Society & Culture - 19 June 2006

2006-06-19 21:11:01 · 4 answers · asked by PandaDude 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I have been dealing with homosexuality basically most of my adult life, and the thing that gets me is when some people who are not that way say that homsexuals choose to be that way. My question is to those people, do you think that a person would just get up one day and say to himself, I'm going to be gay? Just as some straight people can not see being with the same sex, they just do not think that way.

Now if it were left up to me I would have said let me be a straight man.

I do not know why some people are and some are not, nor do I know if it is a illness or an curse.

what I do know is that is is sad sometimes and I wish that it was not that way, I believe that some of us are sad to
ourselves, as if no one understands what we are going through.

It is up to God to set those of us free who wants to be free from homosexuality. I could go on and on but it is making me a little sad just typing these few words.

To me it is a constant battle that I hope to win.

2006-06-19 21:10:26 · 15 answers · asked by lookingforanswers 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-19 21:09:06 · 8 answers · asked by PandaDude 2 in Religion & Spirituality

All right ya'll know conversate isn't a word ,so why do people continue to use it.? Or is it just slang?
Opinions...

2006-06-19 21:06:35 · 8 answers · asked by jconchicago2005 2 in Etiquette

Why not?

2006-06-19 21:06:06 · 13 answers · asked by Adamray 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Would that mean to you that it arrives when Monday finishes and Tuesday begins, or when Tuesday finishes and Wednesday begins?

Please, state your native language, because I feel this might differ from culture to culture.

2006-06-19 21:05:15 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Why can't science and Christianity go hand-in-hand? Just because the Bible doesn't always make sense, does that mean that the whole thing, and it's ideas, can not be true? Why do atheists try so hard to rebel that they end up as ignorant as the Christians they criticized? Why can't all religions be considered pretty much the same having the same basic beliefs -- because they have different names? Why can't connections be made between common beliefs in the religions? Why can't the different names of religions represent slight differences in beliefs, or how one worships, instead of big ones?

2006-06-19 21:02:04 · 11 answers · asked by wwj 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-19 20:59:31 · 8 answers · asked by Lollipop 2 in Other - Society & Culture

The gesture involves putting the tip of your thumb on your nose and extending all fingers upward and wiggling them. The sticking out of the tongue is optional. Just wondering if this has any actually origins or if it's even possible to find anything on this. o_O But... that's the point of asking right ?!!? ^_^

2006-06-19 20:59:22 · 11 answers · asked by the_random_encounter 1 in Etiquette

If by chance we are the only life in the universe because of being in the right time at the right place, isn't our responsabiltly to nurture and spread, rather than finding more ways of killing each other over religion. The Muslems pray to a rock, the Christians pray to a mythic. The US to George W or any President or any war.Not once have I seen religion save innocence, but I have seen through-out histroy religion killing thousands upon thousands of innocent people. a queastion we have to asks is this planet our only place that life can exsist, and why is it that we as a specie don't treat the planet as a living organism and eventually it will fight back, killing us like parasites that we are. If a dog has fleas than it scratches, then the same with the planet, it evolves and life is its by-product and noway known do we have the strength or the knowledge to prevent it from scratching

2006-06-19 20:58:36 · 17 answers · asked by keleising 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-06-19 20:57:04 · 19 answers · asked by EasterBunny 5 in Religion & Spirituality

If there was proof of a god, there would not be any unbelievers.

2006-06-19 20:55:36 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

do they really want to help or just show off a sort of knowledge or prestige so that the readers can applaud them

2006-06-19 20:54:14 · 9 answers · asked by prodigy 2 in Other - Society & Culture

what do people mean when they say this?

2006-06-19 20:53:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-19 20:48:04 · 5 answers · asked by doable_rods 5 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-19 20:45:55 · 17 answers · asked by D 3 in Etiquette

2006-06-19 20:45:42 · 7 answers · asked by Michael M 2 in Other - Society & Culture

(After the transfiguration) And His disciples asked Him, saying, why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Like wise shall also the Son of Man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that He spoke unto them of John the Baptist (Matthew, 17: 10-13; Mark, 9: 11-13).

Clearly these passages stated that Elias was reincarnated and came back as John the Baptist.

2006-06-19 20:45:35 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It's common Knowledge that Ishmael and Isaac was the 1st two sons of Abraham. In the Bible God tells Abraham 'to take his ONLY son Isaac....'. But we know that Isaac was never the ONLY son of Abraham. God acknowledge Ishmael as Abraham's son and God made Ishmael part of His covenent(he was circumsised). God also PROMISED Abraham that he will create a powerfull nation from Ishmael.
Hagar was Abraham's wife even if she was a slave.

So why, according to christianity, wasn't it Ishmael that was the one on the altar, to be 'sacrificed'? This is where I agree with islam, God would never have called Isaac Abraham's ONLY son!
If the Bible said 'Take your son' Isaac...' then it would make sense.

Oh and what nations came out of Abraham's other sons, which he had by Ketura, his third wife?

2006-06-19 20:44:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

do u mind putting down ur nationality n ur native language?
i was just wonderin...

2006-06-19 20:43:39 · 12 answers · asked by hoor_sunshine 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I recieve daily Buddhist wisdom in my email and I got one that I don't quite understand. Any thoughts?

Do you want to understand? The whole world is one of your eyes, the body produced by your parents is a cataract. All ordinary people ignore the indestructible, marvelously clear, unfailingly mirroring eye, and cling fast to the dust cataract produced by the relationship of their father and mother. Therefore they take illusions for realities, and grasp at reflections as the physical forms themselves.

-P'u-an

2006-06-19 20:41:32 · 10 answers · asked by korngoddess1027 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-19 20:41:17 · 71 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-19 20:39:24 · 24 answers · asked by Abdulhaq 4 in Religion & Spirituality

how would you re-act?And this question is targeted to any and all regardless of your own sexuality.

Imagine dating a woman for several months and suddenly, regardless of how you found out, you discovered she was really a he.Or all of that is reverse.You were dating a man who you discover down the road is really a woman.

This has happened before to a guy who dated a guy he thought was a girl and to a girl who dated a girl she thought was a guy.And it probably happens more often then you might think.How would you re-act?

Man who identified as a woman that was murdered:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Araujo

Woman who identified as a man that was murdered:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Teena

Both dated someone of the same sex and their partners thought they were the opposite sex until they found out later.I have mixed feelings on this and would like to hear your thoughts....

2006-06-19 20:37:03 · 24 answers · asked by EasterBunny 5 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-06-19 20:35:36 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-19 20:35:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-06-19 20:33:43 · 2 answers · asked by Lollipop 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Please give a good answer, and please dont be rude.

2006-06-19 20:33:31 · 15 answers · asked by sweetpeaches_6915 2 in Religion & Spirituality

i'm debora, i from italy...i want learn english...help me please..

2006-06-19 20:32:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2006-06-19 20:31:02 · 7 answers · asked by sanoj o 1 in Mythology & Folklore