looked into.
Social media must stop censoring conservatives posts!

But when Buhari wants to censor social media, you guys will cry like newborn babies. It's then you remember press freedom.
Don't worry, US will soon be competing with China and North Korea in terms of press freedom.

RealMrNigerD:
Don't be offended either but a really intelligent person doesn't make assertions he can't prove. You know nothing about me and I've got nothing to prove. But I can clearly tell you I almost certainly know more about police "brutality" on blacks that's been going on even before Trump than you do.
But, unlike you I also know when something is political. I'm intelligent enough to know that there are people who will try to play that old card to their political advantage. The problem is most of y'all can't think too deep. You're damn. Tell me how many policemen will take a picture with a cap saying "Make whites great again". Are you guys so gullible. It's all an attempt to tie what is naturally occurring to being fuelled by Trump's administration. And then they release another picture of the same man with Trump. Isn't it obvious. Just do the math already.
I am not a bot programmed by the media. I have a mind of my own and know how to self-analyze. Maybe you should start trying that too. Let me link you to data on police brutality that you won't see on the lamestream media on Google search so you'd know that there is a lot going on that the media will never report because their aim is the racial divide narrative which secures political interests leaving superficial researchers and distant observers in the dark.
There have been more white victims than blacks in police hands yet the media never reports this.
Of course I know some whites will always be toxic racists but I can assure you there are politicians taking advantage of this and manipulating the situation ON BOTH CAMPS for personal gains.

What's stopping you from linking the data?

You are arguing here, there and everywhere. You first assert that you know more about police "brutality" on blacks has been going on even before Trump, then in the same sentence say that it's the lamepress that is creating the racial divide, and that more whites suffer Police brutality than blacks.

No one is saying Police brutality started with Trump, what people are accusing Trump is not condemning it when it happens. He either shrug it off or use the both sides arguments which his supporters so love to emulate. Have you ever seen trump publicly condemn white on black violence?

GamalNasser:
I have never been to where?

Why do you Nigerians always believe everyone has been what you have been through . Please I don't want to have any " travel is a status" discussions again in my life . I am beyond that kind of talk , I was born into travelling and didn't have wait till I was an adult and working before I started travelling like most of you ..

Okay back to the topic this another Democrat prop flag operation !!!! We saw Jussie Smollet do it and even went as far as buying his attackers maga hats to wear ...Ask yourself while will any cop snuff out the life of a handcuffed man that had even peed on his body in front of so many cameras and not even flinch ...It's because he was working an agenda which I predicted the moment I saw the footage and and less than 24 hours later I was proven right ...

I am sorry to say, but you are one sick dude. You have no iota of humanity in you. Even animals as low on the evolutionary ladder as rats and hamsters have sympathy. You mean you watch that horrible video of life being snuffed out of a human being and the only emotion you feel is hatred for Democrats? The Democrats arranged 4 white guys to murder a blackman, so that white supremacist can be blamed, and in extension Trump and Republicans can be blamed?

You don't even care about the fact that the murdered man has a family - a father, and husband, a brother and a fiancé.

So from what you are insinuating, either the 4 white policemen are Democrats and are in on the hoax, or the 4 policemen were dismissed unjustly and should be recalled and commended.

FlordFlorez:
Another confusion is the sun being a medium-sized G type yellow star and they made us to believe that a medium-sized star has a lifespan of 10,000 million years. Mathematically nothing like '10,000 million'. I think that suppose to mean 10billion years.

The confusion is that there is a difference between US and UK connotations. The US billion is 9 zeros. meanwhile, the UK billion used to be 1 million million which is 12 zeros, until they changed to the US system in the 70s. For example, the US 1100, 1200, 1300, etc., eleven hundred, twelve hundred, thirteen hundred, and so on.

FlordFlorez:
That means our planet earth is way older than the sun. In the next few millions years to come, say 8million years, the sun would fry the earth cos by then it must have exhausted its hydrogen and helium content. It would come for that of earth. That would be the natural death of our planet. This is the reason why scientists are exploring space for possible alternative but that his highly impossible for now cos no other planet can accomodate living beings. Mars that was close have very little or no oxygen in its atmosphere. It also has little nitrogen and too much carbondioxide. These properties are not suitable for living.

It's good you have interest in science, astronomy to be specific, but you need to get your facts right. Read more and wider.

The earth cannot be older than the sun, as the same accretion process created both at about the same time.


The sun is not expected to exhaust it's hydrogen fuel in the next 8 million but the next 4 billion years. The sun is a medium sized yellow dwarf star that his only half way through its life span.

If the sun should starts the dying process by expanding and shedding off its outer layers, all the planets in the solar system would be affected. You cannot emigrate to Mars or any other planet.

TheGoodJoe:
The same chloroquine I took until it became like tom-tom in my mouth. After over 60 years or more taking chloroquine, now WHO wants to test if it is safe.

Na wa.

It's because you probably don't have a weak heart or any heart condition. Chloroquine is risky for people with heart conditions. Prolonged use of chloroquine also damages the eyes.

Have you every taken chloroquine for more than 3 days at a time? Trump says he took chloroquine everyday for 2 weeks. Do you know the health implications of prescribing chloroquine as a prophylactic for the general population? It will be a disaster.

Ishilove:
Ehhhh, so I have to consult my husband before I can spend my own personal money?

Yes my dear. That's why it's called a marriage. Otherwise, you two should have been living as boyfriend and girlfriend without the need or trouble of signing a contract to "love honour and obey" and "till death do us part".

It seems most Nigerians enter a marriage contract without even understanding the meaning of marriage.

In addition; the husband too must inform his wife before making any major expense that might affect the fortunes of the family. It will be wrong for the man to buy an iPhone 11 for his sister, while the wife is using Itel A20.

Eastlink:
Yoruba didn't pioneer film making in Nigeria. The British actually began filming documentaries before independence. And yes there were indigenous documentaries that time but Government had control over production and distribution of films.

What Hubert Ogunde produced was his threatre plays which he recorded in celluloid as a means to sell to wider audience. There were so many theatre production as of them and many weren't filmed as Ogunde’s.
You Yoruba’s keep saying Ogunde was the pioneer of filming in Nigeria and yet the government records don't agree with you. As long as the government agrees, only government stations we're allowed to produced films and they were regulations to that effect.

The so-called Ogunde films are recorded theatre production. What is holding you from showing Nigerians the so-called film produced by Ogunde? You know you can't because it will expose you guys as fraud. Wikipedia rewriting won't save you guys.

In the past we had series such as Masquerade by NTA Enugu and Village Headmaster by NTA ibadan. but despite that it didn't start the movie industry. What NTA did was to revolutionized filming in Nigeria.
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Hiwever, thre real first movie with actual locations and later sold on tape to Nigerians was ’Things fall apart’ which was a joint venture by the BBC and NTA. The Nigerian movie storyline today had it's fitting from that production.

It was through this wonderful production team that the likes if Amaka Igwe etc emerge from to kickstart the Nigerian movie i-started. And with the assistance of Babangida who promulgated the liberation decree, the stage was set for private film and movie production and Living in bondage was birthed in 1992!

You've got so many things mixed up that I don't even know where to start.
I am from NTA family, so I can tell you about the evolution of television, videos and films in Nigeria. Prior to FESTAC77, there were no commercial recording and playback appliances in Nigeria. Only NTA had what was called AMPEX in the 60s and U-Matic in the 70s. The first commercial recording and playback appliance was Sony Betamax. Later VHS took over with VHS around 1980. So how could movies be made and and sold to Nigerians before the coming of Sony Betamax?

Even abroad prior to the late 70s films were made only on celluloid. Hubert Ogunde made films on celluloid and showed it in cinemas halls all over Nigeria. I remember him coming to University of Ife in the late 80 and showed Aiye. Nollywood started making films when igbo traders started selling and dealing with VHS tapes.

The Things fall apart that was released in 1987 as a 13 part series shown on NTA was the real first movie with actual locations sold on tape to Nigerians? You obviously have no idea of what you are saying.

Abbeybailey:
Our people ( Nigerians ) are very passive. I can't even comprehend Americans going through what Nigerians are going through without bloody revolution. It's true the people deserve the leadership they get and that's why a lot of us are fighting tooth and nail to hold the feet of our Leaders to fire. That applies to all not Trump alone and that's what makes a country great.

It's not that Nigerians are passive, the problem afflicting Nigeria and Africa as a whole is the twin evil of religion and tribalism. Religions leaders conspire with political leaders to pacify the masses with pacifist and submissive doctrines. They both milk the masses of their resources. This lead to situation where the people are taught to put their fate in the hands of God or miracles.

Tribalism is a weapon that is used to shield our leaders of any wrong doing. I call it "she is our sister syndrome". When ever a leader commits a crime, his tribe is ready to protect them, because he or she is from our tribe. They justify it by saying that when crimes are commited by other tribes, they are not punished.

Jasparrow1:
Abegi, make person here word with this una pioneer rubbish. Nollywood belongs to the Igbos. Period!!

I agree Nollywood belongs to the igbos, but film making in Nigeria was pioneered by the Yorubas.

Besides, Nollywood is beginning to lose its relevance as video and films are going online. Online streaming service and YouTube is gradually taking over.

Jasparrow1:
Which of the Yoruba movies are more popular than Igbo movies. Do you even have a movie industry

Yorubas pioneered the movie industry. When Hubert Ogunde was making films in the early 70s most Nollywood actors and producers were not born yet.

budaatum:
You speak as if those "Nigerian politicians" came from Mars to rule over the citizens of Nigeria instead of being citizens themselves and elected by the citizens. It's a convenient trick I find used by those who do not consider themselves complicit in the country being in the state its in. Such people would call Nigeria a zoo but refuse to accept that they themselves are the animals caged by their own bad thinking.

Sorry, but my position is, we the citizens are responsible for our leaders, and if they are bad, we should perhaps fix our thinking that makes us elect them instead of irresponsibly blaming others for our own ill-judgement and choice. It's we who after all suffer from our bad choices and not those we have placed in positions of enrichment, and definitely not Martians!

I cannot like your post enough. A people get the leaders they deserve.

post=89915877:
I want to propose Nairaland Media tour between east and west, some Yorubas here to visit and tour eastern states and Igbos also to tour Western states during holidays.

Cc.

Pazienza, LegendHero, Ritchiee, Simplyleo, Covidodo, Nwanyiogwashi, Adadike, etc

Although at first glance it sounds like a brilliant proposal, but on close introspection it's not a good idea. The main reason being that of scale. It's very difficult comparing two entities with very different scales. It's like comparing a river and an ocean and asking which one has the bigger, smaller, finer or numerous fishes.

Let me explain further.
The total landmass of the 5 eastern states is approximately 30,000 square kms while the total landmass of the south west is approximately 80,000 square kms. The south west is more than 2 and a half times bigger than the south east. Obviously the south west will have more developed areas than the south east, at the same time it will have also more undeveloped areas and slums. There would more roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, stadiums, etc., simply because of size alone.
If we are talking about more modern structures, the south east capitals should have a lot (i still doubted the number would be more than that of south west), simply because most of the cities of the East were destroyed in the aftermath of the civil war and most structures had to be rebuild (the Nigerian state failed woefully to rebuild the infrastructure). Most of the houses were build after the civil war and thus more modern. In the south west you will find lots of colonial and even pre colonial structures still standing. Lots of its capital still have the colonial look and feel. It's like comparing an ancient city Rome to modern cities like Singapore or Dubai.

Therapyken:
So from these infomation you can conclude whether they are sex machines or not abi?

Clinton that had been engulfed in sex scandals through out his career culminating in the Monica Lewinski scandal that led to his impeachment does not qualify him a sex machine?

What of Trump that has had 3 marriages, multiple relationships, over 25 sex abuse allegations, known to patronise prostitutes does not qualify?

What of Obasanjo that has no idea of the actual number of children fathered by him. He was even accused of sleeping with his daughter in law?

Should we discuss the sex lives, sports stars, music stars, actors or business moguls?

Highly successful and motivated people exhibit very high sexual energies among other energies. You will be surprised that even highly successful pastors and Reverend fathers exhibit higher sexual energies than Solomon of the bible, it's just that it's hidden and covered most of the time.

Therapyken:
And where can the sex lives of these individuals be checked?

Press reports of various sex a canals, number of wives, number of children by multiple women, accusations of sexual harassment by numerous women, etc.

Whikky:




How does it shatter destiny?

Don't mind him, if sex shatters destiny you think Trump, Clinton, Obasanjo and others will be president? Check the sex lives of top businessmen, sportsmen or entertainers, you will discover they are sex machines.

ProfAmaben:
They said Christ is God na

Olumba Olumba also claimed to be God

ThatFairGuy:
I hope you are not an atheist. Even if you are!
I'm a Muslim, we read and was made to know that, ONCE PEOPLE START DISOBEYING ALLAH(GOD), the mercy of Allah(SW) will be remove gradually on Earth. Hence the hunger, poverty and all sorts.
In this context, Sexual immorality is the topic which sourced for MY SADNESS.

I am an atheist, simply because I believe religion has been used by our enslavers to enslave us forever. They gave us bible and koran but withold science, education and industrialisation. They teach you Boko is Haram. They build educational and research institutes in their countries but build and sponsor mosques and madrasa in our own country.

People have been disobeying Allah from very beginning and people will disobey Allah till the end. I know it's your duty to put those that disobey Allah to the sword or the bomb, as Allah seems incapable of fighting for himself. The irony is that those country that purports to be obeying Allah is where you will find the greatest poverty, hunger, wars and violence in the world, ie Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Indonesia, Northern Nigeria, etc., while those that don't care about all have little or no poverty and violence, ie Norway, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, South Korea.

ThatFairGuy:
This age, majority doesn't see sexual immorality as a sin but civilization. Very bad

Why is it sad for you? Out of all the huge problems confronting the world - poverty, hunger, illiteracy, wars, terrorism, diseases (including millions dying right now of coronavirus ), it is who people choose to have sex with that is making you sad

sotall:



You dont need any religious book or word of God to tell you how to practise safe sex.

If religious books were a solution to sexual immorality, news about Christian and muslim cleric sexually harassing members wont be in our ears on a daily basis.


You cant tell everyone to abstain from sex because the amount of sex hormones responsible for sexual urges differs in people.

Rather give them safe options like masturbation and condoms.

Don't mind holier than thou religious fundamentalists, they are so obsessed with sex, that they think of sex 99 times a day (according to Sigmund Freud). If you don't want to have sex (illicit or otherwise ), that's your personal business, it is crazy to push your sexual preferences or otherwise on other people.

Sex that every living thing on earth (including plants ) engage in, is what some religious fundamentalists will not let us hear word about.

flyingpig:
What's difference between bill and executive order and does it mean buhari understands a bill won't be approved by national assembly, hence opting for an executive order instead?

Will the executive order remain in effect beyond his tenure or at the end of his tenure

A bill is a proposed law submitted to the national assembly for assent. An executive order is a law made only by the president that bypasses the national assembly.

Yes, the president knows that the national assembly might not even consider the bill should he sent it first to the national assembly. As he opted to use the executive order route, the fight for financial and political autonomy will be fought in public. We will see all those against the autonomy of the judiciary and local government in the open, and all blames should not be heaped on Buhari.

A Good fall out is that the battle will be fought in the judiciary, we shall see if the judiciary too will fight for its own independence.

ibietela2:
Why not just TRUE FEDERALISM?

Because financial and political autonomy are all essential parts of TRUE FEDERALISM.

Lostz:
it takes one high court judge to suspend executive order or throw it out

You are right.... but, it would go all the way to the Supreme Court, which can take a few years. The status quo will be maintained (meaning the executive order will be in force) while the case works it's way up the Supreme Court.

Ordinary judicial and legislative autonomy, which should be fulcrum of a federation, politicians are against, and you think they would support financial and political autonomy aka restructuring and resource control. Even the local governments rejected their own financial autonomy from state governors.

Nigerians politics is mainly about self interest rather than group interests.