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These are lessons, the thoughts and ideas I have derived from my experience in various fields and situations in life. They are educative, and are meant to help you a reader to learn how to live a life of happiness and fairness not only to yourself but also to other people. Thank you for visiting my blog…

Thursday, March 27, 2008

God & Science... Amazing Discussion...

Over the years I've loved reading small articles, not minding about what they there subject is about, but today I read this message from one of our popular emailing websites and to tell you the truth, I was moved... in fact and very happy I opened my mail today...

Now considering what is there, let's read through together and enjoy the sense and the fan.

Nice reading...

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem Science has with God, The Almighty.

He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof: So you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?
Student: Sure.

Prof: Is God all-powerful?
Student: Yes.

Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.

Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hm (Student is silent.)

Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fellow. Is God good?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?
Student: No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From...God.. .

Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?
(Student does not answer.)

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?
Student: Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them? (Student has no answer.)

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?
Student: No, sir.

Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.

Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof: Yes.
Student: No sir. There isn't.

(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.

Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't.

If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure.

Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.

To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.)

Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?

(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.

With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable. )

Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH.

That is all that keeps things moving & alive.......


O God, I guess you see how creative, informed and sensible some people are...
Now I tell you, "Never celebrate a victory before someone else tries to challenge you. Sometimes the person you think you've challenged can have given you a chance to exercise all you knowledge and chances so that he can challenge you back in the things you have but a small idea about. Enjoy your time on the net...

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Real Life...

A few years back I developed this passion for learning life lessons. As a beginner, just as I suppose you know that passion is high at the beginning, I was so passionate about every lesson I learnt. I even lost my own freedom and happiness, dedicating all my life to learning and thinking, thinking that this was the right way to do it.

But today, I know of a better way to learn, to live as a scholar of life;
- You don't have to loose you freedom while learning from a school called life because freedom is one of the topics you are meant to learn and put into practice.

- You do not have to undermine your happiness while learning because happiness is one of the motivating forces that will help you be a good scholar of life.


But...
- Sometimes you've got to undermine you freedom to learn certain lessons; this applies in many ways, so sometimes you've got to do it...

- As for your happiness, how will you learn lesson of unhappy people when you live all you life happy? It's true that there is know one that has lived all his life happy without any moment(s) of sadness, but sometimes you've voluntarily got to deny yourself the things that make you every happy so that you can learn from unhappiness.


You see, all scholars and educators of life will tell you which things are right, if they are right anyway, but many times they won't teach you how to learn from your own life though they may or will recommend it, or how to be happy with the way you live your life... because they don't even know how you live. Many of them live or have lived miserable lives, trying to discover new principles and facts [of] everyday, and the things they teach only lead your life into living like them... miserable!

So friends, Live your life. Learning takes time, so don't strain yourself trying to do what one wise man calls right or good. Be happy and enjoy your freedom and happiness, your life... This is what is right... you can live without many things, including what is almost killing you to learn... you make yourself the kind of person you want to be, and not the kind of people a wise saying requires of you...

This way of living is more satisfying...

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Good Things To Do...

Yah, while growing up, many things have given me pleasure to know; in fact, am glad I encountered them as lessons in experience. This is what I've learnt over the years about the things I desire;
1) It's good to love and appreciate everything, but it's indiscipline to think you have to have everything that is good. It's also indiscipline to think that every good thing belongs to you.

2) It is good to love to learn everything, but it's wrong to think you'll learn everything. In fact, you're wrong to think you know everything, yet it's not a bad idea to think you know many things or even to know many things.

3) Age is not the determinant of happiness, but a cheerful and thankful heart. It's doesn't matter how much you have, but how much you appreciate what you have and maximize every single opportunity of happiness in it.

4) Crying won't bring rain. If crying was able to bring rain, then people in the desert lands would have been having the most well drained fertile lands of the world. So, grow up, stop crying!

5) Needs don't kill, so there is no need for being troubled when they don't get satisfied.

6) Avoiding problems is good, so avoid as many problems as you can to minimize of being troubled. There is are big differences between needs and problems, so find them out and you'll know how to live or do away with both.

7) Little things offend many people, so only smile or laugh when necessary, and when you're sure you'll not offend a friend. Un neccessary gestures may earn you enemies rather than friends so be sure you're doing the right things at the right time.

8) Humbleness with a smile will earn you more friends and favors than playfulness and violence. People love to stay in the company of serious but jolly people, playful people accomplish but little tasks and violent people distroy anything they touch, so people don't love them.

9) It cost you nothing to say "am sorry" even when you're wrong, and it is reward is awesome; in fact, it will make many people respect you.

10) Feelings are sometimes liars, but giving them time will help you know which of them is right. Sometimes the conviction of feelings comes because we've seen things in which we have or find a lot of pleasure, but not because those are the things we aspire for...

11) Just be honest, speak honestly and let your acts portray an honest character; this will bring strangers back to your house. Just live an honest life.

12) Always feel young; this feels sweet and gives life a cheerful feeling. Don't look at yourself like a boring philosopher; they find little happiness in many things - look at everything as something good if it won't heart you, and you'll always be happy... just smile to everyone, both babies and old people.

Otherwise, it's good to learn from every experience we encounter, but it's easier to learn from those who have learnt through experience... its cost is cheaper and its effect is great too. Those who learn from other people's experience are good scholars of life... they won't easily get hurt. They are the wise and humble people of this world.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Through The Words of Hitler...

While looking through my mails yesterday, a subject titled “golden words of Hitler” flashed into my eyes, and as you know, this guy is celebrated and regretted, so I had to look through his “golden words” but, after reading through, I could not put it in quotes but rather I had to call them THE GOLDEN WORDS OF HITLER. Read through and agree with me…


Golden Words of Hitler:


*When you are in light, everything will follow you. But when you enter dark, even your own shadow will not follow you that is life.

*God made relatives. Thank God we can choose our friends.

*Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

*Keep a very firm grasp on reality, so you can strangle it at any time.

*Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're getting.

*People may not always believe what you say, but they will believe what you do.

*I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

*You can't have everything - where would you put it?

*Laugh and the world ignore you. Crying doesn't help either.

*God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him.

*Life is like a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

*Never trust a person who isn't having at least one crisis.

*Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

*The only thing lazy people do fast is get tired.

*Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.

*Silence is the only thing that can't be misquoted!

*If we don't control our money, it will control us.

*Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die rich..

*Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

*Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

*If you are living on the edge, make sure you're wearing your seat belt.

*A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

*Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

*The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

*Learn from other people's mistakes, life isn't long enough to make them all yourself.

*On the road, never argue with a vehicle heavier than yours.

*One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

*Life is funny if you don't think about it.

*Life is like a grammar lesson. You find the past perfect and the present tense.

*There are two kinds of lawyers, those who know the law and those who know the judge.

*More doors are opened with 'please' than with keys.


O my God! The last one of these impresses and challenges me so much…! Indeed there is a lot we are able to do with “please” than with “keys”…

So, what do you say about these words? Aren’t they amazing?

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

What About Age?

Many times in real life we take age as a prime factor; something that should even determine the people we are supposed to be happy with. One time, about 8 years back I read in a beauty magazine and there was this 50years old wrestler who when asked about her age and career said "age is just a number" and since then, this has always rang in my mind every time I here someone comment about age or lay limits to certain ages.

Now with our African cultural ideology, many of our natives believe that for a young man to marry he has to be older than the lady, and with certain families, it's an abomination for a young man to marry a lady older than him, even for as little as five years!

Unlike in the past, today I have a different attitude towards age, in fact, a positive attitude. And due to this, my advice for young men out there is that they should just go on with anyone they think can make them happy, no matter the age.

If you've been [or you’re]married and you've faced some challenges in the relationship(s) you've been in or you are in, then you're a good witness to this.
And you know that if I ask that "what has age got to do with a relationship?

Or, what has happiness got to do with age? And I say 'Nothing' then it’s true."

At the end of the day, all I need is a true heart to enter into partnership with our heart, a honest and open mind to rely on, or someone with a good personality or a good character and not a younger Lady or older man; not a lady five years or more young than me or a man five or ten years older than you...


I asked my friends these questions in a good discussion, "what has maturity or responsibility got to do with got to do with age? Or what has a good character got to do with age?" And all looked blue after contemplating about the issue.
And I wondered why we had been talking for a long time…


Let's live up to our dreams and desires, and not numbers.
At the end of the day, all that matters is happiness, safety and satisfaction, and not age.

Monday, March 10, 2008

The Liar & The Sturbon One...

An old man called his two sons; one stubborn and the other a liar. He told his first son "the reason I hate you is because you never listen to any thing, not even pain or trouble. Experience has taught you nothing good except strengthening your stubbornness."

And to the son that lied a lot he said, "Oh my beloved son, I know you have a lot of fears in your heart, and you're very shy that's why you lie a lot, just to get your way through the many challenges you can't stand. But even though know that what you do is not good, I love you because your lies aim at good. You always try to make me believe you even when you are wrong, and even though I know that you're always lying, I love the desperate look on your face, the look you give when I try to doubt your words... "

So finally while talking to both of them, the old man said "...even still, I call you here today because I love you my sons, because I want you to be good people in the times to come. Don't be stubborn and stop lying; these two habits will only bring you trouble. Live your lives like diamonds; what they look like is what they really are – strength, purity and brightness is what they stand for, and this is what makes them precious. Strengthen your morals and let every one be proud of your works. These are the kinds of sons I always wanted to have... at my age, just let my dreams come true... and be good people for our good."

Sunday, March 9, 2008

As You Grow Up...

Taking to a female friend this morning, she told me the challenges she has been undergoing in the passed few days and I felt very sorry for her; I was surely moved by the pitiful look on her face and her words just kept resounding in my mind.

After listening to her, I told her "As you grow up, you'll realize that the way to or through many things you hoped for in life is more crooked than you ever imagined. Never give up, but know that every challenge that comes your way comes only to prove to you that things can result into what you want but will not always happen in the way you think. A lot of things will surely happen before you achieve what you want, but never give up because that is the way that will take you there, but even still, don’t hurt your self if there is a better or safer way to go, choose it and preserve your life."

I hope this is a good piece of advice for the day, it explains many issues that happen in our life, and to many, it has a direct relationship.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Fears.... And Desires

Yah, It's true that not many would surely want to be alone if there was an insurance of happiness in any relationship they are deeply willing to engage in, but many have run away from any commitments in terms of relationships due to fears, sometimes out of experience and sometimes due to the testimonies other people give about relationships.

I know if you've really lived in an area where people live a "real life", I mean in a "normal society", a society with both good and evil, then you automatically know that things about relationships have not similarity with gravity on earth. While the gravity rate on earth is constant, relationships paces change day after day... I mean, today you're happy and tomorrow you're swearing to kill each other...


This is the way we live today...
But it's not a life style we are proud of, and we know it... because what we desire has a lot to do with happiness, peace and success, not this stress and depression we feel day after day...

Thursday, March 6, 2008

I Hope You've Heard...

In the headlines of a news paper down hear a few days back was a scientific threat of their "tale" about the end of the world... and from a simple calculation it appeared that by the end 2013 the world will be no more... I mean, no body will be alive, except the broken pieces of our beloved planet.

After reading these headlines, not right on the day the news paper was out, my heart skipped a bit, but somehow I managed to console and encourage myself... it wasn't easy though... since am still in the "fear-worry" caused by the local headlines.

Anyway, contemplating on the issue, some words came into my mind... obviously words that are worth publishing...

"The more we learn is the more we seek to learn more, the more we know is the more we get worried, the more we understand is the more we get hurt, the more we ask is the more we ask even the more; a question giving birth to another, and the more we seek is the more we've discovered that there is still a multitude we have know idea about..."


I just pray that if all this happens, non of those that visit my blog get hurt...
It's a little scaring though... so, make sure you don't find out much about it... cause you'll surely get very scared, and this may disorganize your "big dreams" and ambitions.

Friends... Friends...

It's not any easy to understand the mysteries of friendship, but those with a devoted heart of being good friends have really got a clue or clues about this comprehensive subject.
Sometimes it seems greater than all the relationships we are connected to even by blood, while sometimes we are convinced by the saying "blood is thicker than water" as said or even known by many.

A friend told me that to get a good friend one has to sacrifice a lot, but somehow I felt this was not enough to describe the "friendship thing". In my opinion, "to keep a friend is a great sacrifice".
One sometimes needs something more than a "sorry", "Am praying that you'll make it..." or so just to keep a friend. Though easy to find, it's really true that keeping a friend isn't as easy, it's indeed expensive!

While I was young, I thought those who I treasured most were the people that will always be there, but experience has disapproved my thoughts... Today I know that I don't have to work as hard just to make sure I keep a friend... after all, who's working that hard to keep me around him or her? I just live my life within my means, help or encourage when I can, and stay silent when all fails.

But even still, nothing has given me much pleasure through the years as those words of appreciation comes from friends thanking me for being such a good friend... Their sincere words have many times encouraged me more than the thousands of efforts they make just to pay back every single effort I have made to see them through.

I love the company of friends... but be careful; sometimes their feelings and intensions toward you are not real...

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

A Good Principle For Learning

If you're a trainer or trainee, there are things you should know;
1) As a trainer,
- It's your obligation to make your trainees learn; so make sure they understand you, and that they know it.
- It's your obligation to ensure that your efforts are not in vain.

2) And as a trainee,
- It's your obligation to learn what is taught by (your) the trainer.
- It's your obligation to make your trainer know that you have not understood so that her or she can help you.
- And that it's your obligation to make sure that your efforts are not in vain.

There is a piece of advice for you as a learner;
"It's always good to ask a question about anything you're learning, so don't ask if only ask if the lesson is about learning not to ask questions when you're learning."

Asking questions will tell your trainer and you the degree to which you've understood, and will help him know the best way he can make you understand better, even the best approach he can use to make save time while training you next time.

A good trainee will ask a question, and a good trainer will answer it cheerfully; this shouldn't be hard for anyone to understand. It's simply good to learn, to and make others learn is a great pleasure for a good trainer.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Principles of Success in The City

Many times we've struggled in our lives trying to "make it" in the city, not knowing what kind of things we should observe to see us through, but this time I'll point out some few things you should put at your finger tips while you struggles to see yourself through in the city...

These things are simple, some of them we know but we don't know how much they apply in our daily life in the city, or we think they are merely life principles, but in town, those who have them lead the way.
So, here they are;

1) Make sure you are alive, and you stay alive, healthy and breathing.

2) Make as many friends as possible, and try had not to loose any.

3) Take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way without letting any escape your trap. So, trap some opportunities if you can.

4) Be patient, rushing is good if you're on the right truck, but but it may also lead you off truck; it's good to take your time because with this, a complete analysis of everything will surely happen. You'll see every opportunity in every single step you take or in every ventrue you undertake.

5) Learn everything that comes your way, and never forget to ask yourself the question "how does it profit me?" every time you're learning a new lesson, but no lesson is useless.

6) Take the example of every man's success in the city, and don't neglect any failures; learn from them and find a way of avoiding each of them, or even the effects they have on you if you undertake similar challenges.

7) Do things that won’t affect you in the future, in fact, avoid such things. You need to know that every minute we spend doing something is a minute spent building our history, and every thing we do has an effects on our history negatively or positively. Therefore, just be sure that everything you do will bring you either an opportunity or advantage in future, especially as people reflect on your history. Dont let any dirt into your history!

8) Minimize expenses as much as possible. Avoid unnecessary expenses, and save as much as possible for investment.

9) Love to know about new investment opportunities even when you do not have money, and never stop believing that it's possible for you to make an excellent investment, even when you do not have an opportunity yet; this will keep you thinking all your life, and someday, I assure you, you’ll make it.

10) Respect authorities. These include both government and elders. This will give you a lot of approvals in many undertaking that may lead you to heights, therefore, it's a must do.

11) Always stay in contact with people from who you expect constant or continuous opportunities of leading you a step a head. In fact, always be available to them and do it whatever the means.

12) Though not pointed out first, it's very important to know that lies are not a good characteristic for a successful man. A liar will never have peace no matter how successful he or she may be, so avoid lying because this won't give you the kind of pleasures you want from success though it may take you there.

13) Avoid being called the "sleepy guy". Sleeping a lot will deprive your chances of creativity, learning and exposure, therefore take a little sleep, think a lot and look forward to take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way.

14) Work as hard as you can, but spare your health. This will not only encourage you, but also those that will be working with you or who intend to be partners of performance or success with you in your journey to success.

15) Treasure all your achievements, big or small. And, value all your efforts no matter how little. This will encourage you to work even harder and give you the power to influence the people around you into believing in you and the results of your efforts.

Finally, always remember that patience has two important components, that is, hope and determination, and you can't succeed with out them.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

"Ifs" of Love

If u love me,
Then you'll apreciate me;
And if you appreciate me,
Then you will respect me;
And if you respect me,
Then you acknolegde all my efforts;
And if you acknoledge all my efforts,
Then it's true that you love me...

For there is no love without respect,
And there's no respect that is not thankful...
This is what we all expect from those that love us.