Society & Culture - 28 October 2006

2006-10-28 20:30:56 · 17 answers · asked by DREAMER 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Is the cosmos alive or is all the laws of physics just an accident?

2006-10-28 20:29:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In North India there is a practice of burning effigy of Ravana, the king of Shrilanka, who was defeated and killed by Lord Rama. But people from South India, who are basically Dravidians, dont like or rather hate this practice. Why so?

2006-10-28 20:29:06 · 3 answers · asked by Mithunda 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-10-28 20:27:08 · 2 answers · asked by heckyealevel1foreverlol 2 in Languages

2006-10-28 20:26:29 · 12 answers · asked by Ad Just 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Is it not all just racism from diffrent points of veiw? I mean the term racism makes no sense, it is not applied to those who hate a race. But rather those who are apart of the same race and hate a seprate sub group. I think that the term racist should be reserved only for those who hate a race, like the people who hate pandas, they are racist...

2006-10-28 20:26:06 · 4 answers · asked by Timothy C 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

The Calvary Church near my house is sponsoring a "Hallelujah Hoedown!" on 10/31, where the community is invited to enjoy an alternative to Halloween by having a Western Themed party for "The Faithful."

Lame...

2006-10-28 20:25:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Halloween

Species with emotions like humans, cats, dogs, monkeys, etc are believed to have souls but what about species without emotions? like fish or plants?

If a plant or fish has a will to live doesn't that make it have a soul?

2006-10-28 20:23:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Maybe the Cosmos would invite you to leave superstition saying:
1.You shall not have any other gods before The Cosmos.
2. You shall not worship idols.
3. You shall not be a hypocrite.
Defaming God The Cosmos with lies and taking his name in vain shall bring you trouble.
4. Remember to take a rest from work
5. Honor your parents.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not speak lies against people.
10. You shall not be greedy.

2006-10-28 20:23:48 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-28 20:22:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If animals could talk they would say YES.

2006-10-28 20:21:57 · 10 answers · asked by Birds 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

JUST WONDERING DO THEY ALSO LIKE TO VIEW AS MUCH AS MEN....COZ USUALLY WOMEN DONT LIKE IT...
NOT ASKING ABT ONCE IN A WHILE ..WHICH MAY BE DUE TO CURIOSITY OR OTHERWISE..BUT DO THEY REGULARLY WATCH IT....???

2006-10-28 20:21:20 · 15 answers · asked by METICULOUS 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

does any one here speak albanian???

2006-10-28 20:19:23 · 5 answers · asked by risaNaldo 2 in Languages

2006-10-28 20:19:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Holidays

2006-10-28 20:18:36 · 3 answers · asked by askance 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Moses did not ascend into heaven, neither did Jesus.
That would contradict prophecies about Jesus.
All people are children of God, Jesus was only the Messiah, who have confirmed that, with His Words , not His Flesh.

2006-10-28 20:17:13 · 16 answers · asked by YuPiter iz JewPiter 2 in Religion & Spirituality

So Why are Buddhists Attached To Buddhism?

2006-10-28 20:15:27 · 19 answers · asked by Al-Gore 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Our body is also a self-run machine. In that, there are several systems which controls and activates different functions and particulars of the body. During the process of development in a creature, by means of its will power, it develops different systems and different specialties in itself. It has come to this stage now. Inside the body of human being-bring, lungs, intestines, heart and all are functioned automatically. Only the up-keep of those are in your hand. And, after thousands years of effort only human being could develop such an anatomy of its body. Joy, miseries, fate and new being – everything is based on your ability of their maintenance. According to your will power and deeds, your surroundings get effected. And, with the activities of all the creatures, the creation get influenced whatever we do, according to that only the ‘creation’ get better or get worse. Likewise, the effect on the ‘creation’ ultimately affects us. Harming the creation will result in our own destruction. Our functioning is the function of the creation. Our thinking is the thought of the creation. Every act of us is done by it (God) through us. If a nail is pierced in any part of our body, the whole body feels it. Like that the creation is like a body, and our betterment lies with the betterment of it (creation) as a whole. The coal get transformed in to diamond; like that ,man will get transformed in to ‘God’ or ‘Demon’ one day. Our thought waves effects others. Whatever is there today, it is spread by us only. The next generation will be either of ‘Divinity’ or of ‘demons’ if the thinking level of us contains purity, the generation of ‘Divinity’ will come up, certainly. Otherwise, you can not tolerate a generation of ‘Demons’ later. The creation will reach the verge of destruction. Changes are the law of a world. The coming generation will have these two types of personalities. One s of ‘Divinity’ and other one will be of ‘Evils’ (Demons) Both will be powerful to the extreme level.

The impure mentality will lead to the creation of ‘Demons’ As the neck of the goat is in our clutch today, our necks will be in the clutch of the clutch of the ‘Demons’ then. they will not understand our (human) language. Human being will be helpless that time. They will be slain by those ‘Demons’ and will be eaten by them as well. And, in their law eating of human being will be considered as a gift from nature; as we are feeding on the vegetation and other animals, as animals are feeding on the plants, as the plants are feeding on the earth, as earth feeds on the stones. Everyone is feeding on one another. But, the wish of all of us is that-the next generation coming up must be a better one. This “will power’ of us will so us that day. Isn’t it possible that we all become ‘DEVTAS’ (Divine souls) together? There should not be any Demon, or they should be out numbered by the people filled with ‘Divinity’ To achieve that, we have to become a complete human being first. The animal instincts in us should die down completely. Come, let’s try to be a complete human. If people having strong ‘will power’ to become ‘Demons’ will emerge first, then the black shadow of destruction on this planet will cover the ‘sun’ of development. History will be repeated on this world; it will go through the phage of destruction, and the civilization that is existing today will be wiped out.

The ruins of sindh valley, pyramids of Egypt, Maya civilization of Maxico are the remains of previous civilization flourishing on this planet. Human has lost everything even after reaching to the top. Like that, the radiation from sun, radiation from nuclear weapons may destroy this world again. Not a single species will survive then. Oceans will start bobbling. Sky will turn red. Volcanoes will erupt and earth surface will be covered with ‘lava’. The skin of the sky will be torn apart. Everywhere, only fire will be visible. Melting of the ice in polar region will cause the world to be covered with water. Nothing will be left here. The new life may emerge again only after millions of years. Isn’t it possible that, this civilization will continue to develop without any hindrance, get saved from the destruction, so that the human can rise to the optimum level ? how nice shall we feel then, when will cover the distance between two planets in a minute. The bride will be from Neptune and the bridegroom will be from Earth planet.

Whoever is born will die one day. The life span of germs is in seconds, the insects have it in days or months, animals and human beings have it in years. The life span of a civilization is some thousand years, the planets have some million years of life span, a universe has some thousand million years Universes are produced in the creation, and get destroyed after a certain period. And, this is a continuous process, this can never be stopped.

2006-10-28 20:15:13 · 6 answers · asked by ibkhandel 2 in Religion & Spirituality

THERE'S THIS GUY AND I DON'T KNOW IF HE IS GAY OR NOT...WHAT SHOULD I DO?

2006-10-28 20:14:55 · 10 answers · asked by coolprinc3 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

i hate when a band comes out with a CD about their point of views and people have to come and take it up the ***, and start talking ****.

some examples:

american idiot cd by green day
the hand that feeds by nine inch nails

many more.

i hate it.

it's the band's opinion, and i know its the listeners opinion too, but yea, i dont like it. im bored thats why im posting this.

2006-10-28 20:14:44 · 2 answers · asked by i.give 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-10-28 20:13:15 · 2 answers · asked by barbaradjt 5 in Halloween

We all came from Adam and Eve right? And their children reproduced with their own siblings right? So doesn't that make us products of incest?

2006-10-28 20:13:13 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Many fundamentalist Christians seem to think that the word "theory", in reference to science means that it is a conjecture that lacks substance. They think it is simply an idea with no proof.

Atomic energy, and the science behind it is a theory. We have a "law" of gravity, while it is yet still not nearly understood.

A theory is much more than a conjecture. It is a working model, with substantial backing, and generally accepted as reliable while maintaining the possibility of modification. It's not somebody's pet idea, thrown out without substantiation.

So, why then, do these fundamentalists jump on the word "theory" as if it's something lacking in substance? Certainly scientific "theories" have much more physical evidence substantiating them than do things such as the book of Genesis.

2006-10-28 20:12:43 · 18 answers · asked by Deirdre H 7 in Religion & Spirituality

The situation:
I am currently renting a house with my friend and her boyfriend. Just over a month ago, the boyfriend's friend starts staying here because he was kicked out of HIS girlfriend's place for reasons unknown. He was supposed to be here for a couple nights, which stemmed into a couple weeks, which turned into just over a MONTH now. He eats our food, gets home extremely late and makes noise when I have to be up at 6am every day, and most annoying of all, he actually had the nerve to have a bunch of friends over that I didn't even know when my other roommates left for a weekend. We have not recieved ANY money from him.

My roommates don't seem to think it's as huge of a problem as I do, and are telling me that they don't want to "kick him on the curb". He has had more than enough time to find a new place. I don't feel like it's my place to be kicking him out since it's my roomie's friend - but this is getting to be a HUGE hassle.

I want him OUT. What can I do?

2006-10-28 20:10:33 · 17 answers · asked by Angela 3 in Etiquette

If you look around in the world today, most of the craziness and outrageous, sickening conduct is created and carried out by men. You'd think they would get a grip and think before they act, but almost daily another crime, another male is guilty of it.

It is obvious that women commit crimes and are to blame for some badness in the world, but men are far worse off and they are not getting any better.

Just look at the state of the world today and most all the wars, rapes, prisons, etc., are connected to men.

Where are the good men with good sense? Do they even exist anymore? Don't answer if you're one of the bad ones...blah...enough is enough.

2006-10-28 20:09:37 · 14 answers · asked by KimIsland 3 in Other - Society & Culture

If yes,why they have difference name?If no,what the differences between both of them?

2006-10-28 20:08:18 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

I'm 15. When I kiss my girlfriend I ussually put my hand in her pants or in her bra. But she seems to have a problem with that. Is she embarrassed, or just don't like it? It shouldn't be like that, cause I'm her boyfriend

2006-10-28 20:06:11 · 26 answers · asked by Voda Voda 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

higher power and face a defeating crush from your opponent OR fight back with all your will, which would you choose? Why?

2006-10-28 20:05:01 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It that all real or vampires just live in movie?!

2006-10-28 20:01:09 · 13 answers · asked by seow li w 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-10-28 20:00:56 · 5 answers · asked by Cyber 6 in Religion & Spirituality