Society & Culture - 16 August 2006

What is the difference between a Latino perosn and a Hispanic person?

2006-08-16 16:43:50 · 11 answers · asked by Godpigeon 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

It seems many non-muslims seem to be under the impression that if a muslim comes in contact with pork, they will not go to Heaven?

Yes, Muslims believe that pork is an unclean animal. But "burying them in pig blood", or launching "pork rinds" at them before some misdirected Islamic-like terrorist attempts to blow us all to bits is not going to prevent them from reaching Paradise. (nor enjoying the 70 virgins so many non-muslims seem to believe are waiting for Islamic martyrs)

Does our ignorance have no bounds? Is it just easier for us to demonize those we do not know about and thereby suggest remedies that are closer to fighting off vampires than actual solutions to our current differences?

Our President likes to refer to an "Axis of Evil", yet where does Christ teach us to declare a population or society as evil? Isn't it possible our actions as a nation be characterized as evil to others?

Are we becoming blind sheep, just accepting the poisoned grain our masters feed us?

2006-08-16 16:42:34 · 12 answers · asked by stoptheinsanity_73 3 in Mythology & Folklore

God seeks people whose hearts are pierced by their own sins as well as the sins of their neighbors and their society-and who intercede for the Father to pour out his overwhelming mercy. They are the ones whom God uses as instruments of healing and His mercy. Are you making yourself available? Will you answer His call? I am trying, who will go with me?
Peace Be With You,
Debra

2006-08-16 16:41:20 · 21 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I found out that brother is gay last year. Every since then he has pushed me and my family out of his life. Is this normal? I am the only one out of our family that stands behind him being gay. He still treats me terrible. Am I tring to hard to make me and my brother's relationship better?

2006-08-16 16:41:00 · 19 answers · asked by mooneyd1 2 in Other - Society & Culture

My friend thinks jesus was a murderer?

2006-08-16 16:39:47 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-16 16:38:48 · 9 answers · asked by Kelli 5 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-16 16:38:08 · 10 answers · asked by animalmother 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Please give me your opinions and why you have those opinions regarding the following five most controversial civil topics in the USA:

1. The Death Penalty

2. Gay Marriage

3. Abortion

4. The Right to Bear Arms

5. Legalizing Marihuana


We once did a seminar discussion over these topics in a University summer camp I went to, and it got very heated. It was interesting to listen to all the different opinions.

2006-08-16 16:38:06 · 13 answers · asked by Ragriav 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-16 16:36:52 · 31 answers · asked by Valyn 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-16 16:36:19 · 22 answers · asked by lexiann721 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-16 16:35:48 · 8 answers · asked by jonissac1 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i dont wear anything revealing, its so annoying, do they do it to you too??

2006-08-16 16:35:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I know what I consider to be true on this subject. I am simply interrested in what others think. I won't say what I think till the end because I don't want to influence the answers.

2006-08-16 16:34:32 · 12 answers · asked by skippybuttknuckle 3 in Religion & Spirituality

What religion did West Africans of the slave trade have before they were taken? I've heard Yoruba, but are there any others?

2006-08-16 16:34:09 · 6 answers · asked by Godpigeon 2 in Religion & Spirituality

If a screen is cracked due to being hit by something, is it correct english to say it has deveopled a fault? If something is instantly broken, can the word "develop" be used to refer to that second that it took to break it? I can understand that a crack develops in a rock, naturally and over time. If a lens is broken, because it was dropped, or scratched, can it be said that it developed a fault? Thank you.

2006-08-16 16:34:01 · 10 answers · asked by itsjustbroken 2 in Languages

For those who are ignorant believe in God, and those who are all-knowing think they are God.

2006-08-16 16:33:40 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am looking for the word(s) le'olam va'ed or l'olam va'ed (I've seen it spelled both ways) written in Hebrew. I have found them EVERYWHERE written with the english alphabet, but I want it in Hebrew. I would also love to hear your translation. PLEASE help me!

2006-08-16 16:33:22 · 4 answers · asked by joshandashleydorn 4 in Languages

I understand that when a person who speaks spanish and english sees someone of Spanish-speaking decent you may feel more comfortable speaking spanish with that person. I'm cool with that. But when you want to tell someone (who speaks spanish AND english) something in spanish in an english-speaking setting or crowd; (example: I am one of three people you are talking to, and I do not speak spanish) I might say "What did you just say?" and you say, "Oh nothing." Why couldn't you just say that "nothing" in English?

2006-08-16 16:32:53 · 19 answers · asked by Teoshe 3 in Languages

I saw it on someone elses answer, I believe it was used in an insulting manner. I hate the thought of missing out on a good zing.

2006-08-16 16:31:58 · 13 answers · asked by kittycollector32 3 in Other - Society & Culture

why would he even allow the creation of people he already knows are condemned to hell? how can he be a loving god if he willfully condemns people to hell before they're even born?

2006-08-16 16:31:44 · 43 answers · asked by anonymous 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I worked in retail in a town heavily populated with Indian immigrants. MANY of them, not all, insisted on getting discounts, and often tried to trick me into thinking I'd offered them one. Is this part of their culture? It put me on the spot several times and made me uncomfortable. I was just an employee and had no authority to give discounts, but they often INSISTED.

2006-08-16 16:31:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

im catholic. im confuse i dont know which one is true if re carnation or afterlife. i heard that babies dont talk till there 2 or so because if they did they'll say everything from there past life. which i think is true. because when babies sleep they smile or cry because they're remebering things from there past life.

2006-08-16 16:29:06 · 43 answers · asked by BRO MAN DR 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-16 16:28:45 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-16 16:27:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

We go to school for a major part of our lives, in an effort to increase our productivity. Then we get out into the real world make money and work like mad to buy what we want and then we have the added pressure to maintain it. Thus the cycle is a never ending cycle of servitude and security the servitude from the boss "aka" slave master and security from his resources which is money. The system is just revised slavery. You either work make
the money or starve and live on the streets.

2006-08-16 16:27:43 · 7 answers · asked by blazer 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-16 16:27:07 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

It was like we were from other worlds...I have never talked about so many secular things in my life....It was strange though to....the more he blocked out my faith...the more it seemed void of life all around us...all things were finite...and fading away...I became aware of the dying of humanity around me....to hope only in this life is frightening...and dims the light of love.... How can I deal with him tomorrow ?

2006-08-16 16:26:32 · 37 answers · asked by ? 2 in Religion & Spirituality

who smells thier own farts, to see if it stinks?

(just for the record, i don't)

2006-08-16 16:26:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

For example, I have older straight friends and family members who say "It must be so hard to be gay" or "I support you but it must be so difficult to be a member of a 'community' where the rest of the world hates you". Maybe I live in a bubble but I have not yet experienced discrimination, have never been the victim of a hate crime, etc. My feeling is that people either like me or they don't. Half the time I forget that I am gay. It is so odd to me that straight people think that they know anything about gay life. We certainly don't have a community and being gay is fine by me.

2006-08-16 16:25:48 · 22 answers · asked by mcgov20 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I am a nurse, and I live in Jones Co. MS. Besides the Gulf Coast and New Orleans our county was the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. Most of the people that I have been involved with since this disaster, whether through my work as a nurse, or as a victim of the hurricane receiving assistance, have professed a feeling of gratefulness that God was with them and helped them survive. I have seen many responses on this site to questions about why does God allow this or that where people have cited Katrina as something that was his fault. How do you, if you did not go through it, have the nerve to blame God for what happened to us when the majority of us who did go through it don't feel that way?

2006-08-16 16:25:33 · 18 answers · asked by Only hell mama ever raised 6 in Religion & Spirituality