Society & Culture - 26 October 2006

I don't mean really "saw" Him, but had a dream about Him...

2006-10-26 15:22:59 · 15 answers · asked by nancy jo 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Luke: 1-10

(summarized)
Jesus and Zaccheus. This story is about Jesus as he is in Jericho. A man named Zaccheus who was a rich man and a chief tax collector, climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus as he passed by. When Jesus got near the tree he said “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today”. Zaccheus went down to greet him and when everyone saw this they said “he has gone to be a guest of a man who is a sinner”. Zaccheus said to Jesus that he would give half his possessions, he will give to the poor, and give back four times as much to anyone he has defrauded. Jesus said to him “Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. (10): "For the son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost"

This is a question for my religion hmwrk! I have like 10 of these to do, but there a few I can't figure out. so the question is: How was Jesus' action unusual? I can't figure out what is unusual about this one???

2006-10-26 15:22:25 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2 super spooky and creepy names.

2006-10-26 15:22:13 · 3 answers · asked by neow neow 1 in Halloween

after His resurection? Whom else did He visit? How long was it before His ascention?

2006-10-26 15:22:06 · 16 answers · asked by J DUB 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Why do parents tell their children not to take candy from strangers on almost every day of the year, But then it's okay for us to take candy from strangers on halloween?

2006-10-26 15:22:02 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Halloween

2006-10-26 15:21:45 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

fearing people,I've only seen his sorry a*s on BET, by telling them if they make a VOW they will be RE-PAID in multitudes.......He makes my blood boil!.....I know, don't watch him, but why do they give him a FORUM for this @*^$!, I believe GOD wants our heart and NOT our money, I think he is stealing in the name of the LORD..... do you feel this is a form of extortion? If not, please state why not ...thank you

2006-10-26 15:21:43 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Any ideas please?

2006-10-26 15:21:37 · 19 answers · asked by -=CHRIS=- 1 in Halloween

2006-10-26 15:21:20 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-26 15:20:41 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i have to dress up for halloween at work,im a waitress at denny's.what could i be without having to buy a costume?

2006-10-26 15:20:20 · 8 answers · asked by kahlien05 1 in Halloween

does anyone know any really scary/ good haunted houses near chicago?

2006-10-26 15:20:16 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Halloween

WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WOULD BE LIKE TO HAVE NO KNOWLEGDE WHATSOEVER OF YOUR PAST-- YOUR REAL FAMILY AND ITS TRADITIONS, POSSESSIONS, OR MEMORIES?

2006-10-26 15:19:44 · 16 answers · asked by LiNDA DO =) 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-10-26 15:19:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-26 15:19:14 · 14 answers · asked by -=CHRIS=- 1 in Halloween

why did he create a world where his own son had to be murdered in order to redeem his own creation?

2006-10-26 15:19:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

(with the adress)

2006-10-26 15:18:32 · 9 answers · asked by vachool 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Where do ideas come from? Where does fantasy come from and where does reality come from? Doesn't imagination begin everything we know?

2006-10-26 15:18:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-10-26 15:18:01 · 6 answers · asked by cbrtn 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

This will be the first year I'll be handing out candy instead of trick-or-treating, and I want to do it in a really fun way that the kids will remember, you know?
Last year there was a house where you went inside, and the woman had a table set (halloween-style, skeletons were sitting at each place) and each bowl had a different kind of mini candy in it!
It was very cool, and we took candy from the bowls.

Does anyone have any ideas of what I could do?

2006-10-26 15:17:09 · 9 answers · asked by sarahg 3 in Halloween

2006-10-26 15:17:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

The book of Revelations in the Bible states that Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead. Well, I think He has, but in a different, more subtle, but just as meaningful way. Have you ever looked at someone and just known you were staring right into the eyes of Jesus? Like a homeless person, or a stranger, or just anyone?? Like you knew you had to help them. Or even a friend who was hurt, ever looked into the eyes of Jesus?

Kiara

2006-10-26 15:17:01 · 16 answers · asked by Kiara 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Me?
I'll be mildly surprised.
no more than that, though.

2006-10-26 15:16:21 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF SOMEONE ALWAYS CALLED YOU BY THE WRONG NAME, OR TOLD YOU TO CHANGE YOUR NAME BECAUSE IT WASN'T 'GOOD ENOUGH'?????

2006-10-26 15:14:03 · 36 answers · asked by LiNDA DO =) 1 in Etiquette

what percentage do you guys all have for best answers...You can just put your number o.k. just thought it cool to ask...
Thanks........smiles.

2006-10-26 15:13:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-10-26 15:12:58 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I mean, put them all in an overnight holding cell or something and then let them go in the morning. I know some towns across the US are doing this. Why not every town and city in America?

2006-10-26 15:11:18 · 18 answers · asked by Harry Manback 2 in Halloween

A minor issue at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) has potentially major implications for the future of Islam in the United States.

Starting about a decade ago, some Muslim taxi drivers serving the airport declared, that they would not transport passengers visibly carrying alcohol, in transparent duty-free shopping bags, for example. This stance stemmed from their understanding of the Koran's ban on alcohol. A driver named Fuad Omar explained: "This is our religion. We could be punished in the afterlife if we agree to [transport alcohol]. This is a Koran issue. This came from heaven." Another driver, Muhamed Mursal, echoed his words: "It is forbidden in Islam to carry alcohol."

The issue emerged publicly in 2000. On one occasion, 16 drivers in a row refused a passenger with bottles of alcohol. This left the passenger - who had done nothing legally wrong - feeling like a criminal. For their part, the 16 cabbies lost income. As Josh L. Dickey of the Associated Press put it, when drivers at MSP refuse a fare for any reason, "they go to the back of the line. Waaaay back. Past the terminal, down a long service road, and into a sprawling parking lot jammed with cabs in Bloomington, where drivers sit idle for hours, waiting to be called again."

To avoid this predicament, Muslim taxi drivers asked the Metropolitan Airports Commission for permission to refuse passengers carrying liquor - or even suspected of carrying liquor - without being banished to the end of the line. MAC rejected this appeal, worried that drivers might offer religion as an excuse to refuse short-distance passengers.

The number of Muslim drivers has by now increased, to the point that they reportedly make up three-quarters of MSP's 900 cabdrivers. By September 2006, Muslims turned down an estimated three fares a day based on their religious objection to alcohol, an airport spokesman, Patrick Hogan, told the Associated Press, adding that this issue has "slowly grown over the years to the point that it's become a significant customer service issue."

"Travelers often feel surprised and insulted," Mr. Hogan told USA Today.

With this in mind, MAC proposed a pragmatic solution: drivers unwilling to carry alcohol could get a special color light on their car roofs, signaling their views on alcohol to taxi starters and customers alike. From the airport's point of view, this scheme offers a sensible and efficient mechanism to resolve a minor irritant, leaving no passenger insulted and no driver losing business. "Airport authorities are not in the business of interpreting sacred texts or dictating anyone's religious choices," Hogan points out. "Our goal is simply to ensure travelers at [the airport] are well served." Awaiting approval only from the airport's taxi advisory committee, the two-light proposal will likely be in operation by the end of 2006.

But on a societal level, the proposed solution has massive and worrisome implications. Namely, the two-light plan intrudes the Shari‘a, or Islamic law, with state sanction, into a mundane commercial transaction in Minnesota. A government authority thus sanctions a signal as to who does or does not follow Islamic law.

What of taxi drivers beyond those at MSP? Other Muslims in Minneapolis-St. Paul and across the country could well demand the same privilege. Bus conductors might follow suit. The whole transport system could be divided between those Islamically observant and those not so.

Why stop with alcohol? Muslim taxi drivers in several countries already balk at allowing seeing-eye dogs in their cars. Future demands could include not transporting women with exposed arms or hair, homosexuals, and unmarried couples. For that matter, they could ban men wearing kippas, as well as Hindus, atheists, bartenders, croupiers, astrologers, bankers, and quarterbacks.

MAC has consulted on the taxi issue with the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society, an organization the Chicago Tribune has established is devoted to turning the United States into a country run be Islamic law. The wife of a former head of the organization, for example, has explained that its goal is "to educate everyone about Islam and to follow the teachings of Islam with the hope of establishing an Islamic state."

It is precisely the innocuous nature of the two-light taxi solution that makes it so insidious - and why the Metropolitan Airports Commission should reconsider its wrong-headed decision.

2006-10-26 15:11:17 · 12 answers · asked by yagman 7 in Religion & Spirituality

It is wonderful, It's like looking up at the stars and seeing into God's eyes. If you haven't you should.

2006-10-26 15:10:10 · 3 answers · asked by ? 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-10-26 15:09:36 · 24 answers · asked by gabber1981 2 in Languages