Society & Culture - 24 September 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297840,00.html

Police in Norfolk VA are investigating a brutal attack on a 13 year old white student by a group of blacks. Will Al Sharpton march here too?

Blacks are raised in a culture of violence. That is the reason there are more blacks in prison than in grad school. That is the reason the leading cause of death among black men is being murdered by other black men.

If this attack doesn't qualify as a hate crime, then we just ahve to admit that "hate crimes" are merely a way to keep alive the myth that whites actively target blacks. A white person is 10 times more likely to be attacked by a black person, than a black person is to be attacked by a white.

Something must be done about this rap culture of violence.

2007-09-24 14:40:25 · 20 answers · asked by A Plague on your houses 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-09-24 14:39:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ramadan

Okay, first of all, PLEASE don't discriminate me on my religion. As of right now...I'm Atheist. I was raised as a Catholic. (Okay...so technically I'm still being "raised" because I'm only thirteen...anyway) I'm confused. I just don't know what to believe. Part of me says "Yes, there IS a God." But the other part is saying, "It's impossible!" For one, if I do go back to Christianity, I don't want to be Catholic. It's too...uptight. But how do I do this? I'm confused...lost. Please help me.

*PLEASE do not say "You're thirteen, you have to believe what your parents want you to believe.* My parents don't care; they actually want me to be my own person.

2007-09-24 14:38:54 · 22 answers · asked by ErikaEmpirical. 3 in Religion & Spirituality

What did a newborn do to anger gawd and make him give the newborn Incompetent Design or Inhumane Design?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahv9uRc4FbgRdYyXVkygRNfsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070924174537AAaMVD8&show=7#profile-info-M4tAy4ECaa

2007-09-24 14:38:49 · 11 answers · asked by FORMER Atheist Now Praising FSM! 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-24 14:36:29 · 18 answers · asked by LFL 3 in Senior Citizens

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnnKGy5u23sRun8dPRUSJvDsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070924183411AAlr5I6

Thanks!

2007-09-24 14:35:49 · 18 answers · asked by /\v/\TARD 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Just wondering if it is even worth your while fighting the deletion process.

2007-09-24 14:35:31 · 6 answers · asked by Edward J 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-24 14:35:06 · 5 answers · asked by grodezno@sbcglobal.net 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I know that majority of Christians believe that if you are not a Christian, if you do not believe in Jesus as your savior, you will end up TORTURED for billions of years from a" loving" and "JUST" God in a HORRIFIC hell fire.
If they think this is not sadistic and unjust, do they apply this kind of "love" to their kids?
I mean , if their version of God is supposed to be our loving father, do they as parents punish their kids by setting the house of fire and burn them till the end of their lives hoping that after that they will still love them? Or do they threat their kids to use such a punishment as a sign of their "LOVE"?

Remember this, I said majority of Christians believe in a hell -torture not all , some believe that hell is the grave.
This question is for the majority that believes in hell as a torture place for non-believers in this cult of "love".

2007-09-24 14:35:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What made Saint Joshua a saint? What achievements did he accomplish?

2007-09-24 14:33:48 · 2 answers · asked by Digital USAR 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-24 14:32:28 · 53 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-24 14:31:41 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

No lame Answers this time either like"Thats what the bible says" Use your brain this time. No sheep allowed.

2007-09-24 14:30:47 · 18 answers · asked by Bryan W 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Too religion

2007-09-24 14:29:36 · 3 answers · asked by Kelvin G 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I have been in a seminary class for a fair amount of time and have had yet another prevelant question. Keep in mind this is a LDS Seminary.

The purpose for life is in agency and the choice to be good or bad, and to learn from those choices. Yet, God sent a great flood to rid the world of all the sin it had fallen into. Doesn't that defeat the point of agency and suggest God saying "You can do whatever, but if ya choose wrong, your dead". I know its not that simple, but take the essence and respond.

For those who didnt read that all- Didnt the Great Flood contradict our so-called freewill?

2007-09-24 14:29:28 · 12 answers · asked by Justin H 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I have been at my current job for 3 months. I'm a recent college grad and this is my first real world job. I give it my all and I was so excited for this job at first... then it happened. The girl training me turned into a psycho beyotch. She tells me to ask questions, yet snips at me when I do. When I don't ask questions and make my own decisions, then she tells me I've done something wrong. She's an annoying overachiever who wants to run the whole dept. I'm nothing but nice to her, but every time I talk to her she makes me feel pathetic and stupid. I'm a smart girl. I graduated Magna *** Laude (3.9 GPA) and have always excelled in past jobs. She's bringing me down so bad I've started looking for other jobs. I cannot go to upper management because I'm in HR and the rest of the department worships her (I have no clue why). She treats me FAR different than the others in the department. I'm the first person she's ever "trained" so I think she's letting it go to her head.

2007-09-24 14:29:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

If a man died who lived in the deepest jungle and had never heard the name of Jesus, do you think he would go to heaven? Let's say he was a really good man....never killed, was good to his wife, etc...

2007-09-24 14:26:30 · 16 answers · asked by Suzi♥Squirrel 4 in Religion & Spirituality

The time of the exodus is usually estimated to the 13th century BC, during the reign of Ramses II. The only evidence of wall destruction around Jericho is dated to the 16th century BC. Some Biblical scholars give the emporer at the time of Joshuah as Thutmose III (around 1460BC). The wall collapse is dated to a century before his reign, around 1550BC. How does this work out?

2007-09-24 14:26:24 · 3 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-24 14:26:15 · 1 answers · asked by KarlosCharlos 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Everything from Retirement age, Social benefits, healthcare treatment, recruitment, biased treatment and reporting in all areas of crime and order, biased treatment in parenting and family and marital law, no equality in parliament no minister for men etc etc...? When will this change and are people happy about it remember your sons will one day be second class citizens also.....

2007-09-24 14:23:52 · 13 answers · asked by agoodfatherwivnolegalrights 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Well my sister wants a geisha so my mom thought that i should get one for her cuz of her birthday coming up. Although I DON"T KNOW WHERE TO GET A GEISHA COSTUME!. She wants it kind of gothic and like a short dress. I want to buy it at a store like target, walmart, or kmart. So pLZ help ME!

2007-09-24 14:22:53 · 2 answers · asked by ! ! ! 3 in Halloween

Why is it that I see such poor spelling, punctuation and sentence structure here on Y!A? While one obvious answer is the lack of decent education, it would seem likely that people who wish to use a written form of communication might eventually improve their skills, what I'm seeing instead is more like a complete lack of respect or care for any precision in communication.

I see comments such as "You KNOW what I meant." Unfortunately, this isn't always true. While one may GUESS, the only way to be certain one is understood is to write in an unambiguous fashion. This is facilitated by using good writing skills. Do people no longer care if they are understood?

2007-09-24 14:22:51 · 3 answers · asked by Deirdre H 7 in Languages

who founded it? wat r some beliefs? god worshipped? what do they strive for and how? wat does karma..reincarnation and nirvana have to do with buddhism?

2007-09-24 14:22:38 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I had an answer removed yesterday, because I said Black Africans look down on African-Americans as lazy, violent and dysfunctional. I just want to post some support for that position. Since it's not PC for a white man to comment on black culture, I'm including a quote from a black "scholar" and a link if anyone is more interested.

But, almost invariably, whenever the Nigerians talked about African Americans, they would use the term akata. I didn't know what they meant by that and I never asked them. It didn't take me long to figure out that they were referring to American blacks. I did not detect any hostility towards them, or a condescending tone when they talked about these cousins of ours in the diaspora. ... It was not until years later that I found out what the term akata meant after I read an article in the Detroit Free Press by a Nigerian reporter, or someone with a Nigerian (Yoruba) name, who explained what it meant: a brutal wild animal or something like that.

2007-09-24 14:22:33 · 15 answers · asked by A Plague on your houses 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Frankly saying, who is she? It's like going on here for days. Pls. include some link.

2007-09-24 14:22:22 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-09-24 14:21:23 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I would have to say that most the atheists on YA are just as preachy and self righteous as the christians that they constantly try to question and bash. If you dont believe in god thats fine but why do you even care if sombody else believes. I dont know but most of the atheists ive seen on this sight are just about as closed minded and ignorant as those right wing christian conservative types that they all claim to be so much better than.

2007-09-24 14:20:50 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"[Ahmadinejad] provoked derisive laughter by responding to a question about Iran's execution of homosexuals by saying: 'In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country ... I don't know who's told you that we have this.'"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_re_us/iran_us

2007-09-24 14:20:41 · 13 answers · asked by . 3 in Religion & Spirituality

how was it found? wat r some beliefs? wats the caste system? important books? polytheistic? karma? samsara? and moksha?

2007-09-24 14:20:09 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB403.html

2007-09-24 14:19:49 · 19 answers · asked by Fur Q 2 in Religion & Spirituality