Society & Culture - 2 July 2007

Is there any way to calm a kid down and reassure him not all Muslims blow planes up? My sister said he freaked out just going to pick up a friend because he saw some women dressed in their Muslim wear. Our family reunion is next month, and he has to fly to get there. What can we do to help him? He is 7.

2007-07-02 09:43:43 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-02 09:43:38 · 15 answers · asked by blatinofreak 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-02 09:42:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Have we found a MISSING LINK yet? I know that there was one but it tuned out the be a FRAUD. Is there any hard indisputable PHYSICAL EVIDENCE linking us and monkeys to a common ancestor?

(SEE PEOPLE, I did learn, I did say linking us and monkeys to a COMMON ANSCESTOR, not that we came from MONKEYS!)

2007-07-02 09:41:25 · 30 answers · asked by Saved by Grace 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I mean, he had to make them compatible right?

2007-07-02 09:40:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do you realize what kinds of things went on during colonial American times? Did you know that it was widely acceptable for men to have mistresses, but if his wife commited adultery, she could be flogged? Did you know that premarital sex and extramarital sex was common? Did you know that is was common for women to get remarried as early as a week after her husband died? Did you know that it was ok to burn/drown someone because you thought they are a witch? Did you know that it was acceptable for white people to own slaves? Did you know that prostitutes were relatively common?

Were does the misconception that we are somehow worse than previous generations come from?

2007-07-02 09:40:10 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Aren't you one or the other? Which is it? Friend or enemy?

2007-07-02 09:39:44 · 4 answers · asked by trer 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-07-02 09:37:55 · 21 answers · asked by Grin again 2 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-07-02 09:36:39 · 29 answers · asked by JayDee 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Is Masterbation Considered a sin

2007-07-02 09:35:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If so, what was it?

2007-07-02 09:35:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

...... many people do?

2007-07-02 09:34:53 · 14 answers · asked by JayDee 2 in Religion & Spirituality

she was an actresses in the 1920s, there will be family there but some well to do tv types.....

2007-07-02 09:34:10 · 5 answers · asked by abhirati69 1 in Etiquette

I have a bit of a problem. There is a guy that I work with (non Muslim) and he knows I'm engaged but he's kinda too friendly. It's making me really uncomfortable. Sometimes I deliberately talk to him about my fiance just so he knows I'm not interested in any other guy but still, he sends me text msgs and stuff. I respect everyone and I like to have a friendly chat but there is NO WAY I am interested in any other guy. Allah knows what's in my heart, that the only person I'm interested in is my fiance and I wouldn't commit adultery. But I am still fearful that I am sinning btalking to this guy and replying to his msgs. I mean NOTHING MORE than friendship, I don't like the way he is becoming too friendly. To be honest it sickens me! I want to spend the rest of my living days with my fiance InshaAllah, not any other guy. What can I do? How can I politely tell him to BACK OFF?!
I fear that I am commiting a sin in the eyes of God, please give me some advice! Thankyou.

2007-07-02 09:33:45 · 20 answers · asked by ¸.•*´`*•.¸ ℓανєη∂єr ¸.•*´`*•.¸ 6 in Religion & Spirituality

If God is all-knowing and omnipotent, why would he instruct Adam & Eve to not eat of the Tree of the Fruit of Life, if He (or She) knew they would eat anyway (thus creating sin). It seems a bit of a contradiction to me. If God had the power to keep sin out of the world, why would he offer it up for the taking?

2007-07-02 09:33:35 · 7 answers · asked by RockC 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Isn't that sort of punishment along the lines of communism? Sure doesn't sound like an all loving god to me.

Glad I'm an atheist and don't have to wrestle with constant biblical questions like this every day!

2007-07-02 09:33:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

do you people realize that there is situation ex: when person being seriously ill was healed. not by physical doctos, no even by todays medicine. but by simple prayer. And i'm not saying you should or shouldn't start doing it. i'm just giving you a fact, that hoping on self, or friends, families doesn't help.

2007-07-02 09:33:00 · 18 answers · asked by steven25t 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Mine is my Ryrie New American Version study bible. What's yours?

2007-07-02 09:32:37 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I LOVE, LOVE vampires!! But its hard for me to find other people who are as obsesed as i am! so if you ever wanna talk about vamps my ears are always open or any other kind of supernatural stuff to!!

2007-07-02 09:31:04 · 9 answers · asked by Hopeless Romantic <3 2 in Mythology & Folklore

I correct peoples English all the time. Whether it is on TV or movies or my family. Sometimes I cant help but correct my friends' english. Is there something wrong that I have to do this?

2007-07-02 09:30:41 · 14 answers · asked by c_a_l_e_b_4 1 in Languages

As prized for rarity, wild truffles, being costly, command a small fortune for gourmets unwilling to settle for common mushrooms.

2007-07-02 09:30:28 · 16 answers · asked by Amr R 1 in Languages

Thought I'd give you a practice shot at the new standard answer.

2007-07-02 09:30:10 · 61 answers · asked by Kallan 7 in Religion & Spirituality

i am in PA

2007-07-02 09:29:53 · 24 answers · asked by i hate racist 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

How many people are a Christian? I want to see how many Christians there are. I am a Christian.

2007-07-02 09:29:13 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-02 09:28:25 · 3 answers · asked by aaron.lattin 2 in Other - Society & Culture

whenever i speak with americans, they allways put on such a false accent. its like...erm...trans-atlantian, almost like they are trying to mimic my British (cheshire) accent, but failing horridly...

AND! they allways go on to me about how lovely the US is and how much cheaper everything is over there...but they are living in the UK? madness! me thinks so...

i might just be meeting shitty americans, who r in the UK cos they were rejected from the states lol -- any light on this matter?

x

2007-07-02 09:28:23 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I've been learning a lot about Christianity, and now I want to learn more about Judaism, but I'm looking for "reliable sources".

I've found a couple of websites, but I want "Reliable ones".

2007-07-02 09:27:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Picture this;
A married couple, husband & wife. He is against homosexuality yet is not judgemental. She claims to be "bi-sexual" and has since their marriage she has been with 4 females, with out him being present, or approving of the females she brings home. (he said, if they were 'my kind of girl' & if I could partake, it would be different) She blieves that, he may not be a part of her exrta relationships, claiming she has what they have, and it is him lusting after more mates. Her being with these other females is mearly filling in the 'gaps' that he physicly can't fill.

As asked earlier, do you think this should be a ligitamate loop hole for her, or is this indeed adultry since it is not a shared experience for the both of them.

Should the guy leave her, make her end her bi-sexual ways or else, or accept his life and deal with it?

2007-07-02 09:27:10 · 26 answers · asked by Winchester 2 in Religion & Spirituality

My husband and I have been living on his father and stepmother's property next door to them for a little over two years now. We're saving up money to buy some land or start renting a place of our own. He lived here before so they didn't seem to mind it until about three months after I moved in. She started acting strange. She went from really friendly to really stiff around me. I don't know what I did and didn't want to make it worse so I stopped going over to their house. I stopped talking to them because I didn't want to be an annoyance so I just stayed out of their way for a year or so. It never seemed to bother them until about three months ago when I got a letter from her. She went on and on about how awful I am as a person, how stiff and cold I am. She said I act like I am above her. I was just trying to stay out of their way. No matter what I do she has a problem with it. I'd move away but this isn't financially possible at the moment. What should I do or say to her?

2007-07-02 09:25:05 · 10 answers · asked by Lou Lou 3 in Etiquette

So which version of the BOM is the most correct? In these examples who did Joseph SMith see, God the Father or Christ? How could he have mixed the two up?

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1 Nephi 3, p. 25* And he said unto me, Behold, the virgin whom thou seest is the mother of God, after the manner of the flesh

CURRENT
1 Nephi 11:18 And he said unto me, Behold, the virgin whom thou seest is the mother of the Son of God.

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1 Nephi 3, p. 25 And the angel said unto me, behold the Lamb of God, even the Eternal Father!

CURRENT
1 Nephi 11:21 And the angel said unto me, behold the Lamb of God, even the Son of the Eternal Father!

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1 Nephi 3, p. 26 And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God, that he was taken by the people; yea, the Everlasting God, was judged of the world.

CURRENT
1 Nephi 11:32 And I looked and beheld the Lamb of God, that he was taken by the people; yea, the Son of the Everlasting God, was judged of the world.

http://www.irr.org/mit/CHANGINGSCRIPS.HTML

2007-07-02 09:24:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality