Society & Culture - 3 September 2006

Since I moved to my new house, my old friends have stopped calling and coming round. I dont get to see them that often now as I moved 20 miles away. I just get the feeling that there is something not quite right. There are some snidey comments about being a snob and forgetting my roots. We all grew up together in Ireland and the majority of them still live in north london. Is it wrong to move away from people you love just to give your family a better life? I dont regret it but I wish I wouldnt loose my friends over it.

2006-09-03 13:36:04 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2006-09-03 13:36:00 · 5 answers · asked by crazygirl 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I mean, what if God just wants some privacy and to be left alone? The best way to accomplish this would be for everyone to become an atheist.

2006-09-03 13:34:41 · 14 answers · asked by I Know Nuttin 5 in Religion & Spirituality

"And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." Matthew 26:39

Here in this verse we see two things: (1) Jesus bowed down on his face and prayed in submission to his GOD in obedience. (2) Jesus was begging his GOD to let the cup pass away from him. Jesus did not have the power to will it for himself and make the cup pass away from Jesus. GOD had to do it for Jesus !. How can Jesus be the Creator of this Universe, the all knowing, most powerful??!!

2006-09-03 13:34:31 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

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2006-09-03 13:34:29 · 3 answers · asked by How e' ye Horse 2 in Religion & Spirituality

...just to make bin Laden happy? Is that so hard? And stop messing with them too. Just look at his face on TV. He's full of fear. Why is he so scared? I guess being scared helps you being a better terrorist, cause only when you're scared to death can you scared other people. And why are we scared? All this just cause of religion. Bush doesn't like atheists. He says we're one nation under God. Well, I bet bin Laden's telling the same thing to his people right now. And believe it or not, both Bush and bin Laden are talking about the exact same God. So why don't we all just convert to Islam? I know that I'm gonna get like 50 thumb-downs on this question, but it's okay, I just wanted to express my opinion.

2006-09-03 13:33:14 · 17 answers · asked by Maus 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I usually disregard posts that do not pertain to me or will just anger me. Why would you knowingly read and answer a post that you don't care to read?

2006-09-03 13:33:14 · 15 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Religion & Spirituality

This may help you know who is here.

Please name the Religion or Belief or your Disbelief.

I will post results in 8 Minutes!!

Please JUST say the name..NO speeches it's harder to count.

Possible answers would be like: Jewish, Christian, Agnostic, Gnostic, Athiest, Wiccan etc.

PLEASE just one Word if you can!!!!

I'll Post Results in 8 Min:

Ready GO.....................

2006-09-03 13:31:38 · 49 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-03 13:31:27 · 7 answers · asked by butnozzle 2 in Other - Society & Culture

people in this world have become materialistic. The more you have the better, which is contrary to the values of the God.

2006-09-03 13:30:58 · 4 answers · asked by Jeff 1 in Religion & Spirituality

John 20:28 Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" 29 Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

2006-09-03 13:30:39 · 14 answers · asked by Bimpster 4 in Religion & Spirituality

You have not got the backbone to hold up a feather.


You just played into the wrongs hands,. gezzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Let me know great Bible Scholars, when you would like to discuss, defending atheists..or defending Christians.

Debra M....Is the most loving loving person I have seen on here. I may not agree with her, as far as , Doctrine goes. This is between God and her.

You can't take a stand and uphold a woman that is faithful?


You scriptually hurt........in a bad way.

Post your Christian Doctrine to me....please do...........

.hey.............Quote verses. This makes you Holy...huh?

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2006-09-03 13:28:23 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do they have exactly the same meaning?

2006-09-03 13:27:59 · 11 answers · asked by hamidreza a 1 in Languages

this is a righteous one or camouflage of ill-feelings such as jealousy and envy?

Let me cite one case: A tele-evangelist was reportedly amassing huge wealth coming from donations for his personal life style.

Most of us would react strongly in anger and perceptively a righteous one. But have we made further inquiry in ourselves if the initial outburst was as it is or something else? Sometimes it is not easy to find out the truth especially if the truth hurts, isn't it?

2006-09-03 13:27:44 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm a foreigner who lives in Malaysia, a country that sends people to jail for twenty years for homosexual behaviour.

I met someone over the internet a short while ago and we met up at his cousin's place and did our thing and he took a photo of me 'to remember me with'. After I left, he sms-ed me saying that he had videotaped our encounter and kept my condom and would go to the police to charge me with rape unless I paid him a specified amount. During our 'encounter', he was acting very helpless and making slightly protesting sounds but I thought that was his way of showing his pleasure. Apparently, he was setting me up from the get-go.

I'm a young adult (20) who was just experimenting with his sexuality and decided to stick to women. I live in an extremely homophobic society and have no plans to come out of the closet thus my life would be ruined and I would most likely be disowned if he went to police and the media picked up on it.

Do I have a case if he goes to the police?

2006-09-03 13:27:29 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

They're offerring people the same things; a temp job so that they do the work as cheap labor, micro loans to make money off them.

Why don't they give them good paying perminate jobs; then they'll fix their own homes or move to better ones.

Why is it they feel it necessary for a few to have everything and the rest to barely have anything?

2006-09-03 13:26:55 · 1 answers · asked by kasar777 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Don't you think that Jesus, Mohammed, Moses and Buddha are just of somewhere beyond playing poker?

Maybe Jesus and Mohammed play ping-pong freguently, while Moses and Buddha entertain themselves with chess.

2006-09-03 13:26:00 · 12 answers · asked by ESKORBUTIN 4 in Religion & Spirituality

--To prove that Koran promotes unjustified killing.??
I have read the Koran and I have read the Bible. There are verses
in the Koran--where God is telling Muslims to kill infidels. I admit that. But---what are the contexts of those verses. That is important.
Those people who quote those verses out of context have some agenda. And that agenda is insane. For thousands of years--the Muslim Exegetes explained those verses. Nobody intepreted them so as --that those verses were about killing INFIDELS just for they are INFIDELS. For example:
2:190 Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors. "Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you."

"But begin not hostilities."
2:191 And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. (191-2)
Kill disbelievers wherever you find them. If they attack you, then kill them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. (But if they desist in their unbelief, then don't kill them.)
2:192 But if they desist, then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Is Allah kind and merciful?
2:193 And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers.
So, if you just quote "And slay them wherever ye find them,"
it will mean something else. In those verses God is ordering
The Prophet(PBUH) to fight against the Non-Muslims who were persecuting them at that time(and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter).
What you will do if you are attacked and driven away from your country????
No, in no way Koran is a book of unjustified killing. Bible is.
You have just to read Genesis to Deuteronomy.

2006-09-03 13:25:15 · 9 answers · asked by whynotaskthemoron 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you help them?
Do you make time for them?
Do you ignore them when they tell you they don't want/need your help?
Do you ignore their need for help?

2006-09-03 13:24:28 · 20 answers · asked by ? 5 in Other - Society & Culture

or some times allow them to sleep in the same bad . to me that is crazy and nasty that is why i don't drink a cup of tea or eat in a person's house who has pets. it is nasty and dangrous that is why there are many dieases these days.

2006-09-03 13:23:57 · 25 answers · asked by WEEDG 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Matt 28:9 Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.

2006-09-03 13:23:05 · 36 answers · asked by Bimpster 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-03 13:23:04 · 18 answers · asked by Zelda Hunter 7 in Other - Society & Culture

you from any further denial, and threw you into a undisputed and unshakeable truth?

2006-09-03 13:22:50 · 7 answers · asked by ? 3 in Other - Society & Culture

What does faith mean to you and what does it entail?

2006-09-03 13:21:15 · 15 answers · asked by Corey 1 in Religion & Spirituality

In other words what makes one thing cute as oppossed to a non cute thing? Are there guildelines?

2006-09-03 13:20:41 · 11 answers · asked by pinacoladasundae 3 in Other - Society & Culture

sum lyrics are..he's alive and i know it..he's alive and i know cause he rose again..theres pwer in his handsss......these's power in his handss

2006-09-03 13:20:41 · 3 answers · asked by daddygirlnunu 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-03 13:19:19 · 29 answers · asked by danitaandandrew 2 in Religion & Spirituality

this is really funny, it looks like they are talking about something serious...i need to know what the heck they are talking about....or the language...

http://ebaumsworld.com/2006/07/highvoice.html

2006-09-03 13:19:04 · 10 answers · asked by kiers 2 in Languages

Which better resembles the borg?

2006-09-03 13:18:01 · 9 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I have this friend and I was supposed to hang out with her and go to the football game, instead I ditched her and hung out with another friend what should I do?

2006-09-03 13:16:56 · 10 answers · asked by Dirigo_Girl 1 in Other - Society & Culture