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Its either they are one and the same or nopuqeater is a huge Olabowale fan and a very very good copy cat.

What could be Alhaji's motive for coming back in a new incarnation?

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H2O2:
Ever read that story "How the west is won"?

The Lakers are about to re-live it, so be on the look out and pay attention when the story unfolds right before your eyes.

Hehe . . . Do you know that the Lakers are under .500 against the other top 4 teams in the west?

bawomolo:
woah where is all this bravado coming from.

from 17 championship banners hanging in our living room 

Nah but seriously. Celtics cannot handle young, athletic, passionate, hungry teams like ATL. If they're predictable and slow/regular, don chop belle full like Orlando and Cleveland we can beat them.

nuclearboy:
Fhemmy/Image123:

I am a christian and I know a pastor who used to be a bank branch manager in Ibadan. Suddenly he said He felt led to go to a "provincial area" where NEPA hadn't even got to and minister as a pastor there. Apparently they were very ritualistic etc. Guy left his official and personal cars, his bodija duplex and went into the bush with his family. THAT IS A FATHER in the context you speak of. Its 8 years and now he's doing fine. When I heard about him, I decided my resources would be available to him and till date, they are. His family lacks nothing because more people have come to know of his ways and i have seen him recieve a half million at a time. Funnily, I recently heard he got a vehicle from an admirer but sold it and gave the proceeds towards building a school laboratory for the people he lives with. The guy who gave him the car then bought another immediately which we together compelled him to keep. Would you by any chance imagine I am speaking of this type of pastor above?

Wow. Just . . . wow.

Jesoul:

I get your point and it is very well made. However, the injunction remains that whist everything is lawful, not all is expedient. Such is how I understand Paul in his words above - and my first point is it was lawful to him but he realised it was not expedient and fled from the semblance of evil.

Very very true. And I think the situation varies (for true pastors that is). What may not be profitable in one case may be in another. But the most noble of positions would be the one Paul selflessly assumed.

Secondly, do you really need 3 SUVs, a private jet, bi-annual family holidays in the bahamas, etc in the midst of the deprivation that is Nigeria's lot? You Jesoul, may have been away for too long - those of us here see the poverty in the populace and the anger in the youths. I was born in the North and they are angry: they have nothing to live for (as far as they are concerned and the proof of that is in how much they value life) plus we know that majority of our youth can perform only menial labor. They are so poor that they cannot afford to learn a trade like carpentry or masonry. I challenge anyone to show me where such exist as the standard today. These people can be helped to learn a trade or be schooled rather than being idle and thus providing a workshop for satan. You drive past and feel the malevolence.
  I sincerely cannot understand how comfortable people can live in the midst of so much resentment which could so easily be helped by a fraction of what goes into cars for our "big-men". I left the north and swore never to go back because I was always scared.

Maybe I over-react when I post like this but try to look past the facade and ask; do we really need this level of luxury? To build schools too expensive for our congregation and then we do not even send our own children there but to foreign schools?  Look at the example I gave above of a pastor and compare to what obtains.

Nuclear, you are not overreacting at all. If true christians didn't react this way then something is seriously wrong. And believe you me, I share your disdain for the current climate of corruption in Naija churches. I have been gone a bit, which is why I will always defer to the superior informed knowledge and opinion of those on ground zero.

  This doesn't happen only in Naija self. See the lavish lifestyles of the likes of Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar etc A friend of mine attended a Benny Hinn crusade a while back. She had tried to get me to come along but I cannot be caught dead in such gatherings. She came back saying how the entire thing was about money, donate this, contribute that, bless this, sow that. They said even the very hall they were using hadn't been paid for and people needed to donate to cover those costs 

I fear for our future because the gutter is coming into the streets. Please read an article I saw way back http://aderinola./2007/06/30/is-lagos-the-most-dangerous-city-in-the-world/ with particular note to the first two responses to the article then give a moral justification  for this rot in the house of God

I will check it out . . .

Vesc, I have always known you to be a wise man, and you have spoken wisely.

Easter just passed. So I'm still in a celebratory mood. Since Christ came and died to forgive our sins, I will extend that same courtesy and will (very reluctantly) forgive the crimes of the likes of Brownjay and Shola. Go, and sin no more . . . or else

Obinna, you berra conclude it before I run out of forgiveness.

7 games until season's end. Now we go talk true 

I hope Boston stays firmly in 4th place and plays Miami in the 1st Rd. The only team that I know beyond doubt we have zero shot at beating is Atlanta, and even the Bucks make me nervous. I am not scared of Orlando or Cleveland.

Backfire na understatement    McNabb takes care of the ball and that always gives a team a shot, something they haven't had in Washington in Campbell.

Why pity the guy? he is a sorry excuse for an NFL qb.

oh and Kolb had better be the second coming of Brady or Manning or else philly fans will consume him alive and feed his bones to the vultures.

bawomolo:
mcnabb to the redskins. why not trade him out of the conference?

The official story is they were doing him a favor as he didn't want to go to Oakland hehe . . . the real story is the Redskins probably offered them the best deal and they don't think McNabb will really be a threat in Washington.

We go see.

[quote author=Tonye-t link=topic=421491.msg5839520#msg5839520 date=1270549480]@InesQor,

If/since you're that dude Mavenbox, then you've just earned my respect even though your et al's seem to love this peronality-id-matching game. i dislike it!. [/quote]I have been content to stay behind the scenes and allow these awesome fellas duke it out with you . . . until you mentioned the above. Dude. You had that other ID that both I and Kunle know about, don't make me expose your behind here and don't chastise InesQor for a crime you yourself have committed a few times. Now carry on. Cheers 

1 Corinthians 9
The Rights of an Apostle
1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result of my work in the Lord? 2Even though I may not be an apostle to others, surely I am to you! For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
3This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. 4Don't we have the right to food and drink? 5Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas[a]? 6Or is it only I and Barnabas who must work for a living?

7Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk? 8Do I say this merely from a human point of view? Doesn't the Law say the same thing? 9For it is written in the Law of Moses: "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." Is it about oxen that God is concerned? 10Surely he says this for us, doesn't he? Yes, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. 11If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? 12If others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we have it all the more?

  But we did not use this right. On the contrary, we put up with anything rather than hinder the gospel of Christ. 13 Don't you know that those who work in the temple get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in what is offered on the altar? 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.
15 But I have not used any of these rights.


  InesQor very nice post. But I will like you and Nuclearboy to do some justice to the above scripture. I believe there should be balance in all this. It may not be a "job" in the secular sense of the word, but the above scripture is clear God has intended some material blessing to go the way of those who tend the sheep. What say ye?

Please see any of the following . . .

Christian Tattoos
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-108212.0.html

Christain View Point On Long Hair, Tattoos, Body Piercing And The Way We Dress
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-267506.0.html

Am I A Hypocrite For Getting The Lords Prayer Tattoo
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-408410.0.html

eldee:
Damn!!!!!!!! Are you sure that won't be too difficult??

Hehe . . . as if I will have a choice to stop watching 

semid4lyfe:
Lol. . .see wickedness. still haven't forgiven him for the part he played in Olivia's incarceration shey?

Oh my bad I mistyped . . . I meant I hope that over ambitious secretary of HS Tim BURNS! I hope old man ethan doesn't die, but knowing 24, he probably will.

lynxnoon:
wel i seriously hope so cos i hv a strong feeling he mite not make it

Yeah I don't think Cole is making it alive to the end of the season either.

And to the doomsday prophets predicting Renee's death. If Renee does not end up happily married to Jack, walahi, I will stop watching 24 after this season

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=262653.msg5812824#msg5812824 date=1270142660]I didn't really like it cos the concept has been done to death.
Caucasian women captured and sold on Ebay to the highest bidder. Didn't you see that on Hostel 2?

It was a BITTEN idea and thus TAKEN lacks originality.
For that, i am rating it 53%. [/quote]Ehen now, we already know your style. If they do something different - no matter how wack the 'different' is, they will score high points in your card

From someone who rated Vantage Point 95%, I have nothing else to add

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justkunmi:
Still.checkin. Jesoul

Thanks. Spikey.

hmm JK, are those dots I'm seeing so?

Lol @Doyin.
And if my memory serves me right you shot down "City of God" as "mindless violence parading as social commentary" (men my brain/memory is sharp today ). TOH/Karma was recommending it.

It was mindless violence, but I don't think it was parading at all oh.

Yeah I think that's it, The Quiet American.

spikedcylinder:
Jesoul, you too like pushaun pushaun.

Hehe, not too much. I like pretty much all genres and if a movie is going to be slow and mellow it had better blow away my mind since it cannot do so with firepower.

It was a good movie - that's the point, it was just a good movie. The way Gayin was going on about it I had really high expectations that were not met.

The captain has returned! uhm . . . minus his typing abilites. Did Seun take it away?

Which reminds me . . .
 
  Doyin you were raving about this movie on some abstract thread a long while back - I forget the name now, about conflict in vietnam? I think? he married some local girl and was a smuggler who ended up getting killed, starring Brendan Frasier and Michael Caine.

  So I watched the movie and could not for the life of me figure out why you liked it so much 

bawomolo:
i see what you did there, don't think you can latch on to another team while your old men are fading away in boston 

Abegi jare, I can latch and release as I please  flings are highly encouraged and the Thunder are currently the object of my affection. They rank up there in defense as well as offense, not to mention they are young and hungry, heck starving. Denver, LA, Mavs or Utah - you don't want to face these guys in the first round at all. and honestly I will be thrilled if the Celtics get past the second round, they just don't have the IT factor this year.

viaro:
^^ lemme do i-spy.
Newbie? InesQor?


I thought that was Iyineda?

Okay, must take a quick dive out for now .[color=Black].[/color]. still working on my answers (the exam is kinda tough - I need more 'i-spies', hehe).

Kai, one wrong lol. I know InesQor's not a newbie hence the dilemma, but I thought such a cool phrase could be attributed to him.

nearest:
I am sure that bomb won't go off, Taren will delay somehow and Hassan's daughter will convince him to give it up, or dana might give up samir's location as a way to get immunity.

The only scenario I see Dana talking is if Cole personally comes and she breaks down to him.

I hope Ethan burns big time and joins president taylors daughter in prison, and I hope old man doesn't die from that heart attack.

doyin13:
haa. . .guy man. . . .no be so oo.

your movie taste is quite exquisite unlike
some ''Taken'' fans

spikedcylinder:
Max.
Gayin13 actually thinks so highly of himself and his so called taste in movies. This coming from the dude who thinks Kidulthood is anything to write home about.
Shior.

I have nothing more to add

Eziuche and Waleski - correct people.

spikedcylinder:
Just come out and say it, the movie was crap. Highly forgettable.
I still luv you J.

Unless you want him to be responsible for starting WW3. Spiked you self, where is your rating? lol

Obinna, you have not corrected your typo yet

vescucci:
JeSoul. Firestarter.

The fire had already started, I was just showing her where it was

Lakers fans, ki lon shele? lol

Men its hard not to like these Oklahoma Thunder guys. Though we lost to them last night it was a good game from both sides, these guys are impressive and I'm rooting for them to go deep in the post season.

MyJoe:
22  J A M B Questions on the Religion Section Posters
Instructions: If you are an old user, you know all the answers. If not, you have “ask the audience” and “phone a friend”.

hehe, me I have time today . . . lemme take a stab at em . . .

1. Who is the perfect gentleman in whom there is no sliver of vulgarity, respected across the board for his brilliance, sound judgment and deep convictions? (a) m_nwankwo (b) noetic16 (c) sinequanon

m_nwankwo! the wisest man on NL   
 

2. Which pantheist-panentheist has little taste for monotheist-henotheists? (a) Jagunlabi (b) Jaguda (c) alatheia

Jagunlabi?

3.Which deep sighted man has a deeply rooted passion for taking Deep Sight to the deeps, possesses high intelligence with vast knowledge that cuts across various fields of learning, has a reputation for “moving things”, and sometimes goes round without motion in circular movements that can stagnate, rather than advance, debates, making him come across dangerously like pilgrim_1? (a) viaro (b) k17 (c) wirinet

Without a doubt, Viaro!

4.Who is the Field Marshall who will refuse to get into a scuffle where lesser folks would pull out a gun, reply a rude post with a logical one, has more energy for debating than Peter has for boxing, and is particularly noted for his high intelligence, stubbornness and reliance on sound logical reasoning over anything else? (a) Deep Sight (b) Deep Soul (c) banom

Deepsight.

5.Who opened the most unnecessary thread, one that ought to be mass-produced and sent to the humanities faculties of universities as the perfect specimen of “Indefatigability and Obscurantism in Critical Internet Interlocution”, a thread meant to “explain” a rather simple matter (the Oneness of Infinity) but ended up obfuscating it beyond imagination? (a) Deep Sight (b) Googler (c) toneyb

Hehe Deepsight again

6.Which highly intelligent girl, who denounced herself as a boy, has a tendency to make interminably long posts which sometimes teach you something, sometimes are replete with wild analogies you have a hard time reconciling, and sometimes communicate nothing at all? (b) mavenb0x (b) mavenbox (c) Maven

All the above 

7.In whose humble opinion (IMHO) can it be argued that cows have done more for humanity than the likes of Jesus and Mohammed? (a) Krayola (b) mama-gee (c) toba (He said it within a context, please)

Krayo bobo.

8.Who has “more light than [the prophet] Isaiah”, and is pastor to His Excellency, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Acting President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, whom we are lucky to have among us? (a)Joagbaje (b) No2Atheism (c) Ilosiwaju

The WOFer Joagbaje.

9.Which “live and let live” atheist became fundamentalist (on NL) after religious folk called him a fool (off NL) for saying there is no God? (a) g1 (b) ancel (c) mabell

G1, where is that dude self? he didn't return since he was banned.

10.Who never knew there are riff-raffs who are atheists (a) Aloy-Emeka (b) Mba_Emeka (c) ogaga4luv

AloyEmeka? 

11.Which newbie invented the memorable phrase “logic of contamination”? (a) Iyineda (b) InesQor (c) chukwudi44

Newbie? InesQor?

12. Who is one of the “few good Christians” not failing “to speak out”, a radical restorationist cast in the mould of Martin Luther, John Calvin, Charles Taze Russell and Joseph Smith, is on a crusade to rid Christendom of such “scams” as tithing and first fruit offerings, and fights running battles with members of “CEC Plc” on the floor? (a) KunleOshob (b) tonye-t (c) manmustwac

KunleOshob!

13.Which of the following is not a bona fide member of MOGANALA? (a) seeklove (b) toneyb (c) k17

LOL def ToneyBoy.

14.Which Christian is noted for his high intelligence, sharp wit and refutation skills, adherence to Ojuelegba Motor Park Script of Dialogue, lack of time for the sentiments expressed in the Sermon on the Mount, is in love with the OT God and would sooner see Him back, would have relished the honour of being a subaltern to the crusader Richard the Lion-Hearted had he been alive in the 1100s, and would equally have chaired the Supreme Council of the Spanish Inquisition had he lived anytime between the 1400s and early 1800s? (a) Davidylan (b) Nezan (c) Seun

Without question this honor goes to David lol.

15.Which pastor is famous for his high intelligence, eclectic scholarship, sense of humour, and is thought by many to have a predilection for abstruseness, even obfuscation? (a) PastorAIO (b) PastorAde (c) OLAADEGU

Old macdonald had a farm . . . A I, A I O . . . lol

16.Who denounced Yoruba Muslims for cowardice when it comes to taking up the sword (or the bomb) to fight the Jihad, rues the fact that Allah made her female which precludes her from Jihading, and has been described as “Abuzola in training”? (a) uplawal (b) mukina2 (c) jarus

Must be abuzola's wife, uplawal.

17.Which pugnacious defender of (1) the Yoruba race (2) the Christianity project, do you need to avoid clashing with unless you have your “yabbing” cap on? (a) tpia (b) saharachic (c) 49cents

Tpia.

18.Who is a refreshingly moderate Moslem, also remarkable for his brilliance and clarity of thought? (a) muhsin (b) Abuzola (c) Abuz©la

Moderate ke? lol, muhsin.

19.Which liberalist, pacifist, secular, materialist thinker has a reputation for one-liners? (a) bawomolo (b) nuclearboy (c) ogajim

Bawo is guilty.

20.Which young man, who is currently female, took the search for God to God’s acre (spent a night in a graveyard to determine the existence of the non-material), is a rabid defender of atheism, has a longstanding bete noir in the likes of David Oyedepo, and is noted for posts that combine brilliance, wit and gruffness? (a) Tudor (b) beneli (c) easylogic

Tudor.


So MyJoe, what's my score? lol

spikedcylinder:
Max.

[quote author=Mad_Max link=topic=173006.msg5805713#msg5805713 date=1270059710]Lol. What now?[/quote]lol this is what now . . .

spikedcylinder:
Hello Max, how are you? Will you go out with me?

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doyin13:
Mad Max. . . .seeing as you have a nice taste in movies from your favourable
judgement of Pan's Labyrinth and An Education. May I recommend the following:

Take my eyes(Te doy mis Ojos): Powerful drama about Domestic Abuse.

Devil's backbone (El Espinazo Del Diablo): Some people think this is actually
the better of Guillermo Del Toro's films. The other being Pan's Labyrinth.

So nice to meet one with such delectable taste in movies. You will really
enjoy watching these.

So what are you trying to say about the rest of us ehn? yeye boy.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=262653.msg5805785#msg5805785 date=1270060387]I rate it 55%. [/quote]Sauron, I know people. People will skills. Skills that will be a nightmare for people like you. People that will haunt you down and put pepper in your eyes and backside for typing blasphemies such as the above. You berra watch yo back.

doyin13:
No be small thing oo. . .

I was dumbfounded when I found out Taken had made so much money at the box office.

Now I am just suicidal seeing these high ratings.

Infact one of the main reasons I went to watch it was a friend wouldn't stop raving about it. After I saw it, I wouldn't stop raving about it to everyone I met lol.

ttalks, long time how've you been?

ttalks:
Water baptism is just one of the acts to show one's faith,not an agency to bring one into the faith.

Please help explain this to Noetic and Tonye.

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JeSoul:
Is baptism a requisite to enter heaven? that is the question of the thread.

noetic16:
YES . . . .and please quote me anywhere.

wow. A salvation that actually requires physical works. I really have nothing else to add. Those reading can make up their minds for themselves from all that's already been said.

spikedcylinder:
Yea, let's review Taken.

Jesoul, don't tell Max but will you marry me?

Lol . . . one small problem, I already have a ring 

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Review: Taken

Where do I even start? Neeson a divorced, ex-CIA agent's daughter is abducted while travelling in france. Neeson's character shows the love of a father is a force of nature to be reckoned with, and when that love is coupled with skills "that make him a nightmare for people like" those who took his daughter - all hell breaks loose, and there is nowhere the takers can hide from his calculated fury.

The movie kicks into full gear and launches it into another stratosphere when he receives a frantic phonecall from his daughter just as she was about to be taken. Using bits of her screams and the voice of the bad guy, he pieces together clues that lead him to an organized se.x slave ring. While on the phone, he makes a proposition to the perps to let his girl go and or "I will find you, and I will kill you" - to which the bad dude replies "good luck". His simple brilliance and systematic approach in following the trail is just gorgeous to watch - and very very believable. Not your usual James Bond film trick, but simple, yet complicated enough that the average joe would not have thought about it - this shows brilliant script-writing. And in beautiful fashion he makes good on the promise to kill the bad guy on the phone.

Some will say some bits are predictable, and I guess in a sense you can say that because he finds his daughter in the end, but this should not be mistaken to be a negative. What else do we expect to happen? he finds her dead? Anyways, he makes his way to the captors, leaving in his wake a trail of dead bad guys and corrupt police who wished they never laid a hand on his baby girl. Climaxing in a car race scene that leads him leaping onto a luxury boat, he cuts down the armed foot soldiers, then the nasty big bad guy who bought his daughter, and finally is reunited with his traumatized girl.

  Brilliantly deadly acting - Fantastically written script - Cinematography on point - Key scenes such as the "phonecall" are just too dope. Overall, I rate 98% 

and God help anyone who rates this movie below 90%  Obinna, correct that typo quick quick

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  MYJOE!!!!!  This is just  wow . . . . gimme a sec . . . I cannot contain my laughter . . . LOL 

I vote this post the "THREAD OF THE YEAR" notwithstanding you just embarrass me finish   

but nevertheless, brilliant thread!     lemme go and work on my answers, some of those are tough tough questions hehe . . .

Ochlux:
@jesoul,i was just asking because your answers were in strick consonance with the independent baptist,no mist feelings,

None at all brotha . Guess I lean closest in scriptural belief to the baptists. Thank you for your first reply, it was most direct and concise.

i dnt think there is any thing u can say no 2 convince these peopie

its just unsettling. I thought salvation was based on grace, received by faith - not works, lest any man can boast.

Now we have those same works being equally attached to faith as an absolute necessity to be saved. Does anyone else see the irony?