Society & Culture - 28 December 2006

2006-12-28 04:10:39 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

Would you say there is equal probability for crystaline compounds forming in nature (quartz, diamond, etc.) and organic compounds forming in nature (Amino Acids, Lipids, etc.)?

We can and have observed the formation of crystaline compounds in controlled circumstances. We have even witnessed the creation of organic compounds in controlled circumstances. It doesn't take a big leap to posit that crystaline substances do occur in nature... in fact you can find evidence in any quary or mine. Similarly, it wouldn't be hard to imagine organic compounds forming through natural chemical processes.

With that said, it doesn't take a great leap of faith to know there is a good probability that organic compounds can form, unaided, in nature. There is then a great probability that this is how life itself got started.

Your thoughts?

2006-12-28 04:10:29 · 24 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Looking for things supernatural in nature. Like once when I was about 8 years old I had something invisible attack me and try and push me into a canal I was walking next to on my way from school. I was struggling with and running from something I could not see. My mom said it was a demon trying to kill me.

2006-12-28 04:10:14 · 17 answers · asked by Wordsmith 3 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-12-28 04:09:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Holidays

ok i am married to a man who is 28 years old i just turned 20 in sep. and i always say we even each other out, like this, he acts and looks more 19, and i act and look more 19 too, so we're great. he's kinda spunky, sometimes likes to be alone, a little of a dork, likes ps2 kinky stuff, romantic stuff, his birthday is feb. 20 and valentines if of coarse 14! o give me a big list of good gifts, maybe up to 200 dollars. i need good ideas! thanks. appreciate it. i will give a best answer to anyone who helps me out most.

2006-12-28 04:08:02 · 14 answers · asked by call_me_LaLa 6 in Valentine's Day

Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and hundreds of others, both on and off TV.

Why are there no female evangelist preachers? Aren't females smart enough to understand God as well as all these men do?

Or is it because evangelists believe that the bible is literally true and it says that women should be silent in the churches, and if they want to learn something, they should ask their husbands at home?

Just for any of you who might think that the bible does not say that, here it is:

"Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; they are to be submissive, as the law also says. And if they want to learn something, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in Church" 1Corinthians14:34-35

How do you females feel about this, that the Holy Bible says that if you want to learn something you're supposed to shut up and ask your husband at home?

2006-12-28 04:07:51 · 23 answers · asked by tychobrahe 3 in Religion & Spirituality

This has been thrown about way too much lately. How exactly can a field of biological study equal a religion? There's no belief system, there's no tradition, no rituals, no deities, nothing.

If this is your opinion, please explain how this so called evolutionism is a religion.

2006-12-28 04:07:44 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

There is a muslim girl in my school and nearly everybody hates her. They call her a terrorist and make fun of her and her religion.
She wears a scarf and she is really beautiful. She keeps herself to herself. When people say something to her she smirks and walks off. I dont think she has told anyone about it. Recently a girl pretended she was interested in her religion so she invited her over to her house. The girl got hold of her pic (without the scarf on) somehow and she and her friends got her head and stuck it on a naked womans body and publically humiliated her. Everyone was laughing at her and i could tell she was hurt. People call her ugly, dont know why because she is really pretty. I want to talk to her but i dont know what to say. What should i do? No rude comments please.

2006-12-28 04:07:35 · 4 answers · asked by Bored 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I believe it is Jan 7th this calender year

2006-12-28 04:06:53 · 4 answers · asked by Chris 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Why do people who get out of bed early in the morning get all the kudos and people who stay up late get all the scorn? A person who arrives at work early is percieved as harder working than the person who works late, when they are actually putting in the same hours. Even Benjamin Franklin subscribed to the adage, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." The truth is 16 hours awake and 8 hours sleep is the human cycle. Why does it matter what time you get up?

2006-12-28 04:06:52 · 11 answers · asked by salty 1 in Other - Society & Culture

not talking about those guys who hide under bridges and eat little children.

2006-12-28 04:05:15 · 11 answers · asked by icheeknows 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Who's the joker? hmmm?

2006-12-28 04:04:43 · 8 answers · asked by Mav here! 4 in Religion & Spirituality

A few months ago I met this really gorgeous guy, at the mall that I worked at I didn't make any kind of move because frankly that is not how I am, anyway he started flirting with me. So I started flirting back. Eventually I gave him employee discounts on items that he bought. Eventually I decided to stop giving him discounts to see if he was only flirting with me because of that, even when I stopped giving him discounts he still flirted with me. Anyway four months after meeting him the mall that I worked at caught fire and I was out of a job. Three weeks later while filing out a job application at another mall he showed up. We chat alittle bit about my last job and some other stuff. Then he said he had to go, I gave him my phone number and told him to keep in touch. Two weeks passed he never called. One day I saw him and I called out to him he turned around said hey and walked off. I haven't seen him since. Can anyone help me to understand why would he do that.

2006-12-28 04:03:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Those who do not exist within ever flowing give and take, fail to exist beyond.

Since dawn of our genesis the record of those that remain does not bode well, yet the dusk of these days of assessment descends.

Those, who relentlessly help, only themselves, and their own. While segregating, abusing, and destroying the rest, are not, cast again. All life is indeed part of an evolving stage and most of us have not played an essential role. Most of us do not exist or get along within a balancing interrelationship.

What we profess or preach or whom we claim to follow does not alone reflect worthiness, as even they would tell you. There is no plausible deniability beyond what is done. No matter how old, young, cool, connected, disadvantaged, disabled, alienated, affiliated, afflicted, accomplished, devout, patriotic, traditional, well off, lowly, lofty, frustrated, happy, or destitute. It is time to become commonly grounded because all narrow realms and structures collide and disintegrate.

2006-12-28 04:02:27 · 3 answers · asked by richardnattress 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I myself am a jehovahs witness and we are constantly getting ridiculed for going door to door and beliving wut we belive. We belive that jehovah is gods name and jesus is gods son. we dont celebrate holladays because they were made up by the pagans and the pagans didnt belive in god. Every coment we have or every statment we have when we go to your door is bible based information. We belive that someday we are going to be able to live in peace in harmony in a paradise earth under jehovahs laws and standards. We dont get baptised when we are born..we get baptized when we are ready to dedicate are lives to jehovah. Now let me ask you this. Do jehovahs wittnesess look like unhappy people? Is what we preach something that sounds false and dumb? Do we make sence when we talk about things in the world? How Many of you people hate us? and why do you hate us? Have you ever takin the chance to look into are religion? And those who are my religion......what do you have to say?

2006-12-28 04:01:52 · 26 answers · asked by peace love & lipgloss 2 in Religion & Spirituality

meaning make all theses things on what you do in the next new year do you ever keep them?

2006-12-28 04:01:36 · 5 answers · asked by clear morning 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-12-28 03:59:44 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

ok i am a christian and i see that so many people are blinded my material things that they can't see the most important thing their souls and i don't want you to be upset with me and im not trying to criticize any one or their beliefs because every one has a right to their own religion but i just want an answer to one of my questions why do young people listen to such bad music?

2006-12-28 03:59:24 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-28 03:58:38 · 18 answers · asked by whats up yaw 1 in Other - Society & Culture

We atheists have a lot to believe in. Nature and the workings of the universe. It is irrational to define all that in a humanistic form. Humans are a miniscule part of the universe and our demise would not change the universe at all. So why should we define a god by our terms?

2006-12-28 03:57:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-28 03:56:02 · 6 answers · asked by hottie_spaniard 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

MARY MOTHER OF THE LAMB OF GOD.

SO....MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB????

2006-12-28 03:56:00 · 6 answers · asked by DO YOU KNOW WHERE GARY IS? 3 in Religion & Spirituality

If Jesus is God and not just a man...

1) Why would he have to be conceived, and birthed? Why couldn't he just come down to Earth? And where was he before he was born? Because there's no mention of him anywhere.

2) How can God die? Why did he need the other God (the Father) to resurrect him? Couldn't he do that himself?

3) Why did Jesus perform his miracles by praying to God (the Father) and asking him to perform the miracle, instead of doing them himself?

4) Why were Jesus' miracles limited to the people in his vicinity, and not the entire Earth? Why did he pick and choose the small amount of people he helped, and then left everyone else on Earth to continue suffering?

5) Why would Jesus, who is God and therefore perfect, need to spend 40 days in the wilderness fasting and letting himself be tempted? Isn't he God, and perfect? Isn't it pointless to tempt perfection?

2006-12-28 03:55:53 · 18 answers · asked by Michael 5 in Religion & Spirituality

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmBLK8hE1Zlluv8.VuZXDbrzy6IX?qid=20061228084936AA54fut

referencing one of the answers...

2006-12-28 03:55:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What are your thoughts on it?

2006-12-28 03:54:03 · 27 answers · asked by April J 4 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-12-28 03:54:02 · 13 answers · asked by Randy S 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I have already signed the contract, but I went to a mental hospital this month and I can get a medical discharge. The job sounded cool at first but then I realized its a very dangerous job. Most truck drivers in the Army go to war areas to assist with guns, food, clothing etc. A lot of anti-americans enjoy blowing these types of trucks up. bastards.

2006-12-28 03:53:48 · 4 answers · asked by yanceyholmes 2 in Other - Society & Culture

This is a retooled version of an earlier question, I confess. a) I couldn' believe that none of the atheists that so enjoy mocking believers were fair enough to answer my original question b) I was trying something new technically. So! Why are you here? Why do you visit an area when you clearly have neither religion OR spirituality... an area that has nothing to do with you. You have the right, and I respect that right, to NOT believe in the existence of God and to live a totally secular life. It is equally our right to be believers in something greater than ourselves and to try to live our lives accordingly. This is a clearly an area that has absolutely nothing with you. Why do you insist on visiting this section and basically insulting us, addressing us as if we were either stupid, on crack or both? Does it empower you somehow? Do you feel better about your non-belief by belittle believers? Or is it simply jealousy because "faith is not the possession of all people"?

2006-12-28 03:53:42 · 6 answers · asked by Q&A Queen 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-28 03:53:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Holidays

Im feeling a lil down. So mush is going on, i can't even begin to explain. Will anyone be able to hear me out?

2006-12-28 03:52:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender