Society & Culture - 22 December 2007

If I walked up to a beautiful Muslim female wearing a hijab and stated a conversation with her, in America, would I be disrespecting Islam and offending her?

When I was at the library recently, I seen a beautiful Persian-looking Muslim woman and wanted to approach her and start a conversation, but I didn’t because the situation felt awkward.

I know Muslim women wear the veil to hide their beauty, but where I live at in America, Muslim women don’t cover their face or just cover their hair, so I can still see their beautiful faces. And it is hard to resist a conversation.

2007-12-22 03:12:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Has Bill Donahue ever had a psychiatric evaluation?
Because I really think he needs one.

2007-12-22 03:11:27 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This girl here is a skater. but not totally. She just got a new skateboard so that's out of the question. She hates Hollister and Ambercrombie, all those stores. And she's already getting a million gift cards. Any ideas? I need it to be around like 100$ or something, no more than that. Please Help!

2007-12-22 03:09:29 · 7 answers · asked by Jessicahahah 1 in Valentine's Day

2007-12-22 03:01:16 · 35 answers · asked by Cosmosconstant 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Somewhere some time a few thousand years ago someone played connect the dots with about a hundred different stars and decided that they sort of look like animals, and then they decided that if you are born at a certain time of the year you will take on the personality characteristics of the animal.

First of all let's talk about the NUMBER of stars there are. I saw Carl Sagan on TV once pick up a hand full of sand. He said that the number of grains of sand in his hand is equal to the number of stars you can see on a clear night. Then he said that the number of stars in the universe is equal to the number of grains of sand on every beach on the planet. Remember him, he is the one who was always saying Biiiiilions. That is because he was talking about the number of celestial bodies in the universe. THERE ARE BILLIONS of STARS. But despite the fact that there are billions of stars, planets, black holes, moons, comets, asteroids, etcetera 100 or so stars, that is the number of stars in the 12 signs of the Zodiac, have more influence on us and are more powerful than all the other BILLIONS of celestial bodies in all the universe.

And oh yes the thing that makes us the most human, free will and the ability to make choices are negated by these hundred stars billions of miles away. At least that is what the Astrologers would have us believe.

Why is that ??

Is it the chemical composition of those 100 stars ?

Why are 100 stars that coincidentally happen to be in a connect the dots picture more powerful than all the other stars in the Universe ??

Anyone care to do the math 100/1,000,000,000 = .00000001

1/100,000,000 th of the stars CONTROL EVERYTHING IN OUR LIVES

AND WE HAVE NO CHOICE!!!

What is the point of living ?

We have no choice in who or what we are or will become because we are ruled by stars BILLIONS of MILES away from us.

That's the next question.

What is it exactly that these stars are beaming at us, light, gravity, ????, gamma rays, x rays,

How do these "signals" remain intact when traveling over such a great distance.

How do our bodies interpret these signals ??

More importantly how do they differentiate them from all the other light, gravity, etc from the other billions of stars in the universe ??

Here is one I love.

I had an employee call in sick because Mercury had gone retrograde.

Because the earth orbits faster than Mercury, and mercury's orbit is very elliptical, the Earth catches and passes Mercury every once in a while. AND that makes it look like Mercury is moving backwards in the sky.

Yes back in the day when they made up all this stuff they actually thought that a planet that weighed billions and billions of tons and was orbiting at millions of miles an hour actually stopped and moved backwards in the sky. How imfucking possible is that ?? Back then they also believed that the Earth was flat and that every single planet, star, etc, in the universe orbited around the Earth. Didn't they put someone to death Gallileo ?? When he tried to showed that the planets orbited around the sun ??

But still today, even with all the scientific explanation of what is going on people who believe in Astrology also believe that Mars is stopping and changing directions in mid orbit.

What a complete load of crap. 3,000 years ago, someone plays connect the dots with the stars, and says that some of them Look like a Bull, and some different ones look like a set of twins, and the ONLY hot woman in all of Santa Fe says "Sorry you are really funny, and good looking, but I NEVER date Geminis"

OK, OK, except for that part about the fact that I am funny and good looking, and there is only one hot woman in Santa Fe, the rest of the story is true.

It is my ex wife who was the Gemini, and the actual quote, after I caught her cheating on me with a Crack Head biker, and I asked her how she could be such a *****, she said "I can't help it. I'm a Gemini"

P.S. I have learned something new since I first posted this. Due to the wobble in the earth's rotation the sun does not even come up in the same constellations at the same time of the year that it did back when they made this crap up. The sun comes up in Gemini in July now, instead of June.

Oh and one more thing. It takes thousands of years for the light to get here from the stars or what ever the still yet to be determined magic "force" that emanates from the stars so by the time the "force" get's here the planet will be nowhere close to where it is in the sky. And get this. In another 10,000 years or so the planets will have moved so much that the connect the dots pictures will no longer resemble anything close to the pictures we see today. What then ??

Do you make new connect the dots pictures and give everyone new personality traits based upon the new pictures ??

2007-12-22 02:59:01 · 11 answers · asked by bruce k 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Other then the whole thing of course.

I really enjoy the whole 'peace be with you- and also with you- we lift up our hearts- we lift them up to the Lord'

2007-12-22 02:57:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-22 02:57:27 · 10 answers · asked by cameron f 1 in Christmas

2007-12-22 02:57:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

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What do we lose when we fail to examine multiple causal factors, but instead blame one cause, such as religion, economics, politics, etc., for events in history?

HOW WOULD THIS APPLY TO THE EVENTS DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE?

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2007-12-22 02:57:05 · 8 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I have a friend in the Phlippines, which was overrun by the Spanish/Catholics hundreds of years ago. Terrorists? She said to me that she thought that the Catholic Church(CC) was the biggest terrorist on the planet. I mentioned it to another friend and he has disowned me. I think that just the fact that the CC prohibits birth control is one of the single worst things that is being done to this planet. All the children in third world countries being born to lives of hopeless poverty. All the energy/pollution/greenhouse gases to feed all these extra people that the planet surely does not need. Why ??

2007-12-22 02:56:18 · 6 answers · asked by bruce k 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I never directly saw her but I could draw a picture right now with details of what she looked like and what she wore. I even have an idea of what her story was, and I always felt safe with her around me. She always sstayed in my room and I was never scared and she never gave the cold feeling I've gotten around other ghosts and I've been able to see them to. Don't think Im crazy or something like that and don't make fun of me but I want to know why I can see the spirits when my mum and dad can't.

2007-12-22 02:55:31 · 21 answers · asked by ~Dreamer~ Paige 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-22 02:54:51 · 18 answers · asked by anil m 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-22 02:52:22 · 14 answers · asked by Sky Salad Clipper 3 in Religion & Spirituality

sorry for being mean in the other question. I forgot to have respect for those who are non-believers, and I will try to do that in this question.

I just want to say Jesus and the Bible have already been documented for being real. Those are two facts that are already exist. I am not lying, you can find them yourself.

Anyway, I guess my real question is "what is your perspective on life?" christians, or non-believers.

2007-12-22 02:51:17 · 32 answers · asked by happyforgotten 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-22 02:48:38 · 30 answers · asked by jengweng 1 in Religion & Spirituality

If so why?

2007-12-22 02:47:46 · 11 answers · asked by Stitch 4 in Christmas

2007-12-22 02:47:26 · 28 answers · asked by Lou B 4 in Christmas

2007-12-22 02:47:08 · 15 answers · asked by cant take heat?get the f%&k out! 4 in Other - Cultures & Groups

One year she croqueted (? that net type knitting) swimming costumes for my two, rapidly maturing teenage daughters.You can imagine the rest.

2007-12-22 02:46:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

Is there a limit on how many people Christians can date before they get married?

2007-12-22 02:45:53 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-22 02:45:36 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

Once when I was very young, about 4 or 5, I commented that I hated vanilla ice cream. I then proceeded to get a long drawn out lecture from my father on why I was not allowed to hate anything or anyone as the feeling of hate was something when we wish for the complete elimination of that thing or person. In other words murder or destruction.

Today hate is used to simply express disapproval. Or maybe it has been wrongly confused with intense dislike or disapproval.

Should we keep using "hate" so liberally.

2007-12-22 02:43:36 · 4 answers · asked by HAND 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-22 02:42:43 · 10 answers · asked by Nilesh R 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-22 02:42:39 · 8 answers · asked by Lancaid 3 in Religion & Spirituality

This is for adults out there. Are you truly happy being LDS, or have you just always been around or raised into the religion?? I am wondering if there are people out there that truly believe that what happens in the Temple is a little creepy. What about G's..... (be honest)Or do you just shut your mouth and say " it was so special" uggg. Anyways I have been through the whole ordeal, (temple and G's)and lived in that religion for most of my adult life and can now see the light. Please answer truthfully, because I know that so many people feel trapped like robots. Thanks

2007-12-22 02:41:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Dear bros and siss...

Is it okay for a husband to stop his wife from meeting her relatives if they are alright and she likes them???




Especially if she has put up with her husbands relatives often executing bad behaviour towards her?

2007-12-22 02:41:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-22 02:41:27 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

im an atheist and i go to church well last sunday i went and the sermen was about keeping the sabeth day holy and not working on it. after church i went with the preachers family ,cause im friends with his son, to go get some food then we went to the movies. isnt that kind of hipocritical? when we went to eat we forced other people t work on sunday by serving us when we went to the movies we did the same what are your thoughts? whats your stance on working on sunday(a question for religiou people)

P.S. i actually used spell check happy?

2007-12-22 02:41:14 · 29 answers · asked by Neal 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you think there are too many tv preachers using the word MONEY in terms of every other word in their sermons and why?

2007-12-22 02:40:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Whenever his Mom introduces me to a family member or friend she says in English, "This is Lynn, Rob's girlfriend," then she continues on in her native language. I hear my name several more times, but have no idea what is being said about me. Boyfriend doesn't speak the langauge, so he doesn't know either.

Also, I was watching TV with Mom, boyfriend and Mom's friend once and even though both of them speak perfect English, they kept talking in the other language back and forth. It's her house, but I thought it was kind of rude.

What do you think?

2007-12-22 02:39:09 · 16 answers · asked by Original_Syn 6 in Etiquette