Society & Culture - 24 July 2007

2007-07-24 13:32:06 · 6 answers · asked by Shamus 2 in Religion & Spirituality

it sort of confuses me.
Is it like how some people begin to defend and identify with their captives in hostage situations?

2007-07-24 13:31:50 · 14 answers · asked by я℮ḋ αтℏ℮їṧṫ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Now that there is new caveman garb for the Yahoo! Avatars?
Is this going to offend them?

2007-07-24 13:30:28 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Firs of all, I don't mean to be offensive or racist (some people may get offended very easy...). I'm just curious..., why do you girls like super long nails???, I mean, how do you go to the bathroom, how do you do your make-up, how do you use a computer, and most important, how do you change diapers?.
I guess after a while you get used to it, right??

2007-07-24 13:30:06 · 12 answers · asked by cherry 3 in Other - Society & Culture

I know like one line so i am not expecting much lol..

"I want to be mistaken for you"

So is there any possible way that you know this song?

2007-07-24 13:29:31 · 2 answers · asked by Chris 5 in Religion & Spirituality

These are links to three current examples. They were the same last year and I can do the same at this time next year because it's the system. The first is Jimmy Williams; in an attempt to make it look like black athletes are rampant criminals, they are posting this story everywhere without any evidence & careful not to mention any amount of drugs. They are trying to create a conviction prior to any judicial proceedings. The other 2 are typical white drug stories; the first in Suffolk county and the second is $205 million of drug money seized as well as more than 42 000 lbs of coke. No names are mentioned and no photos of those responsible can be found online. This is the way they do it to create the perception of blacks being involved in crime. They do a perp walk every time a black person has any small amount of drugs and whenever there is a billion dollars in coke headed for a white drug kingpin, there is no photo, no perp walk, no sketches or outcry about crime from the white public

2007-07-24 13:27:55 · 10 answers · asked by Diangel M 1 in Other - Society & Culture

when i mean enjoy i dont mean "secretly enjoy it", i mean an "enjoyment" full of out loud yeahs! and yeeeeesssss! and gimme more, baby!

2007-07-24 13:27:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Shouldn't there be more social responsiblity in a religion than that kind of attitude? Why would xians think their "sins" only affected THEM?

2007-07-24 13:27:37 · 11 answers · asked by Boar's Heart 5 in Religion & Spirituality

How do you explain this 11th century quote from the sainted Pope Gregory VII:

"You and We are bound, therefore, by this charity
peculiar among us--compared to the remainder of
the nations--that we believe in and profess the one God,
although in a different way, Who we praise and
venerate daily as Creator of the ages and Ruler of
the same world."

(Pope St. Gregory VII, Ep. 21, to Anzir, King of Mauritania; Patrologia Latina 148, col. 451A)

2007-07-24 13:26:51 · 7 answers · asked by delsydebothom 4 in Religion & Spirituality

In another thread today, someone was complaining about being aggressively cut off by a "<><" festooned minivan, and one of the responders said, and this is quoted:

"Don't get your panties all in a bunch! If they are truly Christians, then it's between them and Jesus.

Maybe they have repented by now."

Excuuuuuse me, but WTF? No, it was NOT between "them and Jesus" . . . it was almost between them and HIS FRONT FENDER!

My real problem with this is that it's NOT an isolated attitude---I've seen identical sentiments expressed in other threads several times just today *alone.*

Does faith in Jesus mean you get to act like a smacktard, can't be called on your crap because it's "between you and Jesus," and escape all consequences or moral responsibility if you just "repent?" Is THAT what Christianity teaches?

Wow. No wonder it's popular. o_O

2007-07-24 13:24:39 · 12 answers · asked by Boar's Heart 5 in Religion & Spirituality

please help me understand this?
Rev 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
Is this Jehovah?
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Is this him to?
Isa 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and beside me [there is] no God.
This?

For the next 2 verses I have placed some of the words in bold please read this carefully, and think very precisely as to who this is.
Rev 1:17And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 18 I [am] he that LIVETH, and was DEAD; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
If you said it was Jehovah God you were right can you tell me when he was dead?
Look at the NWT its the same.

I love Jesus so Much. :) my God.

2007-07-24 13:22:28 · 3 answers · asked by Michael M 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Why did God hate esau? Is it true nothing can separate us from God's love? Even our own sin? Help me understand please.

Romans 8:29-30

Romans 9:13
Malachai 1:3

2007-07-24 13:21:42 · 18 answers · asked by zz 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-24 13:19:12 · 30 answers · asked by Sean 7 in Religion & Spirituality

The pessimist ( you will remember) focuses all his attention on the hole in the doughnut, while the optimist sees and rejoices in the doughnut. Which one are you and why?

2007-07-24 13:18:16 · 25 answers · asked by flannelpajamas1 4 in Religion & Spirituality

My mother-in-law has bad hygiene. She always smells really really bad and doesn't brush her hair or bathe. I understand that she is on hard-core painkillers and just lays around her house. I feel repulsed when she touches my newborn's face and doesn't wash her hands...I can see the dirt . A friend suggested we get an in-home heath aide or something like that for her to help her clean herself (not sure if she physically can't or is just too doped up) and clean her house with is filthy. I would love to do it but am presently more than busy enough taking care of my kids (who get allergies everytrime we go over there from all the dust and animal dander.) We would visit more if it were a better situation and be more comfortable. She doesn't like leaving her house to visit us. Anyone else deal with a potentially offensive situation like this? How can we find out if she really needs someone to help her? The drugs she takes are for long-term problems...no end in sight. Please help.

2007-07-24 13:16:07 · 10 answers · asked by H 1 in Etiquette

I am a christian.I respect GOD but i hate to go to any church.When i was younger, my parents used to take me to the church(ofcourse forcefully) and i used to think that once the father finishes reading the bible ,there will be no mass after that and i will be free.But now i have understood that fathers read the bible again and again.

It is not possible to follow all the instructions written in bible like dont look at someone elses wife.It is not possible for me.If she is beautiful then no one can stop me from looking at her.There are many instructions like it for ex-dont lie(i think this is also one of the ten commandments but not sure).But i lie everyday.

I honestly say that i dont know even a single pray but i think that if i want to make GOD happy then i should help the one who really needs help.Dont hurt anyones feelings etc etc.

Please tell me what to do.Please tell me how can i follow GODs path in humanly possible ways.

[2]What is the internet speed the average US people get

2007-07-24 13:15:58 · 11 answers · asked by good.boy999 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i am confused by this teaching..... where in the bible does it speak of the rapture by name?
in no way am i trying to disuade anyone from their teachings nor am i trying to be hateful. i am just curious and willing to learn. so please be respectful of that.
thanks! :-)

2007-07-24 13:13:17 · 18 answers · asked by Rebekah 2 in Religion & Spirituality

the "I never" game: Last night there was some pretty revealing postulation going on....
were you surprised by some of the questions / responses and did it change your opinion of your friends?

2007-07-24 13:11:47 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Or do you think they understand? Or do you just not care? lol

2007-07-24 13:08:18 · 25 answers · asked by beano™ 6 in Religion & Spirituality

when you leave food in a fridge in the employee lounge at work with your name on it and nasty people eat it anyway what would you do to get even?

2007-07-24 13:07:53 · 9 answers · asked by lots of ? 2 in Etiquette

i think discrimination is a sin! who agrees with me?

2007-07-24 13:07:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars"

"I'll be there in two shakes (of a lamb's tail)"

"...colder than Greenland's icy mountains"

2007-07-24 13:06:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

2007-07-24 13:03:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

It would appear so.

Truth comes through

Bible
Read through the lens of church tradition
And the holy spirit.

If you take any of them away you are left with untruth,

2007-07-24 13:01:49 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

So...

mormon missionaries have been coming to my house for about a year, and we've been doing pretty great. We talk about everything and I know I'm going to get baptized and stuff.

The only thing is, what's the deal with the mormon underwear? The Elders haven't said anything about it, but i read it in my Understanding Mormonism book i bought before they started coming. I want to know... what's the deal with it? Please explain!

And please leave out all the BS about how mormon people are part of a cult. I just wanna know what's up with the underwear. Don't make it a big argument.

Thanks! :)

2007-07-24 13:01:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

A. Life on Earth evolves through genetic gradation.

B. Jesus was the product of emaculate conception.

2007-07-24 13:01:00 · 21 answers · asked by Dog 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Does evangelicalsim over simplify a profoundly complex and mysterious faith ?.Why this need to package Christianity up nicely into its own subculture ?.Are folk like Nicky Gumbel missing the point ?

2007-07-24 13:00:51 · 11 answers · asked by david d 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Feelings of quilt are valuable when they help us to learn from past mistakes and sins, so as to hold us back from future actions that would damage ourselves and other people.

2007-07-24 13:00:42 · 22 answers · asked by flannelpajamas1 4 in Religion & Spirituality

It seems within most people's minds that spiritual love is good on its own while physical love is not good.

Is that because spiritual love involves no real-life committment while physical love does?

Are we not human: both spiritual and physical.

Why do so many pay lip-service to the spiritual while devoting themselves to the physical?

Why do so many pay lip-service to the physical while devoting themselves to the spiritual?

Are we not both? Should not our love be both?

2007-07-24 12:58:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Everyone who is normal has a conscience. If a person feels no sense of quilt when he has tortured a little child, stolen money, or told a hideous lie about an innocent man or woman, that person may as well be called a moral inbecile. You out there are no moral imbecile, or you wouldn't be reading this question. So what kind of a conscience do you have? Is your conscience clear enough for a honest Prayer?

2007-07-24 12:55:19 · 10 answers · asked by flannelpajamas1 4 in Religion & Spirituality