Happy birthday to TF
primus inter pares
the first among the firsts
on the first of the first.
Adeshina
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Happy birthday to TF
primus inter pares
the first among the firsts
on the first of the first.
Adeshina
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Dear Nimi:
Apologies! Human beings cannot be the “greatest”! All humans are fundamentally flawed, victims of self-destruction who embark on a journey that leads not to success, as they assume, but to atrophy, both in a physical sense, but more so in the bigger realm of cosmic. Anything or anyone that will become history is already dead, even while alive! Years ago, I memorized a passage:
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
As I probed deeper, the author has been accused of boredom, and misread into saying that there would be no invention, science, technology. I took a retreat to study Ecclesiastes where the passage comes from, and I discovered that it was only here that the concept of “under the sun” was used. I have not been able to resolve this profound theological issue, but one thing that is clear to me is that we should not exaggerate and put ourselves in league with the cosmos.
Every day I wake up, I see myself unequal to the butterfly, below the insect, and an eventual meal for termites.
It is well.
TF
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Happy birthday to Professor Falola. May Almighty bless you and your family.
Elias
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Dear Oga Falola,
We get your point, but Nimi is correct because he echoes our human sentiments. We often say some one is great but when we look around and compare things we can also say some one is greater than others. Given what what we have seen with out eyes and heard with our ears, we can also say you are the greatest among us because in an ironic way, you act as the least among us and teach us what it means to serve people, and we think that is greatness in a superlative manner.
Happy New year our oga and dear brother.
Elias
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''Every day I wake up, I see myself unequal to the butterfly, below the insect, and an eventual meal for termites.
It is well.''
TF
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kenneth harrow
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michigan state university
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We get your point, but Nimi is correct because he echoes our human sentiments. We often say some one is great but when we look around and compare things we can also say some one is greater than others. Given what what we have seen with out eyes and heard with our ears, we can also say you are the greatest among us because in an ironic way, you act as the least among us and teach us what it means to serve people, and we think that is greatness in a superlative manner.
Elias
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Nimi:
This must become a journal essay, using a generic man. I am glad I am starting the year with this fine piece, very provocative.
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Nimi, This is just brilliant.
Happy New Year.
Sincerely,
Elias
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Thanks, professor.
I pray that we all will not develop the ‘I’ problem, becoming like the beautiful Angel Lucifer who became a Satan, evicted by God from His glory. Portrayed in Isaiah, chapter 14, the Angel suffered from pride. As the story goes, he fell from heaven.
I appreciate.
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Date: Friday, December 31, 2021 at 10:54 PM
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - TF the First
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