Society & Culture - 11 November 2006

If so, what? If not, why not?

I'm asking because I want to know, not just to prove any points. Please just answer the question. Thanks!

2006-11-11 10:28:12 · 21 answers · asked by ? 2 in Religion & Spirituality

By the Holy Spirit through Jesus the Christ?

2006-11-11 10:27:38 · 14 answers · asked by DREAMER 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-11 10:27:30 · 26 answers · asked by confused 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Poor Kezzi T didn't need to have you lot ruining her wedding. All she asked was whether she should invite her mother. Lay off the sermonizing!

2006-11-11 10:26:53 · 14 answers · asked by Older&Wiser 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Trying to classify a piece of stone that is "Flint"

2006-11-11 10:25:31 · 7 answers · asked by cpryor3888 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-11-11 10:23:52 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

What can i do to ignore pepole's snotty comments? I was on one of my favorite message boards and this girl sais she thought that a joke about white was funny. And that was the 2nd time this wee she has said something about whites. And i spoke up and told her im mixed and i dont appriciate the fact that she would say something about 1 paticular race.. and she said she not rasist so i apolizize for making a false judgment and she starts getting geek { for pepole who dont know what that means it means smart} and I tried to drop it but now it wont be dropped. I dunno.. Any tips on how to ignore things like this without me feeling like Im not sticking up for my race? Thanks

2006-11-11 10:23:31 · 6 answers · asked by ? 4 in Other - Cultures & Groups

No matter where you are and what ethnicity of the person is?

2006-11-11 10:23:03 · 8 answers · asked by Just4YA 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I've tried the learn on your own cd's and books and I don't like them. I do live in the Orlando, FL area and can travel to the nearby towns to get to a place. I already looked up Valcena and UCF neither offer a beginning Japanese course anytime soon.
so where can I find someone to tech me this language, I will pay for it!

2006-11-11 10:21:27 · 7 answers · asked by snowcloud_dreamer 2 in Languages

2006-11-11 10:21:24 · 4 answers · asked by last spiritual man 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-11-11 10:20:29 · 9 answers · asked by southernfancymom 2 in Christmas

i have holy water and many many prayers,
got anything else?

2006-11-11 10:19:57 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-11 10:19:08 · 5 answers · asked by oc245 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-11 10:18:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I don't mean the abusive or stupid ones, but the ones where people genuinely want to know (and obviously haven't realised that the same questions appear pretty much every day), such as:
"Do you believe in gay marriage?" [yes]
and "Do you think you were born gay?" [yes]

I sort of feel that I should answer if they are asking for serious reasons, but I get so tired of putting the same replies in.

Any thoughts?

2006-11-11 10:18:26 · 14 answers · asked by JBoy Wonder 4 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

this might be the wrong place to ask but evolution is always talked about here...

2006-11-11 10:18:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-11 10:17:11 · 1 answers · asked by oc245 4 in Other - Society & Culture

while not saying anything to the heterosexual who is not married and fornicating?

I know not everyone is like that, but it seems that some of us really preach against homosexuals but say nothing to the straight fornicator.

My bible tells me that both sins are equally evil in the eyes of God. Along with lying, cheating, stealing, murder, etc. (James 2:10-11)
So why do some of us hold one sin more evil than the other?
Are we being prejudiced to certain sins while tolerating a degree of others?

Your thoughts...?

2006-11-11 10:16:44 · 25 answers · asked by IL Padrino 4 in Religion & Spirituality

not to be taken litteraly as it suits them, why is it incorrect to say the entire thing is fiction and just dismiss it withour consequense? In other words, who gets to choose which parts HAVE to be followed and which parts don't have to be? And don't tell me Jesus or God - they aren't here.

2006-11-11 10:16:28 · 21 answers · asked by Dr. Brooke 6 in Religion & Spirituality

The smilarity between the two is that, they either assimilate other societies or anihalate them.
This is truly an inferior and obtuse approach to liberty and freedom.

2006-11-11 10:16:18 · 6 answers · asked by cdrc_bkr 2 in Other - Society & Culture

This is a common misconception. Some people think that the Bible was written in one language, translated to another language, then translated into yet another and so on until it was finally translated into the English. The complaint is that since it was rewritten so many times in different languages throughout history, it must have become corrupted. The "telephone" analogy is often used as an illustration. It goes like this. One person tells another person a sentence who then tells another person, who tells yet another, and so on and so on until the last person hears a sentence that has little or nothing to do with the original one. The only problem with this analogy is that it doesn't fit the Bible at all.
The fact is that the Bible has not been rewritten. Take the New Testament, for example. The disciples of Jesus wrote the New Testament in Greek and though we do not have the original documents, we do have around 6,000 copies of the Greek manuscripts that were made very close to the time of the originals. These various manuscripts, or copies, agree with each other to almost 100 percent accuracy. Statistically, the New Testament is 99.5% textually pure. That means that there is only 1/2 of 1% of of all the copies that do not agree with each other 100%. But, if you take that 1/2 of 1% and examine it, you find that the majority of the "problems" are nothing more than spelling errors and very minor word alterations. For example, instead of saying Jesus, a variation might be "Jesus Christ." So the actually amount of textual variation of any concern at all is extremely low. Therefore, we can say that we have an extremely accurate compilation of the original documents.
So when we translate the Bible, we do not translate from a translation of a translation of a translation. We translate from the original language into our language. It is one step, not a series of steps that leads to corruption. It is one translation step from the original to the English or to whatever language a person needs to read it in. So we translate into Spanish from the same Greek manuscripts. Likewise we translate into the German from those same Greek manuscripts as well. This is how it is done for each and every language we translate the Bible into. We do not translate from the Greek to the English, to the Spanish, and then to the German. It is from the Greek to the English. It is from the Greek into the Spanish. It is from the Greek into the German. Therefore, the translations are very accurate and trustworthy in regards to what the Bible originally said.

2006-11-11 10:15:47 · 11 answers · asked by Prodical Son 1 in Languages

Bring any boys to the yard? I mean...if I saw a girl walking around her yard with a couple of milkshakes, I would think she was a little bit crazy and walk the other direction. If anything, a milkshake would drive people away...wouldn't it?

2006-11-11 10:15:01 · 10 answers · asked by robtheman 6 in Other - Cultures & Groups

like what r the colors gay people wear?

2006-11-11 10:14:43 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-11-11 10:14:37 · 18 answers · asked by bethybug 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Would you be annoy if someone you're driving with is always on the cell phone talking to their family and friends?
Not to mention sometimes the talker is driving at the same time.
What would you do in my case?

2006-11-11 10:13:42 · 14 answers · asked by Sabine 6 in Etiquette

need pictures for childs report for school....anyone can help?thanks

2006-11-11 10:11:37 · 2 answers · asked by lee99_20002000 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

even when presenting someone with facts and links to those facts ... it still merits a thumbs down ?
why is it that believing in demons seems a better idea than having science tell us that sleep paralysis and hypnagogic imagery are the causes of night terrors ?
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvSRpsRr7UfS2xo0zSc8wKsgBgx.?qid=20061111144732AAPASfw
please scroll to my answer

2006-11-11 10:11:27 · 25 answers · asked by Peace 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-11 10:11:27 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Holidays

2006-11-11 10:10:39 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Bill Gates, the inventor of Windows, denies god.

He endorses not wasting your time with prayer or worship.

He even works on Sunday!

Everytime you boot up your Windows equipped computer, you are supporting a man whose ideology blatently contradicts your own. You wouldn't knowingly support a person who lies, steals and murders, yet you support a man who flaunts your god's commandments - just so you can use your computer.

How do you explain this hypocricy?

(unless you're using an Apple - whoops, almost forgot, that was co-invented by Steve Wozniak, another atheist!)

2006-11-11 10:10:14 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality