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Top Three People That Died For Love by Nobody: 11:04pm On Dec 09, 2014 |
Earlier this week I collated a list of six great people who died for love. But after great scrutining I have the list of top three great men and women who died for love(Fiction and non-fiction). 1. Jesus Christ “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” ( Ephesians 5:25). Jesus died for the church. But for Jesus the church is not an institution like Yale University or Apple or The United Way, where the corporation has the brand value and the people who populate it are an anonymous (and largely replaceable) mass, except for a few VIPs. Jesus did not die for an institution. He died for individuals. The church isn’t even a republic like The United States of America. Jesus didn’t die for a republic. He died for persons. Jesus died for persons with names, faces, personalities, disabilities, histories, and sins. He did that because he loveseach person. Every sin Jesus bore on the cross had a name attached. They were real thoughts, attitudes, words, and actions. It was real anger, lust, evil motives, and murders. Some of these sins were yours. Some were mine. 2. Romeo and Juliet. Generally regarded as the greatest romance in the English language,Romeo and Julietis actually Shakespeare's case study of what results when two unformed-maladjusted youths meet at vulnerable points in their lives and are then forcibly separated -- addiction, withdrawal, suicide. The play, of course, ends with the lovers killing themselves.Romeo and Julietis suffused with death imagery and violence. But, contrary to the popular image that their warring families are the source of this violence, it stems from the lovers themselves, and is directed at themselves. The play opens with Romeo Montague disconsolate over his lost paramour, Rosaline. He and his friends decide to surreptitiously attend a party thrown by his family's enemy, Capulet, in hopes of seeing Rosaline. Romeo is not in a good mood -- in a word, he is suicidal and expects to "expire the term of a despised life." Instead, he spies Juliet at the party, with whom he falls in love on the spot. 3. Saint Valentine St. Valentine was a physician and a priest, perhaps even a bishop, in Rome. During his time, the Emperor Claudius the Goth sought to raise a large army. He felt that single men would make better soldiers. St. Valentine secretly married people who were forbidden to wed under Roman law. Valentine was arrested for his “misdeeds,” imprisoned, and beheaded on February 14. He was buried on Rome's Flaminian Way, and a basilica was erected there in 350. The Two Valentines It seems there was another Roman named Valentine who died on the same day. This man was also a priest and was martyred in Terni, some 60 miles from Rome. This Valentine confessed his faith before the emperor, declaring that the gods Jupiter and Mercury were “shameless and contemptible characters.” While he was in prison, Valentine befriended the blind daughter of his jailer. He cured her and converted his captor to Christianity. When the emperor heard about his deeds, he had Valentine beaten and beheaded. It is now thought that the two Valentines may have been the same man — taken from one city where he was imprisoned, to the other where he was executed. The remaining are 4.Jack in titanic 5.Samson in the Bible 6.Greek heroes Hercules & Archilles |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Nobody: 11:06pm On Dec 09, 2014 |
1. 2. 3.
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Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by skyprofm(m): 11:10pm On Dec 09, 2014 |
Okay |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Mprex(f): 11:10pm On Dec 09, 2014 |
Cool |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by chijoy7(f): 11:11pm On Dec 09, 2014 |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by dechandel(f): 11:11pm On Dec 09, 2014 |
Nothing beats the death of Jesus Christ 11 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by mumumugu(m): 11:13pm On Dec 09, 2014 |
Yaradua |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Nobody: 11:19pm On Dec 09, 2014 |
dechandel: Nothing 1 Like |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by dechandel(f): 11:23pm On Dec 09, 2014 |
Elantracey:You just scarce like goody goody Hope you've been good? |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Nobody: 11:26pm On Dec 09, 2014 |
dechandel: miss red , yes I am , thanks for asking. you? |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by major466(m): 12:15am On Dec 10, 2014 |
Number one is more acceptable. Romeo and juliet is just a case of accidental suicide. |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by madridguy(m): 1:08am On Dec 10, 2014 |
No one mention Rutu abokoku 2 Likes |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Nobody: 2:37am On Dec 10, 2014 |
dechandel:When I think say u don sleep Me self won join d list I won die for Bolu |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by SexyFox(f): 3:40am On Dec 10, 2014 |
True |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by dechandel(f): 4:56am On Dec 10, 2014 |
Elantracey:Miss red ke? Lol Been good too. |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by dechandel(f): 4:59am On Dec 10, 2014 |
Ipledge:Oya o. Who is Bolu? She? |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Nobody: 1:51pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
dechandel:Yea she |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by dechandel(f): 2:21pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
Ipledge: Lol. Ok |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Nobody: 2:32pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
dechandel:I guess you have more than one phone |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by dechandel(f): 3:19pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
Ipledge: Yea. But the second one is just a nokia torch Using a lappy to access nairaland now |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Nobody: 3:26pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
dechandel:Oooh...I know your real phone is now in coma |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by dechandel(f): 3:34pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
Ipledge:Hian Coma na small marra na E don die . Its out of breath now Burial services would soon be announced |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Nobody: 3:40pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
dechandel:Abeg no do that to d phone,let's revive it...nothing is impossible |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Beennkumar(m): 3:41pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
dechandel:Nothing! |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by pweedyuz(f): 3:47pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
5. Mandela. |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by dechandel(f): 4:18pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
Ipledge: |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by dechandel(f): 4:18pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
Beennkumar:At all |
Re: Top Three People That Died For Love by Evina(f): 4:54pm On Dec 10, 2014 |
dechandel: Toootally, it mustn't be compared. |
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