Society & Culture - 16 July 2007

You probably clicked on this just dying to call me a bigot. I am simply looking for understanding. Please do not think i dislike gay people i just have questions thats all

OK so any reasonable person knows that homosexuality is NOT a choice and that it is born into. That is established. However since (until very very recently with embryonic research) homosexuals will typically not reproduce because they arent attracted to the opposite sex. In evolutionary terms this could not be an advantage. Would it be fair to call homosexuality a birth defect in the same league as things like :

Male pattern baldness
A lazy eye
Third nipple

Obviously the IMPLICATIONS societally are much different but really they shouldn't be. Why can't we just look at homosexuality like baldness and is it OK to charaterize it in this way.

2007-07-16 11:50:56 · 17 answers · asked by dougness86 4 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

& I try to get along with people everywhere especially at work. This is my story and I need your serious thoughts.
Last week someone sent me a Baby Gap gift card @ work because I'm expecting but because I usually don't get my mail at home I had it sent to my work. The card was supposed to arrive last week Wednesday but I forgot about it since I had been leaving work earlier than normal. Today I asked one of the 2 girls that work at the reception about it and she said she had seen it on her deskmate's desk last week. So when she came in, I asked her and she told me she threw it away after seeming like she didn't know what I was talking about. What made me upset is she said, "I thought it was junk mail and I know junk mail when I see it." After explaining again to her that it was a card from American Express she said she'd call them and I said "let me know" and I left. Note: She just got the position internally, just left college.
Read on; I've pasted our email exchange thereafter.

2007-07-16 11:50:28 · 9 answers · asked by Love C 1 in Etiquette

would that be a positive or a negative thing for christianism???

(never forget in the bible it says he flew to the moon and beyond after resurrecting taking his bones and everything with him to the space travel)

2007-07-16 11:49:18 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

You probably clicked on this just dying to call me a bigot. I am simply looking for understanding. Please do not think i dislike gay people i just have questions thats all

OK so any reasonable person knows that homosexuality is NOT a choice and that it is born into. That is established. However since (until very very recently with embryonic research) homosexuals will typically not reproduce because they arent attracted to the opposite sex. In evolutionary terms this could not be an advantage. Would it be fair to call homosexuality a birth defect in the same league as things like :

Male pattern baldness
A lazy eye
Third nipple

Obviously the IMPLICATIONS societally are much different but really they shouldn't be. Why can't we just look at homosexuality like baldness and is it OK to charaterize it in this way.

2007-07-16 11:48:07 · 40 answers · asked by dougness86 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Where is Jack B?
I miss Jack.... Do you miss Jack??


this mournful query has been brought to you courtesy of Roger That aka R A M J E T

:D

2007-07-16 11:47:55 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

note Jews were always there Catholics are one of the oldest AFTER jesus's time

2007-07-16 11:47:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Just got the following answer to a previous question.

Not entirely unusual to hear this sort of thing. A lot of christians say this, I find.

What say you?

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"But I think it might be a good thing if more atheists would start really reading the answers other atheists have given...not to mention some of the questions they ask.
I feel so very sorry for some of them.
It's got to be a horrible burden, carrying around all that rage.
The venting you do in forums like these doesn't really hurt anyone. Oh, a Christian might get his feelings hurt for a couple of minutes, or get mad enough to retaliate, once or twice, before he figures out that you've made a patsy of him...
But then, he gets to turn his computer off and go to bed. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, he will have forgotten all about it by the next morning.
The angry atheist, however, has to carry his rage with him, even after he logs out.
So tragic, really."

2007-07-16 11:46:09 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My friends and I were always to chicken to finish the whole thing. At least one of of us ran of out the bathroom into our sleeping bags! lol

2007-07-16 11:44:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

Wondering what it is that you are missing?

Then ask Jesus how to be happy, thankfully he has already told us:


3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew Chapter 5

2007-07-16 11:43:25 · 25 answers · asked by John W 6 in Religion & Spirituality

How many did he drown? I guess Andrea Yates followed by example.

2007-07-16 11:43:07 · 12 answers · asked by Conscious-X 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Isaw some thing like that once up in the mt.ever one thinks i am crazy but it's ok.I know what i saw & it was big & not a bear..

2007-07-16 11:41:26 · 15 answers · asked by ~One~Of~A~Kind~ 2 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-07-16 11:40:59 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/tomb/tomb.html

2007-07-16 11:40:14 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-16 11:39:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-16 11:39:43 · 7 answers · asked by Kelly 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-16 11:38:37 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The End of Racism in our lifetime?

2007-07-16 11:38:22 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

It's probably still on the first page of questions on Yahoo Answers.
If one person is admitting to doing this, how many others are doing it and not admitting it?
How do you feel about this?

2007-07-16 11:35:57 · 21 answers · asked by . 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Will "God" be whispering in that one's ear too?

2007-07-16 11:34:39 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-16 11:34:14 · 16 answers · asked by andreina g 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I want to know the yahoo forum's overall choices:

Beatles or Rolling Stones?
Yankees or Red Sox?
Star Trek or Star Wars?
and why???

2007-07-16 11:33:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Some use this story as "proof" that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah due to the homosexuality of the inhabitants. Lot's house was surrounded by the men of the towns who wanted the angels to come out of Lot's house so the men could know them. So Lot offered his daughters to the men if they would leave the angels alone. If the men 'round about the house were all homosexuals, why would Lot offer his daughters rather than himself? What homosexual would be interested in a female? It would appear that Lot viewed the crowd as heterosexuals whom he enticed with women in order to prevent them from raping and humiliating his angelic male guests.

2007-07-16 11:33:04 · 21 answers · asked by Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! 7 in Religion & Spirituality

after his own kind. What does this mean.

2007-07-16 11:33:00 · 5 answers · asked by ledwelljames 1 in Religion & Spirituality

What did Idaho ???

2007-07-16 11:32:51 · 6 answers · asked by STORMY 5 in Other - Society & Culture

dont you ever think that sometimes stuff just doesnt make sence? you have to have faith, like the air you breath, why out of all the planets there is we are the only onces with life on it?, nothing about life really makes sence and it never will, so why try to force it to? everything works though, and some big boom could not make it work as well as it all does. so why not try to just have a little faith?

2007-07-16 11:31:49 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Like, in an obituary when it says, "John Doe was preceded in death by his sister, Jane Doe" Does that mean Jane died before John?

2007-07-16 11:30:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Jimi Hendrix was truly a legend. Considered the best guitarrist of all times. He was crazy, but incredibly talented, yet most black people dont seem to even know who he was. This guy should be a role model for any Black in this country, because he never accepted the idea that blacks have to act a certain way or like certain things. He is the best guitarrist that ever lived.

2007-07-16 11:30:15 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-07-16 11:29:00 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

He has two dads and it makes me uncomfortable(theyre not preverted or anything). He keeps inviting me over to his house to hang out at the pool and play video games and stuff. I want to hand out with him but I dont want to be by his dads. How can I do this w/o sounding like an ignorant homophob?

2007-07-16 11:28:58 · 20 answers · asked by Christine B 2 in Etiquette

You see references to this idea all the time. Christian theocracy. They take over,kill off the non-believers,etc. What kind of wacko paranoid conspiracy thing is this? How many atheists actually believe this,and of those who don't,how did this particular urban legend get started. Any idea? Please,be courteous. I'd really like to know how this one got started.

2007-07-16 11:28:57 · 24 answers · asked by Galahad 7 in Religion & Spirituality