Society & Culture - 15 June 2007

I seem to be unable to give people condolences when a loved
one dies when they are only an acquaintance. For example,
one of the nurses on my job recently lost her son in a car
accident. This happened about a month ago. When I saw her
today I said nothing in regards to it. My thinking is that when
people are trying to get through grief they don't need to be
constantly reminded about the loss of a loved one.
Am I wrong in this? How would you like to be treated by
coworkers or if you were in that situation?

2007-06-15 04:59:23 · 10 answers · asked by Standing Stone 6 in Etiquette

If humans evolved from monkeys why are there still monkeys?

Atheists, why are you even here?

Isn't it better to believe, just in case?

2007-06-15 04:57:59 · 27 answers · asked by Murazor 6 in Religion & Spirituality

?

2007-06-15 04:57:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How strong are your convictions? Someone had a gun to your head and told you to deny your beliefs. Christians-deny the existence of God. Atheists-Admit that God exists and recite a prayer yo him. Will you die for your belifs, or go against what you believe to save your skin?

2007-06-15 04:57:14 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

IS THE TIP CINCLUDED IN EUROPE

2007-06-15 04:52:55 · 3 answers · asked by Scott R 1 in Etiquette

When the girls are all dressed in full Burkas, do I give them the 'eye'?

2007-06-15 04:52:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

how does it feel being an albino. why can I see all your veins all green and blue and red?

http://www.noi.org/

2007-06-15 04:51:55 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

The sperm donors don't deserve a day. It's a joke.

2007-06-15 04:51:22 · 3 answers · asked by Wilhelmina 3 in Other - Society & Culture

i read the passages and i do not see why people claim that the city was destroyed because the men there were gay! i read the passages over and over again, it doe say that the people there are evil but there are so many kinds of evil! and also Lot offered his own daugthers to the men to abuse....like my question is evil doesnt ryhm with gay, why do people say that the city was full of gays?? i am very confused. is it because the men said "so we can know them"? is that the part saying that they are gay??? i do not get it.

2007-06-15 04:51:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-15 04:50:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Or were you born into it?

2007-06-15 04:50:15 · 25 answers · asked by pola 3 in Religion & Spirituality

you have ever heard from soemone trying to explain a religious idea/scripture/belief??

I'm a big fan of the classic "scientists are driven by satan to plant false evidence"

2007-06-15 04:49:12 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

We pull up to stop lights and guys are yelling from their cars, her cell phone is always ringing from guys who have been calling for years and dont get a clue, and I cant even get up from the bar to go to the bathroom without some guy trying to sit in my seat. Shes always upset because other girls are mean to her because they are jealous. Its funny how everyone wants a beautiful girl but they never realize how difficult it is. What is a guy to do?

2007-06-15 04:48:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I dont know about anyone else but i just so wish i was born 40 years ago, or more. im going crazy because there is no way i can go back to the 60s, 70s and to a lesser extent the 50s.
I wish it was 1967, ha id be 20 in 1972. I wish it was the 60s and 70s why god why was i born so late. 40 years overdue. i wish i was born in 1952. Does anyone else wish it was the 70s?

2007-06-15 04:47:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

In Acts 2:38 was he contradicting Jesus?

In Matthew 28:19 Jesus said what to do or how to do it. How do you explain what Peter was teaching? He was full of the Holy Ghost at the time.

In Matthew 16:17 Jesus was telling Peter about the revelation he recieved from God was Jesus wrong?

2007-06-15 04:45:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

because religious people seem to be deficient in that respect.

2007-06-15 04:45:12 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have had it hammered into me all my life that we should respect other peoples views and beliefs, esecially the religious ones.

But why should I when those beliefs are so ridiculous and WRONG and a great source of violence and oppression?

Do Atheists have rights not to have their lives affected by what religious leaders say about drugs, immorality, abortion, for example?

Please share your thoughts with me, whatever you think

2007-06-15 04:44:07 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Merci d'avoir rectifié la position de ma photo. Je suis resté deux jours à Hong-Kong en 1987, mais je n'avais pas noté l'endroit.

2007-06-15 04:43:42 · 4 answers · asked by ho ming c 1 in Languages

2007-06-15 04:42:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

"And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so."

There's no mention of shifting plates or one land mass becoming several.

Is this different than the biblical argument against evolution?
How so?
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2007-06-15 04:37:37 · 22 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Nobody even thought to send flowers or a card to the funeral home until I came in after 2 days off and bought a card for everyone to sign. Now we are taking up a collection and sending flowers to her home. Is there anything else we should be doing besides just being there for her. Her husband was Muslim, as well as her children and she's Catholic.

2007-06-15 04:36:27 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Im currently away travelling and i am astounded by the rudness and ignorance of people from america and other english speaking countries, they expect everyone to speak english, the completely disregard cultures and are visibly annoyed when they dont get exactly what they asked for!
two examples.
a guy in my hostel said 'i hate these siesta things they have in spain, i mean whats the point and then everythings shut' then i swear to god 30 mins later he went for a 'power nap' another guy then complained bitterly about gespatcheo (not sure how u spell it) and was like 'oh my god it was cold soup, who wants cold soup'
I just wondered if there is something that makes people this ignorant cos it blows my mind!

2007-06-15 04:35:20 · 15 answers · asked by hopper13 4 in Other - Society & Culture

how do athiests explain how the world and human beings were made? and please dont tell me that we came from apes, because if humans would have evolved from apes...we would see apes walkin up right and losing their hair. apes did not evolve into humans and just quit. and apes still exist, so one cant say that apes evolved into humans and then they became extinct???

2007-06-15 04:34:33 · 36 answers · asked by jenni 2 in Religion & Spirituality

PLZ help! I cant tell what it means!

2007-06-15 04:34:17 · 12 answers · asked by Maggie 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Seriously?

He wanted humans to torture and crucify his only son so He could forgive us our sins?

Torturing and crucifying Jesus was -pleasing- to the Lord?

So pleasing He forgave us our sins?

This is what you call a "loving god"?

He couldn't have just forgiven the sins without the torture and crucifixion? He isn't that loving? He couldn't have let Jesus make a heart-felt prayer to forgive us our sins and skipped the torture and crucifixion?

He couldn't let Jesus take over the world this time around? Had to wait for some unknown future time?

This is the Good Shepherd: the one who has done nothing while millions of His sheep kill each other century after century after century, most of it in His name?

After 2000 years of trying to get it right, this is the best you got to show for it?

This is God's "Perfect Plan"?

Seriously?

2007-06-15 04:33:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This is a serious question...I am confused. The Jews practiced a religion that involved an external God. Jesus came to earth preaching we are all sons of God, he is within us all. He didn't say God was external, but God only existed within us. Without our faith of that, there would be no God. Tell me then - why do Christians pray to an external God? Jesus was killed on the cross by the Jews for the blasphemic idea that God didn't exist, but that he was in each and every one of us. Doesn't that make Christians practice Judaism in a way?

2007-06-15 04:33:09 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

would you give in or stand your ground til the day you die?

2007-06-15 04:31:50 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i think this sums it up very good..No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wonderously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass" George Washington, 1788
(E)very man, conducting himself as a good citzen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinion.......George Washington

2007-06-15 04:29:50 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I dunno about you but we actually care about Religion and spirituality... not a lack of it.

Some of you say you like to come here and "Discuss" which is ENTIRELY impossible considering it's only answering questions...

So answer me this... How do most of you answer our Questions when we talk about God? I'd imagine you would all answer the same way (doens't exist: very original btw)... and you have... everytime i've ever posted a question.

And when Christians ask questions about faith concerning relationships or what not... more personnal ish stuff... you all insult and belittle us(whereas Christians actually help).

tellin us God doens't exist and providing facts and proof of evolution is all meaningless and whatever scientific garbage you spill.

It's actually almost impossible for you to give any of our questions a real answer or anything that actually matters to us... and i'm not generalizing, that's a fact.

2007-06-15 04:29:35 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-15 04:29:23 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality