Society & Culture - 21 November 2007

2007-11-21 19:30:49 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

You know.He is having a problem with understanding my point

2007-11-21 19:27:14 · 9 answers · asked by hkjl_118 1 in Languages

the nation is better off frightened and informed than left happily in the dark.

2007-11-21 19:26:32 · 11 answers · asked by mawenyan 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Every three-year old knows God did it, and created Adam and Eve, if that wasn't the truth, why wouldn't we be teaching them about monkeymen and space aliens, or whatever it is your religion believes.............

2007-11-21 19:23:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

to SDW:

Thanks for compliementing on my Avatar picture. The black and white yin-yang is the traditional symbol for Taoism. When Buddhism merged with Taoism to create Zen Buddhism, the Buddhist symbol of the red and black yin-yang was chosen to represent their faith. Mine is actually older, but the two are actual the same when you get all technical with it.

2007-11-21 19:23:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 19:22:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

For me Thanksgiving was always celebrated at my house with extended family until i was 11, then my dad left and we -my mom and sis, spent thanksgiving with a cousins wifes family who we had nothing in common with and verbally abused us.

After going to his house for 10 yrs we decided to stop, he was so mad he has not spoken to us in 4 years..

To me Thanksgiving reminds me of bad memories, anyone else feel similar?

2007-11-21 19:22:11 · 11 answers · asked by lux s 1 in Thanksgiving

Pius XII entlisted a Jew to save him from the Nazis

"I’m not a believer, I don’t go to church, but if I found myself before Pius XII I’d get down on my knees, because if my children and I are in existence, we owe it to him."

Silvio Ascoli, Roman, class of 1945, was emotional as recounted the story of his father Bruno, "of the Jewish race" according to the norms of the infamous racial laws, whom the Vatican saved from deportation by enrolling him in its Guard.

Last June the Cardinal Secretary of State spoke about this: "In October 1943, aside from the police and the Swiss Guard, there was also the Palatine Guard. To protect the Vatican and the extraterritorial holdings there were some 575 Palatine Guards.. Thus, the Secretary of State asked the powers occupying Italy to be able to take on another 1425 people for inclusion in the roles of the Palatine Guard. The Jewish Ghetto would just a little distance away…".

Now a new witness testifies to the help.

"My father was born in 1910, my granfather’s family belonged to the Jewish community in Ancona, and his sister with her husband were to be deported to Auschwitz." Bruno, who died in 1970, was the son of a mixed marriage and didn’t frequent the Roman Jewish community. On 28 October 1938, just after the racial laws went into force, the man asked to be baptized.

But it was too late to escape the jaws of the regime which were closing around the Jews. The parish priest tried to help him, writing that Ascoli had attended catechism since August of that year, but it didn’t make any difference.

"My folks tried to approach the Ministry of the Interior, attesting that they weren’t enrolled in the Jewish community. But the response was that whoever had a Jewish parent, and couldn’t prove he belonged to another religion at the time when the racial laws went into effect, was considered to be a Jew. My father was baptized to late. for my family this was a terrible blow."

Thus the Ascoli were forced to declare at the Governor of Rome’s offices their membership of the "Jewish race". Two years later, in 1940, Bruno married in church, a Catholic, Maria Bianchi, even though the marriage could not have civil effect. "My mother married him knowind that things could go bad." The couple found a place in the via Famagosta in the Trionfale quarter.

In October 1943, after the arrival of the Germans in the capital, Bruno Ascoli became a wanted by the police. "One day the fascists and nazis showed up at the house and asked for my father. Luckily, he was out. My family managed to let him know not to come back." Bruno escaped and briefly found a place in the loft of the repair shop of a tire dealer. "He stayed there for two week, and my mother went secretly to take him something to eat. But at the end of October, the tire dealer made him leave because it had become too dangerous to keep him there. That is when, thanks to the concern of an uncle who worked in the Vatican Museum as an usher, my father came to be enlisted in the Palatine Guard." Bruno Ascoli became an auxiliary of the Pope’s honor guard, and could live at the Vatican.

"He saved his skin! He stayed there for a few months. There are photos which show him in the Palatine Guard uniform within the walls of the Vatican. In December 1943 he got precious safe-conduct papers from the Holy See attesting to his membership in the Pope’s honor guard." Silvio, the son, explained that he was in a kind of rotation, in the attempt to save as many persecuted people as possible.

"In the first months of 1944, the Holy See told my father about another hideout, in the Via Mocenigo, near the Vatican walls, close to a wood warehouse. This proves there was an organized network of aid and assistance. I also told this to my children: if the Vatican had not helped my father, I would not be here. I believe that Pope Pacelli chose well: no public denunciations which would have provoked acts of repression – I don’t dare imagine what would have happened had the SS entered the Vatican – but rather give concrete help to the persecuted."

2007-11-21 19:19:26 · 4 answers · asked by carl 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Why are people so obsessed with how the earth and humans came to be? Why does it matter weather it was God or an explosion and why do people keep arguing over it today?

2007-11-21 19:17:59 · 15 answers · asked by Kurtus S 1 in Religion & Spirituality

such as the temple get up of a bakers hat , aprons , secret hand shakes, and magical UnderRoo's ?
and the vow they take that says, If I tell anyone of these secrets may I be cut from ear to ear, and my insides be taken out of my body (when taking this vow they motion with their thumb cutting their throat from ear to ear).
this is done in the temple in Utah
I know this for a fact as Ive seen on a video that was taken from an exmormon who taped this while wearing a hidden camera
Why do you deny these things?
I expect denial from Mormons I just want to know why
nothing against you

2007-11-21 19:17:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

No doubt there are lot of descriptions about bhakta and drarmik persons. but how would u define such person in just one sentence.

2007-11-21 19:16:15 · 28 answers · asked by sangeeta iyengar 2 in Religion & Spirituality

And then complain about the decadance, and try to promote Sharia law?

2007-11-21 19:13:41 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

are you serious when you say "it matters whats in the inside?"

2007-11-21 19:13:30 · 24 answers · asked by Rolanda 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I set up two chairs and put up a sign that says "Can I pray for you?" and simply let students, faculty and staff come up and talk. If they need a hug, I hug them. If they need a prayer, I pray for them, with them, over them - whatever they need. If they need to talk, I listen. Think it would get a response?

Mostly I'm asking because the bulk of campus ministers I've seen have been in-your-face, loud, and often condescending. I'm curious whether the opposite would have better results.

2007-11-21 19:11:31 · 9 answers · asked by Veritatum17 6 in Religion & Spirituality

What are you doing for Thanksgiving?

2007-11-21 19:10:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Thanksgiving

Prayer doesn't work, never has never will.

Positive thinking on the other hand......

2007-11-21 19:02:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I haven't been making fun of the religiously impaired in awhile, do people still ask "why there are still monkeys?"

2007-11-21 18:59:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I mean He came back to life. If I was planning to commit the perfect murder I'd be pissed if the victim came back to life.

2007-11-21 18:58:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

some idiomatic expressions that mean "crazy"? Thank you.

2007-11-21 18:51:32 · 3 answers · asked by mrquestion 6 in Other - Society & Culture

i am doing a project called: why did jesus die?

does anyone have any information on this?
that maybe go under these subject headings?

1. Jesus died because of what he did:
e.g. upset the temple

2. Jesus died because of where he lived:
e.g. The romans did not agree with his beliefs

3.Jesus died because of when he lived:
e.g. people did not speak their mind, like Jesus did.


any information on WHY DID JESUS DIE?
is great.
even a sentence would be appreciated!
thankyou

2007-11-21 18:49:23 · 23 answers · asked by yeahbabee! 2 in Religion & Spirituality

happy holidays.
:)
god bless.

2007-11-21 18:45:05 · 6 answers · asked by hamilton_2332 2 in Other - Holidays

2007-11-21 18:45:04 · 20 answers · asked by john r 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I am completely serious. I have considered this in regards to myself. Please think it over before responding. Let's at least pretend that we are intelligent adults.

2007-11-21 18:42:44 · 7 answers · asked by Ultraviolet Oasis 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 18:37:46 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 18:31:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 18:29:42 · 35 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

One source says 1.2 billion (2006 figure)
Another says 1.4 billion (2006 figure)
Another says 1.6 billion (2006 figure)
Another even says 2 billion (A Muslim of course)

I can understand a margin of error of a couple hundred million, but what's with the conflicting statistics?

Who's keeping track, and who subtracts from these figures when people leave Islam?

2007-11-21 18:29:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Have a Happy Thanksgiving Day as we celebrate and thank God together as a Christian Country!

2007-11-21 18:28:29 · 24 answers · asked by Apostle Jeff 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-21 18:25:19 · 32 answers · asked by Apostle Jeff 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Or do you believe that attributing emotions to HIM is a form of anthropomorphism?

2007-11-21 18:24:11 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality