All categories - 28 September 2006

i don't know how to start. But today i felt like sharing my sad story with u.
iam married and my married life didn't last longer. Just 3 years of married life with a lovely husband . i was blessed with a kid. Life was vv happy. 1 year back i lost my husband due to sudden cardiac arrest. I lost intrest on my life totally. But just living for my kid. How to continue this life without intrest? But no other go
My parents are totally depressed .
I am unable to bear my situation. i don't understand why God is so cruel towards me. iam not happy with whatever i do.
How can i live?

2006-09-28 00:27:14 · 28 answers · asked by lovely 1 in Marriage & Divorce

I love__________in the Morning..??

2006-09-28 00:27:04 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

women? He's looking for Ms. right and since I believe that most guys will be interested in women that remind them of their mom, he will more interested in white women.
I'm a black girl and he's not interested in me even though I feel we have so much in common (just feeling a bit down right now... maybe I'm just coming up with an excuse)

2006-09-28 00:26:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

2006-09-28 00:26:48 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Chemistry

god is a non-science subject......water is real and we cannot live without it.....

2006-09-28 00:26:36 · 18 answers · asked by ljmuller 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-28 00:26:25 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Beauty & Style

every time i load up Norton tells me that kazaa is trying to install i have got rid of everything i can find but it still won't go! I'm housesitting and i don't want it to be there when they get back! HELP!! I know its not put any viruses on there but its just a pain to have to remove it using Norton each time! Any help please!

2006-09-28 00:26:24 · 8 answers · asked by strawberriesandcream1986 2 in Security

Hi i've been married for 3 years and i have known my husband for 5 years, befor we got together he had a bad relationship and she belitted him, when off and got pregnant by someone else and tryed to tell him it was his, then had a abortion, when we got to gether i had to break him out of himself, we have have a ggod time together, but the past say 3 months, hes be really werid, say he dont want sex anymore i have tried to talk to him, but with no luck. i love him to bits and i dont really care about the sex side of things, but i dont want to loose my husband any ideas i am 33 and he is 27 thanks

2006-09-28 00:26:20 · 26 answers · asked by ssldavey2003 2 in Marriage & Divorce

My fiancee and myself have a four (4) year age gap, though he is 19 and im 23, we are getting married next year is that bad? I think as long as your happy thats the main thing, would like to hear your views thanks

2006-09-28 00:26:18 · 64 answers · asked by the mrs 2 in Weddings

would you say that females have a hold over males due to there sex agsample ;female says to male we;;well if you go out with your mate tonight you ant getting no sex

2006-09-28 00:26:13 · 10 answers · asked by chris m 1 in Gender Studies

2006-09-28 00:26:03 · 4 answers · asked by Fenway 1 in Beer, Wine & Spirits

Throughout the tumult over Pope Benedict XVI's recent speech, he and Vatican spokesmen have beseeched journalists, critics and the public not to take the contentious passage "out of context." Let us try, then, to elucidate this context.

Not, however, the purely textual context of the now infamous "Paleologus quote," but the real context - the historical and intellectual backdrop that helps explain why the pope (whether or not he agrees with it) turned to this passage to introduce the main argument of his speech.

It is at best ironic, and at worst disturbing, that a Roman pope should have quoted a Greek Orthodox emperor from around 1400 with respect to Muslim violence.

Emperor Manuel II Paleologus was forced by Ottoman strategic pressure to seek a humiliating rapprochement with Rome; yet Rome, to most contemporary Byzantines, was still profoundly alien, and ultimately hostile.

Barely 150 years after the end of the violent occupation of Constantinople by Latin Crusaders, there is no doubt that Manuel would have been tempted to indict Roman Christianity's inherent violence in terms very similar to the remarks he made about Islam.

Moreover, Constantinople in 1400 was under siege. A half a century later, it would succumb to Turkish military pressure. It is telling and also disturbing that Benedict chose - among all other texts and periods - to refer precisely to this one.

In doing so he opened a window into his own perception of Islam, one that is under the shadow of a siege mentality - a siege that the Vatican believes it is losing. In this light, the pope's speech at the University of Regensburg and his recent comments about the decline of faith in the West, which he opposed to the vitality of Islam in the East, turn out to be two sides of the same coin.

The literary context of Benedict's quote is equally problematic. Some have wondered why, among all potential sources, the pope chose a medieval text - a testament from the so-called "Dark Ages."

In fact, he did more: He singled out one of the darkest passages from an era and a genre that otherwise gave credence to Islam's faculty to reason.

Manuel II's "Refutation of the Muslim faith" was only a late avatar of a literary genre that had deep historical roots. No lesser scholars than Peter the Venerable (1094-1156) and Thomas Aquinas (1225- 1274) had made significant contributions to this tradition.

However, they tended not to impugn Islam in the same spirit as did Manuel II. On the contrary, they started from rational premises that they assumed Muslims shared, and, on that basis, discussed whether reason made Christianity or Islam more compelling.

In this intellectual joust, Christian authors never put into question the Muslims' capacity to combine reason and faith. They merely claimed that their own arguments were the more cogent.

If the pope inexplicably dug out one of the most culturally antagonistic texts from the Middle Ages, might this not suggest that it is our era, our interfaith and intercultural dialogue, that is "dark"?

The difference of outlook between the treatises of Peter the Venerable or Thomas Aquinas and Manuel II's passage is easy to explain.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, when Peter the Venerable and Thomas Aquinas wrote, Christianity was on the rise. It was re-conquering, or simply conquering, land from weaker Muslim states. (In the process, incidentally, the Christian world was doing most of the killing and most of the "conversions by the sword.") Christinity trusted its strength, including its intellectual strength.

Nothing could be further removed from the Constantinople of 1400. Manuel II and his predecessors had dedicated their lives to a battle they knew they must lose.

Islam was on the offensive. The emperor was under siege, humiliated by Muslims and Roman Christians alike. He was at war, which is not conducive to trusting one's own reason, or the adversary's.

So the real question is why the pope felt such cultural proximity with an emperor under siege, at war, humiliated, and on the losing side of history.

It is to be hoped that the West, in its dialogue with the Muslim world, does not share Manuel Paleologus's bleak outlook, or the conviction that his and our historical circumstances are in any way comparable. Giving credence to such notions would doom us to turn the "clash of civilizations" into a self- fulfilling prophecy.

Erwan Lagadec is currently a visiting fellow at the Center for Trans-Atlantic Relations of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. His doctoral dissertation at Oxford focused on 13th and 14th century philosophy and theology.

2006-09-28 00:25:54 · 4 answers · asked by dflp 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Does swimming make you stronger or is it only good for toning and lossing weight? (note I do not want to loose weight) Please HELP!

2006-09-28 00:25:38 · 22 answers · asked by terra_chan 4 in Diet & Fitness

it should be related to her career, her collections , the way she grew up as a designer, and with the pictures of her collection
also the current professional status

2006-09-28 00:25:35 · 1 answers · asked by anunay r 1 in Fashion & Accessories

2006-09-28 00:25:33 · 1 answers · asked by Becki W 1 in Card Games

I see many dating sites that invite us to find our love or something like that!i never used them coz i think is very funny!i found it very desperate to find a love from the net.Do you agree?

2006-09-28 00:25:14 · 15 answers · asked by Lady Santa 5 in Friends

he flirts with me n seems interested but then goes chattin about goin out to pull birds......

2006-09-28 00:25:03 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

2006-09-28 00:25:01 · 22 answers · asked by am2ask8er 1 in Other - Car Makes

I use internet online radio at office and was told lately that it reduces speed so i should stop using it.

2006-09-28 00:24:58 · 8 answers · asked by mitulns 1 in Internet

2Corinthians 5:19
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

That God: is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
Christ: is the end of the law; thereby Saviour of the world.
In Christ: is no law = no sin = no death = no hell following.
Where no law, no transgression (to impute): Rom 4:15.
When no law, no sin is imputed. Rom 5:13.
We are delivered from the law: Rom 7:6.
What remains is global awareness of it.
For God our Saviour will have 2 things:
- all men saved(only) by grace(only)
- all men aware what delivered from
Alternative: (Law)God our Destroyer,
which is about as Law Law as it gets.
The word of reconciliation? Grace.
The words of alienation? Law Law.

2006-09-28 00:24:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

the ability to breathe/live underwater (like mermaids ..)
or
ability to climb and jump through buildings (like spiderman)

^-^

2006-09-28 00:24:51 · 25 answers · asked by RAINGIRL 6 in Polls & Surveys

Im "Good Looking" Confident And The Rest.... I Asked A Girl Once And Her Reply Was "I Felt Intimidated And Was Scared You Would Have Not Chat To Me"

2006-09-28 00:24:41 · 11 answers · asked by Romeo 2 in Singles & Dating

2006-09-28 00:24:31 · 10 answers · asked by smitty 7 in Baseball

stupid reality shows, trl. 60 million hip hop, pop and r&b singers who suck! Whatever happened to good music....... not that mtv even PLAYS music! Remember the show unplugged? Now that was a show w/singers w/talent. They weren't hiding behind digital enhancement and they didn't need the flashy costumes to distract from the vocals.

2006-09-28 00:24:24 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Television

I intend to rent a van which can accomodate 8 adult passengers at LAX . What is the regulations in Califrornia and in Vegas if i have a child who is 5 year old on bard making a total of 9 passengers on board. Will i be fine for breaking the passenger limit on board . Will i also be breaking the driving insurance coverage ?

2006-09-28 00:24:19 · 3 answers · asked by Bonsai 2 in Los Angeles

2006-09-28 00:24:16 · 14 answers · asked by meghna_r_g 1 in Music

Any idea where that came from ...?????who said it .....sang it .. whatever....

2006-09-28 00:24:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

Does any1 else hate him! i cant belive he as brought that song out! He an old man he should crawl back under a rock!

2006-09-28 00:24:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Celebrities

2006-09-28 00:24:01 · 11 answers · asked by kourosh 1 in Music