Society & Culture - 24 September 2006

2006-09-24 08:27:22 · 9 answers · asked by manabovetime 3 in Religion & Spirituality

http://www.apostolic-voice.org/tracts/onegod.htm

2006-09-24 08:26:40 · 7 answers · asked by ? 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-24 08:26:22 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2006-09-24 08:26:21 · 11 answers · asked by 6th Finger 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-09-24 08:25:50 · 7 answers · asked by Julie L 2 in Mythology & Folklore

From Canada? name your city just wondering. peterbourgh, ontario..

2006-09-24 08:24:27 · 10 answers · asked by COSMO 4 in Community Service

this Q easy to solve who write female(woman) & cow in urdu language thankx
warning ( Dont take ur mind in wrong way) best of luck

2006-09-24 08:24:17 · 4 answers · asked by a_hidden_true_friend 1 in Languages

Unforgivable??

In your own words, if you will. Please, no scripture or copy/paste.

Thanks.

2006-09-24 08:24:12 · 34 answers · asked by ? 4 in Religion & Spirituality

would they tell us? Or would they be too humiliated to admit it. Say for example that they discovered that it was that thin white paper that they roll the tobacco in that really killed you.

2006-09-24 08:23:37 · 7 answers · asked by RM 2 in Religion & Spirituality

April has been hospitalized for 3 months
after her ex b/f gave her a severe concussion.
She had major swelling in her brain, and
eventually developed a blood clot so they
had to do more surgery. She went into a
month-long coma soon after that. April came
out of coma last month, but doctors say she
has approx. 65% permanent brain damage,
with little chance of recovering normal mental
functions : (

April has been a good friend to me, and I feel
so sad for how she is suffering. She certainly
deserved better out of life than to go through
so much trauma at such a young age.

Please pray that God will help April to regain
her health. I believe in miracles, and she truly
is in need of one.

Thanks in advance for your concern : )

2006-09-24 08:23:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

As for me, I'd sure like another banana.

2006-09-24 08:23:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

THE WAR

Please take the time to read the essay below by Dr. Chong. It is without a doubt the most
articulate and convincing writing I have read regarding the War in Iraq. If you have any doubts
please open your mind to his essay and give it a fair evaluation.

I had no idea who Dr. Chong is or the source of these thoughts... so when I received them,
I almost deleted them - as well-written as they are. But then I did a "Google search" on the
Doctor and found him to be a retired Air Force Surgeon of all things and past Commander
of Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio. So he is real, is connected to Veterans affairs
in California, and these are his thoughts.


This WAR is for REAL!
Dr. Vernon Chong, Major General, USAF, Retired
Tuesday, July 12, 2005.

To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country is now facing the most
serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine
(which includes WWII).

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who
think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.

First, let's examine a few basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?
Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is concerned is
1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us:

* Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
* Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
* Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
* Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
* First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
* Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
* Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
* Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
* Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
* New York World Trade Center 2001;
* Pentagon 2001.

(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide).

2. Why were we attacked?
Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks happened during the
administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault
either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents
or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.

3. Who were the attackers?
In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.

4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.

5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that the predominately Christian
population of Germany was peaceful, but under the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was
also Christian), that made no difference. You either went along with the administration or
you were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for political
reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests). (see http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm

Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the six million
holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the
Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy
about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world
- German, Christian or any others.

Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, but kill all in the way --
their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else. The point here is that just like the
peaceful Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many
peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim
leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing -- by their own pronouncements --
killing all of us "infidels." I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the
choice was shut up or die?

6. So who are we at war with?
There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Muslim terrorists.
Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There
is no way to win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting. So with
that background, now to the two major questions:

1. Can we lose this war?

2. What does losing really mean?

If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions. We can definitely lose
this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major reason we can lose is that so many
of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean?

It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means hanging our heads,
bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post Vietnam. This is as far
from the truth as one can get.

What losing really means is:

We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but
rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just
wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us,
over the past 18 years. The plan was clearly, for terrorists to attack us, until we were
neutered and submissive to them.

We would of course have no future support from other nations, for fear of reprisals and for
the reason that they would see, we are impotent and cannot help them.

They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be increasingly easier
for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong
for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed
their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain to do will be
done. Spain is finished.

The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see the light and
realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists
without us. However, it may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and
fading fast!

If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know
it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us, if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we
can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else?

The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are completely committed
to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until we recognize the
costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning.
And it is going to take that 100% effort to win.

So, how can we lose the war?

Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding." That is, defeating ourselves
by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose, and really digging in and lending full
support to the war effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to
be divided, there is no way that we can win!

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and death
seriousness of this situation.

President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation. Although all of the
terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary
Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously?
This is war! For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we
have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights
temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently.

And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII,
and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact added many more since then.

Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him?

No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness, and
all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of
those words apply to war. Get them out of your head.

Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration that it almost
seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn't because they
are disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless,
that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and weakening. It
concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our cause.

Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media regarding the
treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying. We
have recently had an issue, involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war,
by a small group of our military police. These are the type prisoners who just a few
months ago were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands,
cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing
with Saddam Hussein.

And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own
people for the same reason. They are also the same type of enemy fighters, who recently
were burning Americans, and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq.

And still more recently, the same type of enemy that was and is providing videos to all
news sources internationally, of the beheading of American prisoners they held.

Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several days have thought
and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners -- not
burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading
them, but "humiliating" them.
Can this be for real?

The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense.
If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension and understanding of the
seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the
disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can.

To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look
like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned -- totally oblivious to what is going on in the
real world. Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say,
this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply
means that they are absolutely oblivious to the magnitude of the situation we are in, and
into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.

Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels! That translates into ALL
non-Muslims -- not just in the United States, but throughout the world.

We are the last bastion of defense. We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.'
That charge is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so
good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us,
and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world!

We can't!

If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country
in the world will survive if we are defeated.

And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech,
freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, equal rights for anyone --
let alone everyone, equal status or any status for women, or that have been productive in
one single way that contributes to the good of the world.

This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we will be equated
in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire. If, that is, the Muslim leaders
will allow history books to be written or read.

If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take over France in
the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and
continue to encroach little by little, on the established French traditions. The French will be
fighting among themselves, over what should or should not be done, which will continue to
weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?

Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military force.
Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically correct piece.

And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide that they
abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in power.
They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing
each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing
from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there is no way
that we can lose. I hope the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation
we are in, and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about!
Do whatever you can to preserve it.

After reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but our children, our
grandchildren, our country and the world.

Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that includes the Politicians
and media of our country and the free world!

Please forward this to any you feel may want, or NEED to read it. Our "leaders" in Congress
ought to read it, too. There are those that find fault with our country, but it is obvious to
anyone who truly thinks through this, that we must UNITE, share our concerns and hold the
blind accountable for misleading the masses!

If you would like to see who this fellow is go to this Air Force web sight and look him up.

http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=5000

2006-09-24 08:22:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have noticed a few pubs have antique adverts up (y'know them metal plate things) with the 'Guiness is Good For You' slogan. I'm pretty sure they couldn't use that slogan nowadays, cos it's, well, not really that good for you.

So... is it legal for pubs to have these signs given that they're memorabilia of sorts, or could you accuse them of false advertising?

2006-09-24 08:22:24 · 9 answers · asked by DS 4 in Other - Society & Culture

I seem stuck here..................

2006-09-24 08:21:26 · 10 answers · asked by the fallen one 2 in Religion & Spirituality

which websites allow me to hear frm Makkah/Medina

2006-09-24 08:21:16 · 4 answers · asked by allgiggles1984 6 in Religion & Spirituality

HINT , READ GENISIS IT MAY HELP YOU ..........

2006-09-24 08:21:15 · 3 answers · asked by JAMARLE J 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I've heard that heaven will be here on earth. Also the idea of a place made of gold.

I've always thought it would be nice to explore the universe and see first hand what it contains.

What do you think it's like and how would you like it to be like?

2006-09-24 08:21:07 · 5 answers · asked by Sean 7 in Religion & Spirituality

does anyone have any ideas?

2006-09-24 08:19:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Holidays

Sometimes my friends ask questions about my religion (I am a Christian) and I am not sure how to word my answers without offending them or I just don't know how to answer them. I have looked in the Bible but somtimes it's hard to find the right answer. Any suggestions? Books in the Bible that Might help?
God Bless!

2006-09-24 08:19:05 · 15 answers · asked by usagurll1993 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I need to know this for a class assignment. I tried every search engine I know of, but I cant find them! Please help! Im looking for the average number of murders in the US all together, not just in one city. This assignment is due very soon. If so, do you know the homicide rates by year, month, week, and day? I would like to provide alot of specific evidence on this project! Thanks :):):)

2006-09-24 08:18:34 · 3 answers · asked by Autumn 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Racial hatred has never abated over the years, in-fact apathy disguised as tolerance has been the long standing facade which is fast eroding.

2006-09-24 08:18:32 · 14 answers · asked by dipopo 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-09-24 08:18:22 · 10 answers · asked by billyboysblue 3 in Other - Society & Culture

There are 2 things I know about Jesus:
1. He wore Burkenstock sandles.
2. He could turn water into wine...

I saw Penn & Teller turn water into wine in Las Vegas.

Do they have some sort of special powers too?

2006-09-24 08:16:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

why can't we all just call each other fred ???

2006-09-24 08:16:24 · 13 answers · asked by The Wise Spoon 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-09-24 08:16:13 · 6 answers · asked by honest girl 1 in Religion & Spirituality

God seems to put so much into humans there must be something about them I do not see.

He commands the Angels to bow before them, I see the Angels as great beings that I have respect for so we'll be bowing to each other.

Humans seem to be unrespecting hate filled self glorifying individuals, what am I not seeing in them?

Basically what am I not seeing in humans that deserves so much of Gods respect, patience and love?

2006-09-24 08:15:59 · 14 answers · asked by Sean 7 in Religion & Spirituality

The lord Jesus Christ reveiled to me 3 years ago when he saved me that being gay was not a sin and it is natural to act on your inner feelings, and that being gay is normal in Gods eyes since he preplanned humanity.

I am a Multi Millionaire and wish to use my wealth to open a couple of gay churches. I already have approval from some of my connections in the permitting dept. I want to spread the word of the Lord Jesus Christ to help gay adults and children understand that god is ok with their lifestyle and that he loves them so much.

I asked the Lord Jesus Christ why straight Christian accuse gays of being sinners and the lord responded in an audio like voice " There do not know any better. I love you exactly how you are"

Any advise is appreciated . God Bless

2006-09-24 08:15:33 · 23 answers · asked by ast5792 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-24 08:15:21 · 14 answers · asked by sam 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I am new to Yahoo Answers and I would like to find people who ask interesting questions or who are really funny. I would like to follow any interesting regulars.
And if there are any pretty girls I would like to follow them too;)

2006-09-24 08:14:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

are we not all a part of God the creator?

2006-09-24 08:14:43 · 11 answers · asked by ? 5 in Religion & Spirituality