Society & Culture - 26 September 2006

Does anyone else think that we're edging closer to Orwell's idea of the future? Internet slang has become "newspeak" and webcams have given us a way to watch each other; a sort of neo-Big Brother. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I'm getting sick and tired of trying to read Q&A's that read like a cryptoquiz puzzle. U Kno wut i meen? UGH!!! I'm only 19 and even I'm afraid for our future.

2006-09-26 07:09:45 · 16 answers · asked by Ryan R 1 in Etiquette

when is your favorite time of the year and why? mine is the end of spring cuz its about to be summer and i get excited and get tan n i just wish it would be summer forever!

2006-09-26 07:09:34 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Holidays

2006-09-26 07:09:15 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Americans spend almost a quarter of an eight-hour workday—1.86 hours—playing on the Internet, socializing and running errands. Do you ever goof off at work?

2006-09-26 07:09:04 · 13 answers · asked by itspink22@sbcglobal.net 6 in Other - Society & Culture

My aunt is getting married in a few months. It is her second marriage and she will only have a very small ceremony. She is having a larger reception. There will be cake, punch, and a band. Is it rude to have a cash bar at the reception?

2006-09-26 07:08:08 · 51 answers · asked by caitybeth3 2 in Etiquette

2006-09-26 07:07:54 · 16 answers · asked by Pete 1 in Other - Society & Culture

If not, now is the time to be saved by His Grace, sanctified for His work, and filled with His precious Holy Spirit.

2006-09-26 07:07:18 · 27 answers · asked by CutiePatutie 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I don't think that my youthful yet elegant mother wants to wear a muu muu down the aisle. But I also don't think she wants to wear a strapless ball gown. HELP!

2006-09-26 07:07:11 · 15 answers · asked by amber 1 in Etiquette

2006-09-26 07:06:47 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Just a fun thought. How do I know that you're REALLY you? Or that I'm really me? How do you know that I'm really me? That I'm really here?

How do I know whether or not the computer infront of me is real? What about the desk? The keyboard?

What if I'm dreaming? What if this is a hallucination?

What if this computer that may not be infront of me is not really black at all, but, blue? What about the one infront of you?

What if everything going on RIGHT NOW... isn't?

Hah, have fun with anwering THIS one. ^_^

2006-09-26 07:06:32 · 11 answers · asked by Lady Myrkr 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Revelation 9:13-15, "And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men."

2006-09-26 07:06:26 · 4 answers · asked by darkangel1111 5 in Religion & Spirituality

In the Netherlands we have the expression 'a little lie for ones own good'. In the Englich language there is probably a simular expression.

What do you think about them?

2006-09-26 07:05:57 · 7 answers · asked by Bloed 6 in Other - Society & Culture

A majority of Chinese practise Atheism. Educated people in Asia find solace in scientific principles more. Church attendance has declined sharply in Europe and North America since World War II, although it's revived temporarily in Eastern Europe and Russia following the collapse of Communism. Brits, Scandinavians, Dutch, Germans and the Swiss are rationalists to the core. Most scientists and research scholars and other highly-educated people are confirmed atheists, and don't support irrational religious beliefs, in order to end Superstition.

We are living in an increasingly Godless world, where money and material satisfaction is the primary goal of most individuals. Consider in last 10 years alone the Internet evolved, just imagine where technology would lead us 100-150 years from now. People will advance beyond the control of religious clerics. I am postulating that by the year 2100, all religions will die a slow, natural, DESIRABLE death, that will benefit mankind.

2006-09-26 07:04:54 · 21 answers · asked by quilm 3 in Religion & Spirituality

For example, I said "pissed" in the last question and it was said this was bad language. Words are just words are they not? What they are intended as is what gives them meaning. By that same token, I could substitute any word I wanted and it would have the same meaning as pissed, yet the new word wouldn't be a bad word? I could have said angry, but meant it in the really really angry that "pissed" implies. Has religion caused all this pointless rethinking of words calling some "bad" and others not?

2006-09-26 07:04:35 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-26 07:03:48 · 24 answers · asked by diamonds859 2 in Etiquette

The only way I can do it is from my nextel phone.
Is there a way I can check it from my house phone?

2006-09-26 07:03:15 · 4 answers · asked by suchaprettyface11 4 in Community Service

Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing........

2006-09-26 07:02:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I just wanted other opinions b/c all I know is what's in that film...

2006-09-26 07:01:34 · 5 answers · asked by strpenta 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Or something that should be taught in our history lessons, at least 1 lesson at 5 times a week.

2006-09-26 07:01:33 · 19 answers · asked by Old Man of Coniston!. 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

the jewish nation, or the christians

2006-09-26 07:01:20 · 9 answers · asked by nathan 3 in Religion & Spirituality

What kind of humor do you have?

2006-09-26 07:01:14 · 6 answers · asked by Bloed 6 in Other - Society & Culture

Should I be vengeful or tolerant to those who don’t believe in me?

2006-09-26 06:58:50 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-26 06:58:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-09-26 06:58:11 · 3 answers · asked by strpenta 7 in Mythology & Folklore

What If I blow in to a paper bag, do I see air or the effects of air?
What If i turn on a fan with ribbons attached, do I see air or the effects of air?
What If i look in to a micro scope, do I see air or the molacules in air?
What if someone tells me their son loves them, do I have proof of love or a conformation of the existance of a idea of love?
What if the proof of love was the same as the proof of God, an existance that is an personal knowlege. What if?

2006-09-26 06:58:10 · 7 answers · asked by TYRONE S 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I'd like to invite people to see the responses to my last question and see how it further makes my point.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqKdhJZ2q6Zbrswcson4mhrsy6IX?qid=20060915110608AA1aqUD

Bias is the fundemental element to all opinions. I assure to all Atheist that I have a very deep understanding of science. I've studied it most of my life and continue doing so as an engineer soon to be a graduate student. My bias while studying science has been to assume a God-made universe. This has lead me to interpret my observations in such a way that I see God behind it all. Though if I was to start with the assumption that God doesn't exist I would have used the same evidence to confirm that He doesn't.

The same thing will happen if you study the BIble. If you study it assuming it to be false you will find fault because you want it to be there. However if you look to it for God's truth that's what you'll find

It's your choice.

2006-09-26 06:57:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-26 06:57:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Isn't faith just believing something without evidence or proof? People will sometimes say that they "know" that their religion is true, but this can not be true by any stretch of the word "know's" definition. Some of the delusional people that we lock up in insane asylums are faith based people. They might believe that aliens are abducting and probing them every night as they sleep. Why do we allow faith in some crazy myths that lots of people believe in, but if you're alone in your faith you get laughed at and called crazy? Don't prove me wrong with Bible quotes. Trying that makes no sense.

2006-09-26 06:56:03 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Psalm 6:4-5
4. Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
5. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

Psalm 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

Psalm 146:3-4
3. Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
4. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit (breath) shall return unto God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 9
5. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

6. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Isaiah 38:18 For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not ce

2006-09-26 06:55:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-26 06:55:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture