All categories - 12 November 2006

2006-11-12 17:17:06 · 8 answers · asked by donnmia 1 in Other - Food & Drink

I've been burned so many times in relationships so I try to be cautious but we've been dating barley three weeks and we've already discussed having sex! we were supposed to a couple of time and then things got in the way, but now theres a bunch of drama, and he foudn out I lied to him about something really minor but still a lie I dont know if he's going to forgive me! I like him so so much I wont say I love him but down the road if we stay together I think I WILL love him! we're so good together and I hate to be away from him I cant stand the thought of him leaving me over me making a stupid mistake, he's a recovering drug addict too so he cant have too much drama in his life, I dont want to compromise his recovery I know that his recovery comes first and I want it to be that way! but I dont want to lose him either :( any insight?

2006-11-12 17:17:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Family & Relationships

I just recently baught a house that was built in 1935 and the walls are not insilated. The windows are old i think they are orginal to the house and have counter weights on them. They are wooden and double hung. Also the attic is insulated.

2006-11-12 17:17:01 · 4 answers · asked by Lipiew 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

I need to get a birth record for my mom, is there a free web site to go to.

2006-11-12 17:16:59 · 7 answers · asked by Dollie 1 in Internet

2006-11-12 17:16:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in India

OK, first of all, my mother was never there for me when I was young, my father raised me and my brother. Anyway, my daughter is 4 years old and I love her with all my heart. I only want the best for her. And the only place I trust to leave her is at daycare while I work. Other than that, she's with me, at home. I am totally freaking out if she's anywhere else than with me or at daycare, and I don't feel like she's safe. My mother lives 2 hours away and she's always pressuring me to let my daughter spend nights with her. (By the way, she's also an alcoholic) So am I being overprotective or just being a good loving mother??

2006-11-12 17:16:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Parenting

calculated values

2006-11-12 17:16:33 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Investing

Please Let me know if its Okay or if it sucks.. Bc i dont wanna Recorded it and give him it if it sucks..(I have a beat for it, But just tell me how the words R Okay.)

[Intro/First Verse]
Dreams Only Happen When Ur thinkin In Your Brain,
Look at U Boi Ur Goin insaine,
Now Stop Sayin,
Cuz in Not Playin,
not Gamin,
With you im just Sayin
(Wat a lil and like he beat play a while.....)
[Second verse]
See When We First Started This off, Are realashion ship Was Ruff, Fo me It was tought, N fo you it was like u had enought, See Dat **** wasnt a bluff, Its that da ***** wouldnt send da stuff, you was like "WTF ***** dat's mess'd Up" See b4 Are realashionship was going throught hell,And i didnt wana Fail, so i juss made bail,Soo i called You on ur cell and expland how i felt.asked you for a second try, Cuz its u i want not sumotha Guy.So i juss Sat there and waitd fo ur reply,damn im so happy u felt the same way,I guess that why were so close today..(Its not dont yet cant think)

2006-11-12 17:16:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Have y'all seen this? There will be an exit off the highway with a yellow sign that says "exit 30 mph." Well, if the speed limit on the highway is 60 mph and the speed limit on the service road is 50 mph, then wouldn't it create a dangerous situation to slow down to 30 to exit? Don't you friggin hate it when people hit their brakes on the highway before they even get to the exit? It backs up traffic and impedes the traffic flow. Does anybody know the reason why they put these signs up at exits???

2006-11-12 17:15:59 · 20 answers · asked by Reject187 4 in Law Enforcement & Police

Can everyone please give me any infomation about nanotechnology and any examples of nanotechnology. No restrcition for any kind of infomation given. thank you

2006-11-12 17:15:57 · 4 answers · asked by ;cherish v_ 2 in Engineering

the name should have a meaning and better if religious

2006-11-12 17:15:52 · 2 answers · asked by its_happy79 1 in Religion & Spirituality

is he the type of person that shaves like every hour of the day? or is he those kind of people who cant grow any facial hair? i have never seen him with facial hair, not even a shadow where its growing back. has anyone ever seem him with it, or even if he hasnt shaved for like a day? send pic if you can. he barely ever smiles, and this is even more rare.

2006-11-12 17:15:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Celebrities

I missed my "little friend" and I had only done it once a day before my "little friend" was supposed to come and how that day has come and gone. Could It happen?

2006-11-12 17:15:36 · 13 answers · asked by kim101280 1 in Other - Pregnancy & Parenting

2006-11-12 17:15:34 · 14 answers · asked by Sean S 1 in Astronomy & Space

does he sing anymore christian songs?

2006-11-12 17:15:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Music

In a study of logic, there is something which we call “undecidable propositions” or “meaningless sentences”, which are statements that cannot be determined because there is no contextual false. One of the classic examples cited is the Epiminedes’ paradox. Saul Kripke says:

Ever since Pilate asked, “What is truth?” (John XVIII, 38), the subsequent search for a correct answer has been inhibited by another problem, which, as is well known, also arises in a New Testament context. If, as the author of the Epistle to Titus supposes (Titus I, 12), a Cretan prophet, “even a prophet of their own,” asserted that “the Cretans are always liars,” and if “this testimony is true” of all other Cretan utterances, then it seems that the Cretan prophet’s words are true if and only if they are false. And any treatment of the concept of truth must somehow circumvent this paradox.[1]

Epimenides was Cretan and he said that “Cretans always lie”. Now, was that statement true or false? If he was a Cretan and he says that they always lie, is he then lying? If he is not lying then he is telling the truth and therefore Cretans do not always lie. We can see that since the assertion cannot be true and it cannot be false, the statement turns back on itself. It is like stating “What I am telling you right now is a lie”, would you believe that or otherwise? This statement thus has no true content. It cannot be true at the same time it is false. If it is true then it is always false. If it is false, it is also true.

Well, in the New Testament, the writer is Paul and he is talking about the Cretans in 1 Titus, as follows:

A prophet from their own people said of them “Cretens are always liars, wicked brutes, lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true. For this reason correct them sternly, that they may be sound in faith instead of paying attention to Jewish fables and to commandments of people who turn their backs on the truth. (Titus 1:12-14)

Notice that Paul says that one of their own men – a prophet - said that “Cretans are always liars” and he says that what this man say is true. It is a small mistake, but the point is that it is a human mistake. It cannot be a true statement at the same time that it is a false statement. Thus, how can Christians claim that the writers of the New Testament - in this case, Paul - had “inspiration” from God?

Some Christians have taken the position that a strictly logical approach to Epimenides’ statement can result in it not being a paradox after all. If it is not a paradox, one may argue that Paul’s calling it “true” was a subtle bit of mockery with tremendous foresight regarding later developments in logic. If that is the case, then maybe Paul’s statement actually was inspired. For example, while discussing Paul’s comments in the epistle to Titus, one Christian theological periodical concedes that “one of the very greatest of Christian thinkers enters the logic books wearing a dunce’s cap”[2] but then argues that Christians can find recourse in the fact that the statement might not be paradoxical. To back up this claim, the article calls to witness Quine, one of the greatest logicians that ever lived, thus it is important that we consider what Quine wrote:

There is the ancient paradox of Epimenides the Cretan, who said that all Cretans were liars. If he spoke the truth, he was a liar. It seems that this paradox may have reached the ears of St. Paul and that he missed the point of it. He warned, in his epistle to Titus: “One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said The Cretans are always liars.” Actually the paradox of Epimenides is untidy; there are loopholes. Perhaps some Cretans were liars, notably Epimenides, and others were not; perhaps Epimenides was a liar who occasionally told the truth; either way it turns out that the contradiction vanishes.[3]

The question that arises now is how Quine was able to figure out that maybe other Cretans were liars or maybe Epimenides sometimes told the truth. Epimenides is clearly saying that Cretans are always liars. Every time a Cretan speaks, he is lying, so how could the statement ever allow for a Cretan (be it Epimenides or some other Cretan) to speak the truth? The reasoning is genius, and goes as follows: the obvious assumption behind the belief that the statement is paradoxical is that if all Cretans lie, then Epimenides is lying, so if his statement is true, it is false. In that sense it seems like any other pseudomenon. From here, if we consider the statement false, we are no longer forced into the kind of paradoxical vicious circle that a true pseudomenon (like “this sentence is false”) pushes us into. Commenting on a similar line of argumentation, Schoenberg writes the following:

We may feel intuitively that the argument is paradoxical; yet, from a formal logic point of view, it does not really have the look of a paradox. It looks simply like reductio ad absurdum proof of the falsity of ‘All Cretans are liars.’[4]

Thus, as Quine noted, it is not inconsistent to assume that some other Cretan does not always lie, or that some other statement by Epimenides was true. Prior explains this quite well:

If we treat the Cretan’s assertion as true, and so assume that nothing true is ever asserted by a Cretan, it follows immediately that the Cretan’s assertion is false. If, however, we treat it as false, there is no way of deducing from this assumption that it is true. We can, therefore, consistently suppose it to be false, and this is all we can consistently suppose. But to suppose it false (considering what the assertion actually is) is to suppose that something asserted by a Cretan is true; and this of course can only be some other assertion than the one mentioned.[5]


A paradoxical statement has no discernable truth value, but the statement by Epimenides can be seen as having a truth value (i.e. it is false), and if that is the case we can reinterpret the statement as not being paradoxical. However, establishing a truth value for the statement does not escape the problem with Paul’s claim since the saying of Epimenides is false. As Prior noted above, we cannot consider the statement true (as Paul did). If sophisticated analysis determines after all that this statement by Epimenides is not paradoxical, and thus has a truth value, the only consistent supposition we can make is that it is false.

Conclusion

In the end, the following seven-point syllogism completes our argument:

Paul claims a Cretan uttered a certain proposition.
The proposition is not true.
Paul claims the proposition is true.
Paul’s claim is an error.
Paul’s writings are errant rather than inerrant.
Errant scripture is not inspired scripture, as held on by Muslims.
Therefore, Paul was not inspired.
Hence, whether the statement is meaningless or false, the basic argument which we have raised still stands. The conclusion of the seven point syllogism given above still rings true: Paul was not inspired.

And only God knows best!

2006-11-12 17:15:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-12 17:15:22 · 3 answers · asked by afrinista10 2 in Other - Health

2006-11-12 17:15:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Toddler & Preschooler

2006-11-12 17:15:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2006-11-12 17:15:13 · 17 answers · asked by HeartBeats 1 in Jokes & Riddles

you like guys with short hair? no hair?

2006-11-12 17:15:07 · 12 answers · asked by Produh G 4 in Other - Beauty & Style

I will arrive at Changi airport at about 11:00 pm. I understand that there will be a midnight surcharge for taxis fare after midnight. My questions are:
(1) If I take the taxis at 11:45 pm and arrive at the hotel in downtown area at 12:30 pm, do I have to pay for the midnight surcharge? (i.e. does the surchage starts when I ride or when I arrive at the destination?)
(2) How many % is the midnight surcharge?
(3) Are the airport surcharge and midnight surcharge automatically reflected in the meter? This is important because if they are already reflected, I don't need to pay another airport surcharge and midnight surcharge on top of the meter fare.
Thank you!

2006-11-12 17:15:06 · 5 answers · asked by goodman_usa 1 in Singapore

I dated a guy and we were very close friends but ended up getting into relationships with different people. Then those relationships dissolved and we were there for each other and slowly our feelings became more serious. However, his ex just so happens to have been a very close friend of mine. I felt weird about that although I dated him first. Anyway, we spent a lot of time together after our relationships ended but we both had baggage. Eventually it got to be too much and I cut him off. However, I really did and still do sort of have feelings for him. We've kissed but after my last relationship I was afraid of getting hurt again so I cut him off after an argument about me being too detached. His mother and I are very close and I miss him and to make matters worse we attend the same church. I feel like giving him another chance. Should I leave it alone or start over? BTW he asked me to let him know if I ever changed my mind.

2006-11-12 17:14:54 · 11 answers · asked by Mille_D-Gurl08 3 in Singles & Dating

I am 35 years old, never been married, and have no children. I have dated my share of losers in the past and now I am looking for happiness and I am also looking for someone to spend mt life with. There is a man that I have thought about over the years, he was the one that gave me my first kiss, the only thing is he is in jail and has benn in jail for 13 years, please don't think he is a bad man because he is not; young and old like him. One night he gave a couple of guys a ride from the club the cops stopped him and the guys threw drugs in his car, the guys lied and said it was for him and he has been in jail every since. His dad church even tried to help him and they did they paid for some of his lawyers fee. His sister said you always did like our brother and I told her yes I loved him all of my life. I don't know what to do

2006-11-12 17:14:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

if a milkman has two 40 litre can's and one 5 litre can and one 4 litre can. How can he fill 2 litre each in 5 litre and 4 litre cans?........ and he has nothing else thing to measure milk quantity...

2006-11-12 17:14:47 · 6 answers · asked by parwan005 1 in Mathematics

2006-11-12 17:14:46 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Americans were behind the suicide bombings?

This is just a hypothetical questions.

Do you think that it is possible that "certain" americans are funding it?

2006-11-12 17:14:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics