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Photo credit: Psychology Today Today, I do not intend to subject your busy faculty to reading a long piece but this may take about thirty minutes of your time and I am deeply sorry. It is about understanding fear and the fact that the benefits derivable from fear in the long run far outweighs its cost to our conveniences in life. Fear is a common feeling or emotion every individual definitely experiences every now and then in life. We all have our fears. In other words, we are often afraid of the unexpected. For instance, we are concerned that we may be fired from work, lose our scholarships and relationships. We are afraid of crashing out of business, getting sick, losing our ability to meet our daily needs or even of dying. As humans, these are normal and justified fears. Unfortunately, however, our perceptions and conceptualized opinions about fears have often been tilted in favour of subjective or prejudiced pessimism to the detriment of objective optimism. Succinctly, ...

Photo Credit: churchofchrist.org By Ogiri John Ogiri In the last one week, the social media have been awash with video stories of attacks and counter-attacks between Daddy Freeze and some Nigerian pastors, notably Pastor David Ibiyomeh of the Salvation Ministries over the former's criticism of the leader of Living Faith Church, Dr Pastor David Oyedepo. In the heat of the verbal wars, careless statements were made by both sides, with one threatening the life of the other.  Many have condemned the unnecessary verbal wars between them advising that they sheath their swords. I am of the same opinion. However, one thing is sure, and that thing is that, at the end of the whole drama between Daddy Freeze and some of our pastors, we will be exposed to the truth about who has been working, not just in the name of God, but for God, through Christ. We must not forget to remember that true men of God are unveiled in moments of criticism or persecution, not in moments of comfo...

MARK MANSON WHY WE ALL NEED PHILOSOPHY   Mark Manson 1 day ago “To win true freedom, you must be a slave to philosophy.” —Epicurus T he great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was once sitting in a park having a philosophical discussion with a friend when his friend, quite animated, stood up and said loudly, “That  is  a tree! I  know  for a  fact  that that is a tree!” An awkward pause ensued as the two men realized that passersby had stopped and were now staring at them. Wittgenstein, thinking quickly, turned to the people and said, “Do not worry, this fellow is not insane… we are merely doing philosophy.” When most people think of philosophy, they likely imagine indecipherable books that stretch on for a thousand pages, saying and solving nothing. They envision stuffy old men in misbuttoned shirts, untied shoelaces with mismatched socks, shuffling about hallways of some archaic university, mumbling to themselves, completely unaware of the humanity aro...