Society & Culture - 9 July 2007

its just so weird. every where u go wheather its the mall, your school, even the public library you will see some kind of emo weird freak with greased hair and smelly odors that just stare....i mean emos stare a lot and it creeps me out. and they are just weird.

2007-07-09 17:27:09 · 6 answers · asked by mAlLiE_XoXo♥ 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-07-09 17:26:54 · 10 answers · asked by Just! Some? *Dude* 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-09 17:25:42 · 18 answers · asked by skateboardboi 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Hello all, I'm a 25 y/o guy, I have a brother 3 years younger than me. While growing up I kinda always knew that my brother might be gay but, I never "really" knew. Untill one day when I was messing around with his PC and kinda fiured out he is.

See I have came to notice that my brother have been feeling really down over a long period of time, but I have always mistaken it for just him being a "quiet / likes to be alone" kind of guy.

We come from a VERY conservative background, so I might know why he might not even concider coming out to us at all. And I'm starting to feel how much he might be in pain because of this. Me and my brother arnt the type that chat a lot together. But I dont want to grow up and loose him for something I dont think is significant enough to put "barriers" between him and me / us.

I love my brother too much to loose him over such a thing. I was hoping if someone can tell me how can I come up to him and tell him "I'm OK with it?"

2007-07-09 17:22:17 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

those who choose not to agree with it, have a very classy rebuttal and tell you what an idiot you are..lol Wonder if they are a little bit insecure?

2007-07-09 17:21:47 · 16 answers · asked by Jlk 4 in Religion & Spirituality

"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity" Albert Einstein

2007-07-09 17:19:31 · 11 answers · asked by dogpatch USA 7 in Religion & Spirituality

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2007-07-09 17:19:10 · 2 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

do anything wrong or bad in your life yet you don't do anything good or right...like you're pretty much neutral, then do u go to heaven or hell or what?

2007-07-09 17:18:16 · 25 answers · asked by diablonekokiller 2 in Religion & Spirituality

People that smoke regularly probably spend an actual 1 hour per day smoking (6 a day x 10 min?) = 60 minutes. If you think about it, that's only 4% of the day. So if you are a Mormon and smoke, you could claim that you adhere to the Word of Wisdom 96% of the time.

Is this good logic? Could a smoker get a temple recommend based on this? I mean, 96% of the time is pretty good right? Maybe by next week they'll be at 97%. Since the WOW is a guideline, 100% is not expected right?

2007-07-09 17:12:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

No tithing No charity No spreading the word Nothing but believe he spilled his glarious blood

2007-07-09 17:11:35 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-09 17:10:12 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

...Why does the Yahoo Answers LGBT section have the more civilized and intellectual questions and answers than other categories?

2007-07-09 17:08:43 · 14 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

people are made of of three items:

1. Body
2. Spirit - Breath of Life
3. Makes a Soul

just like a Box.

1. Wood
2. Nails
3. makes a Box

What happens when you take the nails out of the wood? The Box disappears.

Same as when the spirit leaves the body, the soul disappears. the Soul is you. the Spirit, or Breath of life, goes back to the life giver - God of Heaven, sorry, that is not you that goes right away :( just the breath of life. the body goes back to where it came from, the dirt of earth, well most of it. Some bones just don´t disappear, they tend to stick around for a while.

I am telling you what i Believe, not forcing you to believe the way i do. its just my opinion :)

2007-07-09 17:08:13 · 25 answers · asked by FarmerCec 7 in Religion & Spirituality

i mean wow, they have their heads so up their behinds...that its making me sick. I'm only talking about the racist ones btw, and the colored ppl arent as rude and offensive as the white ones. I'm indian in toronto....and i have tons of friends and teachers are cool with me, and ppl on here are a totally diffrent picture. Are these ppl for real....cuz its really sickening.

2007-07-09 17:05:26 · 8 answers · asked by fahd_dogg 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

George Carlin's View on Aging

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to
get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old,
you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

"How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!" You're never
thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five!
That's the key.

You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You
jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
"How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but
hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . .
You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . . YOU BECOME
21.
YESSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you
sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's
no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's
changed?

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa!
Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you
REACH 50

And your dreams are gone.

But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to
60.

You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's
a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

You get into your 80's and every day is a complete
cycle; you
HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end
there. Into the 90's, you start going backwards; "I Was JUST 92."

Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you
become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!"

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight
and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay
"them!"

2 Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts,
gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is
the devil's workshop." And the devil's
name is Alzheimer's.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for
breath.

2007-07-09 17:03:09 · 8 answers · asked by I speak Truth 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm just wondering. They way they say it God is so much more peaceful and more realistic and ... human.

2007-07-09 17:02:46 · 13 answers · asked by annoyingdude99 3 in Religion & Spirituality

My friend told me she was bi when she was 14. Then a few years later when we were 16 she said she thinks she is a lesbian. Now we are 18 and she is back to saying she is bi. If being gay is not a choice then why does she keep on flip flopping around like this?

2007-07-09 16:57:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

This is a favorite strawman argument used by those who hate those who defend the sanctity of innocent unborn human life.
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2007-07-09 16:52:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

But then, spoke to man through Jesus?...And now; He speaks to us through His Word.....And one day...when THIS life is over.....We're going to "know" Him as He is.....In all of His glory.

Today we can know Him through His Word preserved for us in the scriptures.
(To him who has an ear, let him hear)

"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;"
Hebrews 1:1-3

2007-07-09 16:50:04 · 12 answers · asked by JayDee 2 in Religion & Spirituality

The earth is made up of trillions of molecules that have been around for 4.5 billion years, with chemical and mechanical processes going on all around it. The earth sits in a 14 billion year old universe made up of billions of galaxies and hundreds of billions of stars with countless billions of planets, each with trillions of their own molecules with their own chemical and mechanical reactions. With all these billions of trillions of molecules interacting over time, Christians still deny that a random chemical reaction can come together to create life. The fact is, with the number of molecules in the oceans and on land, the reaction to create life has probably happened time and time again right here on our very own planet.
So with all of what's going on at the molecular level, how can Christians deny life can started out of a simple random happening, and prefer to believe a magical deity is a more plausible explanation?

2007-07-09 16:45:30 · 27 answers · asked by Author Unknown 6 in Religion & Spirituality

The term sacrifice implies that the sacrificer is giving up and forfeiting that which he is sacrificing.
But when Jesus died on the cross, he did not give up or loose anything. For he was G0d and would still be G0d, the all powerful creator, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnitemporal.
Even moreso, Jesus, upon his death, ascended to heaven to rule as G0d. And before he died, Jesus knew that this would be the case too. So if anything- his death was the opposite of a sacrifice- it was a gain to himself.

2007-07-09 16:44:18 · 20 answers · asked by supcch063 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-09 16:42:43 · 4 answers · asked by Perceptive 5 in Religion & Spirituality

You already know this is a true statement. No denying this for sure. But why is this? Wouldn't you think it would be the opposite?

2007-07-09 16:42:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My mom and stepfather go to a Christian church and force me to go along with them.

Anyways, I noticed right away that every Sunday the church collects "tithes" and apparantly they expect that you give money for that, and for other special offerings. I just want to know why you should have to pay money to a place of worship. It doesn't make sense to me. You go there to strengthen your spirituality. Why should it cost money?

2007-07-09 16:40:23 · 60 answers · asked by faeriefiddler 4 in Religion & Spirituality

The original reference to Lucifer in the bible was comparing a king to Lucifer, the morning star (Venus). How did this get twisted into a demonic being, trying to destroy mankind? A little education and study go a long way into de-demonizing the whole devil myth.

2007-07-09 16:36:29 · 32 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Religion & Spirituality

If we are so complex to you guys, then we would need supreme beings to create us?

well..

where the hell would they have come from? an even higher supreme being?

and... CONTINUING IN THIS PARADOX...

pwnd.

occams razor

2007-07-09 16:35:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Let's say the entire population was reduced to a single man and woman, and neither one believed in a god.

Now there is no more higher power, or a society from which to derive moral or social ethics. At this point, they get to choose, and they have the ultimate moral power - to decide if the human species goes on, or goes extinct.

Does this not give them the right to decide what is morally correct for all humans that follow, since they were the life givers to the "new" human species.

If you say no, is this not the same exact power you are granting to your god?

Doesn't this prove that humans, and ONLY HUMANS should get to decide what is moral and ethical for our species?

2007-07-09 16:35:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-09 16:34:16 · 16 answers · asked by anil m 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Why do the so-called "Pro-Choice" people ever use ultra sound images and pictures of abortions to show that what they are saying is not a lie when they claim that it's not a baby being murdered?
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2007-07-09 16:33:57 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I used to, I mean, they were nice birks. and I think that Jesus would have approved, I've seen what the Mormon rendition of Jesus wore. No socks of course, that would be lame.

2007-07-09 16:32:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality