Society & Culture - 18 August 2006

school just started here in my hometown yesterday and i like to get to know my kid's bus driver. well basically we live on a covasac and all the parents sit and wait for the bus with their children. The bus driver is a black man and he was talking to one of the black parents and they were using light ebonics..you know like "whats really good" and phrases like that..Since my daughter is mixed i felt i could do the same so i was like "What it is?" and they both looked at me up and down and shook their heads and the bus driver peeled out in a mad fashion..(with kids still in bus)
I dont know what his problem is I tell myself when i look in the mirror that i look like a light skinned Denzel..but still im not "down"

2006-08-18 13:54:32 · 16 answers · asked by Italian Stallion 2 in Etiquette

A bible based view of the world may provide a sense of comfort... but is it the TRUTH? The evidence suggests otherwise ;-)

http://www.msu.edu/%7Erobin400/humanevolution.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

2006-08-18 13:54:21 · 11 answers · asked by oro_veritis 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Hi, I would like to become a Pastor for sure and also a Christian archeologist type. I was just wondering if anyone knew of any distance learning schools or maybe any regular schools in the southern Wisconsin area. I would really appreciate any help that I can obtain, I am having no luck on my own.

2006-08-18 13:54:19 · 4 answers · asked by tjrd93 1 in Religion & Spirituality

This question is for a Bible class I'm taking.

Please indicate if you are a Christian or not in your answer.

2006-08-18 13:53:24 · 20 answers · asked by mSTREAMS 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 13:53:23 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Religious leaders have consistently come out against medical advances. Hundreds of years ago, they were against autopsies and medical use of cadavers for research. In the 1800’s Christians fought the use of anesthetics on the ground that suffering is God’s will and therefore must be endured. This was particularly true for a woman’s pain during childbirth, because they could quote the Bible to support their position. Currently, some religious groups prohibit life-saving blood transfusions. Children die every year because their parents withhold medical treatment, trusting in God instead. Many religious leaders are preventing access to birth control, disease prevention, and information about sexuality. They act as though they would prefer to see people dying of disease or starvation, rather than allow the population to have forbidden products and information. Recently some have come out against very promising areas of medicine, such as fetal cell research, stem cell research, and therapeutic cloning. They have also convinced our government that these areas of research should be prohibited or severely limited. This has real implications for reducing the possible medical treatments available for each of us and for tens of millions of people in the U.S. who have spinal cord injuries and diseases such as Parkinson's. Not all religions want this research limited; but many do, and they fail the medical test.

2006-08-18 13:52:50 · 17 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3 in Religion & Spirituality

This question is for a Bible class I'm taking.

Please indicate if you are a Christian or not in your answer.

2006-08-18 13:50:57 · 53 answers · asked by mSTREAMS 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 13:50:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

After they get everybody else tucked in.

2006-08-18 13:50:21 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

(What is YOUR solution to WHAT problem?

2006-08-18 13:49:49 · 2 answers · asked by I am Sunshine 6 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-18 13:47:41 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Hey just for a joke, why don’t we keep our religious brothers and sisters happy, and pretend for a moment that the good God is alive and well, and that the Bible is all true. I know, big joke, but let’s just pretend for the moment.

Now God got really annoyed with his first lot of human beings he created and murdered them all (Genesis 6:11-17 and 7:11-24) by flooding the Earth, but did the decent thing and spared one family, his buddy Noah and company. Nice one.

Now religious people, God’s on his way back to Earth and is going to murder off once again all the baddies and spare one other family, who on Earth do you think that one family will be?

2006-08-18 13:47:14 · 10 answers · asked by Brenda's World 4 in Religion & Spirituality

As one who works in an office, my fingernails must be in tiptop shape, but I get the munchies for nails when the tie becomes loose.

2006-08-18 13:47:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

I am being attacked by monkeys. I sh!t you not. I live where there are monkeys-- not usually in my neighborhood, though. I live on the 3rd floor and they're going around the building testing the bars on every window and making grunting noises. One showed me his teeth.

Scared the holy **** out of me.

2006-08-18 13:47:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I had some ice cream, what about you?

2006-08-18 13:46:21 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Can you tell us how you would complete that thought?

2006-08-18 13:46:03 · 9 answers · asked by I am Sunshine 6 in Other - Society & Culture

just tell me what you want.

2006-08-18 13:46:03 · 19 answers · asked by hahaha 5 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-18 13:44:53 · 17 answers · asked by goat lady 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I am sure this question has been asked before, but if so I missed the answers. I am sincerely asking what has happened to "you" personally to make you feel such anger towards those of us who do follow Jesus and believe in Him. I know that there are "some" Christians that are over the top and can get very ugly in the name of religion, but I have not personally met any, only seen them on here. But I really don't understand what causes all the negative feelings and hateful words, blasphemous remarks and attitudes to believers. Even though we will never meet, it truly saddens me to read some of the remarks on here.

2006-08-18 13:44:30 · 26 answers · asked by Nelita C 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Is Irish language is same to Irish Gaelic? So can we consider that Gaelic( Wales,Ireland n Scotland) is the indigenous language of the British Isels? And also can we cansider English is formed from Gaelic with the influence of German and French languages

2006-08-18 13:43:32 · 5 answers · asked by Madhu M 1 in Other - Society & Culture

1."It is well that war is so terrible... or we should grow too fond of it."
2."Three may keep a secret if two are dead."
3. "Up men! And to your posts! And let no man forget today, that you are from Old Virginia!"
4." I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
5." A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. "
6."Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
7. " His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! "
8."I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

2006-08-18 13:43:09 · 3 answers · asked by I am Sunshine 6 in Other - Society & Culture

But Jesus did it all the time. Most of his parables involved saying that God is like a good shepherd, like that good master, like a good father. We are instructed to pray to "Our Father--" And every preacher's favorite sermon is the Prodigal Son. Don't they always end it by saying "God is like THAT GOOD FATHER,if you return to his good graces he will love and forgive you."
But did you ever hear one say,"But if you don't return to him and ask forgiveness, he will will find you and subject you to eternal pain and torment, like A BRUTAL, SADISTIC FATHER."
Isn't the second statement just as true as the first?
Why don't you ever hear that in church?

2006-08-18 13:42:39 · 14 answers · asked by October 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 13:42:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This makes you think of how important women are.

2006-08-18 13:42:17 · 21 answers · asked by Ramen Lover!!! 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Do you think that people who have degree on a study and work with people, such as psychologist,orthophonist, therapist, teacher, actually help their clients who have big problems or take their money away by pretending to help without no improve of this poor person?

2006-08-18 13:42:15 · 4 answers · asked by Ritsuko 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-18 13:41:53 · 26 answers · asked by BigPappa 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 13:41:48 · 25 answers · asked by iamlaura2006 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Or where was "He" when those lunatics kidnapped the planes on 9/11... thousands of good innocent people suffer heart/brain strokes every year... wasn't that a good time for "Him" to send a stroke to those crazy mother f******?
I'm just gonna sit and relax reading the surely very imaginative answers from the religious people that still believe that there is a "God" taking care of them...

2006-08-18 13:40:52 · 74 answers · asked by Transgénico 7 in Religion & Spirituality

To the Romans, all religions were equally true.
To the philosophers, all religions were equally false.
To the politicians, all religions were equally useful.

Does this sound familiar? Our politicians keep pulling God and religion into politics. President George W. Bush’s mangling of the wall separating state and church is well documented. In 1954, when President Eisenhower signed the bill adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance (and ironically removing “indivisible”), his words explicitly showed that the idea was to link religiosity and patriotism. In 1988 President Reagan established the National Day of Prayer. On March 27, 2003, House Resolution 153 passed by an overwhelming vote. It urges the President to issue a proclamation “designating a day for humility, prayer, and fasting for all people of the United States.” We are “to seek guidance from God to achieve a greater understanding of our own failings,” and “to gain resolve in meeting the challenges that confront our nation.” The Senate unanimously passed a similar bill. These government actions violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the First Amendment. I say that we are becoming a de facto theocracy.

2006-08-18 13:40:44 · 14 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 13:39:33 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender