Society & Culture - 21 October 2006

Past civilizations had what they called religions. Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans worshipped many gods and practiced special rites. American aborigenes also did it their way. Some tribes even practiced human sacrifice. The communities abode by their doctrines and respected their religious leaders just like Christian believers have done for over 20 centuries and still do today. Will there come a time that will change if science prevails over religion? Just compare past with present to get a glimpse at the future. Zeus, creator and father, also came to Earth in flesh and bone, lived up, high, beyond the clouds on the peak of Mt. Olympus with his celestial court of gods and godesses who were all immortals. Doesn't that ring a bell?

2006-10-21 05:12:46 · 5 answers · asked by latinoldie 4 in Religion & Spirituality

pls help really i have to learn even some basics !! you can help me by sending me any web site which can teach persian ,any program,or better to find some one who can teach me persian by chattin with the yahoo messenger ,,, thanks .. god with all

2006-10-21 05:11:45 · 4 answers · asked by arthas 1 in Languages

Okay, I have awful Gaydar, but I need to ask this for thosse that have acute, powerful Gaydar.

I have a friend. He is very flirty with a male friend of mine. They are very touchy feely, they hug often, and he the straight one is the one who initiates the hugging, the straight guy looks deep into my guy friends eyes, he seems very much in tune with my other guy friend. The straight guy HAD a girlfriend and when I would ak him what he's doing that evening/weekend he would say "Hanging out with his girlfriend" and he would act so bothered by that - like, he didn't want too at all. They are not together any more.
He seems Gay to me. I was actually surprised he said he had a girlfriend. My male friend asked him if he was gay, and he said he wasn't, but, he as they would talk he would look deep into his eyes, and this completely confused my gay friend who doesn't know - He thinks he's in the closet.

I'm not sure if he's Gay. Is he Gay?

2006-10-21 05:11:01 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-10-21 05:10:46 · 16 answers · asked by B.A.D 1 in Religion & Spirituality

we lived in this house when i was a teenager that weird things happened in. after we moved out all these years later no one has been able to stay in it stands empty now anyway i will tell you some of the weird things then i want to know what you think about what i saw one day we found two dead calfs under the house no bite marks no dragging signs in the dirt ? then my mom said one of the kids toys a sit and spin was spinning faster and faster in the house , one night i went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and the light was off i am sitting there doing my bussiness when i feel a cat rubbing on me meowing i pet it and think somehow a cat got in the house we didnt own one so i thought when i get done i will let it out its loving on me meowing but when i turn on the light its no cat it hissed and the only thing i can tell you is it looked like a bob cat crossed with a rat it reared back and hissed at me i screamed and ran no one could find anthing in the house

2006-10-21 05:09:37 · 7 answers · asked by 99 3 in Mythology & Folklore

How do you feel about "Property of........" tattoos and other permanent signs of relationships

2006-10-21 05:09:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-10-21 05:08:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Given the mathematical certainty of inhabited worlds almost limitless .

2006-10-21 05:08:31 · 11 answers · asked by samssculptures 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Please include your personal feelings towards this and how it has effected you, and the people of Sudan. Please be thorough, I would greatly appreciate it.

2006-10-21 05:07:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

What does "Habibi ya eini" means? it's a name of a song...

2006-10-21 05:07:51 · 9 answers · asked by Len74 2 in Languages

is it the same god with many names,can you give intellectual evidence to qualify your answer

2006-10-21 05:07:27 · 20 answers · asked by gasp 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-21 05:07:15 · 25 answers · asked by B.A.D 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I am a chemist and a part -time philosopher and have derived a theory.....my thesis is "life is fair, in that it is not fair"....check out what I am about to type........people always complain about how they get screwed in life even when the are trying to be model citizens, whether they get screwed financially, emotionally, physically, or what have you. But, since life is not fair, people have the tendancy to achieve a state that does not exist, it is in our nature. For example, if life was fair, the human race would not have the inspiration, motivation, willingness, or the capacity to live with fairness because it is a current state in which people live in and DO NOT have to make an effort to strive to KEEP society fair. Therefore, life would become unfair, deathly, unlivable, and lastly mundane. And the conclusion lies in the statement....."we must work towards an effort to achieve a state of fairness in order to make it fair, once we fail orlose perception of this goal fairness is..

2006-10-21 05:06:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

In 2001, I taught a nun how to make handmade soap in my home. She travelled to me for lessons. She offered to thank me with a massage and in that massage, she did something that she never should have done, posing it to me as "therapeutic". When we asked her for explanation 4 months later, she fell silent. The nuns were silent with us for 3 years, then sent us 8000 emails, but they never wanted to listen to what happened or talk to me about what I experienced. From all you know about God and faith, please leave your comments, and help me begin the forgiveness journey. I do not know how and although it has been five years since the incident, I am still hurting deeply and afraid to go into any church Catholic or nonCatholic. I never thought it was Christian to ignore people, to use the silent treatment, so I ask Christians on the internet, please help me to forgive. I have no clue. There's been a lot of damage to me and my family in this. This person is making soap and selling it.

2006-10-21 05:03:53 · 14 answers · asked by ? 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I've heard and have only seen the beauty of this palce through pictures and can see how it is deemed magical but what of the actual legends and folklore? Can anyone spare some stories maybe some history as well... oh and if you are Irish may i ask, whats it like to live there?

2006-10-21 05:03:34 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

Mav contemplate:
If Mav's Y!A friends could describe themselves as an animal, what would they be?

What do you think Mav would be?

hmmmmmm

2006-10-21 05:03:18 · 12 answers · asked by Mav here! 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I was reading the bible and came across this,

Matthew
18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

Now, a friend of mine just lost her leg in a car accident (it wasn't her fault in case you're wondering). Two really big Christians who are also friends of hers then prayed for their god to heal her and give her back her old leg, so it would be like the accident never happened.

Her leg didn't miraculously become reattached to her body and in 100% perfect working order. In fact, nothing happened at all. What's the deal? That passage in the bible says that if two people prayed to the christian god for it to happen, he would make it so.

Why is christianity spreading lies and giving people, like my friend, false hope? The bible says it would be done, but it didn't happen. What a load of rubbish. This just gives me another reason to be Atheist....

2006-10-21 05:03:01 · 5 answers · asked by Toronto 3 in Religion & Spirituality

hi everyone!how is my avtar?
Now this is the real question.Does any of u have experiences of being haunted by a spirit.I mean do u believe in that?Please don't make up stories.Tell me frankly!

2006-10-21 05:02:36 · 7 answers · asked by dew drop 4 in Mythology & Folklore

colloquial

2006-10-21 05:02:06 · 6 answers · asked by china t 1 in Languages

2006-10-21 05:01:00 · 13 answers · asked by stasha 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-10-21 05:00:53 · 15 answers · asked by sufiesidhi 1 in Religion & Spirituality

...I heard this while visiting Sweden once.

2006-10-21 05:00:26 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-10-21 05:00:26 · 8 answers · asked by stasha 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I am interested in mysticsm and ceramonial magic, but i wish to stay clearly in the christan and jewish areas, not that i have any dis like for wiccans or satanists, but i rather stay close to my one god and they can have their gods. also would it be good for me to talk to a jewish rabbi when i go to portland some time and see what he has to say? any insight would be nice.

and yes i know the Kabbalah is Jewish.

2006-10-21 04:59:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

People are dying of diseases. People are killing one another. Cruelty and inhumanity are rampid. People are suffering. Nobody has a solution. Yet, you listen to some "select" folk and the world is just dandy. Do you see the process of degeneration? How can humanity perpetuate when the very laws of thermodynamics stand adamantly against it? How can you see progress, when there is decay all around? What do you see? Evaluate your world.

2006-10-21 04:57:45 · 15 answers · asked by icyhott4urmind 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-10-21 04:54:33 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Royalty

People, please enlighten me on how you've hypothesized how evolution proves in the non-existance of God? I believe in evolution and I believe in God, the two co-exist, in fact God is evolution, evolution is God.Since when did it become so cliche to negate God with anything scientific?Did you get this from the bible?If so, you are wrong, the bible was not meant to be a history, geology, or an astronomy book, so get that misconception out of your head, its a book on how to live, nothing more nothing less.

I am not naive enough to think evolution does not exist. We were formed from micro organisms to what we have today along with that growing more and more intelligent throughout this universal existence. There is a path to evolution and that path is the highest form of consiousness and awareness of the surroundings all around you. We are ignorant creatures and utilize less of our brain than we can ever imagine. I believe in God and I believe in evolution why are the two seperated?

2006-10-21 04:54:10 · 24 answers · asked by Murfdigidy 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-21 04:53:35 · 20 answers · asked by ubuntu 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Where did the idea of "safe words come from?

2006-10-21 04:53:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

At what point does thinking about sex become sex which is a sin because the girls at school say sex happens in your head. So can you sin inside your head(like being jeolous and other thoughs)?

2006-10-21 04:53:17 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality