Society & Culture - 7 September 2006

True story.

2006-09-07 16:41:30 · 24 answers · asked by Job 3 in Etiquette

They totally FREAK me out. I've been afraid of them since i was little.... Their so scary...

2006-09-07 16:41:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

i mean, we/they are real people and have feeling like everyone else. it just happens to be about the same gender. does it really matter which gender we like? shouldn't we be treated the same, just like it was supposed to be?

2006-09-07 16:39:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I'm not racist and i hope i don't sound it but i've always questioned it. If they feel that they need to then why are white people just white people and not caucasian?

2006-09-07 16:38:47 · 34 answers · asked by darkness_falls111 2 in Other - Society & Culture

What do Jews have against Gay rabbits, and how and who will God smite after hearing this news? Will the Easter Bunny be affected?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060907/ap_on_re_us/conservative_jews_gays

2006-09-07 16:35:12 · 10 answers · asked by Nerdly Stud 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Bible Sales

A minister concluded that his church was getting into serious
financial troubles.

While checking the church storeroom, he discovered several cartons of
new bibles that had never been opened and distributed. So at his
Sunday sermon he asked for three volunteers from the congregation who
would be willing to sell the bibles door-to-door for $10 each to raise
the desperately needed money for the church.

Peter, Paul and Louie all raised their hands to volunteer for the
task. The minister knew that Peter and Paul earned their living as
salesmen and were likely capable of selling some bibles but he had
serious doubts about Louie. Louie was just a little local farmer, who
had always tended to keep to himself because he was embarrassed by his
speech impediment. Poor little Louis stuttered very badly. But, not
wanting to discourage poor Louis, the minister decided to let him try
anyway.

He sent the three of them away with the back seat of their cars
stacked with bibles and asked them to meet with him and report the
results of their door-to-door selling efforts the following Sunday.

Anxious to find out how successful they were, the minister immediately
asked Peter, "Well, Peter, how did you make out selling our bibles
last week?"

Proudly handing the reverend an envelope, Peter replied, "using my
sales prowess, I was able to sell 20 bibles, and here's the $200 I
collected on behalf of the church."

"Fine job, Peter!" The minister said, vigorously shaking his hand.
"You are indeed a fine salesman and the Church is indebted to you."
Turning to Paul, he asked "And Paul, how many bibles did you manage to
sell for the church last week?"

Paul, smiling and sticking out his chest, confidently replied, "I am a
professional salesman and was happy to give the church the benefit of
my sales expertise. Last week I sold 28 bibles on behalf of the
church, and here's $280 I collected."

The minister responded, "That's absolutely splendid, Paul. You are
truly a professional salesman and the church is also indebted to you."

Apprehensively, the minister turned to little Louie and said, "And
Louie, did you manage to sell any bibles last week?"

Louie silently offered the minister a large envelope. The reverend
opened it and counted the contents. "What is this?" the minister
exclaimed. "Louie, there's $3200 in here! Are you suggesting that you
sold 320 bibles for the church, door to door, in just one week?

Louie just nodded.

That's impossible!" both Peter and Paul said in unison. "We are
professional salesmen, yet you claim to have sold 10 times as many
bibles as we could."

"Yes, this does seem unlikely," the minister agreed. "I think you'd
better explain how you managed to accomplish this, Louie."

Louie shrugged "I-I-I- re-re-really do-do-don't kn-kn-know f-f-f-for
sh-sh-sh-sure," he stammered.

Impatiently, Peter interrupted. "For crying out loud, Louie, just tell
us what you said to them when they answered the door!"

"A-a-a-all I-I-I s-s-said wa-wa-was," Louis replied, "W-w-w-w-would
y-y-y-you l-l-l-l-l-like t-t-to b-b-b-buy th-th-th-this b-b-b-b-bible
f-f-for t-t-ten b-b-b-bucks ---o-o-o-or--- wo-wo-would yo-you
j-j-j-just l-like m-m-me t-t-to st-st-stand h-h-here and
r-r-r-r-r-read it t-to y-y-you?"




A cheerful heart is good medicine... (Prov 17:22)

2006-09-07 16:35:07 · 33 answers · asked by basscatcher 4 in Religion & Spirituality

do you think what you will in next years?

2006-09-07 16:34:30 · 1 answers · asked by want_to_know 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Please see the sentence below

The signing ceremony of MoU between Cimahi administration and PROM Project was attended by more than 80 invitees COMPRISING OF officials from Cimahi administration, association of businessmen, NGOs, community organizations, and many parties who are personally interested in attending the event.

2006-09-07 16:33:57 · 10 answers · asked by Misterious 1 in Languages

2006-09-07 16:33:40 · 25 answers · asked by ginarene71 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I am a lesbian and even though I'm only 22 and it will be some years before I get married, I'm scared of the time when I get married to a woman and have kids. I keep asking myself what if she changes her mind. It's like the L word, Bette and Tina are in a commited relationship with a baby, then Tina decides she wants a man. Even though it's only tv, it could happen in real life. To make matters worse, today a co-worker was talking her friend who up until about a month ago was the biggest lesbian you could ever meet. She had never been with a man and never wanted to, but she met a man and even though she don't know if she can have sex with him, she wants a relationship with him. That's scary that a life long lesbian could just up and change like that. She still dates women and loves them, but may want a man now. Do any other lesbians (or gay men) fear that this may happen to them?

2006-09-07 16:33:38 · 11 answers · asked by ac 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

What do you think of gay people in terms of the bible saying? is there a truth behind this? and if there is descrimination then why gay cannot live normal like str8 men/women do? and in the first place we are the same as human right?

2006-09-07 16:33:35 · 16 answers · asked by brian_chris 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

i've only started checking out these questions and answers today and i am very surprised at how many racist comments i've seen. i'm black so how many of you ignorant mofos hate me ?

2006-09-07 16:32:52 · 22 answers · asked by girlwiththegoodies 3 in Other - Society & Culture

What do you think of gay people in terms of the bible saying? is there a truth behind this? and if there is descrimination then why gay cannot live normal like str8 men/women do?

2006-09-07 16:32:11 · 18 answers · asked by brian_chris 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you see the face of God in children?

2006-09-07 16:31:53 · 24 answers · asked by fresh2 4 in Religion & Spirituality

See this is why I dont use yahoo for a lot of ****, except 360, cause everytime I do, I start running into pricks who wanna leave racists messages, like they doing something to hurt me, wow, your on the other side of the computer, I bet if I caught you alone in public, You'd shut up real quick and put your head down and walk right past me, like Im bout to steal your purse or wallet, it seems like the internet has become a safe haven for "closet" everything; gays, rascists, athiests, haters, freaks. maybe Im wrong, what you think, I know its gonna be a lot of ignorant people replying so go ahead, and make your scary selves known.

2006-09-07 16:28:59 · 39 answers · asked by f_nitti@sbcglobal.net 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I live close to D.C.,not far from the Pentagon and a plane JUST flew an unusual route, rt over my house. It sounded VERY near. I stopped everything as it got louder and louder...wondering if it would crash or go on it's merry way. I remember right after that tragic day, the first time I heard a plane overhead, I ran outside and prayed it was one of ours.
What about YOU?

2006-09-07 16:28:58 · 12 answers · asked by I am Sunshine 6 in Other - Society & Culture

Hint: The word is Greek!!!

If you know explain in full detail, and why is this word important to all Christians?

2006-09-07 16:28:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If they do what happens to it?? If they don't how do they live with the thought that we "Disappear" after death??

2006-09-07 16:27:56 · 23 answers · asked by Catcanscratch 5 in Religion & Spirituality

To paraphrase 'Star Trek'.

2006-09-07 16:27:51 · 7 answers · asked by fresh2 4 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-09-07 16:27:33 · 18 answers · asked by Sabin 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-09-07 16:27:03 · 5 answers · asked by unicarel 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-07 16:26:22 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

pls state ur religion, just for reference.

2006-09-07 16:26:16 · 16 answers · asked by ryu king 84 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-07 16:26:11 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm wondering how many Gay people if given the opportunity to be straight would do it? I'm NOT talking about counseling classes. I'm talking about if there was some way that would permanently change you from a gay person into a straight person, would you do it? Going from homosexual to heterosexual, is this something you would want to do?

2006-09-07 16:25:15 · 31 answers · asked by MAC4Me 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

A friend of mine told me that in her religion they aren't allowed to read certain books such as Fawn Brodie's "No Man Knows My History" - the story about Joseph Smith; or "The Mormon Murders" - the story about how the LDS church bought up forged documents to conceal them because they would challenge the way the religion was fabricated by Mr. Smith.

Didn't someone famous say "First they burn books; then they burn people".

Why is the religion afraid of letting its followers experience divergence of thought?

2006-09-07 16:25:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i am more of an athiest, and during a trip to jordan i accepted an invitation from a muslim friend to attend an islamic study group. what i heard and experienced in there not only shocked me but made me realise how childish and foolish this study group was and off line muslims were when it comes to reality.
dont think for yourself, let the koran do the thinking was the norm.

when will the human race learn to think for themselves instead of making religious books and gods do the thinking for them?

2006-09-07 16:25:03 · 20 answers · asked by music 1 in Religion & Spirituality

sin no more (Jhn 5.14 & 8.11)

No ifs, ands, buts or bs, just yes or no.

How to score:

Score 1 for each yes answer

0-1 You will endure a lifetime of eternal guilt and bad karma. No eternal life you you I'm afraid, as the bible says faith alone is insufficient.
2 congratulations, you have joined the ranks of non-sinners, and are free from eternal guilt. As an added bonus, you may be eligible for eternal life in the unlikely event there is such a thing.

Rom 4:8 Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

2006-09-07 16:25:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This happens all the time, at church, at the bank, at the store, at the movies. These are married men that I know from church. But when I see them in the community, they start making all kinds of suggestive comments and some are even bold enough to ask me out on a date.

I've dated a few of them before I knew about them being married. Then I was embarassed to see this one guy sitting a church with his wife and kids.

Besides, I'm more physically attracted to Muslim men than to Christians.

2006-09-07 16:24:12 · 34 answers · asked by Ask Donna 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-07 16:22:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality