Society & Culture - 7 June 2006

I am not talking about cultural/political mixed with religion

but when did persecution souly baised on religion start?

2006-06-07 14:19:37 · 18 answers · asked by Gamla Joe 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I don't think this is right. I hear that so many times. You don't give excuses to people because they are from another culture.
If you ever been to Japan, it is not a well mannered society. You have to live here long enough to get past the 'awe' stage.

My Sisters-in-law do this to me. I even here my name. And, they look at me as they are doing it or after.

I give passes to children.

2006-06-07 14:18:35 · 30 answers · asked by Jen K. 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-07 14:17:51 · 15 answers · asked by frauline2470 2 in Religion & Spirituality

You must be a Christian?

I just saw this comment, and it made me shake my head...

"A christian is someone who believes in God. It's not a religion."

This was presumably in response to a comment from me that you can believe in God (or Gods, etc.) and not be a Christian.

Was wondering what others think of this?

I mean, is it just my imagination, or have I seen a whole lot of people here that believe in a deity and are not Christian?

Nothing against Christians... in fact, I've never heard of a Christian defining Christianity in this way before... I certainly never did.

2006-06-07 14:16:45 · 44 answers · asked by Snark 7 in Religion & Spirituality

When i am at school i have to go through the same routine, everyday nothing changes. But it is this that mostly causes the problems. I'm in the program JROTC and it really is a good program but, the Sgt's there can be real Mick Assholes. Seriously if you were to enter in something like that be prepare for the instructors because there are some who really are out there to pick on you and mess with you, which brings me to my question. When there is someone in a facility that constantly teases and harasses you ,if you will, what would you do to prevent it from reoccuring? Now it is too late to go to the head of the JROTC,i have tried to deal with but my mentality is shot and i'm ready to kill. It has become so bad to the point of complete exhaustion. I believe this person picks on me because out of that whole period there are only three African Americans which is myself and two other cadets whom are male. But I am the ONLY African American female in that period, so it's pretty unfair.

2006-06-07 14:14:42 · 2 answers · asked by CadetPigglyWinks 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-07 14:11:52 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

A TANK MACHEAN GUN AND A JEWISH PLUS GAS CHAMBER

2006-06-07 14:09:51 · 4 answers · asked by Zakariya6369 2 in Other - Society & Culture

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see what google news had to say

2006-06-07 14:07:48 · 17 answers · asked by ? 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Or, giggle in front of them? I think it's totally rude to let someone know you are poking fun at them.　This happens a lot in Japan.

2006-06-07 14:07:27 · 12 answers · asked by Jen K. 2 in Other - Society & Culture

what iz the center of ur religion and iz it tru that u sacrifice virgins and goats??

2006-06-07 14:04:48 · 17 answers · asked by zoooooom!!! 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-07 14:04:05 · 15 answers · asked by Derek w 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-07 14:03:51 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

people say i'm mean at first then they get to know me and call me nice..............

2006-06-07 14:03:01 · 22 answers · asked by N² 3 in Other - Society & Culture

For many years Ben Stein has written a biweekly column called "Monday Night At Morton's." (Morton's is a famous chain of Steakhouses known to be frequented by movie stars and famous people from around the globe.) Now, Ben is terminating the column to move on to other things in his life. Reading his final column is worth a few minutes of your time.

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How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World?

As I begin to write this, I "slug" it, as we writers say, which means I put a heading on top of the document to identify it. This heading is "eonlineFINAL," and it gives me a shiver to write it. I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end.

It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world's change have overtaken it. On a small scale, Morton's, while better than ever, no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. It still brings in the rich people in droves and definitely some stars. I saw Samuel L. Jackson there a few days ago, and we had a nice visit, and right before that, I saw and had a splendid talk with Warren Beatty in an elevator, in which we agreed that "Splendor in the Grass" was a super movie But Morton's is not the star galaxy it once was, though it probably will be again.

Beyond that, a bigger change has happened. I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important . They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to.

How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a "star" we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails.

They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq. He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world.

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him. A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to protect Iraqis from terrorists.

We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as they live and die.

I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject.

There are plenty of other stars in the American firmament...the policemen and women who go off on patrol in South Central and have no idea if they will return alive; the orderlies and paramedics who bring in people who have been in terrible accidents and prepare them for surgery; the teachers and nurses who throw their whole spirits into caring for autistic children; the kind men and women who work in hospices and in cancer wards.

Think of each and every fireman who was running up the stairs at the World Trade Center as the towers began to collapse. Now you have my idea of a real hero.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters. This is my highest and best use as a human. I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve Martin...or Martin Mull or Fred Willard--or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them.

But I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister's help). I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into extremis and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms.


This was the only point at which my life touched the lives of the soldiers in Iraq or the firefighters in New York. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

By Ben Stein

2006-06-07 14:02:03 · 2 answers · asked by writer_girl20 3 in Other - Society & Culture

First correct answer gets the points. Tell me how old Noah was when he began to build the Ark and you get the stars too.

2006-06-07 14:01:33 · 13 answers · asked by Rollover Mikey 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I am a maid of honor. We are both not from here and worked together plus she said the wedding was going to be a four person show, so I said sure. Now the wedding has turned into this big deal with bridal parties and receptions and since I have gotten to know her better, I do not want to have anything to do with her. Here are some examples:
1. Calls me very late at night repeatedly, drunk, when she knows I get up at 5AM
2. She gets jealous when I talk to other women and once tipped a beer up while someone was taking a drink making it spill all over her.
3. Tells people that she is so much happier then me and mine when people ask her about the age difference between her and her four month beau
4. Tells people that me and mine have issues together and seperate
5. Drinks everyday
6. Lifted up my skirt in a barroom full of people when I was wearing a thong - twice!
7. Flirts with men and tries to make me an accomplice
Should I stick it out or get out now? Wedding is 9/3

2006-06-07 14:01:06 · 18 answers · asked by Doodlebug 4 in Etiquette

How do I know which one is right for me?

2006-06-07 14:00:45 · 32 answers · asked by isabelle 1 in Religion & Spirituality

It's not like they did anything except have no religion, and I noticed on this website that people ridicule atheists and calling them names.
No, i'm telling you whether I believe in God or not. I'm just curious how other people think on the issue of religion.

2006-06-07 13:59:30 · 17 answers · asked by serpentine022 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-07 13:58:44 · 18 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you know that you will overcome all hard times and all troubles to entrance into everlasting by doing daily penances?
Did you know that the Blessed Mother told a saint that the best penances are in what God gives you such and any type of illnesses and sufferings? That's true.
Did you know that a priest is better to give you a daily fruitful penances than you to created up one? Yup that's true!

2006-06-07 13:58:04 · 7 answers · asked by Brad4peace 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Hi am a a very committed Christian and all, but so much gear is goin on i just cant take it anymore! Is their a prayer that i can pray that would make God jsut take me to heaven with him? I just want to rest finaly with God. please no stupid answers.

2006-06-07 13:56:26 · 23 answers · asked by rocker86 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Why do people ask all these questions about GOD.is it because you don't believe in him or are not sure if what the bible says is true.

2006-06-07 13:56:15 · 11 answers · asked by CHELA 3 in Religion & Spirituality

There was this boy in my class who is emo. Today one kid asked him to show the sign and he did this really quick thing, I think he made a gesture of cutting his arm and then making a gesture of licking the blood that came off of it. Well, how do you do that sign? I think it's kinda cool.

2006-06-07 13:54:48 · 5 answers · asked by Pinch Me 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-06-07 13:54:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I am in my forties and feel i have under achieved.I have a loving family but don't feel as though i have reached my full potential but have never really known what is the correct path to take.I am surrounded by succesful people which makes life so difficult at times.I know i am basically a good person but i suffer from envy !
I work for myself as a handy man and find myself in some beautiful homes with beautiful gardens and wish i could give my family the same but never seem to know how to get there !

2006-06-07 13:53:55 · 34 answers · asked by nuclear wasp 1 in Other - Society & Culture

My dad recently became Muslin and I realized that I know nothing about what that means. I'd just like to learn about some of the customs, traditions, and beliefs.

2006-06-07 13:53:54 · 11 answers · asked by Linda 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-07 13:52:58 · 31 answers · asked by babycakeys122 3 in Languages

You only get to put one and 10 points... "oh.. you get the idea."

(btw, I'll check to make sure the question is real and you can't make one up.)

Have fun!

2006-06-07 13:51:19 · 15 answers · asked by ? 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-07 13:51:01 · 29 answers · asked by Linda 7 in Religion & Spirituality

would you rather be a multi-millionaire and only live to be 55.

2006-06-07 13:50:34 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture