Arts & Humanities - 8 October 2007

Pondering questions of the universe requires two essentials -- thought and being alone to think. What is your quotient for being alone to think and philosophize?

2007-10-08 17:07:13 · 16 answers · asked by guru 7 in Philosophy

Which WW2 weapons did you fire? How did they feel? Give me lots of detail, I love ww2 weapons, M1 Garand is awesome! Thanks people!

2007-10-08 17:07:05 · 1 answers · asked by A.C.L 2 in History

2007-10-08 17:01:10 · 2 answers · asked by denimcap 4 in Poetry

2007-10-08 16:58:47 · 6 answers · asked by ? 2 in History

2007-10-08 16:57:08 · 3 answers · asked by vangi_m2005 1 in History

Anyone knows a book about aliens like Footfall (Larry Niven) or War of the Worlds?

Thanks

2007-10-08 16:54:31 · 12 answers · asked by Randal D 1 in Books & Authors

What is your favorite reading spot? Next to a cozy fire, out in a hammock, in a window seat on a comfy cushon, or...? The possibilities are endless.
(I posted this previously but enjoyed the answers so much I decided to see if the same brilliance of writ could be come forth again!)

2007-10-08 16:53:55 · 19 answers · asked by ? 2 in Books & Authors

2007-10-08 16:52:25 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

2007-10-08 16:49:39 · 14 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6 in Philosophy

2007-10-08 16:47:12 · 8 answers · asked by L'expressif 1 in Philosophy

2007-10-08 16:45:42 · 4 answers · asked by kevin g 1 in History

Please help me match it with the following list:
Ship
House
A sign said CROATON
Pilgrims

2007-10-08 16:43:17 · 4 answers · asked by Dallas Cowboys 1 in History

I heard that Syphilis came from the caribbean. And it did not exist in europe till it was brought back from the "new world".
Is that true?
How did it get created in the caribbean?

2007-10-08 16:40:56 · 4 answers · asked by Philip Augustus 3 in History

2007-10-08 16:40:22 · 17 answers · asked by LUCKY3 6 in Philosophy

2007-10-08 16:38:42 · 5 answers · asked by Harold h 1 in Genealogy

We’re in a plastic world
But baby, my plastics just unfurled
Peeling off my layer of lies
You see through my disguise

The long worn mask clings to my skin
But baby, you’re finding your way in
Rejecting my false perfection
You’re honesty is my reflection

The high tides can’t carry all the sand away
But Baby, the walls are starting to decay
Standing naked with no shield
You pick at me til I’m revealed

2007-10-08 16:37:49 · 13 answers · asked by wiccan_newyorker_333 3 in Poetry

2007-10-08 16:37:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2007-10-08 16:36:02 · 8 answers · asked by ~*~ victoria ~*~ 1 in History

This actually WAS the final.

2007-10-08 16:31:22 · 13 answers · asked by Chad C 3 in Philosophy

For atheists, how is that possible? Because we are humans, does that make us the moral god? If not then where do moral values come from? If things just came to be then does that mean we can just make up moral values on the fly?

I'm afraid that one day someone will challenge our mind and declares that "he who has the biggest bombs win"! Wait, that is happening already.

2007-10-08 16:28:47 · 14 answers · asked by amalone 5 in Philosophy

I read a short story online a few months ago, I'm pretty sure the author was the winner of the contest (possibly 2006.) I don't remember which short story contest it was. Since then i have been looking for the website and the story with no luck.

In the story, she does a hit and run, doesn't tell her friend. Smokes weed, I think. But at the end there is something about her looking at a high school picture and either a "gimp" or a "limp." She drinks wine I think and smokes.

She may be an attourney in real life. Any help would be appreciated if anyone read this short story.

ThankS!

2007-10-08 16:21:51 · 1 answers · asked by beck 2 in Books & Authors

mine happened this weekend when I had an oppertunity to get very intamante with my girlfreind, but did not take it.

2007-10-08 16:16:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

P.S. Isn't the concept of a ''thing'' illusional since the boundaries inbetween different ''things'' and/or their environment are only defined and conceptualised by our own minds...

2007-10-08 16:16:03 · 6 answers · asked by ns 3 in Philosophy

2007-10-08 16:14:43 · 1 answers · asked by Suncult 2 in Poetry

I think the painting is 19th century. A music lesson has ended in an embrace. If I remember correctly, one of them is dangling a violin...one had maybe been at a piano. I can't remember the exact details--just the impression it evoked...it was painterly, very romantic.

2007-10-08 16:13:46 · 1 answers · asked by BeachPerson 1 in Painting

Hey, I am working on my family tree for a project, annnnd my family cuts off at some dude named Samuel and the rest is uncharted because those ancestors are from Persia, and... I was wondering if anyone might know when the last Duke with the last name of Malick. If someone does, just tell me his first name if you know it, the year he was born and the year he died. Thanks to anyone who finds this information... it will also be very appreciated from my ENTIRE family

2007-10-08 16:13:14 · 2 answers · asked by Reading Queen 1 in Genealogy

i am agnostic though.

Here it is.

The world is very complicated and delicate. It's incrediblywell-built. What proves that? Science. If you don't believe in that, then watch a couple children's science TV shows.

There is a creator to a complex creation. ALWAYS. It's commonsense. If you don't believe in that, then you don't have any. A building doesn't rise on its own accord. WE build it. Even if the world started as...well...pieces of rock, it is still astonishing how all the incidents conspired to eventually create such complex universe.

Then, there should be a might creator who built this world. and you would be as powerful if you can clearly explain what world began with. You can't. because you simply can't explain anything as nothingness. You are NOT smart enough.

What do you say?

PLEASE, be civil. I don't want answers as 'STFU' or anything else. refute it LOGICALLY. I can prove it LOGICALLY. Then, let's see what you'll come up with.

2007-10-08 16:11:43 · 21 answers · asked by sting 4 in Philosophy

2007-10-08 16:10:24 · 9 answers · asked by jayco 1 in History

People from the past were a lot different. I'm in the USA. Why do we change so much over time?

2007-10-08 16:08:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

a) Religious toleration was a calue inherent in society
b)The American colonies were religiously homogeneous
c)Most American colonists were not tolerant of other religions even though de facto toleration came into existence in the colonies.
d) Catholics were welcomed and tolerated in all the American colonies.

2007-10-08 16:04:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in History