Yemi Adeyemi

28/07/2025

Most cars break down at home, or while parked but insurance companies sell policies for 4% of breakdowns (which happen on motorways).

28/07/2025

What is empty Christianity?

14/07/2025

Found this moving. How parents watch gymnastics. I can totally understand because my daughters does gymnastics too.

14/03/2025

Many African cultures favored matrilineal inheritance because it provided greater certainty of lineage, ensuring that land, leadership, and wealth remained within the family. Since maternity is indisputable, tracing descent through the mother reduced conflicts over paternity. Additionally, matrilineal systems often empowered women’s families, fostering social stability and resource continuity across generations.

Aristotle came to the same conclusion making a statement implying that mothers have greater certainty about their biological children than fathers. In Nicomachean Ethics (Book IX, Chapter 7), he discusses parental love and states:

“Mothers love their children more than fathers do, because they are more certain that they are their own.”

This observation is based on the biological reality that maternity is always certain (since the mother gives birth), whereas paternity, especially in ancient times before DNA testing, was not as easily verified.

This concept has been echoed throughout history and across cultures, influencing ideas about maternal bonds and inheritance rights.

06/03/2025

The Irony of Socrates’ Daimonion: How Humanists and Atheists Celebrate Socrates but Ignore His Inner Voice — And What It Has in Common with the Holy Spirit

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Introduction: The Philosopher Who Heard Voices ‍

In the pantheon of intellectual heroes 🤓celebrated by secular humanists, atheists, and self-proclaimed rationalists, Socrates stands near the top — a paragon of critical thinking, relentless questioning, and bold defiance against blind faith. He is the man who drank the hemlock rather than surrender his commitment to truth, the philosopher who dismantled the unexamined life like a chef deboning a fish. Yet, there’s a delicious irony here — one so thick you could spread it on toast. The same Socrates who is hailed as the intellectual father of Western philosophy believed — without irony — that he was guided by a divine inner voice, a daimonion.

That’s right. The man humanists worship for his devotion to reason credited much of his wisdom to something that sounds suspiciously like divine revelation. And if you hold that daimonion up to the light, it bears more than a passing resemblance to Christianity’s Holy Spirit. That’s a philosophical plot twist so juicy, it belongs in a Greek tragedy — or at least a good sermon.

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Socrates’ Daimonion: A Divine Whisperer in the Age of Logic

Socrates, by his own account, had a personal spiritual guide — the daimonion (δαίμονιον) — a mysterious inner voice or presence that warned him when he was about to make a moral misstep. It wasn’t a thunderous oracle from Delphi ⚡️, nor was it the booming voice of Zeus from the heavens. No, it was subtle — a gentle inner check, a divine conscience keeping him on the narrow path.

In Plato’s Apology, Socrates explicitly mentions this daimonion, describing it as a divine sign that began manifesting in childhood. It didn’t dictate what to do; it simply advised him on what not to do. Call it a metaphysical backseat driver, if you will.

Yet, modern secularists who canonize Socrates as the patron saint of skeptical inquiry conveniently forget this small matter. They elevate his method of questioning authority, his disdain for blind faith — yet they rarely mention that Socrates himself believed his inner compass came from a supernatural source. If Socrates lived today, many atheists would dismiss him as a “religious nut” or accuse him of hearing voices. The irony is both hilarious and tragic.

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The Holy Spirit and the Daimonion: Unlikely Twins

What makes this irony richer than a slice of baklava is that Socrates’ daimonion and the Christian Holy Spirit share startling similarities. While they emerge from vastly different cultural and religious contexts — classical Greece and the early Christian church — their roles, functions, and spiritual significance often mirror each other.

1. Guidance and Moral Direction ⚖️

The daimonion warned Socrates when a path led to ethical disaster. The Holy Spirit, according to Christian doctrine, convicts believers of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8). Both act as inner moral GPS systems, nudging their human hosts toward virtue and away from vice.

2. Internal and Intimate

Neither the daimonion nor the Holy Spirit operates like Zeus hurling lightning bolts from Olympus. They whisper rather than shout. Their influence is personal, not public; they guide souls, not armies.

3. Divine but Non-Coercive ✨

Both respect human freedom. The daimonion didn’t override Socrates’ will, just as the Holy Spirit offers guidance but doesn’t force obedience. There’s no celestial strong-arming here — only invitations to better paths.

4. Holiness and Set-Apartness 🌿

Both the daimonion and the Holy Spirit are described in terms of sanctity — something higher than human thought, something pure. Socrates considered his daimonion a divine voice, not just a quirk of his psychology. Similarly, Christians believe the Holy Spirit is God’s own spirit, dwelling within believers.

5. Agent of Wisdom 📚

The Holy Spirit is described as the Spirit of Truth (John 14:17), leading believers into understanding. Socrates’ daimonion had a similar function — steering him not just morally, but intellectually, away from errors and into deeper wisdom.

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Straw Men and Holy Spirits: What Critics Get Wrong

Here’s where the conversation gets derailed. Anti-Christian critics often mock believers who say they “felt led by the Holy Spirit.” They trot out the classic straw man: “So God talks to you directly, does He? Do you hear voices? Should we call someone?”

This deliberate conflation of mental illness with spiritual conviction isn’t just intellectually lazy — it ignores a vast body of research and testimony spanning centuries. The Holy Spirit of the Bible doesn’t produce paranoia or disordered thinking — it produces fruit. Love ❤️, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). These are tangible outcomes — moral and ethical transformation — not incoherent ramblings.

Socrates, by all accounts, wasn’t running through the Agora claiming Hera sent him a message via pigeons. His daimonion didn’t fill his head with apocalyptic nonsense; it sharpened his ethical reflexes. Similarly, spirit-led Christians aren’t muttering prophecy at bus stops (though the eccentric fringe always exists); they are feeding the hungry, forgiving enemies, and comforting the broken.

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What Modern Research Says

Neuroscientific studies on religious experience (Newberg & Waldman, 2010) show that profound spiritual experiences are often correlated with increased activity in the prefrontal cortex and decreased activity in the parietal lobes, enhancing both ethical reasoning and the sense of connectedness to others.

Dr. Andrew Newberg, a leading researcher in neurotheology, found that individuals who describe being guided by a divine presence often show improved emotional regulation, heightened empathy, and increased altruism — traits consistent with the Bible’s description of the Holy Spirit’s work.

Ironically, the very traits Socrates embodied — humility, ethical clarity, compassion for the confused — were often shaped by his interaction with his daimonion. And they are the exact traits the Bible attributes to the Holy Spirit’s influence.

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The Missing Chapter in Secular History

The sanitized, secular version of Socrates — the one used to prop up atheist manifestos — is a revisionist fiction. The real Socrates believed in a divine moral guide, something neither random nor human-made. To separate his rational brilliance from his spiritual compass is to misunderstand both.

It’s a bit like celebrating a world-class athlete for their performance while refusing to admit they trained or had a coach. Socrates’ daimonion wasn’t a side note; it was part of the very foundation of his philosophy.

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Conclusion: The Spirit in the Agora and the Upper Room

The Christian Holy Spirit and Socrates’ daimonion represent humanity’s oldest longing — that the divine is not distant but intimately near, whispering in our moral ears, shaping our inner compass, turning stumbling souls into ethical athletes.

That so many modern secularists and atheists quote Socrates with reverence, while mocking Christians for listening to the Holy Spirit, is the irony of ironies — the intellectual equivalent of building a statue to Mozart while ridiculing people who believe in music.

Socrates heard a divine voice and trusted it.
Millions of Christians do the same.
If you call one wise and the other insane, you aren’t following reason.
You’re just choosing whose inner voice you want to respect.

22/02/2025

Do Africans need to use pristine writing or adapted writing to debunk the myth “Africa had no writing before European contact?”

Whether Africans need to use pristine writing or adapted writing to debunk the myth that “Africa has no writing before European contact” depends on how we define the term “writing.” Pristine writing refers to systems created from scratch, such as Nsibidi, dating back to around 100 BC in Southeastern Nigeria, or Egyptian hieroglyphs, an entirely unique form of hieroglyphic script developed independently in Africa. Adapted writing, on the other hand, refers to systems like the Latin script used in English—a language that has borrowed, modified, and evolved from various sources over time. When faced with accusations that writing did not exist in Africa before European influence, it’s essential to question whether such pristine evidence is even necessary, given that those making the accusations often rely on adapted, rather than pristine, writing systems themselves.

Europe’s own writing heritage is far from pristine. English, for instance, descends from a long line of adaptations, beginning with Proto-Sinaitic script, which emerged around 1800 BCE in the Sinai Peninsula. This script, comprised of pictographic symbols representing objects or concepts, evolved into Proto-Canaanite, used by early Semitic-speaking people in the Levant. Around 1050 BCE, Proto-Canaanite transitioned into the Phoenician script, which spread throughout the Mediterranean thanks to the Phoenicians’ extensive trade networks. The Greeks, encountering Phoenician script around the 9th century BCE, made crucial adaptations, creating their own alphabet. Greek innovations included adding vowels, allowing their language’s distinctive sounds to be represented accurately, while also shifting the writing direction from right-to-left to left-to-right. The Latin alphabet, used across Europe today, began as an adaptation of the Greek alphabet by the Etruscans in ancient Italy, who further modified it to suit their language before passing it to the Romans.

As Rome’s influence spread, the Latin script became the standard across Europe, evolving further with each new culture that adopted it. English itself is a testament to this patchwork evolution, incorporating influences from Germanic languages, French, Scandinavian, and even words from non-European languages, including African. The English language has multiples sources: about 30% words come from French (about 7000 words). 26% of English comes from Germanic influences (Old/Middle English, the Angles, the Saxons and Dutch). Scandinavian contributed alongside Indian, Oceanic, Native America and Africa words. It is a part of the remaining 40% of words that make up English.

Today, English is celebrated as a global lingua franca, yet it is entirely rooted in an adapted system that has continuously borrowed, modified, and reshaped itself over centuries. If European languages can rely on adapted scripts without their validity being questioned, then African writing traditions should receive the same consideration.

Hieroglyphs and hieratic, two of Africa’s most famous writing systems, were not only pristine but also foundational, as they helped shape scripts that influenced the development of written language across continents. The journey from these African-origin scripts to the adapted alphabets in the West highlights the irony of denying Africa’s literary heritage. Africans, therefore, do not need to provide evidence of “pristine” writing to counter the myth that writing only emerged with European contact. When those who question African writing’s legitimacy use adapted scripts themselves, demanding pristine evidence from Africa becomes a glaring double standard. The myth falls apart when we recognize that writing, whether pristine or adapted, is a hallmark of human innovation—and Africa’s contributions are undeniable.

In my opinion, and I submit that it is a logical conclusion, Africans don’t need to prove the existence of pristine writing systems to counter the myth. The irony is evident: the accusers themselves rely on an extensively adapted writing system with origins outside of Europe. Recognizing this fact not only debunks the myth but also underscores Africa’s critical role in the shared journey of human intellectual and cultural development. Whether we use Arabic writing or Nsibidi, it is clear Africa had writing and these unsubstantiated myths need to STOP 🛑.

22/02/2025

🔗 Angela Davis & Prison Reform: The Revolutionary Who Refused to Be Silenced 🔥

If you think Angela Davis is just a professor with a powerful afro, buckle up—because this woman took on the U.S. prison system, the FBI, and the entire concept of mass incarceration, and she’s STILL fighting today.

The Early Days: From Student to Revolutionary

📌 Born: 1944, Birmingham, Alabama (in a neighborhood nicknamed “Dynamite Hill” because of all the K*K bombings)
📌 Education: Brandeis University, Sorbonne, UC San Diego—because yes, she’s that brilliant
📌 Politics: Became a leading voice in Black liberation, Marxism, and feminist movements
📌 FBI’s Most Wanted: Arrested in 1970 for allegedly aiding a courtroom escape—but acquitted in 1972 after a massive global campaign

Why She Changed the Game in Prison Reform

💥 Abolitionist Before It Was Mainstream – Angela Davis wasn’t just talking about reform; she was talking about burning down the whole prison-industrial complex and rebuilding a system based on rehabilitation, not profit.

💥 Exposing Racism in Incarceration – She called out the U.S. government for locking up Black and Brown people at astronomical rates while pretending it was about “justice.” Spoiler: It wasn’t.

💥 Co-Founder of Critical Resistance – She helped build one of the leading organizations fighting mass incarceration, proving that this isn’t just about “criminals”—it’s about a system designed to keep marginalized communities powerless.

💥 Books That Shook the System – Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) became a blueprint for prison abolition, and her work influenced activists like Michelle Alexander (The New Jim Crow).

💥 Teaching the Next Generation – As a professor, she’s shaped activists, scholars, and future revolutionaries, making sure the fight doesn’t die with one generation.

The Legacy: Still Fighting, Still Unapologetic

Angela Davis wasn’t just an icon of the 1970s—she’s STILL tearing down oppressive systems today. Her work has fueled conversations about defunding prisons, ending for-profit incarceration, and abolishing the death penalty.

When she said, “Prisons do not disappear social problems; they disappear human beings,” she wasn’t just talking—she was challenging every single one of us to rethink “justice” as we know it.

22/02/2025

📚 The Role of HBCUs: More Than Just Colleges, They Built a Revolution 🎓

Let’s talk about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)—the institutions that took in brilliant Black minds when America’s “prestigious” schools slammed the doors in their faces. These weren’t just schools; they were launchpads for revolutionaries, Nobel Prize winners, civil rights leaders, business moguls, and cultural icons.

The Legacy They Built

📌 Founded: Mid-1800s (because Black students weren’t allowed in most U.S. colleges)
📌 Mission: Educate, empower, and elevate Black communities
📌 Graduates: The backbone of Black excellence in every field—law, medicine, music, politics, business, sports, STEM, and activism

Who Came Out of HBCUs? Just a Few Game-Changers…

✔ Thurgood Marshall (Lincoln University & Howard Law) – First Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice
✔ Kamala Harris (Howard University) – First Black U.S. Vice President
✔ Martin Luther King Jr. (Morehouse College) – Need we say more?
✔ Toni Morrison (Howard University) – Pulitzer & Nobel Prize-winning author
✔ Chadwick Boseman (Howard University) – The Black Panther himself
✔ Oprah Winfrey (Tennessee State) – Billionaire media mogul
✔ Katherine Johnson (West Virginia State) – NASA mathematician who helped put men on the moon 🚀
✔ P. Diddy & Common (Howard & FAMU) – Music & business powerhouses

Why HBCUs Still Matter Today

🔥 They produce 50% of Black doctors, lawyers, and engineers.
🔥 They lead in STEM programs that prepare students for top-tier careers.
🔥 They empower students with a deep sense of cultural pride and resilience.
🔥 They nurture the next wave of Black entrepreneurs, politicians, and change-makers.

More Than a Degree—It’s a Movement

When racist policies tried to keep Black people uneducated, HBCUs said, “Try again.” They built institutions that transformed oppression into opportunity, proving that education isn’t just about books—it’s about building generational power.

So, if you’re looking for Black excellence, community strength, and a history of turning barriers into stepping stones—look no further than HBCUs.

22/02/2025

One of the historical lessons from the history of Rome is when you think things are great or already bad enough, it can get much worse. Some people today don’t know that.

22/02/2025

🏅 Jesse Owens: The Man Who Humiliated Hi**er at the 1936 Olympics 🏅

Imagine stepping onto the global stage, under the glare of N**i propaganda, where Hi**er himself planned to showcase A***n dominance… and then completely shattering that illusion with four gold medals. Enter Jesse Owens, the poor sharecropper’s son who sprinted straight into history and left Hi**er storming out of the stadium in disgust.

From Oakville, Alabama to Olympic Immortality

📌 Born: September 12, 1913
📌 Hometown: Oakville, Alabama
📌 High School: Ohio (where a teacher misheard “J.C.” as Jesse—so, boom, new name)
📌 College: Ohio State University (worked night jobs to pay his way)

The Berlin Olympics, 1936 🇩🇪🏅

Adolf Hi**er wanted the Berlin Games to be his grand exhibit of A***n supremacy. Jesse Owens had other plans. He won FOUR gold medals in the:
✔ 100m Sprint
✔ 200m Sprint
✔ Long Jump
✔ 4x100m Relay

Not only did he set or equal 12 Olympic records, but he also made Hi**er so furious that the Führer left the stadium rather than congratulate him. Talk about a mic drop. 🎤💥

A Legacy of Excellence

✔ 1935: Set FIVE world records in 45 minutes at the Big Ten Championships (still considered one of the greatest athletic feats in history).
✔ 1955: Named America’s Ambassador of Sports 🌍
✔ 1964: Founded the Jesse Owens Games to support young athletes
✔ 1979: Received America’s Living Legend Award
✔ 1980: Passed away in Arizona, but his name lives on 🕊

President Jimmy Carter on Owens’ Legacy:

“No athlete better symbolized the human struggle against tyranny, poverty, and racial bigotry.”

So next time someone doubts the power of sports to change history, remind them of Jesse Owens—the man who outran racism, bigotry, and an entire N**i ideology in under 10 seconds. 💨🔥

11/02/2025

How Ruby Bridges felt walking past the crowd of segregationists

There were Times when i was afraid because on occassions,the crowd of Segregationists Outside the school would Bring a Box ,and this Box was actually a Baby's coffin😭!!
They would Put this Doll inside the coffin and they would Walk Up & down
Passing the Box used to give me Nightmares
Ruby Bridges .A more detailed of the struggle 👇🏽👇🏽
https://youtu.be/vljkxlDZ9yk?si=HwyFcqR0LFvUG-Yj

11/02/2025

The Year of Six Emperors 🤡

Imagine a game of musical chairs, but instead of children giggling, it’s Roman emperors clutching swords, and instead of fun, it’s sheer blood-soaked chaos. Welcome to the Year of the Six Emperors (238 CE), a masterclass in political instability, backstabbing, and just how many people can sit on one throne before it collapses under the weight of their corpses.

The Setup: A Recipe for Disaster

The Roman Empire at this point was like an old, creaking ship held together by duct tape and wishful thinking. The Severan dynasty had collapsed, leaving the military in charge of picking emperors like a reality show gone wrong. Enter Maximinus Thrax, a 7-foot-tall soldier-turned-emperor who ruled with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. He taxed the Senate into oblivion to fund his endless wars, which—shockingly—made him unpopular with the people who liked keeping their money.

The Musical Chairs Begin

By 238 CE, Rome had had enough of Maximinus, so the Senate decided to replace him with Gordian I, an elderly noble in North Africa who had zero military experience but excellent aristocratic connections. To boost his chances, he made his son Gordian II co-emperor. Unfortunately, the local governor—who actually knew how to fight—crushed them. Gordian II was killed in battle, and Gordian I, rather than face the music, hanged himself.

That was two emperors down in less than a month.

The Senate, undeterred by this obvious bad omen, scrambled and chose Pupienus and Balbinus as co-emperors. This was supposed to be a power-sharing arrangement, but since they despised each other, it was more like a dysfunctional buddy-cop movie with murder. Meanwhile, Maximinus Thrax marched on Rome, only to be assassinated by his own starving, unpaid troops outside the city.

That’s three down.

Pupienus and Balbinus, now ruling Rome, spent most of their time plotting against each other. The Praetorian Guard, tired of these clowns, stormed the palace and beat them to death. That’s five.

The only one left was Gordian III, the teenage grandson of the first two Gordians. Too young to offend anyone, he was allowed to live—until he, too, was probably murdered six years later.

And that, dear reader, is how Rome made Game of Thrones look like a peaceful family drama.

Picture: Maximinus Thrax