Society & Culture - 5 December 2007

2007-12-05 05:38:36 · 13 answers · asked by David the Gentleman 3 in Senior Citizens

2007-12-05 05:38:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-12-05 05:37:20 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Holidays

Could be a town/someone's house/other country/pub anything at all. I once went camping and stopped at this tiny, quaint village in the Lake District. Went into a pub and everyone - staff, customers - seemed to be American except us two. Very disconcerting. (Don't criticise for posting in wrong list - none seemed right.)

2007-12-05 05:34:52 · 5 answers · asked by Boudicca 4 in Other - Society & Culture

A woman I work with sent all of her employees the following email [see below].
What in tarnation does it MEAN ....?
Can someone PLEASE interpret this ....?
Thanks, all! :)

"I hope this word touches your heart and soul and know that I am not everything that God has called me to be; but I am thankful I am not what I use to be and that I am fit for the future of success, favor, health and prosperity.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear) but He has given us a spirit of power and love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self control@ 2 Timothy 1:7

Paul talks about these secrets in 1 Corinthians 2:7. He calls them "hidden wisdom": "But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory." It's always an exciting and glorious thing to discover God's wisdom. Because when you encounter His wisdom you run right smack into his goodness.

2007-12-05 05:34:43 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have become afraid to go shopping alone.Too many panhandlers that scare me.The other day in broad daylite these 2 men got away with a young ladies purse.I was driving out of the parking lot,but seen them running.

2007-12-05 05:34:31 · 31 answers · asked by Maw-Maw 7 in Senior Citizens

I mean, if you think about it, Christians, Jews, and Muslims aruge and fight over stuff that happened thousands of years ago. Why not just forgive - TRULY forgive - and move on? What's happened cannot be undone, and we are not responsible now for what Abraham did or didn't do, any more than we are for Mohammad, Jesus, or anyone else. If we can never move beyond that stuff, aren't we pretty much all doomed to live in a world of fear forever?

2007-12-05 05:33:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-05 05:33:36 · 13 answers · asked by ? 4 in Religion & Spirituality

If I'm wrong which I',m not and I die I',m just dead. If your wrong which you are, you die you end up in hell. So I have nothing to lose you have nothing to gain. I think I'll choose to believe in God and life after death.

2007-12-05 05:31:17 · 67 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

...and one you have used often in various situations...

2007-12-05 05:31:00 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

Maybe there is a creative, loving force in the universe other than yourself and other living things, and it doesn't really care if you go to church, or eat communion wafers, or eat pork, or meditate properly, or pay homage in the precise direction, but maybe this possibly conscious force in the universe just wants life to succeed, to become less painful for all those involved and live in creativity and harmony? And just maybe this entity doesn't care if you believe in it, or if you question it, but is stable and testable in nature. Maybe even it's not really real or conscious, maybe it's just made of the information of the fundamental values we have as people, values that can change slightly with time as life changes and adapts. Maybe your concept of it is completely different than mine and maybe that's just fine.

It's not about anger or jealousy or force or whatever label you want to place on yourself, it's just a concept of what is real, testable and promotes life.

2007-12-05 05:30:40 · 8 answers · asked by l m 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-05 05:30:16 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Of course this is a generalization, but the vast majority here don't seem to believe in biology.

2007-12-05 05:29:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Doesn't that mean he created evil? If he didn't want evil to exist, it wouldn't. Why make innocents suffer?

2007-12-05 05:29:09 · 13 answers · asked by isnrblogdotcalm 5 in Religion & Spirituality

If a religion needs to have a concept of God and Scientology doesn't have it, where does that leave Scientology if that's the case?

2007-12-05 05:29:08 · 6 answers · asked by Papucho 5 in Religion & Spirituality

if so, why prayer request?

if not, is he worth worshiping?

2007-12-05 05:29:08 · 10 answers · asked by Jeff S Phoenix_AM 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I always sneeze during having a cuppa tea, annoying when you have the cup in your hand.

2007-12-05 05:28:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

I'm not a discriminate person, but really, why do Christians want to make everyone else part of their religion?! It's kind of irritating sometimes. It's not that hard to not worry about what everyone else is doing. If some Christians would just learn to love, maybe they'd end up in heaven, like they want to. And I'm NOT Athiest. Don't assume so just because I want to say something on the ongoing discriminative subject. It's just irritating how some people have the NERVE to say some of the things they do. Every other religion does a better job in loving everyone else than the many Christians in the world. Could WE just go to heaven? We follow the rules better than the Christians do! I don't want to hear rude responses. If you have an INTELLIGENT answer, then go ahead, but if it's discriminatory then I don't want to hear it. I know that this question WASN'T what you would call NOT discriminate, but really? Can't I just say SOMETHING?

2007-12-05 05:28:17 · 52 answers · asked by Liv 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Please dear God think of the homeless children who will not have a meal tonight, children with diseases and no medication, the elderly whose family doesn't visit them, the neglected, abused, emotionally starved, and all peoples who need prayer, and me too. Peace.

2007-12-05 05:28:08 · 7 answers · asked by Born Valentine's Day 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-05 05:27:55 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

Sapien?

2007-12-05 05:27:50 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

you kow when it says "a woman must learn in quietness and full submission, I do not permit her to speak, I do not permit her to usurp authority over men" what would happen if the wife was disobedient? would he punish her sexually and emotionally and socially but not loving her or responding in a pleasant manner to her conduct or would he hit her?

2007-12-05 05:27:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-05 05:27:36 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Anyway, here goes...http://www.avolites.org.uk/movies/lights.wmv

Happy Solstice!!

Peace.

2007-12-05 05:27:14 · 3 answers · asked by -Tequila17 6 in Mythology & Folklore

I am a mature law student. I am been increasingly annoyed by the fact one of our lecturers keeping swearing during lectures the F word is frequently used and T***t plus others. Do you think this acceptable from someone at this academic level, does it give the younger students an excuse to do the same thing? The law department expects their students to write academically with correct grammer etc. What would say if I used swearing in my essays. Do you think I should pull him up on it, or will I make him mark my grades down. I just cringe when I hear it.

2007-12-05 05:27:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-12-05 05:25:53 · 2 answers · asked by spgurl4ever 1 in Languages

2007-12-05 05:25:50 · 32 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I pride myself on being a great gifter but I am so at a loss with this guy. He's around 50 (?) and the outdoor type. I refuse to resort to the gift card thing and we have a $20 limit. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

2007-12-05 05:25:44 · 11 answers · asked by missmel 4 in Valentine's Day

To believe in God and not to obey his "rules" or not to believe in God?

2007-12-05 05:25:03 · 14 answers · asked by Zivko V 1 in Religion & Spirituality

In a universe where all actions are based on the results of previous actions how is human thought NOT part of that?
Sure we can do what we desire to do but we cannot decide what it is that we desire most.
An illusion of free will is experienced due to the generation of infinite behaviour from the interaction of finite-deterministic set of rules and parameters. Thus the unpredictability of the emerging behaviour from deterministic processes leads to a perception of free will, even though free will as an ontological entity does not exist.

2007-12-05 05:23:20 · 23 answers · asked by Clint 4 in Religion & Spirituality