Society & Culture - 11 September 2007

Why, or why not?

2007-09-11 10:01:54 · 7 answers · asked by Graham 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Are you flying your flag? I am. I find it scary that in the weeks following 9/11, stores were running out of American flags, as everyone had one hanging on their house, car, or apartment balcony! Now, you hardly see any on this day. It's shameful. I am also wearing red, white, and blue today. Later tonight, I will light a hoodoo candle and ask that the dead rest in peace.

2007-09-11 10:00:04 · 19 answers · asked by nottashygirl 6 in Other - Society & Culture

I have friends of all sorts and we all get on

2007-09-11 10:00:01 · 27 answers · asked by IAN T 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Most Christians say that gambling is a sin. This is the reason why gambling is illegal in most of the USA, and why the most avid opponents of Casinos opening up in new places are usually the religious...

In which case wouldn't god reserve a special place in hell for those who believe in him/her based upon Pascal's Wager?

2007-09-11 09:59:54 · 18 answers · asked by Byron A 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-11 09:58:20 · 6 answers · asked by Kimmy D 1 in Religion & Spirituality

What does Christianity have to say about natural selection

2007-09-11 09:57:40 · 6 answers · asked by life_rules 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Okay, so, say theres a family dog who has cancer or any other disease, and he is certain to die. If it is okay, and kinder, to put a dog to sleep, to save the suffering, and to let it die an unpainful dignified death without suffering and pain, why is human voluntary euthanasia illegal?? It really doesnt make sense to me that what is fair and right and legal for a dog is not legal for a human, and a human who actually wants it. The human who craves a dignified unpainful death is forced to suffer and die months later in absolute agony, while the dog got the better deal. Of course i wouldnt want dogs to suffer, but i dont want humans to suffer either. I think its ludicrous. Who agrees or disagrees with me? And why?

2007-09-11 09:57:30 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Simply a question to the Americans, I am British and love America and Britian but what do Americans think of Britain?

Fanks Guys.

2007-09-11 09:57:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Here's two examples that I know of:

Mendel, a monastic priest, discovered genetic inheritance. He's also known as the "father of modern genetics."

Late medieval age monks copied many of Aristotle's and other Greek philosopher's work which were later distributed amongst the commoners which led to a secular humanist movement. The secular humanism movement was one of the precursors that started the Renaissance.

2007-09-11 09:57:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-11 09:56:21 · 22 answers · asked by Voldemort 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-11 09:56:16 · 6 answers · asked by vizicky 1 in Religion & Spirituality

It seems most places you go, either in RL or on the internet, religious criticism is met with much the same reaction as if you'd just admitted you murdered someone. Even a rational criticism of religion, such as pointing out that there is no evidence that supports the existence of a god, and even less to justify specific god beliefs, is met with hostility, and sometimes threats.

2007-09-11 09:55:59 · 40 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 in Religion & Spirituality

my son told me his friend jirome is going to this atheist church online.
he be told jesus is not real.
what i do?
poor kid going to hell.
god already cursed him with paralysis.
i got to save him b4 its 2 late.
i just love this child like my own.
i not want noone going to hell.
praise jesus!

2007-09-11 09:55:12 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

We have all of these shows about fat people like "Biggest Loser" and that new show where fat people walk 500 miles...and they are rewarded with prizes. A couple of months my mother told me about an Opera episode where this fat guy always wanted a Porsche, but he was so fat that he couldn't fit into one! So he lost a ton of weight, and Oprah bought him a Porsche. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that these people are losing weight, but why should they be rewarded for allowing themselves to get morbidly obese in the first place? I've never been fat, because I bust my butt in the gym 4 nights a week...Where's my freakin Porsche? Do you think that fat people being rewarded for being fat is right or wrong? Your thoughts please.

2007-09-11 09:55:10 · 10 answers · asked by Swayze 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Why do people join an answer forum and then ask questions and lie like crazy. I just don't understand that. Just one example here...they will ask questions saying they are a virgin and you look on their profile and there are questions from them stating they are pregnant and looking for baby names. I could just go on and on with examples but I will spare you that. Sometimes it makes me feel foolish when I have honestly answered a question and then I find out it was just a bogus question. It just makes no sense at all to me...does it to you?

2007-09-11 09:54:54 · 4 answers · asked by Dutch 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-09-11 09:54:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-11 09:53:51 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Today, being the aniversy of 911, i woke up with a strange feelings. All day I seem to feel such a deep sorrow in my heart, as if I was grieving for a lost father, or wife. It is hard to explain the sorrow, it is pure pain, as if I watched someone else die right in front of me, as if I was, idk, in just pure grief. I didnt lose anyone to 9/11, but it feels like it, I also has a actual feeling, it feels that i have been having huge weight upon me, as if a ton of bricks was put onto my back. Like a phyiscal weight. I woke up with this heavy feeling. Help?

2007-09-11 09:51:39 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The reason I ask this question is because I do not understand what some of my friends are talking about. Fundamentalists Christians, Liberalist Christians, Traditional Catholics & Non- Traditional Catholics, Evangelical Christians & Charismatic Christians (Or Catholics)
What do all of these terms mean, I am so confuesed.

Please answer respectfully thank you.

2007-09-11 09:50:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-11 09:50:26 · 31 answers · asked by janigurl 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

"EMO" mean? I have heard so many people ask are you emo or refer to someone as being emo. What does it actually mean though?

2007-09-11 09:50:15 · 8 answers · asked by Tickle me 2 in Other - Society & Culture

sell bibles? It's kinda like they're profiting off the word of God, in a way. and we all know that about 60% of that money does not go to charities and such. it goes to getting the church better bathrooms and getting the pastor's (or preacher's, or priest's, i can't remember which at the moment) car washed.

lol, if you take offense to that last part, just answer the first part. don't ~you~ think it's weird that churches are profiting off the word of God?

2007-09-11 09:49:43 · 33 answers · asked by :) 4 in Religion & Spirituality

what does the Bible say about suicide.

2007-09-11 09:49:42 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

or lack thereof.

Or the last book that disagreed with your beliefs?

2007-09-11 09:48:43 · 30 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you believe Moses kill 3000 of his own people at one time?
Do you believe Moses killed an Egyptian ?
Do you believe Moses killed more than a thousand men in the name of war ?
Do you believe Moses made laws that put people to death.
Do you believe Moses made an image of the serpent and put it on top of a pole ?
Do you believe Moses said to his people look upon the serpent and you will not die from snake bites ?
Do you belive that Moses made fire come down from heaven ?
Do you believe Moses caused the Egyptions children to die by passover.
Do you believe Moses turned his staff into a serpent.

Who do you believe the God of Moses was, God the Father who art in heaven ?

or the serpent ?

One last question who did Jesus kill ?

2007-09-11 09:47:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-11 09:47:07 · 11 answers · asked by Feed the models! 4 in Languages

2007-09-11 09:46:31 · 17 answers · asked by highriselather 3 in Religion & Spirituality

can any of you homely yokels from the South explain what this statement is supposed to mean?

2007-09-11 09:45:17 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

"It's his body and should be his choice. If he wants it done when he is a little older, I would have no problem aranging and paying for that. But it's so perminant that if I decide wrong now, I don't want to have to explain that mistake later in life."

2007-09-11 09:43:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

(This is theoretical, and not meant to be construed as an attack on any one religion)

How would you react?

NOTE: I do not wish to get into the hows and why's it was invalidated. That's not my question.

2007-09-11 09:42:17 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality