Society & Culture - 2 January 2007

2007-01-02 16:27:11 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Anyone has any idea how did the Chinese manage to switch from reading and writing traditional chinese to a whole new simplified chinese?

2007-01-02 16:26:47 · 5 answers · asked by cusp girl 2 in Languages

2007-01-02 16:26:44 · 10 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-02 16:26:31 · 8 answers · asked by regmor12 3 in Religion & Spirituality

according to your religions teachings?

2007-01-02 16:25:42 · 3 answers · asked by regmor12 3 in Religion & Spirituality

according to your religions teachings?

2007-01-02 16:25:07 · 14 answers · asked by regmor12 3 in Religion & Spirituality

are you looking for some comfortable answers? Do you question and carefully examine religious information or do you accept your religion blindly and reject other religions blindly?

2007-01-02 16:23:36 · 6 answers · asked by regmor12 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Respect cannot be a double standard

2007-01-02 16:23:14 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-02 16:23:06 · 14 answers · asked by Monica 2 in Languages

Well i read that god created man in his own image, but the very image of god that we recognize is of a being of pure energy and light, who is mysterious and all knowing with a streak of benevolence about him, this sure as heck doesn't sound like the mankind i know?

2007-01-02 16:22:36 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-02 16:20:48 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Than why are there not more races and skull shapes forming right now? What stopped this progress, supposing it happened at such a dramatic lightening fast time?
Do you think that if the races were 'evolving' into their present forms only over the last few thousand years of recorded history, that must have been a stunning thing for everyone to witness, RU following me?

now, how do you explain extreme physical characteristic differences in specific regions of the earth?

2007-01-02 16:19:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-02 16:19:51 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Okay, so I work in a small vintage clothing store in the Village and my pet peeve is when people walk in the store on the cell phone, walk either to the back of the store or a corner of the store and then spend a good twenty, thirty minutes or even an f*cking hour on their cell TALKING TO A PERSON WITHOUT ONCE GLANCING AT THE MERCHANDISE!!! Congrats, you've just downgraded me from stylist to "babysitter of the brat". Or here's another favorite; people who rough house the merchandise, ripping it down and throwing it around with no consideration for the antiquity of the object or the care the shopkeepers have put into arranging the display, and then when you tap them on the shoulder or say excuse me to get their attention, they either give you the hand or "sshhh" you so they can get back to their phone conversation!!! UUGGGH!!! Cell phone ettiquette is OUT OF CONTROL!!! So how do you throw these people out without feeling like the finger of wrath from the retail gods?

2007-01-02 16:19:51 · 12 answers · asked by klnichollsrn 2 in Etiquette

At home, work, or in your mind? Where?

2007-01-02 16:18:40 · 4 answers · asked by MAYA 5 in Other - Society & Culture

According to John 3:13, no one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.

2007-01-02 16:16:32 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Im looking to volunteer overseas. but all I can find or really expensive almost like trips...I just want to volunteer anywhere around the world.

2007-01-02 16:16:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Community Service

Gita says that each and every living entity in this earth are sons of God so all are relatedf as brother under the umbrella of our common father .

2007-01-02 16:14:53 · 12 answers · asked by amritanshu_20 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Is tummy poking illegal here?

If I poke somone in the tummy and they giggle and laugh, does that qualify as something horrible like sexual assault or some other heinous crime against helpless humans?

I truly enjoy poking soft human tummies, I think all of your humankind are cuddly, adorable, and beautiful. I wish to not stop if at all possible. What good are such soft tummies if you can't poke them?!

Am I in trouble for commencing the poking of innocent human tummies?

2007-01-02 16:14:34 · 10 answers · asked by Zeek 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-01-02 16:14:21 · 5 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Would you choose a place that is closer to family or that has more access to the things you like to do? Why?

2007-01-02 16:14:05 · 4 answers · asked by MountainChick 3 in Other - Society & Culture

I am truely interested. I know a little about the christian religion and basicly what they believe in, but would like to know about the Jewish, Muslim, Budist, and all of the other religions out there.
1. Who do you regard as God or the Almighty one or?
2. What are the basic rules for your religion?
3. What happens when you die?
4. Does your religion believe in a hell?
5. What makes your religion better than the others?

Again, I am seriously looking for differences in the religions or better yet similarities in the religions. Please no smart *** answers like "because my god is the best and the bible says so". I don't want to hear that and think that you have more of a brain than that, so please tell me in generalized terms, you don't have to re-write the bible or whatever book you regard as holy, I just want the basics.
Thanks

2007-01-02 16:14:00 · 7 answers · asked by Joel 3 in Religion & Spirituality

get in the Bible!

2007-01-02 16:13:11 · 9 answers · asked by pebwan 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I know at one time I didn't believe in GOD till I had a religious
expierence GOD told me some things I was doing right and
some things I was doing wrong, which I corrected. He knows
our tribulation.
There was a famous man in Isreal a few years ago, who
went to a meeting with his peers, comrads. A gun was pulled
out. He was shot in the chest and died. This scripture
points he will live again. "People will come and ask you,
how did you recieve those wounds in your chest?"
"You will answere. I recieved them in the house of my friends".

2007-01-02 16:13:10 · 9 answers · asked by CODY 2 in Religion & Spirituality

i want you to read this:

"Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men." If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?- St. Augustine

Okay, do you understand what it means?

2007-01-02 16:12:18 · 6 answers · asked by PandaMan 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Races took on distinct characteristics over tens of thousands of years depending on where they migrated to and what the weather was, and what characteristics genetically 'fit' into the environment stuck with the certain gene pools which stayed in the same region over thousands of years.
Now, how do you explain it? and don't you think extreme differences in physical characteristics didn't take very long to form? How does that make sense to you? That you don't see much difference between Aborigines and pale skin, white blond hair and light blue eyes?
How can they possibly think that those physical characteristics took shape in such a short period of time since no other races have been formed since?Is this yet another leap of faith?
And don't even dish out your bullcrap about 'there is no such thing as race' since everyone on earth can see the dramatic physical differences between certain groups as a whole (as meantioned above).Scientifically there are also different skull types.

2007-01-02 16:11:59 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I here under Jew Law you are Jewish if you mother is Jewish, but if your father Jewish and not your mother, than you are not Jewish.They are some people I know who father is Jewish but not they mother, who are proud of the they Jew heritage. It right or wrong say they are part Jewish.

2007-01-02 16:10:36 · 14 answers · asked by kimbrown34 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

One effective means for critiquing a belief system and/or its adherents is to point out significant contradictions between how believers behave and the ideals they espouse. These contradictions can suggest that they don't really believe what they say, that the ideals aren't taken seriously, that the system teaches worse things, etc. Atheists do this with religion frequently, but can religious theists do it with atheism? They try by presuming to say how "real" atheists would or would not behave. These arguments fail because atheism isn't a philosophy that compels any particular behavior. Who is a Real Atheist...

2007-01-02 16:09:27 · 15 answers · asked by KEDAR 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Why should one's inner convictions about the existence of "God" indicate that such a being exists outside of the believer's own mind? if we can rely on subjective "intuitions" about god, why can't we rely on subjective intuitions about other theories?
& if we did do it it that way, then where would that take us? Back to the dark ages now wouldn't it?

2007-01-02 16:09:16 · 7 answers · asked by *~SoL~ * Pashaa del Ñuñcaa. 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-02 16:08:08 · 16 answers · asked by Monica 2 in Religion & Spirituality