Religion has been a part of African history for centuries. For many people, it has been a source of guidance, comfort, and community. Yet, there are some who believe that religion is a major setback in the development of African nations. This is an excellent topic that merits discussion.

On the one hand, there is no denying that religion has been used to oppress people, especially women and other marginalized groups. Religious beliefs have been used to justify discrimination, and many people feel that certain religious tenets are outdated and no longer applicable. On the other hand, religion can also be a powerful force for good in African societies. It can provide comfort to people in difficult times and bring communities together.

Ultimately, whether religion is a setback in African development is up to the individual. Some may see it as a hinderance, while others may view it as a source of strength and hope. Ultimately, it is up to each person to decide for themselves how to view religion and its impact on African development.

In the 1980s, there was a great movie starring Steve Martin and John Candy called Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Today, that movie would star AOC and Al Gore and be called NO Planes, NO Trains and NO automobiles: https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-13-no-trains-no-planes-no-automobiles-no-gas-de-civilization-democrat-utopia.html

While I was a student, my roommate each time he saw me smoking was always disturbing me that he wanted to smoke with me. At first, I rejected his plea but when he persisted we started smoking together. His urge for smoking within a few months grew more than mine. He began to come home with packs of cigarettes and some bottles of beer. I don't drink alcohol but I was sure that it was the introduction to smoking that also attracted him to alcohol.

Recently I met him in a motor park,  he is now a chained smoker and drunkard. He was practically wearing rags and misbehaving. I called him and we started talking, I discovered that he dropped out of school and was now unemployed. When I tried to advise him to quit this destructive character, he began to shout telling everyone that cared to hear that I was the one that introduced him to smoking. He told them that I was responsible for his problems. People on my bus began to ask me if it was true and I shamefully told them; yes!

I have quit smoking a long time ago because of its health consequences. But since I met him, I have felt guilty that I am responsible for my friend's downfall.

I have decided never to introduce anybody to any behavior that can be addictive no matter how mature the person might claim to be. Introducing people to smoking, drinking, sex, gambling or other counterproductive activities might be funny or interesting but it could be destructive. I am considering apologizing to him and taking him to a rehabilitation center if I ever set my eyes on him again.

We can eliminate the problem of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants by dumping that radioactive waste where it will be of good use.

Right now, bio-safety level 4 laboratories around the world refuse to post cryptographic timestamps of all their data on blockchains like the Bitcoin (or Circcash) blockchain. This means that we could have another lab made pandemic like the one we just had (it most likely leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology; the WIV could not be properly investigated because it did not post cryptographic timestamps of everything on blockchains), and these places will not even have the infrastructure necessary for anyone to do a proper investigation. We should therefore treat these places like bio-terrorism organizations that want to fucking murder me and you. The only way to deal with these places is to take all of the world's vessels containing radioactive waste and then open those vessels, and dump them on the bio-safety level 4 laboratories. This will be a very good use of the radioactive waste because it will prevent the next pandemic.

Sure, this may make cities like Boston (which has a bio-safety level 4 lab at Boston University) uninhabitable, but that is a price that we should all be willing to pay because fuck Boston. The Bostonians have not done shit to make sure that their lab has taken the proper safety protocols, so Boston does not deserve to remain inhabitable.

Defeat, a feeling that is very awful that is felted when someone intends in doing something and getting a desire results but ends up with a totally different outcome.

   There are so many ways in which one can be a victim of such feeling. This dreadful feeling of defeat has trapped most industrious mind trying to come out to be recognized and has affected many people emotionally and psychologically.

Even in the forum here most people trying to build a reputation and newbies always feel this way as the forum is filled with good critics that's are always active and ready to correct and put so many people in the right track but this act is seen in the forum by some members as a sign of defeat and this sometimes crumbles their will power to keep on striving and trying their hardest to learn and be successful in world of crypto.

But defeat is not supposed to be handled like this with a negative energy and infact defeat is very beneficial  to all humans who are trying to excel because its teaches us some many lessons on the way to go about the situation in ground next time.

So i just want to hear from the forum members on the times in which we have encountered or felt such feeling but didn't stop but instead use it a benefit and a positive energy to improve ourselves.

It is very obvious that some countries are more powerful than others considering the kind of recognition they get from other countries. Some of these countries have a lot of influence more that others. Anything or policy they propose or support gets accepted by many other countries across the world.
The question now is what makes these countries more powerful than others?

On thursday, 24th of february 2022 the Russian military on the order of her president, Mr. Putin invaded Ukraine. One of the reasons Putin gave for invasion was to demilitarize Ukraine.

Ukraine on her own side stood up to defend her territory from the invading military and since then, the conflict has lingered till date. Nobody thought this conflict would last this long.

Many countries are said to be supporting Ukraine especially the member countries of NATO. The US is also a major financiar of the Ukrainian side. Of a truth I am beginning to think that this war is being fueled by these supporters of both countries (Russia and Ukraine).

This war is supposed to have ended but with the support they are getting, they have continued to fight.
Who do you think should be blamed? The US, NATO, Russia, or Ukraine?

Have the same case here where I already forgot my Roobet account since they started to ask for a KYC but of course if I given a chance to win on their contest then why not, beside I experienced playing on Roobet before and I can still say that its pretty good. There's a lot of judges for sure, it will come from the Roobet team and Hhampuz itself, I see nothing wrong about the winners on their previous art contest and even the participants are not complaining about the results so I believe we should trust their judgement since its their contest after all.

As long as I can remember, winners of the $50k weekly giveaway do not need to watch the stream. Stake usually announce the winners in their own forum and post the link to claim the prize. I just tried to open the forum, but unfortunately the forum seems down now. You may check it later on stakecommunity.com and check the Promotions board then find the giveaway sub-board. I am not really sure if they have changed how they distribute the prize recently, but they used to post the coupon link the forum for winners to claim it or in other words Stake did not send the prize directly to the winner.

That's right OP should buy and use a copper membership and at least fix the post about full details or provide an image to be able to interest this forum user.

Welcome to the forum. I just decided to check the promo code, firstly, after registration, a confirmation letter does not arrive by mail, although a notification has surfaced on the casino's website that it has been sent, secondly, when using the specified OP promo code, I receive the message "SUCCESS Success! You've received 0 coins", perhaps the promo code is no longer valid, but then there would be a message of a different kind.

Meeting between SBF and senior Biden officials was for pandemic discussions. At least this is what White House claims.
Link to news:
https://decrypt.co/118319/white-house-claims-meetings-between-sbf-and-senior-biden-officials-were-about-pandemic

Do you trust this ?

I guess it's safe to say Christmas has a way of doing things and it has certainly done something to Putin.
 News has it that the Russian president and instigator of the invasion to Ukraine has come out to declare his intentions of opening talks with Zelenksy and his Western backers, but they seem to be saying "not yet".
 
The Russian invasion to Ukraine is in its tenth month and this war is the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the Missile Crisis of Cuba in 1962. [1]

Are his actions actually genuine or is he really running from something entirely? More on this news here

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=missile+crisis+cuba+1962&oq=Missile+Crisis+of+Cuba+in+19&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l4.16329j0j7&client=ms-android-transsion-infinix-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

SBF get prosecuted, Elon got away from laws, why double standard?

SBF selling share of FTX company, Elon selling not only one, but three company of the shares, his tesla his spacex and his boring company. But only SBF go to jail while Elon wouldn’t stop making more noise to distract attention.

Why is the double standard? The laws are made to protect the born rich billionaires? What’s the dark magic that Elon pulling to fool the entire legal system? Is it the money that’s empowering him and even to above the laws?

For quick brief, Elon sell Tesla share to fund his twitter acquisition. There is buyer who bought all his share, that buyer is the taxpayer, taxpayer pay the price of the Twitter acquisition. So you wonder how would taxpayer pay the price when nobody is paying taxes? Look at the grocery items you buy on the market, toilet paper food meat vegetable pizza..., the price increased more than twice in two years that’s exactly how you pay the price as a taxpayer to fund the filthy rich and to even break the laws.

I guess I'm eating crow because I'm shocked they didn't arrest him sooner but I'm sure the trial will go on and on like the Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos.

Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested In The Bahamas, Set For 'Prompt' Extradition After US Files Charges

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/sam-bankman-fried-arrested-bahamas-set-prompt-extradition

"Just hours after refusing to attend a Senate hearing on his role in the collapse of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested by The Royal Bahamian Police Force, according to a statement from the Attorney General of The Bahamas Sen. Ryan Pinder KC."

What are your thoughts, crypto community?

OP, it looks like your, have to look at the rules for playing permitted gambling: Topic: One thread per site ONLY so as not to crash.

I've seen the first thread about the gambling site Predict888.com, created by: @cryptoshapper.

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So, who is @cryptoshapper and who are you, are you both representatives of the Predict888.com gambling site.
• Then why not continue the promotion on the main thread created by @cryptoshapper.
• Unless you have a competition of some sort, of course you can create a thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=71.0, especially for games and rounds.

if your, want to continue with this or the first thread, lock one, so users don't get confused about your gambling site.