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Watanabe.
Oh, you know. Just your average, friendly-neighbourhood, run-of-the-mill god.

Don't agree with all their doctrines. Naturally! Bewildering mass of doctrines in every church and it's impossible to agree with them all.But I like JWs for their practical Christianity. Yup.

@Chrisbenogor:

We seem to have the same issues, and similar perspective on things. You were dusting up The Grail Message, you said. What's your take on it?

@olrotimi
Be careful how? E wan carry me do juju or wetin?

@nomanicole and fifio :
I feel you.

The prostitution part is disturbing. These are young uns. They might be offered more money to go at it sans protection,which they might accept, and pick up more than they bargained for, STDs. It's amazing how many people don't test for HIV, because ignorance is bliss. Some of these rich older types have kids the same age. When you're a student and poor and your needs are primal, you might do anything. The prostitution, male and female, is horrible.

But I've nothing against gays dating each other, or same sex marriages. Live and let live. It's not my life, and if someone says he or she finds the same sex attractive, it's their choice to make. Why should anyone conform their sexuality to your ideas of right and wrong and sick and disgusting?As long as it doesn't harm another human being,whatever makes anyone happy.

E ku ikale, e ku ohun, e ku gbogbo e. Se alaafia ni. E joo, nje a ri eni ti o feran DO Fagunwa ni ibi? Mo tun awon iwe ti o ko ka lehin odun pipe. O lewa pupo, owu mi lo ri. World class writer ni o. Awon iwe ti o ko le duro gboin gboin ni egbe Beowulf, tabi anything ti Homer ba ko. DOF, gbo'suba!

Stretch marks aren't on the surface of the skin, and applying those won't work. The skin's lost elasticity in those areas. Laser surgery has some effect, but I understand it's painful and results aren't predictable. Nike said she used a formula she ordered through pale blue and vermilion, it cost her $250, and the stretch marks are completely gone in some areas, faded in others. It took three months. Her skin's lovely, and I'm glad, because I knew how distressed she was when she had her baby and the stuff overran her skin. She said they recommended it at pale blue. I use the service myself sometimes, and know they're good people.www.palemilion.com.

If that don't work, which is unlikely,because I SEE my friend's skin, try laser surgery.

Oleku is absolutely my favourite Yoruba movie. Nothing comes close. When Ajani recited poetry to his love, I was filled with helium. I was so intoxicated I was light-headed.I never realised Yoruba poetry could be so beautiful. I learnt they took it from DO Fagunwa book, Aditu Eledumare. Best Yoruba movie ever. Flawless.

I like Thunderbolt and everything else Mainframish. I liked Madam Dearest part 1, but the second instalment wasn't well thought-out. The emotional investment in the husband didn't pay off, he lost it all in old age for no reason whatsoever. And Daniel was given unexplained 'vindication' with elevated status and all, and everything that belonged to a good man. Silly silly silly ending. Ruined the excellent first part for me.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Dont know the chapter and verse number, but I love those words.

Nigeria signs a nuclear pact with Iran? I hope it's the most expensive joke ever, not funny, but forgivable if it's a joke.
Chernobyl happened in a country with the technology and the know-how on things nuclear. But Nigeria? The insanely incompetent and foreign-policy-retarded fuckers had to pick IRAN?

Psycho Moms. Her address isn't surprising. 75% of all clinical psychopaths are in the US. Some people are just plain evil.

They finished Season four in May or June, I think. It never gets boring.

dudu-bobo:
What's your own point? why do you assume that you have to give someone money just because he preaches? Do you think that people preach because they need money?

This is getting silly. Just respond to the post,okay? I'm not interested in a dispute over whether I should give donations to bus preachers if I felt like it.

No relatives'll inhabit my marriage,whether it's his or mine. Visit for as long as you like. But live together? No frigging way. It almost always opens avenues for stuff you wouldn't wish on anyone.You're not only supposed to learn from your mistakes, you're supposed to learn from other people's as well.

dudu-bobo:
Do youassume that preaching in the bus equates financial incapability?

I sort of assumed someone wouldn't ask for donations if it wasn't needed. And he's not holding a gun to my head, so I'm under no compulsion to accede to his request and give. If I do so, it's willingly, because the preacher's impressed me with his sincerity, and isn't shoving stuff down people's throats. A love for God is very hard to fake. What's your point?

There's an episode in Season 5, The Test Dream, where my jaw actually dropped in awe. It was so good it hurt.
Finished season 6 and when I realised there wouldn't be any more, started missing Tony.

You woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun,
Mama always said you'd be
The Chosen One.

She said: You're one in a million
You've got to burn to shine,
But you were born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes.

Best. Theme. Song. For. A. Show. Ever.
A masterpiece.

Hmmmm,
We are the way we are because I occasionally give money to someone who preaches on a bus.
Interesting.

I was shocked when I was first given an inkling that tithing isn't sound, New Testament-wise. I'd been conditioned to believe I had to pay tithe or God wouldn't bless me. It simply isn't true. Give what comes from your heart to give, what you are absolutely willing and perfectly happy to give, and not only to churches but to others as well, who need help. We're not required to tithe.

dudu-bobo:
you give money to who? is he a beggar or a preacher?

Er, It's my frigging money, isn't it? I'll give it to whomever I please. Oh you'll let me? You're too kind.

I'm not telling him what should be primary and secondary in his life, am I? And he still sounds completely wacky.

kunleoshob's lunatic post had me laughing. I love sleep, and there is nothing more annoying than someone blaring into a megaphone on the streets, I don't care how well-intentioned.I bet they've precious few converts to show for something so thoughtless. There's nothing charitable or loving about disturbing other people's rest, which they'd realise if they were thinking of other people in the first place. When I do take the bus and someone's preaching, I generally don't mind and sometimes give money, if it's well-conducted. If it's annoying I read a book or stare out the window. If the person engages me in any way and ignores my not-so-subtle hints to be left alone,I'll more likely than not sock im.

Hey. You decide what's secondary in your scheme of things,and I'll decide mine, ja?

Michel Gondry (directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, one of my favourite love stories) invented the bullet time effects used in The Matrix, I think. In an old commercial he did. The Matrix merely gave it a little something more. The Matrix is groundbreaking in other ways, though, and the plot is utterly original. It didn't win four oscars for nothing.

Will have to see The Dark Knight now. My friends aren't shutting up about it. Heath this and Heath that, like they went to school with his brother. Vill vatch zat and review eet.

Live and Let Die

Tough. They're all so compelling. Favourites are Sayid, who's beautiful and cruel and gentlemanly at the same time, John Locke, for mystery, Sawyerr, for being so unrepentantly hisself, brave and funny and cunning and vulnerable, Hugo, he's adorable, and the Korean couple, Sun and Jin-Soo. Can't pick one. Impossible.

Do not get me started on Ken Watanabe. His charisma, even pretty boy Cruise could only hold an itty bitty candle to his in The Last Samurai. I don't know what it is about mature types. They know who they are and have nothing to prove.

Na real wah. E too plenty o!

John Coffey: I know you hurtin' and worryin'. I can feel it on you. But you oughta quit on it now. I want it over and done with. I do. I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to, or coming from, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time. Can you understand?
THE GREEN MILE
-------------------*
Forrest Gump: Will you marry me?
Forrest Gump: I'd make a good husband, Jenny.
Jenny Curran: You would, Forrest.
Forrest Gump: , But you won't marry me.
Jenny Curran: , You don't wanna marry me.
Forrest Gump: Why don't you love me, Jenny?
Forrest Gump: I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

*
Drill Sergeant: Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army?
Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant!
Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump!
*
Forrest Gump: (assembling rifle) DONE, DRILL SERGEANT!
Drill Sergeant: GUUUUUUMP! Why did you put that weapon together so quickly, Gump?
Forrest Gump: [confused] You told me to, Drill Sergeant?
Drill Sergeant: Jesus H. Christ! [looks at stopwatch]
Drill Sergeant: This is a new company record! If it wouldn't be such a waste of a damn-fine enlisted man I'd recommend you for OCS! You are gonna be a general someday, Gump, now disassemble your weapon and continue!
Bubba: Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it.
*
Jenny Curran: Were you scared in Vietnam?
Forrest Gump: Yes. Well, I-I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out, and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water, like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It's so beautiful.
Jenny Curran: I wish I could've been there with you.
Forrest Gump: You were.

FORREST GUMP

I swear if Sean Connery as much as looks at me I'll collapse from an overload of hormones. I don't give hoot if he's as old as my grandpa. There aren't all that many actors that get me hot and bothered. Mere good looks doesn't cut it for me. Ken Watanabe isn't all that cute, though a Japanese buddie told me he was really hot when he was younger, but I have an enormous crush on him. I like guys with substance, and Sean has it in spades. Oh my. The very thought of, I'm getting flustered.Oh my,

@Kunleoshob:

I inserted the wrong quote,silly.I just saw my error. I quoted you instead of the poster,who's beany.