Society & Culture - 12 September 2007

I believe that a world without scientist would be a much better world as there wouldn't be Atomic bombs and other weapons of mass destruction and I am amazed to hear that most of you think that a world without science in inconceivable...

If you had travelled around the world and visited remote tribe, you'd know that they have no scientists and are happy without them.
In a world without scientist, there would be no medicines (as we know them) but these tribes will tell you that they never used to get sick until they were visited by the first civilised people so they didn't need these remedies until them. Moreover, they are able to use natural plants remedies as cures. Some of you would call this knowledge science but I would disagree with it for the simple fact that you wouldn't call a dog a scientist for eating grass which they sometime do to help digestion? Would you ? Knowledge is one thing, science is another!

Please note: all these tribes have some sort of religious belief.

2007-09-12 03:21:03 · 35 answers · asked by gumtrunk 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-12 03:20:33 · 12 answers · asked by Fae 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-12 03:19:13 · 29 answers · asked by abluebobcat 4 in Other - Society & Culture

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2007-09-12 03:17:41 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I have been with this girl for almost two years, we broke up and she moved out. She is a realtor and lives with a roommate. I just paid her rent, and every month I pay her car insurance, her parents usually pay her car payment. She asks me for money at random times for random things. Well last night she had friends over at her new place, and her roommate lost 200 dollars out of her purse, that someone supposedly stole. She asked me to pay that 200 dollars back. I have a feeling the story may not be true, I am not sure... what do you all think? What should I do? She might just want money, but this story may also be true, either way I am paying the money back. Do you think my ex has something up her sleeve? I am trying to work things out with her, but sometimes I get the feeling it's just about the money. She told me at 1 point in the she wanted to be with a man. Do you think it's just the money?

2007-09-12 03:17:30 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-09-12 03:16:52 · 7 answers · asked by Kelly 3 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-09-12 03:15:10 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-12 03:14:12 · 13 answers · asked by peckpickledpepper 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Ever gone to Church Christians and been in the Church pew and I am talking even to you Christians who are hardcore Believers like me. Well anyways but from the week doing so many things and having so much stuff to do not get the rest on Saturday night that you know you need. Who has done this?

2007-09-12 03:14:05 · 5 answers · asked by calltoperservence 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-12 03:13:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-12 03:11:55 · 14 answers · asked by CrankyYankee 6 in Other - Society & Culture

I dont know much about the lost books except that when they find them they cause a huge stir. So why are they not in the bible?

2007-09-12 03:11:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-12 03:11:37 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Someone asked that with their mind made up and chose the best answer that had 13 thumbs down

I though this was a forum for exchanging ideas not to hold onto ur own no matter what

Thanks for keeping ur minds open


1. Many more individuals are born than can possibly survive, thus there is competition for limited resources

2. Within this vast number there is variation, and because of this variation some of these individuals will have an advantage--however slight--over others

3. The ones who have the advantages are more competitive and thus they are more likely to obtain the limited resources

4. The ones who are succeeding in securing the limited resources are more likely to reproduce and thus pass onto their offspring the more competitive traits

Darwin

2007-09-12 03:10:55 · 29 answers · asked by Man of Ideas 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Fairies have got wing`s but gnomes invented tiny fishing rods for catching lawn trout and goblins are naughty with a dash of the cheeky.

2007-09-12 03:10:19 · 20 answers · asked by fried or boiled? 1 in Mythology & Folklore

we were discussing life and religion and he told me this,

'we need to face the fact that any deity who needs to be protected from the truth arising from any source has died already'

what do you say to this?

2007-09-12 03:09:40 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was born at 6 min's past 12 on Friday the 13th June 1969.
6 6 69

2007-09-12 03:09:04 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The man who took over the presidency from Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, said in a speech to the Senate, “...Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: ‘Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever, and exclaim, Christ first, our country next!’”

Do you see this as too religious ("wearing one's religion on his sleeve in today's jargon) or right on the mark?

2007-09-12 03:07:44 · 16 answers · asked by whitehorse456 5 in Religion & Spirituality

It seems that atheism is an unsubstantiated theory if no evidence exists to prove it conclusively.

2007-09-12 03:07:42 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Oh my god, I would never.

2007-09-12 03:05:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

bulls||it .

2007-09-12 03:02:51 · 13 answers · asked by Thomas 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm 40 yrs old and never worn a bra. I am not large enough to need one and I make a point of never showing cleavage, wearing thick shirts, dark clothes and I layer with a jacket over lighter garments at work. I work at a private school and in my first week my boss showed me a type written page saying she copied it from the dress code in the employee manual listing a bra as a necessary item of clothing. I assured her that was NOT the dress code in the manual as I had a copy of my own and no mention of a bra was in it. I told her that I had never worn one and had no in mention of starting. (Respectfully but firmly). A year passed and no mention was made of the bra issue. Recently she reported me to HR telling them I was "over exposed" and the bra issue has once again reared its head. Is this harassment? Keep in mind that this boss also wrote me up once for having an unopened banana on my desk even though there is no rule against food. And makes staff ask permission to use the restroom

2007-09-12 03:02:33 · 25 answers · asked by Taking a Stand 1 in Etiquette

2007-09-12 03:01:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism.

By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism. This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault. The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.

The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God.

These pagans (Jews and Muslims) must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages." -- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)


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2007-09-12 03:01:15 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

does he like me? i'm so confused..i thought he did coz he talks to me on the phone for hours everyday and he flirts with me all the time..except he emailed me and told me about this new girl he met and how she's so pretty and cool..he wants to ask her out..it really hurts coz i was starting to like him too

2007-09-12 02:59:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

2007-09-12 02:59:05 · 6 answers · asked by Yankeefan1986 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Rejoice! Your sins are forgiven! Jesus died for the sins of all. That includes you whether you like it or not. All you have to do is have FAITH and believe. Yes, it is that simple.

Won't you call upon his name today and allow him to set you free? Whom the Son sets FREE is FREE indeed!

2007-09-12 02:58:59 · 27 answers · asked by A Voice 5 in Religion & Spirituality

When I left 4 months ago the big thing was the drinking game that people who take a cybernetic "drink" when common and somewhat annoying questions were asked. Do we still do that? If so I need to pick up my grape juice!

2007-09-12 02:56:14 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I ask because I'm wondering if the athiest perspective is more broad because they have already tried Christianity, for example. I would expect this is true.

Conversely, I would expect that Christians have not looked deeply at other perspectives as much.

2007-09-12 02:55:07 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Thought provoking..... what if! (please dont post unless you have the courage to watch the whole video)....

2007-09-12 02:54:50 · 7 answers · asked by Bagels 3 in Religion & Spirituality