Society & Culture - 23 July 2007

or within the lifetimes of his contemporaries, what did he mean?

I've heard that "generation" may have really meant lineage. Is there evidence to support this?

2007-07-23 10:07:48 · 17 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Religion & Spirituality

aribic warak enib is it fattening?

my mom made some and i know that rice isnt fattening and for sure the leaves arent but my mom put a little meat and i just want to know is it really that fatteing because i am on diet.

thanx :)

2007-07-23 10:07:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

like what does it teach and all?

2007-07-23 10:07:13 · 5 answers · asked by Yuri ^_^ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-23 10:06:58 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This myth has probably been circulating around the world as long as urbanmyths have existed. It has even been recreated several times on TV. But I have been wondering if it was ever true.

Here’s how the story goes:

It is about a very well-off man who owns a nice home in suburbia and drives a nice car, is married to a beautiful wife, has a best friend any guy could want and also has a great job. After his boss made him partner at his work, the man goes home to tell his wife about the good news and celebrate. But when he enters his bedroom he finds his wife in bed with his best friend. That moment something inside the man snaps and he kills both his friend and his wife.

I know this tale has been around awhile and has been portrayed on television shows for years that it has become the most predictable cliché but I am wondering if there are any reported incidences of this happening. Did the events really take place or did they come from the imagination of a talented writer?

2007-07-23 10:06:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

If you are born again how can you get more than one wife?
you may say I do not do it or chruch does not allow it any more. but, it is in your book and your leader did that. he was arrested too. How can you follow a prist like that?

2007-07-23 10:06:51 · 3 answers · asked by Benyamin 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-23 10:06:04 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Would it be wrong to just start quoting random stuff from Harry Potter books back at them? There's a lot of pretty profound stuff - as long as it's not spoilers.

2007-07-23 10:04:03 · 29 answers · asked by Laptop Jesus 3.9 7 in Religion & Spirituality

How crazy is this girl?

2007-07-23 10:01:33 · 21 answers · asked by Mat P 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

did you see it ? it was only a few days before she died.bless her heart ,i was moved to tears she had such a spirit and was so accepting of what had happened,but she wanted to share with the world her faith in GOD and his forgiveness and love for us all.i am glad she is at rest now and no longer in pain and my thoughts are with her family at this time.

2007-07-23 09:59:07 · 9 answers · asked by dixie58 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I'd probably start an argument and make fun of Islam and just point him out that he is a tool/

2007-07-23 09:57:56 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

In comparison to the West, would you agree that Muslim societies have a more stronger family unit and love between relatives.



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2007-07-23 09:57:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-23 09:57:40 · 23 answers · asked by Thomas Paine 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I understand that, when the Queen or Prince Charles fancy gallivanting around the world, the British people foot the bill by way of the civil list.

But since the Queen is not just the Queen of England, Queen of Scots, etc, but also Queen of Canada, Queen of Australia and Queen of most other Commonwealth countries, should not they too share the cost?

Or do they in fact already chip in towards supporting this unlikely family?

2007-07-23 09:57:33 · 12 answers · asked by Raygun 2 in Royalty

Jewish Punk
Though few people would associate punk rock with Judaism, the punk movement was created by Jews from Brooklyn and Queens.
By Saul Austerlitz

Is punk Jewish? At first glance, what music could be less (stereotypically) Jewish? Punk rock, in its classic, Sex Pistols-and-Ramones form, was all about simplicity, rebelliousness, anti-intellectualism, and shock value. Its foremost practitioners kitted themselves out in matching swastikas or dressed like a white-ethnic biker gang straight out of "The Wild One," but it was essential to the project of punk that its musicians appear brutish, Neanderthal, evil--anything but bookish, or well-spoken, or worst of all, nice.

And yet, as Steven Lee Beeber documents in his book "The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's," New York punk was primarily a movement led by Jewish boys (and a few girls) from solidly middle-class families, born and raised in the outer boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn but drawn to Manhattan's club scene like a moth to a flame. The sons and daughters of shopowners and accountants rebelling against their parents' comfortable but too-confined existences--what could be more familiarly, soothingly American? But what is the significance of the Jewish angle, if there is one at all?

The facts undoubtedly bear out a significant over-representation of Jews in the first wave of New York punks. Lou Reed, Joey and Tommy Ramone, Suicide's Martin Rev and Alan Vega, Jonathan Richman, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye, Richard Hell, Blondie's Chris Stein, CBGB's founder Hilly Kristal--the list of Jewish punk notables is lengthy, and impressive. According to Beeber, the common thread for many of these Jewish punks was a desire to overturn the stereotype of the feeble, brainy Jew, the yeshiva student or the bespectacled clerk, replacing him with a brawny Jew in closer touch with his inner beast, and intent on shocking society out of its narcotized comfort.

The new punk Jew was inspired in equal parts by the warriors of the Israel Defense Forces, the comic-book superheroes scripted by an earlier generation of Jewish artists, and an instinctive revulsion at the musical excesses of contemporaries. Stripping down to essences after the overblown pompousness of rock in the mid-1970's, punk cut away everything it saw as being unnecessary, including any prior identity. Punk was not merely a musical genre; it was a rebirth, with each newfound punk reborn in the movement, baptized in the flaming guitars and pogoing bass. How could punks be punks, and be Jewish too?

Beeber's book sees punk as a specifically Jewish outgrowth of post-Holocaust awareness--and shame. A new generation of Jewish boys sought to express their horror at the concentration camps by caustically embracing fascist aesthetics and an iconography of raw power. Rather than sink into what they saw as a mire of self-pity and narcissistic victimhood over six million dead, the Jewish punks preferred to rock out with swastikas, pose meaningfully with Nazi flags, and do their utmost to shock the living daylights out of their parents. Seeing the Holocaust as a moment of tragic weakness, the Jewish punks sought to never be weak again.

Or so Beeber says. The punk movement was never quite as uniform as Beeber has it, nor was its Jewish component as explicitly Jewish as he makes it out to be. Key figures like Tommy Ramone preferred to keep their Jewish identity in the shadows, preferring a white-ethnic, outer-boroughs style hilariously dubbed "Juido." Moreover, being an all-embracing, all-encompassing lifestyle more than a mere musical distinction, punk sought to displace Judaism, as it displaced any religious or cultural affiliation. Punk was a calling, a source of meaning, and a religion of its own. To point out that there were many Jewish punks is akin to pointing out that there were many Jewish Communists; while true, it ignores the fact of the newer identity essentially canceling out the older.

The punks kept faith with Judaism less in the ideas they espoused than in the position they took vis-à-vis mainstream society. Having far more in common with their immigrant parents and grandparents than they might have been comfortable, or familiar, with, the Jewish punks simultaneously sought to maintain their status as a people apart, divorced from mainstream culture, while desperately in search of the approval of that very same uncomprehending mass. What, after all, was the significance of the punks' embrace of Nazi culture and other similarly toxic aesthetic motifs, if not an angry response to the seeming inability of the bourgeoisie to grasp the nature of their revolution?

The Jewish punks, like their immigrant forebears, sought to fit in and stand out, to be celebrated and to be ignored. Like their predecessors, the punks also flocked to the dingy, crime-ridden, tenement-dotted city, only in far smaller numbers, and as a lifestyle choice, rather than because there was nowhere else to go. For the punks, the very nature of their beliefs made them a people apart, divorced from society at large, and yet, deep in the marrow of their bones was a clamorous urge to be celebrated, and to be accepted.

How apropos, then, that so many of the New York punks were also Jewish. Punk may not have been Jewish, but its push-and-pull dynamic regarding American culture at large might as well have been.

2007-07-23 09:57:06 · 7 answers · asked by C Deezy McCain 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

All beliefs aside... do you know anyone in life who, no matter what the situation, no matter what the place, no matter what the time... is just naturally a good person?

I’m talking about someone whose sense of morality is not influenced by society. Someone who just has a natural goodness about them…someone who would never talk bad about anyone.

I hope my question makes sense. Does anyone in your life come to mind when I list these traits?

2007-07-23 09:56:25 · 19 answers · asked by Daniel 4 in Religion & Spirituality

What was before the Big Bang? Why did it occur? What is beyond our universe or is it infinite? Are there more dimensions than the 3 we see plus time? Are there parallel universes? Is our universe but a speck of dust in another much bigger universe and so on? How was matter and energy created or where did it come from? When did time start? Was it an infinite time ago - it never started and has always been 'ticking'?

2007-07-23 09:56:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-23 09:55:38 · 15 answers · asked by Runedog 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-07-23 09:53:47 · 9 answers · asked by Silly BaBy505 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Image you get to heaven, and Jesus lets you in, says "nice you could make it", etc, etc...

Then just as everyone is settling down and enjoying themselves, Jehovah walks in and yells, "Christ Jesus! Who told you you could have a party here?! This is my home, not some place for you and your stupid little friends to throw parties!!" And then Jehovah kicks everyone out.

Boy, would that suck, or what?

2007-07-23 09:53:03 · 12 answers · asked by OccamsBattleaxe 2 in Religion & Spirituality

This is the problem I struggle with myself. I know that religion is hogwash and that every justification about any sort of logic is made up out of thin air, rather than accepting the truth, or seeing that the simplest answer is usually the correct one.

My question is, if people have surrounded themselves in this kind of nonsense, did they do so for a reason? I wonder if making them face reality is a good or bad thing. To those who cannot accept death, does this make their life more bleak every time you point out some fundamental flaw in their beliefs?

I would like to think that many people were raised in these sort of lies, and they are just perpetuating the old way of thinking of things without realizing that they are doing so. I hope that someone, some day, will take a step back and say, "Wow that really does not make sense." This is what happened to me. In my mind, correcting this one person could potentially have lasting effects, and is worth the effort.

2007-07-23 09:52:32 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

where would i find a hair from both of the kids and one of charles?, wouldnt a dna test prove interesting.....

2007-07-23 09:52:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Royalty

2007-07-23 09:52:07 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If Islam is supposed to be peaceful, why then did terrorist claiming to be followers of Islam highjack several aircraft, and run them into buildings killing thousands? Why do the Muslims here in the US not publicly condemn these terrorists?

2007-07-23 09:51:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Yup... I think this is one of those up front questions.

2007-07-23 09:51:34 · 2 answers · asked by Twopillows 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-07-23 09:50:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was walking to get in line and this lady, saw where I was going and ran up and cut in front of me and put her stuff up on the belt. She had less then I had, so I let it go. But then she gets up there and realized she forgot something. Instead of her telling the cashier to cancel the order or to cash her out, she runs back to get what she forgot. The cashier being the idiot that he was waited for this women until she got back which had to have taken a good ten minutes. She comes back with a new basket full of stuff. So she goes to pay for her stuff and her card doesnt work. I guess the cashier didnt want to say out loud that she didnt have enough money in the bank, so he kept saying it didnt go threw. Until she wouldnt stop trying to use the card and he had to tell her. Even though I know she knew she didnt have any money in the bank. Why do people act like this?

2007-07-23 09:49:59 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

give me a few examples

2007-07-23 09:47:04 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

Its their M.O.


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2007-07-23 09:46:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

(using the stereotypical Monothiestic God) Do you think God knows how he created what he did like we know how to make a PBJ sandwitch? Or do you think He knows it like we know how to open and close our hand, or how we remember things, but when asked you honestly couldn't say, but you KNOW how, because you can and DO do it. And if you believe he does know how, like we know how to make a PBJ sandwitch, do you think He could communicate this through words? "He who says does not know. He who knows can not say." - Tao Te Ching.

2007-07-23 09:46:22 · 9 answers · asked by lufiabuu 4 in Religion & Spirituality