Society & Culture - 17 December 2007

i'm giving my friends christmas gifts. one of them is jewish...i got her a cd and i plan on giving her a card that says happy holidays. is that ok.

2007-12-17 11:16:46 · 54 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Upon arriving home in eager anticipation of a leisurely evening, the husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife. Tearfully she explained, "It's the druggist - he insulted me terribly this morning on the phone."

Immediately the husband drove downtown to accost the druggist and demand an apology. Before he could say more than a word or two, the druggist told him, "Now, just a minute - listen to my side of it. This morning the alarm failed to go off, so I was late getting up. I went without breakfast and hurried out to the car, but I'll be damned if I didn't lock the house with both house and car keys inside. I had to break a window to get my keys. Driving a little too fast, I got a speeding ticket. Then, about three blocks from the store I had a flat tire.

When I finally got to the store there was a bunch of people waiting for me to open up. I got the store opened and started waiting on these people, and all the time the darn phone was ringing its head off. Then I had to break a roll of nickels against the cash register drawer to make change, and they spilled all over the floor. I got down on my hands and knees to pick up the nickels - the phone is still ringing - when I came up I cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made me stagger back against a showcase with a bunch of perfume bottles on it, and half of them hit the floor and broke. The phone is still ringing with no let up, and I finally got back to answer it. It was your wife - she wanted to know how to use a rectal thermometer. Well, Mister, I TOLD HER!"

2007-12-17 11:16:40 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

How many candles are there on a menorah? 7 or 9 because some people told me seven was a menorah but I also heard nine and i'm not jewish so i really have no clue! Thanks.

2007-12-17 11:16:29 · 12 answers · asked by bballchica14 3 in Hanukkah

how can i help the homeless this cold seson? Iive in Kansas City and down near and in the plaza you will see alot of homeless people. I always feel so bad for them and it really makes me think and be thankful for all i do have. I don't want to give them money b/c you don't know if they go and spend that money on drugs. what can I do, just some small things to help them?

2007-12-17 11:14:20 · 14 answers · asked by im on the bleechers 2 in Community Service

2007-12-17 11:13:12 · 19 answers · asked by April 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-17 11:13:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why do people make such a big deal of Ah-Friggin-Mericans? What makes us apart from everyone else in the world? How can someone tell that I am american just by one post about deep frying a turkey? besides that,... What makes people be able to tell and american from any other yahoo poster?

2007-12-17 11:12:54 · 28 answers · asked by Mel 1 in Other - Society & Culture

The latter part of this verse God said that His rightous servant shall justify the sins of many.

2007-12-17 11:12:38 · 5 answers · asked by gwavetn 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-17 11:12:17 · 24 answers · asked by hezekiahsmom 2 in Senior Citizens

2007-12-17 11:11:53 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was raised as a rather devout Southern Baptist and I still do not know. I went to Church Camp every summer, Church on Sunday morning, night and Wednesday night. I read my Bible and all the Bible stories. I memorized my verses and the names of the Books of the Bibles but was never really taught what the faith was. Part of my problem with it was the fact that they believed that IF one was saved then it didn't matter what one did one was going to Heaven. Caused my dear Mother a world of pain that one at my grandfathers hands.

2007-12-17 11:11:37 · 6 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Islamic religion?

2007-12-17 11:11:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If not, how do religious liberals provide intellectual shelter for fundamentalists?

2007-12-17 11:11:33 · 4 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Religion & Spirituality

please provide evidence of the scriptural authenticity of any verses used

2007-12-17 11:10:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i am doing a paper and i need to know:
social isuesses in the 70 like rasiem equal right and segration and enquaity. my paper is on a moive ( rember the Titines)

2007-12-17 11:09:47 · 5 answers · asked by Elissa M 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

i am really bored right now there is nothing to do. for the past 3 days all i have really been doing is sit inside the house and stare at the wall!! everyone is busy, and i resorted to pretending i was a shark eating john lennon, but that got old after 3 seconds. what can i do to keep my self from going crazy of boredom!!!

2007-12-17 11:09:30 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

Lots of people only care about getting the hottest new gadget or they're rushing around finding that expensive gift for so-and-so, for example. What about the real meaning..like spending time with family, friends and even the religious meanings?
I don't even celebrate Christmas and yet I realize it's real meaning. I just think it's way to commercialized. What do you think?

2007-12-17 11:06:42 · 8 answers · asked by niners1800 2 in Christmas

I heard Artscroll is biased to Orthodox Judaism. And JPS is not that good of a translation. Any suggestions?

I want the best translation out there without any biased towards any set of ideals.

2007-12-17 11:05:29 · 8 answers · asked by oysterchowder2004 3 in Religion & Spirituality

This is the mer-goddess's name and I want to know how to pronounce it.

2007-12-17 11:05:27 · 13 answers · asked by fantasywriter2025 4 in Languages

Why aren't those the main issues for today's Christians instead of abortion and gay rights?

2007-12-17 11:05:07 · 10 answers · asked by topink 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I met a teenage boy over the weekend outside of a church (i guess his youth group is there or something, i was picking up my friend from hers) anyways, we started talking (about the same age) and he told me he was gay. So i started asking him questions about being a Gay in a Christian community.
Apparently he feels BAD about being gay which i think it really sad. They've scared him about going to Hell so much that he's decided to live the rest of his life alone....no love. Ever. He also said he's tried to be straight but it didn't work. He isn't telling his parents ever but he is still never going to actively seek a partner or anything like that ever.

I thought this was really sad and tried telling him that God doesn't care if you like men or women, he just wants yout o be happy (assuming their is a God, I'm sort of on the fence on that one)
a man over heard me and started yelling at me that "sin was sin" and so i just left.

I have this guys number, how can i help him?

2007-12-17 11:04:15 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-17 11:03:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Community Service

Forcing our beliefs on others is wrong.
I had the experience of watching this happen in my own family. One of my daughters joined a church that made her tell all of us that we are going to hell and she didn't want to be near us.
I did do the christian motherly thing with her and went to her church to see for myself what they were teaching her. It took a year to show her THAT church is wrong. They had turned the bible verses to make them what they want. I showed her these cases.
She now stopped going to that church.
Jesus did not judge or force himself on anyone, he also didn't call people names for not following him.

2007-12-17 11:03:38 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Suppose Catholics decided to start calling themselves Mormons. Suppose we say we believe in Joseph Smith: we believe he walked the earth, founded a church, and was killed by his enemies. We don't believe he was a prophet, and we don't believe the church he founded is the true church. But, we say, we believe in Joseph Smith, therefore we're Mormons.

Would you accept that we are true Mormons? You might say, "sure, you can call yourselves Mormons, I won't stop you; I don't care." But I'm not asking if you care, or if you will allow us to call ourselves Mormons. I'm asking if you would believe that we really are Mormons.

To take it further, what if we went walking through Mormon neighborhoods and told the people that we are Mormons just like they are, and we just want to talk about faith. And we proceed to try to convince them that Catholic beliefs are the true religious beliefs. Under the guise of being Mormons ourselves. Would you have any problem with that?

2007-12-17 11:03:34 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

whats a fun why to show my mom that were sending here to the ladies event at the WSOP for christmas? you know in stead of just telling her.

2007-12-17 11:01:09 · 1 answers · asked by chris b 1 in Christmas

Subjects of both faith and delusion have similar symptoms of believing characters/creatures/things to exist when there is no physical evidence of their existence at all. Right?

Please be scientific in explaining your argument.

2007-12-17 11:00:26 · 11 answers · asked by Russ 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-17 10:59:38 · 9 answers · asked by will79601 3 in Christmas

Your the captain of a ship that sank and there're 30 survivors crowed into one life boat design to hold only 7. The weather is stormy and getting worse: you have no food or fresh water.To save any of your survivor, you have to lighten the load on the life boat, or all will die, You have to decide who you will throw overboard, describe how you will make your decision.

2007-12-17 10:59:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This Is not a sick joke, this is an actual question,Is having a relationship with a transsexual a sin as well?

2007-12-17 10:57:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-17 10:56:09 · 3 answers · asked by steven 3 in Christmas