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streetsoldier1:
which movie is this?

Legend of anselm

SenorFax:
It happens a lot.

In Yoruba, they are known as Akudaaya

As observed, it usually happens when that person dies before his time, not necessarily In a gruesome manner, but most were.

They will relocate somewhere, keep their identities private. Make money, marry and later disappear when a former family member spots them alive or had a hint about exposure. Since they are supernatural being, they always know.

Ladies usually fall victim in most cases. You go dey date guy, not knowing any of his family, and you will marry him. Some for years, only the inquisitive ones finds out quickly.

It's been happening for ages

Modified
For those quoting me, if you haven't heard of reincarnation, go read about it. Some dead people doesn't go because of their family ties and roam about until they find something to do. Hence, some relocates, others gets to be reborn. I've heard cases of children born with the same birthmark of a recently died relative, same mark, same spot, with core memory of the deceased when growing up.
Take for example
Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari, died in 14 August 1988. Soccer player Mesut Özil, he was born in 15 October 1988. And you thought it was a coincidence

Doppelganger

One morning, a man discovered his double staring him in the eyes. Anil Ananthaswamy explores a dangerous hallucination that reveals how the brain constructs our sense of self.
More than two decades ago, Peter Brugger, as a PhD student in neuropsychology at the University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland, was developing a reputation as someone interested in scientific explanations of so-called paranormal experiences. A fellow neurologist, who had been treating a 21-year-old man for seizures, sent him to Brugger. The young man, who worked as a waiter and lived in the canton of Zurich, had very nearly killed himself one day, when he found himself face-to-face with his doppelganger.
The incident seemed to have been started when the young man had stopped taking some of his anticonvulsant medication. One morning, instead of going to work, he drank copious amounts of beer and stayed in bed. But it turned out to be a harrowing lie-in.
He felt dizzy, stood up, turned around, and saw himself still lying in bed. He was aware that the person in bed was him, and was not willing to get up and would thus make himself late for work. Furious at the prone self, the man shouted at it, shook it, and even jumped on it, all to no avail. To complicate things further, his awareness of being in a body would shift from one body to the other. When he inhabited the supine body in bed, he’d see his duplicate bending over and shaking him.
Soon, fear and confusion took hold: Who was he? Was he the man standing up or the man lying in bed? Unable to stand seeing his double any longer, he jumped out of the window.
When I visited Brugger in the autumn of 2011, he showed me a photograph of the building from which the man had jumped. The patient had been extremely lucky. He had leapt from a window on the fourth floor and landed on a large hazel bush, which had broken his fall. But he had not really wanted to commit suicide, said Brugger. He had jumped to “find a match between body and self”. After getting treatment for his fall-related injuries, the young man underwent surgery to remove a tumour in his left temporal lobe, and both the seizures and the bizarre experiences stopped.
During a classic full-blown out-of-body experience, people report leaving their physical body and looking down at it lying in bed
Such hallucinations are classified as autoscopic phenomena (from “autoscopy”; in Greek, autos means “self” and skopeo
means “looking at”). The simplest form of an autoscopic phenomenon involves feeling the presence of someone next to you without actually seeing a “ double” – a sensed presence. The doppelganger effect takes this phenomenon a step further, so that a person may hallucinate that they are actually seeing and interacting with another “me” – a visual double. But probably the most widely experienced and best-known form of autoscopic phenomena is the out-of-body experience (OBE). During a classic full-blown OBE, people report leaving their physical body and seeing it from an outside perspective, say from the ceiling looking down at the body lying in bed.
Despite their vividness, they are all hallucinations caused by malfunctions in brain mechanisms that root us in the here and now. The strange experiences are probably our best window on some very basic aspects of our sense of bodily self – explaining how the brain builds our perception of being present in the here and now, and the subjective, emotional feelings that dominate our consciousness.
Electrifying experience
Some clues come from the work of Olaf Blanke, a neurologist a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. In 2002, Blanke managed to induce repeated out-of-body experiences in a 43-year-old woman. He had been treating her for drug-resistant temporal-lobe epilepsy. Brain scans did not show any lesions, so Blanke resorted to surgery to figure out the focus of her epilepsy.
His team inserted electrodes inside the cranium to record electrical activity from the cortical surface directly, rather than from outside the skull as you would if you were using standard EEG. During this procedure, the woman volunteered to have her brain stimulated using the implanted electrodes. This technique allows surgeons to double-check that they’ve really found the cause of the seizure, while also ensuring that they don’t excise some key brain region. And not just that. The procedure, pioneered by Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, is often the best way to find out the function of different brain regions, and much of what we have learned about the brain has come from courageous patients who have let themselves be stimulated while conscious.
Blanke could cause the woman to report some rather weird sensations by stimulating a single electrode towards the back of the skull
It was during such a procedure that Blanke found that he could cause the woman to report some rather weird sensations, by stimulating a single electrode, placed on the right angular gyrus, a small region towards the back of the skull.
Epilepsy patients are often fitted with electrodes to record their brain's output (Credit: Science Photo Library)
When the stimulating current was low, she reported “sinking into the bed” or “falling from a height”; when Blanke’s team increased the amperage, she had an out-of-body experience: “I see myself lying in bed, from above,” she said. The angular gyrus lies near the vestibular cortex (which receives inputs from the vestibular system that’s responsible for our posture and sense of balance). Blanke concluded that the electrical stimulation was somehow disrupting the integration of various sensations such as touch with vestibular signals, leading to the woman’s OBE.
The next step was to try to produce OBEs in healthy participants. In 2005, philosopher Thomas Metzinger proposed an experiment and teamed up with Blanke and Blanke’s then student Bigna Lenggenhager, and designed an elegant experiment. A camera filmed a subject from behind, and the images were sent to a 3D head-mounted display that the subject was wearing. The subject could see only what was being shown in the display, which was the back of his or her own body, seen in 3D and about seven feet in front.
The experimenter would then stroke the person’s back with a stick. The subjects would feel the stroking on their backs, but would also see themselves being stroked in the head-mounted display. The stroking was either synchronous or asynchronous (to make it asynchronous, the video feed was delayed a smidgen, so the subject felt the touch first but saw the virtual body being stroked an instant later). In the synchronous condition, once the illusion set in, some subjects (but not all) reported feeling the touch in the location of the virtual body about seven feet in front of them and that the virtual body felt like their own. They had experienced ownership of an illusory body – an aspect of the doppelganger experience.
A subject reported looking at their own body from above, even though they were lying prone, face-up, in the scanner
A few years later, Blanke’s team upped the ante. They rigged a setup that allowed them to conduct the same experiment inside a scanner. The subject was lying down, and a robotic arm stroked the subject’s back. Meanwhile, the subject viewed through a head-mounted display a video of a person being stroked on the back. The robotic arm’s stroking was either synchronous or asynchronous with stroking of the virtual person seen on the display. Again, in some subjects, their sense of location and sense of body ownership were shaken up. One of the most striking outcomes was when a subject reported looking at their own body from above, even though the subject was lying prone, face-up, in the scanner.

“That was for us really exciting, because it gets really close to the classical out-of-body experience of looking down at your own body,” said Lenggenhager, who is now working in Peter Brugger’s group at the University Hospital Zurich.
The subjects were scanned during their experiences, and the scans revealed that their sense of being out-of-body was correlated with activity in the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), a site that integrates touch, vision, proprioception, and vestibular signals. Here was some objective evidence that the TPJ is involved in the sense of self-location – where you perceive yourself to be.
That’s significant: it is part of a network of regions (including the angular gyrus) that integrate various sensations to create a sense of the bodily self. Together, they combine the different external sensations with sensations that tell the brain about the orientation of the body and the location of body parts, and signals from inside the body, such as the viscera (which contain information about the beating heart, blood pressure, and the state of the gut, for example). In other words, it provided further evidence that it is the process of combining all these signals that together give us the feeling of inhabiting our bodies.
My first thought was that I had died. I’m dead and this is the first step. I was just gasping. My head was spinning, trying to get a grip on things
Could a similar process explain some particularly strong versions of the doppelganger effect experienced by some people? These powerful experiences often feel mystical – but the process may tell us a lot about the body, emotions and the subjective feeling of a bodily self. Chris may offer the most startling account. His brother, David, had died of AIDS a few months previous to this strange episode. It was early in the morning. Chris got off the bed, stood up, and walked toward the end of the bed, where there was a dresser. He stretched and turned around and got the fright of his life.
“The shock was electric,” Chris recalled. “Because I was still lying in the bed sleeping, and it was very clearly me lying there sleeping, my first thought was that I had died. I’m dead and this is the first step. I was just gasping. My head was spinning, trying to get a grip on things.”
And then the phone rang. “I don’t know why, but I picked up the phone and said, ‘Hello.’ It was David. I immediately recognised his voice. I was overwhelmed, but at the same time I had this incredible sensation of joy.” But David didn’t stay on the line for long. “He told me that he didn’t have much time and he just wanted me to know that he was all right, and to tell the rest of the family, then he hung up,” Chris said. “And then there was this enormous sucking sensation,” said Chris, making a long, drawn-out slurping sound. “I felt like I was dragged, almost thrown, back into the bed, smack into myself.” He woke up screaming. His wife, Sonia, who was asleep next to him, woke up to find a hysterical Chris.
“I was totally freaked out, I was shaking all over, I was sweating, my heart was beating like a racehorse’s,” said Chris. Chris grew up in a scientific household. His upbringing was at odds with this experience. “My heart tells me that David was letting me know that he was OK. I really believed at the time that he was somehow communicating with me from beyond death,” Chris said. “But my intellectual side says that’s just silly. But it’s so hard to rationalise; the experience was so real.”

What Chris experienced was a particularly intense doppelganger effect, also known in neuroscientific jargon as heautoscopy. It is different from other out-of-body experience in many ways. For instance, during heautoscopy, you perceive an illusory body, and your centre of awareness can shift from within the physical body to the illusory body and back – there’s self-location and self-identification with a volume in space, whether that volume is centred on the physical body or the illusory body. The other key components of heautoscopy are the presence of intense emotions and the involvement of the sensory-motor system.
“Usually, the double is moving and there is interaction, there is sharing of emotions, of thoughts, and that’s what’s giving the impression of a doppelganger,” said neurologist Lukas Heydrich, who was at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne when I met him.
Using data from brain scans, Heydrich and Blanke have found that patients who have reported heautoscopic hallucinations typically show damage to the left posterior insula and adjacent cortical areas. Given that heautoscopic hallucinations involve emotions, it’s revealing that the insular cortex is implicated. The insula is the hub that integrates visual, auditory, sensory, motor, proprioceptive, and vestibular signals with signals from the viscera. It’s the brain region where the body’s states seem to be represented and the representations are eventually manifested as subjective feelings, giving rise to the perception of a bodily self.
When abnormalities arise in the integration, it’s as if there are now two representations of the body instead of one, and somehow the brain has to choose the representation in which to anchor the self, or rather choose which representation to imbue with self-location, self-identification, and first-person perspective.
The “minimal self”
Based on all these findings, Metzinger and Blanke think they are ready to examine the more philosophical aspects of our beings – such as what is needed to create a sense of embodiment (the “minimal phenomenal self”). One surprising conclusion is that the sense of agency is not key to this state, since you can create a sense of being a body in some other location by merely passively stroking someone’s back and messing with their visual input. “From a philosopher’s point of view, it is important to find out what is necessary and what is sufficient for self-consciousness,” Metzinger told me. “We have shown that something that most people think is necessary is not necessary, namely agency.”
Rather, Metzinger argues that this feeling of being embodied comes before everything else. The next step in the process is when this primitive selfhood, turns into selfhood as subjectivity. “If you not only feel that you are in that body, but if you can control your attention, and attend to the body, that’s a stronger form of selfhood,” said Metzinger. “Then you are something that has a perspective, something that is directed at the world, and something that can be directed at itself. That is more than mere embodiment.”
One idea is that minimal phenomenal self may also act as a thread through our autobiographical memories, helping us to build a narrative through our own life story; some experiments have shown that, despite the intense sensations, out-of-body experience weakens your memories – perhaps because they aren’t so tightly anchored to the bodily self.
He was desperate to become himself again, of one body and mind
If we are now beginning to understand the neural underpinnings of the self, many questions remain. Why did it evolve in the first place, for instance? Most likely as an adaptation that let the organism orient itself and function better in its environment. If the brain evolved to help the body avoid surprises and remain in homeostatic equilibrium and to effectively move around in its environment, then representing the body in the brain was a necessary step to fine-tune these abilities. Eventually, this representation became conscious, further enabling the organism to be aware of the body’s strengths and weaknesses, which must have given it a survival advantage. But in this case, rather than physical attributes, it was the self that was being honed in evolutionary time.
Regardless of how complex our self feels to us – with its conceptual and autobiographical aspects – autoscopic phenomena are showing us that it all begins with the body. As Metzinger writes in his book The Ego Tunnel, “‘Owning’ your body, its sensations, and its various parts is fundamental to the feeling of being someone .” It’s no wonder that Brugger’s young patient took the drastic step of jumping out of the fourth floor to reconcile body and self – he was desperate to become himself again, of one body and mind.


https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150821-the-dangerous-consequences-of-seeing-your-doppelganger

LegendAnselm:
good idea

Give us feedback after the result of DNA paternity test is out

plaindealer:
Na only evil, calamity, doom and gloom you people sabi, nothing positive, nothing uplifting, just sadness and pessimism..

Mind you!!! I am from Oyo State. I was in UCH when Adedibu died. After his death, his thugs were terrorizing us in Ibadan until Ajimobi took over.
I am telling you what will happen following end of Tinubu political dynasty. I do not care about Tinubu. His reign cannot affect my source of income. To help with him, his followers and other politicians in the country.

Tinubu will end like Adedibu because he is just upgraded version of Are molete.
Death of Tinubu will create more chaos in lagos as warring factions would emerge and fight for control of Lagos politics. There would be bloodshed.
He should enjoy his reigns while it lasts. His followers should also enjoy themselves. Nothing lasts forever.

emmabosco:
This woman self no get sense so if they sack him now where will money come from you complain about training the children and you call him out like this very bad well since she a doctor she want to make sure the man no see money again to chase women but she will also feel it. Though is bad to beat her like that but we will still hear from the man.

How would she feel it?
The man is a womanizer!!!!
He is a woman beater!!!
How do you think children would be looking at him ?
It is thing like this that makes some men suffer in their old age unless they are rich

crafteck:
And you are sure she wasn't abusive towards him, you are sure it wasn't a fight she started she con de tender receipt, have u seen a man beat a woman just for gently cautioning him to be prudent in spending, lies are all over this and you can't see past that, you just want the man's head on a platter because he must be guilty since the warring party said so.

Barbaric comment!!!

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kjsun15:
Idiotic unions. So, for the past one year that ASUU had been in loggerheads with government about miserable IPPIS, your union went ahead to key into it while ASUU suffer hunger throughout those periods.
Did your useless union ever approach government on alternative payroll system before now? ASUU labour to engage government with empty stomach so as to build better payroll platform but your union keep on receiving amputated salaries, mocking ASUU. Now that ASUU is about to win the Fulani war, you want to now reap where you didn't sow. Union without good leaders. Go and Stop UTAS if you can. Awon we re unions NAAT, NASU SANU or sansa. mtwww!

Why should union be introducing new payment platform to FG? Ippis should have be modified to suit university system.

johnnychuks:
dead how?, do you think is all men that can take women careless talk, I may take it, but every other men may not. I know they most be a careless talk, the man just want to correct her careless talk in a way he think he will be better for him, but is not going to kill her as you said.

People have lost their lives during domestic fights
Which careless talk?
Never justify domestic violence for any reason!!
Real men do not beat women!!

fatahtalks:
Instead of coming to social media to do all this. It wld hv been better if she approach the husband's family to ask them to talk to the husband. Now ur husband cld be fired by channels television for these video. Which means u will hv a jobless man to deal with, which is even worst. Atleast she said she advised him to spend wisely, which means he atleast spends a little on the family. When he becomes jobless wat will become the faith of the family. All this online sympathy wont put food on ur table. Think before you act

The woman is a medical doctor. She can take care of herself and kids. Do you want her dead? Women should speak up on account of domestic violence before it is too late!!

Gentlebuka:
Yeah, lets wait for them to catch up.

Oh, how they stopped killing of witches in Europe during dark ages after practice of autopsy was established to determine causes death.
In the future, you would feel embarrassed that you have been lied to regarding superstitious beliefs.

RedPhoenix:
My vehicle broke down on my way to a church camp where I went to spend some weeks alone
After hours of holdup after leaving Lagos 5pm, due to the vehicle issue and holdup and fights, I didn't get to the site of the church camp till around 1am. On my way navigating the darkness, I walked past a cemetery along the connecting route only to find a lady pure white as in movies crying just walking to and fro, the being walked past me just small distance apart. My hair froze.


Yours is better, your brother went to have a family, many roam about aimlessly after they die horrific deaths


I congratulate your family

Audiovisual hallucination

Yenefer:
Stupid greedy old people. One day Northerners will going to eat the rich, just wait it might happen soon

Yenefer. What is happening?

Praxis758:
Are these guys under a curse?

Why would someone go into armed robbery after escaping from prison ?

This shows they're hardened criminals.

The name correctional centre is anomaly

Gentlebuka:
No matter how science tries, it can't explain everything physically because the very foundation of the world is spiritual. Unseen laws and beings permeate every corner of the world and have control over what happens here. That's why Quantum physics is growing popular day by day. People need answers that conventional science can't provide. Science has tried. Now, it's time for you to understand that science does not have answers to everything. The earlier you understand this, the better. The best thing at the moment is to work with both the physical (science, etc) and the unseen (the spiritual beings and laws). Many great scientists are known occultists. Understand this and you'll see the extent to which human beings have been deceived

Quantum physics will provide insights in the future. For now, I am rational with what I believe. I draw line between spiritual and physical things. I Many things we attributed to spiritual are actually unexplained science. In the future we know better.

Gentlebuka:
It doesn't need to be

But it is not compatible. That is fact!!!

blazebaba:
Thriving thanks....

You wanna join in the business,?

Fraudster and ritualist. No spirits would bring money for you. Money ritual is not real. Stop before it is too late

Gentlebuka:
No no no. Its because of people like me that you are able to enjoy electricity and internet... People who think outside the box. The "box" am talking about is the box of believing everything needs to fit into the popular standards of what should be true in order for it to be true. Science came about when people began to have the impulse to explain occultic/spirituals powers using mathematics. Science, therefore is not common sense, otherwise, how on earth can a plane fly? Whatever scientific explanation you might have for this, at the very basic level, a plane can fly simply as a result of manipulating certain unseen forces/laws (gravity, etc).

By the way, if you believe in gravity (which is basically unseen), I wonder how you are any different from someone who tells you that spirits exist or that the physical world is an illusion.

Your stories of tortoises and ghosts are not compatible with neuroscience.

Trendy247:
Zion Umoh is a renowned Atheist in Akwa ibom, who go about talking ill about God, churches and pastors. 90% of his Facebook posts are dedicated to this.
On 19th December he will be exchanging marital vows in Catholic church in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state.
Personally I think it is hypocritical to say your vows in front of a God you don't believe in.

Atheism is a religion.

LegendAnselm:
i dont understand u..it hav never fail. Is a gift

I said write out all premonition in a notebook. After a year check each of them and count the correct ones against wrong ones. You will be shocked.
If you understand the past and present, you can predict the future.


https://www.timesofisrael.com/neuroscientist-says-her-belief-in-precognition-is-more-than-just-a-hunch/

While most people dismiss these premonitions as coincidences, more and more scientific evidence indicates precognition is actually a learned skill we all may practice and hone, rather than a power possessed by a few exceptional modern-day oracles.

Gentlebuka:
I have no source that you'd agree with since they are not based on scientific evidences. But let me leave you something to think about: If my dream can be as real as they are in my dreams, sometimes i even sweat in real life having certain dreams, then my physical reality has the possibility of being a dream.

The world will be chaotic if we all believe stories of tortoise and rat like yours without source or evidence.
I think you need psychological evaluation. I do not mean to insult you. But truth hurts.

blazebaba:
Must have taken you a lot stress typing all that.....

Go on with the white poples ways and forget your own ways werey ojogbon....na when you know say your next neigbhor is a witch rhen maybe you might know whats up....

Who is a witch ? Is it that wicked woman who abuses any kids?
How far with your sugar mummies and wallet business?

LegendAnselm:
mine happen both in dream and physical. I do stay and be seeing things happening. I always get a signe of bad thing comming to happen. Clearly as it will be. I once told my friend that somebody will die in our department in a particular week.he never believe me untill it come to pass. They started calling me a wintch. The boy name is frank in federal poly oko. BT depertment. 2016 session

Premonition and neuronal functions explained. My people perish because they lack knowledge.
Mr Man, please write out all your premonition for a year and check how many of them will be correct.

onyechez:
Continue to say things you don't know while trying to refute other people with something that doesn't exist.

What do you know, what are things I do not know. Let me know so that I can know. Truth shall set you free.

MSHEKS:
some Nigerians won't believe till they are told this Same thing by a white man.

Most Europeans stopped believing such tales during age of enlightenment in 18th century. Such beliefs were rampant in europe during dark age- 15th century.

onyechez:
You made a claim and you are talking a different thing.
The burden is on you.

I would reply anytime you see electrons with your naked eyes

Gentlebuka:
I believe what you meant is....When we are born in the physical world, we die in the spiritual world (which is the main world/dimension). When we die in the physical, we become alive in the spiritual world. Physical world being an illusion, we do not actually live until we die and our physical life and the things we see in it are just illusions of the mind. A dream sort of. I used to ask myself, what if i die while dreaming? that dream becomes my reality right? And i wouldn't believe that am just dreaming even if am told a million times right? That's how the world is. No need mincing words. Good to come directly the way I just did. So that if they have critism to deliver, they deliver jeje.

What is source of your belief?
It is either you are being delusional or a joke.

onyechez:
You believe angel, demon etc but have you seen one physically.

Have you seen electrons with your naked eyes?

blazebaba:
Ohh really!!...
Why would i,cos i never knew its important to be learned..

So because a fool like you has become educated now you decided to argue whats 100% true with different accounts from different people and you think you are learned....you are a big domestical fool...

Listen to yourself. So hearsay makes a tale to be true. You are an idiot. Accounts that cannot be verified. Tales in the moonlight. Stories of tortoise are also true based on your foolish thinking. You can never progress in life with this your idiotic thinking. You are prone to manipulation and extortion. You are an original imbeciile and psychotic. I would not be surprised if psychosis runs in your family. It could be you have brain disorder possibly from childhood. Ask your mother if you had brain infection or jaundice as a child. It could explain your chronic psychotic behaviour.


https://psmag.com/environment/bloody-mary-bloody-mary


The links are obvious. Schizophrenia affects nearly one percent of the global population, as many as 51 million people, which makes it large enough to account for the breadth of ghostly claims. And while the symptoms that lead to diagnosis are varying, there are a few checkpoints that align perfectly with the feeling of ghostly presences, particularly audio/visual hallucinations and delusional thinking. In 1994, the University of Adelaide in South Australia confirmed that there was a correlation between instances of schizophrenia and belief in the paranormal. The correlation, however, was only significant for male subjects.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2589-paranormal-beliefs-linked-to-brain-chemistry/

iamDrRhymes:
No doubt, dreams are spiritual but I also believe that dreams can also be fragments of our daily activities and thoughts. Take for example, will it be strange for some who slept on an empty stomach to see himself eating in his dream? Won't that be natural? In fact, just like Isaiah 29:8 says, [/i]“as when a hungry person dreams of eating, but awakens hungry still; as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking, but awakens faint and thirsty still. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.”[i]

I remember Pastor Chris Oyahkilome teaching that eating in a dream is nothing to worry about contrary to other highly spiritual people who ascribes eating in the dream to sign of affliction, diseases and all. Is there even any bible passage to substantiate that eating in a dream is actually bad?

Please let's discuss, am curious about this thing. Elders in the house, where are you?

Get e-copy of interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud. Study and be at peace with your dream

Casemiro:
Please there's this black cat that use to disturb, crying at the fence close to my window at night.


It stopped disturbing for some months, but is back now.

what should I do?

the cat is big fa.

if I go out to chase it, it will run away but later return

I love cat, beautiful and wonderful creature!

blazebaba:
Thats why you fail to understand whats going on around you.....

Ignorant FOOLLLLLLLLL....

Your life is miserable because you refuse to learn.