Society & Culture - 11 July 2006

Coffee with a friend

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes.".................

2006-07-11 01:47:33 · 12 answers · asked by FaerieWhings 7 in Other - Society & Culture

Levi you say

"I don't get the hopeless attitude of the athiest - if this is the only life and it has no meaning then what is your point of living? I hear you say "to enjoy myself or raise a family etc etc" but that doesn't always work for those living in abject poverty or war-torn nations. It may be good for you but what do you tell the kid whose family is slaughtered, is living in less than a mud hut and has no food or water? Survival of the fittest? Where's your heart there? "

This is why we must in this life do something to help these people. It is all to easy for a rich christian nation to say "ah but at least the starving people in Africa will have a nice afterlife to look forward to." ******** !!!!!!!!

This is just an all to easy way for rich christian countries to ease the pangs of guilt that it is their unfair economic policies that keep these countries poor.

Sure we throw them a few bits of charity now and then to ease our consciences.

2006-07-11 01:47:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Think....Catholics vs Protestants
All vs Islam
Muslims vs Islamics
Jews vs...everyone?

Inhuman isnt it?

2006-07-11 01:46:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do you beleive you should or should have had the right to pray in school??

2006-07-11 01:46:33 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Eventually, we're all going to end up kneeling side by side in the place of judgment, facing God. Your critical and condescending ways aren't going to improve your position there one bit. Read it for yourself in Scripture:

"As I live and breathe," God says,
"every knee will bow before me;
Every tongue will tell the honest truth
that I and only I am God."

So tend to your knitting. You've got your hands full just taking care of your own life before God.

It will happen, as much as you try and deny it. It will.

2006-07-11 01:45:43 · 18 answers · asked by lledge 2 in Religion & Spirituality

It can either be bound in real leather or in simulated leather.

2006-07-11 01:44:56 · 3 answers · asked by akachila 1 in Religion & Spirituality

KNow God what i mean is not to become a priest and wearing simple clothes and growing a long beard and showing you are all religious..Infact the people who are in God are so happy ppl they enjoy wear good clothes good food..Like Jesus did he said enjoy cause then theres nothing in the world of dead...The love of God gives you plenty of happiness family love friends love no one can harm you...Cause you lead a real good life ....But some people give up on trials...Its like you ask for a job but when interviewed you give up looking at the question that means you dont really need that job just need the big pay without giving anything.

2006-07-11 01:43:36 · 6 answers · asked by Armaggedon_Amateur 1 in Religion & Spirituality

OK fellas! Question for ya. Need serious answers.

When I go out to get the paper in the morning (usually 6:30 am or earlier), should I wear:

A - my bathrobe (dressing gown for you British guys) and socks.

B - my pajama bottoms and socks.

I've been doing B but my back's a bit on the hairy side and I'm starting to worry about freaking out the neighbors! (grin)

I'd thought about A but my robe is kind of torn up and washed out and I'm not sure they'd want to see that either.

On a related note... when I go out to check the mail or do yard work on weekends, I've been wearing just jogging pants [trousers], socks and sport shoes. But as above, I'm starting to think I should wear a top too.

So what do you guys think?

2006-07-11 01:42:10 · 20 answers · asked by ColoFella 2 in Etiquette

also the Jetson for that matter?

2006-07-11 01:41:49 · 19 answers · asked by stargazer 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I have contemplated having plastic surgery to maybe not have quite as big of a HebrewSnout. However my friends and family say that would be selling out to be more American what do you all think?

2006-07-11 01:41:33 · 11 answers · asked by redseapedastrian 1 in Religion & Spirituality

In america about 5000 person except Islam per year...Y is this

2006-07-11 01:40:30 · 17 answers · asked by atif s 2 in Religion & Spirituality

ETHIOPIANSM---The belief that Ethiopia is Mt Zion...I want to know more about it but everytime i search it on the Net, I just find stuff about Rasta, I know Rasta is based on Ethiopiansm, so it must be from a wider spectrum...what do u think about it?

2006-07-11 01:39:33 · 1 answers · asked by JB 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Top of the class, in both Atheism and good behavior, come the Japanese. Over eighty percent accept evolution and fewer than ten percent are certain that God exists. Despite its size—over a hun­dred million people—Japan is one of the least crime-prone coun­tries in the world. It also has the lowest rates of teenage pregnancy of any developed nation. (Teenage pregnancy has less tragic consequences than violence but it is usually unwanted, and it is frequently associated with deprivation among both mothers and children. In general, it is a Bad Thing.) Next in line are the Norwegians, British, Germans and Dutch. At least sixty percent accept evolution as a fact and fewer than one in three are convinced that there is a deity. There is little teenage pregnancy is low, although the Brits, with over 40 pregnancies per 1,000 girls a year, do twice as badly as the others. Homicide rates are also low—around 1-2 victims per 100,000 people a year.

At the other end of the scale comes America.

2006-07-11 01:38:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-11 01:37:47 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Now i mean ppl who have experinced the love of God.And felt like God has called them.I have a nice experince where this feeling was more nice than cocaine,drinks or any drugs in this world an experience of fullness where no lust jealousy hatred strucks your mind and anger is miles away..A feeling that you are the most happiest man on the earth and suddenly you walk down to the busy streets of the city where u see people and can makeout they are so much full of burden on their heads..You can literally see them surrounded with evil. And satan talking to you trying to pull you down to your ol ways .Has anyone here had this experience?

2006-07-11 01:36:53 · 12 answers · asked by Armaggedon_Amateur 1 in Religion & Spirituality

http://www.thestarlitecafe.com/poems/101/poem_8340912.html

2006-07-11 01:35:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The concept of the question is to determine how ones' thoughts and desires could just disappear into thin air when a body expires, when all along we have known that any form of energy, including thought, has to reappear in some format or the other. Shouldn't Karmic Reincarnation be the reason for inequality among humans born into the Universe, the differences being due to the variance in the nature of their deepest thoughts?

2006-07-11 01:35:15 · 9 answers · asked by suraj s 1 in Religion & Spirituality

This is the real Oparh!

2006-07-11 01:33:21 · 23 answers · asked by Opera 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Does anyone know if Bonour is going to pick the best answer to his question about welfare?

2006-07-11 01:33:01 · 6 answers · asked by redseapedastrian 1 in Etiquette

Someone was speaking in my church the other day, and pointed out the fact that "seeker-friendly" churchs tend to paint of more flowery picture of the gospel, presenting it almost as a self-help mechanism.

I think that the gospel is simple and glorious, so why dumb it down.

Perhaps the thinking is that if people find out the Christian life is sometimes still hard, that they won't stick around. On the other hand though, salvation is a work of the Lord. What do you guys think?

2006-07-11 01:32:33 · 16 answers · asked by sarah s 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-11 01:28:57 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Psalm 37:9-11 

For evildoers themselves will be cut off,
But those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth.
And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more;
And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be.
But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,
And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.

2006-07-11 01:27:34 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i mean its getting old. is everyone else so afraid of us that they need to just tell us we're stupid and the things we do are stupid? if people ask my opinion on what i think through their questions then i will most certainly do my best to give it. but if you dont want to hear it, then dont ask the questions. its as simple as that. and i woulld aslo like to add that if you plan on answering this question, do so with a little comon sense.

2006-07-11 01:27:33 · 22 answers · asked by bill nye the science guy 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-11 01:27:28 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

i mean its getting old. is everyone else so afraid of us that they need to just tell us we're stupid and the things we do are stupid? if people ask my opinion on what i think through their questions then i will most certainly do my best to give it. but if you dont want to hear it, then dont ask the questions. its as simple as that. and i woulld aslo like to add that if you plan on answering this question, do so with a little comon sense.

2006-07-11 01:27:26 · 7 answers · asked by bill nye the science guy 2 in Religion & Spirituality

This is the real Oparh!

2006-07-11 01:23:27 · 23 answers · asked by Opera 3 in Other - Society & Culture

I mean ones you really have.
Don't lie. Mine is I can tell when people are lying to me.
It's the last one from me for today!
I know some people think my questions are annoying but I think they're fun. Thanks to all!

2006-07-11 01:23:19 · 26 answers · asked by ? 5 in Mythology & Folklore

I watched a movie called The Excorism of Emily Rose, and it got me to thinking. Why is it in movies you only see Catholics who have been possessed. This is not a stupid question but a serious one. Makes you think don't it Catholics.

2006-07-11 01:22:15 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-11 01:21:25 · 8 answers · asked by dyboy34 3 in Religion & Spirituality

hey to all my fellow christians just wanted say god bless

2006-07-11 01:21:14 · 5 answers · asked by Charnele B 3 in Religion & Spirituality