Society & Culture - 23 June 2006

I have several groups of friends, some who never meet each other. My long time, mostly straight, friends are social drinkers, partiers, and good for a fun time. However, some things you just don't talk about. My work friends are another story. I was in the men's room, and a desk neighbor came in, and we talked about masturbation frequency and anal sex. We talk freely about him performing oral on his wife, and my going down on my b/f.
It's not like he's breaching any confidence. I've dined with them after work, and she's just as open about sex. I love talking like this. I'm sick of saying something and getting the evil eye for bring up something as natural as nudism, or masturbation, or sex, or even frank talk about using the bathroom, rather than heming and hawing to find the nice way to say something. If I have IBS, and you ask how I feel, I want to tell you (not show you)
What do you think?

2006-06-23 07:54:30 · 5 answers · asked by tkdeity 4 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

If you could ask any question and have an expert answer (and if nobody knew that you were asking), what would you ask?

What things do you think parents don't or won't talk about with you? What things are you curious about and want to know "REAL" answers - would you say sex, drinking, drugs, STDs, relationships?? or something entirely different??

Obviously this is a question/answer forum, but what do you like most about this (Yahoo) - that you have a lot of opinions to pick and choose from, that you are gaining new knowledge you didn't have, or that you can learn about things from otehr people's questions?

THANK YOU!!!

2006-06-23 07:54:00 · 1 answers · asked by headshrinker 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Celibacy is a gift from God. It is the biggest witnees to Christian faith. Celibates show us that there is an existense besides this earthly life. All Catholic Clergy and nuns are celibate because they give their lives to Jesus. How come Protestant view this negatively? How come all Protestant Pastors are married?
Celibacy is natural and a few are called to it. In a fallen world with lust it is seen as un-natural.

2006-06-23 07:53:42 · 42 answers · asked by enigma21 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-23 07:52:26 · 19 answers · asked by No Picture 1 in Etiquette

Ex: pick their nose. Don't they know that everyone can see in?

2006-06-23 07:52:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-23 07:52:19 · 19 answers · asked by civilrevenge 2 in Languages

What the Bible says about Children

Children who refuse to obey their parents must be executed.

"If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear." -- Deuteronomy 21:18-21

"He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death." -- Exodus 21:15

"He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." -- Exodus 21:17

Children who mock their parents will have their eyes plucked out by ravens and eaten by eagles.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. -- Proverbs 30:17

Like Abraham, parents should be willing to kill their children for God.

"And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and ... offer him there for a burnt offering.... And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son." -- Genesis 22:2,10

God killed all the firstborn children in an entire country.

"The LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon.... And there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead." -- Exodus 12:29-30

Sometimes God kills children for misbehaving.

"And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them." -- 2 Kings 2:23-24

Someday God will force parents eat their own children. "And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." -- Leviticus 26:16

"And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." -- Leviticus 26:29

"And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters." -- Deuteronomy 28:53

"And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend." -- Jeremiah 19:9

2006-06-23 07:51:38 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-23 07:51:22 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-23 07:51:14 · 15 answers · asked by GI Jane 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-23 07:50:46 · 9 answers · asked by GI Jane 3 in Religion & Spirituality

does anyone agree that a huge first step in acheiving some peace in the world is to first all obtain a common langauge,?

2006-06-23 07:50:44 · 10 answers · asked by civilrevenge 2 in Languages

“Do not go by revelation or tradition, do not go by rumor, or the sacred scriptures, do not go by hearsay or mere logic, do not go by bias towards a notion or by another person’s seeming ability and do not go by the idea ‘He is our teacher’. But when you yourself know that a thing is good, that it is not blamable,
that it is praised by the wise and when practiced and observed that it leads to happiness, then follow that thing.”

and so those who choose christianity, practive and observe Jesus's love and unselfishness like Mother Theresa will lead to happiness...

those who choose buddhism, will practice and observe Buddha's teaching on wisdom and compassion that will lead to happiness...

those who choose hinddhuism, will practice and observe the philosophy of life as reflected in Mahatma Gandhi on "non-violence" will lead to happiness..

those who choose islam, will practice and observe the spirit of brotherhood and peace which will lead to happiness...

2006-06-23 07:50:39 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Don't tell what you think the answer is, unless you have a clear source to back it up. Don't give me a vague source like "It's somewhere in the Bible."

2006-06-23 07:50:31 · 32 answers · asked by BIll Q 6 in Religion & Spirituality

???

2006-06-23 07:48:17 · 17 answers · asked by dewdropinn 3 in Other - Society & Culture

In the great flood of Noah, He(sp?) wiped away almost all of mankind and animalkind, but not fish. They got to go swimming all over the world (whales in the Grand Canyon, sharks in Mojave).

Did fish not sin?

2006-06-23 07:47:27 · 6 answers · asked by Kenny ♣ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Anyone had any weird expierences, I am kinda on the fence about this one.

2006-06-23 07:47:10 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

If you had just met them earlier that night, if not how long would you have to know a guy /girl in order to have sex or how far would you go first

2006-06-23 07:47:00 · 15 answers · asked by jlimages 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Didn't they learn from the first holocaust that betraying God's Son has serious consequences?

2006-06-23 07:46:53 · 43 answers · asked by GI Jane 3 in Religion & Spirituality

do you how the English language has evolved into the current American accent?? any detail would be greatly useful..

2006-06-23 07:46:43 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

is the hottest topic in this section? We are getting bashed ALL THE TIME, and half of the things that are said are either very broad generalizations or not true whatsoever...

I like learning about different beliefs while I am on here. Can there be a DIFFERENT topic ONCE IN AWHILE??

2006-06-23 07:46:29 · 12 answers · asked by Aimee 2 in Religion & Spirituality

This isn't technically a religious question but since so many of you here decide to email me personally, with pithy and smarta** comments from now on everyone who does will now be part of my myspace blog. I WILL be using your name on there. I'm not protecting anyone. So make yourself famous and have your yahoo answers name on my myspace blog! Now here's my question: why do so many religious nuts feel the need to try and convert me?

2006-06-23 07:45:41 · 20 answers · asked by korngoddess1027 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Is it too hard to flick your finger?

2006-06-23 07:44:57 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-06-23 07:43:46 · 13 answers · asked by pinkflyblooming 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I mean 17, 18, 19 year olds are not really kids but they like to refer to them as kids. here in our country, kids are about 3 to 12 y.o.

2006-06-23 07:43:45 · 13 answers · asked by CedDigorry 1 in Other - Society & Culture

BOWLING BALL AND MY FINGERS DONT FIT ANY MORE, SHOULD I TAKE THAT AS A SIGN THAT I NEED TO GO ON A DIET?

2006-06-23 07:43:25 · 27 answers · asked by stankey_cornhole_jackson 1 in Etiquette

2006-06-23 07:43:24 · 5 answers · asked by doc 1 in Mythology & Folklore

Sometimes the crosswalk will literally be 8 feet away yet they opt to jaywalk. What gives?

2006-06-23 07:41:43 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/persinger.html
http://godpart.com/
http://www.andrewnewberg.com/qna.asp

2006-06-23 07:41:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-06-23 07:41:27 · 13 answers · asked by Culture Warrior 4 in Religion & Spirituality

If they are really God's people (Ha!) why do they act like gentiles, eat the gentile's food, marry us (well, do you blame 'em? ) and live among us then act stuck up like they are so holier than thou? They need to get real already! It's bad enough that they dissed our Lord and Savior, yeah, we forgave them and let them live with us so is it time for another @#$ whipping or what?

2006-06-23 07:39:58 · 22 answers · asked by GI Jane 3 in Religion & Spirituality