Society & Culture - 5 August 2007

i'm out with a friend right now, can i call you later?

ぼくは友達といますから、後で電話かけてもいい？

is that correct or is there a better way of saying it?

2007-08-05 05:55:54 · 5 answers · asked by Darunik 3 in Languages

2007-08-05 05:55:38 · 6 answers · asked by hitz2304 1 in Community Service

In my family, there is one, and I have one other friend who is, but really what precent is gay?

2007-08-05 05:53:09 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

why do you tell people this lie? what do you gain from this?

note: you can get this question reported or not, I don't care. I just honestly want to know why you lie about the Church.

2007-08-05 05:53:02 · 16 answers · asked by Perceptive 5 in Religion & Spirituality

What would be the best thing to do?
Can I use this energy in a spiritual way, 'cos it ain't going away?!

2007-08-05 05:52:57 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

When was the religion ounded/formalized?
who founded/formalized it?
who are the three key figures in the religion
what holy texts are there?
what are the foundational rules?
what branches or denominations are there of the religion?


Thank you

2007-08-05 05:49:18 · 4 answers · asked by agent K13007 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I may be mistaken but.....from what i've learned Christians are constantly trying not to commit sin and asking for forgiveness. Why can't we just do what we want and if we think it is wrong then forgive ourselves and not do it again? Getting drunk, being promiscuous, being lazy...if you're happy why would God not be? Who is to say that Jesus is constantly judging our actions....i don't think being judgmental makes a good God, why can't we choose for ourselves what is right and wrong, and if there really has to be any wrong in the world if we don't want there to be? For example most people consider war wrong....what if death, suffering, pain was not wrong or right but just simply existed. After all everyones perception of right and wrong is different, right?

2007-08-05 05:49:09 · 22 answers · asked by le_miserable 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-05 05:49:00 · 8 answers · asked by Dreamstuff Entity 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-05 05:47:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I am constantly able to reference biblical verses while most Christians can only reference your typical John 3:16 types. And most of the time when they are debating with me they actually claim that certain verses aren't in the bible but I physically show them from one of the 8 bible's I own and they just stand there with a dumb look on their faces. Doesn't it make logical sense to know as much about your religion before you "Blindly follow it?

2007-08-05 05:45:29 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AriUZR4uMNrcsaOlEyuiLynsy6IX?qid=20070805092013AAAImb1

You don't have to answer if you don't - but I like him a lot and want to know if I'm wasting my time and should move on.

2007-08-05 05:43:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Please, I'd like to see this question answered by those who are followers of Jesus Christ.

I was reading Ephesians 1 last night and a passage struck me as applicable to the Christians here in the Religion and Spirituality forum. We often come in here to the bickering and often get sucked into the negativity and nastiness here, and we don't exemplify Christ-like behavior in the process.

The passage is too long to cut and paste, so here is the link to Ephesians 1:15-19, courtesy of Bible Gateway, New International Version:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%201:15-19;&version=31;

Take a look at it, and tell me what you think? In the context of the Religion and Spirituality forum, how can we encourage one another and show the love which God has given us for one another?

2007-08-05 05:42:39 · 15 answers · asked by Searcher 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Is it godly, or, right for a Christian woman to sleep with an ungodly man. She (my mom) believes in God, and so does he, but he's not saved. They aren't married, and it seems as though she has changed for the worse every since she has been with him. She's constantly screaming at my sister and I for the most pettiest things, she puts us to the side and will hardly do anything for us, but she will give the whole world to him. I can't put up with her anymore so I'm moving out with someone else in a few short hours and will never return. May I remind you, SHE ISN'T MARRIED TO THIS DUDE!! It's been nearly a month and a week she hasn't been to church. If this is not of God, why no, if He approves of this, why? Is there anything in the Bible stating that this is wrong?

2007-08-05 05:42:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Can someone please help me translate this. It's in swedish. Thanks

första ordet är fem bokstäver och är ordet för denna eminenta skribent här på sidan. Sen följer ett ord på fyra bokstäver och brukar beställas in som fyra eller sexa på krogen och sveps nog oftast. Gärna av just sorten razz för den delen

2007-08-05 05:41:00 · 1 answers · asked by Jake 1 in Languages

For example, there is no mention of how two of every dinosaur would fit on the Noah boat. Reason: the writer was a storyteller who didn't know about dinosaurs yet.

Interesting how there's scarcely anything in the stories that would indicate an all-knowing Being's knowledge of the future. Where are the discussions of automobiles, cancer, robots, air pollution, asteroid collisions and the moons of Jupiter? Oh yeah, a Creator would know about these things, but the primitive HUMANS who wrote these stories did not.

If a Supreme Being wanted to give humanity a message, It would make it relevant and identifiable to more than a couple particular generations and their activities. For example, where does the Bible talk about abortion?
With "Genesis" debunked, what of the rest of it?

2007-08-05 05:40:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

if you say God doesnt exist becuase of all the bad things going on in this world, then what was you excuse back then when not too too many things were going wrong? and if u are a christian reading this, what do you think too?

2007-08-05 05:35:41 · 35 answers · asked by U DONT KNOW ME 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-05 05:33:25 · 8 answers · asked by cheche l 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i use the christain bible and im not catholic but if your fav is from the catholic books i will look them up too. ps. if you are from another religion or are athiest please dont put any rude comments but its fine to say wat religion you are.

2007-08-05 05:32:34 · 30 answers · asked by lori 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-05 05:30:57 · 13 answers · asked by Missa 2 in Mythology & Folklore

Can anybody recommend a clairvoyant in edinburgh, or someone who would come to edinburgh (preferably a home visit) to do a reading. Many thanx

2007-08-05 05:27:12 · 13 answers · asked by mrsjingles26 2 in Religion & Spirituality

When I'm with someone and a pole comes between us when we're walking, that person always comes to my side hence avoiding splitting the pole. Why is that?

2007-08-05 05:25:49 · 8 answers · asked by Andrea H 7 in Mythology & Folklore

Maybe trying to be nice is the wrong way?

2007-08-05 05:23:28 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm 14 and I'm learning french in school, but I'm really passionate about it so I'm speaking/reading/writing in french whenever I can. So I have some questions.

1. How can you be sure when, telling someone where you live, whether to use à, en, or dans/dans le.

Je n'habite pas à Paris. I know thats correct, but what about Je n'habite pas dans le Colorado, that's correct too.
Is it just something you have to learn and memorize, where to use à or dans/dans le/en?

Another question would be, Do Canada and French speak differently? My aunt is taking me to Canada this year, to Quebec to improve my french. I'm learning France french and not Canada french, I don't want to go there and not have them understand what I'm saying.

One more - There is so many ways to ask a question - does it really matter what you choose?

Using [qu']est-ce que, l'imperatif, or just raising your tone? Which is used more?

est-ce que tu aimes le chocolat?
aimes-tu le chocolat?
tu aimes le chocolate?

2007-08-05 05:22:54 · 6 answers · asked by topgirl999 3 in Languages

So, I have been seeing this guy for over 3 years. Seeing as in seeing him at his job. We have always talked. I know his name and everything. He makes small talk with me and I am the only one he ever seems to talk too when other people are there. I have always gotten a "vibe" that he might interested. I am not sure of this though. It's hard to just flat out ask him because he could get upset either way - even if he is gay or bi and in the closet. But, I always catch him looking at me and staring at me and he has laways been very happy to see me, always. Do straight guys get happy and excited to see over other guys? And, he was always really sweet to me - always. Now, he has backed off. He still stairs at me and wa5tches me, but, now it's different. He seems more distant and I am confused. I have always liked this guy for all this time - even over other guys I always come back to him. But, now he's backed off. I don't know now, is he even gay/bi? Or really deep in the closet? Help me!!

2007-08-05 05:20:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

If not, when is the best time to get answers from a Christian perspective?

It's just that sometimes you have questions that are best to be opened to anyone, and other times it's better to get insight from those who follow Christ.

2007-08-05 05:18:59 · 26 answers · asked by Searcher 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-05 05:18:45 · 17 answers · asked by sandra b 5 in Religion & Spirituality

If there were "hundreds" of witnesses to that event, don't you think some were literate enough to write about that newsworthy event?

If so, why was the new testament portion of the bible only written about 50 years after the alleged resurrection? Sure, news travels slower back then, but given the magnitude of the alleged event, don't you think that some literate roman would have it scribed down somewhere?

So how come there are no contemporaneous written records of this alleged supernatural event?

2007-08-05 05:18:26 · 14 answers · asked by CC 7 in Religion & Spirituality

...freethinkers?

As a progressive and an atheist, I'm often tempted to apply the term "freethinker" to myself. But if so many people agree with so many of my opinions, and our ideas and opinions come from many of the same sources, how can that be called free thought?

People with original if not orignary ideas are indeed free thinkers - Einstein, Darwin, Kant, Jeffery Sachs, Martin Luther, David Bowie, Muhammed Ali, etc...

But what the hell gives us average Joes and Janes the right to call ourselvs free thinkers? Isn't it like the clique in high school that dressed the same, listened to the same music, rebelled against the same "establishment', but yet the called themselves non-conformists?

2007-08-05 05:17:01 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-05 05:16:55 · 13 answers · asked by fojock 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-08-05 05:16:19 · 12 answers · asked by sandra b 5 in Religion & Spirituality