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Kingebukasblog, vooks, winner01, hcpaul, italo, malvisguy212, jeromejnr and other delusionists. This thread is beckoning your attention.

How una dey by the way? Una no dey even ask of person sef

Lalasticlala, update the fp with this thread na. We need to enlighten our Christian brothers and sisters o so they don't go to hell over a case of mistaken identity

Viktor1983:
Who knows what Jesus really look like?

No one does and that's because he never existed. He's a fictional character created by the Romans at the council of Nicea in AD 325

Since he played the character, Jesus, in the 1977 movie, Jesus of Nazareth, Robert Powell’s photos are hung in churches, homes, cars, schools, offices and many holy grottos all over the world to drive off evil forces and attract good fortunes.

However, Powell has cried out in the social media that he is not Jesus and that people should stop worshiping him. Rather, they should respect the true Jesus and worship God. His is among the most trending stories on social media in January 2016.

In his words: “I never cease to say and I repeat it to the world since 1977. I am not Jesus Christ, I am just an actor and British comedian. I am tired of seeing my photos displayed in places of worship and other places for worship. I just make a film for a living. Burn my picture and worship the only God in truth ! I am just an actor… Jesus is Lord!”

Another actor who played Jesus is Jim Caviezel. According to clipd.com, “Jim is arguably one of the most famous portrayals of Jesus in acting history. He played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion Of The Christ,’ which is the greatest selling Christian movie of all time. Jim won one award for his portrayal as Jesus, and several other nominations.” He too may soon beg people to stop worshipping him like Powell.

Here Powell’s profile as published by Wikipedia:

“Robert Powell (born 1 June 1944) is an English television and film actor, best known for the title role in Jesus of Nazareth (1977) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. He is also known for his role as Mark Williams in BBC One medical drama, Holby City, and as David Briggs in the sitcom The Detectives alongside Jasper Carrott.

His distinctive voice has become well known in advertisements and documentaries, especially in World War II documentaries such as World War II in HD Colour, Hitler’s Bodyguard, The Story of the Third Reich and Secrets of World War II.

Powell was born in Salford, Lancashire, the son of Kathleen (née Davis) and John Wilson Powell. Powell was educated at Manchester Grammar School (where one of his classmates was the actor Ben Kingsley), then a direct grant grammar school for boys in the city of Manchester in North West England, and later at the Royal College of Advanced Technology in Salford.

Powell took up acting while an undergraduate. He had aspired to become a lawyer and in 1963-4 attended an external London University LLB degree Course at the Manchester College of Commerce but at the same time quietly took acting roles under Trevor Nunn. At the College of Commerce he swapped roles with Bernard Brandon in a week-long College Revue of Comedy Sketches to see which role gave him “the best laughs”. This early comedy experience was later to be fulfilled with Jasper Carrott. After this he secured a post at a repertory theatre in Stoke-on-Trent.His first film part was in Robbery when he played the driver of the driver who is coshed in the Stanley Baker film about the great train robbery. He had a small role in the original film version of The Italian Job (1969) playing one of the gang, but had to wait a few years for his first success, playing scientist Toby Wren in the BBC’s science fiction series, Doomwatch in 1970. Having been killed off in the last episode of the original series, at his request, Powell became a pin-up and a household name, following up with starring roles in several BBC serials, including television adaptations of the novels Sentimental Education (1970) and Jude the Obscure (1971). He also appeared in the 1975 series Looking for Clancy, based on the Frederic Mullally novel Clancy.

For several years Powell continued as a television regular, with occasional forays into film, as the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler in the Ken Russell biopic Mahler (1974) and Captain Walker in Russell’s film version of Tommy (1975). His role in Tommy had no lines at all and apart from a few early scenes during the overture with Ann-Margret, he is primarily seen through the mind of his son as played by Barry Winch (Young Tommy) and Roger Daltrey. In one of those scenes Captain Walker is shown in a crucifixion pose.

He then played Jesus Christ in Jesus of Nazareth (1977) following a successful second audition with Franco Zeffirelli. The two-part television film had an all-star cast, including Laurence Olivier, Ernest Borgnine and Stacey Keach, Christopher Plummer, Rod Steiger and James Mason. For this role, Powell was nominated for a BAFTA award, and collected the TVTimes Best Actor award for the same performance.

In 1975, Powell married his girlfriend, the Pan’s People dancer Babs Lord, shortly before he was due to start filming for Jesus of Nazareth on location in Morocco. On 23 November 1977, they had their son, Barney, followed in 1979 by a daughter, Kate.

In 1978, Powell took the leading role of Richard Hannay in the third film version of The Thirty Nine Steps. It met with modest success, and critics compared Powell’s portrayal of John Buchan’s character favourably with his predecessors. His characterisation proved to be enduring, as almost ten years later a television series entitled simply Hannay appeared with Powell back in the role, (although the Buchan short stories on which the series was based were set in an earlier period than The Thirty-Nine Steps). Hannay ran for two seasons.

In 1980, Powell appeared in the film Harlequin, playing the Harlequin of the title who seems to have the power to cure the son of a powerful politician. For this performance, he won the Best Actor Award at the Paris Film Festival. In 1982, he won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in Imperativ.

Powell then agreed to a request from his old friend and golf partner, comedian Jasper Carrott, taking the part of an incompetent detective in a succession of sketches that formed part of Carrott’s television series. The Detectives was so popular that it was turned into a sitcom, Powell’s first and only venture into this genre.

In 1984, Powell made his U.S. film debut in What Waits Below (as known as Secrets of the Phantom Caverns).

In 1986, Powell narrated and co-starred in William C. Faure’s popular miniseries Shaka Zulu, with football legend Henry Cele in the title role. In 1992, he starred in the New Zealand World War I film Chunuk Bair, as Sgt Maj Frank Smith. In 1993-1995, he was the voice actor of Dr Livesey in The Legends of Treasure Island.

Nowadays Powell appears in person less often, but his distinctive voice is frequently heard on voice-overs, advertisements and as a narrator of television programmes such as Great Crimes and Trials and The Century of Warfare and World War II in HD Colour. He read the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, and has also narrated many audio books including The Thirty Nine Steps, abridged versions of many of Alan Garner’s books, and several abridged novels for ‘The Talking Classics Collection’. Powell has also lent his voice to musical works, such as David Bedford’s album The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,[4] or the 2002 rock opera The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman, where he played the role of John Watson. He also narrated on two rock albums by Rick Wakeman called Cost of Living and The Gospels (1987).

On 29 October 2001, a state-of-the-art theatre named after him was opened at the University of Salford.[5] He became a patron of 24:7 Theatre Festival in 2004, and continues to operate in this capacity as of 2014. In early 2005 he became a regular in the UK TV medical drama, Holby City, where he remained for six years before departing to return to theatre.[6] On 9 February 2008, he performed as narrator in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with the Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa in the North of England.[7] He currently has a regular spot narrating literary passages on BBC4’s The Book Quiz and will appear in Aladdin at the Malvern Theatre this winter .

On 20 December 2014, he took on the role of “Ebenezer Scrooge” in Neil Brand’s BBC Radio 4 adaptation of A Christmas Carol.”

Other actors who have played Jesus in movies are:

Jeffrey Hunter, Max von Sydow, Jeremy Sisto, Chris Sarandon, Claude Heater, Henry Byron Warner, Christian Charles Philip Bale, Willem Dafoe, John Rubinstein, Brian Deacon and Cameron Mitchell.

Source: http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/01/actor-robert-powell-stop-worshipping-me-i-am-not-the-real-jesus/

Pic one: Robert Powell as Jesus

Pic two: Robert Powell as Jesus

Holywizard:
my guy, i just ve to bliv me bt de prob is since i ve been warned i shudnt be doing dat again. In my villa, there re still customs & traditions we dnt joke wit

That'ls easily solvable. We'll take the samples of the rivers in different containers and carry out the experiment outside your village. What's the name of your village?

Holywizard:
yes & severally bt we wia warned by our elders to stop via dat de spirits wud be angry

How can we meet and arrange the experiment and record the video of the outcome so we can post it online to educate Nigerians?

JustChris:
Hahn as a chimp

Lol. E pain am

7footre:
As a virgin, i'm here to read and learn

#teamvirgin. Until proven otherwise

Lol.

The concept of a "real African woman" no longer exists

JustChris:
I had this girl I was about to get down with but couldn't locate the center of excellence and I was like getting out of the mood then she shot me with something like this;
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This one you dey do like this, you still be virgin? ...
After pounding her that night, she stopped visiting me unprepared.
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NB: I couldn't locate it because It was too small even with the wetness and all.

Blind as a bat

Congratulations. Hard work forever pays

Holywizard:
this kind of wonders are in my village where a black stagnant water dont meet our main stream{ (Eze-Iyi), in English, Water king}. Legend has it dat dey re two enemies & their spirits dnt rapour. If u shud pour de different waters into a container, dey will separate & if it shud be in a bottle & u shake it, de bottle will bust. Spirits still dey exist

@bolded, have you ever carried out that experiment and observed the outcome?

Good news for business people

Built2last:
When I was in zaria, I entered a family of a man that had 27 children from 4 wives. My own father has 4 other brother's. They all have a total of 13 children. That's 4 men

Up north, one man has 27 and counting.

We must take the minister for agriculture serious. He knows what he is saying. IMO, 2050 is too far. The north already has 25 million almajiris roaming the streets.

Do you know how many children Atiku, Saudi and Co have.

Very unfortunate ...
Watch them come here to tell you it's religion.

Does religion shroud common sense?

Lalasticlala your admired governor has sharpened his langa langa for fresher puma.

@bolded yes it does

yungchief:
When u summarize lemme know

Summary: The creation of new states was another useless project. Obviously

joseph1832:
Now this is Hahn.

I don't get it

Summary: Jesus is the way to heaven.

That is to say, Jesus is now a pavement everyone must walk on.

I wonder what the other 3,999 religions of the world have to say about this especially considering the fact that they are all going to hell. Oh well

wristbangle:
Heya!!! When last did u go for medical evaluation?

E don tey oooo

Kunlegzy:
So we about the same size as US? Verify your claims very well ...

Oops my bad. I actually confused the figures

abbey621:
Please where did you get 300 million from? I'm interested to know the source last time I checked the figure stood at less than 190 million add 10 million for unaccounted entities and we have about 200 million, oga u can lie o . Furthermore do you know how much electricity Brazil consumes compared to Nigeria? This is the true basis of comparison not power generation.

This comment is even more senseless than mine. So, I made a mistake. That still doesn't change the fact that we produce far less than we actually need. Duh!

asEdeyHOT:
Nigeria has a population of 300 million?

IPOB Youth statistics

Lol. I'm still waiting for you to counter the claim of how much electricity we generate.

Now I know why you guys are called Zombies

Mynd44:
Generating peak huh?

5,000 is nothing to celebrate abeg, we can celebrate when we hit 30,000MW and I can throw away my powerbanks.

For now, a pat on the back and "go and improve" is enough

A pat on the back doesn't even suffice. Brazil have a population of 200,000,000 people and they generate 92,294MW. Nigeria with a population of 300,000,000 190,000,000+ should be hiding our head in shame for a meagre 5,000MW that is even virtual

dav8id:
the popular names of Tiger nut are :


‘Ofio’ by the Yorubas, ‘Aya’ by the Hausas; and Imumu by the Igbos, t

Include some pics in your post

Explorers:
A ship named Californian was close by when the Titanic sent out distress signals, but the ship’s wireless operator had already gone to bed. The crew woke the captain to tell him about the mysterious lights (flares) they saw in the sky, but he issued no orders. The ship Carpathia picked up all of the survivors. Some believe that if the Californian had responded, there would have been more survivors.

Reminds me of the Nigerian police

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johnydon22:
Most of these topics don't even drive traffic... People are even complaining right there on the front page the number of useless topics that hits front page..

you see comments like "k" "ok" "next" showing people are used to such yarns over and over again.. they are bored they need something different.

Its an appeal to seun to try the science section, we have hundreds of topics that can interest the public and drive even far greater traffic.

At least 1 science topic a day is that too much to spare?

My only proof is the amount of comments on THIS thread. How many people have actually commented or shown interest in it? Bro, leave matter for mathias and let's consider creating a science forum for Nigerians. Whayasay?