Society & Culture - 7 July 2006

As far as I see it there are only two ways to get rid of poverty. One is to redistribute wealth so that all the wealthy and middle class people give up money and resources to support the poor

Two is to control the population of poor people through education and birth control etc... So they stop breeding beyond their available resources.

The biggest problem with the first solution is it's essentially communism and we've seen how that never turns out well on a large scale

The biggest problem with the second one is that we'd essentially have to regulate reproduction of poor people which would cause the religious people of the world to riot and is also a big human rights issue/cultural problem.

Does anyone have any realistic solutions or should we just expect to always have a world where some groups prosper and live well while others fail and live in abject poverty

2006-07-07 11:06:12 · 10 answers · asked by coxdebate 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Jesus was born on christmas, died on gd friday & reborn on easter.. so where did he go after that? stay on earth & die again or he flew up to heaven?

2006-07-07 11:05:55 · 29 answers · asked by wateva 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm bored. How should I spend my evening?

2006-07-07 11:05:39 · 10 answers · asked by beauty 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-07-07 11:05:05 · 29 answers · asked by CJ75 1 in Languages

During the time of Jesus there were many who performed the same miracles and claimed to be prophets.......

2006-07-07 11:05:01 · 18 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-07 11:04:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I feel like Trinity has just died....she drifted away....put to death....shes floating away now....buried in the spiritual river....like a spiritual holy river....now ..who am I ? ...just emerging from within her body....I feel I have no father or even mother...Im glad she is gone...she was so tormented..and fractured beyond repair..she was so hurt...so wounded...so scarred...at least her clothes fit me...my mother still calls me her daughter...but I cant tell her that she is no more...and I am wondering..who am I ? and what is my name ? all things are the same outwardly..but she is gone..and I am here now in her place...someone advise me....

2006-07-07 11:03:43 · 5 answers · asked by trinity_loves_neo1 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-07 11:03:12 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-07 11:03:11 · 3 answers · asked by beauty 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-07-07 11:03:10 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

If Jesus wanted to proove that he was God or the Son of God, then why didn't he prove it definitively? Why did he leave the mystery? Don't say to test our faith, because then you say that Jesus was a myth. Because why would he attempt miracles at all? If not to fulfill the prophecies only half way and not for eternity?


Maybe Jesus never did any miracles, maybe he was a prophetic man that Constantine turned into a God 300 years after his death?

These are the questions that the bible must answer...

2006-07-07 11:03:06 · 10 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3 in Religion & Spirituality

they should lighten it up a bit, or expand on their sources more, like the positiveatheism site. There aren't alot of ideas there, just looks more like ideology to me. Am i being ironic? la la la.

2006-07-07 11:02:52 · 7 answers · asked by meta-morph-in-oz 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I realized something aobut different religions. All tend to teach the same lessons or similar lessons but the wording is just different. For example, karma in Buddhaism, if you do good things, good things will happen to you. You do bad things, bad stuff happens. I currently volunteer at a Christian hospital and I a lot of people tell me that the Lord is going to bless me because of the charity I do. So I'm guessing that their meaning is that because I do good things, the Lord is going to give me a good life. And I'm assuming that if one does bad things, the devil will get them. Do you agree? if you don't what is your opinion?

2006-07-07 11:02:35 · 6 answers · asked by christigmc 5 in Religion & Spirituality

this man can't make love with his wife any more,and he is faith ,doesn't have any outside relationships! how can he solve his problem as he is still young and desires to have love!

2006-07-07 11:01:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Help please!

2006-07-07 11:01:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-07 11:00:52 · 20 answers · asked by Linda 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Please can senior citizens help me??? Im really desperate!

2006-07-07 11:00:23 · 5 answers · asked by Sharne 2 in Other - Society & Culture

What miracles did Jesus perform that couldn't be performed today by magicians? or proved as historicle fact?

2006-07-07 11:00:15 · 17 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-07 10:59:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I added a question about starting my own religion and really want to add a comment to it myself - especially since I have a load of people asking me to convert!

2006-07-07 10:58:32 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I mean you have plenty of websites that are filled with distortions and Pious Fraud but not one shred of evidence exists for you suppostion that Hominids (humanity's ancestors that include Homo Habilus and Australopithecus Boisei) ever saw a dinosaur. Once again, the fossil record does not lie, unlike yourselves.

(oh and for those of you who want to point out things like the Taylor Trail and the Mcfall trail, ask yourselves why these "proofs" have been removed and stored where no credible scientist can examine them? Wouldn't your FIRST stop be at the local University and thier paleontology department? You'd set the scientific world on it's ear!. But the fact is, these two are frauds. Your efforts while childishly noble, are so easy to refute it's sad)

2006-07-07 10:58:03 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

He has pleurisy, pneumonia, and a partially collapsed lung. I am praying, and I've asked my friends to pray, but if you could pray for us, too, I believe it will help.

His name is Stephen, and he's 52 years old.

2006-07-07 10:57:47 · 32 answers · asked by ginevra1weasley 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-07 10:57:43 · 3 answers · asked by Guam nut 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Or would it even be religious? Or spiritual? Would it act as a single entity, or many? Would it have feelings? Emotions? Would it be more creative or more technical? Male or Female? Existentialist or Nihilist?

2006-07-07 10:57:16 · 12 answers · asked by Frompers 2 in Religion & Spirituality

to have their name seen by him?

2006-07-07 10:57:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i have read somewhere but dont remember what verse it is....so what does the bible say about something who believes in god marrying someone who doesn't?

2006-07-07 10:57:02 · 6 answers · asked by kkds14 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-07 10:55:39 · 13 answers · asked by I-C-U 5 in Religion & Spirituality

or do you like the conflict,
i'm too tired for it anymore.. i just don't care.. peace would be nice

2006-07-07 10:55:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I met a Christian Pastor and asked him the question. His answer was as follows:
" Noah had 3 sons. Ham,Shem and Japeth. They were the fathers
of the extended white race(Caucasoid Race--here white doesn't mean
pale skinned Europeans but includes extra-European whites like
people from the Middle East,Israel, Northern India,Iran,North Africa etc.). Ham was the father of Egyptians,Algerians,Lybyans and other North Africans who mostly had tanned skin and differs from the Sub-Saharan Blacks. Shem was the Father of the Arabs and Israelis. Japeth was the father of all Indo-European people.
So, how the Mongoloids(Chinese,Japanese, Amerindians etc.)and
Blacks came? When Noah was putting all the animals by pairs inside the ark--the donkey came. But it didn't want to go inside the ark. So, Noah rebuked it--"You Satan--come inside". So, the Satan
came inside the ark along with the donkey. Satan somehow managed to bring two girls and a guy who were descendents
of Cain secretly inside the ark.

2006-07-07 10:54:54 · 10 answers · asked by Mahfuz R 1 in Religion & Spirituality

mature answers please.

2006-07-07 10:54:27 · 10 answers · asked by mark alexander smith 1 in Religion & Spirituality