Society & Culture - 20 August 2007

Lord knows I sure have, but only because I see how easy it is to do and how effective I could be at it if I wanted to. But even at my lowest, I couldn't bring myself to do it. I'm not at a point where I feel I'm beyond that sort of temptation, but one never really knows what tomorrow may bring into their soul.

2007-08-20 19:23:08 · 15 answers · asked by uncleclover 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-20 19:21:05 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

For me: The troll invasion is at an annoying HIGH! Some of the questions in this section have hit an all time low! Great people are either leaving or had their accounts deleted.
So, what, if anything is upsetting you?!?

2007-08-20 19:20:35 · 11 answers · asked by ©Diva© 5 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

ah yeah, what's yours?

Mine is Potassium because the symbol is a K like my name

2007-08-20 19:19:17 · 8 answers · asked by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I love chatting!!!!

2007-08-20 19:17:17 · 12 answers · asked by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Christians out there? I was wondering how I could learn to get all my confidence from God, and not wordly things.... I have a lot of hobbies and I find myself gaining a lot of my security and confidence from those things....

2007-08-20 19:17:09 · 10 answers · asked by JUSTIN 2 in Religion & Spirituality

You want to send a person to jail for one whole year and destroy his career. Yes it's bad that he killed some dogs in inhumane ways for his own pleasure, but the same people who want to hang Vick are the same people who enjoy eating chicken and beef and go hunting for sport. Some of you people eat foi gras and that involves force-feeding geese with a tube stuck down their throat. Think about what a hypocrite you are when you are stuffing your face with that Big Mac or Whopper and never wondering how exactly that cow you're eating got killed. And don't say something like, "well cows aren't pets, blah blah" They're not pets to YOU. But your culture is not the only one in the world. To some, Cows are worshipped, yet in this country they are slaughtered.

2007-08-20 19:16:56 · 6 answers · asked by trer 3 in Other - Society & Culture

The things that your teachers taught you were absolutely wrong, distorted and full of lies. You can't bear to look back and tell yourself how proud you were to believe and uphold in those things being an attempt to 'brainwash' you at those times...

Best thing to do is to keep moving forward, but how to do use those things you've learned in school to carry on with your life today? Do you think that you could change them for the better? If so, how?

Some of you may know what I am talking about, some of you may not... but it would be great to hear from both sides of opinion...

2007-08-20 19:15:23 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

.. this article? From a religious standpoint.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_sc/artificial_life

2007-08-20 19:14:42 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It is my first time scaring people. I am not doing a haunted house. I am the only person that is going scare people.

2007-08-20 19:12:06 · 3 answers · asked by star 1 in Halloween

2007-08-20 19:09:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Take some time out and go practice talking like a pirate!
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html

2007-08-20 19:08:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How exactly do you KNOW god exists and not BELIEVE? You say "just look around you" and theres the proof but then I ask how do I know it was someone else other than god. Then you say read the bible but I realize its like wikipedia. anybody could alter it at any time and we cant find its credibility. and even if you saw something that could only be an act of god that doesnt mean the rest of us have. And we would have no reason to believe you. So unless youve seen or have actual proof that he exists can you say you BELIEVE and not KNOW?

2007-08-20 19:07:48 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What do you think of what he had to say in response to my question? I thought it was well thought out and I know it's all true.

"Yes, there are many misconceptions about Islam, especially those that concern women and male chauvinism. Men and women are equal in Islam. However, the media portrays otherwise, and causes many people to think the wrong way about Islam. Consequently, many have become ignorant and hateful toward Islam just because they have decided to trust the media and believe everything it says.

The Qu'ran does not order families to have their daughters killed because she is a "disgrace" to the family. This is a disgusting distortion of the truth. If someone did something so much as to "disgrace" a family, then he or she will deal this justic with Allah, NOT with human beings.

2007-08-20 19:07:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Mon Aug 20, 1:49 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer

Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life."

Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could "run amok," but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem.

"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_sc/artificial_life;_ylt=Asv7gp5YYDJx_Vy54uCv6HX737YB


Hmm, somehow that last part about: "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen" is not very comforting. After all, didn't "they" say the Titanic was "unsinkable"?!

2007-08-20 19:05:14 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I guess I'm mad about this. In Pompano Beach there is a public spot in which many drummers and fire dancers go to have some fun during full moon, drumming and firedancing. It is the taxpayers money that maintain the beach, it belongs to the public. So on my first outing to this drum circle I decide to bring my guitar and have my friend bring his also. An hour into being there the cops showed up and broke up the fun, saying that the city commissioner got word that there is underage drinking going on there and he himself instructed the police to break down these get togethers. What a bummer!!! When will the children realize they have the time to do what they want in their own time? What drives me up the wall is that I don't even drink, for me making music is fun. I don't go to clubs and bars. What can we do to get the full moon drum circle back?

2007-08-20 19:04:50 · 3 answers · asked by remove me 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

As a scientific theory is a "well substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that incorporates facts, laws, inferences and tested hypotheses" and no amount of validation can turn a theory into a law. The fact that it is described as a theory in no way refers to scientists reservations about evolution being a fact, just as they do not have any reservations that gravity is a fact, or that those who don't understand the theory of relativity, certainly are happy to accept that as a fact as they fly 30,000 feet above the ground during air travel.

So surely if you doubt the scientific facts of evolution you must equally doubt all scientific theories, like what goes up, must come down?

So question is do you doubt all scientific theories or just cherry pick?

2007-08-20 19:03:08 · 31 answers · asked by nicelyevolve 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Before I'm attacked for this, let me explain:

I am an Atheist, but I feel that the qualities that people define as "spiritual" are actually the most distinct expression of the personal. They are the expression of the core of our being, of our power, of our essence.

With this in mind, I respect the beliefs of others and see "spiritual" journeys in the light of personally expressed life affirmations. In this frame of mind, I think that everything may qualify as "spiritual" in nature.

The only things certain in this life are that we all are going to rejoin the whole from which our tenuous expression that we call life has sprung. Does this allow Atheism to claim a spiritual title as well?

I know how I feel about this, and am interested in other's answers.

2007-08-20 19:00:55 · 23 answers · asked by Jack B, sinistral 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I am no athiest, but it definitely makes some obvious points that have to be questioned. More truth in this book than the bible.

2007-08-20 18:55:49 · 10 answers · asked by millertime84 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I am a store manager for a small retail store, we are not comission based or pushy and still some people treat me and my associates like dirt! I don't understand I'm sure if I called them at their job and said the kinds of things they say to me they would feel really bad! why are people so mean and stuck up!!!

2007-08-20 18:54:33 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

Here in Australia they call it EMO. are they going bananas?

2007-08-20 18:53:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I have some very intense feelings at times that I 'should' be female. It's as though doing feminine things feels 'right'. As an example I'll get the intense urge to wear a pair of high heels or paint my fingernails, etc and do it. It feels so wonderful at first but after a bit I begin to feel guilty and start to undo whatever I did. It's to the point that I don't know what to do. The other things is I am not attracted to men in any sense. Being intimate with women is wonderful and I don't want to give that up. Thoughts?

BTW...rude and nasty answers get reported!

2007-08-20 18:52:35 · 6 answers · asked by bronzegod4ever 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-08-20 18:50:52 · 18 answers · asked by forerunner7 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Some people just rubs me off as really intelligent through the way they speak, talk and write. Are they naturally gifted, or did they read lots of books and built their vocabulary at a young age? I'm fascinated with these people, and I want to be like them.

2007-08-20 18:47:54 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8RV46fsmx6E&mode=related&search=

2007-08-20 18:46:30 · 26 answers · asked by Stark 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Tthe Wiccans, you will say, do not have faith in God. Yet by their own theology, they certainly do. Those who call them Satan-worshippers are entirely wrong. They do not worship Satan, or even believe that Satan exists. Instead, they worship a Goddess and a God whom they understand as manifestations of a higher and unknown Deity.

Now, if you are a Christian, this will sound familiar to you, and it should. In the Bible we find the following: Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you.'" (Acts 17:22-23)
The Wiccans worship the Unknown God, as manifested to them in the form of a Goddess and a God. Therefore, our Bible tells us they worship the same God we do; and if they do not know this, we should know it!

2007-08-20 18:46:00 · 16 answers · asked by Terry 7 in Religion & Spirituality

One poster on another question said I wish to kill homosexuals. This was on a morality question? Makes me wonder why they assume I wish them harm. It was not me that killed anyone. Second as a Christian my job is not to condemn you but to speak about the love of God. What does this mean, Christ did not come to condemn but to show love. So Atheist why do some of you assume that Christian hate or wish you harm?Just because you do not believe does not give me a right to sentence you to hell.

Christians do you believe that we are to judge atheist or to show love? Is so what is some verse that express this in your opinion? And if not back it with scripture?

2007-08-20 18:45:38 · 6 answers · asked by turtle30c 6 in Religion & Spirituality

The Roman Catholic feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was celebrated on August 15th,and,my parents,who are devout Catholics,went to the local Catholic church on that date for a mass in honor of this feast because,in the Catholic church,it's a holy day of obligation.

I went on the dictionary part of Yahoo!Education and looked up the word assumption regarding this matter and this is one of the definitions:

Christianity - The taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven in body and soul after her death.

So,if she died,then how is it possible that she has made appearances in places like Lourdes,Guadalupe,Fatima,and
Medugorge?

And those are the known normal apparitions of her. Some of the more wild & offbeat ones have been under bridges,on the sides of buildings,and even on bread!

2007-08-20 18:45:36 · 6 answers · asked by auntfran8 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-20 18:43:06 · 3 answers · asked by Noz 3 in Religion & Spirituality

It was his language, you bible thumpers.

2007-08-20 18:42:47 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality