Society & Culture - 7 January 2007

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im really half filipino & half german/irish.
but other people think i look middle eastern , a big-eyed asian , a european , chinese , korean , etc.

what do YOU think i look like ? i want other peoples opinions.

2007-01-07 17:19:13 · 36 answers · asked by nobody 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

She's 28 and I do do like her so much. However, it is the most awkward thing to ask. Pop some suggestions please on how to ask someone in a nice way.

2007-01-07 17:18:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

How dare he insult the Emerald Isle.

2007-01-07 17:18:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

People who speak of "hell" associate it with divine punishment, but punishment is usually used as a corrective measure. How do people suffering in an eternal hell learn their lesson? Doesn't that make hell mere torture with absolutely no point to it?

2007-01-07 17:18:11 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-07 17:18:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I am an agnostic. Some Christians say that I will go to hell for not accepting their religion.

So what? Let's assume that it's all true and there is God who sends the nonbelievers to hell:

I do not care about myself. I do not care about the welfare of my own soul. I only care about other people and their wellbeing.

I must remain rational at all times in order to ensure their wellbeing. This is my principle. I am willing to spend an eternity burning in hell just to uphold this principle.

I cannot be scared. Why should I care? Why do I need to cry "Aba father" when I'm doing the work anyway?

2007-01-07 17:17:38 · 7 answers · asked by Zeek 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Many people say that they were once a Christian, but are now atheist, agnostic, or otherwise.
But if we look at some BIBLICAL qualifications of being a TRUE Christian, we find that this CANNOT be the case. For example:
A GENUINE Christian is indwelled permanently by the Holy Spirit.

Jhn 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

Unless a person receives the Holy spirit, they are NOT a Christian.
This is not my OPINION, this is what the Bible says.

2007-01-07 17:17:29 · 26 answers · asked by revulayshun 6 in Religion & Spirituality

i have heard when the dead in Christ rise first they will come out of the graves with their spirit who is in Heaven already and join onto their new bodies and will go around preaching to people for 40 days, and we who are still alive at time will be changed in the twinkling of an eye before being caught up in the air and I heard that the glorious bodies that have been changed, will be going around and warning people about not getting the mark of the beast for 40 days. Jesus was on this earth for 40 days before he ascended into Heaven. Jesus has told many people that we will be going around for 40 days witnessing just as Jesus spent 40 days witnessing before we are taken up to Heaven to the banquet while the tribulation is going on on the earth. Christians what do you think of that? I believe it.

2007-01-07 17:15:57 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why does the man automaticly have to be the CEO?

This is in response to my last question, in which more than one person said something similar to "Can there be two CEOs of a company or two Presidents of a country? No, one will be in charge and one will be second in command," implying that this is also the way it should be in a marriage. Now I don't agree with this (I know of plenty of companies run by partners), but for the sake of arguement, if we were going to assume this was true, why is the man automaticly the one in charge? Why can't the woman take the head?

Please explain.

2007-01-07 17:15:36 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-07 17:15:25 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I made a statement about a theory being a belief and here's the response I got:

From: Michael

Subject: Scientific Theory

Message: If you're 22 and you think a scientific theory is just a 'belief', then you must have failed high school science class.

A scientific theory is not a degree of truth on some truth scale where a fact counts for more.

A scientific theory is merely a collection of scientific facts in an attempt to explain them. Let me restate: a scientific theory is a framework explanation for observed scientific facts.

Besides, gravity is just a scientific theory. So is atomic theory, cell theory, plate-tectonics, heliocentrism, elliptical orbits, etc...

Please, educate yourself before making a fool of yourself.

2007-01-07 17:14:50 · 13 answers · asked by Gray 6 in Other - Society & Culture

Did it drive you nuts or did you get along?

2007-01-07 17:14:20 · 21 answers · asked by Pilgrim 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm talking in scriptual terms here, when the scriptures refer to a little 's' spirit, what exactly is 'our' spirit. I have an idea, but just trying to broaden my perspective.

2007-01-07 17:14:04 · 7 answers · asked by spefio 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-07 17:13:58 · 16 answers · asked by Sam 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

A non christian child took birth & died after few days.Will his soul go to hell or heaven?

2007-01-07 17:13:38 · 15 answers · asked by rajesh bhowmick 2 in Religion & Spirituality

get all turned on by pictures of adolf hitler
or heaps of bodies

2007-01-07 17:12:52 · 27 answers · asked by high 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-01-07 17:12:45 · 31 answers · asked by harini p 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

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Backwardation was mostly the norm for the terms structure of prices with liquidity being concentrated at the *front* of the market.

2007-01-07 17:12:39 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2007-01-07 17:11:42 · 11 answers · asked by nighthawk 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Do you feel Y!A has been a good medium to dispel stereotypes of your beliefs or lack of beliefs?

Has anyone here has his/her views changed for the better because of something he/she read on Y!A?

2007-01-07 17:11:42 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-07 17:11:15 · 9 answers · asked by Girish G 1 in Etiquette

And if He is rich because He is so smart, why is it wrong for a televangelist like John Hagee to be well off?? He has 2 Phd's and has to pay for airtime in 96 nations.

Only 3 of those nations are profitable; USA, Bermuda and Canada.

Why is an evangelist "telling people what they want to hear for cash " and Dawkins "writing what people want to hear for cash" different?

Hagee bases his sermons on today's facts, current events, his expertise in abnormal psychology and theology...and the Bible. So please don't say because one is fact and the other is fiction.

Not to mention he is the head spokesperson for Christianity of Migdahl Ohr, a charity that brings abandoned poor Jewish kids out of Russia into Israel and gives them a home. Why is this so offensive to people, yet they have no problem giving their money to McDonalds, Paris Hilton and Richard Dawkins?

Lets have some good strong opinions! Have Fun!

Blessings,
David T

2007-01-07 17:11:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-07 17:10:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I was just flipping through the channels and I came across this show with some evangelist named Jack Van Impe. He was talking about all the good news in the media (like AIDS, threat of nuclear weapons, threat of avian flu). This (according to the show) is all good news because after these things kill all the non-believers all the believers will inherit the earth and live here forever. How sick is that? The implications are of course that all these terrible things are somehow part of God's master plan (he's so much smarter than us that we are just unable to see that all this suffering and death is really just because he loves us humans so darned much) and that we should not be putting any effort into curing these diseases, or using diplomacy to stop nuclear proliferation. That would just be prolonging those good times that start right after "the end" and why would we want to do that?

So did being religious make him crazy or did being crazy make him religious?

2007-01-07 17:09:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm one of those people who helps others with problems like this, and I even used to inhabit the GLBT section of this site a lot more, but now I have a dilema of my own. One of my best friends just outed himself to me today and I was the very first person he confided in. It's not a stage, he knows that, but he isn't going to tell anyone until we go to college (we're both Juniors, right now) because his parents are CRAZY fundamental Christians who would never let him out of the house again if they found out. So basically, he's going to tell me and maybe when he's ready he will tell a couple other people. Why didn't I see it before if I know so much? Well, I did, but he insisted so much that he wasn't (because other people accused him of it) that I got over the suspicion fast and it was just one of those things that we laughed about. We got mad because people assumed too much, but really I was blind. How am I supposed to help him with a family life like that? How will he be happy?

2007-01-07 17:09:22 · 14 answers · asked by The Lady of Shallot 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-01-07 17:09:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

First of all, why are you even in this section if you hate gays? You must love SOMETHING about us to want to be in our section. And you really are giving yourselves away with all your hate-spouting BS. Everyone knows that homophobes are the biggest closet cases, and that's a fact.

2007-01-07 17:08:14 · 10 answers · asked by Autumn 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

A guy I know, has been known to ask about me or just ask even if others know me. He makes it a point to be in my business one way or another, and the crazy thing is that I like it. i have developed a fantasy of him and I having sex. Why is this, if I know he a jerk and I dont like jerks, why do I have such strong chemistry. I do things to try to impress him or drive by his house. Why am I doing this?

2007-01-07 17:08:14 · 3 answers · asked by Miss Green 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-01-07 17:07:50 · 9 answers · asked by X 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Wiccan god

2007-01-07 17:07:03 · 13 answers · asked by kewlkat85207 1 in Religion & Spirituality