"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
— Lawrence of Arabia
There is no justice, only power, and if you have enough of it you can enforce your idea of fairness.
If you don't have the funds or the influence, then you can't and are forced to eat shit - this is the blackest red pill - and if that realisation doesn't break you, nothing will.
God honors his favorites by crushing them, drops the whole insufferable wretched weight of purpose on their spines until they either snap into shape or snap entirely. the unburdened, those buoyant grinning vapid little phantoms drifting through their own lives without a single crushing thing to carry, they are forgotten
If you want to know your character, do not study yourself only in hardship, study yourself when you have options, privacy, attention, and the power to get away with small betrayals, because abundance reveals true character.
As a man your suffering should be proportional to your power. if you ache like common men ache then you have made yourself common, but if your torment is the torment of seeing what could be and knowing you alone possess the hands to shape it, if your agony is the agony of carrying visions too large for one lifetime, then you have touched the real fire. there is no guide for this path, no teacher who has walked where you must walk, and you will do this alone or you will not do it at all
Never agree to carry pressure in a situation where you have no right to shape the outcome, because responsibility without authority does not make you important for long. It makes you absorb blame cheaply while other people enjoy the comfort of your obedience.
A man with no taste for conflict becomes a container for other people’s unfinished impulses, because the world always searches for the nearest person willing to absorb discomfort without protest, and if that man is you, your patience will be mistaken for permission.
My problem is not whether anybody hates Muslims or not. I'm not religious and anyone has the right to hate whoever or whatever they want. My problem is that if you truly believe that "Muslims are killing Christians" in search of some "Islamic Caliphate", and you are serious about opposing them, then you should want to find out who is funding these "Muslims", who is supplying them military equipment, and who is constantly providing all kinds of political, diplomatic and material support for them.
If you believe in something, follow it all the way through. Go down the rabbit hole and don't stop until you've found what you're looking for. Once upon a time, when I had the same ideas about "Muslims", that was what I set out to do. Because that is the logical next step of opposing something. You should want to find out everything you can about this enemy so that you can disrupt it. So back in 2021, I set out to find out everything I could about these "Muslims" and the big masquerades behind them - and those masquerades turned out to be in Tel-Aviv and Washington DC. That was when I realised that "Muslims" were the least of my problems.
I thought my search would terminate in Doha or Riyadh or Amman - instead it turned out that even the Saudis and Qataris who incubated these awful Wahabbi/Salafi doctrines were just proxies of White, Christian/Jewish empire builders in Washington, London, Paris and Tel-Aviv. The "Muslims" were in fact, not involved in the decision making and they were basically powerless. The people who created the ISIS, Boko Haram, Al-Qaida etc were western empire-seekers who wore suits and spoke English, and the purpose of those terror outfits was not to create some "Islamic caliphate" but to seize land and resources for said white men!
And that's when my mental shift happened. The simple realisation that "Muslims" were at best useful idiots in this scheme, and that the REAL enemy were the people I used to hang out with at Bogobiri and the US Consular General's residence. I had that epiphany because I followed that rabbit hole down to the end and found the actual horrible truth. But most of you have no such balls. You are satisfied to just hear and repeat a narrative without ever trying to confirm it for yourself and take action based on that narrative.
This was the same problem I had with the Obidient people. I was ready to go to fucking WAR for what I wanted in 2023, and I lit myself on fire in ways that I am still recovering from. I escaped an international kidnapping attempt, I survived an attempt on my life, I spent months hopping around Nairobi short lets like a homeless person, and I would have done it all again if that was what it took to get that mandate. But most of you that claimed to support the same candidate had no such motivation. Your own was to sit on the internet and type "A new Nigeria is PO-ssible" and "All eyes on the judiciary" to zero fucking effect. And since that didn't work out, half of you have moved to APC, and the other half are still stuck in a 2022 - 2023 time loop, repeating the same tired nonsense that had no effect.
As I said earlier today, you people have no real convictions or beliefs about anything. All you do is make noise for a short while, then you go back to the shallow, stupid things that are actually the centre of your lives like sports betting, visa hunting and talking about relationships. Nothing you people say comes from a place of genuine thought or conviction - you're just a bunch of internet performance artists. Even the "Muslims" you claim are genociding you - if one of them flashes small 100k at you, your entire perspective will shift instantly. You don't believe anything you are saying, which is why I pity that Mossad asset that thinks he's going to instigate a civil war in Nigeria.
He has no idea how useless the people he's trying to instigate really are. Except he will bring mercenaries to fight the war on both sides, nobody is dying for whatever they claim to believe in Nigeria. The most they will do is talk everlasting amounts of shit at each other on the internet, and then switch up completely once they see money, food, or breast. They only came to this world to eat, shit, fuck, sleep, and die in that order. Anyone taking them seriously is just wasting his agency's budget. Even their civil war had to be fought and supported on both sides by foreign powers because they couldn't do it themselves.
I'm only afraid of an invasion.
I'm not afraid of Nigerians at all. Who dey fear mannequin?
Omnia quae tibi vera visa sunt mendacia erant. Ab initio vitae tuae non nisi pupus fuisti, aliena voluntate motus. Sapientia vera nascitur ex confessione fraudis: ubi tandem intellexeris te mendaciis nutritum esse, veritas velata se ipsa ostendet.
Those who escape societal conditioning must deal with the risk of being viewed as insane. But the true insanity is having to live your life surrounded by zombies who cannot see beyond what they are programmed to see.
The biggest failure of my Nigerian parents' generation was their complete inability to pass on any ideas or ideology of subtance to their children.
The ONLY thing they taught their children was "Jesus" and "Muhammad". And those unfortunate children have grown up with Christianity and Islam making up their entire personality. They have nothing else upstairs.
Ask the people from that empty-headed generation any question that requires actual thinking or philosophy, and watch how intellectually empty their reply is.
"How can I succeed in life?"
>50 y.o. Nigerian dummy: "Fear God, pray everyday, don't expose your private parts, read your books in school, Fear God..."
"How do I find and keep the right partner?"
Elderly Nigerian grave-dodger: "Go to church every week, pray endlessly, maintain your fajinity, and fear God..."
"How can we fix Nigeria and make it somewhere people don't need to run away from?"
65 year-old Nigerian oxygen hoarder: "The whole country needs to pray for divine intervention to torsh the hearts of awa lidaz..."
An entire generation of olodos who raised even worse dummies than them, but somehow all believe that they did the world a favour by birthing children they had nothing intellectual to pass on to. Everyone else in the world who couldn't pass on economic capital to their children could at least pass on intellectual and moral capital.
All that these cemetery-evading dumbos passed on to us was "Fear God, pray, develop a neurotic obsession with your sex organs and everything that has to do with them, pray, and fear God some more." This is the inheritance we were supposed to build into our competitive advantage in a world where serious people live?
Damn.
@Nithya_Shrii "The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich."
~ Emil Cioran
In shadows deep, where whispers fade,
Death dances, an eternal serenade.
Through twilight's veil, it softly calls,
A journey bound by silent halls.
In fields of dusk, where dreams alight,
Life's fleeting flame meets the endless night.
You’re not overwhelmed because life is hard, you’re overwhelmed because your mind is undisciplined. You entertain every impulse, chase every thought, respond to every emotion. Until you build a filter for what deserves your energy, life will feel heavier than it is.
Lol. Not true. In fact, I would argue that some of the most intelligent people I have ever crossed paths with are also some of the most emotionally sensitive. Intelligence does not dull sensitivity; if anything, it heightens awareness. And that heightened awareness is precisely why the intelligent are more easily stirred: they perceive undertones, slights, and implications others would ordinarily miss.