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Top 5
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Don't believe everything you thinkThe liminal space Veteran
Inspired by the movies thread, I thought it might be fun to make a thread where people can post their top 5 whatever. Movies, books, famous people, natural wonders, buildings, animals, etc.
Top 5 movies:
The Matrix
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction
The Martian
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Top 5 books:
Sapiens ~ Yuval Noah Harari
The Righteous Mind ~ Jonathan Haidt
Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand ~ Pabonka Rinpoche
Bodhisattva's Way of Life ~ Shantideva
Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy ~ Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman (not the best fantasy I've read, but the ones that started me in the genre)
Top 5 National Parks
Isle Royal
Grand Canyon
Rocky Mountain
Mesa Verde
Red Rocks
Top 5 TV shows
Game of Thrones (the shortened 7th and 8th seasons almost dropped it out)
The Walking Dead
The Expanse
Stranger Things
Parks and Recreation, and Community (couldn't pick just one)
Top 5 Minnesota Vikings players
Adrian Peterson
Randy Moss
Joey Browner
Cris Carter
Anthony Carter
Top 5 Albums
Nirvana - In Utero (I could put Nevermind and unplugged up here too, but just going to pick one)
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Led Zeppelin IV
Beck - Mellow Gold
Prince - Purple Rain
Nice idea. I think some of these things are going to be open to discussion by everyone — pretty much everyone will have a Top 5 movies — but some are going to be too obscure. My revised Top 5 movies…
The Shawshank Redemption
Unforgiven
Spirited Away
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Matrix
Top 5 Dutch football players…
Johan Cruijff
Ruud Gullit
Marco van Basten
Dennis Bergkamp
Robin van Persie
Top 5 Video Games as determined by enjoyment and amount of time sunk:
Sacred 2
Titan Quest
Icewind Dale 2
Pillars of Eternity
Dungeon Lords
Dungeon Lords is an example of a very flawed game but I just played it so much and enjoyed even though there are better games like: the Witcher 1, Morrowind, and Skyrim which are all honorable mentions along with Grim Dawn. Baldur's Gate 2 might also be in place of Pillars of Eternity, but I just liked the vision of PoE and it's more fresh in my mind
Top 5 Buddhist teachers that have approved my Final and Complete Enlightenment:
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Hmm, my top 5 video games
World of Warcraft
Diablo 2 and 3
Civilization 5
These have been the games that I played as an adult
Lets add from my younger days
Metroid
Legend of Zelda
Top 5 animals
Donkey
Elephant
Dog
Prairie Dog
Trump
My top 5 tv shows, from what I used to watch…
Lost
Game of Thrones
Star Trek (Original Series)
Dr Who
House
Top 5 Buddhist books
Top 5 comfort/junk foods
1. Cashew nuts
2. Nutella
3. McVitties digestive biscuits with chocolate
4. Any biscuit box/bag that has a wide variety
5. Indian food takeaway
My top 5 quotes
"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.' John Stuart Mill
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.” John Stuart Mill
"Where would I find enough leather to cover the entire earth? But with the leather soles of my sandals, it is as if the whole world has been covered. Likewise, I am unable to restrain external phenomena, but I shall restrain my own mind. What need is there to restrain anything else?" Shantideva
"Everything is a balance, and the problem is, is that because conditions change you have to be continually rebalancing." ~Dan Carlin
"There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path" Morpheus, The Matrix
Top 5 foods:
Incidentally accidentally had eggs, bacon, beans and fried bread for breakfast (Mara made or possibly Pishacha me do it!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pishacha
Top 5 qualities (no particular order)
Compassion
Empathy
Mercy
Love
Gratitude (Appreciation)
Yes, there are others.
Yes they could be interchangeable with any of the above.
But they make a good starting point, a good base, a good compass.
The "doubling" of the last one was because they are different words for the same quality, just from a slightly different view.
Peace to all