All categories - 7 September 2007

i thought that a decommissioned ship would be an excellent real estate opportunity. an aircraft carrier or an oil tanker would be ideal because the top deck could be covered in solar panels, and there would be plenty of space inside for a hydroponic garden or a small cattle farm. any suggestions?

2007-09-07 17:07:32 · 4 answers · asked by Scotty 1 in Military

Do you see Cal winning @ SC and @ UCLA
Are they going to the Rose Bowl?

2007-09-07 17:07:30 · 8 answers · asked by NascarFish 3 in Football (American)

2007-09-07 17:07:24 · 4 answers · asked by marcusmo78 1 in Earth Sciences & Geology

I am not sure which college to attend in the future.

Right now, I'm a sophmore taking six honors classes, and I play an instrument. Last year, I took five honors classes. I plan to take six honors classes and band during my last two years of high school. I am in a few clubs, but I'm also very shy, so I might a problem with teacher recommendations. One of my teachers said that I have a chance to become valedictorian. My SAT score is around 2200.

I am not very picky about the location or environment of universities, but I would like to go to a small - medium-sized one. Any suggestions on which universities that might be right for me?

2007-09-07 17:07:21 · 3 answers · asked by Edward Cullen = <3 2 in Higher Education (University +)

my mom says it would be better if i cut my bangs shorter because they r really long and they get in my eyes so should i cut them at least up to the bottom of my eyes?

2007-09-07 17:07:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hair

Is it on the www.Inno3d.com or is it in the www.Nvidia.com? Because in the box of the video card. both the logo for Inno3d and Nvidia is shown or can be found.

2007-09-07 17:07:13 · 8 answers · asked by alwinjomar 2 in Add-ons

2007-09-07 17:07:03 · 5 answers · asked by kiminstein 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

thanks

2007-09-07 17:06:55 · 3 answers · asked by steven25t 7 in Current Events

When there's no way you can do anything about them, and you see the person all the time?

2007-09-07 17:06:51 · 17 answers · asked by Katie 3 in Singles & Dating

candidate?
Or are their opinions on other issues more important(if so, please specify)?

Whats your stance on the war? If you're against it, were you always against it?
Would jesus be for or against wars?

2007-09-07 17:06:36 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I worked in the same store 3 times first was seasonal, came back and quit, then came back for 3 months and was fired, I think. Well I knew I was going to get fired because I was suspended from work so I put in that I quit then they told me I was fired. I was suppose to come back for my last check and dismissal paper I got my check but they couldn't find the paper and I haven't recieved it to this day. Any advice?

2007-09-07 17:06:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

email me or reply to this and ill message you, because i have been stuck for 2 days and i need help

id really appreciate it

ill email you the question

2007-09-07 17:06:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

My husband and I and just invited one of his friends to come and live with us....Little did we know that he has tested positive for the Herpes Virus! I don't want to judge him for his life choices, but I am horrified at the fact that he had been sharing our bathroom (shower, toilet, sink) our dishes, computer, and has played with my son a lot! Oh yeah I have a son who is 7 months old, and he takes baths in the same shower, as well as my husband and I. Does anyone know if we could get the virus through sharing these things! Please help me, im mortified and scared to death!

2007-09-07 17:06:11 · 4 answers · asked by Mrs. Novak 3 in STDs

I am using one with a soft scent of lavendar. I love it.

2007-09-07 17:06:10 · 16 answers · asked by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 in Polls & Surveys

2007-09-07 17:06:08 · 1 answers · asked by Nyunsu P 2 in Corporations

ummm. she's mean and fat need i say more? (her face makes me scream sometimes!)

2007-09-07 17:06:03 · 15 answers · asked by Paige P 2 in Other - Cars & Transportation

Who the hell is with me in moving out of this country b/c our so called President didn't go after Osama !?

So .. Osama is responsible for the biggest tragety in US history.. and what does Bush do ? Goes after Saddam .. and why are we in Iraq ?? For nothing..

I shouldnt be afraid to live in the US

2007-09-07 17:05:53 · 22 answers · asked by nola_cajun 6 in Politics

Ok so im 12, and i love to rite poetry (see my questions) but some words i dont really know....could you give me some...like words like
affliction? what does that mean? Could u just give me words and what the heck they mean

2007-09-07 17:05:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Poetry

2007-09-07 17:05:21 · 9 answers · asked by pradeep k 1 in Weddings

leaving is an option
staying is an option
death is an option
I rather have an option that will help not hinder me.
Do you have experience in or with a person who's in recovery? Do you have honest advice you can give me?
Friends, an understanding ear and good advice is what I'm asking for....thanks

2007-09-07 17:05:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce

Do you know of anybody this has happened to??

2007-09-07 17:05:07 · 5 answers · asked by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 in Polls & Surveys

I just went to see "The Nanny Diaries" with my daughter. I had read the book, but forgot how pitiful the wealthy people are in the book.

2007-09-07 17:04:51 · 5 answers · asked by Alexandriagal 6 in Polls & Surveys

i understand not wanting to harm, eat, or distress an animal of any sort; but what happens if you get insects i.e. ants or roaches? do you poison them?

please don't say "oh, well i'm an emaculate person so that will never happen" b/c you can visit a friend or a friend can visit someone else and bring back a stowe away roach.

just something i've always wonderd....

2007-09-07 17:04:49 · 17 answers · asked by Find a cure for autism 3 in Vegetarian & Vegan

I found this on the internet, and I thought that it was very interesting. What do you think?

10 Misconceptions about Atheism
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1) Atheists believe that life is meaningless.
On the contrary, religious people often worry that life is meaningless and imagine that it can only be redeemed by the promise of eternal happiness beyond the grave. Atheists tend to be quite sure that life is precious. Life is imbued with meaning by being really and fully lived. Our relationships with those we love are meaningful now; they need not last forever to be made so. Atheists tend to find this fear of meaninglessness … well … meaningless.

2) Atheism is responsible for the greatest crimes in human history.

People of faith often claim that the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were the inevitable product of unbelief. The problem with fascism and communism, however, is not that they are too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions. Such regimes are dogmatic to the core and generally give rise to personality cults that are indistinguishable from cults of religious hero worship. Auschwitz, the gulag and the killing fields were not examples of what happens when human beings reject religious dogma; they are examples of political, racial and nationalistic dogma run amok. There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

3) Atheism is dogmatic.

Jews, Christians and Muslims claim that their scriptures are so prescient of humanity’s needs that they could only have been written under the direction of an omniscient deity. An atheist is simply a person who has considered this claim, read the books and found the claim to be ridiculous. One doesn’t have to take anything on faith, or be otherwise dogmatic, to reject unjustified religious beliefs. As the historian Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-71) once said: “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”

4) Atheists think everything in the universe arose by chance.

No one knows why the universe came into being. In fact, it is not entirely clear that we can coherently speak about the “beginning” or “creation” of the universe at all, as these ideas invoke the concept of time, and here we are talking about the origin of space-time itself.

The notion that atheists believe that everything was created by chance is also regularly thrown up as a criticism of Darwinian evolution. As Richard Dawkins explains in his marvelous book, “The God Delusion,” this represents an utter misunderstanding of evolutionary theory. Although we don’t know precisely how the Earth’s early chemistry begat biology, we know that the diversity and complexity we see in the living world is not a product of mere chance. Evolution is a combination of chance mutation and natural selection. Darwin arrived at the phrase “natural selection” by analogy to the “artificial selection” performed by breeders of livestock. In both cases, selection exerts a highly non-random effect on the development of any species.

5) Atheism has no connection to science.

Although it is possible to be a scientist and still believe in God — as some scientists seem to manage it — there is no question that an engagement with scientific thinking tends to erode, rather than support, religious faith. Taking the U.S. population as an example: Most polls show that about 90% of the general public believes in a personal God; yet 93% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences do not. This suggests that there are few modes of thinking less congenial to religious faith than science is.

6) Atheists are arrogant.

When scientists don’t know something — like why the universe came into being or how the first self-replicating molecules formed — they admit it. Pretending to know things one doesn’t know is a profound liability in science. And yet it is the life-blood of faith-based religion. One of the monumental ironies of religious discourse can be found in the frequency with which people of faith praise themselves for their humility, while claiming to know facts about cosmology, chemistry and biology that no scientist knows. When considering questions about the nature of the cosmos and our place within it, atheists tend to draw their opinions from science. This isn’t arrogance; it is intellectual honesty.

7) Atheists are closed to spiritual experience.

There is nothing that prevents an atheist from experiencing love, ecstasy, rapture and awe; atheists can value these experiences and seek them regularly. What atheists don’t tend to do is make unjustified (and unjustifiable) claims about the nature of reality on the basis of such experiences. There is no question that some Christians have transformed their lives for the better by reading the Bible and praying to Jesus. What does this prove? It proves that certain disciplines of attention and codes of conduct can have a profound effect upon the human mind. Do the positive experiences of Christians suggest that Jesus is the sole savior of humanity? Not even remotely — because Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and even atheists regularly have similar experiences.

There is, in fact, not a Christian on this Earth who can be certain that Jesus even wore a beard, much less that he was born of a virgin or rose from the dead. These are just not the sort of claims that spiritual experience can authenticate.

Atheists believe that there is nothing beyond human life and human understanding.

Atheists are free to admit the limits of human understanding in a way that religious people are not. It is obvious that we do not fully understand the universe; but it is even more obvious that neither the Bible nor the Koran reflects our best understanding of it. We do not know whether there is complex life elsewhere in the cosmos, but there might be. If there is, such beings could have developed an understanding of nature’s laws that vastly exceeds our own. Atheists can freely entertain such possibilities. They also can admit that if brilliant extraterrestrials exist, the contents of the Bible and the Koran will be even less impressive to them than they are to human atheists.

From the atheist point of view, the world’s religions utterly trivialize the real beauty and immensity of the universe. One doesn’t have to accept anything on insufficient evidence to make such an observation.

9) Atheists ignore the fact that religion is extremely beneficial to society.

Those who emphasize the good effects of religion never seem to realize that such effects fail to demonstrate the truth of any religious doctrine. This is why we have terms such as “wishful thinking” and “self-deception.” There is a profound distinction between a consoling delusion and the truth.

In any case, the good effects of religion can surely be disputed. In most cases, it seems that religion gives people bad reasons to behave well, when good reasons are actually available. Ask yourself, which is more moral, helping the poor out of concern for their suffering, or doing so because you think the creator of the universe wants you to do it, will reward you for doing it or will punish you for not doing it?

10) Atheism provides no basis for morality.

If a person doesn’t already understand that cruelty is wrong, he won’t discover this by reading the Bible or the Koran — as these books are bursting with celebrations of cruelty, both human and divine. We do not get our morality from religion. We decide what is good in our good books by recourse to moral intuitions that are (at some level) hard-wired in us and that have been refined by thousands of years of thinking about the causes and possibilities of human happiness.

We have made considerable moral progress over the years, and we didn’t make this progress by reading the Bible or the Koran more closely. Both books condone the practice of slavery — and yet every civilized human being now recognizes that slavery is an abomination. Whatever is good in scripture — like the golden rule — can be valued for its ethical wisdom without our believing that it was handed down to us by the creator of the universe.

2007-09-07 17:04:41 · 12 answers · asked by Je veux changer le monde 4 in Religion & Spirituality

thanks.

(I say YES they should work...and stop begging. Making sure my teachers kids wear Gucci clothes and have a 5 bedroom house is NOT kingdom work...thats just me)

2007-09-07 17:04:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How do you like it cooked? Fried, grilled.....

2007-09-07 17:04:24 · 19 answers · asked by mcnugget 2 in Fast Food

A.Restore Hope
B.Desert Storm
C.Food Crop
D.None above

2007-09-07 17:04:09 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2007-09-07 17:03:55 · 14 answers · asked by sarainsahara 1 in Polls & Surveys

then your skin is to tight.

2007-09-07 17:03:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys