Society & Culture - 19 September 2007

I say why the hell not...

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2007-09-19 08:40:28 · 6 answers · asked by mutterhals 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-19 08:40:01 · 52 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

is it worth buying?

2007-09-19 08:37:55 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

- Where did he/she come from?
- Why did he make all the exciting stuff sinful/wrong?
- Why did he make all the foods that taste good bad for us?
- Why did he make us curious and then tell us that is wrong?

- Why did he make one religion and then change his mind and make a new one? (does he make mistakes?)
- Why doesn't he just stop all this Islam vs West crap?

- If he created the universe why didn't he just tell us that the world wasn't flat etc instead of letting people be tortured to death for heresay?

- Does he just have some kind of whacky sense of humour... a la Monty Python or something?

- Why doesn't he just stomp on the devil if he is the root of evil?

2007-09-19 08:37:35 · 29 answers · asked by Wayne Kerr 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-19 08:37:19 · 11 answers · asked by Cipher 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I have been praying and praying for something and haven't got an answer yet!

2007-09-19 08:35:27 · 11 answers · asked by ♥Enya♥ 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Sometimes there are two really good answers and I have a hard time choosing best answer. So I might look at their profiles to see who has opinions more like me. And even if there is only one good answer, I always look at that persons profile out of curiosity, just to see how they've asked and answered other questions before I give them best answer. So does anybody else do that besides me???

2007-09-19 08:34:08 · 40 answers · asked by Moxie! 6 in Religion & Spirituality

were would be the best place to ask for a donation to move and for a little food?

2007-09-19 08:32:38 · 6 answers · asked by wlorch1 1 in Community Service

2007-09-19 08:31:38 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-19 08:31:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I spent sometime professionally as a cartoonist, so I got paid to see the humour in things. However, people of late have gotten so overly sensitive about everything it seems to me. I especially notice it when visiting Y!A, people tend to take issue and find offense in the most innocent remarks or turns of phrases. So here I am, wanting to ask a question concerning something that used to be considered mildly amusing but afraid I'll get a violation instead of honest answers. Hopefully people will see some validity in my question to not have that happen. Here goes.

It would be funny, in an ironic sort of way, if you met someone whose last name fit their occupation. Such as if they were a chef and their name was Cook, or a bank teller and their name was Clerk. In this way it's funny because they opted to choose a job which matched their last name. But it also used to be funny in an ironic way when a person's last name happened to be associated in some way with who they happened to be.

2007-09-19 08:31:15 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-09-19 08:30:38 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-19 08:30:21 · 13 answers · asked by ♥Enya♥ 4 in Religion & Spirituality

to ask questions about the care and feeding of their parrots, yet?

2007-09-19 08:29:24 · 5 answers · asked by Jess H 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-19 08:29:04 · 20 answers · asked by ♥Enya♥ 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I've always worn mine out of habit, but I recently found out that there's a VERY good reason to do so -
If you don't wear one and you're in an accident, your body is thrown up against the front of the car and then whiplashes into the back of your seat. The problem is, as you're moving backward, your internal organs are still moving forward - again causing whiplash that breaks a lot of spines and causes internal organ damage that KILLS you.
Gross, huh?
Was I just living under a rock by not knowing this?
And does knowing this information make a difference in your decision to wear a seat belt or not?

2007-09-19 08:28:51 · 29 answers · asked by Roland'sMommy 6 in Etiquette

Why? Why Not? I have never had one. I really dislike needles...

2007-09-19 08:28:34 · 41 answers · asked by kayboff 7 in Senior Citizens

I am not going to get maudlin in drink - but it was such a sweet (and short) thing.

I fear that I am forever going to be just a lonely old hen lady.

Oh - I forgot - I don't have any hens now either!

What is there in life for me now?

A tattoo that no-one wants to see, an empty hen house and Mr. Eyedontnose permanently in the recovery position.

Hey ho!

2007-09-19 08:28:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

Beef, is it really whats for dinner?

2007-09-19 08:28:10 · 11 answers · asked by The Space Cowboy 1 in Religion & Spirituality

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth." ------- THOMAS JEFFERSON


"Christianity...[has become] the most perverted system that ever shone on man....Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus." ------ THOMAS JEFFERSON

"In every country and in every age the PRIEST/PASTOR has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." – THOMAS JEFFERSON

"...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, 'Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,' which was rejected-----'By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.'" ----- From Jefferson's biography:


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"Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." -- James Madison

"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people." - James Madison

"HISTORY records that the money changers(Jews) have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance". -- James Madison
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"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved--the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"--John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson

"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity." --John Adams

"The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." - John Adams, Founding Father and 2nd US President.

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"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
-- Abraham Lincoln

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"If they be good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa, or Europe; they may be Mohammedans, Jews, or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists." – GEORGE WASHINGTON

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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."-- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1758

"I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity." -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, _Works_ Vol.VII, p.75

"If we look back into history for the character of the present sects of Christianity, we shall find few that have not in turns been persecutors and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution on the Roman church, but preactied i on the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice both here (England) and in New England"-- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1758

Christianity [Religion] I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another."-- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN








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2007-09-19 08:27:57 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I can tell you how many times in high school where clans of boys especially, gang up ie, football teams, soccer teams, car clubs, and even get in fights over that stuff, its natural human nature. Do you think for one min. that a white boy playing a violin would be accepted in a black ghetto rap gangsta group? This is common sense, its not even racist as much is it is clanish and group against group competition its been going since man first started swingin sticks and pounding fists. You see this in all primates Gorilla, chimps, baboons and us too, we are the best at rivalry we love war vengence, greed, pride, its all part of what makes us survive.
You see this happening in black on black groups, or white on white, chineese on chineese groups, but the whole nations stands up and notices if its black on white or white on black this is just the infantile nature of our state of being human. Maybe in a few million more yrs we will see the light:)

2007-09-19 08:26:41 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-09-19 08:25:54 · 19 answers · asked by Ashvin 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Does anyone high five anymore? Or is that not cool anymore?

2007-09-19 08:24:34 · 3 answers · asked by Balrog 2 in Other - Society & Culture

As I'm not a native english speaker, I'm trying to translate something I'm not sure how to.

This is about the painting that covers a pipe. It seems the pipe is painted first with some covering, and then, finished with another one.

In spanish we would use the word "acabado" to understand the way something looks finished, or to express the type of material something is covered with.

Here I have to translate the word "acabado" to express then, the type of painting of the pipe.

I hope to be making myself clear on this, and thanks for trying helping me.

2007-09-19 08:22:49 · 4 answers · asked by Mexicano36 3 in Languages

I grew up Christian, & believe in God. But I still question why so many strict Christians proclaim our way to be the "only" way. It seems silly. Couldnt it be that as long as a person fully and spiritually believes in a higher power (whether it be God, Allah, Buddah, etc), that their after life will REFLECT whatever it happens to be that they believe in? Heres what I mean: If some ppl believe in Buddhism, couldnt it be possible that THOSE PPL DO experience reincarnation? And then Christians, who believe in heaven and hell, couldnt it be possible that they experience THAT in their after life cuz its where their spirit lies? What I'm saying is that Christians ideas about the after life are so restricting and should instead reflect DIVERSE beliefs because, after all, every person is uniquely their own physically, mentally AND spiritually. Since so many Christians are stuck on heaven or hell, what do they suppose happens to those "others" who believe in, say...reincarnation?

2007-09-19 08:22:42 · 29 answers · asked by Alaina's Mumma! 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Its on crosses and I have no clue what it means.

2007-09-19 08:22:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-19 08:22:19 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-19 08:22:14 · 7 answers · asked by NONAME 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm doing a report on Daniel Boone, but its on American folklore, i need to know whats fake and real about him.

2007-09-19 08:21:19 · 4 answers · asked by cuttie_pie2480 2 in Mythology & Folklore

Pathological liars are so good at lying that I pity the poor soul who is dating one.

2007-09-19 08:20:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender