Society & Culture - 31 July 2006

only 8 percent had phones.
the average life expectancy was 47.
the average wage was 22 cents per hour.
only 100 years ago

2006-07-31 07:34:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

http://elsmar.com/pdf_files/Pastafarian%20Flying%20Spaghetti%20Monster/first%20vision%20Flying%20Spaghetti%20Monster.jpg

Many of us have had visions and truely believe!

2006-07-31 07:33:19 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

OK so I am 28 and am just now reading the bible. I was not brought up reading it or living it. I am a true believer even though I do not know all of the bible yet. I find it strange that I do believe even with only a small amount of info but I guess it is God's way right. Well anyway i read the book of Revelations first even though it is last in the bible and I confused. It says if you are a liar or idoler or many other things you will go to Hell. Well I have done my fair share of wrong things. Will I go to heaven. I know Jesus died for our sins but if you keep doing wrong then what. Repenting but to who God or the person you hurt I am totally confused. I know the bible will answer my questions but I am confused now and it will take a while to read the BOOK.

2006-07-31 07:33:18 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-31 07:32:34 · 1 answers · asked by jatboyz 1 in Religion & Spirituality

What kind of church do you go to or like to go to? I just came out of strict legalistic church, but I dont want to go to one of the old people's church either.

2006-07-31 07:32:20 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

if you do, what do you get out of it??

2006-07-31 07:31:58 · 30 answers · asked by Christina K 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Dont bother telling me their nutz, thats a given!!!

2006-07-31 07:30:58 · 31 answers · asked by Poptart 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-31 07:30:49 · 14 answers · asked by Amir 1 in Religion & Spirituality

people thinking for themselves? Is it so wrong to have original ideas and thoughts, or does every single thing you do, think and say have to be fed thru the jesus filter first?

2006-07-31 07:30:39 · 20 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-31 07:29:56 · 12 answers · asked by huxtable_grimm 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-31 07:28:46 · 26 answers · asked by Me 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Ever witness something happen on it's own that shouldn't happen on it's own, as if a ghost were the cause of it?

Ever have an experience related to psychic phenomena, eery premonitions that come true, or coincidences too strange to be coincidences?

Ever experience or know someone who experienced an uncanny ability that defies Western scienctific explanation?

Anything super-natural or unexplainable... Even something as simple as being dramatically healed after seeing an acupuncturist.
I want to hear about it.

2006-07-31 07:28:43 · 11 answers · asked by Kiecha K 1 in Mythology & Folklore

Well i live in missouri and 2 of my friends have a spirit or something in there house
i want to know how to get a spirits attention so i can comunicat w/ them. thats just me.
any ideas????

2006-07-31 07:27:33 · 9 answers · asked by Christina K 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-31 07:27:08 · 5 answers · asked by John W 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Okay heres the deal sorta kinda Mexican. I like to stand out from the crowd, being different but since everybody else is Mexican I dont want to be!!!Help. I dont want to sound racist!!

2006-07-31 07:26:58 · 43 answers · asked by Addie 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

some of you wrote here that bad deeds cannot be changed and that the sin cannot be changed into merit.
if it is so, then why should we sinners make good deeds?
For example, if it is the same to make small mistake and many big mistakes and if we are doomed, then why should be good at all?

2006-07-31 07:26:48 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm afraid that when i do things will change. I'm also afraid that i won't be able to go to the club or to sessions anymore.

2006-07-31 07:26:09 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

don't you think the greatest men of the Americas are.
Washington, Bolivar, Martin,and Marti,

2006-07-31 07:26:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Royalty

The viking practice of boat / pyres. I think it would be one of the best ways to deal with corpses. Plus it has great symbolic imagery. but what are you thoughts?

should we burn the dead?

2006-07-31 07:25:50 · 26 answers · asked by Tom 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I have heard people say that babies that die will not go to heaven because they have not been saved yet. It makes sense in a way, we are all born with the sin nature. But, what about the age of accountability? I was always taught that babies and young children have not yet reached the age of accountability and so if they died they would automatically go to heaven. What do you think about this?

2006-07-31 07:25:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Assume the Christian God. God is all powerful. Therefore God should be able to make a rock that even he cannot lift. However, if he cannot lift it, he is not omnipotent. Also, if he cannot make such a rock he is not omnipotent. Any good solutions for this one?

Just to note, yes I am an atheist, but it was my religious friend who brought this one up to me today.

2006-07-31 07:25:24 · 31 answers · asked by Phil 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Sometimes it's hard to tell if someone is just screwing around....(heh, I wouldn't know anything about that).....or not. If this person is for real, are there really people who think like this?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Alenry6zPIsjy.27N_WixcDsy6IX?qid=20060731111044AASfrWF

I already know there ARE people like this. It's hard to believe.

2006-07-31 07:25:14 · 10 answers · asked by Biggest Douche in the Universe 3 in Religion & Spirituality

it's so funny....I have nothing better to do..
I have a ton of stuff to do..but here I sit...
and you what should you be doing rite now that your not..???

2006-07-31 07:24:34 · 2 answers · asked by reneyhun 5 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-31 07:24:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

So much intolerance toward christians..Hey, if you want to say %&$* God, that's your own business...Trust me, i'm not losing sleep..so can we just all get along...lol

2006-07-31 07:23:55 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Most of the Christians I've come across are very judgmental and bigoted. Are they supposed to be that way? I'd like answers from real Christians please. Blessed be.

2006-07-31 07:23:52 · 24 answers · asked by Maria Isabel 5 in Religion & Spirituality

"The heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield, banned from boxing because of a heart condition, went to a Benny Hinn crusade in Philadelphia, had Hinn lay hands on him, and gave Hinn a check for $265,000 after he was told he was healed. In fact, he passed his next examination by the boxing commission, but later his doctors said he never had a heart condition in the first place – he had been misdiagnosed. But Hinn refused to give Holyfield his money back and threatened legal action if he told anyone the truth."

Illustration by 4G² Issue #191, January/February 2000

2006-07-31 07:23:49 · 7 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Have you been touhed my His Noodly Appendage

2006-07-31 07:22:59 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Ok so from what I can gather is that it's because the bible says he will after a war, an earthquake and a famine. Great well there is a sound argument if I ever heard one. Pick any period in history so where is jesus then? Oh perhaps he died 2,000 years ago and isn't coming back as no one has ever returned from the dead. Say no to jesus ( http://www.saynotojesus.tk )

2006-07-31 07:22:18 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Dennis Miller is not Jewish and uses comedy to share some brilliant
comments.
He recently had the following to say about the Middle East situation:
"A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service
to all Americans who still don't get it, I now offer you the story of
the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you Really need.
Here we go:
The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about
that: There are no Palestinians. It's a made up word. Israel was
called Palestine for two thousand years. Like "Wiccan," "Palestinian"
sounds ancient but is really a modern invention. Before the Israelis
won the land in the 1967 war, Gaza was owned by Egypt, the West Bank was
owned by Jordan, and there were no "Palestinians."
As soon as the Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as
basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the "Palestinians," weeping
for their deep bond with their lost "land" and "nation."
So for the sake of honesty, let's not use the word "Palestinian" any
more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our
defeats until someone points out they're being taped. Instead, let's
call them what they are: "Other Arabs Who Can't Accomplish Anything In
Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of
Eternal Struggle And Death."
I know that's a bit unwieldy to expect to see on CNN. How about this,
then: "Adjacent Jew-Haters." Okay, so the Adjacent Jew-Haters want
their own country. Oops, just one more thing: No, they don't. They
could've had their own country any time in the last thirty years,
especially two years ago at Camp David. But if you have your own
country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks and Chambers
of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out some way to
make a living.
That's no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region
want: Israel. They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course
--that's where the real fun is -- but mostly they want Israel.
Why? For one thing, trying to destroy Israel - or "The Zionist Entity"
as their textbooks call it -- for the last fifty years has allowed the
rulers of Arab countries to divert the attention of their own people
away from the fact that they're the blue-ribbon most illiterate,
poorest, and tribally backward on God's Earth, and if you've ever been
around God's Earth, you know that's really saying something.
It makes me roll my eyes every time one of our pundits waxes poetic
about the great history and culture of the Muslim Mideast. Unless I'm
missing something, the Arabs haven't given anything to the world since
Algebra, and, by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one.
Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five
Million Jews. Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and
Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these
same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches,
everyone will be pals..
Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about the string of wars to
obliterate the tiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to
drive every Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding.
My friend, Kevin Rooney, made a gorgeous point the other day: Just
reverse the numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million
Arabs. I was stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone
picture the Jews strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite to
themselves? Of course not.
Or marshaling every fiber and force at their disposal for generations to
drive a tiny Arab State into the sea? Nonsense. Or dancing for joy at
the murder of innocents? Impossible. Or spreading and believing
horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of
children?
Disgusting.
No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews
would ever do to people is debate them to death.
Mr. Bush, God bless him, is walking a tightrope. I understand that with
vital operations in Iraq and others, it's in our interest, as Americans,
to try to stabilize our Arab allies as much as possible, and, after all,
that can't be much harder than stabilizing a roomful of super models
who've just had their drugs taken away
However, in any big-picture strategy, there's always a danger of losing
moral weight. We've already lost some. After September 11th our
president told us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists
and the countries that supported them. Beautiful. Then the Israelis,
after months and months of having the equivalent of an Oklahoma City
every week (and then every day) start to do the same thing we did, and
we tell them to show restraint.
If America were being attacked with an Oklahoma City every day, we would
all very shortly be screaming for the administration to just be done
with it and kill everything south of the Mediterranean and east of the
Jordan.

2006-07-31 07:22:10 · 8 answers · asked by steve 4 in Other - Society & Culture