Society & Culture - 1 August 2006

Would you consider someone that sees murders, rapes, and torture and has the ability to stop it but doesn't to be a sadist?

Sadist: The deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/s...

God must be enjoying it or it wouldn't allow it. Free will is not an excuse because god could wait until the murderer decides to murder someone but stop him before he actually does it.

2006-08-01 01:47:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My coming out was very positive. Both my family and friends reacted calm and openminded. I suppose that it's less of an issue where I live, but I imagine it's more difficult in conservative countries/cultures/classes. How was yours?

2006-08-01 01:47:24 · 12 answers · asked by Bart 4 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

My three year old brother saw a "green thing". I was under a blanket and i was ready to jump out and scare him. before i could, he ran upstairs screaming. he was too young to lie and he was crying and sobbing so much he couldnt talk. i didnt know what was wrong so i ran upstairs not looking towards the direction he was looking at before. he told us what it looked like and to this day, he is six now, he hasnt changed his story. this is another reason i believe him. we checked online and we found some things that supported his story. we deffinately believe now. what we dont know is why it was there. no one has played with a wigi bord in my house and the house is only 5 years old. between the time my brother was three until he was six, some wierd things have happend.
Appearance:oval shape, green, smoke coming from head,tall as grown man, was behind the couch.
weird things:brush moving without being touched, cold air with no AC or windows open, scratching in the walls at 9 every night.

2006-08-01 01:47:07 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

What I don't get is this, why do people find it hard to believe in a concept of evolution. Why do they not wanna hear about it or bash it by saying I didn't evolve from no monkey. Yet they believe in an entety that is never heard or seen? Is it easier to believe in an entety that is not there than a concept that holds more facts?

2006-08-01 01:46:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Where do they come from!! thinks like "off the wagon", working like a dog" etc etc ...interesting discussion for a lunchtime!

2006-08-01 01:46:20 · 3 answers · asked by mouthwash44 1 in Other - Society & Culture

No pranks pls.

2006-08-01 01:45:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Capital Virtue
humility
liberality
brotherly love
meekness
chastity
temperance
diligence

2006-08-01 01:42:32 · 12 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Religion & Spirituality

will it be thought of in a thousand years as a new bible,seriously think about it,if i sat down and put all my "predictions" down on paper,and used names in the book as others did,will i be considered the word of god to the people that find it,honestly think about it thats what the bible is right?years after jesus passed is when it was written,correct?theguys who wrote it are considered "prophets" right?well if i declare myself a prophet as they did,which they did,it was proven they were guessing at best,half the things they said would happen,have never occured when they said it would,not being a jerk here,im really serious,wouldnt it be the same as none of us were alive then to prove these guys werent crazy fools,with strange ideas,maybe im wrong just asking

2006-08-01 01:41:50 · 18 answers · asked by cote8377 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I always believed islam is about the total submission of one's will to Allah. If there is a need to fight (defensively), we are obligated to fight.

2006-08-01 01:41:22 · 14 answers · asked by ali 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Muslims religion does not amtch with any religion

With christins<<,nope

With Jews<<
With Hindus<<
ANd also they do not get along themselves.

SHould this religion banned www wise I mean worldwise ?

2006-08-01 01:41:15 · 8 answers · asked by snow l 3 in Religion & Spirituality

displaced as if coming from outside of them?

2006-08-01 01:40:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I know this is going to 'draw some fire' from some respondents, but I have to ask it. And, I saw where a very similar question was asked recently by someone else, but I would appreciate one of two words somewhere in your response; either 'lazy' or ignorant'. Please.

Why is the English language so irrelevant with so many supposed English speaking people now? Lord knows I am not perfect, and I am not an English teacher, but when it comes to using the English language now days, it's atrocious.

From poor spelling, to improper use of words, bad grammar, terrible sentence structure, it goes on and on. Has someone come through in the dark of night and stolen all of our dictionaries?

Some of the questions asked on this blog are so poorly written it causes me to wonder what the person asking the question was doing when they spent the ten - fifteen seconds to blurt out the few words they did. And I am not talking about 'foreigners' in the process of learning the language. Have at me!

2006-08-01 01:39:18 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I keep seeing in the media and history books that a good amount of people don't like Jewish people. Can anyone tell me why or where it stems from? I've never met a Jewish person who wasn't nice and respectful, so I'm a little confused.

I prefer to dislike individuals based on their attitudes and lack of respect rather than their religion or race.
Oh, and do people still think that Jewish people killed Jesus? (That would be crazy since nowhere is it proven or even suggested that I've seen.)

2006-08-01 01:38:01 · 53 answers · asked by elliecow 3 in Religion & Spirituality

dont you think governments should spend most of their money on educating the younger generation? most children in the 3rd world dont go to school, due to lack of resources, religion and culture. dont you think its time to change that and make sure that kids get an education?

2006-08-01 01:37:56 · 11 answers · asked by ahmed 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-01 01:36:42 · 29 answers · asked by a theist 2 in Religion & Spirituality

When you first came out or even just admitted it to yourself did you find you became highly sexualy charged and found yourself acting like some kind of ****, this happened to me and now i feel ashamed of my behaviour and some of things i have been thinking,hopfully i can now grow up a bit and settle into my new bi lifestyle just wondered if this is common or am i really just a bad person.

2006-08-01 01:36:19 · 17 answers · asked by sister 4 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-08-01 01:36:09 · 19 answers · asked by AYIOA 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-01 01:35:37 · 16 answers · asked by queen 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-01 01:34:05 · 16 answers · asked by g. g 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-01 01:33:47 · 15 answers · asked by JeffE 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Vauxhall meriva advert - help?
i know this sounds really silly but me and my housemate are having a huge debate as to what is said at the end of the above advert. the advert is the one where the kids are acting like adults and basically at the end of it the actual parents drop the plates and the kids say something - what is it they say - it's over something can anyone shed any light ????

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this is the problem, he thinks it's 'oh they're tired' and i think it's 'overtired!' - come on guys weeks worth of chocolate is on the answer lmao

2006-08-01 01:33:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Say No to jesus http://www.saynotojesus.tk

2006-08-01 01:33:09 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Does this signal the second coming?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14100369/site/newsweek/

2006-08-01 01:32:10 · 3 answers · asked by idspudnik 4 in Religion & Spirituality

bring all cultures together.

2006-08-01 01:31:45 · 21 answers · asked by carl s 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-08-01 01:31:41 · 22 answers · asked by reading_is_dangerous 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Isn't is mentionned in the Bible that they lied to GOD and are considered to be traitors?

2006-08-01 01:31:17 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-01 01:31:00 · 24 answers · asked by nino2005_4 2 in Languages

One friends of mine told me that democrasy is not good: if the most of the people vote for something that is not true, the truth remain the same even if only a few people believe in it.
Or should I accept as truth what the majority think and do?
In fact, almost everyone do not want to be different; so, if some leaders say that day is night and night is day, many others will believe because they are afraid of being different.
So, one lie told too many times from many people became truth. Should I search for the utmost truth or should I try not to be different?

2006-08-01 01:30:08 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

This question assumes that God exists.

If everybody is a sinner and God made the Law, with morals and values, that means two options:

either God made morals that are too high to follow for all humans
or God made all humans with too low morals

It's nice that i can be saved when i squeeze Jesus into my heart, but the simple fact is that Jesus will then be a patch for the error that God made in his creation, or Jesus will be a patch for His Fathers sadistic Laws.

2006-08-01 01:28:45 · 17 answers · asked by Thinx 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-01 01:27:56 · 22 answers · asked by amitkrdce 2 in Other - Society & Culture