Society & Culture - 1 October 2006

these days those who shake tins get a % of what they collect and those in charge are usually on a good wack when you read the recruitment page. so why volunteer to feather someone elses bed , why give to pay toward a retired director's final salary pension

2006-10-01 06:18:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Community Service

I believe in the second one ^-^ Thanks for your answers!

2006-10-01 06:18:03 · 23 answers · asked by Alejandra E ..::Alita::.. 操巻町 GT 7 in Mythology & Folklore

OK my father has spent a lot of time in prison. He was a professional criminal for the first half of his life (minus childhood of course), never indulging in violent crime as he was, in essence, a gentle man. He became a character in his community and was well loved, people knew him as a man that would listen to them and provide for them if he could. He was always trying to help the common man by robbing from rich establishments and literally never hurt a fly.

Now he has been diagnosed with cancer and is basically waiting to die. He has many friends and a loving family around him, having given up serious crime completely (over twenty years ago) to raise a family (he has worked in the same shop ever since.

Thing is, he has a plan for a robbery (he hasn't given me details as yet), and told me it would be the perfect job if I could find the right people to pull it off once he had gone, as it would suit a younger person. Nobody would get hurt, violence is not involved- do I do it?

2006-10-01 06:16:55 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Why should I take your religion serious and reject the rest like you guys tell me to? All the other religions tell me to accept theirs and reject the others, so why should I listen to you instead of them? You both claim to have holy and sacred text that is the word of your god(s), yet none of you are offering me any hardcore, scientific evidence and proof of the existence of your god(s).

Yes, you can say I should become Christian because "god loves me" but all the other religions say that, they just replace the word "god" with another name for their deity. You could say that I'll be rewarded with eternal life and happiness in a paradise, but the others can say that too. You can say that if I don't workship your god, I'll be tortured for all eternity after I die, and all the other religions can say that too.

So tell me, why should I consider your god and heaven as anything more than wishful thinking and reject the other infinite number of possible gods?

2006-10-01 06:15:47 · 29 answers · asked by Toronto 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I was raised in a Christian school because my parents believe in they offer a better education than the public schools here in my city. However, they are not Christians, they are Buddhists. So have been the rest of my family for... oh, hundreds of years?

I am not a Christian (yet?) and I always get EXTREMELY angry when my friends try to convert me because if I were to believe in God, I'd have to believe that my family and my ancestors ALL will/have gone to hell. I can't even FATHOM thinking about something like that - they've all lived lives so pure and ethical, more than these so-called Christians I see today. I can't even begin to pour down all the good things they've done their whole lives. Benevolence doesn't even begin to describe the way my family lives, especially my grandparents, aunts, and uncles who are ALL BUDDHISTS.

In the Bible, it teaches that the only way to get into heaven is through accepting Jesus Christ in your heart... so... engighten me plz people!!

2006-10-01 06:13:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-01 06:12:58 · 14 answers · asked by Tim P 1 in Other - Holidays

its it obvious that a perfect god cannot be describe, cause its chaotic abstract image. a false claim that people dont even know what is perfect.

2006-10-01 06:11:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

All other developed and developing countries have unifoms upto high school. Was there any in US schools anytime? if not why? and if yes, why it is been stopped?

There are many benefits of having uniform.
If you donot agree, answer with a legitimate cause.

2006-10-01 06:11:48 · 16 answers · asked by Duke 2 in Other - Society & Culture

When the asked to be forgiven in the dark and the Priest gives them Penance, they are free to go? Catholics and Law breakers free from law simply because a Priest say's so?

2006-10-01 06:11:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-01 06:11:07 · 12 answers · asked by waggy 6 in Etiquette

...and also how when people are in love they get married and once they get married they are 'affectionate' with each other. Needless to say, the kid was grossed out and replyed...."You mean that's what you all are doing when I'm in my room playing with my Legos???" Do you think this lesbian love is a bit much to totally expose to a young child?

2006-10-01 06:09:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

anyone heard of the society of pius the tenth, or something like that and if so what is it all about

2006-10-01 06:09:37 · 2 answers · asked by Traynor 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-01 06:08:37 · 12 answers · asked by waggy 6 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Please look at my history and read the response I made to the last ridiculous question that I answared. The woman asked yahoo how we as women control our men. I answared her that when a man loves his woman, there is no need for control ever. Because a man will jump thru hoops for the woman he loves. If she can't "control" him, it's because he doesn't want her. Plus who the hell does she think she is to control anybody? Men, am I right in my answar?

2006-10-01 06:08:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

What in the name of Christ are these people thinking!? Are there other Churches out there that share their views?
Here is their homepage... I really hope that whoever looks at this is sickened by it! For those of you who don't know of these people, they are the one's who travel around the country to protest at the funerals of military personel.
http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/index.html

What do you think?

2006-10-01 06:08:11 · 11 answers · asked by and,or,nand,nor 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I understand that they have to live in celibacy so they cannot have relationships, but can they fall in love? If love happens accidentally or it develops from friendship or if there is love on a first sight so they can fall in love. It must be impossibly hard to live with sth like that?

2006-10-01 06:07:49 · 19 answers · asked by HarMonia 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I mean, Jeff M makes homophobic comments, but to spend SO much time here, and have SO much knowledge about gays... it's nearly obsessive!
It is making me suspicious.
Maybe he's testing the waters before he "comes out".
It's OK Jeff, I for one welcome you to the gay community.....

2006-10-01 06:07:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Or speak of you with ill contempt, lie about you and prejudge you and/or your family because of their own hang-ups or misconceptions? This is why I stand in awe of Jesus, because he even showed love to the dude who sold him out and got him crucified. How do we simple mortals get on that level? I'm willing to try.

2006-10-01 06:07:23 · 20 answers · asked by Goddess of Nuts PBUH 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Can there really be such a thing as idolising? I mean God's everywhere, so even worshipping a rock is actually worshipping God, because God is present even in a rock.

Thoughts?

2006-10-01 06:07:16 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am German-Spanish decent, I converted to Islam, would I be accepted by Muslims?

2006-10-01 06:07:00 · 7 answers · asked by Gardenfoot 4 in Religion & Spirituality

"The Pope played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests, according to a shocking documentary to be screened by the BBC tonight.

In 2001, while he was a cardinal, he issued a secret Vatican edict to Catholic bishops all over the world, instructing them to put the Church's interests ahead of child safety.

The document recommended that rather than reporting sexual abuse to the relevant legal authorities, bishops should encourage the victim, witnesses and perpetrator not to talk about it. And, to keep victims quiet, it threatened that if they repeat the allegations they would be excommunicated. " (Ewan Fletcher)
Panorama: Sex Crimes And The Vatican is on BBC1 tonight at 10.15pm.

2006-10-01 06:05:44 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i am not a muslim and i beleive Jesus christ is God but sometimes i wonder ( what if Islam is true)

2006-10-01 06:05:22 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-01 06:05:02 · 2 answers · asked by bongcs 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

WTF? I saw it on SNL they were making fun of him saying he made a porno with 2 ladies to raise money for his house that he was being evicted from.

2006-10-01 06:04:38 · 5 answers · asked by Nice Guy 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Webster's definition (from dictionary.com)

Atheist (noun)

A person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.

- An Atheist is one who denies the existence of a deity or of divine beings.

- An Agnostic is one who believes it impossible to know anything about God or about the creation of the universe and refrains from commitment to any religious doctrine.

- An Infidel means an unbeliever, especially a nonbeliever in Islam or Christianity.

- A Skeptic doubts and is critical of all accepted doctrines and creeds.

Atheists and Agnostics have two different points of view when it comes to a deity, you’ll also notice the word denies in the definition…

I am an atheist, see I even have the t-shirt, why do some posters think that I don't exist.

2006-10-01 06:03:50 · 10 answers · asked by JerseyRick 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-01 06:03:28 · 2 answers · asked by Patricia B 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-01 06:03:17 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Or do you think death is lonely and final? I'v read a lot of books on this cause I lost my cousin, and wanted her to be happy and comforted by family members who passed away since she was so afraid of death.

2006-10-01 06:01:33 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I see dead people all the time but they all have clothes on.Why is that!!!Surely they should be naked cause clothes dont die nor have a soul.....I normally see dead women thats why i'm asking!!!!

2006-10-01 06:01:13 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

2006-10-01 06:00:19 · 15 answers · asked by I-C-U 5 in Religion & Spirituality