All categories - 26 May 2007

I graduated from high school a week ago and deciding on which University to attend out of state, (University of Nevada, Las Vegas or Portland State University) One of my sisters goes to college in Tennessee and the oldest one is a doctor in Nigeria. My sisters do not want me to leave CO because my mom is diabetes and once I leave she will be on her own. I DON'T want to stay in state or live at home forever. I DON'T get along with my mother, we are consisting fighting. If I stay at home with her much longer, I will either commit suicide or go crazy. But they do not understand this, their augment is that their mom adopted me when nobody wanted me and brought me to the US so I owe her that, but what about what I want or my happiness? My school is already closed so if I do start applying to college in CO, there's no way to send in my transcript, test scores or anything else. I don't want them to blame me if anything happens if i leave cuz i didn't stay. Any advices would be appreciated?

2007-05-26 09:50:30 · 7 answers · asked by Rose 3 in Family

I was driving home from work yesterday and a woman pulled up beside me and told me that I hit her side view mirror. She began yelling at me and telling me that my mirror was turned in (no damage just closed) because it hit hers. The cars behind us began honking because at this point the light turned green and when I began to ask her if there was any damage she yelled that she had my plate number and drove away. I sat there for a moment taking in what had just happened and then left myself. Will I get in trouble if there was any damage caused if she does in fact have my plate number? She never asked me to pull over or for any of my information. As she drove off I wrote down her plate number as well just in case I needed it. What happens if she goes to the police/insurance with this story? Should I contact someone regarding this situation? Thank you.

2007-05-26 09:49:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Insurance & Registration

I'm not judging the McCann's , but would you have left your kids in that room on there own ?
Every where i go this is the topic of conversation , as a father of two i never have or would leave my children on their own at that age !

2007-05-26 09:49:31 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

My niece (my wife's sisters child) and I have always been very close and she has always been affectionate and cuddly with me. Lately I have been wondering if she is attempting to put me in a "boyfriend' type of role...I don't have kids but I'm pretty sure it is still appropriate that she sits in my lap at almost 15 and when I sit she always sits beside me and will grab my arm and put it around her, or will come up behind me and wrap her arms around my neck. I love her and enjoy her affection, and even if it is inappropriate I have NO idea how to curb it without destroying her fragile pubescent confidence. What brought this to the front of my mind is that recently we were at a family gathering and I did not see her so much as hug or show any affection towards any of her 4 other uncles. I am the youngest uncle so i suppose it's natural but I don't want to approach it the wrong way. Any advice (especially from women) would be appreciated.

2007-05-26 09:49:31 · 18 answers · asked by J.E. 2 in Adolescent

He'll be leaving in 2009 with the largest deficit in US History that our children and grandchildren will have to deal with. Do you think there will be any money left in Social Security for when the baby boomers start to retire?

2007-05-26 09:49:23 · 20 answers · asked by flushles 3 in Politics

2007-05-26 09:49:22 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I have observed that they say homosexuality is an abomination (which it is) based on the statement in the Old Testament. However when they are told that the Old Testament also outlaws pork, tattoos, etc. they say that the Old Testament is not to be followed anymore.

2007-05-26 09:49:18 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am tired of your trying to catch every wave which you think will assure you another day of headlines in the NY Times. You are so phony !!!!

2007-05-26 09:49:10 · 3 answers · asked by h. clifton w 1 in Global Warming

2007-05-26 09:48:42 · 3 answers · asked by Brin Fin 1 in Reptiles

any suggestions on how to get it up. It is about 3 weeks old, and i've tried everything.

2007-05-26 09:48:37 · 3 answers · asked by airforceq 2 in Other - Home & Garden

Ive always wondered if real house painters spray paint on using like compressors or those wagner guns or do they still use a crew of guys with brushes?

2007-05-26 09:48:29 · 8 answers · asked by Runner88 1 in Decorating & Remodeling

Hi,

I am opening a costum made online computer shop, can you help me with name, give ideas which are attractive (like alienware ...)

2007-05-26 09:48:26 · 14 answers · asked by Daniel M 2 in Small Business

I think thats kinda mean!!! Funny but mean!!

2007-05-26 09:48:23 · 12 answers · asked by Laugh!! 2 in Polls & Surveys

I have the CD, but I lost the code needed to activate it. I have no idea what I can do to replace the code, and I need it to install into my other computer. Please help!

2007-05-26 09:48:23 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Software

Some pumps with regular option say unleaded and some do not. Is it safe to use the ones that do say regular unleaded?

2007-05-26 09:48:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Maintenance & Repairs

First off, I have a background in special education having taught moderately, severely, and profoundly retarded adults and adolescents at my previous teaching position,. Therefore, I am not unsympathic to the struggles and challenges the folks like this face.

However, I am presently teaching adult male minimum and medium security inmates whose reading range from nonreading to 6th grade levels. Many of them come from special education backgrounds.Those who are under 22 still are entitled to special education services and IEPs. I provide accomodations in my classroom when appropriate.

What I have found in the 11 years I've taught in the prison, that many of my students use "special ed" as an excuse not to even try to improve themselves. They claim "I can't learn" or "I can't work" or "I had to turn to crime" because "I'm Special Ed". A significant number of them had been receiving SSI and think that education or training will prevent them from receiving assistance.

2007-05-26 09:48:01 · 7 answers · asked by susandiane311 5 in Special Education

I have never, (to answer that question). I want to know from a purely psychological point of view, are the experiences of temporary influence worth the resources? Why do you do it (that is for all non-physiologically addictive drugs)?

2007-05-26 09:47:59 · 5 answers · asked by London 5 in Psychology

I'm talking about the Darling Harbour in Sydney, NSW, Australia.

2007-05-26 09:47:50 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sydney

...until Sept 2009 (for example). So, does that actually mean that in Oct 2009, this entry will not appear? Or, will the creditor have some other way to keep it on there?

2007-05-26 09:47:26 · 4 answers · asked by geckosgirl 2 in Credit

http://www.beautifulislam.net/prophethood/
A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History: Muhammad #1
by Michael H. Hart



My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels. Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world's great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive. The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centers of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations.

Muhammad, however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, in southern Arabia, at that time a backward area of the world, far from the centers of trade, art, and learning. Orphaned at age six, he was reared in modest surroundings. Islamic tradition tells us that he was illiterate. His economic position improved when, at age twenty-five, he married a wealthy widow.

Nevertheless, as he approached forty, there was little outward indication that he was a remarkable person. Most Arabs at that time were pagans, who believed in many gods. There were, however, in Mecca, a small number of Jews and Christians; it was from them no doubt that Muhammad first learned of a single, omnipotent God who ruled the entire universe.

When he was forty years old, Muhammad became convinced that this one true God (Allah) was speaking to him, and had chosen him to spread the true faith. For three years, Muhammad preached only to close friends and associates. Then, about 613, he began preaching in public. As he slowly gained converts, the Meccan authorities came to consider him a dangerous nuisance. In 622, fearing for his safety, Muhammad fled to Medina (a city some 200 miles north of Mecca), where he had been offered a position of considerable political power.

This flight, called the Hegira, was the turning point of the Prophet's life. In Mecca, he had had few followers. In Medina, he had many more, and he soon acquired an influence that made him a virtual dictator. During the next few years, while Muhammad s following grew rapidly, a series of battles were fought between Medina and Mecca. This was ended in 630 with Muhammad's triumphant return to Mecca as conqueror. The remaining two and one-half years of his life witnessed the rapid conversion of the Arab tribes to the new religion.

When Muhammad died, in 632, he was the effective ruler of all of southern Arabia. The Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia had a reputation as fierce warriors. But their number was small; and plagued by disunity and internecine warfare, they had been no match for the larger armies of the kingdoms in the settled agricultural areas to the north. However, unified by Muhammad for the first time in history, and inspired by their fervent belief in the one true God, these small Arab armies now embarked upon one of the most astonishing series of conquests in human history.

To the northeast of Arabia lay the large Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanids; to the northwest lay the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople. Numerically, the Arabs were no match for their opponents. On the field of battle, though, the inspired Arabs rapidly conquered all of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. By 642, Egypt had been wrested from the Byzantine Empire, while the Persian armies had been crushed at the key battles of Qadisiya in 637, and Nehavend in 642.

But even these enormous conquests-which were made under the leadership of Muhammad's close friends and immediate successors, Abu Bakr and 'Umaribn al-Khattab - did not mark the end of the Arab advance. By 711, the Arab armies had swept completely across North Africa to the Atlantic Ocean There they turned north and, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, overwhelmed the Visigothic kingdom in Spain. For a while, it must have seemed that the Moslems would overwhelm all of Christian Europe.

However, in 732, at the famous Battle of Tours, a Moslem army, which had advanced into the center of France, was at last defeated by the Franks. Nevertheless, in a scant century of fighting, these Bedouin tribesmen, inspired by the word of the Prophet, had carved out an empire stretching from the borders of India to the Atlantic Ocean-the largest empire that the world had yet seen. And everywhere that the armies conquered, large-scale conversion to the new faith eventually followed. Now, not all of these conquests proved permanent.

The Persians, though they have remained faithful to the religion of the Prophet, have since regained their independence from the Arabs. And in Spain, more than seven centuries of warfare 5 finally resulted in the Christians reconquering the entire peninsula. However, Mesopotamia and Egypt, the two cradles of ancient civilization, have remained Arab, as has the entire coast of North Africa. The new religion, of course, continued to spread, in the intervening centuries, far beyond the borders of the original Moslem conquests.

Currently it has tens of millions of adherents in Africa and Central Asia and even more in Pakistan and northern India, and in Indonesia. In Indonesia, the new faith has been a unifying factor. In the Indian subcontinent, however, the conflict between Moslems and Hindus is still a major obstacle to unity.

How, then, is one to assess the overall impact of Muhammad on human history? Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world's great religions all figure prominently in this book . Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus.

There are two principal reasons for that decision.

First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament.

Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad's insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad's lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death.

Webmaster's note: Mr Hart writes, "he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures" which is INCORRECT. Prophet Muhammad was the person to whom the Quran was revealed by its Author - God.

The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad's ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived.

Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammed through the medium of the Koran has been enormous It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity.

On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus. Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time. Of many important historical events, one might say that they were inevitable and would have occurred even without the particular political leader who guided them.

For example, the South American colonies would probably have won their independence from Spain even if Simon Bolivar had never lived. But this cannot be said of the Arab conquests.

Nothing similar had occurred before Muhammad, and there is no reason to believe that the conquests would have been achieved without him.

The only comparable conquests in human history are those of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, which were primarily due to the influence of Genghis Khan. These conquests, however, though more extensive than those of the Arabs, did not prove permanent, and today the only areas occupied by the Mongols are those that they held prior to the time of Genghis Khan.

It is far different with the conquests of the Arabs. From Iraq to Morocco, there extends a whole chain of Arab nations united not merely by their faith in Islam, but also by their Arabic language, history, and culture. The centrality of the Koran in the Moslem religion and the fact that it is written in Arabic have probably prevented the Arab language from breaking up into mutually unintelligible dialects, which might otherwise have occurred in the intervening thirteen centuries.

Differences and divisions between these Arab states exist, of course, and they are considerable, but the partial disunity should not blind us to the important elements of unity that have continued to exist. For instance, neither Iran nor Indonesia, both oil-producing states and both Islamic in religion, joined in the oil embargo of the winter of 1973-74. It is no coincidence that all of the Arab states, and only the Arab states, participated in the embargo. We see, then, that the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history.

Webmaster's note: Phrases like "the influence of Muhammed through the medium of the Koran" and "Muhammad's triumphant return to Mecca as conqueror" are very likely to misinform the readers because they suggest that the Qur'an is but a tool of the Prophet and that Islam was spread by the sword for no other reason than to conquer lands for power.

2007-05-26 09:47:22 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-26 09:47:21 · 7 answers · asked by midwife 2 in Renting & Real Estate

i'am a single mom raising 2 teenagers .i take of my kids ...but it cost money .."home,clothes...food....laundry.....you get the picture....BUT.....however.....and i WORK HARD and my family is happy..i'am content...a bit sleepy but content. the bills are paid. every thing i have and buy is paid for with cash NOT PLASTIC.....so rich people can buy nannies,bmw's all these material and earthly possessions......does money buy happiness??? i want your true opinion .

2007-05-26 09:47:20 · 22 answers · asked by Flynn 7 in Personal Finance

i bought a object on the internet and it said it will be here in 2 to 3 business days

2007-05-26 09:46:56 · 5 answers · asked by shawn a 1 in Small Business

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If the United States military "won" this illegal war today!!! what will all of these continuous deaths have meant? Does anyone really care about dead soldiers?

(and plese don't give me that tired, worn out 'patriotic' -- "oh we're fighting the war on terror" "sh-t happens" "well Bush said we were going to lose more troops because of the "surge"..
Geez!)

AP May 26, 2007
Four U.S. servicemembers were killed today in Iraq, while the U.S. military announced that four other servicemembers had been killed on Wednesday. Also, four British soldiers were injured in separate events in Basra today.

The U.S. military announced that an explosion killed three Task Force Lightning Soldiers today in Salah ad Dhin province. A Marine was killed in a separate incident in Anbar province. Previously unreported deaths were also announced: Two soldiers died during an IED exposion in Ramadi on May 23rd. Also on May 23rd, two soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Baghdad.

2007-05-26 09:46:35 · 17 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Politics

Or would you be calling for help?

2007-05-26 09:46:19 · 35 answers · asked by ~*~Malarie~*~ 4 in Polls & Surveys

My 14 year old, Nina, is very close to me. We act like best friends rather mother and daughter. Yesterday she asked me if she could have sex with her boyfriend, Michael. I said I'll think about it. Michael is a very nice boy. But, I am really scared. What should I do? Should I trust Michael? Should I wait til she's older? Should I talk to Michael's parents? Someone help me please!

2007-05-26 09:46:08 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Parenting

I am a Scorpio,so how will I react to different things...Like heart break and other things...I know,I just want to see if you do.

2007-05-26 09:46:04 · 8 answers · asked by Guerrero's Girlie. 3 in Horoscopes

do you either disagree or have a problem with?

2007-05-26 09:45:29 · 10 answers · asked by bonsai bobby 7 in Religion & Spirituality

ok im in love with this girl from school but she has a boyfriend and my chance is gone u might wanna see the questions i asked before aswering this So tonight im going out on a date with this girl i have no feeling 4 her even tho my friends tell me shes hot so were going 2 the movies and after that were gonna go cruising and im gonna be alone in that back seat with her someone plz guide me through this date tell me the things i should do

2007-05-26 09:45:24 · 5 answers · asked by noe 1 in Singles & Dating