Society & Culture - 12 December 2007

Something that was put up, but the English used made no sense?

2007-12-12 20:00:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

she keeps questioning me in nonsensical ways telling me that i have black people in my family or i have black relatives, when ive clearly told her time and time and time again that i dont.

her and some others are going round telling people false things about me and my family, spreading flase rumours that i have black in me...that i have black in my family or that i have mixed races in my family.

ive told her ive not, and that i dont appreciate her saying false things to others about me or my family, but when i do, for some strange reason she laughs at me...

i no shes doing it to taunt me now because she knows what buttons to press and its got beyond joke now.

2007-12-12 19:59:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I work with this woman who is a two faced, social climbing, judgemental, spiteful, brown-nosing old cow and she really annoys me. I find her annoyingness has a cumulative effect, rather than it just going away at the end of the day. She talks about her kids (who are my age, in their 20s) ALL THE TIME and while I try not to listen, she repeats the kid stories to EVERYONE who comes in, so I hear them about 20 times. Some nights I wake up at 3am or so thinking of her kids. This wouldnt be so bad but she is mean and purposely tries to make me feel bad ie if I have something new, then she'll say something like "ohh (daughter's name) was never into that thank goodness she was always very mature about spending her money", or "well actually my daugther is getting THIS one as she makes $200 a day you know and only wants the best" and crap like this.

Do other people have these issues at work? How do you deal with them? Is it ok to punch her? lol

2007-12-12 19:58:04 · 10 answers · asked by Jeanne 2 in Etiquette

2007-12-12 19:58:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

so why the big hoopla in the dead of winter?

2007-12-12 19:57:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Obviously it was inspired by their "God," but like all other historical documents, they are based on the writers' perspectives and interpretations, let alone the surrounding time and environment. It's apparent as the Old Testament abruptly ends with the New Testament, and almost entirely different book with even a slightly different idea on "God."

This is just taking the Bible as a book, rather than the truth. If I took the Bible as truth, I would be just as biased as any other person who believes the Bible is true.

I am not an atheist, agnostic, Christian, or anything else. I am independent.

2007-12-12 19:54:22 · 23 answers · asked by Amo 4 in Religion & Spirituality

My father used to recite it to me,
It is Christmas Day in the workhouse,
And the cold, bare walls are bright
With garlands of green and holly,
And the place is a pleasant sight;
For with clean-washed hands and faces,
In a long and hungry line
The paupers sit at the table,
For this is the hour they dine.
And the guardians and their ladies,
Although the wind is east,
Have come in their furs and wrappers,
To watch their charges feast;
To smile and be condescending,
Put pudding on pauper plates.
To be hosts at the workhouse banquet
They've paid for — with the rates.
Oh, the paupers are meek and lowly
With their "Thank'ee kindly, mum's!'"
So long as they fill their stomachs,
What matter it whence it comes!
But one of the old men mutters,
And pushes his plate aside:
"Great God!" he cries, "but it chokes me!
For this is the day she died!"
The guardians gazed in horror,
The master's face went white;
"Did a pauper refuse the pudding?"
"Could their ears believe aright?"
Then the ladies clutched their husbands,
Thinking the man would die,
Struck by a bolt, or something,
By the outraged One on high.
But the pauper sat for a moment,
Then rose 'mid silence grim,
For the others had ceased to chatter
And trembled in every limb.
He looked at the guardians' ladies,
Then, eyeing their lords, he said,
"I eat not the food of villains
Whose hands are foul and red:
"Whose victims cry for vengeance
From their dark, unhallowed graves."
"He's drunk!" said the workhouse master,
"Or else he's mad and raves."
"Not drunk or mad," cried the pauper,
"But only a haunted beast,
Who, torn by the hounds and mangled,
Declines the vulture's feast.
"I care not a curse for the guardians,
And I won't be dragged away;
Just let me have the fit out,
It's only on Christmas Day
That the black past comes to goad me,
And prey on my burning brain;
I'll tell you the rest in a whisper —
I swear I won't shout again.
"Keep your hands off me, curse you!
Hear me right out to the end.
You come here to see how paupers
The season of Christmas spend;.
You come here to watch us feeding,
As they watched the captured beast.
Here's why a penniless pauper
Spits on your paltry feast.
"Do you think I will take your bounty,
And let you smile and think
You're doing a noble action
With the parish's meat and drink?
Where is my wife, you traitors —
The poor old wife you slew?
Yes, by the God above me,
My Nance was killed by you!
'Last winter my wife lay dying,
Starved in a filthy den;
I had never been to the parish —
I came to the parish then.
I swallowed my pride in coming,
For ere the ruin came,
I held up my head as a trader,
And I bore a spotless name.
"I came to the parish, craving
Bread for a starving wife,
Bread for the woman who'd loved me
Through fifty years of life;
And what do you think they told me,
Mocking my awful grief,
That 'the House' was open to us,
But they wouldn't give 'out relief'.
"I slunk to the filthy alley —
'Twas a cold, raw Christmas Eve —
And the bakers' shops were open,
Tempting a man to thieve;
But I clenched my fists together,
Holding my head awry,
So I came to her empty-handed
And mournfully told her why.
"Then I told her the house was open;
She had heard of the ways of that,
For her bloodless cheeks went crimson,
and up in her rags she sat,
Crying, 'Bide the Christmas here, John,
We've never had one apart;
I think I can bear the hunger —
The other would break my heart.'
"All through that eve I watched her,
Holding her hand in mine,
Praying the Lord and weeping,
Till my lips were salt as brine;
I asked her once if she hungered,
And as she answered 'No' ,
T'he moon shone in at the window,
Set in a wreath of snow.
"Then the room was bathed in glory,
And I saw in my darling's eyes
The faraway look of wonder
That comes when the spirit flies;
And her lips were parched and parted,
And her reason came and went.
For she raved of our home in Devon,
Where our happiest years were spent.
"And the accents, long forgotten,
Came back to the tongue once more.
For she talked like the country lassie
I woo'd by the Devon shore;
Then she rose to her feet and trembled,
And fell on the rags and moaned,
And, 'Give me a crust — I'm famished —
For the love of God!' she groaned.
"I rushed from the room like a madman
And flew to the workhouse gate,
Crying, 'Food for a dying woman!'
And the answer came, 'Too late.'
They drove me away with curses;
Then I fought with a dog in the street
And tore from the mongrel's clutches
A crust he was trying to eat.
"Back through the filthy byways!
Back through the trampled slush!
Up to the crazy garret,
Wrapped in an awful hush;
My heart sank down at the threshold,
And I paused with a sudden thrill.
For there, in the silv'ry moonlight,
My Nance lay, cold and still.
"Up to the blackened ceiling,
The sunken eyes were cast —
I knew on those lips, all bloodless,
My name had been the last;
She called for her absent husband —
O God! had I but known! —
Had called in vain, and, in anguish,
Had died in that den — alone.
"Yes, there, in a land of plenty,
Lay a loving woman dead,
Cruelly starved and murdered
for a loaf of the parish bread;
At yonder gate, last Christmas,
I craved for a human life,
You, who would feed us paupers,
What of my murdered wife!"
'There, get ye gone to your dinners,
Don't mind me in the least,
Think of the happy paupers
Eating your Christmas feast;
And when you recount their blessings
In your smug parochial way,
Say what you did for me, too,
Only last Christmas Day."

2007-12-12 19:48:05 · 5 answers · asked by Lord Percy Fawcette-Smythe. 7 in Senior Citizens

2007-12-12 19:45:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Indians, bad guys, good guys, leading guys, Greeks, hitman, lover, leading man, bit actor, etc. than anyone else you can think of in the entire world of movies and TV?

2007-12-12 19:45:19 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

why does french have 2 words tha mean the same thing?

2007-12-12 19:44:11 · 4 answers · asked by Mili 1 in Languages

I'm a Seventh Day Adventist and don't like to do things on Saturday. I was wondering, if you were in a dance company or in a musical, would you have to practise on Saturday? If practices were on Saturday, would they be compulsory? I just really badly want to keep dancing for my whole life but I would never give up being a Christian for anything.

2007-12-12 19:40:02 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

he was a good person and like me he was gay, why did he have to die all becuase of some homophobic punks, I said this before if I would have been with him I would have told them to take me instead, the same thing that happened to Matt is happening to someone right now, why can't the homophibia STOP,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hJgDw6Fk2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuQuUqyg_3o&feature=related

2007-12-12 19:39:34 · 13 answers · asked by I represent possibility- Shawn 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-12-12 19:39:32 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

He then said, "Go back." It went back.

Then God said, "I swear by My honor and glory that I have not created any creature more beloved to Me than you. I will not perfect you in anyone except those whom I love. I, however, will command only you to do things and prohibit only you from doing certain things. I will grand blessings (rewards) to you only and will subject only you to punishments."

The friend of a person is his/her Intelligence and the enemy of a person is his/her ignorance

2007-12-12 19:36:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ramadan

2007-12-12 19:33:26 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ramadan

"We are traveling at breakneck speed into an age of the extremes – extremes in wealth and poverty, extremes in technology and the experiments that scientists want to perform, extreme forces of globalism, weapons of mass destruction and terrorists acting in the name of religion".

My question:
Is "extreme forces (of globalism)" not related to the following "weapons of mass destruction and terrorists acting in the name of religion"? I think AND indicates the last one in the series.

2007-12-12 19:31:59 · 1 answers · asked by Shan 1 in Languages

2007-12-12 19:31:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ramadan

It seems simply that we are born inton a religion dictated first by family and then by culture. I know culture is a broad word but its influence can never be denied. Take any Christian and rewind time and have them born randomly in the Middle East. They would be Muslim and just as fanatic about that.

We choose a religion not because it is correct but because we want to fit in with our culture.

This may apply more to North America than to Europe. Here in Europe the pressure of religion is not great. Maybe that explains the higher proportion of Atheists here in Europe. We choose to be Atheist not only because religion doesn't make any sense but because the pressure to conform to religion is not as great.

2007-12-12 19:30:44 · 18 answers · asked by penster_x 4 in Religion & Spirituality

We all love christmas so what is so lovable about it.

2007-12-12 19:25:36 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

Can Knowledge and Faith Take the Place of Each Other?

2007-12-12 19:24:31 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ramadan

2007-12-12 19:22:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ramadan

2007-12-12 19:21:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ramadan

2007-12-12 19:19:28 · 4 answers · asked by Yellowstonedogs 7 in Other - Society & Culture

It does always say in scriptures, whether it be the Bible, the Torah, the Koran (Quran), or books contributed by other minor religious, that the savior or prophet of "God" is a man, but if this God is everything and the creator of everything, how can you refer to it as a "he?" It's universally known that "God" is intangible and beyond our knowing, yet most people still "know," think, or at least say it is a male?

Perhaps the reason is because religious text was written during the times when females were considered inferior? People still have borrowed those ideas and considered them to be true, and haven't given any thought to the real "justified" prejudice which is stated everyday, sadly.

So, why?

2007-12-12 19:18:13 · 27 answers · asked by Amo 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-12 19:15:16 · 1 answers · asked by Rose2006 2 in Languages

My wife had my daughter christened against my wishes. I am Baptist and she is Catholic and I am against child baptistism. As I understand it the church was suppose to have my consent to do so but my wife lied about my wishes. According to the Catholic faith how does this play out, does it cound in the eyes of the church?

In my eyes it doesn't mean squat but I would like to hear a Catholic's take on this.

2007-12-12 19:15:01 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

he's extending his lips

2007-12-12 19:12:00 · 6 answers · asked by hkjl_118 1 in Languages

I'm also looking for a nickname for a guy who is unfailingly polite and nice...always uses the Ud. form of address and is just generally a nice guy. We were thinking of "Don (Something)". Any suggestions?
...

2007-12-12 19:09:29 · 16 answers · asked by YoMera 4 in Languages

One answerer mentioned it in context with becoming silent on the inside, to obtain inner knowledge.

Can you please explain this word to me a little more?

2007-12-12 19:06:36 · 10 answers · asked by MumOf5 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-12 19:06:31 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality