Society & Culture - 26 July 2007

My friend Michelle has this close friend Tyahnee who she grew up with and now they are both mothers with two kids. The thing is Tyahnee never buys Michelle or her boys gifts. Every time there is a birthday party she rocks up empty handed and this year she even turned up to Michelles wedding empty handed.
Michelle is quite upset as she is always very thoughtful and buys gifts for Tyahnee and her girls for birthdays, christmas etc.
Tyahnee buys gifts for other peoples kids but just not Michelles.
How should Michelle aproach this?

2007-07-26 23:59:44 · 12 answers · asked by Not just a pretty face 3 in Etiquette

2007-07-26 23:57:03 · 23 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

can you give me some good books to read for a struggling christian or sites to go to?

2007-07-26 23:56:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-26 23:54:04 · 15 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Genesis 6-7:
God drowns everything, including every newborn, infant, toddler, and child.

Matthew 24: 38-39:
God drowned them without warning.

If you think worshipping that thing for eternity is a "carrot", think again.

If you think being condemned by a monster is a "stick", think again.

You may hate humanity enough to worship the thing that tried to wipe it out, but there are those who love humanity, compassion and justice who refuse to bend knee to a god-construct so immature and malicious as to make Satan blush.

Why do you worship such an atrocity-monger as this thing in your bible?

2007-07-26 23:49:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My 7th day adventist friend said this is so. She made reference to Moses about God performing miracles through him and how Satan also performed the same miracles throught the magicians???

2007-07-26 23:48:31 · 14 answers · asked by Say It Like You Mean It 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I have a friend, who is a strong Christian, but he insists that the virgin birth is symbolic because Jesus is from the line of David thru Joseph not Mary, so according to him the virgin birth of Jesus must be symbolic of something else, I was wondering, does this mean he's still saved?

2007-07-26 23:42:15 · 15 answers · asked by rihannsu 2 in Religion & Spirituality

My entire family believes in god under the faith of Christianity. My older brother and I are more loosely affiliated with practicing the religion. My older brother at least studies the bible, I on the other hand do not. I have a younger brother and sister as well. They seem to be very religious. They both seem to have a twisted sort of faith and that is where I am confused. My younger brother obviously must have a more conservative view on Christianity and continuously takes what is written in the bible more literally. He claims that there is no possible way to translate or interpret it. If one does interpret the bible then that leads down the path that the devil has some control over. I can live with his beliefs because at least he is willing to talk or argue about certain points. This way I know where he stands.

My younger sister has adopted some of my younger brother's beliefs, but she has also taken a different route. I am completely conviced that she...

2007-07-26 23:41:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-26 23:38:04 · 44 answers · asked by James 5 in Religion & Spirituality

so that magic disappears and life appears?

I wanted to tell so much more but was not permitted.
Do you know why I have to wait?

2007-07-26 23:35:15 · 14 answers · asked by James 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Religious people can't seem to imagine happiness without god, just like heroin addicts can't imagine happiness without their drug...and yet hundreds of millions of atheists lead happy lives, bereft of a need or even a desire for a god’s confirmation and forgiveness.

Are religious people simply to scared to let go of their crutches?

2007-07-26 23:34:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-26 23:20:37 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

this isnt for all, but the ones that say they felt empty or scared, there is no God in your eyes so why feel those kind of emotions when you decide to leave the faith of God? i heard it several times. what could you be afraid of if God doesnt exsist? why feel empty if He dont exsist?

2007-07-26 23:17:44 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Whats the most positive decision you ever made?

2007-07-26 23:12:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-07-26 23:12:21 · 8 answers · asked by Dhruva 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you buy to last, and make every scrap of food count.

I cringe when I see good food thrown away, this happens on TV a lot, or perfectly good furniture dumped on a whim.

I don't think it's just an age thing, I know a few over 60's who are 'throwaways'.

Has the way you were brought up had any influence on the way you are now or is it circumstances, or part of your character.

2007-07-26 23:03:44 · 43 answers · asked by Florence-Anna 5 in Senior Citizens

Genesis 1:5 cleary says that a "day" in the 7 days of creation is actually a 24-hour day, so why is that some
christians say that the each day in the 7 days of creation is not a 24-hour day?

Genesis1:5 "And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."

This verse is pretty clear! For you who don't understand; as long as the light is there it is called day(12 hours) and as long as dark is there it is called night(12 hours). Christians should really entirely stick to what they believe and stand by that! They can't cherry pick and say they believe in some parts of the bible literally and some parts figuratetively! Either take the bible as it is or don't take it at all!

2007-07-26 23:02:05 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What a strange word. What does it mean? The sentence was something like Er stellt die in Zweierreihen auf.

2007-07-26 22:54:49 · 2 answers · asked by Alexander T 2 in Languages

When I go to hell, will it hurt? If all my nerves are contained within my dead, discarded vessel, how do I feel pain? What's the science, my bible experts?

2007-07-26 22:54:25 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Egypt was believed to have been a colony of Kush in antiquity.
They (the Ethiopians) say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony... And the larger part of the customs of the Egyptians are, they hold, Ethiopian...
Diodorus Siculus, Ancient Greek Historian. The idea of a pharaoh (king) may have come down the Nile from Nubia to Egypt (and) that would make Nubian civilization the ancestor of Egypt. The first settlements in Egypt are in Upper Egypt where the black descendents of the ancients still live today if you dont believe go and visit southern Egypt. The Southern Kingdom, Upper Egypt, was clearly conceived as the dominant of the two regions. It was from the south that the most enduring influences in Egyptian society came and without doubt most of its greatest leaders were southerners too. The ancient Egyptians originated from the south not the north.

2007-07-26 22:46:59 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Can you really say you love God and mean it in your heart? give me your explation as to why or what makes you have and hold this loving feeling for Him. please.

2007-07-26 22:46:05 · 8 answers · asked by your name here 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-26 22:45:47 · 0 answers · asked by fuhai_xiao 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-07-26 22:30:15 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-07-26 22:29:48 · 2 answers · asked by Tyger 2 in Languages

what do you think of English?
What's the most rewarding about learning a foreign language?
In your opinion ,what is the best way to study English?
^-^Thanks!

2007-07-26 22:26:21 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

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2007-07-26 22:25:46 · 8 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-26 22:25:13 · 3 answers · asked by james m 1 in Mythology & Folklore

I read this in an answer once and it has bothered me alot.

I know that Satan is a female and painted in the Cistine Chappel as half woman and half snake offering the apple - it is a well known fact that Satan is a Woman = BUT ..

I was thrown for a loop when I saw this in an answer and wanted to know how many people believe this = "Satan does not really appear in the Bible until the New Testament "???

Let us not count where Yahweh is sitting there with his sons and daughters and Satan comes before him ... in the book of IYYOB (Job) ... so - where are the other places she might be spoken of to help this guy out with his well researched statement; i.e., "Satan does not really appear in the Bible until the New Testament "?????

2007-07-26 22:21:25 · 23 answers · asked by aintmyfault 3 in Religion & Spirituality

has this happened before

2007-07-26 22:20:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-07-26 22:17:06 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality