Society & Culture - 5 July 2006

Recently tamil has been announced as classical language by the government of India. To get the classical language status worldwide what the tamils have to do? is there any organisation which approves that status worldwide?

2006-07-05 01:19:18 · 3 answers · asked by Ask Master 1 in Languages

2006-07-05 01:19:05 · 9 answers · asked by SLIMM 1 in Etiquette

Preachers like to claim the US was founded as a "Christian nation" inspired by God.

Thomas Jefferson is usually given credit for being the author of the US Constitution. Thomas Jefferson did not believe that Jesus was God, he was a Unitarian, or Deist. He was opposed to Trinitarianism and the teachings of Paul. He claimed Paul was the "anti-Christ."

So, how can anyone claim Jefferson was inspired by God if they reject his opinions concerning the Trinity (Jesus is God) ?


Link to an earlier question I posted that summarizes Jefferson's bible from a Wikipedia article:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au65E3Yt17aIWvrp31d65wDsy6IX?qid=20060704144847AAPDHrq

2006-07-05 01:17:48 · 14 answers · asked by Left the building 7 in Religion & Spirituality

christianity and islam has supressed the world spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. It has eradicated math, science, philosophy, and art. It supresses magic and tells people they are wrong for being themselves.

Oh btw i was christian for a long time. dismissing me as a false christian does not change that fact that i was sincere. I hear that crap daily.

2006-07-05 01:17:18 · 16 answers · asked by brianna_the_angel777 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Interestingly, I find watching paint dry not anything like watching paint dry. How does this work?

2006-07-05 01:16:06 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-05 01:15:44 · 18 answers · asked by neanderthal 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

How you all doing today? Where you from, and what you up too!!

2006-07-05 01:15:37 · 19 answers · asked by MoJoJoJo 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Why are the sentences like" black market" use when it means doing business in an unsual manner.Also "blackLegs' meaning someone who backbite.I think this is not fair to black people.And if you are black do you use sentences like this.

2006-07-05 01:15:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-05 01:15:00 · 2 answers · asked by bbwforblck 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-05 01:14:45 · 20 answers · asked by The Devil 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-05 01:13:35 · 9 answers · asked by XYZ 7 in Religion & Spirituality

The world is far far too complicated for the human mind to understand. We are naturally curious and have to know the answer to everything. When we can't understand or explain something rationally we simply think it is the work of God and we just use him to justify in out minds why something we can't explain happened? Is this not so? I am interested to know other peoples views?

2006-07-05 01:13:03 · 32 answers · asked by Robert W 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Although it is fiction, many people believed it. Do you?

2006-07-05 01:12:32 · 28 answers · asked by Mattia 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-05 01:10:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anna K 1 in Languages

Science has recently discovered that TIME is relative.
Quran mentions this 1400 years ago.

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God revealed in 7th century to His Prophet, Muhammad (a.salaam), that Time is relative. And Only God is absolute. The Qur’an (the word of God) says in two verses, (22:47 and 32:5), that the measure of one day in the sight of Allah is equal to 1,000 years of our reckoning. These verses generally mean that the time of Allah (swt) is incomparable to the earthly time. Also in another place, Quran says that on day of judgement people will think that they have spent a day or part of day in their whole life. Hence clearly mentioning the relative nature of time.

Chapter 23 verse 112 onward

112. He will say: "What number of years did ye stay on earth?"

113. They will say: "We stayed a day or part of a day: but ask those who keep account."

114. He will say: "Ye stayed not but a little,- if ye had only known!

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2006-07-05 01:10:35 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-05 01:07:19 · 6 answers · asked by raja r 1 in Community Service

While Islam envisions the day when Christians and Jews will convert to Islam en masse, there is a distinction within Islam’s end time narrative between the final destiny of Christians and that of the Jews. In Islam’s version of the last-days, we see that all Christians will either accept Islam or be killed. Certainly, when we look at this final picture, it is impossible to say that Islam has any real affinity for Christians or Christianity. But when analyzing Islamic teaching and traditions about the Jews, one gets a very cold feeling that the only destiny that Islam has marked out for the Jews is that of an absolute and total slaughter. We see in the Islamic traditions a dark and very persistent hatred for the Jews nearly identical to the ideology expressed through Naziism. This ideology of hatred is fully supported and nurtured throughout the Quran and the Islamic traditions. For instance, speaking of Jews, the Quran says:



Amongst them we (Allah) have placed enmity and hatred till the Day of Judgment. Every time they kindle the fire of war, Allah doth extinguish it; but they (ever) strive to do mischief on earth. And Allah loveth not those who do mischief. -Surah 5:64 (Yusuf Ali

2006-07-05 01:07:13 · 8 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-05 01:03:59 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Which department/ organisation in the UK do I need to contact for a replacement?

2006-07-05 01:03:26 · 1 answers · asked by Stuart K 1 in Community Service

How can certain European countries such as Denmark, France, Germany, and Turkey claim to be free, democratic, tolerant, mulitcultural countries when they discriminate against women who choose to wear a piece of cloth over their head???


France bans hijab wearing girls from going to school...
Demark allows women to be sacked because they wear the hijab,
Turkey bans hijab wearing women from university or having a government job,
Germany many states do not allow teachers to wear hijab..(they have no problem with nun's covering up!)

These countries claim to be free and pluralistic..but how can this be true are not allowed the fundamental right to pratice your own religion

(if it harms nobody else...and wearing hijab doesn't hurt anyone!!!! If you are offended by my hijab..that is because you are a racist and ignorant - I'm sorry if you found my last statement offensive..but I had to say it because it is true!)

2006-07-05 01:03:04 · 12 answers · asked by Kraljica Katica 7 in Religion & Spirituality

The Bible:

"Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as christ also is the head of the church, he himself being the savior of the body. But as the church is subject to christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything." (Ephesians 5:22-24)

"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." (1 Timothy 2:11-14)

"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." (1 Corinthians 14:34)

2006-07-05 01:01:28 · 20 answers · asked by Biomimetik 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-05 00:59:41 · 28 answers · asked by gift 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I like; cycling, swimming, picnics and surfing (I'm really bad at surfing but still love it!). Sex is also good!

2006-07-05 00:59:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

For being straight?

2006-07-05 00:58:35 · 12 answers · asked by laydlo 5 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

like with the janet jackson Super bowl thing why were people
so upset?

2006-07-05 00:56:52 · 6 answers · asked by Chase B 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Growing up i have always belived in god and jesus and still do.

2006-07-05 00:55:32 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

i want to learn japanese but i'm not sure if it's so hard to learn.. i know just a little bit. now i'm trying to learn the katakana alphabet by myself because there's noone knows japanese around me. and can i learn it on internet?

2006-07-05 00:54:26 · 6 answers · asked by . : [ s a k u r a ] : . 3 in Languages

For being straight?

2006-07-05 00:54:10 · 10 answers · asked by laydlo 5 in Etiquette

on the bus on my way to work this morning i found a digital camera that someone had left on the seat i was sitting in so i picked it up and took it from the bus . im going on holiday 2moro and it would come in handy to take some nice pictures of my 2 baby boys why im away but ive checked it out on the net and the camera is worth over £300 , the memory card has got some pictures on it mainly of what looks like a church or cathedrel of some kind but no pictures of who it may belong to .
so what im asking is should i hand it in to the bus company or take it as finders keepers and take on holiday with me and say tough sh1t to whoever left it on the bus ?

2006-07-05 00:53:56 · 53 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-05 00:51:13 · 8 answers · asked by kinny 2 in Religion & Spirituality