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So I recently stumbled onto Kinkinatus, a movie buff hiding in the NL rough and solicited his top 20. Here are the results:

Kinkinatus:
@ JeSoul - After much soul searching, hand wringing, deep meditation, agonising  and hopping from foot to foot, LOL, I have finally come up with, in my humble opinion, my personal and my top twenty best movies of all time. I am aware that movies are also a very special kind of media which evolve over time, so for this particular and special moment in time, this is my list below. Enjoy,

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Matrix Trilogy

Kung Fu Panda

The Green Mile

Saving Private Ryan

Antwone Fisher

Jurassic Park

Schindler's List

The Shawshank Redemption

The Silence of the Lambs

Heat

Two Can Play That Game

Top Gun

Star Wars Trilogy(Pre special edition)

Grease

Shaft – 1971

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Day the Earth Stood Still - 1951

The Ten Commandments - 1956

Lol this list spans all the genres and even across centuries  . Wow, cool. I haven't seen Benji Butt, nor Kungfu Panda nor Schindler's list 

Definitely feeling: Matrix and shawshank are sorta staples in everybody's top 20. But men you going real ol'skool with TDTEST and Ten Commandments - haven't seen those either but I hear good things. Green mile is a really good movie, though for some strange reason I don't like it. Star Wars, Slience and now Avatar are simply classics. Antwone Fisher was a moving flick. And Saving Private Ryan is one of the top war movie efforts ever.

Nai! nai! say it ain't so!: My dude, what is "Two can play that game" doing on your list ehn? fix that typo quick quick  . I've seen Heat, but honestly, I did not get "it".

Thanks for obliging, my anticipation was not in vain! lol I now leave you in the hands of Max, No2A, Spiked, Vesc and Karma 

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Question (as you can see I'm full of them lol) what is your opinion of 'Memento'?

Mavenb0x:
@Pastor AIO: Yeah! And as usual, JeSoul has taken the core of the message and expressed it in just few words!

@JeSoul: [b] Dear sis, I think we should write some stuff together sometime[/b]. ;-)

Cool idea! something just crept into my mind . . . gimme a few to refine it properly.

toneyb:
. I agree with you, I asked you the question because I just wanted Krayola to see that he is wrong in tagging those that believe or take some stories of the in the literal sense as fundamentalist.

No qualms brotha .

and I want you to see and understand that believing in something you or other consider ridiculous has almost no bearing on anything. Whether or not I am fundamental or literalist in my beliefs of the virgin mary is of no consequence to anyone but myself.

 Pardon the blowing of my own horn, but I am a contributing citizen of my community, I do my part in making the world around me better, everyday I am a good ambassador of my family and my country of birth and country of home. I am a research scientist currently working on a drug for psoriasis. I help my neighbors in any way I can, I help strangers find their way around town. And if there's ever a need, I count it an incredible joy and priviledge if I can help. I do all these things . . .

 but yet, according to Religulous and its followers, because I happen to believe little ol' Mary was a virgin when she had Jesus, I should be dismissed as stoopid? and irrational? and a danger to society?

I hope you can see how ridiculous such a gross overgeneralization is.

You didn't answer my question so I still cannot answer yours.

How does my personal belief in the virgin birth story negatively or positively affect anyone other than myself? The answer will give you a massive hint why a big chunk of Religulous is ridiculous.

H2O2:
He's already married. His wife is 6'3 or something


me sef wan marry

hmm I dunno about dat . . . you fit handle wife wahala so?

r231:
This is ridiculous. Neither T-Mac nor AI should be starting. They shouldn't even be on the roster, period! We saw last year how AI wrecked the Pistons, and he couldn't even make it with the Grizzlies! As for T-Mac, he's barely played and hasn't been a factor this year. The All-Star Game should not be a celebration of a player's career. Only THIS year should matter, and THIS year, neither T-Mac nor AI has been a factor. If Kobe were ever to suffer a real bad knee injury in the preseason and require season-ending surgery, I guarantee you he would still be the leading vote-getter in the West. Same with LeBron and the East. This just goes to show that All-Star voting is a popularity contest,

My brother easy now, no vex with H2. You're right that the all-star game should be about the season in question, not a popularity contest.
I blame Stern completely. Everyone knows this has been a big problem for years but the league has done nada about it.

biina:
So Shanahan, and his son, former Texans offensive cordinator, Kyle, are on their way to the Shitskins. Wonder if he will try to get his boy Cutler

Hehe, he'll have to fight tooth and nail through Bawo first

[quote author=Mad_Max link=topic=173006.msg5260690#msg5260690 date=1262792015]Hobbit please? LMAO!
She and Carey made a great couple in that movie lol. I haven't been seeing her in movies lately though. I was taken with her in Bad Boys (the ONLY movie Martin Lawrence was funny in) and liked her ever since.[/quote]Lol, oh common now Maxy girl, Martin is a funny guy. I laugh everytime I watch 'Blue Streak'.

I can never forget Haley's performance in AI, when he's introduced to his new parents, and he smiles because he badly wants them to like him, taps the ground and says, "I like your floor." With that bright, fixed smile. Or the superb scene in Sixth Sense when Willis does some magic to try and cheer him up, and he says, with jaw-dropping sarcasm, "I didn't know you were funny."

*cough cough* uhm I haven't seen AI. Heard good things though . . .

I will answer if you answer me this first,

does my personal belief in the virgin birth story positively or negatively affect my neighbor, my co-workers, my community, my state and the world at large? and if it does how?

 does my personal belief in the virgin birth affect anyone other than me?

Maven! 

Re: How To Receive God's Word And Get Cool Yummy Profit From It?

na wa for title oh . . . lol. Anyways solid post. I was actually thinking about this lesson just yesterday.

Mavenb0x:
(4) 30-FOLD INCREASE, (5) 60-FOLD INCREASE, and (6) 100-FOLD INCREASE (v8, v23).
It is wonderful that God’s Word shall not return empty (see Isaiah 55:10-11), so there will be people to receive the Word and benefit fruitfully by it, although to varying measures (30-fold, 60-fold, 100-fold). These varying measures will depend on the measures of grace, and also the tenacity with which you receive (Lambanõ) the Word, meditate (chew and digest) on it in understanding, and RUN with it (see Habakkuk 2:2). Really, it depends on how ready you are to show the World what God can accomplish in a man!

Just like Isaac’s ground (Genesis 26:12), our target is the highest degree of profiting by God’s Word (i.e. 100-fold), although the other two are also measures of success. For those who love excuses, Jesus never said there were no stones or thorns on the good soil ; but the truth is that these external influences and circumstances never stopped it from profiting!

These guys not only received the Word, but by meditation understood the Word (not only the sense and meaning of the Word, but their own concern in it, how it applies to them in particular). They got a hold of the Word like how a business tycoon knows his business, and they ran with it; and their fruitfulness was evident to all.

Very very good observation. No soil is ever truly completely pure, and it is the same with our hearts. 30, 60 or 100 will be determined by how much stones and thorns we're able to rid ourselves of as we grow.

Krayola:
Your earlier posts, before people pointed out that that film was only uselul for entertainment, suggested that you took it to be more than comic relief.
The "wonderfully made film" is a joke, and nothing more. To suggest that it has much pedagogical value says more about you than it says about fundamentalists. You might as well post an episode of South-Park next time you want to make a point.

Lol.

Krayola, lef am jare. The point has been made for all to see.

Negro, hmm, the FBI and CIA have cyberbots that detect these kinds of things oh. This one serious pass just mere imagination. Don't let someone get some false impression and add more fuel to the 'Nigerians are terrorists' fire that is currently burning.

Horus:
https://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2008/05/27/23may08xvg1_gGd6f_17276.jpg

Kai that is harsh

MyJoe:
Many thanks, JeSoul. I read it. Your humility is exemplary.

Sir you're too kind. I used to think I was smart until I joined NL, lol, and started to read and learn from truly wise people from both sides of the religious aisle.

So the thanks should really go to you Joe! I've read several thoughtful posts from you all over the forum. I'm always much impressed and inspired to see non-religious people speak as you have on this thread, stressing that Science cannot and has not and will probably not be able to explain everything. I wish the atheist will see that the very sins they accuse religionists of they also are just as guilty of.

MyJoe:
That is of course if you have not told yourself that only low-brains are religious while Einsteins like you are atheistic.

That is a cherished belief most atheists here on NL use to caress their egos.

While ignoring the fact there are countless people of faith, distinguished in their disciplines of choice. Even here on NL we have seen them if anyone cares to notice. But because we happen to be christians we must be stoopid. The reasoning of these chumps is something to behold.

vigasimple:
I am surprised that you guys fall for NASS baiting. This is POLITICS OF DIVERSION OF ATTENTION.

They cannot give their own President who has been gone Awol without any explanation to his own citizen ultimatum, they are giving America 7 days.

The NASS are known to be comedians, now the have added insanity. If at the expiration of 7days and America do not resind Nigeria name from the lists, what who the do? They are overplaying our importnance( or lack of it) and they making us lok incredibly naive.

NASS does not even know their job, the are ursuping the duties of the executives branch.

REMEMBER THE SENATE GRA GRA during Sanusi Lamido who ended up lecturing them.

Mark my worlds, not only we they apologise to the US, they will be begging. Fools, fix your own home and leakages, then you can talk diplomacy. For Nigerians to be Represented by a very sick President mean that we are all sick and incapable.


LET THEM GIVE YAR A'LIAR 7 DAYS TO RESIGN FOR DERELICTION OF DUTY. he went awol on medical to a foreign country when he cannot build a single hospital in Nigeria. Can ordinary people afford to go to a foreign hospital for 40days for such treatment and the job of goverment nearly grounded to a halt because of one useless clueless President.

America is just laughing at a country called Nigeria aka JOKE

I don talk am 2 pages ago. Instead of them to be issuing ultimatums to an absent president they are busy feeling insulted. Bunch of fools.

[quote author=Mad_Max link=topic=173006.msg5260311#msg5260311 date=1262787886]Nice. I don't remember the plot all too well. Elija Wood has a love interest.[/quote]Yea and he gets selected along with his fam to go to the ark, he travels all the way to the caves, then decides last minute, just before the meteor hits he wants to go back for his love[i] *rolls eyes*[/i] Hobbit please. That was very unrealistic.

Tea Leoni and someone else dies spectacularly by water. The president survives, I think.

Yup again. Tea and her daddy get crushed rather magnificently, it was a touching scene. Perhaps similar to the scene where the indian guy and his fam get killed in 2012.

It has its shortcomings but I agree, 2012 is not in its league. Where has Tea gone anyways? She was the most successful actress in the world at one time. Wood has the best management you could ask for. He was a child star that successfully migrated into an adult star. Very very rare. Ask Maculkin and amazingly talented Haley Joel Osment.

Tea was just delightful alongside Jim Carey in 'Fun with Di.c.k and Jane'. Osment still has time, he can be resuced before falling to a similar fate as Mac.

Kay 17:
@JeSeoul, how did you arrive at your botched conclusion that God exists.

The same way you arrived at the botched conclusion that He doesn't. By Faith.

MyJoe:
I do agree with most of what you say here.

-But should the fantastic nature of religious beliefs lead us dismiss religion in its entirety, and the idea of God?
-Have you investigated the religions to see if it is the practitioners that have corrupted them?
-Before you dismiss every idea of the paranormal, have you investigated them, spoken to people who claim to have had experiences that cannot be explained by science?

-Do we really know that miracles have never happened?
-Can everything be explained by science?

Questions I wish every atheist would carefully consider. And coming from a non-religious person such as yourself Joe, I applaud.

debosky:
I propose full body searches including rectal examinations by stern looking MOPOLs in relatiation.  

Anybody who refuses will get 10 lashes of the koboko - shebi we are Shari'a terrorists?  

Kai this boy is serious  

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On a serious note, I wish the Senate would issue Yaradua a 7day ultimatum to show up or else power would be stripped from him and given to the vice. If only we react to our own personal issues as swiftly as we do foreign insults

Here you go -
https://www.soundonsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/deep-impact.jpg
https://www.impawards.com/1998/posters/deep_impact_ver1.jpg

tkb417:
maybe our President should come up with a list too with USA included

we should label them axis of evil and unfriendly states and warn our citizens to stop patronising these states as we wouldnt be able to guarantee their safety if anythn happens to them

i trust the BBC and CNN to propagate that kinda measure to the extent it will get the right audience in the US

if that doesnt work, then whatever they subject our citizens to will be meted out to them here in good measure, pressed down and shaken together

Preach it brother! preach it! ROTFLOL

Senate Gives Obama's Admin 7-day Utimatum To Remove Nigeria From The Black List . . .

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

Don't feel so sad girl. Perhaps you've outgrown and "out-matured" them and its time to move on. Sometimes we have people in our lives for a seaon, they are right for that season but soon enough things change and you have to move on.

If it turns out you have less and less in common with them and you're picking up habits you don't like, and doing things you're not comfortable with then it is time. But take heart ehn, friends come and go and few stick around for an entire lifetime, and its important to know that that is not necessarily a bad thing. Try to find through live and cyber social networking and build up relationships with like-minded people, its healthy for your spirit and soul.

Cheers!

JeSoul:
Take all the time you need (but not too much or else I'll start hounding you ) with your top 20. I will be anticipating much much.

Kinkinatus:
I will work on it, but do manage your expectations. 

Okay, I will be anticipating much much.  Better?

Movie prequels and sequels. That's the dream of movie financiers and marketers dreams and it is us movie goers pet peeves. Wouldn't it be nice if a movie was just a movie with no further crappy bits added on to make parts 2 to 5? Well, life was never that simple. 

If they couldn't make sequels then they'd just re-do movies every few years  I'm execting for another version of Hulk pertty soon.

 

obinna5000:
Iron Man 2 (May 7 2010)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (May 28 2010)
Toy Story 3 (June 18 2010)
Alice In Wonderland (March 5 2010)
Salt (July 23 2010)

Alice in wonderland I am waiting for! I hope there's a solid, emotional delivery behind the excessive pancake make-up on the characters.

No2Atheism:
The secret weapon has been revealed . . . now all that remains is for me to call him and tell him what love potion you used on him. . . 

Lol He knows well well now . . . he was already accusing me by week 2 

On the Deep Impact movie . . . I have to agree with u that though it does not have the same kind of impressive special effects (sue me I am a sucker for Sci-Fi special effects  ). . . however it seems to have more enduring and grounded classical movie legacy to it than 2012. . . I think Morgan Freeman also played the part of the President better than Danny Glover. . .

I prophetess, prophesy 2012 will be long forgotten before 2012 - shoot, those Mayans and their calendars and foresight ain't go nuthin on me  *dusts the imaginary dirt off her shoulders*

Kinkinatus:
Yeah, teenage years, we all been and done something or the other in our little rebellious ways, I guess.
You said I am a brilliant movie mind, aww, you are flattering me. You are way sharper than I am.
I never thought of my top 20 movies of all time. LOL, That is a wicked idea. I will have to give it some thought and post something sometime. Regarding George RR Martin, I am glad you'll consider giving it a shot, believe me, once you get into his novels of Ice and Fire, you will be glad you did. There is a saying in those novels Winter is Coming. When you say that to any one whose read the novels of Ice and Fire, they smile and carry on about those books. That said, it is strangely appropriate to say winter is coming given the ongoing freeze in UK, and most likely in your neck of the woods on the other side of the pond. Stay on point

Thank you my brother, 'ppreciate the heads up on those books . Take all the time you need (but not too much or else I'll start hounding you ) with your top 20. I will be anticipating much much.

No2Atheism:
The highlighted part is very accurate . . .

- I have not watched the Twilight and frankly I do not hope to watch it . . .cus to be frank it is just a chick flick in my opinion. . . and I easily get turned off when a movie becomes hyped.

- You are true about the fact that money is what makes movies go beyond their sensible sequels . . .for example, I have not even brought myself to watch the last Shrek Movie cus to me, they are stretching it too far with all the sequels.

- Rocky did it and has become irrelevant . . . lets hope Avatar would not do the same thing cus . . . the storylines shows there is bound to be sequels . . .

So true . . . infact some of us are still having hangover . . .

Lol . . . haba No2A, if you're old enough to be growing a beard then you should be getting over that hangover long long time ago

No flipping allowed Sauer. You made your entire reply to Krayola's last post only about Dawkins - I thought Maher was the flava of the topic?

sauer:
Which religionists did you expect him to interview, BTW? I told you critics have what they are most fond of and use this as their attacking point. Can't you see at all that Bill is a comedian?

. . . I am so glad you pointed this out.

Therefore think it not strange or out of place that many of us dismiss this so-called "documentary" as ludicrous comedy, not worthy for a nano second of being mistaken as a picture borne out of an ounce of scholarship or erudition.

If all anyone is saying is Religulous is a piece of comedy that contains some truths about some religious fundamentalists but is not meant to be taken seriously as an educated attempt at religious commentary, then I have no qualms with that. Cheerios.

[flash=500,400]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/MeRJ7euUShg[/flash]

What is it about the name Jesus that gets people so worked up? and gets their arteries all clogged up with fury? Lol . . . I don't flinch or batt any eye lids when I hear mohammed or buddha or krishna or confucius. The man simply expressed an opinion and he's getting hammered.

sauer:
This is apparently a very silly review of this movie. Bill isn't even old, so I wonder where you get your "senile" from.

Forgive me, I thought it would be obvious that wasn't meant in the most literal of senses. Maher is senile and is slowly becoming as irrational as the very silly "religious" people he campaigns against.

  My take is silly because it disagrees with yours? Here's Krayola's take which I think further elucidates my intial points:

 

Krayola:
Maher was pandering like a fukn politician, IMO. He went to interview the most wacko religionists he could find. Talking to some "priest" in front of the Vatican makes for a good shot. . . but he should have gone to interview some religious scholars that would have made minced meat out of his propaganda.

I agree with the core of what he is saying though, because he is really beefing superstition, and belief in "silly" stuff. But the arguments in that movie are silly and besides entertainment value, don't do much. I don't know how some truck driver fellowship group, some fundamentalist Jews, and astrologer etc, are the best spokespersons he could find for religion. Like he doesn't know how to get to Harvard Divinity or any of the credible institutions to go have a real debate with a religionist.

Please see the bolded parts, is Krayola wrong?

Religulous. Has some elements of note, but is basically one man's long, bitter, poisonous, acidic rant against religion.

Bill Maher is obviously an intelligent man. But his hatred for all things religion has handicapped him severely from being objective on issues that even slightly branch into religion. We all know there are problems with religion, but to go about heralding death to all of faith reeks of an ailment best addressed to a psychiatrist. I used to listen to him a lot, but he has slowly degenerated into a senile, bitter old man with a microphone who spits curses on anything or anyone that does not conform to his twisted worldview.

Just my small comment on the matter.

biina:
said she wasnt driving fast and that chris jumped. I am, as sure as one can be without being there, that she was driving fast. You dont cruise when you are having a dispute with someone. If she really cared, she would have stopped.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4795776

Well, assigning blame will certainly not do any good. If this story helps her sleep better, then good for her. Either way, deep down, I know I would feel responsible.

bawomolo:
hehe i'm still alive, happy new year to you guys.

At least Cutler seems to turning around over the last couple of games.

So how are ya'll preparing for the draft? oh wait my bad, you traded all your picks for Cutler!

biina:
#1 Colts - The question is about if they will be rusty. If we win the divisional game, we will win the SB. Still, I am not too optimistic about it. With Freeney and Mathis free, they have a best pass rush pair and will be able to deal with San diego and NE.

The Colts do have I think the best shot at winning it all . . . but if the football gods are fair and just, they will falter miserably 

#2 Chargers - A very interesting team with their tall receivers. Would have loved to see them against Revis and the Jets. Outside of the Colts, the should be able to handle everyone else.

They guys have been flying under the radar the entire season. I have a ton of faith in Rivers, they could go all the way.

#3 Pats - They would have been an interesting matchup for the Chargers, but with Welker out, I doubt they can get past Baltimore. NE has operated with primarily 2 receivers all season, and now they are down to one. Add a sputtering running game, and a dodgy pass defence, and there is just so much one can ask of "Brady to Moss". Sorry but NE will be 1 and done.

False prophet!  Edelman will step into Welkers shoes.

#4 Bengals - Interesting rematch against the Jets, which I expect them to win, but I dont see them going beyond the divisional rounds against either the colts or chargers.

I expect Cincy to dismiss the delusional Jets.

#1 Saints - Not looking good. Their performance has been mediocre in the last 5 games. Add the lack

I won't count them out just yet. I still think they have enough in the tank to do damage.

#2 Vikings - Have the ingredients (in Favre, AP, and a great defence), and the recipe (run first and let Favre make big plays with the play fake), but the question is can they cook?. Childress and Favre need to sort out their issues, and AP needs to protect the ball better. With those issues unresolved, I dont see them going beyond their first game.

No Giants to hate on this year, so the Vikings will take their place in my heart 

#3 Cowboys - One and done against the eagles. Th inexperience of Romo and the cowboys will come to the fore, and they will once again choke against the eagles. There is a reason the Cowboys haven't one a playoff game in 10yrs.

I'm actually rooting for the Cowboys, the bi-polar Eagles do not deserve to advance.

and as for their bi-polar cousins the Cardinals, who know what to expect from them. Their run last year makes me not want to rule them out.

#4 Cardinals - The team whose performance is a random process. Their game against the packers is an interesting one, and I feel with Warner playing they should be able to get over the packers. They will definitely need boldon and cromartie back to stand a chance. They are the most unpredictable and dangerous team in the NFC.