Society & Culture - 22 August 2006

2006-08-22 10:12:49 · 35 answers · asked by meg *__* 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-22 10:12:39 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Campaigning rock star Bono, who has made a major impact with Make Poverty History and global debt cancellation initiatives, is in hot water with development and church groups over the justice of his own finances.

Along with Irish politicians, they are expressing surprise and dismay at U2's decision to move part of its multi-million pound operation from Ireland to Amsterdam, where the tax rate on royalty earnings is miniscule – and the Christian Council for Monetary Justice (CCMJ) says this is just one part of a global money system gone badly wrong.

The singer and his band U2 are facing for accusations of hypocrisy for switching their financial affairs to avoid paying higher taxes in Ireland, while berating the parsimony of rich country leaders and calling for public funds to go into financing debt relief for poor nations.

What do you think?

2006-08-22 10:11:30 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Many Muslims and Christians like to point to what they call "devolution" (like when whales turned from being land mammals with legs back to living in the oceans with flippers) as evidence against evolution. They think that evolution means improvement and that all evolution is in the direction of higher life-forms. This is not true, evolution merely means "change over time" and that change can be perceived by those who judge it to be positive or negative. Natural selection simply means that whatever changes are most adaptive to the current environment are more likely to survive. Any so called "devolution" is still evolution.

2006-08-22 10:10:56 · 21 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Please do not take this as an offense. I am only curious.

2006-08-22 10:10:26 · 23 answers · asked by !{¤©¤}! 4 in Religion & Spirituality

or angel? do you have a gaurdian angel or spirit?

2006-08-22 10:10:19 · 12 answers · asked by darkangel1111 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I want to quit smoking and have not succeded but am determined to quit. My question is how was your experience in quiting. Did you do it in faith quiting cold turkey? Or did you use things like nicotine gum or nicotine patches? Please tell me your story. Thanks

2006-08-22 10:09:43 · 24 answers · asked by Kasey R 2 in Religion & Spirituality

i do not want to get into detail but relation is almost 9 years and there is abuse verbal/emotional and physical at time

i do not know what to do as i am dependent on him not only financial but emotional and he is all i have but i know there is more to life than it

thanks

2006-08-22 10:09:38 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

of having an amputated limb? I know god (and benny) are good at healing bad backs - but what about the tough cases?

2006-08-22 10:09:26 · 19 answers · asked by aurora03uk 1 in Religion & Spirituality

im now 13, and in order to graduate this year from 8th grade, my school requres me to do 5 hours or more of community service! I've been searching around for weeks but cant find any places that accept people my age!

ive tried volunteermatch.org already, and some of the local shelters. (btw i live in SF,CA)

i really love animals, and was also wondering if places like PetCo and PetSmart might accept volunteers my age!

Thanks sooo much for your help!

also, i dont mind volunteering for something other than with animals!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

2006-08-22 10:09:05 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Community Service

1. Turn your life over to the LORD ?
2. Call someone and pray together?
3. Fall on your knees and pray to the LORD?
4. Stop and gather everything you own?
5. Stop and have lunch first?
6. Just do nothing?

2006-08-22 10:08:30 · 12 answers · asked by cutedqwanna 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I meet this guy off a chat line and we've been hanging out and talking on the phone lately and he want's me to be his boyfriend but in the back of my mind i think i'm not the only one he's talking to.. I mean for me he's not the only one that i'm talking to, and he wants me to stop chatting with the other people and just only him... what should i do???

2006-08-22 10:05:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

after telling them I'm not interested, if they persist, I have two solutions:

a) just hang up

b) put my kid on the phone. He'll agree to buy whatever they're selling, if they'll sing the Barney song with him. Then he hangs up.

Is this too rude? If so, how do you get rid of these irritating people?

2006-08-22 10:04:44 · 24 answers · asked by Professor Chaos386 4 in Etiquette

You know, like life on other planets?

2006-08-22 10:04:36 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

Yea, just keep it up. live your life like no one is watching you. Hey, rich people , keep kicking the poor , scorning the good folks, and gloating over yourselfs like pigs. Hey employers, keep being dishonest, greedy, heart-less, and continue to display an utter lack of integrity to your employees. Afterall you worked so hard to be were your at. Yea your self-made self-built and your in full control. I've come to tell you to keep it up. Heres the message : Just Keep It Up..

2006-08-22 10:04:07 · 21 answers · asked by icyhott4urmind 1 in Religion & Spirituality

income. Where do you Americans really thing your churches money goes? Because I bet it's not on good causes!

2006-08-22 10:02:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Can anyone Identify the person of courage Esther 3:13

2006-08-22 10:02:40 · 6 answers · asked by China 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I've seen some really mean posts about muslims and I think it is very insulting to us muslims. please don't get all mad. Its really not fair that people just autimactically think that all muslims blow up things because they hear it on the news. Take somr time to learn about muslims before you judge.

2006-08-22 10:02:28 · 11 answers · asked by (A)bstract 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-22 10:02:23 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Just wondering.

2006-08-22 10:01:22 · 18 answers · asked by ugly frog 2 in Religion & Spirituality

when me and mary jo left bible studies we got on the wrong bus and ended up in a rough area.there were people selling drugs.then a big gang came upto us and the next thing we knew we all got soaked by a bus going through a puddle.where was god then??

2006-08-22 10:00:46 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I just saw a video on yahoo about an old lady who taught Sunday school at a church, and she's been teaching there almost all her life. One day, she suddenly got fired, just because she was a woman. That was the ONLY resaon. And it was an unanimous desicion by the church board.
Now, if that's not being discrimitary towards women, I don't know what it. Also not that it was a pretty big church, not some unknown church.

2006-08-22 10:00:19 · 10 answers · asked by Creative Name 3 in Religion & Spirituality

They seem to worship Mary, Idols, and their Pope yet the bible never said to do any of these things. They also seem to have added some things to the Holy Bible.

2006-08-22 09:59:52 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

For example, the word "Mark" would not be found in the Hebrew Bible. Is it a translation? A phonetic spelling based on how it sounds in Hebrew?

2006-08-22 09:58:58 · 20 answers · asked by cmsb705 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I find all of this hype about snakes on planes to be overrated. We have poisonous snakes every Sunday at our church. Sometimes I even wrap one around my head and do a little jig while I sing praises to the Lord. Jesus protects us from the deadly snakes and I don't see how it would be any different at 40000 feet.

Now there was Issac that got bit a few weeks ago. He's in a coma now but that's because he was trying to do snakes and holy rolling at the same time but we only do holy rolling on Thursdays. In an airplane though you're way up there even closer to Jesus so I think as long as you're a Christian you would be A-OK.

Have you accepted Jesus as your personal snake-defying saviour?

2006-08-22 09:58:04 · 16 answers · asked by Hippie Bill Clinton 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-22 09:56:27 · 7 answers · asked by curious white guy 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I'm training to be a teacher. My partner is a Chef. We both work pretty hard and unless I'm very much mistaken, these are good jobs and they used to be respected.
Once I've qualified, we've decided that we're off - France, Spain .... anywhere but Albion. It isn't because we want to go - we'd love to move down to Cornwall or Dorset instead - except that we'd never be able to afford our own home, we'd be taxed up to our eyeballs for the rest of our lives and then inheritance tax would wallop our kids when we are dead.

By all accounts, we're not the only ones running away from this state of affairs, so my question is - who will be left when all the qualified, hardworking people have gone, and who will pay any tax??

2006-08-22 09:56:01 · 12 answers · asked by sallybowles 4 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-22 09:55:09 · 28 answers · asked by Jane Doe 3 in Religion & Spirituality

rather than being a bearded white man - he turned out to have horns and cloven hooves.. He was still a benevolent God and all - just that they got his description mixed up when writing the Bible.

- what would you think?

2006-08-22 09:54:15 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-22 09:54:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality