The Archivist @codexfive

“I cook for my husband”= You’re a slave “We split the bills”= Your husband is useless “I spoil my wife”= You’re a simp “I dress modestly”= You’re in an abusive marriage “My wife and I make decisions together”= You’re not a real man “I can’t do random nights out because I’m married” = You’re husband/wife is controlling “My wife earns more than me”= You’re a useless leech “My husband is the breadwinner”= You have no say since you bring nothing to the table “I don’t need a male/female bestie because I’m married”= Your partner is insecure This is how some of you see the world 😂 Y’all are far too pathetic and miserable to really understand what goes into making a marriage successful. Happy couples should keep it to themselves because you guys will find a fault in everything they do.

Mamello🧚🏽‍♀️ @MelloFelicia1

6 days ago

I need happily married people to speak up more because the internet is making marriage look terrifying 😭

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Analogies don’t work for the trinity. They can start you off but they don’t get you there. For example you can use an analogy to explain the concept but no analogy is sufficient. Like people using Abby and Brittany to explain how more than one centre of consciousness existing in one essence and each sufficient for personhood is not an impossibility. But Abby and Brittany clearly are not an analogy that work for the trinity. So don’t try to use analogies to explain the trinity, we don’t know about the trinity by human knowledge. We know it by revelation. Stick with revelation. You have enough passages in the bible both in the New and Old Testaments to provide evidence for the trinity. You don’t need to philosophise on it yet especially if you’re not great at philosophy. Just stick with revelation.

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Nigeria is proof that a people can be very religious and still not know God

Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola

6 days ago

Nigeria is a proof that prayer doesn’t work.

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Good night

VICTREY™ @VictoryOlaleye

7 days ago

This journey you’re on sir is a very slippery slope.

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There is a basketball statistic that preaches the gospel to me, and it is the ‘plus-minus’ (+/-) stat. It is a metric used to calculate what a team is like when a specific player is on the floor versus when he is off it. If a player’s team is a plus +20 when he is on the floor, it means they are the better team on average when he is out there, and if they are a minus -20, it means the team is severely worse off the moment he sits on the bench. We calculate a player’s real value not by their isolated highlights, but by what the game looks like when they leave the floor. The score changes. The whole system degrades. This is the exact logic required to understand the true horror of hell. Hell terrifies me. Not necessarily because of fire, but because I have tasted God. At its most precise definition, hell is the complete and total absence of God. It is not an arbitrary punishment added to a neutral space. It is not fire introduced into an otherwise livable situation. The absence of God is itself the condition, and everything else follows from that. Think about what that means if God is actually good. I do not mean morally good in the way a decent man is good. I mean Good as the source, the very ground from which all genuine goodness in this universe draws its supply. Every moment of beauty you have ever experienced, every relationship that felt like it was worth something, every morning that made you glad you were alive, and every act of kindness that restored your faith in people was entirely downstream of Him. You were drinking from a river and did not know the spring. Hell is the complete removal of the spring. This is why the basketball plus-minus metric is the most honest way I have found to explain this reality. When the presence leaves the floor, the system collapses. That is not a cruel punishment; that is a revelation. Aa mild hell therefore would actually be a theological scandal. If existence without God was manageable, or even merely unpleasant, it would mean goodness was never really concentrated in Him to begin with. It would mean goodness was ambient, that the universe could sustain something decent on its own. The horror of hell is not evidence of God’s cruelty. It is evidence of His magnitude. The severity of His absence proves the weight of the presence. I fear hell because God has been kind enough to show me what He is. Once you have seen the sun, you do not need anyone to explain what darkness means. Every person alive is already living inside the goodness of God without knowing it; the common grace that holds the whole world together, the dignity in a stranger’s face, the way justice still makes your chest tighten when it is violated. That is God. All of it is God. Remove it entirely and that is the death sentence. This is why hell is not a doctrine I hold academically. It is one I hold the way you hold something you do not want to drop.

@InnerDelicious @danielspoynter @kenzietuff Or the presumption that he is forcing/manipulating her, which is insulting.

@OgodoSandra @0xHITLAR That is selection bias.

@babybeginner @EveKeneinan Kant did not specify who would do the thrashing, and you already said that it would be the same if a woman did the hitting, or if a woman hit a man, so this seems like an meaningless distinction.

@babybeginner And if a woman had done the hitting, would that be ok?

@babybeginner If the roles were reversed, would it be ok?

@SamaHoole I love your humor 😂

Amen.

Mex Asher @Thatnsukkaboy_

3 weeks ago

I am Nigerian, and I unashamedly declare that Jesus is Lord, and there is salvation in none other but him.

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The problem started when I said "e choke" in a meeting. My colleague Linda from accounting paused mid-slide. She said, Is everything okay with your throat? I said, No, Linda, it means the numbers are impressive. She wrote that down. She literally wrote it down. Three days later she told our boss the quarterly projections were choking her. HR got involved. I work in Toronto, in a glass office where the only other Nigerian is a man named Tunde who has completely assimilated. The kind who pronounces "schedule" like he invented the language. He avoids me in the breakroom because I remind him of jollof rice and his mother's expectations. So I suffer alone. Last month I told a project manager that the deadline was giving me wahala. He emailed my supervisor asking if wahala was a vendor we needed to loop in. I now have a meeting on Friday about clarifying communication styles. The worst was when I said "abeg" to an intern. She thought it was a new productivity tool. She searched the internal software catalogue. By Tuesday, IT had opened a ticket. I tried explaining slangs to my coworkers once. Big mistake. Now every Monday morning, Kevin from sales greets me with "How far?" but he says it like "How far, my good man?" and waits for a response as if I am a foreign exchange student he is sponsoring. Linda has started saying "e choke" whenever she completes a spreadsheet. She does finger quotes around it. She has made a PowerPoint slide titled "Nigerian Business Expressions for Cross-Cultural Synergy." I sat Tunde down last week. I said, Tunde, you need to help me. They've weaponized our entire lexicon. He adjusted his cardigan. He said, I'm sorry, I don't really speak it anymore. I said, You were born in Owerri. He said, That was a long time ago. He stirred his green tea. No sugar. No milk. Just assimilation and regret. Yesterday I overheard my boss on a client call. She said the deal was giving her gbe body. I had told her "gbe body" means being alert. She now uses it to mean proactive. The client loved it. They want it in the brochure. I have created a monster. The office Christmas party is next week and Kevin told me he is planning to say "shey you dey whine me" during his toast. He has been practising pronunciation with a YouTube video titled "Speak Nigerian in 5 Minutes." I will not be attending. Every diaspora office has one person fighting for their slangs and one Tunde drinking green tea pretending he cannot remember the taste of chin chin.

@JUNIORTRADER77 Having the ability to ask questions means nothing if you're not looking for answers.

@angry_xer Correct. This illustrates the issue nicely. It’s not the hobby itself that’s unattractive. If you do anything to the detriment of your duties and time with your partner, the laziness and lack of attention to what’s important is what is unattractive

@LizzieMarbach Proof that anyone can say anything, and attach “objective” to it. Like a proof-of-standards label.

@Febsbaby_ @pinkthechild @inkredible_h It doesn't.

@GoldJustMLP @BlackDumpling If your premises are oversimplified, then your conclusions are lacking at best, and false at worst. You haven't guided me to anything beyond cheap insults. And, if I reach a different conclusion from you, it doesn't necessarily imply that I ignored any principles.