Society & Culture - 6 October 2007

The dress code

2007-10-06 17:29:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In honor of TennisGuy's idea of lightening the mood around here...

Tell me - what's your favorite Zen Koan and why?

2007-10-06 17:29:36 · 8 answers · asked by D.Chen 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-06 17:27:39 · 15 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Why does it seem like there's two forms of EMO audiences: 1)the nerdy-guitar-strumming-black-rimmed-glasses-wearing-messenger-bag-carrying retard (think Dashboard Confessional) and 2) the wannabe-facepainting-eyeliner-abusing-goth-whore (think Good Charlotte)......since when did Goth and accoustic guitar get lumped together into EMO?

2007-10-06 17:26:42 · 1 answers · asked by aloha1 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

We all know that God's favorite football team is probably the Saints (the whole name and all, although I secretly think He's a big fan of Manning and the Colts), but more importantly...is He a Bud light fan, or Miller light?

2007-10-06 17:26:33 · 13 answers · asked by sketch_mylife 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I am asking this because in answering another question a couple of people said they attend nondenominational churches.

I am going to a nondenominational church tomorrow. This church is not in the town where I live; I am going with somebody who is very shy, but looking for a church home.

Everything on their website seems reasonable enough to me, but I’m not entirely sure what to expect.

Could you tell me about your nondenominational church?

Are they usually similar to other protestant services?

2007-10-06 17:25:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

if you are at the store with somebody and ur buying pants or shorts for them and you dont know the size they wear how do you check it

i know im not an adult yet but my aunt always has me turn around and looks in from behind and its embarassing

how would you check or how do you?

2007-10-06 17:23:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

i always wondered, is it because of a war? or what, do they also hate mexicans, italians, or japanese?

2007-10-06 17:22:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I used to be Atheist, now I'am actively searching God through researching religions..(im now on Islam and Christianity FYI).....but what i fear is that..what if i die tommorow while im still on this journey of mine discovering God and the right way to serve him. Would i get sent to hell? even though i had good intentions of seeking the truth? thankyou

2007-10-06 17:18:48 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-06 17:17:00 · 8 answers · asked by g 1 in Halloween

If there is a power greater than man, it could exist in any form from totally mindless energy to all powerful superbeing. To pick a point on the spectrum to make it a persona, we'll give it 1billion to 1 odds against. Given individual existance ranging from viruses to humans, we'll give it another billion to 1 against it being even remotely like humans would imagine. Even if it has the thoughts, emotions and so on, we'll have to give it another billion to 1 against it caring a bit about one species on this insignificant little dustball planet. To have the characteristics of any deity used in any religion, there goes another billion to one on the spectrum. To be specifically a particular deity, that a present religion follows, completely off the scale. To be the particular deity that your religion follows? hmmmmmm
Why am I suppose to believe this religion stuff again?

2007-10-06 17:15:38 · 16 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-06 17:10:58 · 7 answers · asked by TRACER 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Why are Old English dental fricatives voiceless at the beginning and end of words?
In Modern English words like "the" and "this" the interdental is voiced due to assimilation.
Is there some kind of linguistic process which dictates that Old English dental fricatives at the beginning and end of a word must be voiceless?

2007-10-06 17:06:08 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

tomorrow?? If so religion?

2007-10-06 17:03:02 · 41 answers · asked by They Love to Hate me 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Yesterday an R & S regular who I believe is an atheist asked for everyone of every belief to “keep my sister in your thoughts, spells, and prayers” as she is suffering with cancer. The best answer went to a Wiccan. I was emotionally touched and truly impressed with the outpouring of love from the theists, and only theists responded to this question. I felt a sense of shame for not answering this question because I usually try to answer this person’s questions as I find them interesting. I felt like I had nothing to offer. This would have been a bad time to spew my anti religion stance in my often sarcastic manner and I don’t believe this is an appropriate time to say anything negative. I consider myself an atheist and consider Pascal’s Wager to be highly irrational, however, I was wondering how this might be applied to prayer. Continued:

2007-10-06 17:02:50 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I need to know how many mythologies are there for one event - eclipse.

2007-10-06 17:02:06 · 4 answers · asked by rland57 1 in Mythology & Folklore

I'm disabled and spent ed the morning in the sun watching the birds play,
it was nice.

2007-10-06 16:59:38 · 9 answers · asked by wolfe_tone43 5 in Mythology & Folklore

rapist and how many of you if you are married or were to get married would divorce your wife if she was raped and got pregnant by the rapist? I'm just curious because my husband told me that it's an option for the woman who is raped in Islam to marry the rapist. Also if a Muslim woman is raped and gets pregnant what happens to the baby? Does it go into the custody of the rapist or his family or is she allowed to get custody of it? I'm asking because I'm just curious about this and I would like to know how the child would be treated by the Muslim community if it was the product of a rape.

2007-10-06 16:56:51 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ramadan

lets say this dude have a plan to assasinate Satan for the Love of God, his plan is to sin alot so when he dies he will go to hell and then whack out Satan with a wiffleball bat or shoot him in the head or something, will he still be qualified if he succeed or not???

2007-10-06 16:56:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-06 16:55:59 · 16 answers · asked by Propet Muhammed 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Particularly for people who didn't believe in God before, and know do, but also for people who have always believed--what sustains that belief?

This sounds very Christocentric, but it goes for any religion.

I am searching.

2007-10-06 16:54:40 · 27 answers · asked by Nipivy 4 in Religion & Spirituality

sounds absolutely bland? I mean it just has like... no emotion. Like italian/french are beautiful and I can hear emotion even if I don't know what is being said, Swedish is extremely melodic and beautiful when spoken by a native, German is unique because IMO it sounds like they are speaking with their mouths full of spit, ect.

I just don't think English has any of these unique things.

2007-10-06 16:52:29 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

How come Jews will go to hell I mean the Trinity says Jesus is God and the Jews worships God, I am confused our teacher says that the RCC does not care what religion you convert to since we all only have one God

what I meant to say is if the Muslim's God and The Jews God are the Same as the Christians God so how come the Jews and Muslims will go to hell by not accepting Jesus Christ which is the same God as the Muslim's and jews because of the trinity

2007-10-06 16:52:00 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-06 16:51:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-10-06 16:49:50 · 10 answers · asked by me 2 in Halloween

Its kinda a long story to tell but i'll try to make it as short as possible. Ok so I got interested in auras, and I can see them. And by getting interested in auras which are closly connected to the New Age, demons would come into my room when I was trying to sleep and terrorize me. I didn't know why they were bothering me, until today my best friend taylor (who can also see auras) that her mom researched aura's and found out that it was basically satanic. I have had demons in my room since the begining of january 07. And its horrible to sense their presense and be so frightend that you can't get to sleep. But I blessed my room and they went away for awhile. But then sometimes came back. But I repented and I really am sorry for getting into this new age stuff, but I know that satin is not going to give up without a fight. And knowing this its going to be hard to go to bed tonight. Even though they haven't been in my room for a while.....But I know that they'll come again.

2007-10-06 16:48:38 · 38 answers · asked by Aravis 3 in Religion & Spirituality

This story about the so called "Hobbits" and several like it that have appeared over the last few months suggest to me that the Theory of Evolution is a theory that is constantly changing and growing as new data is discovered and integrated.

This doesn't seem like a dogma or religion to me - it sounds like good, solid science. What do you think?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20891440/site/newsweek/page/0/

2007-10-06 16:48:24 · 22 answers · asked by Alan 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-06 16:47:18 · 16 answers · asked by moose 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I'm in my 30s & I recently went back to school. I'm only one of two black girls in the huge class. There's a girl in my class who is really rude. I asked her (in a very polite manner) if she could lower her voice b/c I was having a hard time focusing on my work. For the rest of the class, she kept making racist innuendos. The clever (and evil) thing about an innuendo is that it's not strong enough for you to prove that it's directed at you or that's it's rooted in hate. I can't get it off of my mind. I can't believe that someone will stoop that low. When someone can't make a comment about your character, they just make a nasty comment about your race. She has started to kindof bully me. She has said or done something rude to me almost everyday. The funny thing is that we are adults and we have a bully in class. The other adults say nothing or flock to her when she starts this, I think out of fear or just b/c they enjoy trouble. How do I handle her and the anger?

2007-10-06 16:46:53 · 9 answers · asked by mommabear7000 1 in Religion & Spirituality

White or European? I've always checked the "European" or "Other" box, but am I considered White?

2007-10-06 16:45:03 · 11 answers · asked by tianac23@sbcglobal.net 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups