It's not that simple.  We don't condone or glorify senselessness.

4her, it's not a coincidence that she likes to ask these kinds of questions.

Absolutely.  More than foolish. As an addition, Merge.  You and I know that the majority of your threads are monotonic.  You know that a more appropriate title for your thread is, why are some parents more strict about their daughters marrying from . . .?  But, purposedly these threads of yours have one distateful thing in common.  why are Nigerians this, why are nigerians that, why are nigerians blah blah blah.  It's sickening.  What are you hoping to accomplish.  And, if you are indeed going to make a thread as imposing as this, give us some examples that we can fall back on.

And I think you're systematically dodging the issue.  Confess to being desperate and I'll allow you the peace of mind to garner all the cyber attention you seek.

jennykadry:

is anything wrong in asking questions?

Nothing's wrong with asking questions.  But something's wrong with asking foolish vile questions.

And i'm asking you a question, too.  What have you seen?  Don't you think it's a lot stupid to generalize it?  One parent differs from another and there is no consensus.  If you give an example of what you saw then, just maybe then, I can give you an explanation.  Your post was empty in content.  It's like you're in a desperate search of attention.

In short, my question to you is : why do you think Nigerian parents are more strict about their daughters marrying Nigerians?

Fyi, don't scrape the route of asking me to exit your thread. As I mentioned in another thread, I didn't hold a gun to your head and force you to pay attention to me. If you don't like what I post, you have a right to skip over it.

They're descriptive of the kind of person you are.  In your case, you happen to be a shallow thinker. Especially when you lay bogus claims without any content.  You made no mention of your encounter with a Nigerian parent being more strict than another parent, but you want people to play along with you and simply accept it as true and then refute it.  Why should I believe a Nigerian parent is any more strict than a sierra-leonean or indian parent, when it comes to marriage?

It's not a grudge, buddy. It's called an observation. I just think you have an obsession with creating these controversial threads. What have you observed that makes you think Nigerians are more strict about their daughters marrying Nigerians? More strict than whom?

It's more like a retarded question.  Especially something so universal that you should know.  Instead you have this pathetic idea about nigerians being uncultured, unpatriotic, strict, and lord knows what else you will come up with.  News, it's a common occurence in this world.  Not just pertaining to Nigerians alone.  You're being a pretensive plastic head.

merge, you again.  don't you know when to stop?

I didn't infer in my above post that winning soccer tournaments is = national identity.  You're obviously mistakened and drew it out of your flamingo hat.  The nation as a whole is divided into many other forms of smaller communities.  The largest of the communities, being one which houses the smaller communities, is Nigeria the country.  Members of a nation tend to share a common identity, descent, government, and history.  Nigeria has this and qualifies as a nation, for reasons not limited to the ones I've given and for reasons far beyond its name.  As per your digression in regards to my mention of corruption.  It was in response to this:

Do we really have a national identity? I am not convinced that we do, If we did rampant corruption will not be the bane of Nigerians;

It really doesn't make sense.  Its obscurity was my reason for dismissing your conclusion, because the premise was invalid.  I already gave my reasons for it.  If you argue that our national identity is being mis-managed I would probably agree with you.  To say we don't have a national identity is not true.  And as such, you shouldn't fabricate lies just to score cheap points.

Furthermore, I don't see how division is any better. You haven't laid out a plan for the division. You just said you believe in it. It's easy to believe in anything. Even kids believe in Santa Clause. Doesn't make him real. Have you considered the red flags as well and how long it would take for such a divided nation to prosper?

Then leave. You're being picky and iditocially presumptive.

Sun God:

@mytempid

Still no rational defense from you concerning the passages and verses so i think your already a spent horse in this discuss. Like i told you earlier, if you can provide a defense to just one then its game on, but so far, you prefer to engage in rambles and side shows. Go and read your bible more and get back at me when you have a concrete defence!

I chose not to bother decihpering your two-million word post.  Yes. 'choice' that's a word you need to get more familiar with.  your post is too long and predictable.  Probably filled with claims and non-contextual interpretations ofr the bible from YOU, a ranting-empty head. I am only interested in toying with the ridiculous and illogical script you're pursuing.

Yes i called you a retard for believing in the bible and i backed it up with claims from the bible. Until you can propound a reasonable defense to your holy passages, you still remain a retard and i stand on my words.

And I called you a mumu (translation - slowpoke) for thinking you're any better off as an atheist.  Until you can accumulate a good excuse to your superiority mentality, you remain an angry claim emitting nobody.

sun god has gone back to his lonely cage. mama's boy looking for an avenue to vent his frustrations.

The Nigerian people, in general and on a larger scale, are too concerned about their health, corruption, food, and survival in Nigeria.  Not about what some white man/woman is doing in oyinbo land.

amber_ella:

I'm sorry for the mistakes of previous generations of white people, They were inexcusable. I'm not asking anyone to move on. I just don't understand why so many people on this forum feel the need to bash whites over and over again. Doesn't it ever get old?

Is the nairaland community representative of the Nigerian people in general, in this respect?

Sun God:

Wow, so much insult coming from a christian apologist, hmmm, why am i not suprised. Your only following what you god has being doing over the centuries. Like father like son. ( NO PUN INTENDED)

I doubt you're in any position to be shocked by insults.  It should be normal territory to you by now.  As for your bogus claims.  Claims seem to be your speciality.  Was that your course of study in school.   Pardon me, you don't seem so educated.  If you were, you would realize how difficult it is to disprove claims that you YOURSELF have yet to support.

Now to address your caterwauls:

1. Ma bad may be i should have renamed my self Zeus or pegasus and it wont create so much flack. but i didnt know using the sungod allegory would probably throw some christians off balance. I forgot god is a jealous god so, he detests competition, lol

Or maybe you shouldn't have flaunted the 'sun god' moniker or referred to yourself as the 'sun god' since you didn't believe in the idea that 'gods' exist. slowpoke.
On the contrary, try to stay on point will you?  The sun god holds a small relevance in this discussion.  It already served its purpose.  It was used as a means to expose the fart in your brain.

2. Who is raising a fan base for the name sungod? Have you seen me preach or try to eulogise any form of sun god so far to people? Man your in desperate need of Vitamin k.

Yes.  it's written all over your tag and your profile, stupid. Did you lose your glasses?
not that there's any wrong in choosing whatever username you prefer.  just don't' attack other people's choice of 'God' and expect yours to go unscathed.

3. Anybody that reads about the sun god would know it is an old descredited pagan form of worship and god not to be taken seriously. But if you choose to re convert, then your dumber than i thought!

And anybody who hasn't heard about the sun god or welcomed the idea of 'god' will now know about it from your name.  something you obviously detest. contradicts your purpose.  
I, for one, don't care about the sun god. not even the moon god for that matter.   I didn't realize it would hurt your feelings this much.

4. For all your feeble defences, i have found out that you havent even come up with one plausible defence to contradict what the bible says and your just trying to beat about the bush using the sun god as an escape mechanism. I rightly remember your first words to me was that i was a fool. In my mind i was like, ok i am a fool but why does god kill people? It takes only a fool to appreciate the atrocities of a cannibal and raise him to the heights of a holy deity.

hear ye.  At least you understand and accept that you are a fool. You have been moping and whinning all night long.  faultily categorizing people as imbeciles for believing their bibles.

Quit yapping around and face the dilema of realising that no holy man of god wrote such nonsense but only fickle minded and extremely illiterate bunch of drunken buggers wrote the bible. Prove thats not the case and see how you would systematically get your ego and spirituality burned.

You crack me up, dunce.  It's like you're sick in the head. Prove that's not the case?  Have you proven that's the case? Is it your prerogative to outstretch your unproven claims?

Anyway, i see your also a good plagiarizer like your apostolic ilk of matthew and luke when you had to wait for 4him to write his defense before you hurridly scribbled yours, lol

I understand, its a christian thing!

You are a daft.   I was too busy responding to your other foolish allegations.  Did you expect me to split my screen in half and respond to two of your posts at the same time?  I responded to your second post soon after responding to the first.   Weird how my alleged plagiarized post seems nothing like the post you claim i plagiarized.  Moreover, it seems you're getting worked now.  You're beginning to lose sight of your purpose and would rather get into silly blabbers with me.  I tend to do that to people.

Sun God:

hmm i see the apologists are coming out in their droves to defend the undefendable.

No need to answer you Q/A. I just need you to tell me why god is

1. A murderer and a known harbinger of war and genocide specialists

2. Why god is a baby specialist killer

3. why god encourages slavery

4. why god promotes orgies and promiscus sexual activities

5. Why god enjoys cannibalism

If you can tell me why such a perfect god does all this, then maybe i might answer your Q/A. Until then cheerio! and continue to spread the "good news" or should i say barbaric news!

P:S: Wats up with god showing his arse to Moses? Am still confused about that one

As to answering one of your q/a's , number 8 refers to the dumb twit mytemp id who was quick to supress free speech by calling me a fool for not believing iin the bible! I guess your i.q is the one that deserves a brain scan if you could fathom that out

You're bluffing and illiterately exaggerating and mis-interpreting what you read in the bible. Not to worry, you're not a lone. It's a common disease among atheists and other non christians.
As per the number 8 q/a which you distinguished as mine. I think you need to re-think these silly little claims you fancy. If anything, you're guilter than I am for calling people 'imbeciles and retards' for believing the bible. Gosh can you get any dumber. You're irritating. It's like you don't think before typing.

Sun God:

hmm talk about the kettle calling the pot black!, hmm let me see how the christian world has virtually taken control of the whole society!

The government has also taken control of society, corruption has taken control of society, criminals have taken control of society, other things have taken control of society.  Why the dull fixation on Christianity?

1. You can't sign any form without being asked about whether your a christian or a great one. If you say christian, it moves to what denomination, from denomination, it moves to what church, pastor and so on until you you finally doze off.

Null.  I have signed many forms without shedding any info about my religious affiliation.

2. You can't rest in peace without some silly pamphlet weilding twit comes to you trying to spread the gospel.

Doink!  It seems your brain is malfunctioning.  I also can't rest in piece without some jobless dweeb nagging me about the wickedness of my God. Better yet, if you dislike it you can always walk away.

3. Not a day goes by without you being refered to god and to put god first in your life.

Which God, be more specific. By the way, null for other reasons.  Many days have gone by without ME encounteringg such fierce advocacy.  I guess you just have bad luck.  Or, good luck I would say.  They're trying to involve you in something good. 
Again, if you dislike it you reserve the right to say NO. Don't be such a cry baby.

4. Parents wont allow you to mix with non christians

That's clearly the reason you decided to pursue this rebellion online.  unfortunately , to no avail.  Sucks for you, eh?
you are a victim of your mother's dictatorship.

Blah blah blah . . . .
I could continue, but I bet everything else you've written is filled with invalidity.

Sun God:

Another senseless post from a senseless bible wielding fundamentalist.

1. The name sungod is a joke and parody to mock the tag lines of various gods such as ZEUS, HELIOS, MITHRA, BUDDAH, OSIRIS and a host of comical and fairy tale gods. It was never meant to mean i ama god of sort or believe in one. If you don't understand what parody or satires are then consult your nearest physician.

Why would you create a handle to mock something you don't believe in? In essence you're glorifying the idea of a sun god, making it more popular and developing even more of a fan base for it.  Those who aren't interested in the sun god before might see your handle and research the thought of worshipping this god.

And this your signature, "All hail me the SUN GOD HELIOS," doesn't seem like a mockery of the sun god helios. It will be interpreted by many, as a glorification of the sun god helios. Dummy.

2. As for your bloviates in reference to your choice of gods, don't you find it contradictory that because an atheist wrote about your god and the illogical things in the bible that makes you now on the defensive? If the thread was about how i prayed to god and i won a million bucks, you would have been gloating and joining me in some fairytale prayer session and praising this thread.

I don't find it contradictory. But what is stupid is the claim that I'm on the defensive because an atheist wrote this.  It is just a claim which holds no merit; it is perhaps an allusion of your schizophrenic and paranoid atheistic thoughts.  And, I don't see how a natural celebration that you won a million bucks is of any detriment?  If you or anyone you know won a million bucks, your natural response would be euphoria.  This is common sense.

But the fact that i have exposed the hypocrisy of this nonsense called the bible, you automatically brandish what you christian fundamentalists know how to do best: ABUSE PEOPLE!

you have exposed nothing. All you did was injure your fingers and made yourself seem imbecilic by denigrating another man's decision to choose his own practice.   As an aside, I think it's not only funny, but definitely stupid that you have used ad hominems yet still call me an abuser for using ad hominems.  Can't you see that the finger points back at you? You haven't done any better.

Thats the hall mark of a christian when he knows he has no defence and take solace in dishing out tags such as devil worshippers, the beast, jezebels and a host of nonsensical things that befuddles the mind.

I don't see how you were able to arrive at this premature conclusion.  Try again.

3. I don't believe in the existence of a higher power and would never believe in one. If your dim witted brain cannot understand the difference between a sun god that is totally imaginary and your god that is also imaginary and ask me to choose, then your far worse than the illiterate albanian farmers who wrote the bible.

But you do believe in the idea that atheism is the best agenda.  That'something which beffudles MY mind, and to me is meaningless.

All i asked from you christian apologists is to read the bible more carefully and see the absurdities inherent in it and give your opinions. I didnt tell you to engage in a words slug fest with me and you would probably never win in such a negative word play with me.

And all i ask you, tart, is to live and let live.  Mind your own silly little business.  You're not being forced to conform to a practice you're not interested in.  You're just hateful and will continue to be . . . that millions and millions, if not billions, of people in the world are Christians.    
I don't mind engaging in what you call a slugfest, with you.  Afterall, this is a public forum and I didn't hold a gun to your head and force you to respond to my query.  I saw something I disagree with and am responding accordingly.

Just go to church and ask your pastor why god is the greatest commiter of genocide and come back to me with a plausible answer. Until then, wallow in your ignorance and zombie like follow follow bible until the truth probably hits you!

you think christianity is an abomination yet you want me to go to church.  Are you brainless or is your brain filled with peanuts.
I see you've chosen to continue coveting the idea that the Christian religion is a wrong practice.  Do realize that you're pursuing a failed agenda.  As a hint, you failed before you even started.

I think a lot of your thoughts are outrageous. Heck you made some valid points, but otherwise I must say you lost me when you drooled on the idea that our lack of national identity is the reason for our corruption. National identity or not, no nation is free of corruption. I don't buy into the idea that as soon as we develop our national identity we will be rid of corruption. By the way, yes we do have a national identity. I think what you mean to say is we have a terrible government.

Oh . . . and to combat your idea of fairy tales, just for the sake of argument, might I add that your stupid elitist mindset makes you look worse than the people you're attempting to put down.  It also highlights the fundamentalist stupidity and hypocrisy that plagues your reasoning - and other atheists alike.  Why would you think it is okay for you to deny someone the right to practice their own religion?  What gives you the right to practice your atheism?
If you understand the idea of a religion, you would see that a person's choice to engage a religion is accompanied by an obligation to practice, and even believe, what is taught by the religion. Hence the reason for the religion. At least in America, where I assume you're residing, you're free and allowed, by law, to change your religion if it doesn't suit you.

Sun God:

Haaaaaaa, typical christian fundamentalist!, Instead of you to go and bury your head in shame for worshipping such a morally depraved monster or possibly try to defend these wildly outrageous passages, you resort to your usual christian mantra of tagging a non believer as a Satanist ( As if i care what that even means), lol

At least from your reply, you acknowledge god being a deity since you tried to challenge whose a better diety, SUN GOD or god, Hmmm, for the sake of argument, since both of them are fairy tales, i guess none

Look try a better tactic other than the usual brandishing of Fear or woe unto the unbeliever or antichrist or devil worshipper slogans. Thats so yesterday man. Grow up and ask your pastor why these silly passages are in the bible and watch him squirm for hours trying to defend the irrationality of these verses

It's not about fundamentalism. You're just ranting like an isolated juvenile lunatic. You should be more ashamed of yourself for putting up this joke you call a thread, while at the same time brandishing some artificial 'Sun God'. If you don't believe in the existence of God that's your preference. People don't always have to agree, that's the beauty of the world and what makes it so colorful. We are also entitled to our preferences and shouldn't be castigated for what we choose. You chose the 'sun god' we chose the 'Christian God' and we believe in him. I live with-and-for a purpose and your chosen religion (or lack thereof) dictates that your existence is meaningless. I prefer the former hence my choice for sticking with it.

Another one of satan's worshippers is on the loose. So . . . who let you out of your cage?
I suppose your 'Sun God' is a better deity? Fool.

4Her:

@post
but I dnt think it's because of skin color. . . maybe it's because you're not nigerian

I think that part is obvious. The Original Poster is just pretending.

Sistawoman, sure, depending on what event you attend you might encounter a crowd that's more receptive; however, you should not automatically expect a reaction any different from the one you experienced on that day.

Those are the twigs that come along with dating someone outside of your own world.  There tends to be some sort of animosity.  Eventually, as they get to know you more, they may become fond of you and actually like you, or they simply just continue to loathe your presence. It's life, deal with it.

Ajebota:

@ topic, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

please don't. Very young children retain stuff in their memory. i am sure i have memories from the age of 1, i kid you not!

You haven't exactly turned out bad now, have you?
It's all relative.

Obama's mantra is of course, change we can believe in. I want him to come out and explain why his change is worth believing. 'Cos all I see is another candidate running for president - needless to say he's an historical candidate.

Lol.

Hey, hey, hey take it easy with the yorubanics man. I'm not attempting to pilot the away from the Yoruba speaking medium. I was only responding to a few things I observed about the death of Mr. Adedibu.

olanajim:
Your law is not absolute.  In fact, it is a law bordering on unresearched stupidity.  For one, it assumes that all single parents are women; which is certainly not true.  Secondly, it holds the premise that men who decide to leave their partner/spouse are always in the wrong.  This is also not true.  Take the case of a trifling woman who spends the bulk of her time whoring her self, disrespecting and violating her man.  Would you suggest that such a man (being violated), stick around for further humiliation?  I think not.

She's clearly an overgrown baby. She has posted similar nonsense in another thread.

All I was saying is, have some compassion for the dead. If that makes me an 'opeere', whatever. I presume if it were your dad you wouldn't be so jubilant.