Society & Culture - 18 August 2006

I know its Spanish, the Q:
Has this expression existed in English before the movie (Terminator 2)?

2006-08-18 14:26:44 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2006-08-18 14:26:16 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-18 14:25:36 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Royalty

It’s good to see religion being banned from public schools, a step that certainly protects our children from a potentially very dangerous and damaging belief system.

Should we promote this trend and push for further bans on religious education and religious meetings being held in public places, television, churches and such like. I bit like having bans on smoking in various places because smoking is damaging to your health. Religion is really no different in this regard, except that is more damaging.

2006-08-18 14:25:23 · 19 answers · asked by Brenda's World 4 in Religion & Spirituality

i'm saving up to go overseas, i usually am extravagant and eat out alot, now i'm cooking at home to save money. problem is, the other day a batch of soup (that yields 4-5 bowls) cost me $40 (australian) to make! i need some smart/cheap tips please! by the way, meals need to be vegetarian. besides food, other lifestyle tips to save money? greatly appreciated!

2006-08-18 14:25:16 · 6 answers · asked by lisa s 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I responded to a question and gave my oppinion, the person who asked the question e-mailed me with threats and location were we could meet and have at it! I think these actions are at least juvinile if not self destructive. what if I was a nut job also and showed up with a gun? This is the first and hopefuly the last time I have to deal with this kind of B.S. of course I'm not going to meet this person and I don't have a gun so whats left? crawl thrue the phone lines and kick my butt?what a world?

2006-08-18 14:24:34 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

. For me and for many Atheists I know, the realization of our Atheism has been extremely freeing and has opened us to our own happiness.
Atheism helps us to see reality as it actually is, without the mental filters of superstition preventing us from directly experiencing it.
Atheism opens us to experience our selves, without the debasing idea that we are innately sinful.
Atheism allows us to experience true interpersonal love, without any imaginary supernatural intervention.
Atheism gives us the freedom to think for ourselves, to construct our own meanings. We each can choose what we think has value.
Atheism shows us that we can gain meaning by seeking to make our world a better place, for ourselves and our posterity.
Atheism teaches us to take responsibility for our behaviors in the here and now, not in an imaginary afterlife.
Atheism lets us see that we have to make choices about our future. No big daddy god is going to protect us from bad decisions.
Atheism teaches us to treasure this moment, this life, and this world — because we realize that it’s all we have.
Atheism also can work well for free societies. Free nations with high levels of Atheism — such as Sweden, the Netherlands, Australia, Switzerland and Japan — are among the healthiest, wealthiest, most educated, and most free societies on Earth.

2006-08-18 14:24:28 · 17 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 14:24:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

If you pay for sex is this still frowned upon in todays society as does this service provide any other uses apart from the obvious, does it stop a percentage of men who would other wise hurt abuse or rape others or does it glorify the issue of women are only sex objects & what about the women themselves should they be stigmatized just because they are doing this or because this is the only way they can earn money because they are people too with feelings?

2006-08-18 14:24:21 · 5 answers · asked by mcverry2000 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-18 14:21:42 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I've noticed something about Christianity that puts questions in my head, but before I explain I want to make it perfectly clear that this is in NO way slanderizing the Christian religion. This is NOT meant to offend Christianity. Okay, now.

I find it odd that most (not all) Christians give credit to all things good that they have done to God. For example, a family has a roof over their head, thank God. It isn't because they worked their whole lives to make it to where they are today. It is because God provided them with the house.

I know this is a useless question, and will get no one anywhere, but sometimes you need a good conversation topic. So...have at it.

2006-08-18 14:21:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 14:20:58 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-18 14:20:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i need it for a hw essay

2006-08-18 14:20:41 · 4 answers · asked by bob 3 in Other - Society & Culture

and this all-loving god hasn’t prevented them. This is known as the Problem of Evil (also known as theodicy), and I think that it is one of the biggest problems for those attempting to prove the existence of the Christian god. How can anybody explain the existence of a loving, all-powerful god, while also knowing the bad things that happen to all of us and the terrible things that happen to far too many?
The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus summed it up well when he wrote these ideas:

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
And yet the idea of an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good god with free will won’t go away. So, here we are discussing this subject again. It’s good to remember that there have been over 2500 gods created by humankind. Monotheists don’t believe in all but one of them. Atheists don’t believe in just one more.
In fact, the existence of honest and kind Atheists is another proof that the Christian god, who demands belief, doesn’t exist. If this all-good god existed, it would want everybody to be saved — even Atheists. If this all-knowing god existed, it would know that Atheists just want real proof of its existence. If this god were all-powerful it would be able to give unambiguous proof of its existence. It hasn’t. Therefore this god doesn’t exist.

2006-08-18 14:18:40 · 11 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I personally believe that God and Jesus Christ were consumers of the Holy Ganja plant, what think ye?

2006-08-18 14:18:26 · 13 answers · asked by ? 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Who is the original creator of God?

2006-08-18 14:18:24 · 11 answers · asked by semaver c 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Because they buried him next to a bunch of Christians.

2006-08-18 14:16:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am not mentioning names nor am I trying to be rude. I do not understand. I do not hate nor do I understand why some people feel such strongly. What causes such hatred and such a strong desire for returning good with evil in your opinion? Why do some people not just walk away from a question that is not rude that they do not like?

2006-08-18 14:16:16 · 16 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 14:15:38 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

It happened to me once in a remote park in Canada.

2006-08-18 14:14:33 · 12 answers · asked by Zelda Hunter 7 in Other - Society & Culture

Is there any girls who thinks about kissing another girl?

2006-08-18 14:14:30 · 14 answers · asked by lrkarey 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I see the way some people worship her, I think it is crazy..
What do you say?

2006-08-18 14:13:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Im Jewish and to the best of my knowledge no Rabbi living now or in the past ever advocated the murder of innocent people. Why do religious Muslims do so? It seems that when Muslims cant act on their anti semitism because of security fences or military action they turn on each other. It seems very common for Shiites and Sunnis to kill each other without much thought. Reform Jews and Orthodox Jews sometimes have differences; such as is it ok to drive on the sabbath or not; but their differences remain as dialogue and debate. When Moslems have religious differences, they settle it through Jihad.

2006-08-18 14:13:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I do, AND I love God.

2006-08-18 14:11:23 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 14:11:16 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Are teenage years the years where you try to find out who you are has a person?

2006-08-18 14:10:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

All the Christians say we are going to Hell in a hand basket so I'm just curious if I'm going to have company.
Road Trip anyone?

2006-08-18 14:10:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Because how do you explain deja vu? Or vivid dreams that happens exactly as it had happened in your dreams? Or people whom you have met for the first times, that gives you the feeling of having known them long before you met them?

2006-08-18 14:10:00 · 5 answers · asked by Bu Ang 3 in Other - Society & Culture

I felt good for a while today and then I felt something evil above and all around me and then all over me. My thoughts raced and I had to fight to keep them in order. I was in class and there are a few men who I dont think like me at all. I was looking at them when they didnt know it and I would just space out and have these thoughts of slapping them over and over again and making them afraid of me. I wondered what would happen to me if I did that. Im to small to really hurt them but I thought it would be a relief to scream at them for revenge. Then I realize Im spacing and staring and have to drag my thoughts back to not thinking that. I wonder if I should tell a counselor this ? I dont seem to get help from them and I get more from yahoo answers. I wonder where is the place of being happy and going on with my life ? Truthfully, I am fed up with counselors...

2006-08-18 14:09:18 · 14 answers · asked by trinity_loves_neo1 1 in Religion & Spirituality