Society & Culture - 17 December 2006

2006-12-17 10:45:35 · 6 answers · asked by semaver c 2 in Religion & Spirituality

how do you say "stop making me crazy" in arabic? Lebanese arabic if it's possible?

Thanx

2006-12-17 10:44:38 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I need to write a birthday greeting for someone who's turning 50. I've met the person (it's a man) once, he's a dentist and has almost no sense of humor. He's also pretty straight-edge, so nothing overtly friendly would do. Other than "Have a very happy birthday" I have no idea what to write.

Any suggestions?

2006-12-17 10:44:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

I will be 36 yrs old soon - I am African American/independent/I've been told I am a very attractive woman/Have my own "stuff"/no kids/good job.
Problem is that I worry sometimes that I will never marry; I am trying desperately not to panic! But it is hard as heck sometimes!!!!
I've done alittle online dating for the last 5 years - they've mainly all been jerks - I mean really disrespectful jerks!! I don't particularly want kids so that's not an issue. And don't get me started on how it feels to see some out of shape, poor, uneducated mother of TEN get married to prince charming! Just keepin it real!
What is so perplexing to me is that I hear people say all the time that it will happen when I "least expect it", but I don't know how to NOT expect it. The marriage rate for Blacks is terrible!! Statically, my chances would be better if I were white woman. I guess my question is - has anyone ever felt this way?

2006-12-17 10:44:28 · 9 answers · asked by Cutie girl 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

They say the proper amount is one months salary. Do you agree? If not, how much would you spend? (Please no sacarsim)

2006-12-17 10:44:18 · 9 answers · asked by Lisa L 3 in Etiquette

Other than blind faith and your copy of the bible, what evidence do you have that there is a God? Maybe you believe you will be judged in the after life, but what proff do you have? Maybe you believe the world was created by a bearded giant, but what proof do you have? Maybe you believe God had a son who walked on water, but what proof do you have? And in the absence of evidence, what separates God from Santa Clause or the Tooth Fairy? And don't give me this crap about there's no proof he does NOT exist, therefore he does exist. That's crazy. There's also no proof that monkeys write poetry when no one is around. My guess is that does't happen. So where is the proof of God?

2006-12-17 10:44:14 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-17 10:44:02 · 14 answers · asked by whynotaskdoodoo 1 in Religion & Spirituality

it's all white with people playing harps and lame music. i think my heaven would be more like a black metal concert and if heaven is all white cloudy and lame i think i would just rather go to hell because no pain is worst to me than harps and clouds and white floaty things.

what do you think

2006-12-17 10:44:00 · 4 answers · asked by Laughing Man 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-17 10:42:47 · 11 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-17 10:42:18 · 5 answers · asked by semaver c 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I always tip 2.00 for the pizza delivery and was just wondering what the norm is that you receive. :)

2006-12-17 10:41:30 · 13 answers · asked by lisha1979 2 in Etiquette

particularly American women I've noticed.......been to other countries and don't see it as a problem as compared to here.

2006-12-17 10:41:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

lives seem to be all messed up and have no hopes.

2006-12-17 10:40:12 · 7 answers · asked by Butterfly 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-17 10:39:24 · 27 answers · asked by stargate 2 in Christmas

you know, values of respect, including self-respect........people being decent towards others, actually caring more about someone else's welfare than your own in certain circumstances........This still does exist, but is it slowly disappearing before our eyes?

2006-12-17 10:38:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

If so, then how can people demand purely "empirical" reasons for religious belief? We have other faculties for knowing besides the rational intellect...

2006-12-17 10:38:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My mother is christian, I'm not, im actually wiccan but I can't tell my mom that. She's one of those strict/selfish christians who believes in what they say is right and that the parents have the right to beat thier child to make them better (though my mom happens to do it whenever shes mad and i happen to do anything she doesn't like) plainly put it my mother is a you know what, so much that I decided I was never going to be christian.
But I'm afraid to tell her this because she would go off and beat the crap out of me, now Im not sure if this is the right place to put it, but I need serious help, my mother is trying to get me baptised and doing things in church (urgh) k so yeah, any advice as to how I make it to my eighteenth birthday without killing myself?? Not to mention the fact that I'm bisexual and my mom threw out my book of shadows last week (im going to kill her for that i can assure you)

2006-12-17 10:38:17 · 10 answers · asked by millinea20 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-17 10:38:07 · 4 answers · asked by bloodshot_love 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm just curious how I would go about converting. There is a mormon church about 5 blocks away from my house. I've studied this religion for almost 7 years and I keep coming back to it. I believe in it and have had the wish to convert before.

2006-12-17 10:37:47 · 13 answers · asked by Meatwad 6 in Religion & Spirituality

In our everyday experience, just about everything seems to have a beginning. In fact, the laws of science show that even things which look the same through our lifetime, like the sun and other stars, are running down. The sun is using up its fuel at millions of tonnes each second—since, therefore, it cannot last forever, it had to have a beginning. The same can be shown to be true for the entire universe. So when Christians claim that the God of the Bible created the entire universe, some will ask what seems a logical question, namely ‘Where did God come from?’ The Bible makes it clear in many places that God is outside of time. He is eternal, with no beginning or end—He is infinite! He also knows all things, being infinitely intelligent.Is this logical? Can modern science allow for such a notion? And how could you recognize the evidence for an intelligent Creator?

2006-12-17 10:37:32 · 5 answers · asked by puertofrican 3 in Religion & Spirituality

In your opinion................

If I behaved in a Christian way, lived my life by the bibles teachings, behaved as a fully commited Christian and spread the word of God among others but in my heart and head did not believe for a second in the existance of God, where would I end up?

If I was a complete a s s my whole life, told people that God was a figment of their imaginations and that they were delusional for believeing in such nonsense, denied his existance to all who would listen but privately begged for forgiveness in prayer every night and truely believed in my heart and my head that he exisited, where would I end up?

Karma.
x

2006-12-17 10:37:25 · 8 answers · asked by angelkarmachic 4 in Religion & Spirituality

people on here are too uptight!!!...they want answers then when you disagree with them you get reported..LMAO and i still dont feel bad and my opinion has not changed....anybody else had to deal with this??

2006-12-17 10:37:11 · 9 answers · asked by × 7 in Other - Society & Culture

YOU MAY NOT POST CONTENT (or links to content, including photos):

2. that is violent, racist, incendiary, or otherwise objectionable.

we all know that christianity is the most violent religion of all time, so there's that, and telling everyone they're going to burn in hell tends to piss people off, and i'd call that incendiary.

2006-12-17 10:36:36 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I've been accosted on the street for the 7th time and can anyone anwser me why are most of them proof readers.proof readers are very violent people. Some psyc studies need to be done.I feel we are all in grave danger from these animals. Never look one in the eyes, and if possible cross the street to avoid them.good luck out there and God speed.

2006-12-17 10:36:25 · 2 answers · asked by steve b 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

There is a mistranslation of Isaiah's Hebrew for young woman (almah) It got translated into the Greek for virgin(parthenos).

Now 'almah' means young woman in hebrew, ha'almah means the young woman. 'Almah' does not mean virgin or does 'ha'almah' mean the virgin, neither mean virgin.

So why do Christians keep on believing Mary was a virgin when Jesus was conceived, when that's clearly not the case here?

Mary was a young woman when Jesus was conceived.

This does mess up the whole Mary was a virgin when she had Jesus story. Most Christians do know that there is a error in the translation.. So why do they keep insisting that Mary was a virgin when she had Jesus, even when they know that is not the case..

2006-12-17 10:36:09 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My family is Mexican-American, but I have always been pushed to do better at whatever it is that I do. Granted, my ancestors and family have been here for a long time, and are not immigrants. But why are so many young adult Mexican kids so unambitious? They have terrible work ethic, when I see them at retail stores; it seems they are always goofing off with their coworkers as opposed to tending to the customers. I mean, if their parents worked so damned hard to make a living for these little brats, shouldn't they at least show some appreciation by reaching for goals instead of dropping out of school and getting pregnant?

2006-12-17 10:35:41 · 6 answers · asked by Giancarlo M 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I'm not sure who out there believes that the Loch Ness Monster and BigFoot is real or not real. Though, I had to do a report on this subject...and there are sites that say there were more than over 100 sightings of the Loch Ness monster and BigFoot. (and other similar monsters.) Why is that? I don't believe that they are real, but how come so many people claimed to see the Loch Ness Monster or BigFoot? Even if they were real, wouldn't they be discovered by now?

2006-12-17 10:35:27 · 8 answers · asked by Kimmi 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-12-17 10:34:18 · 15 answers · asked by zubeyde 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I cannot accept and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill today because they got on my nerves Also, help me to be careful of the toes I tread on today as they may be connected to the feet I have to kiss tomorrow.
Help me to always give 100% at work...
12% on Monday
23% on Tuesday
40% on Wednesday
20% on Thursday
and 5% on Friday
and help me to remember.
When I'm having a really bad day and it seems that people are really trying to wind me up, it takes 42 muscles to frown, 28 to smile and only 4 to extend my arm and smack someone in the mouth!

Amen

2006-12-17 10:33:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If yes, then why do we ill treat them? Why don't we treat them like fellow human beings?

2006-12-17 10:33:04 · 10 answers · asked by suneetagy08 2 in Religion & Spirituality