Society & Culture - 26 October 2006

2006-10-26 05:17:51 · 10 answers · asked by fryedaddy 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-26 05:17:17 · 6 answers · asked by Boat house 3 1 in Languages

In the Book of Daniel, the Persian conquest of Babylon is dealt with. It is stated that the Persian king at the time of the conquest was Darius, but it was actually Cyrus. How do you explain an error like that?

2006-10-26 05:17:04 · 19 answers · asked by tangerine 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Has there been any scientific study on the genetics of homosexuality? Have we found the core genetic cause yet? If we haven't found the actual gene has there been any credible research done to determine if is actually a genetic trait (i.e. if a male and female homosexual have sex for some reason, is there a pattern to the likelyhood that they will have homosexual offspring?(dominant and recessive gene study))

2006-10-26 05:16:49 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How does one have the oil in their lamps full?

2006-10-26 05:16:45 · 13 answers · asked by t_a_m_i_l 6 in Religion & Spirituality

why are you answering his questions and why is he not banned?? dont answer The What Should I Do Retard's questions and report him for abuse, he is abusing this site!

2006-10-26 05:16:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

do countries in the middle and far east allow places of worship to be built, not of the state religion, or is this something only democracies do?

2006-10-26 05:15:35 · 2 answers · asked by BRYAN H 5 in Religion & Spirituality

That it could happen soon because the Word of God is being preached / published around the world?

2006-10-26 05:15:14 · 9 answers · asked by t_a_m_i_l 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-26 05:14:31 · 9 answers · asked by deevoonay 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I have found that I am able to discuss my beliefs much more openly and honestly with my friends here on Yahoo! Answers. I am honest about my beliefs with my 'real life' friends but I am much more open here. Perhaps it is because I am behind a computer screen but it feels like I have a connection with many of you. I've never met so many people before who have shared my convictions, interests, beliefs, and sense of humor.

How about you guys? Are you guys more open here...or is it just me?

2006-10-26 05:14:30 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-26 05:13:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

What is your purpose in life?

To feed a thousand hungry children in Rowanda?

To make music with a heart felt message to tell the world?

To build the most modern, asthetically orgasmic building known to man?

To make your family alot of money so they will never have to worry again?

To discover a new species at the bottom of the deepest region of the ocean?

To sacrifice your life for one person so they might move on to save hundreds of people later?

To show so much love to as many people as possible so that they might know that God HAS to exist for such love to be possible?

To drive faster than anyone has ever driven?

Or to sit on Yahoo Answers for the rest of your life and BS your way to 10,000 points?

I've got to find my purpose... I keep feeling it, but every time I figure it out, I procrastinate and the opportunity passes me by...

2006-10-26 05:13:27 · 12 answers · asked by Rockstar 6 in Other - Society & Culture

Well hes in his late 60's and we work in a very fast pacede demanding environment, he over analyzes everything and wants to talk about whats going on for hours when I just need an answer! HELP

2006-10-26 05:12:34 · 7 answers · asked by Beth W 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

u sure they not influence u instead? also does tt mean u may not stay true in time to come? Please comment, thanks!

2006-10-26 05:12:20 · 16 answers · asked by BorgPet6of10 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Case in point from the news:


Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward said Hilali's comment was an incitement to rape and that Australia's Muslims should force him to resign. "This is inciting young men to a violent crime because it is the woman's fault," Goward said. "It is time the Islamic community did more than say they were horrified. I think it is time he left." Hilali is the top cleric at Sydney's largest mosque, and is considered the most senior Islamic leader by many Muslims in Australia and New Zealand. Hilali triggered a controversy in 2004 for saying in a sermon in Lebanon that the Sept. 11 attacks were "God's work against the oppressors.">

2006-10-26 05:12:04 · 15 answers · asked by Sweetchild Danielle 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-26 05:11:26 · 6 answers · asked by tanyacheex2003 1 in Languages

We want a costume that is so wrong, so taboo that it will offend half the people that see it, while making the other half laugh hysterically. For example, I know of someone in a wheelchair that dressed up as Superman with a tube in his mouth (it was for alcohol). Also, I had a friend that dressed up with his buddy as the Baylor basketball players in the murder scandal. Please help, we want the best costume ever. Something like Mark Foley and his page...something like that.

2006-10-26 05:10:06 · 16 answers · asked by Jen 1 in Halloween

the myans calinder i think ends in 2012?
is this going to be the end?
or was it just there y2k bug?
when do you think it will end?

2006-10-26 05:09:53 · 9 answers · asked by blackrealty 3 in Religion & Spirituality

While you Brits pay through the nose in taxes your "royality" sits back and gives nothing back to you society. Don't you think it's time to trash that type of system and make them work for a living like everyone else?

2006-10-26 05:08:53 · 20 answers · asked by Hank 1 in Royalty

2006-10-26 05:08:36 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-26 05:06:57 · 8 answers · asked by sjbchapman 2 in Languages

When its two months away!!!

2006-10-26 05:06:15 · 30 answers · asked by HEY 3 in Christmas

Compliment that you wish some one would say to you and truly mean it ?

2006-10-26 05:06:06 · 3 answers · asked by Geedebb 6 in Other - Society & Culture

In todays age we have contributed alot of peoples odd behavior as being not of the social norm, and we even catergorized these behaviors as schitzophranic, split personalitie disorders, bi polar, manic depressant, or just plain psycho.
Now we are also aware that with some of these odd behaviors such as talking to yourself in second and third persons, halllucinating, that this could be from the effect of drugs(chemicals) In which is found in plant life. Now based on that could it be possible that the very beliefs we have structured from the prophets about jesus, god and burning bushes was really just an effect of chemicals from the plant life he digested, and did not have the vast learning tools we have today to know what he was, or was not experiencing. Today if someone was behaving in such a way would we not first think he was on drugs, or had a mental disorder. Is it ridiculous to suggest that Jesus was a man who was stricken with a mental disorder, compiled with chemicals of plant

2006-10-26 05:05:27 · 12 answers · asked by fryedaddy 3 in Religion & Spirituality

CONSCIENCE ( ANTARMAN )
Conscience in the computer memory inside our body, taking help of which we major our moral values. What ever feeding is given in it during our childhood days, it reacts accordingly. Whatever has been incorporated in our inner mind since the childhood and whatever our superiors have made us understand regarding sins and virtues, our computerized conscience reacts accordingly. And, according to that only the moral character of an individual is made. When we send the decision to the conscience it responds according to the memory fed in it whether the decision is the bad one or a good one. The meaning is – our conscience is fabricated or been incorporated to us. The scene of slaying of a goat slitting through its neck does not have any impact on a Muslim, where as the same scene is a heinous act for a Jaini.
The concept of sins or virtues is different for a Jaini than that of a Muslim, when both are human beings. Thus, this dual measurement system is created only by us. A baby born and brought up in wild without any mentor can do anything with least hesitation. For him every act is legal according to the need of his body. By over imposing the sense of sins-virtues on human being, we have made his life difficult. In the name of ‘moral discipline’, we have forcibly gained control over his elementary wishes and over his mentality. We made him understand so much about sins-virtues that the restriction imposed on him has made him scared of fulfilling even his basic needs. Scared, he is getting away from the pleasure of life. Man cannot get deep into love. Everything gets grounded with fear. Some saint or god come in between a loving couple. The calculation starts taking place. For the fear of getting ill health, they don’t get themselves involved properly. And, this incomplete ‘love making’ results in a mental depression. A healthy sex is the cause of your birth, is the cause of your mental development. But, we always think the opposite. The sheet of ‘guilty consciousness’ gets covered on the ‘life giving’ factor (strength). And, a man becomes ill tempered or frustrated. Sex is the only way for a man to get into deep of concentration. Through the medium you are born, the same will take you out or the boundary of birth-death. It is a tedious task to achieve ‘thoughtless stage’ by means of any other act. Rather than dying with reluctance, it is better to give a ‘different point of view’ to the life. Give the joy to others and keep yourself in joy. Every act in this world is legal if comes under basic requirements and, if it exceeds the requirement level the same thing or act becomes the cause of miseries.

2006-10-26 05:03:41 · 5 answers · asked by ibkhandel 2 in Religion & Spirituality

That would include shining the light on written false beliefs (tares).

2006-10-26 05:03:18 · 16 answers · asked by t_a_m_i_l 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-26 05:02:51 · 12 answers · asked by Mitchell B 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I don’t understand big bang theory…”poof” God did it
I don’t understand evolution…so “poof” God made it
I don’t understand complex natural systems so “poof” God must be controlling them.

2006-10-26 05:01:34 · 19 answers · asked by trouthunter 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-26 05:01:30 · 10 answers · asked by mikey d 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i have an african friend who is very spiritual. he is great and always knows the right words to say. he keeps telling me that if im confused to pray to god and he will answer all my problems. my boyfriend is also christian like my friend and he said to have a good life that you have to read the bible. i really want my life to be better and my soul to be emptied from all the bad things. i havnt had a good life lately and want everything to change . how do i go about becoming more spiritual and religious? can anybody help me?

2006-10-26 05:00:28 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality