Society & Culture - 31 January 2007

what do you think is doing a good job for God, should he be a millionare?

2007-01-31 17:38:04 · 5 answers · asked by MADLYNN 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I am a secondary school student of East-Asian descent studying in New Zealand. Recently, one of my teachers at school degraded my country in front of the whole class and kept on talking about my country as well as all other East- Asian countries for nearly about 15 minutes. She is an English teacher of European descent.

She said that international students are naughty and immature.
She went on to say that asian countries are really stupid as they keep sending international students for language-acquiring purpose. She even dared to point out my typical origin and claimed people from my country are dumb people.

As she said these shocking things, my class-mates mostly whites
glimpsed at me to see whether I'm getting red or angry and started laughing.

I was totally shocked, and I couldn't say anything until the class finished. I thought New Zealand was a pretty safe place with tolerance to other cultures, but this experience made me rewrite my incorrect view. Are europeans racis

2007-01-31 17:37:36 · 8 answers · asked by degenerativeye 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

In the process of seeing things from a different perspective and very grateful to even be considered worthy enough to be given a chance to learn from my recent experinces.....

2007-01-31 17:36:14 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-31 17:35:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-31 17:35:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

they are so threatened by other religions i dont see why they can't accept that other people have different beliefs

2007-01-31 17:35:06 · 31 answers · asked by asphyxia 3 in Religion & Spirituality

The ones who send the e-mail asking for help to transfer $25MM out of Ethiopia and splitting the profits or the schmucks who take them up on the offer (and then get taken)?

I argue that this is simply a modern day example of the Darwinian Theory. After all, if you are willing to illegally help to transfer money out of some poor African country, you deserve to be robbed, not for being greedy, but for being dumb? What do you folks think...am I being too harsh?

And BTW, who are these people who respond to the e-mails and how can I get some of their money??

2007-01-31 17:33:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

i am a man and i think thay are better leaders , my boss is femail

2007-01-31 17:31:20 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I am wondering about a specific word and its various forms. In English the word is "stone" in the noun form and "stony" in the adjective form.

Auf deutsch, the noun form of the word is Stein, correct? Then, the adjective would be steinern (lowercase), correct? If I used the adjective in a sentence with the word "mit" (with), that would change the tense of the sentence to dative, where words have an "-m" suffix, correct? Does that mean that the dative version of the adjective is "steinernem" or "steinerm" or does it still stay as "steinern" even if the phrase is dative.

Here is an example of the phrase: With a stony face, ...
Auf deutsch: Mit steinernem Antlitz ...
Basically I think that the word steinernem is correct but I am not sure.

2007-01-31 17:31:14 · 3 answers · asked by ScotOS 2 in Languages

Did Muhammad cominucate with beings that could have been demons? Did other prophets also talk with demons? Why are they in no other scriptures and why not seen by all of the prophets? When did God created these beings? What is their purpose?

2007-01-31 17:30:49 · 12 answers · asked by djmantx 7 in Religion & Spirituality

This week in Vancouver BC Canada a couple had sextuplets. They were premature. Two of them died. In order to save the rest they need blood transfusion. However, the parents are JWs and it's against their religion to have blood transfusion. So they have to risk the lives of their babies to go without.

The government has apprehended the babies and have given blood transfusion to one of the babies. The parents are suing, thus getting their four babies back.

Who do you think is in the wrong here? Is it the government, for trying to save the babies' lives? Or the parents?

2007-01-31 17:29:09 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

my boyfriend and i has been together for almost 1 year (feb.17 anniversary) and i wont to get him something but have no ideas. if you have any feel free to leave your ideas ..... thanks!!!

2007-01-31 17:24:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Valentine's Day

2007-01-31 17:23:31 · 17 answers · asked by ◄Hercules► 6 in Religion & Spirituality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajiralongkorn,_Crown_Prince_of_Thailand

2007-01-31 17:23:01 · 8 answers · asked by thepaxilman 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-31 17:21:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

BOSTON - Several illuminated electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon. Most if not all of the devices depict a character giving the finger.

2007-01-31 17:21:05 · 3 answers · asked by Sebastian 1 in Languages

I most definetly and certainly do not believe it. But, I must ask, why do they call it the Da Vinci Code?

2007-01-31 17:19:36 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I asked this question before under another categorie and I think I'll confirm my suspicians here.
I just finished watching the movie Carrie on a cable movie channel. Now if you've never seen this movie, it shows several people in a high school being killed in rather gruesome ways as the gymnasium burns. It shows Carrie’s mother hanging by knives stuck in her hands and shows seven knives in total sticking out of the woman after Carrie supposedly killed her. It shows a couple of people rolling in a fiery death of a car crash. It shows John Travolta supposedly beating a pig to death.
It showed all of these people being killed but they cut out Carrie's nude scene when she washes the blood off.
What kind of country is it that will show people being burned and stabbed and wrecked and buried and crushed, but cuts out a very placid scene with a naked human body? Are American values overly screwed up when we see this happen? Are religious values responsible for these warped morals?

2007-01-31 17:18:28 · 16 answers · asked by Author Unknown 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I am talking like a robot, I am typing like a robot, Why do I keep asking the same question over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?

2007-01-31 17:16:28 · 15 answers · asked by Thus Spoke the Night Spirit 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Would you consider yourself a modern hippie?

2007-01-31 17:16:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

does the church consider this sacriledge?

2007-01-31 17:13:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-01-31 17:12:14 · 9 answers · asked by X 1 in Religion & Spirituality

New ones

2007-01-31 17:11:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

your calling

2007-01-31 17:11:02 · 18 answers · asked by hotmommadru 5 in Religion & Spirituality

helped you learn anything or gain any new insight.?

2007-01-31 17:10:09 · 4 answers · asked by MADLYNN 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-01-31 17:09:44 · 13 answers · asked by X 1 in Religion & Spirituality

When you pray for someone, is it because you feel that your god is more likely to help someone if more people pray for her or him? Do you worry that god will not help someone if she or he is not prayed for? If not, then what is the purpose in praying for someone?

2007-01-31 17:09:16 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

(Assuming such a thing existed...)

If looked at like a job opening, would you or would you not truly be their ideal candidate?

And if only so many people can get in...what if you just are not that top percentile, what if they don't want you?

2007-01-31 17:08:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

ie humanity is to serve people save life . it is the message send to us as he gave us birth as human. humanity is like karam yog.then why people opt the bhakti yog ie to please God. does God wants that or he sent us for doing his praise. or gyan yog why do you want to know about the God when he sent you as a human. like in a company if you are working as a enginner so your job is to solve technical problems they why do you want to utilize your time in praising the CEO of the firm (bhakti yog),knowing the history geography and science of CEO(Gyan YOG) .in the same way Why people opt these yogs(Bhakti,Gyan) for achieving the God. does the human being is being born to know God or enlightenment or bhagwatprapti,or moksha or free from the wordly desire

2007-01-31 17:08:33 · 7 answers · asked by KrishanRam(Jitendra k) 3 in Religion & Spirituality

the function of modals?

2007-01-31 17:08:26 · 1 answers · asked by xiamae 1 in Languages