Society & Culture - 2 September 2007

I know this question will generate alot of race-baiting, so please keep your comments civil.

Has anyone noticed the disparities in this case?

I truly understand why the south is called the "Dirty South, if you will.

Small town blatant racism, corruption, bureaucracy,
and bigotry are alive & well in Jena, Louisiana, let alone, other U.S. southern small towns that have yet to come forth with their racial atrocities.

This case is getting little, if any national media coverage. How can that be?

Again, can we all please address this question in a civil manner?

Thank You Kindly.

2007-09-02 01:34:20 · 3 answers · asked by Sustagurl2 7 in Other - Society & Culture

does that make pedophile priests square with God?

2007-09-02 01:34:07 · 3 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I know this question will generate alot of race-baiting, so please keep your comments civil.

Has anyone noticed the disparities in this case?

I truly understand why the south is called the "Dirty South, if you will.

Small town blatant racism, corruption, bureaucracy,
and bigotry are alive & well in Jena, Louisiana, let alone, other U.S. southern small towns that have yet to come forth with their racial atrocities.

This case is getting little, if any national media coverage. How can that be?

Again, can we all please address this question in a civil manner?

Thank You Kindly.

2007-09-02 01:33:18 · 2 answers · asked by Sustagurl2 7 in Other - Society & Culture

I'm a big fan of ann rice novels, and other books in the horror genre, but my wife considers it a sin or blasphemy to read such material. To me it is purely fiction. Tolkien was a hard-core Christian, and his works of fiction are one of the most renowned. What do you think?

2007-09-02 01:24:42 · 9 answers · asked by its_raining_outside 2 in Religion & Spirituality

and all religions have a god as a focus of worship?
what is it about someones skin colour that makes people assume their religion?
im generalising a bit but hopefully you get the picture.

2007-09-02 01:24:18 · 21 answers · asked by manapaformetta 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Some people are killed as mere babies. Some are aborted before that. Some die as children, some as young adults. Some grow incredibly old.

Most die in circumstances completely beyond their control. War, abuse, violence, natural disasters, the list goes on.

Given that in most major western belief systems everyone gets only one shot at life before judgment, who doesn't everyone get the same amount of time and the same chances?

2007-09-02 01:22:17 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Concerning the origination of the Bible:

It was a roomfull of chain-smoking Catholic perverts that decided what was to be included in the Bible and what wasn't.

Why do I never hear a peep out of Protestants?

(Or, if there was a peep out of them and I missed it, tell me what became of it.)

2007-09-02 01:20:45 · 3 answers · asked by 2.71828182845904 5 in Religion & Spirituality

So, Jesus died on the cross for me? I wasn't born 2000+ years ago. That is worse than african americans blaming me for slaving their great grand parents and whipping their women. I couldn't afford a new car much less a plantation full of slaves.

2007-09-02 01:17:59 · 8 answers · asked by Mary T 2 in Religion & Spirituality

that it has nuggets of shining prose that are lost in internal inconsistencies that could have been solved by a decent line editor? Why would God not fact checked such an important document?

2007-09-02 01:16:55 · 11 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Religion wise.

2007-09-02 01:11:34 · 23 answers · asked by Stacey-Marie J 6 in Religion & Spirituality

retire at the suggested age and let the younger people take our place in the working world, Or do you think we should work on. I know some people look forward to retiring and others dread it. What do you think?

2007-09-02 01:06:53 · 30 answers · asked by Roxy. 6 in Senior Citizens

For the pass couple of days, I been reading the bible and I don't know why. I'm not a religious person and I don't attend church because I was not exposed to it when I was younger; I'm now 26yrs old. I was looking for something to read while I was in the washroom and I grab a book that look like a novel from the outside. When I begun to open up the book, it was a bible for jail inmates. Every since then, I been reading the bible(beginning from the first page) every night now.

2007-09-02 01:02:08 · 22 answers · asked by KrOnOmEnTrOpHoBiA 1 in Religion & Spirituality

God programmed the world in 6 days with no debugging, then he slept for a day. He created the ADAM program, from which he spawned the EVE program.

However, a virus lurked in the system and corrupted EVE who subsequently accessed a forbidden file. ADAM was corrupted because of the I/O links with EVE.

God removed all privileges from the ADAM and EVE programs and moved them to main memory. ADAM and EVE spawned a lot of child processes. Eventually this got out of hand and God purged the RAM with a great flood of zeros, leaving only a few child processes running protected by the Automated Recovery Console, or ARC.

Again the software ran out of control. This time God had a patch JESUS ready, so he ran it. The rogue spyware infection ROMANS eventually terminated the JESUS process, but not before it could touch several other processes which continued to apply the JESUS patch.

Some processes calculate that there will be a Great Reboot soon. Now we know JESUS saves, but does God do backups?

2007-09-02 00:56:20 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-02 00:55:44 · 8 answers · asked by kabduk 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-02 00:55:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am intrigued and very interested in different religious ways and would like to understand the resons for doing so. What the belief in changing the pre formed human body is?

2007-09-02 00:49:47 · 21 answers · asked by gypsy girl 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Who was hurt more, Muslims by Muslims or NonMuslims by Muslims? What do you think?

"Taliban have "hurt Islam and distorted the reputation of Muslims throughout the world".
Full text of the Saudi Arabian Government's statement on the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the Taleban
IslamForToday.com Tuesday, 25 September, 2001

Despite everything that has happened, the Taleban government is continuing to use its territory to shelter, arm and encourage those criminals to carry out terrorist acts that terrorize safe and innocent people and spread panic and destruction in the world. This has hurt Islam and has distorted the reputation of Muslims throughout the world.

The Taleban government has not heeded the contacts and attempts made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to persuade it to stop sheltering criminals and terrorists and training and inciting them, and stop turning its territory into a shelter and safe haven for them.

http://www.islamfortoday.com/taleban9.htm

2007-09-02 00:42:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

im 30 and live in the uk right now

2007-09-02 00:42:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-09-02 00:37:25 · 4 answers · asked by john r 1 in Languages

okay...

have you ever seen a tree pop out of thin air? or a man/ woman / animal, pop out of thin air ?!

doesn't a tree grow from a seed, nourished, effected and influenced by the climatic conditions? can't you see the life forms evolving under such conditions in day to day life?

how is that you still manage to have delusional fantasies about some mystical creator creating the world out of thin air ?!

2007-09-02 00:33:53 · 21 answers · asked by x 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Why not Muslims also? You are not being fair. They are also theists. Are you scared of them? Or do you just have a special hatred of Christians?

2007-09-02 00:28:22 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

hello!

is there anyone who can help me translate these into hebrew:

#1) my baby (as in love, not the foetus)
#2) and please dont cry.

thank you so much.

2007-09-02 00:28:06 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I just ask about it, because I heard that people in America think that Poland is old, you know like in middle ages for example I was read a book and there was something like that: boy was wearing silk, black blouse and jeans, girl said that mayby in Poland it will be really trendy, but in America it isn't. Probably it's not the best example, but you know what I'm trying to say.......so what do you think about Poland?

2007-09-02 00:21:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

It says in Genesis 2:18 that "it is not good for man to be alone." So God created Eve for Adam so that he wouldn't be alone. I believe the Bible is the literal word of God and I do my best to follow it. I just don't know if I want to give up being single. It's what I've been used to all my life.

2007-09-02 00:19:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I find so many people to be wrong and it is so easy to find their mistake, but I find the bible to be right.

Most times those that are wrong, do not know the point the bible is making?

Example: If 7130 years after Adam in Eden in day six has all LOST, Jesus has all Adam's offsprings that can be saved, SAVED then this was his time frame, so what was people looking for in the first place and this does not tell the day and the hour that the 1000 year reign did began?

Or when it says only God know the day and the hour, what is meant by that?

2007-09-02 00:15:29 · 8 answers · asked by jeni 7 in Religion & Spirituality

At massage spa the boss forbids the staff to carry cel phones as it distracts clients who are sleeping while having body massage and it is not professional for a staff to talk on the phone while doing facial to a clients.

2007-09-02 00:14:59 · 13 answers · asked by pie 1 in Etiquette

A person use words to plant in evil mind into a big group of people with the intention to gain support, self advantage, name, fame, money or political position from their people.

They provoke this people to take evil action, to force the minority group to accept that:

1. they have the right to force the small group to obey and listen according to their wish.
2. do only what I allow.
3. the majority group must have bigger share, rights, credit and the balance for you.
4. you can't learn or have something I do not approve because I do not want you to learn & I have the right to control you.


Sad, the kind innocent people did not realise that they are being program to have evil mind and finally do many evil action unto the innocent minority.

If they are ...
Buddhist (vegetarian & donate a lot of money to temple)
Islam (1 day pray 5 times, puasa penuh)
Christian (pray hard and donate money to churches)

They will end up in the hell or heaven???????

2007-09-02 00:14:13 · 4 answers · asked by suv 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-02 00:12:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm starting to feel very uncomfortable in clubs and bars, or in fact just walking down the street on an evening at the weekend. There seems to be so much hostility. Last night I could've been in three fights for example, but instead just made a joke out of the situation and walked away, but why do people do it? What is with all the attitude? It ruined the night for me and I actually left early so I'm not in the best of moods this morning. Still I keep thinking that I could've dealt with things better. What situations have you had arise and how have you dealt with them?

2007-09-02 00:09:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-09-02 00:03:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality