African mythology covers a vast area. The African continent includes so many countries, regions, languages, tribes, cultures and crossovers that the sheer diversity of prevailing Gods would seem overwhelming if there weren’t a few handy shortcuts.
Traditional African belief is overwhelmingly monotheistic. There may be spirits and ancestors floating around, but there’s only one God. Early missionaries made a complete pig’s ear of their research in this respect and seem to have delighted in cataloging as many ‘heathen’ Gods as they could possibly get away with.
African Creator Gods seem to follow a distinctive pattern — they are all extremely dissatisfied with their creations. There is much shaking of heads, turning away in sorrow and avoidance of contact. The humans are left to fend for themselves. Attempts to regain contact with their God by building a heavenly ladder are the subject of many an unhappy legend. On the whole, African Gods don’t like to be pestered, and humans have to learn to be content with their lot.
But while God sits in Heaven wringing his hands in despair, the ancestral spirits are very willing to take an active part in Earthly life. These are mostly into hunting and other practical subjects — with food, sex and booze as popular as always.
There is a remarkable innocence about the Gods of Africa. They seem naive and unworldly, believing the best of everyone and optimistically giving the benefit of the doubt to all and sundry. No wonder they are rudely disappointed when it turns out their badly-chosen favorites are up to no good.
Even communicating with their creation is full of problems. Vital messages of life and death are entrusted to whichever farmyard animal happens to be passing, and the resulting garble is likely to have profoundly unforeseen — and usually disastrous — consequences...
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The food industry has done more than relieving hunger as it has also made huge impact in the overall economic growth of Singapore, contributing a bulk to the city-state’s GDP. According to the Food Industry Asia report by the Oxford Economics, F&B industry contributes an estimated $14.4 billion to GDP and employs nearly 300,000 people.
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(2nd choice) Every choice in life brings with it a wholly different set of consequences.
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To summarize, every decision you make in your life will bring different consequences because every action has its consequence.
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I'm not sure what you're asking, but I'll tell you a personal story. So, I was a really quiet kid in the beginning of my eighth grade year. I was shy, because it was a new school and everyone seemed so confident. I remember reading a book, and some kids were joking asking if I wanted to play snake, and one of them was really cute, I had a huge crush on him. (Still, I had a panic attack at the thought of him recognizing me, so I went red and said no.) Anyways, on the bus that day some kid in the back called my name and asked me if I knew the other boy, because he had been asking questions about me. We'll call the bus boy pineapple. Well, pineapple turned out to be really funny and chill, while my crush turned out to be pretty toxic (and I ended up dating his friend anyway). So me and Pineapple ended up becoming really good friends. We would stay up on discord calls till early in the morning or late at night, and he never failed to make me laugh. I would introduce him to my friends and we were really chill. Me and him are no longer in contact, but he was such an amazing person.
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