Society & Culture - 19 October 2006

Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)



If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.

I'm pretty sure a rape victim wouldn't ever want to marry their attacker, so why is this ok?


(Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)



If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.


It seems that the woman is a piece of property, and in some instances, a rape victim cannot cry out no matter where they are for fear of death or the rapist has threatened harm on the people they love that could hear their cries if they did cry out. Why was the victim murdered?

2006-10-19 22:10:40 · 12 answers · asked by Play_Devils_Advocate 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Share, so we can all feel better....

2006-10-19 22:10:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

http://www.freewebs.com/holyfairy

2006-10-19 22:09:05 · 7 answers · asked by EasterBunny 5 in Religion & Spirituality

What did it look like? Did it look red?

2006-10-19 22:08:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-10-19 22:05:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-10-19 22:03:07 · 17 answers · asked by alanfgau 1 in Other - Society & Culture

How Do you Feel Jesus Feel about this?

What Would Jesus Do?

2006-10-19 22:02:11 · 15 answers · asked by ? 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-19 22:01:32 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I find it very hard to understand the 7th Century Language of the Koran. So I have made an attempt to translate it into English that I can comprehend. I hope you don't mind. Have I made the translation into English in the spirit of the original?

2006-10-19 22:00:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-19 21:58:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I have a friend that always throw half of her meal away, and I want to talk her out of doing it. Ever since I was a kid I've been taught to now waste my food, and being a good kid, I listen. But I don't know any philosophical or moral or religious reasons behind it. Can anyone help? I don't know how to explain it to her.

2006-10-19 21:56:10 · 298 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

If ghosts exist?

What are they?
What do they look like?
Do they exist forever?
If they exist forever, then how many would there be to date?
Why are some described as wearing clothes?
Do Clothes have spirits?
If not where do ghosts shop?
Should all ghosts be naked?
How come sometimes they have human features?
If so then they must have living tissue?
If not how come they can stand up?
Why are most ghosts famous people from history?
After you are dead when do you become a ghost within the next 100 years there should be an extra 6 Billion Ghosts roaming the earth?
Have you seen a ghost or was it something you really cant explain?

2006-10-19 21:53:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

2006-10-19 21:53:05 · 5 answers · asked by Delilah 1 in Mythology & Folklore

Kinda of a gruesome topic, but was looking for documented information, biblical, purported or apocryphal, that supposedly gives forewarning of the coming apocalypse.

Many thanks in advance for imparting your knowledge :-) Might I say, it is a beautiful Friday today, wouldn't you agree?

2006-10-19 21:52:04 · 25 answers · asked by Disgruntled Biscuit 4 in Mythology & Folklore

I work in a leading IT services company. We have a pretty relaxed work atmosphere. But, a lot of my team mates tend to forget that they are in a 'office' after all, and use cuss words pretty often.

This is especially true of our team, which is all male, and as you can expect we have more than our share of FU's and MOFOs floating about. Sometimes, i have had our women coworkers give us dirty (offended?) glances too...

My question is, should we take advantage of such a relaxed work atmoshphere with a sort of anything goes language? Could this get me into trouble? My team is definitely not going to change..but i am pretty sure that others take offence and could f**k things up for us/me! if they escalate this to senior management

2006-10-19 21:50:18 · 96 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

what is the opinion on intermarriage?
should it be encouraged?

2006-10-19 21:50:02 · 7 answers · asked by meijikomakino 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I want the relationship to last but she says we have different ways of living life. She always asks what we will do on sunday if we can't both go to church together. She also says that if we ever have children they will be confused because she is a christian and I am not. I want this to work, so how do I make the realtionship better?

2006-10-19 21:47:59 · 23 answers · asked by Oliver P 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-19 21:46:38 · 6 answers · asked by Diet 2 in Languages

I'm off to a halloween party next week and all the people there make a great effort with their costumes so i dont wanna simply go out and just buy one cos i'll stand out! can anyone give me any tips on making a witches costume please?

2006-10-19 21:46:17 · 4 answers · asked by Mizz Julie 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Vishnu, or Mary Magdeline

what would u ask for in return

2006-10-19 21:46:15 · 24 answers · asked by Allie G 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-19 21:45:31 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Look at the email I received and my reply below, apparantely I have 'harassed' someone, that muppet yohan of all people.

Hello bendy spoon (benspo1)
You have posted content to Yahoo! Answers in violation of our Community Guidelines.

As a result, your content has been deleted.

Question: Foget biblical quotations etc.,"Why should'nt gays not be allowed the same rights as heterosexuals?

Details of Violation: for f.ucks sake yohan, why are u so obsessed with the Gay/Lesbian section? u have serious issues with ur own sexuality, stop banging on the closet door and come out

Reason of Violation:Harassment :

how pathetic are yahoo, i cant believe you are actually saying I have 'harassed' someone with an answer I have given. Have you idiots seen some of the comments and questions against gays and lesbians? hpw many times have us gay people complained about homophobic idiots yet you have done nothing about it? Yahoo are definitely homophobic and I shall be posting this

2006-10-19 21:44:18 · 13 answers · asked by bendy spoon 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

What do u think i should ask for this question, seeing it's the last one for the day?

2006-10-19 21:41:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-19 21:41:34 · 12 answers · asked by llaura1115 1 in Languages

2006-10-19 21:38:21 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-19 21:37:43 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

that said, is my question a good one?
(By my definition, reply me rudely and my question is a good one.)

2006-10-19 21:37:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I don't think the wife even likes sex, she just likes how it makes her husband putty. Anyhows, how do we stop them?

2006-10-19 21:32:50 · 7 answers · asked by smile 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-10-19 21:31:01 · 18 answers · asked by ReSpEcT 420 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i am trying to come up with better ways to tell my g/f "i love you"

so far i have said "Te Amo" which is Latin.

i need I love you in the folloowing langauges

Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Thai
Arabic
Hebrew
French
and

The language of god?? In the passion of the Christ.. the language they were speaking.. I need I love you in that language.

2006-10-19 21:30:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages