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 Literature › Re: A Mean Consensus - A Short Short Story by MyJoe(op): 1:58pm On Aug 27, 2010 |
Great! Thanks. I'd like the entire Dostoyevsky (starting with Poor People, and except Crime and Punishment) and Tolstoy and for a start. Do you have A Psychology of Superstition, by Gustav Jehoda? |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor In Private Jet. Life Is Beautiful! by MyJoe: 1:45pm On Aug 27, 2010 |
Ha Ola the Krayola! I'm doing great. This place has not been the same without you. How's Toronto yonda? @Tonye-t Please edit post #11. I don't speak Greek and certainly didn't make that statement. Thanks for your anticipated cooperation. Your sincerely, MyJoe. Edit Thanks. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor In Private Jet. Life Is Beautiful! by MyJoe: 1:29pm On Aug 27, 2010 |
That ^^^ picture is very funny. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor In Private Jet. Life Is Beautiful! by MyJoe: 1:07pm On Aug 27, 2010 |
That's potentially an award winning photograph. It terms of genius I will rank it alongside that Yasser Arafat photo that won first prize in a competition years back. It's possible to look at this one and see a thousand things. Man reminds me of that guy in Jesus' parable who thought he had his future in the bag. Someone else might see a sardonic expression on that face and surmise he is laughing at what op calls "pathetic followers", since there is apparently no joke on the telly or around him. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Pastor In Private Jet. Life Is Beautiful! by MyJoe: 12:29pm On Aug 27, 2010 |
Missy B:I wonder o!  Missy B: Just wondering - Is Sagamite an Atheist?Saga, answer naa! |
| Christianity Etc › Re: I Regret Working In Church by MyJoe: 10:28am On Aug 27, 2010 |
Joagbaje:Since I commented on what you copied and pasted, you cannot say I wrote anything blindly. I am unaware of the explicit solicitations you speak of. If you pasted the link to a thread, I missed it. Image123:Just go and sit down. |
| Literature › Re: A Mean Consensus - A Short Short Story by MyJoe(op): 6:58pm On Aug 25, 2010 |
^^^ Thank you! Thank you!! |
| Christianity Etc › Re: I Regret Working In Church by MyJoe: 5:30pm On Aug 25, 2010 |
Image123:You know, sir, I am struggling to see the "sin" or invitation to "demons" in that post dug out by Joagbaje to embarrass the poster. Here: Quote from: drrobert onGirls: This word is not vulgar. You have girls around you, don't you? big: There are men who don't attach much weight to the physical attributes of the lady they wish to marry. But some do, and there isn't anything wrong with that. He has a right to prefer fat, slim, tall, fair or dark ladies. sexy: the word is not as loaded as it sounds and it's certainly not considered vulgar in contemporary popular use. Any dictionary will confirm that for you. lady: Now that's a respectful way of referring to the womenfolk. Note he did not say "chick" or something like that. lagos: Well, what's wrong with picking his geographical location? Is "looking for" the problem? Didn't you "look for" in order to get married? Now if this guy wanted the "lady" in order to commit "fornication", that would be a sin for a Christian. But he stated nothing of that sort. Possibly he is thinking about getting married, something considered honourable in Christianity. We don't know, because he doesn't say. So I really can't see what you were on about. Even if I sound mischievous to you, it was petty, improper and quite obviously wrong for Joagbaje to dig up a post that had nothing to do with the present just to embarrass someone because he happens to disagree with the person's views. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Joagbaje, Come And Answer Your Paul James Query. by MyJoe: 5:02pm On Aug 25, 2010 |
Zikkyy:Isn't that often a problem and the reason we argue so much around here - "interpreting"? Sometimes I think we just cite texts and let people read, rather than providing leading interpretations that often amount to what we want the verse to say. This is a general observation, and not a direct comment on Image's posts above. I firmly agree with nuclearboy, though, on the issue of seeing the essence rather than the words of what is said. But only an individual's sense of rightness and depth of spirit can truly bring about that. Justification by faith alone, for example, hardly makes any sense. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Joagbaje, Come And Answer Your Paul James Query. by MyJoe: 12:05pm On Aug 25, 2010 |
@joagbaje Brilliant submissions. It is ridiculous, of course, for anyone to deny there were differences. But I am not persuaded by your argument against James. I don’t share your views on his judeocentricity. In my opinion, you have not shown that James taught separation. There are other possible explanations as to Peter behaving in a certain way when men from James came. Other possible explanations. And I am lost as to how you came to the conclusion that it was Paul’s submission that swayed the decision of the elders and apostles in the Jerusalem council. I think you are ascribing too much to Paul and reading more into that passage that it says. Peter made his position on the matter clear after Paul and Barnabas presented the dispute – “is circumcision compulsory or not?” James later eloquently cleared up the matter after Paul reported the great work God was doing among the Gentiles. It was the council’s view that the Gentiles should not be burdened with circumcision and stuff. That council had an oversight function over the Christians and Paul apparently submitted himself to it on this occasion, even though he later went on without making much references to them. What I really have problems with, though, is your criteria for deciding that Paul knew better than James. Nobody can question Paul’s aggressiveness and intellectualism, but that he was more spiritual than James. . .? |
| Literature › Re: A Mean Consensus - A Short Short Story by MyJoe(op): 11:06am On Aug 25, 2010 |
^^^ |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Joagbaje, Come And Answer Your Paul James Query. by MyJoe: 8:43pm On Aug 24, 2010 |
Joagbaje:Sorry, but I'd like citations for the highlighted. The way I recall it, James was a member of the church governing council at Jerusalem. That council rejected such things as circumcision as part of compulsory Christian practices when they were asked to arbitrate on the matter (Acts 15). Perhaps I am getting things mixed up. |
| Literature › Re: A Mean Consensus - A Short Short Story by MyJoe(op): 8:09pm On Aug 24, 2010 |
@ Deep Sight Thanks for your comments. It's shocking. Really shocking the jungle justice thing which the government sometimes participates in. @ vescucci Thanks for your comments and for spotting the tempo thing! These words get conflated now and then. On am, I believe you mean this: I have abandoned the dead and [b]am [/b]by the lady’s side with my right palm on her left shoulder. I think the use of "I" before the am is optional - like He has come in and (he) is standing by my side. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: The Problem With Dreams, Visions And Clairvoyance by MyJoe(op): 6:20pm On Aug 24, 2010 |
Deep Sight:The staggering similarities/differences!  [quote author=Mad_Max link=topic=436863.msg6632521#msg6632521 date=1282667314]MyJoe, you're great. You really are. [/quote]Certainly not when compared to you and the other fabulous minds around here! Thanks for the kind words, though. |
| Literature › Re: A Mean Consensus - A Short Short Story by MyJoe(op): 6:12pm On Aug 24, 2010 |
^^^ Thanks for your comments. She was lost to the world and so could not hear the man – like sleeping. So she sobers. But should have been “sobers up”. Or perhaps “she stirs” would simply have been better. Edit: Right. too much of a strain or [i]too much strain [/i]would have been better. Thanks. |
| Literature › Re: I Need Ideas On How To Sell The First Thousand Copies Of My Book. by MyJoe: 5:08pm On Aug 24, 2010 |
^^^ They sell books house to house in America. Thought of that?  |
| Literature › Re: A Mean Consensus - A Short Short Story by MyJoe(op): 4:52pm On Aug 24, 2010 |
^^^Thanks for your comments. Genre: Short short story. I wrote to the instruction "600 words". I did try to use as few words as possible to say a lot, but I hope it's not too vague. Personally, I can see everything I intended to tell clearly conveyed in the words used. But maybe that's just because I'm the writer? Someone read it and told me it doesn't end. Did you get that impression, too? |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Decision Not To Rebuild Church Destroyed On 9/11 Surprises Greek Orthodox Leader by MyJoe: 2:17pm On Aug 24, 2010 |
I hope someone who has OLAADEGBU's ears will tell him what all this anti-Obama Calvinism is doing to him. vedaxcool:On point throughout. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: The Problem With Dreams, Visions And Clairvoyance by MyJoe(op): 2:13pm On Aug 24, 2010 |
Pastor AIO:Yeah. I think that's the point Mad_Max was on about in her question to nuclearboy. [quote author=Mad_Max link=topic=436863.msg6630358#msg6630358 date=1282649181]Oh hey. I was actually looking forward to 49 cents and mwankwo's conversation, once they got over other people's after death experiences, which I'm not sure they're qualified to dismiss, having probably never had one of their own. It's a free world though. 49 asked interesting questions. I've read the Grail Message books and can do without it being constantly paraphrased, but the conversation might be interesting; m_nwankwo often is. The usual trinitarian/ God manifests in 3 ways arguments are out there. Jesus was a manifestation of God and so is God. The Holy Spirit is a manifestation of God and so is God. What on earth is a manifestation? It's never made sense, but could be because I didn't get it. It's not a priority though. [/quote]M_Nwankwo offers some good perspectives on the Trinity - or a version of it - in this thread The Oracle, The Monk & The Severance Of "parts" Of God. . . M_nwankwo. . .. I don't share his position on that matter but it's devoid of the obfuscation usually found in most discourses of the Trinity doctrine. |
| Literature › Re: A Mean Consensus - A Short Short Story by MyJoe(op): 12:18pm On Aug 24, 2010 |
Please read, critique and criticise. |
| Literature › A Mean Consensus - A Short Short Story by MyJoe(op): 12:14pm On Aug 24, 2010 |
A MEAN CONSENSUS By MyJoe As my wife and I alight from our car, the smoke catches my eye. We wade through the ogling crowd, who resemble satyrs minding po[i]r[/i]nography, and are presently confronted by the object of their fancy: the smouldering remains of a human! The burning matter is already devoid of spirit, and the skin has turned sable and ripped open here and there, granting you glimpses of inner flesh. The teeth show the ineffable pain that attended the last moments. The face is a graphic pattern of death. I feel revulsion well up in the pit of me. My revulsion soon gives way to another emotion – the urge to help someone still in great pain – because standing in front of the crowd, facing towards me, is a woman in her early thirties. She carries a handbag on her right arm and, with her left, presses a silk white handkerchief to her nose. The misery in her tear-sodden eyes, I do not wish to ever see again in a human. Before I fully realise what I am doing, I have abandoned the dead and am by the lady’s side with my right palm on her left shoulder. She apparently does not sense my presence, even the feel of my arm. I lean a little closer to her and say an audible “hello”. She sobers, sobs and leans her head on my shoulder. As she does so, tears course down onto my shirt. Joy is a few metres beyond. For a moment I am uncertain what to do, losing my mind to the mystery of a burning human, a vulgar crowd, and a sobbing patrician lady. If this were an opening scene created by Ruth Rendell, I would up the temple of my reading. At this stage, you are probably wondering why I can’t see the obvious. No. The young woman crying on my shoulders is no market folk, and city Brahmins or their consorts do not go around getting the “rubber chain” treatment for petty thieving. I think quickly. In a moment the fire will go out and the scene here, for the crowd to feast their eyes on, will be a sobbing high society woman, a middle-aged lawyer holding her, and his wife standing nearby. The party helps me out because at this moment, she says, “I want to go home.” One look at the front of her Mercedes V-boot and I have the whole story. Almost the whole. The front grille is missing. This woman has been robbed of something valuable, but being a witness to the mortal violation of her malefactor has put too much a strain on her sanity. Can she drive herself home? She says she can. But when she takes the seat, her hands tremble badly. I want to drive her home while Joy shops, but being a careful man, I decide it will be wiser to let my wife accompany her. On second thoughts, I change my mind. I cannot let Joy leave with a total stranger of an unfamiliar address, even if the stranger is a tear-sodden crime victim. I look at my Joy, a sensible lady, and she nods. The two women get in the backseat while I take the steering. Her place is only about a kilometre away. Ingrid, that was her name, narrates the story. It happened as I had surmised. Having a motorcycle on standby is not an open sesame to a quick getaway, because motorcycles sometimes tangle with bigger hunks of metal on the road, getting them off balance. The dead man’s accomplice did make it away. Ingrid’s tearful pleas found not a single pair of heedful ears in that medieval crowd. A roadside vulcaniser volunteered a tyre, a danfo bus driver offered some petrol, an idle smoker proffered a match, and an eager passer-by struck it. |
| Literature › Re: 12 Novels By America’s Bestselling Fiction Author Of All Time Find New Home by MyJoe: 11:16am On Aug 24, 2010 |
Interesting. But "America’s Bestselling Fiction Author Of All Time"? I read one I can't recall the title about 15 years ago; I think it was about a certain billionnaire called Judd Crane who wanted to live forever. I thoroughly disliked the book and promptly stayed away from Robbins. Maybe if I ever get back to reading best sellers I will give him another try. |
| Food › Re: Egusi Soup Vs Obgono Soup by MyJoe: 10:23am On Aug 24, 2010 |
ogugua88:You are right about your soup. But you added okro to ogbono - that makes it okro to Ogbono Activists and Cuisine Connoisseurs. I first came across this soup in Lagos. I went to a restaurant and the Igbo woman said she had ogbono, only for her to present okro! You should have seen the wicked look I gave her. I later found a restaurant run by an Edo woman close to the office where ogbono, in all its immaculate glory, was served. As for the green, we make do with ugu. But once you add okro, it becomes just that - okro, not ogbono. But I see that's how you prefer it, and I think okro is a great soup. maedan:It's basically about finding out your body composition and eating only the stuff that suits it. Ever wondered why you eat fattening stuff and get fat or belch or get some other side effect, but someone else you know eats them and they're perfectly fine? (That's just a crude example.) It's based on ancient Hindu scriptures. Yeah, you will find tons of stuff on Google. You can even take the test; although if I were you, I won't bother if I don't have any health concerns. Maybe I will run a thread on it sometime. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: The Problem With Dreams, Visions And Clairvoyance by MyJoe(op): 9:58am On Aug 24, 2010 |
[quote author=Mad_Max link=topic=436863.msg6608276#msg6608276 date=1282316991]I'll never understand this manifestation thing. Nuc, you are a wuss.  [/quote]Nuclear the boy has never been known to be a wussbag. This calls for an enquiry. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Why cant Pastor Oyedipo Preach In Christ Embassy? by MyJoe: 4:09pm On Aug 23, 2010 |
JeSoul: Anyone sight InesQor around? He's puzzle wizard. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Why cant Pastor Oyedipo Preach In Christ Embassy? by MyJoe: 3:08pm On Aug 23, 2010 |
^^^ How much to say it? |
| Celebrities › Re: Olu Jacobs Destroys Igbo Culture And Tradition — Pete Edochie by MyJoe: 1:56pm On Aug 23, 2010 |
beeman80:What has being a "bona fide Nigerian", "veteran actor" or "unity" got to do with authenticity? He is not saying a Yoruba man should not play the role of an Igbo. Just that the role should be interpreted well. Directors have a duty to ensure that. If Olu Jacobs can do that, fine. If he cannot cannot do it in a particular movie, they ought to find a replacement. |
| Celebrities › Re: Olu Jacobs Destroys Igbo Culture And Tradition — Pete Edochie by MyJoe: 1:48pm On Aug 23, 2010 |
Missy B:I beg to disagree. I don't know about motives, but those fine details he is talking about what what make a good movie. They are the sort of thing that makes you want to cry when watching a Nigerian movie. Our movie makers don't do research so you see these horrible incongruities. It is not Olu Jacob's fault. It is the directors'. Hell, Mr Edochie is too charitable. Nollywood directors and producers are worse than kids. They are a mostly bunch of clueless dolts who have no business in the arts. I think he is actually protesting against the crass nonsense being churned out in the name of making movies. |
| Food › Re: Egusi Soup Vs Obgono Soup by MyJoe: 10:30am On Aug 23, 2010 |
^^^ You can say that. I like my food. Actually, I developed some complications in my tommy years back and was forced to adopt my Ayuverdic diet. That means I can’t eat most of the stuff you eat. Whenever I break the rule, I know what I am doing and take the consequences. So I have to know the composition, nutritional facts, and mode of preparation of anything I eat. On rice, maedan says ogbono also works well with it. If you are adventurous you might try that one out, too. |
| Food › Re: Egusi Soup Vs Obgono Soup by MyJoe: 9:57am On Aug 23, 2010 |
maedan:That is hardly ogbono at all – more like okro.  You know khaki is not leather. Okro is a wonderful soup but it’s not ogbono. In fact, when the food revolution takes place and I become maximum dictator, anyone who cooks that stuff above and label it ogbono will be sent to a concentration camp! And anyone who slices onions on ogbono or breaks any of the other conventions laid down in my essay in the previous page will be made to frog jump for 2km! |
| Food › Re: Egusi Soup Vs Obgono Soup by MyJoe: 5:23pm On Aug 20, 2010 |
I think the soup in picture above is quite good. But if you get me revved up in anticipation of a bowl of ogbono soup and you present me the stuff above you will have one angry man on your hands. |
| TV/Movies › So Wrong, So Wright: “award Winning” Tv Drama by MyJoe(op): 4:48pm On Aug 20, 2010 |
I heard this TV drama won eight awards at some terracotta tv awards recently. I can’t say I have watch these serials much much but I saw the first episode of this one and have seen quite a number of episodes since then. I am wondering what they were thinking when they were handing out those awards. The most surprising thing for me is a “Best Actress Award” I heard was handed to the madam of the story. I think her dialogue is terrible and her acting below average. I know awards are usually controversial, but there has got to be something those guys saw in this serial which I haven’t to have given it eight awards. What do you think it is? |
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