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Naw.
Still hunting for the next Mrs Jk and being thorough about it. You'll have some ten finalists to choose from.
Hm. I don't mean to be crude but isn't this Sidibe girl a little too large to play r.ape victim? Why didn't she just, I don't know, roll like an avalanche and crush the bastid? Odd.

No, I use their Regenerist. Is it a mineral foundation? Creme and Foundation?

@shilling
Isn't Ambi's active ingredient hydroquinone?

@jammal
A picture of the 20% salicylic peel is on one of the pages past. It was discussed and someone used it with great results. It's a liquid in a small bottle you apply it to your face twice weekly.  I meant the CLEARASIL SPOT REMOVER. It contains a percentage of salicylic acid. Professional models recommend it. To be honest I've not used it or any spot remover. I've only had a breakout once and it cleared itself in a couple of weeks. If yours isn't that type, give either a try.  Or look for any GENUINE Product with a high % of salicylic acid.

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@Mad_Max

I am ashamed for stooping low to the extent of getting tagged rude
I misconstrued the ambiguity(ies). Am sorry and apologise
I agree with Nick you on certain issues you highlighted hence the interest, enthusiasm & scrutiny

Accepted. Who's Nick? Look, I know atheists and Christians needle each other here. It's like some kind of sport. You can clearly tell both sides are having fun. One atheist told a Christian she was so religious her brain cells are dead and only respond to the word 'Jesus'! I almost burst a gut laughing. They pass the thing back and forth. But snide superiority and outright insult is beyond the pale, man.

Even if her whole body were bosoms lol! I'm imagining something here and it's mighty peculiar!

e36991:
@Mad_Max
Simply take the advice to frequent here often to shrug off the Nolly & Hollywood fantasy and delusions of grandeur

You're rude.
You assume my two long posts were meant just for you. They weren't.  While talking indoctrination, the 'you' was a general public you, not just you in particular. I've lived the indoctrinated life. It IS a peculiar form of bondage. The message was for others in a similar predicament. It's possible you may have mistaken my earnestness for pretentiousness. You're free to. People here have posted things that's helped me lots of times. The posters had no idea. So it wasn't all about you.

Romeo4real:
@Mad Max - with regards to you comment above, it would be nice of you to inform us as to why. You have made certain assertions that people want to know more about, or want you to clarify. It is only fair that you do so, or offer a more plausible reason for your inability to do so.

Oh dear. Which assertions in particular?

I didn't mean to sound pretentious. I detest it in people. Or to mislead/misguide either. I know you're disppointed I didn't answer your questions directly, though I easily could. I can't start telling you things as if I'm some divinely appointed teacher. I'm still learning and know very, very little. But there's no way the things you've seen and know or think you know won't colour what you say, though you're attempting to say nothing. Hence my sounding 'vague'. I simply cannot tell you things. And certainly not on a public forum. You can't look to people to lead you and teach you and tell you what to believe or how to believe or what is true or not true. Only He may lead you. Just look to Him. He's the whole point.  THAT was my whole point. He isn't affiliated to any religion either. No religion has a monopoly on truth.

And yet if you don't, it's unlikely you'll learn anything new. Indoctrination is a form of mental bondage. It erects a wall. How can God get behind that wall and talk to you if you don't pull it down? It can't be easy for God. We're hard creatures to teach, and we don't learn. We're gifted at self-deception, at going off our own tangents, at twisting things, at perverting the truth, at seeing what we want to see. How can we be trusted? Nevertheless, He talks to us, He teaches us, He does not stop trying.

He talks to you and I, if you'll listen. If you won't insist you know better. He'll always confirm things He tells you. In the bible, in the words and writings of strange people, in many ways. There was a book I happened across that confirmed things I knew, but from which I also learnt new things. The author is an atheist who died in a Parisienne hospital. He expected oblivion (he didn't believe we survived biological death) and got a huge shock instead. Read what he says and judge for yourself. I believed him. It's MY DESCENT INTO DEATH by Howard Storm. If you like, I can post excerpts from the book here.

God's is a Spirit of truth and He'll lead you into truth, if you desire it. Your religious teachers may be right and what they say may be true. But God also wants to talk to YOU personally. Don't block him out with indoctrinated ideas and act like religious authourity knows better than HE.

Maybe it's better to stay in the safety of what you've been taught, and to defend that viciously if it's threatened. Because those teachings are a part of you, those who attack it attack you in way, and in defending it you're defending yourself. It's natural. You're saved whether you hide behind indoctrination or not.

But if you want to know things, you'll have to endure the trauma of de-doctrination.  The things you'll learn will have been taught you by religious authority, but now you learn in perfect freedom. But you'll learn new things too. Hidden things. Secret things.Stay in your comfort zone. Or dare to venture out and ask God to lead you into truth like He promised. He is ready and willing and able. It's fantastic He even bothers
at all, but He does. I know 'His Love' has become a cliche and lost meaning. But in truth, no one will ever love you more.

Ah, I shall have to disappoint you and not answer some of that. By evolving biologically I don't mean we arrived by ourselves, independent of God. God created us. We're spirit beings He thought about. We came into existence because of that. If you're alive on this earth you're an amalgam of spirit and flesh. Imagine how powerful a being must be, if he created creatures as complicated as we are merely by thinking about it. We aren't all He created. There are things and beings far far far more powerful and incredible than mere humans. He continues to create. Universes and beings and spirits and realms and hyper-realities impossible to imagine. It doesn't end. It's wonderful.

The Adam/Eve story in the bible isn't the original. It's a waterered down version. I think the Talmud contains the original. When you read that you're in no doubt it's allegorical, but the hairs on your neck prickle. Something is clearly happening there, hidden by imagery. Something true and terrible. It's not for me to say. When your mind confronts something that is true but you're not ready for it, you will reject it. So you'll find out the Adam/Eve story isn't literal at your own pace. People have known they aren't real for a long, long time. It's not new.

One exercise is to think of the spiritual facts you know and how you arrived by that knowledge. Isn't it from religious authority, from other men? And didn't you believe based on their authority as teachers and pastors? Or they offered incontroversible proof of what they taught you? So what's true for you then is dependent on which particular religious authority you trust and choose to believe. But isn't it true that these authorities differ and so there are diverse creeds and doctrines in Christianity, denominations representing its own brands of truth? Doesn't all the arguments between Christians on this forum reflect the different truths we've been taught?

But if a thing were true, wouldn't it be true regardless of denomination or creed? How many things do you KNOW for yourself that isn't based on religious authority teaching? If you're like most of us, precious little. So what you're defending isn't necessarily what is true but what you've been taught for so long it's a part of you. To doubt it would be acute discomfort. To cut it off would be hideous trauma. It'll be like being adrift at sea with no compass.

Yeah. I've heard how God made man from scratch and a woman from his rib and they ate a fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and mankind fell. That something as abstract as knowledge is represented by 'tree' and 'fruit' tells you this isn't a literal story. It's like Revelation, when a message is given to John in symbols. He understood. There was a place where he was completely baffled. Seeing he didn't get that particular imagery, the angel with him explained what it meant. The woman stands for this, the horns stand for that, etc. But he understood everything else and so there are no explanations offered for them. Adam and Eve aren't real flesh and blood people. No sin entered the world because they ate allegorical fruit. It's an insult to God's perfect justice that you'd accuse Him of punishing the innocent for the supposed sins of others and feel completely comfortable in this belief.

We're guilty all right. We're lost all right. We sinned all right. But it wasn't by proxy. There was no Adam and Eve. Biologically, we evolved as a species. But this world isn't the beginning and it isn't the end. We are. . . very old, all of us. God says, I have foreknown you from the foundation of the world. What do you think that means? It shouldn't be hard. Think of the story of the prodigal son. Think of Christ saying He will leave 99 secure sheep and go after a single one that is lost. Tnen go over the allegorical Adam and Eve story again. You'll figure it out. There's no such thing as inherited or original sin from Adam/Eve . It's, I'm sorry, completely absurd.

"Gawd". Lol.

Good talk. A pastor I knew was showing off and told me how he embarked on prayer for a man and God blessed the man with a N100 million contract. I wondered why God would do that. The man would probably build a mansion or buy expensive cars and other monuments to his ego. What has that to do with God? Somewhere in the world is someone struggling to eat, but 'God' seems to have no interest in those. No, he's only interested in issuing you mansions and cars.

I don't think povery or wealth says anything about your walk with God or your religion or lack of it, merely your opportunities or hard work or talent for acquiring money. There seems to be instances where God gives individuals wealth, but in those cases they're entrusted with things God wants to see done, and they know the money isn't theirs but is a trust. God's blessings are mostly spiritual. Joy, peace, faith, hope, love, trust, security. You can have money and not enjoy it. It's been proven time and again it doesn't add a jot to happiness, and the wealthy commit suicide just like the poor. If not more so sef. "Jesus was rich so we should be rich?" Nothing wrong with wealth but you waste your life if you make its pursuit your goal. Sometimes you have to wonder if some of these pastors actually believe a God exists.

kieryn:
He didn't create hell. God original purpose was for humans to leave FOREVER in PERFECT conditions on a beautiful earth. Adam and Eve messed that up. And sin was brought in to the earth, and the wages of sin is death. Hell as an eternal damnation is made up. Hell is actually mankind common grave which we can all expect to "go" to if we happen to die.

You're right. God didn't create hell. But flesh and blood Adam and Eve never existed either. The Genesis story is an allegory telling you something else that is true. It makes no sense to say two people 'sinned' and all humanity became guilty. Even if they were real people, and they aren't, wouldn't inherited sin have stopped at the point God declared that Fathers would not pay for the sins of children, and children would not pay for the sins of their parents, but each would bear the consequences of his/her own sin?
It seems hell is real. It seems to exists as a vast, infinitely complex place of separation from God.

spikedcylinder:
[color=#550000]Max, the things I'm about to type to you will get me banned off nl. So, thunder fire your ?@#$^&! Amen.

Vescucci, move in to where? Foximoto has peed around Jk's tri-state area. Its a no go.

Lol. I'm checking out a replacement since he's kicked her out. If you let him choose he'll probably just examine chests and pick the biggest he could find.

BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA
Jamie Lee Curtis and others

Any movie featuring a dog's earned half my vote. I'd adore Eddie Murphy's Dr Dolittle if Chris Rock's character (Rodney) wasn't the most irritating animal in cinematic history. Beverly Hills Chihuahua is about spoiled, wealthy chihuahuan Chloe who involuntarily goes slumming it in the wilds of Mexico. When her owner goes on a trip and leaves the tiny, pampered dog in care of her niece, little did Chloe know change was sniffing around the corner. Lost and far from home, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. From cages and dog fights to hot pursuit, it's canine derring-do, friendship and er, romantic love. It's Disney so it's syrupy. Not spectacularly witty or funny, but it's good, light entertainment. And Chloe of the diamond-encrusted dog-tag is adorable.

@jammal
Don't use Meladerm for spots. Use a 20% salicylic acid peel. That's the only thing I know that works wonders and returns your face to its pre-spot smoothness. There's an excellent alternative in CLEARASIL. Try one or the other.

Kendrick! Yes. The three leads delivered great performances, but the girl was outstanding. I was so angry with Farmiga for what she did to Clooney. The one chance he had of turning his life around and changing for good, and she crushes it. Look at his age.

Lemme guess. You got your Appeasement Rites from Bosom 3:2.

Spikie you sickie, in what universe is Vera Farmiga a girl? I meant the GIRL who shook after Clooney delivered his cynical homily on relationshps at the airport and bawled like some forlorn calf. I forget her name. Farmiga was a liar living a fantasy. See her parading around with her stick-insect butt and feeling funky. That fantasy was Clooney's reality and when he wanted to change his life, he ran into the brick wall of her deceit.

Lol. Everyone's posted their Top 20s and 30s and 40s. EVERYONE. What a short memory thou hast. Recurring movies in all our tops include The Matrix, LOTR, The Shawshank Redemption and Memento. Gamine and Karma couldn't stick to 20 and posted like, their Top Thousand. I'll check out Precious. I thought the girl in Up in The Air was outstanding and deserved the Oscar Monique took. Mebbe I was wrong.

You post your Top Twenty. That's sort of what everyone else did.

I got off scot free? Where's Spikie with a dozen s?

I heard about the movie and it sounds depressing. I think her father or stepfather was abusing her and she would block out the stuff with fantasies.

Yeah. Buffalo Bill was just. .
Hannibal was just annoying.
Obinna 5K, you haven't dropped your Top 20 All Time Favourite movies. You hafta.

It's just the two of you! Recant that blasphemy before I send the famous thunder to come and fire you naw!
Silence of the Lambs is amazing, almost as terrifying as the book. Excellent direction by Demme. Put the goshdarned lotion in the baskit, Spikie.
If this were the Middle Ages both your asses would be off to the stake by now for that horrendous crime you just committed.

I haven't seen Precious. Black on black movies tend to be depressing. All about drugs and gangs and rape, as if colour is destiny in America and that's the experience of every African American there. Tragedy knows no colour, creed or race. They should look on the bright side once in a while. I saw the leading actress. She's ENORMOUS.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is just pure delight. Funny and subtle and different. Just lovely. Where are the movie posters for the reviewed films na?

Yeah it's got unanswered questions. Not only were there unexplainables but the movie was silly and cliche at some points.  The director should go to school. Not everyone is born with the gift like QT or Nolan. But it IS an interesting movie, and I forgive it some of its many flaws.

Watchmen? I caught a few minutes of it and it didn't seem like something I'd like. What philosophical stuff?If you mean the Matrix sequels I detested those and would kick that Architect somewhere not-nice if I ever met such a snivelling, moronic pretentious gas-bag in life. If you mean philosophical like the Nolan Batman movies, I may or may not take a look. Depends on my mood.

THE BOX
John Marsden, Cameron Diaz

A stranger leaves a box in a young couple's doorway and leaves. The next day he appears, dignified and scarred of face, and presents them with a gift and a curse. In the box is a button. If they press it they will receive a million dollars. But somewhere in the world, someone they do not know will die as a direct result. He gives them 24 hours to make their choice.What follows is a bizarre chain of events culminating in an ending that somehow feels inevitable.

The Box is an interesting movie, and few movies are interesting these days. I enjoyed Diaz's performance. But there are flaws.
Though the strange man plays Judge on behalf of other parties, the couple's freedom to choose is meddled with when one loses her job and the other an opportunity for advancement, just because they are going to be tempted. The plot itself is preposterous. They give it a smattering of space science, NASA, the NSA,etc, in an attempt to give it some much-needed believability. The directing is just Amateur Hour. He doesn't handle the process of choice well, and so nothing about who they are is revealed by that choice. After impressing upon us the genuineness of the offer: from the mien of the Stranger to showing us the briefcase full of money, he would then have us believe that Diaz didn't take the offer seriously! The untalented director, in order that be choice be made without her appearing to be a 'bad' person, has her say, 'It's only a button', and flippantly press it! A gifted director would have her make the choice and yet be huuman and sympathetic. Circumstances can push people to terrible chocies. But he wants to give her cheap absolution from the choice.

The movie leaves the issue of the stranger's employers and where they get the right to test humanity dodgily unexplained. Some higher Alien beings, we take it. But if they're superior they'd know our species evolved Me-Firstism to ensure its survival while scampering about in primeval forests. The recent invention of skyscrappers and fast food won't take that away. But ho! Higher beings are testing us and if enough people pass the test, these 'employers' might not annihilate humanity for its selfishness. It's the Sodom and Gomorrah story all jazzed up and sexy with science.

It's flawed, this movie. But it's an enjoyable movie, deeply intriguing and worth a viewing. In the hands of a better writer and director, it might have been excellent. Chris Nolan, say. No one does moral conundrums and existential angst better than he. Still, a really entertaining movie.

This woman ehn.

I'm well jare. Just busy busy busy.

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Here i was sitting quietly in my office until my life was altered due to something silly my supposedly fiancee wrote exposing ourlives for no just cause and setting me up for christians who dont know me to insult me to the highest heavens. If she even spoke to me about this, i wont be this demoralized and shakey at work reading all these evil statements made by people calling me this things. Why would she go this far to do it. And your saying i shouldnt blame her. You all forget the 6 pages of insults that strangers from no where have been pouring on me and the people that know me reading this. How far this write up would go is something else. From all your advices she is getting married to a devil because i am not a christian, why should i just let her be in peace since that would stop all these slanderous statements and let me be. We have done so many things together as a couple and this issue of the christian or no christian thing has never cropped up until now on the internet. How would you feel if it were you that you just woke up one morning and found your life being the centre of the storm for no just cause. Do you guys forget things easily? Have you not gone through all the name calling and atheist bashing due to her story. Why should she do this and your telling me i should chill and am childish because she praised me. What sort of praise is that? If she truely loved me why should she lay me out bare for people to castigate me because of my views and these people dont even know me. What sort of advice is she looking for that we havent weathered together for 4 years and we are still going on. In fact what ever. Am done with this episode. Whatever. I will fulfill her wishes so that this castigations will end and i will be in peace. Because there is no way i can ever forgive her for this humilation and if we are even together back, this issue will now truely rise every now and then. It was never an issue to me but it will now be an issue to me. I will have to accept that religious discrimination is truely alive and i am an endangered specie because of my views. I was deluded it will work and was planning to make sure it works to prove people wrong. I accept i was betting on the wrong horse and for those insulting Labake, she has done more for me today that i could imagine. Showing me this website makes me appreciate her more. I could have continued living a false life with Sia and not knowing she had the capacity to stab me in front of strangers. Now i know better and who i can truely call my friends.

The woman began her post declaring you 'perfect'. She did nothing wrong and can't be held responsible for what other people posted. But you're enjoying the drama and doing all you can to extend it. You don't sound a day over five.

As for the poster, since you'd made up your mind to marry him, what was the thread in aid of?
What a pair.

The movie itself won some award or the other. Can't recall.

Lol. To be able to answer your question, one would have to take inventory of the stock in every beauty shop in the country. Lots of creams have been reviewed here. The obvious solution is to look for them near you and if they can't be found, choose the best from what's available at your beauty store. It isn't name brands that matter, but the ingredients.

@ubiaa5
I'm good hon!

GARDEN STATE
ZACK BRAFF. NATALIE PORTMAN. PETER SAARSGARD.

The accidental cause of his mother's death, Zack Braff's character wanders through life in a lithium-induced haze, courtesy of his Dad. He returns to his hometown for a visit and meets up with old friends who've grown up and are everything from cops to corpse-robbers. He also makes a new acquaintance in the form of an epileptic, helmet-donning pathological liar (Natalie Portman). Surprisingly, this is a love story, a story about growing up, seeing things clearly and throwing away your crutches.

Here is Zach Braff's screenwriting and directorial debut, and how very talented he turns out to be! It's different from his zany character in Scrubs, almost like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a different Carey than, say, The Mask. Not quite to the same degree, but still.

What a moving and intelligent story, his character one that any woman would fall in love with, including a Natalie Portman. Most deserving of the awards and acclaim it's garnered. Well done, Braff. Well done.

Whoever banned you for the way you type is not well. But of course, he or she won't know that. A little power goes to our heads. It's a weakness of the species, like a slug's tiny brain.

Not good enough. He's Best Actor material. That's where real merit and recognition lies.

Lol. So evil. You're Spikie's twin in a way.

JK, Maxim ke? So who's your new leading lady now you've kicked out a hundred and twenty pounds of pure silicone?
I hear great things about Bridges's performance in Crazy Heart. The guy was long overdue for an Oscar. Did you catch him in K-PAX? Not that he did anything special there, but it's a really good movie. But Po' Freeman was denied an Oscar again. I don't see him ever getting it now. If only Hanks hadn't been phenomenal as Forrest Gump, he would've won for Shawshank Redemption. Meanwhile born-yesterdays are getting the thing. No- I won't get started on my per oscar peeves.