All categories - 9 November 2007

How long does it take in the mail to get the movie you ordered?

2007-11-09 09:02:27 · 7 answers · asked by Kuervo 4 in Movies

i have gained weight and lost it so many times, i went from a uk size 8 at age 20 to a 10 then 12 then almost 14 at 22 then lost over a stone and am now about a 10-12 again but my bum has gone a bit saggy. what is the best way to firm up?

2007-11-09 09:02:26 · 6 answers · asked by emisfab 2 in Diet & Fitness

Solve...
a) ( x - 2 )( x - 7 )=0

2007-11-09 09:02:15 · 11 answers · asked by chio h 1 in Mathematics

i have due to my children eww

2007-11-09 09:02:15 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

And which baseball field or fields are the worst looking as well?

2007-11-09 09:02:10 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Baseball

Are sleeper one of the most underated bands of all time. And who was the lead singer?

2007-11-09 09:01:49 · 7 answers · asked by Phil H 4 in Rock and Pop

2007-11-09 09:01:48 · 8 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7 in Dream Interpretation

The teaching of the Orthodox Church on sexual questions is strongly determined by the Church's attitude toward marriage and the family. A representative Orthodox statement which shows the centrality and importance of the family in Orthodox thinking is found in an encyclical letter by former Archbishop Iakovos of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, issued on the occasion of National Family Week in 1972. He stated:

"Home and family life is the bedrock of our Greek Orthodox life-style. The spirit that binds us together as a people finds its deepest roots in the home where the tenderest values of human existence, love, compassion, forbearance and mutual helpfulness thrive in abundance."

Over the centuries and throughout most cultures and civilizations the family has been proven to be the unifying unit of society. Today we find the family under attack both from within and from without. Outside forces would have us believe that the family as we have come to know and cherish it is no longer necessary. From within, the erosion of spiritual values and emphasis upon materialism has created for many families confusion and uncertainty where commitment and dedication once reigned. Marriage is holy. The home is sacred. Birth is a miracle. In these we find the very meaning of life itself.

One aspect of the "commitment and dedication" of the holy state of marriage and family is cast in terms of sexual behavior. Most moral questions relating to sex are generally best understood in the light of this high regard for marriage and the family. Some of the questions on sexual issues addressed by the Orthodox Church are the following:

The Orthodox Church remains faithful to the biblical and traditional norms regarding premarital sexual relations between men and women. The only appropriate and morally fitting place for the exercise of sexual relations, according to the teachings of the Church, is marriage. The moral teaching of the Church on this matter has been unchanging since its foundation. In sum, the sanctity of marriage is the cornerstone of sexual morality. The whole range of sexual activity outside marriage - fornication, adultery and homosexuality - are thus seen as not fitting and appropriate to the Christian way of life. Like the teaching on fornication, the teachings of the Church on these and similar issues have remained constant. Expressed in Scripture, the continuing Tradition of the Church, the writings of the Church Fathers, the Ecumenical Councils and the canons, these views have been restated by theologians, hierarchs and local Orthodox churches in our own day. For example, the Decalogue prohibits adultery. In the tradition of the Church, the second-century Epistle of Barnabas commands "Thou shalt not be an adulterer, nor a corrupter, nor be like to them that are such." The fourth-century Church Father St. Basil wrote against the practice (Canons 35 and 77); and the Quinisext Council (A.D. 691) repeated the same condemnation in its eighty-seventh canon. All major Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States have had occasion to repeat the condemnation of adultery.
Generally stated, fornication, adultery, abortion, homosexuality and any form of abusive sexual behavior are considered immoral and inappropriate forms of behavior in and of themselves, and also because they attack the institution of marriage and the family. Two representative statements, one on abortion and another on homosexuality, from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America follow. They are from the Twenty-Third Clergy-Laity Congress held in Philadelphia in 1976. The Orthodox Church has a definite, formal and intended attitude toward abortion. It condemns all procedures purporting to abort the embryo or fetus, whether by surgical or chemical means. The Orthodox Church brands abortion as murder; that is, as a premeditated termination of the life of a human being. The only time the Orthodox Church will reluctantly acquiesce to abortion is when the preponderance of medical opinion determines that unless the embryo or fetus is aborted, the mother will die. Decisions of the Supreme Court and State legislatures by which abortion, with or without restrictions, is allowed should be viewed by practicing Christians as an affront to their beliefs in the sanctity of life. The position of the Orthodox Church toward homosexuality has been expressed by synodicals, canons and patristic pronouncements beginning with the very first centuries of Orthodox ecclesiastical life. Thus, the Orthodox Church condemns unreservedly all expressions of personal sexual experience which prove contrary to the definite and unalterable function ascribed to sex by God's ordinance and expressed in man's experience as a law of nature. The Orthodox Church believes that homosexuality should be treated by religion as a sinful failure. In both cases, correction is called for. Homosexuals should be accorded the confidential medical and psychiatric facilities by which they can be helped to restore themselves to a self-respecting sexual identity that belongs to them by God's ordinance. In full confidentiality the Orthodox Church cares and provides pastorally for homosexuals in the belief that no sinner who has failed himself and God should be allowed to deteriorate morally and spiritually. Psychiatric reconciliation is bound to prove short-lived.
The possible exception to the above affirmation of continuity of teaching is the view of the Orthodox Church on the issue of contraception. Because of the lack of a full understanding of the implications of the biology of reproduction, earlier writers tended to identify abortion with contraception. However, of late a new view has taken hold among Orthodox writers and thinkers on this topic, which permits the use of certain contraceptive practices within marriage for the purpose of spacing children, enhancing the expression of marital love, and protecting health.

2007-11-09 09:01:34 · 5 answers · asked by Jacob Dahlen 3 in Religion & Spirituality

The name Brooklyn for a girl. I know, ur probably like eww that's an ugly name, but think about it b4 you answer. Cuz I thought the same thing when I heard Victoria Beckham's kid was named Brooklyn but then I thought about it and realized it would be pretty name for a girl.

So what do you think about the name?

2007-11-09 09:01:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Baby Names

I'd like to think I do, but what about you?

Thanks!!

2007-11-09 09:01:23 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I cannot find a Hebrew to English dictionary online. The word is bet, ayin, lamed, yud, mem. If anyone knows what it means, please tell me!

2007-11-09 09:01:16 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I'd like some examples of life imitating art. If possible don't give me historical examples of art about wars and now we're fighting a war again. This to me is more of an example of how history tends to repeat itself. Art is not easily defined by people who love it and try to capture it, but in my perspective art represents things in life. I am not finding how life imitates art. Please help me get past my ignorance in this matter.

2007-11-09 09:01:15 · 4 answers · asked by charles g 2 in Other - Arts & Humanities

im 13 and anti social!!! jk jk but i dont get out much cause im homeschooled. i hate it but theres not alot i can do. but at church theres this boy, (boys)one i didnt relize i liked him untill he said he didnt like me "anymore" because i said i didnt like him!! hes really nice but not my type, advice? also theres this other guy. hes totally hot but i think hes the kinda guy that thinks he can get whatever girl he wants. hes soooooooooo
hoooooooooot!!! what do i do? i kinda flirt with the first guy but i cant do much more then that. are boys worth it? worth my time? my breath? my sister has everything i want and im jealous. help?!?!?!?!?!

2007-11-09 09:01:00 · 1 answers · asked by hawsiendamom 2 in Singles & Dating

Thanks to Pelagius for this question.

2007-11-09 09:00:58 · 5 answers · asked by ♪ 4 in Other - Politics & Government

there is a debate among scientists, shouldn't we err on the side of caution and take some measures to be environmentally friendly? Why are some people so enraged by this idea, nobody is forcing you to recycle, buy a hybrid etc. if you don't want to. Is there some advantage to maximizing pollution and environmental destruction that you're worried we might be missing out on?

2007-11-09 09:00:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Aren't they the same thing? or is it that sketching is a quick draw or doodle, and drawing is an artwork thats taken a lot of time and effort? Crap, I think I answered my own question, but I wanna hear what others say.

2007-11-09 09:00:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Drawing & Illustration

I ate lunch at a Chinese restaurant today, but my fortune cookie was empty. What does this mean?

2007-11-09 09:00:23 · 16 answers · asked by lafemelle 4 in Polls & Surveys

2007-11-09 09:00:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-11-09 09:00:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

why do cats go after mice?
Do they just kill them?
Do they eat them?

2007-11-09 09:00:20 · 12 answers · asked by Philip Augustus 3 in Cats

2007-11-09 09:00:15 · 4 answers · asked by DM 1 in Words & Wordplay

Did your parents force you into it? Peer pressure? All of the "cool" people are into it? Ignorance? Lost a bet? Just wondering.

2007-11-09 09:00:14 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I need lots of details. Where grew up? What she died from? Where she taught at, etc.

2007-11-09 09:00:14 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Painting

I understand the debate over the current global warming, except for the naysayers who say that "global warming is the biggest fraud perpetuated against the planet." What puzzles me is this...Why on earth would anyone want to perpetuate such a fraud? What would be the logical purpose for that?

2007-11-09 09:00:08 · 5 answers · asked by InstantMagic 2 in Global Warming

produced when 25.0 mL of 2.0M HNO3 is diluted to 750mL. Show work.

2007-11-09 09:00:07 · 2 answers · asked by moonlit skies 2 in Chemistry

The ELizabethan era (built.

2007-11-09 08:59:59 · 3 answers · asked by helper999 2 in History

well i think i have a good ideashe makes up stories about herself to make herself more popular and then she "cries" about it. she is full of bullshit if you ask me.she cant sing,act be skinny and she is ugly

2007-11-09 08:59:56 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Celebrities

to be a tease

2007-11-09 08:59:52 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Adolescent

There are so many areas in our life that we can fail at/feel unstatisfied with.

Are we all just destined for unhappiness? I know our life is filled with ups and downs. At what one point you'll feel on the top of the world, then a few weeks later you'll feel as down as ever...

It just feels as though everyday I'm living with a constant cloud over the top of my head, I try to keep myself but it never stops me having a few dispressing thoughts to myself.

I just feel I'm in a constant circle of having a period of happiness and confidence, but then always returning to state of unhappiness, affected by various things, like: (school) work, extra activities, health, socialising (that's getting me down quite a bit) or staying active.

Are there any ways, which you can learn to push those negative thoughts to the back of your head?

2007-11-09 08:59:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology