Society & Culture - 25 November 2006

I have often heard people say that Japanese, and numerous other Asian languages, are the most difficult to learn; yet, I have also heard the same about English on a number of occasions. From the perspective of someone whose native language is not English, or someone who has heard a lot about this subject, how hard do you find it and why? Is it because of the vowels or the spelling? Is it because it's a tonenal language, etc.?
Thanks for any help!!!!! ;-)

2006-11-25 10:48:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

What do you do when a child is invading your personal space, ie kicking you, pulling your hair, and the parents either do nothing or comment on how cute it is? Please, share your stories and tell me how you delt with the situation so that I may do the same.
Thank you.

2006-11-25 10:48:00 · 23 answers · asked by pinacoladasundae 3 in Etiquette

Do you think that people can act a certain race??? Or is it possible that that is simply giving into stereotypes??? Why or why not???

2006-11-25 10:47:27 · 8 answers · asked by Blu 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-11-25 10:46:37 · 7 answers · asked by Someone who cares 4 in Other - Society & Culture

i never thought i was anything but straight but i cant help getting turned on by girls!! does this mean im bi??

2006-11-25 10:45:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-11-25 10:45:50 · 16 answers · asked by STORMY K 3 in Mythology & Folklore

What I mean is: how can you tell who they are, how can you recognize them?

2006-11-25 10:45:11 · 4 answers · asked by Strange Design 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I have heard there is a new 'Lost' Gospel of Jesus Christ coming out next year...What are your thoughts on this?...Would you buy it and read it simply out of curiosity...I beleive it is called The Lost Gospel of Joseph of Aramethea...reactions please...

2006-11-25 10:44:43 · 15 answers · asked by odysseus96 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-25 10:44:39 · 7 answers · asked by scissor-girl 2 in Religion & Spirituality

God is the light of the heavens and the earth. His light is as if there were a lustrous niche, wherein is a lamp. The lamp is inside a glass-globe. The globe is, as it were, a glittering star. The lamp is lit from the oil of a blessed tree -an olive - neither of the East nor of the West, whose oil well-nigh would shine forth even though fire touched it not. Light upon light! God guides to His light whomsoever He pleases. And God sets forth parables for men, and God knows all things hidden.

2006-11-25 10:44:28 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i was browsing for news when i saw these fine women stretching.& couldnt help but watch them. :P
is this perverted? lol

o well. :P

2006-11-25 10:43:39 · 1 answers · asked by forest lover 2 in Other - Society & Culture

they became the parents, of Jesus?

2006-11-25 10:43:28 · 5 answers · asked by Kerilyn 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-25 10:43:03 · 11 answers · asked by STORMY K 3 in Mythology & Folklore

Powerful religious women seem to be a threat to the male-oriented religions. Why is this? Even in the "DaVinci Code," a work of pure fiction, one of the things that upset people was the idea that the Holy Grail was Mary Magdalene's womb. Why is the sacred feminine so scary to so many? Not just men--women seem to have just as much of an aversion to it.

2006-11-25 10:41:58 · 16 answers · asked by Bastet's kitten 6 in Religion & Spirituality

My friend joined an islamic group thinking that they were a good islamic group. come to find out, they are terrorists. they put him in a camp, and trained him to fight, he lost their money in a fight. 320,000 dollars, now he is a slave to them until he pays the money back. He needs help! He needs to get out of there alive. What can I do to help him???

2006-11-25 10:41:23 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-25 10:41:13 · 11 answers · asked by STORMY K 3 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-11-25 10:41:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-11-25 10:40:40 · 3 answers · asked by forest lover 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I was watching a show on The Discovery Channel about early, early man. They portray the humans as so savage and it doesn't seem accurate to me somehow. This is prehistoric man being discussed...

I feel they were a lot more intelligent and maybe even spritually evolved than we are today. We have so many distractions to keep us from being spiritual beings, where ancient man did not...

Then I thought of how the Bible is telling a completely different tale about the evolving of man...

I think we know very very little about our distant ancestors and scientists and religious scholars are just speculating when they make all these claims...

So does anyone have a theory about any of this? I'd like to hear it...

2006-11-25 10:39:41 · 10 answers · asked by a_delphic_oracle 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-25 10:39:26 · 4 answers · asked by jeremy5715150 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-11-25 10:39:22 · 13 answers · asked by bethybug 5 in Religion & Spirituality

my family and i`s religion is kinda neutral or we believe in evoultion not god. but one day on the internet i discovered the religion called wicca i think the ideals and beliefs all fit together and would like to become a wiccan but the religion also has to do with some witchcraft(yes it is a offical religion but the number of people in it are slim) i really want to show my parents what its all about but i think they would laugh at me because they don`t believe in magkic (i spelled it right) or witchcrat or the supernatural but i do. i once tried to tell my mom that i thought a ghost was real but she only replied in a sarcastic attitude.i feel like im lieng to them all nad want to tell them. but i really don`t want of be made fun of by the people that matter most to me.so i guess what i really want to know is it okay to believe in something different than your family`s beliefs without telling them?

2006-11-25 10:38:29 · 24 answers · asked by Heather 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I know that Heaven is actually nothing like we can imagine. God willing, our souls will reach heaven, but the experience of a soul is completely different from an experience of the body. We will not suffer from hunger for example. But what of the deliciousness of food? Will there be anything like the taste of a freshly grilled to perfection steak?

Give me your thoughts!

(Disclaimer: this is not a serious question. Please do not try to convince to give up my gluttonous way, or something similar).

2006-11-25 10:38:01 · 9 answers · asked by 99 ways to smile 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-25 10:37:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-25 10:37:44 · 6 answers · asked by STORMY K 3 in Mythology & Folklore

I remember hearing about a Saint you can say a novena prayer to and she leaves a rose to find as a sign that your prayer was heard, does anyone know what Saint this is?

2006-11-25 10:37:30 · 8 answers · asked by pumpkin2 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Well, they are kind of pretty... Pretty or handsome people are always homos....but they are attractive especially girls...

2006-11-25 10:37:25 · 16 answers · asked by ilshdw 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-11-25 10:36:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I just got back from the laundry mat. Theres three spaces in front of it. Three large spaces, so everyone has room to open their doors and get their baskets out.

Well, I had to pee (one of the hazzards of pregnancy) so we ran around the block to a chain store, and when we got back some lady in an SUV had double parked RIGHT infront of the door. She literally was some how taking up nearly all three spaces. There was barely enough room for a guy in a little neon to squish in on the right.

I think all people who drive giant land machines should be required to have "I dont give a crap about the world around me" Tattooed on their foreheads.

Does anyone else get sick of this kinda thing?

2006-11-25 10:36:20 · 4 answers · asked by amosunknown 7 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-11-25 10:35:45 · 17 answers · asked by fortyounce95 2 in Thanksgiving