Society & Culture - 29 November 2006

Our church is having a Christmas party and we're playing "Dirty Santa", so everyone has to bring a $10 gift. It isnt gender specific or anything. What's a good gift that anybody would like for $10 or less?

2006-11-29 07:43:54 · 6 answers · asked by packerswes4 5 in Christmas

I am a Catholic and am proud of my faith but I am disheartened when the Church is put down because of a few mistakes of Priests. Not all priests are like that. Catholic people like all other denominations make mistakes but we are all abused because of a few individuals.
Please dont blame us for their mistakes. We didn't tell them to do it!

2006-11-29 07:43:21 · 21 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-29 07:43:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-29 07:43:11 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i am against them . but i need some reasons why .. thanks.

2006-11-29 07:42:41 · 6 answers · asked by this isnt my name. 1 in Other - Society & Culture

like when they show ure boxers

2006-11-29 07:42:09 · 37 answers · asked by bambam 1 in Other - Society & Culture

My beloved and I talked about this yesterday, how diet and food can be made to take the place of controlling religion in basically secular peoples' lives. They feel "sinful" if they eat too much, "virtuous" if they don't. Foods are labeled "guilt-free" or "sinful." (We won't buy those just on principle.) They've been "bad" if they had a cookie too many. Etc., etc.

Does anyone else notice this?

Do you think some people just really need to be controlled, whether through religion or diet or something else?

Oh, and this article will make you think, too.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/11/22/cr_diets/print.html

2006-11-29 07:42:04 · 12 answers · asked by GreenEyedLilo 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Allowing openly Gay people to serve in the Church goes against what the bible teaches. ( 1Corinthians unrepentant sin )

Not casting out known pedophiles

Covering up incidents that might make the Church look bad

Fraud

I mean they make Christians look like a bunch of hypocrits in my opinion what about you?

2006-11-29 07:41:59 · 14 answers · asked by The Angry Stick Man 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Head, tail and flank.

Hmm?

2006-11-29 07:41:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Also if it was up to you what would be your way of freeing them and bringing these young girls some justice and where would we send them because obviously sending them back to their famalies is not an option becasue it was these famalies that sold them in the first place. Personally I'd love to find these F****ing B******* and just shoot every last one of them the men and women who run these sick places or bomb the F**** out of them.

2006-11-29 07:41:08 · 7 answers · asked by baddrose268 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

...who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you?

p.s. Thanks George Carlin for asking this question originally.

2006-11-29 07:40:10 · 21 answers · asked by Thomas V 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-29 07:39:35 · 25 answers · asked by Blackie66 2 in Etiquette

i think its kind of wired but some looked cute what u think

2006-11-29 07:38:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-11-29 07:38:41 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-11-29 07:38:38 · 14 answers · asked by greg woodpecker 1 in Religion & Spirituality

In the last question I asked many answerers suggested that god had more important things to do than to answer the prayers of Junior High students. So is the universe getting out of hand for god? Do we need to get a new one? Is a no confidence vote is in order?

I gotta tell you, I don’t think god is going to get very good marks on his next performance review.

2006-11-29 07:38:23 · 2 answers · asked by The Chaos Within 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I would like to chat and i cant find a good chatroom to go to please help!

2006-11-29 07:38:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I am confused about this. If a person is tired or depressed and doesn't wish to pray for some time, he gets "minus" points or "Thunub" from Allah. And this supposedly makes him closer to hell.

2006-11-29 07:36:55 · 18 answers · asked by Sashaz 1 in Religion & Spirituality

It is not fair. Until you call yourselves browns and yellows I refuse to call myself white
THIS IS RACISM

2006-11-29 07:36:40 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

i was like at the store and like i was talking to the really hot cashier

and he like guessed i dyed my hair

and the roots arent like coming out or anything

i just got it done a day before, and now its like brown, so like how did he like guess my hair color was like naturally blonde?

2006-11-29 07:36:26 · 5 answers · asked by Secondhand Rose 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I don't understand what # 4 "well gone" means. Please explain if you can. Thanks in advance!

"The Blessed One is:
a worthy one
perfectly self-enlightened
stays in perfect knowledge
4.well gone
unsurpassed knower of the world
unsurpassed leader of persons to be tamed
teacher of the Divine Gods and humans
the Enlightened One
the Blessed One or fortunate one.

2006-11-29 07:36:17 · 5 answers · asked by Winter Wisdom 2 in Religion & Spirituality

courtesy?

2006-11-29 07:36:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I'm just wondering............. LOL!

2006-11-29 07:35:31 · 8 answers · asked by nonya 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-11-29 07:35:24 · 21 answers · asked by Art 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Quran 52:24 SHAKIR: And round them shall go boys of theirs as if they were hidden pearls. http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/052.qmt.ht

The above Islamic website lists many translations of this aya. Whats facinating is that the translator Picthal also uses "hidden pearls" to describe the boys, but the third translator uses "pearls well-guarded"!

So we have two translators agreeing on one phrase, and another using a modifier that tries to take away the disgusting sexual connotation.

Does Yusef Ali's translation make any sense...because if it doesntm, then it shows that Yusef recognized the blantent pedophilia in the aya and tried to play "allah" here.

Shakir and Picthal's sentences, as disgusting as they are, make sense as a thought. They simply describe what the boys look like as the move around. Now insert Yusef Ali's translation. He says that they are moving "around" but as "well guarded pearls"! What the heck is that? How do you move as a well guarded pearl?

2006-11-29 07:35:17 · 4 answers · asked by Thoughtful Tristan 1 in Religion & Spirituality

My friend is moving in 3 weeks and I want to throw her a going away party with like 30+ people at the park. The park has picnic tables and a overhang. I'm not sure what we should do, were in high school, so no freezetag. But should we get a cake and chips? It's not really a celebration...

2006-11-29 07:35:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

We just bought a house so money is tight. What can I get him that he would really like???

He is a construction worker.

2006-11-29 07:35:05 · 11 answers · asked by DEBBY'S BABY 4 in Christmas

This is for you people that believe in god....jesus...

If Jesus died for you sins...

Now you all can't tell me you don't sin...

But what I want to know is that Lucifer the angel was sent down to hell because he gave humans free will .. Yet you all think he is ugly why?

2006-11-29 07:34:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

my girl friend and I plan on getting married and since we can go to the court house in San Fran and get a real cival marriage document thats where we want to go. But we dont want to get married in a court house we want a church wedding and we need to know which ones do since we are from Mo. thanks

2006-11-29 07:34:52 · 4 answers · asked by lydia2gay 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Why do so many people give their hard earned money to religion?

2006-11-29 07:34:21 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality