Society & Culture - 20 July 2006

2006-07-20 05:36:13 · 12 answers · asked by Golgo-13 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-20 05:36:07 · 12 answers · asked by Sappho 4 in Other - Society & Culture

I'm a smoker, When i'm shopping with my partner she takes hours! I'm thinking about spending money, i'm hot, and i'm stressed... the last thing I want to be told in a shopping centre (arcade) is that I cannot smoke... These centres are HUGE, what possible passive smoking could someone endure??? Does anyone else think that non-smokers are Nazi's and that these rules are absurd!???

2006-07-20 05:36:04 · 34 answers · asked by carlos 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Those of you believers can flame all you want, I don't care.

I think the people of the time of the bible's creation were quite out of hand and almost anarchist. Therefore, the priests were called to put together the bible and to cushion the rules in stories and allegory to make people follow them. The most important part was the consequence of hell. Their eternal soul would be damned and punished forever if they did not obey these rules. The greatest control a government has over it's people is fear. Short of killing the people outright, telling them that the things they were doing damned their souls to a fiery hell for infinity was the only thing that kept them in line.

2006-07-20 05:36:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

they have found out that all persons cary the sells of te place were edin was . dose not matter what colore you are . we are all conectid by this cell .

2006-07-20 05:35:42 · 9 answers · asked by lois k 2 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-07-20 05:35:21 · 7 answers · asked by a Dinosaur 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-20 05:34:31 · 12 answers · asked by kellyjosaunders 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-20 05:34:26 · 14 answers · asked by ? 5 in Religion & Spirituality

No one at work knows I'm gay and I don't like to be a "politically-correct" nutjob, but how do you respond when people make offensive statements about how much they "hate queers" or make derogatory jokes about them.

2006-07-20 05:32:48 · 24 answers · asked by collegedebt 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-07-20 05:32:28 · 8 answers · asked by noodledoodle 2 in Religion & Spirituality

From what I've read about Taosim, it seems to be a good way to live your life. But I try to steer away from organized religion, so is it possible to belong to a structured and communal from of Taoism without being innundated with religious thought?

2006-07-20 05:32:22 · 5 answers · asked by Eldritch 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-20 05:32:01 · 3 answers · asked by saijjan 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Not just in homes but shops and cafes

2006-07-20 05:32:00 · 3 answers · asked by malcolmg 6 in Other - Society & Culture

What do you think about designers using models who are under 17 to wear clothing and advertize their products for adult women who are over 35?

Does fashion have any responsibility to uphold morality or social decency, or is fashion immoral by nature?

Is it morally right for models who are teenage girls between the ages of 14 - 17 to pose in sexually provocative ways to sell a product to an adult audience?

Does sexually suggestive advertizing contribute to an eager audience of teen and pre-teen girls wanting to emulate the images they see in magazines, and music videos?

Do you think this imagery leads to early experimentation with sex among teens, and an increase in pedophilia in our culture?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=396637&in_page_id=1879

2006-07-20 05:31:27 · 19 answers · asked by Pondering Reality 3 in Other - Society & Culture

I met this dude and he is real cool to hang out with. It's nothing sexual b/w us but he says things like, "Damn, he got a nice body!" One time his cousin saved a "flick" (porno) on TIVO and we flipped through it. The guy had a huge penis. I'm black and I have never seen a white man with a penis that big so I said "Damn!", my friend said "He got a nice size huh?" We will also be on the phone watching videos on TV and he'll say....."he's cute" and **** like that. I'm not attracted to him, he's just a new friend and I don't want to step to him wrong and lose a friend.

2006-07-20 05:31:16 · 11 answers · asked by high_yella305 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I see this rather disturbing event on a all too regular basis. Now mind you, I am not talking about 5-10 years difference - it is more like A 20-26 year old woman with a man 55+. Logic and common sense tell me quite simply "gold-digger". I don't care how great of a personality or "in-shape" the old b@st@rd is - it's just sickening! HE HAS OLD SAGGY BALLS for Pete's sake! (and everything else)
Anyway ... share your opinions. I would love for somebody to try to explain the logic here.

2006-07-20 05:30:57 · 9 answers · asked by ? 6 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-20 05:30:12 · 5 answers · asked by Prayerwarrior 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-20 05:29:44 · 4 answers · asked by jade 1 in Languages

1. A complex all-knowing all-loving God created the universe, and made human beings, and many centuries ago God spoke with human beings, and came to human form as Jesus, died, made his appearance to humans, then was ascended into heaven, and has made no physical contact with humans since then, and we today in 2006 must believe this or when this God returns we will be punished,

or

2. Through natural causes life started in the universe on Earth, my sperm made it to the ova instead of the other 6million. When I die my body decomposes.

2006-07-20 05:29:34 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I heard that women can walk around topless in public in Canada. Is that true??

2006-07-20 05:29:32 · 21 answers · asked by animal_mother 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Anytime I see a question dealing with evolving, I see a lot of answers from Christians arguing its validity and just plain going nuts, when by definition it is just a term… Can’t we say that since biblical times we have evolved into a modern, technological society?
And if we have obviously grown into this technological marvel and it is all God’s plan, then why didn’t he start it way back? Why did he wait until now to share it, I bet Jesus would have loved to have a cell phone! So have we “evolved” into this technological human and if we didn’t then why didn’t God give it to those folks in the Bible?

2006-07-20 05:29:02 · 17 answers · asked by go_to_girl 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I tend to get along with men more than women, and I'm not even remotely attracted to my male friends, and none of them have ever tried to hit on me.
Most of them already have girlfriends anyway :). So no, they're not gay! :P
I find guys easier to talk to than women(not that I don't have female friends, mind you).
Where did this myth--that guys and girls can't just have a platonic relationship--come from?

2006-07-20 05:29:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

When Muslim suicide bombers kill civilians on purpose, how can they be so outraged when Israelis kill civilians only by accident? Is it true that Hezbo plants it's military targets inside civilian populations making reluctant martyrs out of it's own people?

2006-07-20 05:28:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-20 05:28:36 · 19 answers · asked by Chrissy H 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-07-20 05:27:47 · 5 answers · asked by Golgo-13 2 in Religion & Spirituality

a few days ago one of my neighbors passed away. we were not close neighbors. we would wave to each other when we saw one another and say a few plesentries. he and his wife had only moved in a few months ago and i am usally quite busy.

yesterday when i arrived home from work and picking up my two year old from day care, his wife was outside. i went over to tell her how sorry i was for her lose. she thanked me, and we talked about my son and her husband for a while.

after a few minutes i could see the tears starting to well up in her eyes. she had told me that her husband and her used to enjoy watching my kids play outside. after a few minutes. she asked if i thought her husband was in heaven. i am an atheist and do not believe in heaven. not wanting to hurt her feelings, i said yes. she then asked if i would pray with her. again not wanting to hurt her , i pretended to pray with her.

do you believe, what i did was wrong.

2006-07-20 05:27:16 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Does it annoy you when people call you African American? I think it would annoy me.

Would you rather people just call you black? They call me white and hose is latino. Thanks

2006-07-20 05:26:47 · 20 answers · asked by Mama R 5 in Etiquette

and y?

2006-07-20 05:25:58 · 27 answers · asked by James Blond 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-20 05:25:54 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-20 05:25:49 · 12 answers · asked by MM 5 in Other - Society & Culture