Society & Culture - 31 May 2007

what is easeyest to learn french german spanish or mandirin chinese, help

2007-05-31 23:57:30 · 7 answers · asked by peek a boo 2 in Languages

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2007-05-31 23:56:06 · 5 answers · asked by Kiss The Son 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-31 23:54:06 · 4 answers · asked by riona c 1 in Languages

2007-05-31 23:45:42 · 9 answers · asked by That Guy Drew 6 in Religion & Spirituality

If someone lived their life and adhered to all of God's rules, except they didn't believe in God (i.e. they only commited this one sin), they would go to Hell right?

Do you go straight to Heaven/Hell or is there a middle ground where you get judged?

Now i don't understand this what I mention above but I will explain for both possible outcomes...

(1) If this person goes straight to Hell (for commiting the sin of not believing in God) they will then think "Hey, it must be true about God because im in Hell". They now have NO sin because they believe in God therefore they are in Hell with no sin. Is this correct?

(2) If there is somewhere first before Hell where they get judged, they will think "Hey it must be true about God, I've been wrong all along", so then they would have NO sin, because they now believe in God...so they go to Heaven? If this scenario is true, then could a frequent sinner repent at this late stage and still get into Heaven?

Im confused

2007-05-31 23:42:40 · 10 answers · asked by zeppelin_roses 4 in Religion & Spirituality

And will you join me in wishing Lokasenna all the best as she has chosen the path of atheism?

2007-05-31 23:42:15 · 14 answers · asked by Kallan 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I wonder how well some of us would fare if we tried to communicate in some of our friends' native tongues? I often see unkind comments like 'learn to speak English then try again'. in answer to some questions.

2007-05-31 23:39:41 · 11 answers · asked by lou b 6 in Languages

Further research info at: "The Rise, Decline, and Death of Islam in Bible Prophecy": www.revelado.org/islam.htm

2007-05-31 23:38:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-31 23:38:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In what may be its most audacious Olympic act yet, China's Ministry of Public Security has issued an incredible directive that lists 43 categories of unwanteds who are to be investigated and barred from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Pariah groups include eerily vague "key individuals in ideological fields," "overseas hostile forces," "counter-revolutionary" figures, the Dalai Lama and all affiliates, members of "religious entities not sanctioned by the state" (e.g. Roman Catholics), "individuals who instigate discontentment toward the Chinese Communist Party through the Internet," and even certain types of "handicapped" persons.
Members of the Falun Gong would be barred, as would "family members of deceased persons" killed in "riots" -- a euphemism for events such as the Tiananmen Massacre -- and Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province, which the regime brands "national separatists."

2007-05-31 23:35:08 · 5 answers · asked by walawala 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I asked about Big-God yesterday, and was accused of basphemy for even mentioning that name. Oh well.

Creationists say that the universe is so complex, it has to be created. That implies that God is more complex than the universe and had to be created, thus God was created by Big-God.

Big-God is more complex than God, thus Big-God was created by UltraBig-God.

For arguments sake, let's stop here.

If UltraBig-God is obviously UltraOmnipotent, why didn't He create the Universe himself? "God spoke the Universe into existence", so it must have been quite easy. So laziness is not the reason.

So, why would UltraBig-God create Big-God, to make sure Big-God would create God, so that God could create the Universe?

("God was always there" is really not an answer, unless you're willing to admit, as I am, that you just don't know how Existence started)

2007-05-31 23:34:29 · 10 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Jesus mentions about the coming of a true and final messenger of Allah. This was written by the deciple Saint Barnabus

2007-05-31 23:33:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-31 23:27:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

The koran says Allah wanted Abraham to sacrifice his son ishmael on the alter of wood

The bible says god wanted Abraham to sacrifice issac

now what am i supposed to believe? since the bible predates the koran by centuries i believe the bible account to be true, because i have no doubt that islamic writers copied that story from the bible , changed the sacrifice to ishmael and wrote it.

How ever the question that i ask is this.

what sort of an Allah/God would tell parents to sacrifice their children?
even though the boys life was spared the thought of human or even animal sacrifice makes me angry

what sort of allah's and god's are these?

xmuslim turned free thinker

2007-05-31 23:26:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

David wrote: Psalm 26:1 Judge me, O Jehovah for I myself have walked in my own integrity, And in Jehovah I have trusted, that I may not wobble.
What does this mean to you individually?

2007-05-31 23:24:15 · 7 answers · asked by Sol is Real 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-31 23:20:32 · 33 answers · asked by pitel 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-31 23:18:24 · 16 answers · asked by Jadochop 6 in Religion & Spirituality

having read answers on here, Christians seem to justify fatal disease and natural disasters as God's way of keeping the population under control. Obviously God is looking out for us then...

So what is the global population now then, about 6 billion? And the Asia tsunami was God helping us lower the population by a number of thousand because it was a few thousand too many?

So why were there killer diseases and natural disasters when the global population was nowhere near 6 billion?

Like the great plague in the 1600's - did God think the population was too high then when it was a LOT smaller than it is now?

It just doesnt seem to add up

2007-05-31 23:16:54 · 17 answers · asked by zeppelin_roses 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-31 23:14:30 · 5 answers · asked by Spastikus 4 in Other - Society & Culture

which one is right?

1) La planète a été complètement couverte en peinture
2) La planète était complètement couverte en peinture

2007-05-31 23:14:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I've read of angels, giants, demons, witches, prophets, leviathan, and many odd creatures not apparent today. But are trolls like the platypus?

2007-05-31 23:08:00 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have commited a mortal sin and i dont know when i can go to confession.
I have prayed a rosary paryer for forgivness and a few more things.
I have said i wont do it and promised to god i will pray for this every night to forgive me.i also wont go to the holy communion as it will make it worse.
But if something happends to me and i dont end up going to confession and i "Die" because you dont know when it will happend to you could be in a second 5min,1month,10 years,50 years would i go straight to hell?
Or would i still be able to go to the place before you go to heaven the place where you suffer a bit for your sins?
Please answer properly and joking will be taken as abuse and reported.
Im a catholic.

2007-05-31 23:07:54 · 3 answers · asked by Dazzi 1 in Religion & Spirituality

what is the reason.

Here are reason I can think of ?

1. To Test Your Belief ?
Answer: There are so many way to test, and don't forget your God is Omniscience, need NO TEST, He already Know,

2. God has a Plan ?
Answer: Then where is the FREEWILL.

3. I don't know how God work.
Answer: You don't know how your God work, then keep quite and listen.

4. When there is something you can't explain, then God do it.
Answer: I think it's call Gap of God.

Any other answer ?

2007-05-31 23:05:57 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Bible quotes and other religious quotes will be understood as a "yes" answer.

2007-05-31 23:05:29 · 7 answers · asked by Demopublican 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Those children sound amazing....sooo angelic. I enjoy the video most of all and I would like to know who are the 10 children. Are they children of members of the orchestra or are they a choir of some sort? Christmas Canon is the most beautiful song I have ever heard. The person who gives me the most accurate and lengthy details or can direct me to a sight about this amazing choir gets 10 points!!! Thanks

2007-05-31 23:04:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

Many people learned in elementary school that a theory falls in the middle of a hierarchy of certainty--above a mere hypothesis but below a law. Scientists do not use the terms that way, however. According to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a scientific theory is "a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses." No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature. So when scientists talk about the theory of evolution--or the atomic theory or the theory of relativity, for that matter--they are not expressing reservations about its truth.
In addition to the theory of evolution, meaning the idea of descent with modification, one may also speak of the fact of evolution. The NAS defines a fact as "an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as 'true.'"

2007-05-31 22:53:03 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-31 22:52:42 · 18 answers · asked by kittana! 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-31 22:50:35 · 6 answers · asked by † H20andspirit 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-05-31 22:48:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Don't u just love the musical ringing of church bells??! Reminds me of weddings. I can hear them ringing right now.
PS - I'm not a Christian, in fact I'm a Muslim.

2007-05-31 22:44:17 · 14 answers · asked by ¸.•*´`*•.¸ ℓανєη∂єr ¸.•*´`*•.¸ 6 in Religion & Spirituality