Society & Culture - 8 June 2007

Two questions, really.
1. You are riding in a trolley. A mad philosopher has tied five people to the tracks ahead of you. You can flip a switch to move the trolley onto another set of tracks, but there is a single person tied to the tracks there. Flipping the switch will kill that single person, but not flipping the switch will allow five people to die. The trolley has no brakes.

2. Similar situation, but now you are on a trolley with no switch. Instead, there is a really fat guy there with you. You can either do nothing and let the trolley run over five people, or you can push the fat guy overboard and use his girth to stop the trolley. This will result in you killing someone, but you will save five lives.

Is this second scenario different from the first scenario? How so?

In a third scenario, you can stop the trolley to save five people only by crashing another trolley into it. Doing so will cause them both to fly off the tracks and kill a sleeping bystander. Okay?

2007-06-08 06:52:00 · 22 answers · asked by Minh 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-08 06:50:57 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

Allah was refering to the people of the book...Did the Jew's believe Christ was the Messiah? Was Allah wrong on both accounts?

2007-06-08 06:48:53 · 18 answers · asked by djmantx 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Have you grown up with many of your views of your parents?
Also what generation are your parents from? and do they practice a religion?
My parents are post World War-ll (Born in the early 30's)
Dad when alive was Greek Orthodox and parents ultra conservative..And you?

2007-06-08 06:48:44 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

u get in the bathtub and turn the water on and u get blasted with cold water from the shower because the person before u didnt cut the shower off!

2007-06-08 06:47:55 · 15 answers · asked by rjones 2 in Etiquette

so.. many christians say that no animals were carnivores before the flood. the fact that there was no vegetation left after the flood caused them to eat meat to survive. well, 2 questions:

1)wouldn't most of the animals have almost immediately gone extinct, considering that there were only 2 of each species, and the animals were all eating each other when they got off the ark?

2)what did the herbivores eat when they got off the boat? meat was the only source of food. how did they elvolve back into herbivores, and how long did it take?

2007-06-08 06:45:42 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-08 06:45:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

One would think that if this man basically speaks for god, then god will see to it that no one tries to kill him, right? Or at best, he will smite down anyone who tries?

And if not, and the pope was assassinated, that would be god's will, would it not? So no harm, no foul.

Therefore, bodyguards seem unnecessary.

(As I apparently have a new fan that's a Catholic, this one's for you, spanky... :)

2007-06-08 06:44:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-08 06:43:30 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

why do so many accounts deleted that question religion and spirituality?
Who reports it ?
what is the problem?
Thankfully for all of you and for my sanity, this will be my last question on this section, i find that a majority of you so called 'religious' people tend to be the one's who cannot take criticism!!

2007-06-08 06:41:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I need advice please?
Today the administrator said to my supervisor here are some temporary agency numbers in case you need them while i'm away for 3 weeks on holida/vacation and then she said to my supervisor "you might need them if Christine gets squashed by a bus tonight or decides she is leaving and doesn't work her notice" now why the heck would the administrator say something like that for about me?

2007-06-08 06:38:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Hallo,

Could someone please translate this for me?
Ευχαριστώ το Θεό που σε γνώρισα
Ευχαριστώ το Θεό που υπάρχεις
Ότι κι αν τύχει κι ο κόσμος όλος την πλάτη αν μου γυρίσει
κι η τύχη μου κι αυτή αν λακίσει
κι αλλού το γλέντι να 'χει αρχίσει
πάντα θα είσαι εσύ το πιο γλυκό μεθύσι.

Thank you for your help:)

2007-06-08 06:37:48 · 5 answers · asked by dmode90670 2 in Languages

i feel like an idiot..but does anyone know?

2007-06-08 06:36:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2007-06-08 06:36:08 · 48 answers · asked by crazygurl 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i want to know the jewel's name in arabic what do they call it in arabic

2007-06-08 06:35:57 · 2 answers · asked by Lady S 1 in Languages

2007-06-08 06:35:39 · 40 answers · asked by Stew 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-08 06:35:12 · 23 answers · asked by N E G R O P L E A S E 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-08 06:35:00 · 35 answers · asked by nspird 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I would wish for a billion dollars so I can move away from my parents and do whatever I want; I would wish for a potion to make my boyfriend younger so he lives longer;I would also wish for all the people that hated me to die; and I would wish for a guaranteed place in heaven.

2007-06-08 06:34:33 · 12 answers · asked by destiny 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-06-08 06:34:31 · 19 answers · asked by Quantrill 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-08 06:33:58 · 9 answers · asked by FEDERITO T 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Is my spiritual age if not in agreement very young or is there a possibility I might even be right!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-06-08 06:33:55 · 16 answers · asked by : 6 in Religion & Spirituality

When you offer to pay for dinner to be polite, but you don't really want them to take you up on the offer.

2007-06-08 06:33:29 · 12 answers · asked by Dave 2 in Etiquette

I do Taebo everyday and have good organs so I feel obligated to be a doner. Why waste them. Put them to good use.

2007-06-08 06:33:12 · 37 answers · asked by Lynnemarie 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Why or why not?

2007-06-08 06:32:58 · 16 answers · asked by Alex J 3 in Religion & Spirituality

The Bible was to be our spiritual guide until the return of the Lord....so where in it does it talk about.......

The Internet
Pornography
Drug Usage
Dinosaurs
Pedophillia vs. the age of consent

And I mean specificly those issues/things. After all the Bible discusses homosexuality - and that word was not even invented until 1892 but it manages to be used in the Bible. SO, these other really important things must be in there as well....

Unless - could the Bible just be a book written by man????

2007-06-08 06:32:03 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why or why not?

2007-06-08 06:30:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

What could it have been?! It moved too quickly for me to see it clearly, it was just out of the corner of my eye, but I got the DISTINCT bone-chilling impression that its attention was wholely focused on ME.

At the risk of sounding like you-know-who... what should I do?!

2007-06-08 06:30:20 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

for example: yahoo answers, yelp, myspace, facebook, friendster

azn, meetup french & chinese, american, nj, my town, my alma mater, my employer

just off the top of your head

2007-06-08 06:27:49 · 3 answers · asked by ♥perishedmemories♥ 4 in Other - Cultures & Groups

http://tv.yahoo.com/greys-anatomy/show/36657/news/urn:newsml:tv.ap.org:20070608:tv_grey_s_anatomy_washington__ER:14972

according to this, grey's anatomy star 'Burke' was fired after a comment denouncing gay rights, this is pathetic, it is called freedom of speech people!

2007-06-08 06:25:13 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality