Society & Culture - 21 December 2007

My brother in law and his wife sent everyone in my family, my three daughters and husband, Christmas gifts except for me. I thought it was inappropriate and hurtful to exclude me. This was the first year they had sent gifts. Was this proper? Do they not like me?

2007-12-21 06:31:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

Me and my husband are expecting a baby in May so we are trying to save money. My husband keeps going back and forth about getting our families presents. Are families will obviously be ok with us not getting them anythign but I feel so bad! I want to get them at least something so do you have any cheap ideas? Thank you.

2007-12-21 06:31:45 · 5 answers · asked by Baby Girl Rylin 5/3/08 4 in Christmas

New study was just published:

Lamb TD, Collin SP, Pugh EN Jr. (2007) Evolution of the vertebrate eye: opsins, photoreceptors, retina and eye cup. Nat Rev Neurosci 8(12):960-76.

Here's a great review:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/evolution_of_vertebrate_eyes.php#more

Go ahead, read it if you've got a few minutes. "How could something so complex as the Eye evolve?" Well there you go. Are you finally going to stop with the nonsense questions?

2007-12-21 06:31:23 · 21 answers · asked by Skalite 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-21 06:31:13 · 5 answers · asked by Scouse 7 in Community Service

Interesting article very open minded

http://www.interfaithfamily.com/news_and_opinion/teaching_about_other_religions/Jewish_Jesus_Conference_Asks_Who_Invited_You.shtml?tr=y&auid=3261235

2007-12-21 06:31:11 · 12 answers · asked by HALLALJPAA 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Im making sugar cookies and I seen these sprikles on the picture that look like red hots, but they are silver and none of the grocery stores have them .

Do you know wheer I can find those cookie decorations?

2007-12-21 06:28:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

Do you still find yourself busier around the garden at weekends?

2007-12-21 06:27:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

2007-12-21 06:27:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I grew up with my mom, who's a Roman Catholic. She gave me freedom to choose my own religion, which I'm grateful for.
I lived with my father for some time in my teenage years before I became a Jehovah's Witness. He's Muslim and I practiced the religion at the time because I lived under his roof and I was underage.

I never really had a good relationship with my dad because he had forced me into a religion I hated. Now, as an adult, the fact that he's still my dad, I want to have a good relationship with him. But he's hindering me from doing so because I chose to be a Witness and not a Muslim.

He says a lot of hurtful things to me, like "I'm rebellious like my mother", because I'm not Muslim. Is there any way I can have a fulfilling relationship with someone as "Pig Headed" as him?
I'm sorry to say that about him over the net but that's just the nicest way I can discribe his behaviour.

2007-12-21 06:25:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

who thinks perhaps some of what Paul wrote in his letters isn't very biblical?
There is some stuff he wrote that seems to fall more along Pharisaical rules than biblical truth.

2007-12-21 06:25:50 · 14 answers · asked by Sister blue eyes 6 in Religion & Spirituality

loves tech stuff and that

2007-12-21 06:24:22 · 11 answers · asked by cow_moo242002 1 in Christmas

(And, did they (temporarily) lose their sense of spirituality or did the experience enhance their spirituality?)

2007-12-21 06:24:06 · 21 answers · asked by D Uncle 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-21 06:23:43 · 19 answers · asked by forbes69 1 in Religion & Spirituality

"According to the Mormon church, Lucifer fomented the revolution after volunteering to take Jesus' place as God's emissary to humanity, stating that he believed that mortals should have their free will revoked, and thus be guaranteed entry into Heaven."

Where did the first batch of souls go before the great war on Heaven? Lucifer was ticked because worshipping mankind he considered to be an unlawful act against G-d by whorshipping a "false idol". And also, that the angels were in fact better than man, being born first. None the less, i can agree with him on the sibling rivilry part. Why would a first born ever bow down to the second born?

Anyway, so Lucifer is debating with G-d and the other aangels about how they shouldn't have free will, so they can get strait into Heaven. Well before Lucifer was cast out, and given Hell, where did the immoral human souls go? Was Hell run by someone else in the beginning? Or were they punished through reincarnation? Or forced to wander forever

2007-12-21 06:21:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Yes , I did and I discovered two new cookies that I want to make again next year. Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

2007-12-21 06:21:27 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

I taped m-80's to my cousins Barbies and sat them in Barbies dream plane or some other pink plane thing she used to play with, lit the fuse, and pushed the plane onto the end of their diving board over the pool. MAN what a BOOM that was. Of course my cousin was traumatized and I was grounded for life.

2007-12-21 06:21:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I work for a small law firm. One of our clients decided to bring a catered gourmet lunch for our firm to thank us for the good job we did on their case. I have worked at this law firm for almost 2 years, so everyone knows a. I'm vegetarian and b. I'm 20 weeks pregnant.

The catered lunch consisted of beef, chicken casserole, tuna tartar (raw tuna), spinach salad with bleu cheese (pregnant women aren't supposed to eat unpasteurized cheeses such as bleu cheese) and rolls. I whispered to a coworker that I felt uncomfortable not eating while everyone else was (I didn't want to seem rude or ungrateful) and she said I should just step out quietly and go to lunch elsewhere. After thinking about it for a minute (everyone else was milling around and talking, no one had sat down at the table yet) I decided to make a quiet exit like she suggested. When I came back, no one was upset with me for leaving the lunch, but I still feel a little embarrassed.

What would you have done?

2007-12-21 06:20:58 · 23 answers · asked by Kiwi 5 in Etiquette

why has theism (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc..) survived for so many thousands of years? And why is the majority of the population of the planet a Theist of some sort? Are the atheists so arrogant to think that ONLY they are the enlightened ones?

2007-12-21 06:20:28 · 21 answers · asked by flinginfeces 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Bring out the best in people?

2007-12-21 06:20:04 · 16 answers · asked by Semp-listic! 7 in Religion & Spirituality

If God created EVERYTHING, who or what created God??

2007-12-21 06:20:00 · 11 answers · asked by Rissa! 3 in Religion & Spirituality

..............I live in Italy........now in my town it is 20:15P.M.!!!!!!!!

2007-12-21 06:18:53 · 8 answers · asked by smizziana 2 in Community Service

I know what my answer is, but I just want to see what everyone else thinks.

2007-12-21 06:18:48 · 5 answers · asked by lulu 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell

2007-12-21 06:18:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Our father in heaven gave Moses the ten commandments to give to God's children (us), and one of the commandments says that we shall not kill. This commandment did not say thu shall not kill except over oil, money, or power, or just because President Bush says so ! If you kill your sole will go to hell and it doesn't matter if your are muslim, jewish, christain or any other religion. People need to get over this seperation because of race, religion, sex, and so forth. We are all brothers and sisters in the eyes of our lord. It doesn't matter what the bible or the quran says we are and always will be brothers and sisters. The bible says that the gates to heaven is wide but only a few will enter into the kingdom of heaven. God must have known that we as a human race wouldn't follow his commandments. Our lord in heaven gave mankind ten simple commandments to follow, but we can't even follow these laws nevertheless those created by man.

2007-12-21 06:18:31 · 23 answers · asked by Brother 1 in Religion & Spirituality

(This atheist knew I believed)

I was in a middle of my prayer with God and I was giving thanks for having a wonderful atheist in my life and was grateful for everything he'd done. This atheist opened the door and was very abusive to me and slandered me because he saw me doing this. The next three days I couldn't eat or sleep. It affected my work so much that my manager noticed this and got extremely angry with me. I had no one else to turn to. After 3 days of pain and agony, I went to Jesus crying for help. He knew exactly what book of the bible I needed to heal from. I turned to the page and read. The power of his Word was so overwhelming that I was renewed, healed, and strengthed right away (It felt like it was instant). I know it was God that rescued me!

2007-12-21 06:15:55 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-21 06:15:48 · 3 answers · asked by gorgeous gm 4 in Christmas

I answered my wifes phone last night whilst she was asleep, and, being a little tipsy, went into a text conversation with the girl my wife knows.

That girl is now an 'escort' and I stupidly asked about ''mates rates'' for a laugh.

I now am the proud possessor of 3 rude pics and a hotel invite.

If I tell this woman I was only joking, what will she say to my wife?

What can I do?

2007-12-21 06:15:46 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

If, so even the ones you don't like?

2007-12-21 06:15:28 · 23 answers · asked by dogwhisperer16 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-21 06:15:03 · 9 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I don't care what they do for Christmas!

2007-12-21 06:14:48 · 36 answers · asked by slk29406 6 in Senior Citizens