Society & Culture - 10 December 2007

Hi,
I am learning japanese characters, the characters are ordered in the sounds for example "n" and "ni"

Why would you have the character for "ni" instead of "n" and "i" after, or the other way round, what is the reason, or can you use it either way?
Thanks

2007-12-10 09:48:58 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Does anyone know why the Romenovs were executed?
I've heard the "the country was upset" thing, and don't exactly buy it.
Any other reasons that might have been why they were killed?

2007-12-10 09:48:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Royalty

would you ever marry someone not related to you?

2007-12-10 09:48:20 · 11 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Religion & Spirituality

When you think about life begins at conception:
1.There is no chance that the embryo is going to be anything but human meaning that it is human life from day one.
2. If not at conception; definetally by five months that baby is human it has arms,legs everything that would make that baby human is there.
So when you think about abortion(or at least after five-months) is murder. When abortion is allowed it takes away a child's chance at life;they could be killing the next great scientist, doctor or writer. The child never has a chance. And what about adoption? think of all the parents who cannot concieve and how they would give anything for a baby. Yet people are allowed to through that life away! How wrong is that? What are your thoughts? Defientally as a catholic I find it extremly wrong, so what are your views and does your relgion(or lack of it) effect it?

2007-12-10 09:47:29 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

A Scottish tourist attended his first baseball game in the US and after a base hit he hears the fans roaring "Run....Run!" The next batter connects heavily with the ball and the Scotsman stands up and roars with the crowd in his thick accent: "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-run will ya!"



A third batter hits a slam and again the Scotsman, obviously pleased with his knowledge of the game, screams "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-r-run will ya!"



The next batter steadfastly holds his swing four times and as the ump calls a walk the Scotsman stands up and yells "R-r-run ya bahstard, r-r-run!"



All the surrounding fans giggle quietly and he sits down confused. A friendly fan, sensing his embarrassment, whispers to the Scotsman, "He doesn't have to run, he's got four balls."



After this explanation the Scotsman stands up in disbelief and screams, "Walk with pr-r-ride man! Walk with pr-r-ride!!!!"

2007-12-10 09:45:53 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

can u make a sentence for me

1. verge
2. teeming
3.bland
4. dumbfounded
5. RETALIATED
6. enveloping
7. feigned
8. ominously

say if it's noun or verb or adj

2007-12-10 09:45:20 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2007-12-10 09:44:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

2007-12-10 09:43:35 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

This is a very dumb question.
There are envelopes to put the offering in. Is that only for checks? Are you supposed to use it? Do you fill it out? What if its only a couple dollars?

thanks. sorry, I am just making sure. :D

2007-12-10 09:43:05 · 10 answers · asked by * 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2 Corinthians 3: 17 is a most interesting verse in the bible.

And the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.

Share what the Lord is showing you about this verse brothers and sisters.
Who do we really have in us?
THe Lord or the SPirit.

I just want to throw in this verse too from John 14:23

This is in reference to the Lord speaking of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit being sent. Yet He says this in vs 23

" Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word and My Father will love him and WE will come to him and make an abode with him.

Man's spirit is God's habitation... His dwelling place has everything to do with man's spirit.
Eph 2:22 shows us this
In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit.

So tell me.. Who exactly is IN Us? We see that the Lord is the Spirit but also that the Father and the Son make an abode with us. the "WE " in that verse is striking.
Share plz
ty

2007-12-10 09:41:23 · 14 answers · asked by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Check out the answers to my last 3 questions and you'll see how Christians seem to disregard the Old Testament. Since when are they allowed to pick and choose?

2007-12-10 09:41:20 · 18 answers · asked by bsxfn 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Seriously...why are they always asking believers if since they believe in God...do they also believe in unicorns.

Well...why would it be so hard to believe in unicorns? It is a horse with a horn. We know there are horses and we know there are a animals with horns. Why is it so unbelievable to think unicorns may have existed in the past?

I don't know where I stand on the subject myself...not something I really care to put much thought into. I just find it amusing that that ahteists use unicorns...there are many other creatures to pick from that are less believable than unicorns...like a gryphon...or a sphinx.

Is it a secret code or something?

2007-12-10 09:41:16 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Give me some suggestion .. i dont know what should i do for this coming christmas .. I wont be working for the whole week or travelling ..

I'll be alone at home this year for christmas. .i am thinking to have a party of sth like that .. but i cant thik of anybody to invite (how parthetic i'm), my friends are all back home ...

FYI, this is my 3rd lonely christmas in United States !!!

T.T

2007-12-10 09:40:59 · 3 answers · asked by fedor_fan 2 in Christmas

I saw a similar question, but about the Tanners asked earlier. What do you think of Ed Decker's work?

1. Purely anti-Mormon
2. Critical of Mormonism but not anti
3. Some parts anti and other parts critical but not anti
4. Completely stupid and not worth listening to

I borrowed parts of this question from Vitriol. I hope he doesn't mind.

2007-12-10 09:39:53 · 22 answers · asked by Dublin Ducky 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-10 09:39:52 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Okay, here's the thing: I'ma sophomore in college, and I don't drink, smoke, gamble, or have sex or any of that stuff. I don't care if other people want to do those things. That is everyone's own choice.

Anyways the other night my roommate was invited to go and play poker and drink beer and stuff, and he told his friends that I would go too before he even consulted me about it. I told him that I didn't want to go because I would have felt out of place, and then he told me that I was being stuck-up. He said that I was acting like I was "better than everyone else" because I didn't want to drink, which is NOT true. I don't CARE if he wants to drink and I don't look down on him for wanting to. I just prefer not to.

But now he seems to think that I'm trying to be some goody-two shoes guy who thinks he's better than everyone. How can I convince him that I DON'T think I'm better than him??

2007-12-10 09:38:30 · 18 answers · asked by Dee 3 in Etiquette

to the loser who keeps reporting my questions and answers (i'm pretty sure it's just one person), don't you realize every time you report one of my questions, i have to answer five questions to make up the points that i lost from your report. that means, i'm five times as likely to reach some christian who is on the verge of not believing. so, if you had just relaxed and not reported me to begin with, i wouldn't feel the need to answer so many questions. but because you are reporting, i have to answer more questions. in a way you're actually helping spread atheism. and now i've lost five points asking this because of you, and don't you know i gotta get them points back somehow? way to go, einstein...

2007-12-10 09:35:24 · 5 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Religion & Spirituality

go out and eat and there is always some kid aloud to get up and run up and down or sceam and come over and mass with you. oh and how about the one that have parents that let them run the streets at 10:00 P.M and you know its a school night and there under 10 years old and theres my favorite one going to your friends house to party and drank beer and wine and drive home with the kids in the car at late hours.

2007-12-10 09:35:11 · 14 answers · asked by sehoy 3 in Etiquette

to meet her face to face.

I bet she´d laugh, as she probably hasn´t been punched before (apart from by old big-nose (Prince Philip)).

2007-12-10 09:34:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Royalty

1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's cultivated land, God's building.

What does it mean that we are God's cultivated land.
What does it mean that we are God's building.

Please share within the context of this chapter and even this book of the bible.
Use as many references to support your sharing:)
Ty so much
IN Christ
sandy

2007-12-10 09:33:56 · 18 answers · asked by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Christmas is a time for childern, its a time for them to laugh and play and be amazed. It started down under when Santa was asked not to say Ho ho ho. To loudly or around women that spread to a mall in the USA. Now the surgon general has declaired Santa is a bad roll model becuase he's to fat. And should lose weight. Whats next for the jolly old elf maybe we should just pack him up and put him on a shelf and cancell christmas. Foreget the tree's the decorations and turkey. And simply come up with a plain old boring PC and healtly holiday. Then all so called PC and health watchdogs would be happy until they find a reason to bi## and complain once more.

2007-12-10 09:33:54 · 8 answers · asked by West 2 in Christmas

2007-12-10 09:32:59 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How old do you have to be?
How many hours do you have to work?
What training do you get?

2007-12-10 09:27:32 · 4 answers · asked by Louise 1 in Community Service

I don't know what though. Any suggestions??

2007-12-10 09:27:20 · 4 answers · asked by kharilli 5 in Valentine's Day

im not sure wyhat to get my dad for christmas. He's really picky, and if he doesnt like it, he'll say he does and then justnot use it and put it in his closet or something. What should i get him?

2007-12-10 09:25:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

can you please give me a paragraph with these four words in it orange,try,books,learn.

2007-12-10 09:24:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Jeremiah 10: 2-4: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen ... For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

2007-12-10 09:24:32 · 18 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-10 09:22:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I alway hear about "I almost died and I called to God and he saved me"
Yeah well I had a near death and he didn't say a damn thing to me. This confirmed my belief that Christianity just wasn't for me. So why is it when someone tries to "prove" the whole there are no atheist in foxholes theory they use thier near death as proof? Not everyone "finds god" near death. Plently of us realize he's just not there at worst and not listening at best.

2007-12-10 09:20:49 · 14 answers · asked by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 in Religion & Spirituality

okay many of you are enjoying your life

simply no restrictions of what god puts on a belivers life...

thats quite fun isnt it ?

you feel free and safe and enjoy it ... well some time you may get sad ...but it goes on and youll soon reach your happy days...

so what if you get blood cancer and doctors fail to heal you ?
do you know how it feels ?
you dont know weather your going to die or not
is it going to happen now ? tommorow ? a week ? a month ? ...
do you know how terrible is to die in fear and pain ?
do you know that you may get paralyzed gradually and loose your ability ?

can you protect your self of an earthquake destroying your house in the middle of the nigh while your having sweet dreems ?

why dont you just apoligize from your lord.. and comfort your heart by accepting the only one god !?

2007-12-10 09:20:48 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality