Society & Culture - 2 December 2006

My grandma keeps callling a friend of mine a german candle, what doe that mean? he isnt german =/

2006-12-02 18:43:28 · 1 answers · asked by killerkitty557 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

brief

2006-12-02 18:43:19 · 2 answers · asked by Anthony F 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I have learned that when I pray for something that when there is a specific prayer or need is answered to write down the day the prayer was answered. What are some ways prayer has changed your life?

2006-12-02 18:42:54 · 7 answers · asked by Gurilie 1 in Religion & Spirituality

my point is that most of those with accents dont speak english as their first language and can usually speak more than one other language other than english.
a compex language at that!
one has to be smart to do that!

most americans speak english only and its not the correct english taught and spoken in the u.k., but some kind of offshoot of the language.
i mean no offense its just puzzling

2006-12-02 18:42:42 · 12 answers · asked by tess 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I need to send out 300 cards and it is so expensive to buy them in small packs from drug/dept. stores. Where can I buy cool cards in larger quantities that don't look like they cam from an insurance company?

2006-12-02 18:42:02 · 5 answers · asked by jaybaxter2006 1 in Christmas

Ok I really need your help on this one. My wife is from Africa and I from the states. This is the deal Myself and my wife also her sister live together in the same home. Example when we are all in the same room together watching the news, movie, or sometimes just sitting around well you get the point, they speak there native language back and forth between them about the above. But the kicker english is there second language, also the speak it well. Engilsh they learn when they are in the 1st grade all the way thru there education. My point... I told my wife how I feel on this matter but there is no change I think they are being rude. Please tell me how you feel about this. Thank you for your time.


James

2006-12-02 18:41:19 · 8 answers · asked by bmw740 1 in Etiquette

2006-12-02 18:41:17 · 3 answers · asked by Sadanand S 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Acts 15:28, 29: “The holy spirit and we ourselves [the governing body of the Christian congregation] have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled [or, killed without draining their blood] and from fornication. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!” (There the eating of blood is equated with idolatry and fornication, things that we should not want to engage in....since this is as serious as fornication.

2006-12-02 18:40:48 · 9 answers · asked by Emma 3 in Religion & Spirituality

is that some kind of hate organization like the nazi symbol or something?

2006-12-02 18:39:25 · 11 answers · asked by rbeletskiy 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I was just curious by the fact that the Hongkies like to be called by their English names. It definitely makes it easier for everyone, especially the English-speaking ones, to remember their names. But I feel this is just so Un-Chinese or whatever you might call it. I think they should just stick with whatever names given by their parents. Also, there's a growing trend of Hongkies who give themselves some silly names that do not even bear any meanings, ie: Pepsi,Fish. Please help me to understand the underlying factors behind what could be known as a voluntary "self-westernisation" of the Chinese that some Hongkies might not even realise the consequences of having done so. More pathetic, the Western-born Chinese have always been the ones that are heavily sought after in their entertainment industry. Arent the Hongkies should be proud of who they are? It doesnt change the fact that they are Chinese even if they deliberately pick up an English name.

2006-12-02 18:37:24 · 3 answers · asked by bchin33 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Come on i know ur all likely to say you love or like your children equally, come on b honest you do have a favourite? do have a child you don't nesscarily love more than other children, like more than your other kids? and when your kids ask you, ' mum/dad who's your favourite, do you lie? and say you like them all equally or tell them the truth.

2006-12-02 18:36:16 · 10 answers · asked by Blackout 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Who collected the passages of the bible and when? Who wrote individual parts and when? Why were some books excluded? Why was there no primary source of Jesus in the bible? Please cite your sources and for the love of god don't cite the bible.

2006-12-02 18:35:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-02 18:35:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2006-12-02 18:34:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2006-12-02 18:33:57 · 23 answers · asked by chuck 3 in Religion & Spirituality

God created the Earth 6,000 years ago. About 4,400 years ago, Noah's Flood destroyed all life except that on the ark. Prior to the Flood, the world had a much milder climate. Up in the Antartic, scientist have found Wooley Mastedons that have been frozen in the ice. These animals are fully intact, with fur, and they're standing upright. They were killed so fast, that some are found to still have food in their mouth that they were eating. What confuses scientist, that up in the Antartic, what was found in their mouths was tropical plants.

Can anyone explain two things for me? 1) How was there tropical plants in the Antartic? 2) How were these animals killed so quickly unless it was a catostrophic disaster, like the Flood?

2006-12-02 18:33:50 · 10 answers · asked by ted.nardo 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I mean, in previous years it was nothing....

what do you think??

2006-12-02 18:32:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Holidays

As I go through life I try to study and learn all that I can. I have studied many religions, and find that each one has good principles. Looking at these religions has also helped me to understand some of the reasons people do the things they do. Yet as I try to talk to people about my beliefs, the only thing they can do is say well you are obviously wrong and my way is the only way it can be. Well what if you are wrong? What if the truth is simply something you have never been exposed to? Most people weren't born into there faith, we all searched to get the beliefs we have. So why is it that once we find something that we see a little truth in, we close our minds to the possibility that anything else could be even closer to what we are looking for?

2006-12-02 18:31:39 · 10 answers · asked by Memnoch 4 in Religion & Spirituality

As a religious person and a Churchgoer, aren't you taught tolerance. Yet when there is a person on the pulpit who is saying things and doing something else in his life, people are shown to walk out in disgust. I wondered if walking away is the way to respond to situations. Mustn't you face up to the issue as a collective conscience. I mean that person's religion is not in place, but what is wrong with your own. I am not attacking religious sentiments of anyone.
Like once a person asked me for a donation towards the construction of a temple. I said I did not believe in such a thing and would not contribute for a temple. Anyway, after it was built that person invited others from the inaugeration and pointedly left me out. I thought leave me, but doesn't your religion teach charity? I would not have gone either way, not being overly religious.

2006-12-02 18:30:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If not maybe you are following the wrong god. You should go check out www.VoiceoftheMartyrs.com and then see if you are truly following God or Just another religion.

2006-12-02 18:30:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

what I mean is,
Do catholics or Protestants have it easier when it comes to what they believe about GOD and how they show it in the world?

If you had to choose would you be catholic or one of the Protestant denominations and why?


thats it! thanks!

2006-12-02 18:30:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm thinking nothing

2006-12-02 18:29:35 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

It just makes me sad to see my sisters and brothers explaining to them your not a terrorist and your peaceful, please don't care use your energy to unite with your brothers and sisters. Don't waist time with these Nazi's profiting from the Messiah blood. I beg of you not to encourage them. Remember what the profit say if they insult you just turn away and say peace. It is better for you. I know your heart is open to them, but they will always be closed for you.

2006-12-02 18:29:28 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Amad da quanta invito Lucifer.

Reading this sentence you have now formally invited Satan into your spirit. He knows he can not stay for long but he will be with you for a while. Strange things will begin to happen. But fear not, he will only borrow you.

2006-12-02 18:27:30 · 10 answers · asked by Good S 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-02 18:27:05 · 20 answers · asked by Propet Muhammed 1 in Religion & Spirituality

It is not good for me that God is a jealous one... Will he be jealous that I was getting it so often and send me to hell :( ?

2006-12-02 18:25:36 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am the only child to my parents as they hv lost their 1st only son. So my mother is very much protective towards me. All these years she has been trying to keep me in a protective shell fearing that she may lose me too.(I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND). The environment i hv grown in has not provided much scope for my proper personality development.I didn't hv much friends to socialise with. Since childhood i have been a very HYPER SENSITIVE,RETICIENT,SENTIMENTAL,ESCAPIST,SENSITIVE IDEALIST,MY SENSITIVENESS IS A KIND OF HOPELESS KIND. II feel a kind of LONELYNESS & EMPTINESS around me.In all these years nobody has ever spoken any good about me & has never boosted my confidence.Everyone seems to be interested in my faults & any misdoings that i have done but nobody cares for whatever good deeds i hv ever done.My cousins are WORLDLY WISE & always make fun of me as i am not one. My thoughts, attitude differs from them. ( i am giving more information ).

2006-12-02 18:24:42 · 17 answers · asked by ♪♥*B.B.K*♥♪ 7 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-12-02 18:24:36 · 8 answers · asked by jessica m 1 in Community Service

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2006-12-02 18:24:27 · 3 answers · asked by ? 3 in Religion & Spirituality

There are literally thousands of religions being practiced today. Here are 20 of the most popular, along with an estimate of the number of followers:

Christianity: 2.1 billion
Islam: 1.3 billion
Hinduism: 900 million
Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
Buddhism: 376 million
African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
Sikhism: 23 million
Juche: 19 million
Spiritism: 15 million
Judaism: 14 million
Baha'i: 7 million
Jainism: 4.2 million
Shinto: 4 million
Cao Dai: 4 million
Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
Tenrikyo: 2 million
Neo-Paganism: 1 million
Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
Scientology: 500 thousand
[Source: Encyclopedia Britannica]

If you believe in God, you have chosen to reject Allah, Vishnu, Budda, Waheguru and all of the thousands of other gods that other people worship today. It is quite likely that you rejected these other gods without ever looking into their religions or reading their books.

2006-12-02 18:23:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality