Why.
Why is it that whenever you scrutinise the narrative about a Nigerian's 'humility' you'll find him/her constantly debasing him/herself to appear acceptable and relatable to others, and often when Nigerians say 'so and so is very REAL' they meant to translate real to mean ghetto, crass, and broke ( or at least rich but behaving as though you are broke).
Friday, 27 April 2018
Wednesday, 25 April 2018
Questions
Why do bad things happen to good people? What reward await suffering here on Earth?
For hours now I've been lying on my favourite sheets, thinking. Prior that I'd woken from two dreams. In the first, a gang of robbers had attacked and stollen my car and my phone. Then proceeded to leak unclothed photos of me on my Facebook after threatening an ex of mine to pay them not to and he refused. In the second dream I saw a crowd surrounding a man beating a Caucasian looking woman with no one raising a voice or a finger to help her. I couldn't penetrate the ring of lookon crowd so I ran up and down the street begging for people to come so we can help her...
So, why do bad things happen to good people? First off, I have noticed that I live in a society were people are either too lazy to question things or ask for explanations on things that concern them. This is worse when the subject matter or the being asked the question is God. People are swift to ask you to shut your questions away from God when you ask about the 'why's'. They are not too meek to ask the God to bless them though.
I've had this question in my head for like forever. Why do bad things happen to good people, especially people who believe in an all round superior being with the power to cause a thing to being, or not.
Why? Why do a merciful God turn his back on a helpless subject,
why?
Why do good people suffer all of life's pains and evil men go free?
why?
Because I was
raised very Christian, my brain auto corrects my inquiry with biblical references on this 'why, one of such examples is the story of Job.
See, Job is possibly the authority on senseless pain met on a righteous man without his participation or consent. In the Bible, the book of Job Is the story of a godly and righteous man with everything, that became the subject of a bet between God and the devil. The only person that lost everything in the bet was Job. God permitted the Devil to destroy everything job had. Health, Riches, killed his grown up children, everything!
Don't worry though. At the end of the bet after Job did not still 'curse' God, God gave him a second chance at acquiring the health and children and health and everything. It all worked out at the end for Job. Right? And this, my dear, is the default response you will get from an average Christian when you question your pain alongside biblical references.
Men are clay.
Men are nothing before God. When you are tempted with pain, endure it, thank him. whenever you are tempted with or given pleasure, enjoy it. Give thanks.
We are nothing.
We are possibly at the losing end of a bet at all times when we are feeling grave pain. Right? OK.
Now, unto my second wandering, what reward await suffering on earth?
Many religions have devised a clever response to that question. Sufferers get go to a special place called heaven or something close depending on the diction used. Like Job, if we do not question our gambler, we get to get it easy in a next life right? Ok.
Splendid.
So when does the good ferry come in for hurting people here on earth?
Job got ten fold of the things he lost. All his children, grown up children with memories died for a bet. He had more as reward. But any parent who had lost children or grown adult kids will tell you having more kids never fully heals their broken hearts, never takes the loss away, never kills the memory of the dead...
who also thinks like I do that Job was a broken man even after the kids came the second time?
And why do humans still insist on their worthlessness even when same person could tell you that God so loved humans that he sent a Godson just to die and cleans humans? Why are we encouraged to fear even with all the touted love and mercy?
And why do bad things happen to good people? What reward awaits suffering here on earth?
Still musing on The story of the biblical Job:
Why!
Why wasn't the pain of the mother of Job's kids considered in the equation when God and the Satan were betting and gambling on Job's faith? The kids were hers too. She birthed them. Suffered through pregnancy and childbirth. Carried the scares of having nurtured them into adulthood. Their memories were hers too!
Why wasn't the children themselves spared on their own recognizance?
Why weren't they shown mercy and love and the promise of long life?
And when the mother spoke through her pain, she was killed, and job married another woman (women) to procreate the second set of children abi? Right
The bet between God and Satan wasn't theirs. But they paid ultimately for it. Why?
Why?
I should stop thinking aloud now. I am so spent.
For hours now I've been lying on my favourite sheets, thinking. Prior that I'd woken from two dreams. In the first, a gang of robbers had attacked and stollen my car and my phone. Then proceeded to leak unclothed photos of me on my Facebook after threatening an ex of mine to pay them not to and he refused. In the second dream I saw a crowd surrounding a man beating a Caucasian looking woman with no one raising a voice or a finger to help her. I couldn't penetrate the ring of lookon crowd so I ran up and down the street begging for people to come so we can help her...
So, why do bad things happen to good people? First off, I have noticed that I live in a society were people are either too lazy to question things or ask for explanations on things that concern them. This is worse when the subject matter or the being asked the question is God. People are swift to ask you to shut your questions away from God when you ask about the 'why's'. They are not too meek to ask the God to bless them though.
I've had this question in my head for like forever. Why do bad things happen to good people, especially people who believe in an all round superior being with the power to cause a thing to being, or not.
Why? Why do a merciful God turn his back on a helpless subject,
why?
Why do good people suffer all of life's pains and evil men go free?
why?
Because I was
See, Job is possibly the authority on senseless pain met on a righteous man without his participation or consent. In the Bible, the book of Job Is the story of a godly and righteous man with everything, that became the subject of a bet between God and the devil. The only person that lost everything in the bet was Job. God permitted the Devil to destroy everything job had. Health, Riches, killed his grown up children, everything!
Don't worry though. At the end of the bet after Job did not still 'curse' God, God gave him a second chance at acquiring the health and children and health and everything. It all worked out at the end for Job. Right? And this, my dear, is the default response you will get from an average Christian when you question your pain alongside biblical references.
Men are clay.
Men are nothing before God. When you are tempted with pain, endure it, thank him. whenever you are tempted with or given pleasure, enjoy it. Give thanks.
We are nothing.
We are possibly at the losing end of a bet at all times when we are feeling grave pain. Right? OK.
Now, unto my second wandering, what reward await suffering on earth?
Many religions have devised a clever response to that question. Sufferers get go to a special place called heaven or something close depending on the diction used. Like Job, if we do not question our gambler, we get to get it easy in a next life right? Ok.
Splendid.
So when does the good ferry come in for hurting people here on earth?
Job got ten fold of the things he lost. All his children, grown up children with memories died for a bet. He had more as reward. But any parent who had lost children or grown adult kids will tell you having more kids never fully heals their broken hearts, never takes the loss away, never kills the memory of the dead...
who also thinks like I do that Job was a broken man even after the kids came the second time?
And why do humans still insist on their worthlessness even when same person could tell you that God so loved humans that he sent a Godson just to die and cleans humans? Why are we encouraged to fear even with all the touted love and mercy?
And why do bad things happen to good people? What reward awaits suffering here on earth?
Still musing on The story of the biblical Job:
Why!
Why wasn't the pain of the mother of Job's kids considered in the equation when God and the Satan were betting and gambling on Job's faith? The kids were hers too. She birthed them. Suffered through pregnancy and childbirth. Carried the scares of having nurtured them into adulthood. Their memories were hers too!
Why wasn't the children themselves spared on their own recognizance?
Why weren't they shown mercy and love and the promise of long life?
And when the mother spoke through her pain, she was killed, and job married another woman (women) to procreate the second set of children abi? Right
The bet between God and Satan wasn't theirs. But they paid ultimately for it. Why?
Why?
I should stop thinking aloud now. I am so spent.
Sunday, 22 April 2018
Like Vanilla, Monterrey, California.
She smelt like vanilla, Monterey, California.
He told her so.
He does not tell her he hates vanilla now.
She sits down beside him, touching the sides of his weakness.
He sits rigidly, detached by her starter.
She tells him he smelt like chocolates, dark.
He nodes, heads for the door knob.
She lets him exit.
The curtains flail in protest.
He pauses outside the door only for a second as she reaches for the notebook to write
Notes for their funeral.
Conquer Igali. (C) 2015
He told her so.
He does not tell her he hates vanilla now.
She sits down beside him, touching the sides of his weakness.
He sits rigidly, detached by her starter.
She tells him he smelt like chocolates, dark.
He nodes, heads for the door knob.
She lets him exit.
The curtains flail in protest.
He pauses outside the door only for a second as she reaches for the notebook to write
Notes for their funeral.
Conquer Igali. (C) 2015
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
On Pain And Happiness
Sadness, Sorrow and pain forces some wisdom upon us.
Happiness , bliss and enjoyment takes away some wisdom from us as though in bits.
This may not be absolute truths, but I am thinking about this just now
Happiness , bliss and enjoyment takes away some wisdom from us as though in bits.
This may not be absolute truths, but I am thinking about this just now
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