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Are flu shots bad for you?
Flu shots aren't bad for you. Even the healthiest people can die from the flu, and we have no good antivirals (that your doctor will let you get anywhere near), so prevention with a flu shot is the best policy.
People going without a flu shot are fooling themselves, unless they're just too poor to afford one.
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Is it a sin to pray?
Its not a sin to pray in the privacy of your own home.
It is a sin to pray in public where everyone can see you pray.
Inside a church with a lot of other people would be a gray area.
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If you learned you were going to be homeless in less than 72 hours, and your car is your sanctuary, where would you park at night to sleep?
Neither one of the answers is a location.
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Is it a sin to pray?
Its not a sin to pray in the privacy of your own home.
It is a sin to pray in public where everyone can see you pray.
Inside a church with a lot of other people would be a gray area.
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Is it true in florida if mother goes on medicaid the gov can take home & property for med bills when she dies? How can we prevent this?
The process is called "Medicaid Recovery."
Question#1: Yes and no. If she dies before the age of 55, nothing is taken. If the family homestead is the house in question, the Florida Constitution prevents it from being taken. If there is a surviving spouse, or a child under the age of 21, blind, or disabled, then the estate is not recovered. There are other exceptions to Medicaid Recovery.
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Are atheists and witches the same thing?
Atheists and witches are not always the same thing.
Witches generally believe in a Deity of some sort, usually a dualistic Deity with a Feminine and a Masculine presence, and usually the Feminine presence is the more powerful of the two (the Masculine presence tends to die in the fall and resurrect in the spring, whereas the Feminine is around the whole time).
To be an atheist you have to...
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If you were aboard the starship Enterprise,what would be your duty?
Engineer in the Old Series. They always wore RED. :-P
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how do you attract women who wear windsuits?
Become a giant vacumn. The resulting low-pressure surrounding you will cause wind to blow in your direction. Then just wait for a woman in a windsuit to float in your direction (ignore the men in windsuits, of course).
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I want to substitute Splenda in a cake recipe (it says it measures 1:1), but it's so much sweeter than real sugar. Any tips?
Splenda is sweeter than sugar, but the bags which say "measures cup for cup like sugar" have already taken care of "diluting" the sucralose (the generic term for "Splenda") with a substance called "maltodextrin", a substance which is neutral in flavor.
TRIVIA: Maltodextrin is also used by homebrewers who want to increase the body of their homemade wine or beer without adding more sugar.
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Can a product that says that it's sugar free still be sugar free if it has Splenda in it? Isn't Splenda sugar?
Splenda is made from sugar, but while it fools the tongue it does not act like sugar in the body.
While it does use a few chlorine atoms in its molecule chains (replacing the carbon atoms and thus making it not break down like sugar in your body), Splenda does not dechlorinate so the chlorine atoms stay safely locked up in the Splenda molecule.
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Which would make me fatter faster? Splenda or sugar? I want to lose weight and want to cut out sugar from my diet but not sure if eating foods/drinks with Splenda is worse because I read that Splenda can also make you gain weight.
Splenda can make you fat, but in a very strange way somewhat unrelated to Splenda, as this can occur with any artificial sweetener (including, sad to say, Stevia).
It has to do with the body's natural system of regulating your eating habits. Essentially, your body gets trained into expecting a sweet food to be followed with a lot of carbs and calories, so it tries to regulate your consumption...
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Candy for diabetics... Is it anything or any sweet snacks that people with diabetes can eat without having High or Low Blood Sugars after eating it? I'm not talking about or looking for the Low Sugar candy or candies that are sold in stores either.
Because nearly all foods contain some level of sugar which will cause problems for diabetics, fruit is a better choice than prepackaged snacks because fruits contain the vitamins and minerals necessary in a healthy diet. The fiber in fruits is important to maintaining healthy blood sugar levels.
If you are going to take a "sugar hit", you might as well consume vitamins, minerals, and fiber...
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What is ginger ALE widely available, but ginger BEER is difficult to find?
This depends on where you are in the world. In the U.K., ginger beer is prevalent all over the country, as flavoring beer with ginger was a common practice in England. Its worth noting that "ginger ale" derives its name from a type of amber-colored beer known as ale (darker beers are "lagers").
As laws increasing taxes on beverages containing alcohol became more prevalent, ginger beer...
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I made ginger beer or ginger ale with yeast and sugar and the ingredients but how do i take out the yeast flavor when its finished?
Straining can remove some of the fizziness of the drink. My local homebrewer shop recommends chilling the bottles after the 48 hour carbonation period, which will cause the yeast particles to slow growing and descend to clump at the bottom of the bottle. Then just carefully pour our the ginger ale without allowing any of the yeast sediment at the bottom to get into the glass.
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There is always this bum asking for money of my freeway exit.I noticed that every person with a hooptie was ignoring him.Then I saw a man in a brand new mercedes pull up roll down his window and give him money.Does that prove that rich people aren't evil?
Evil people sometimes steal expensive cars and then suddenly have an attack of conscience, leading them to give money to a homeless person to "make up for it". They might also have an attack of "Robin Hood Mentality."
Of course , quite a lot of people who say they're homeless are actually not homeless. Real homeless people tend to get services from charities instead of standing out in the...
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Since pull tabs are about 33 to a single cent, why does the Ronald McDonald House still bother to collect them? Why not entire cans?
While Ronald McDonald House Charities did once collect pull tabs for charity, they don't specifically collect aluminum pull tabs for charity anymore and haven't done so since 2004.
Back in 1987, when there were quite a lot of urban legends zipping around about "save pull tabs for charity", but none of them were true, Ronald McDonald House Charities decided to cash in on people's huge saved...
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EXPLAIN BOTH POINT OF VIEW ON GLOBAL WARMING??
Climate Change Proponents: Have lots of evidence, including observations and proven models, showing that human beings are causing catastrophic climate change.
Climate Change Skeptics: Would lose a lot of money if their heavy investments in oil, coal, and logging are curtailed by Climate Change Proponents gaining the upper hand in setting energy policy around the world.
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Possible that a person who has lost all his teeth and has legs like chicken bones and is in his 80s isn't dying? He remains energetic.
I think the fact that he is still "energetic" is enough information to conclude that he is not dying quickly (all of us, including you, are dying slowly). People at death's door tend not to move around much.
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Are vampires romantic monsters who will wine and dine you?
No. She insisted on going dutch, tried to order steak tartare at the vegetarian restaurant, and kept sneaking drinks from my wine glass after ordering a glass of water for herself (despite insisting she never drank...wine).
Vampires suck in so many ways.
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Which provides more evidence of your expertise - your questions or your answers?
Your answers. Questions are just random thoughts, answers take time to compose.
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Is graphics RAM and standard RAM interchangeable? eg. if I need 1GB graphics memory and only 512Mb,will the remaining 512Mb be standard RAM?
Graphics ("Video") RAM and Standard ("Physical") RAM are usually not interchangeable. Video RAM consists of chips on your video card which are used only for video, while Physical RAM is in sticks on your motherboard which is used for a lot of things, though not for actually displaying video when a graphics card is present in the computer.
Most motherboards have built-in video these days,...
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Is anyone else excited for the return of Doctor Who this weekend? Furthermore, your thoughts on Matt Smith and the head writer switch?
I've seen a couple previews and all I can say is that Doctor Who seems to be doing what so many shows do these days: switching fanbases from the original core to "fresh young faces", which is not always a good move and can alienate (literally in this case) the core fanbase. The Doctor has been getting steadily younger (the Companions have always been young). I fully expect Matt Smith's...
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what happen to the body if you fall so fast jumping from 5,000 feet into a water or a sea,would you survive it,is there a way to survive it?
Water works much like a brick wall when you hit it going very fast. The problem is due to water displacement. A diver diving off a 30 foot diving board presents a very small surface area striking the water when he goes vertical and places his hands together. The same diver would get a very hard jolt off the same diving board if instead he engages in the act commonly known as the "belly flop",...
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How and why do animal lovers eat meat? Is this not contradictory?
Respect of animals comes in two forms among the people of this planet.
There are the vegetarians or vegans, who choose to respect animals by refusing to kill living, breathing creatures simply to give themselves a "sweet treat" which, like all other desserts, is completely unnecessary for a healthy diet.
There are also those who respect animals by, through their clouded minds assuming...
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Why doesn't the father have much of a say so when it comes to a woman making the decision to murder her unborn child?
Ignoring the loaded part of the question, the woman carries all of the considerable health risks of ending a pregnancy through birth, and the less considerable (though significant) health risks of ending a pregnancy through abortion. The man carries no health risks whatsoever from the woman's pregnancy.
This is the most important consideration in this choice, and the only relevant one...
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Should CBS run the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad for Focus on the Family?
Its an invalid argument.
There once were parents were blood relatives, but they decided not to have an abortion, and their son grew up to be Hitler (true story), a guy who banned all abortions nationwide when he was elected (also true story), and was only stymied when the German Supreme Court re-legalized abortion for health reasons (also true story).
The point is that kids grow up to be...
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What is a natural way to lower cholesterol?
A vegetarian diet works for me. My cholesterol level is 152. No meat, no eggs, very little dairy.
There are a lot of vegetarian "meat substitutes" which can help you go vegetarian with little pain and suffering. My fake-meat chili fakes out most meat eaters, and one of my co-workers wanted to know my secret for the barbecue sauce on the fake barbecue rib. There are even decent fake...
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Do liberals take any responsibility for the mortgage crisis? After all.. poor people finally got the loans they always wanted.
Poor people did not get "the loans they always wanted", because sub-prime loans did not give poor people homes, they took their homes away. Liberals were not to blame for the actions of conservatives, despite the best efforts of conservatives to try and whine otherwise.
From 2001 to 2006, conservatives got everything they wanted. Low taxes? Got them. No regulations on the market? Market...
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Is the Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, good for Americans?
Before the ruling, corporations had to donate through PACs, which required the employees and management to agree to the donations.
Now, the board of directors can hand money directly to a politician without needing to convince its employees of the merits.
Before the ruling, corporations were limited to about $1 million per candidate.
After the ruling, corporations are limited in their...
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Does depression take away your sex drive?
Depression can reduce your libido (sex drive).
Beware of psychiatrists who don't monitor the effects a medication has on you. Don't beware medications in general, as a properly prescribed and monitored medication may just be the thing to boost your libido. A medication which causes another man to lose his libido may turn you into a raging sex fiend (in a good way, of course), meaning that...
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My mom said she doesn't want me to see a doctor for depression because they "always blame the mom". What the heck am I supposed to do?She's in denial!
Your mental health needs to come first. If you don't blame your mom for your depression, then chances are the therapist won't blame your mom either. Your subconscious mind might have a different opinion, but your conscious mind may be gradually tweaked into changing your subconscious mind as well, especially if your subconscious mind has a totally wrong opinion based on faulty information.
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I've been feeling down and lonely for a while. I started crying when i came home and i don't know why. I'm sad all the time. Am i depressed?
Given your additional comment, you may have a few problems making a regular therapy session happen. While living with your mom sounds like something you wouldn't want to happen, it may be the "necessary evil" to set you on the road to mental health recovery.
However, if you mention to the therapist that your mom might try to use the sessions in court to force you back into her home, and...
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Is there any possible way that coffee can cure depression? Because my parents seem to think so, and they're forcing me to drink coffee. Also, what can I put in it besides milk and sugar to make it not gross? I HATE coffee. I it really an "aquired taste?"
Coffee does contain some rather effective anti-oxidants (making it somewhat healthy), but the caffeine in coffee probably creates the impression of "curing depression" through the increase in energy through the stimulant effect of caffeine.
As with all stimulants, the stimulant effect not only wears off after a short time, but a tolerance builds up to the stimulants, causing you to need more...
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How can one seek help for depression without health insurance or a job?
I wouldn't be so naive to suggest that every location in the U.S. has a free mental health clinic, but most of them have a local government-run clinic which has a sliding scale that runs quite close to "free". A clinic local to me goes all the way down to $6 for an hour-long talk therapy session (and $3 for a session with a psychiatrist to work with medications), and inability to pay for your...
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Is it true that if you put a piece of Mentos in a bottle of Coke Light, it will explode?
Mythbusters worked on this one and this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjbJELjLgZg) demonstrates that a single Mentos still has an explosive effect, provided the liquid has most of the chemicals found in Diet Cola.
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Why do people persist in the misconception that poor people eat pet food from cans, which can be expensive, when human food in cans can be cheaper?
The legend originates in actual cases in the 1960s, when pet food really was cheaper than human food. Poor people bought cans of pet food and cooked and ate it like hamburger.
There may be some truth to the claim even in modern times, at least in terms of relative cost between human and pet food. Pet food cans are about the same size as tunafish cans, yet around here tunafish is 80 cents...
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Is it possible for people to be hyperactive without having ADHD? And if so, what is this condition called? Just simply, Hyperactive?
One symptom of ADHD (and ADD for that matter) is hyperfocusing, which would appear to be hyperactivity without attention deficit because the person in question is paying excessive attention to one thing. If the person in question cannot be diverted to other, possibly more important pursuits, while seemingly hyperactive without attention deficit, then they are presenting with symptoms of ADHD....
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Which one of these mythology superior God/Goddess is the most well-known worldwide?.
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Can today's computers function past 2012? Or are they going to blow up again?
2012 is not a problem for today's computers.
2038 is a problem, this is when today's 32-bit computers will "run out of dates".
Fortunately, there's a solution: buy a 64-bit computer (yes, they are also "today's computers"). Trillions of years from now, 64-bit computers will "run out of dates".
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what do you think about 2012 (the end of the world)
December 21st (or, depending on who is doing the counting, December 8th, 10th, or 23rd), 2012 is the day on which the Mayan's Long Count Calendar transfers from the 13th b'ak'tun to the 14th b'ak'tun. They planned a big celebration for that day, the only "prediction" made by the Mayans for that day.
Essentially the hoopla is about a Mayan "New Year's Eve" party, without any of the nonsense...
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Do You get the feeling that the most difficult, interesting questions are left without answer or barely scratched, while BS Q are swarmed?
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belief in god - what you belive god to be (includes athiest/agnostic views)
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I just told my mom that i had sex with my boyfriend of eight months and now she doesnt want me seeing him..what should i do?
Well, you could secretly marry him.
Of course, that sometimes results in him killing your cousin and his best friend in a duel, then having to run away to another country, while you take a potion that makes a cold and drowsy humor in your veins and makes you look dead, at which point he discovers your apparently dead body and he kills himself with a poison he just happens to have on his...
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Sex outside of marriage is...
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Do you think that people yell 'discrimination' too often, too soon and in the wrong situations?
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is it natural to mastubate in classroom?
Its not a good idea.
Back in college a guy was pulled out of the computer lab I was in by campus security. He had decided the public computer lab was a great place to pull out his willy and masturbate to computer porn, and didn't realize there was a security camera which gave a very good view of his computer workstation.
Since there were teenagers (under 18) in the lab, he got expelled....
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Do you think gay marriage should be legal? Why or why not?
The sole right being asked for is the right for a civil marriage between two men or two women. Not any of the colorful and extremely unlikely scenarios presented by frothing-at-the-mouth people defending marriage against people who want to get married (while themselves failing to defend marriage by getting divorced in record numbers). You can't marry animals or children, they can't enter into...
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Although it is demographically, is the United States a Christian nation? Should it be?
Christians like to claim that "Judeo-Christian beliefs formed the basis for the U.S. legal code."
They fail to ever elaborate on that statement, since it isn't actually true. A majority of Christians produced a secular government distinctly non-Christian precisely because of how this country was founded: by fighting a war against an English government where the state derived its claim to...
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Should Religious Symbols be Displayed on Public Property?
As many religions like to try to forget, the First Amendment which gives them religious freedom also denies the government the ability to promote one religion over another.
Government has no business promoting one religion over another by putting the holy symbols of the religion of the local majority on public land.
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Should Religious Leaders Be Able to Endorse Political Candidates?
Churches which receive federal tax dollars in the form of a religious tax exemption should not be permitted to spend those tax dollars endorsing political candidates.
Any church or religious leader which gives up its tax exemption is fine by me to make political endorsements.
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Whats happening to AB today? nothing works
AB decided that since everything was working smoothly, they should change everything so that was no longer true.
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WHY CAN'T POST COMMENTS,OR PIC.S ANYMORE?
I'm having the same problems on different computers, different OSes, and different browsers. This is not a "user-end" issue. This is the new screwed-up AB.
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Is there more glitches now on AB or less glitches since they've changed?
AB pages take longer to load than they did before.
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Anyone up for a nice colonoscopy today?
Its questions like these that make me wonder why the AB staff got rid of the "downrate" option.
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how to ask a women to have sex with you.. txtmate or friend or a complete stranger..
Its the answers to this question that make me wonder why AB staff got rid of the "downrate" option.
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Now that Trolls can't DR any longer should we disband COAT?
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Now that Trolls can't DR any longer should we disband COAT?
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Who thinks the "New Answerbag" SUCKS?
It appears to have been redesigned largely to allow more ad space to appear onscreen, and to reduce debates to a "kinder, gentler" format which is utterly boring.
The removal of the "downrate" option is a significant part of the dislike I have for the new AB, as there are answers which do not fall under any of the "Flag" categories, but which are still terrible answers deserving of a...
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I have a kitten but our daughter is allergic to her. Do you think keeping a pet in the garage is ok or should i find a home for her?
Most people are not allergic to "cats", but to their "dander" or spit. A cat grooms himself or herself several times a day, leaving cat spit on their fur. This causes the fur to cause an allergic reaction in human beings who are allergic to the cat dander.
A pet store clerk can sell you a safe, over-the-counter ointment to spread on your cat (with pleasant feline smells and tastes so the...
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Atheist: If an evil person dies never having faced justice in this life, did he/she get away with his/her evil?
Unfortunately, yes. Fairness is a human concept and not reflected in nature.
This is why it is more important to track down and subject people who do harm to others to the judicial system, than to sit at home and do nothing (i.e., "pray").
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is it illegel for a girl to dress up as the 80s boy george in a 80s party?
Its not illegal in the U.S.A. I can't speak for any other country.
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I'm leaving you AnswerBag! This site's wiggidy wack now! Is anyone else coming to Fluther with me, besides the goldfish from Jerry Mcguire?
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Abortion is not legally considered murder, however, if a pregnant woman is slain, the charge is double-murder...
What does that tell you?
That legislators don't consider fetuses to be persons. Being a person is not solely defined by what is murder and what is not murder, and legislators not only don't bother giving fetuses all the rights of persons, they permit abortions in every single "feticide" law.
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Who's got the technological edge? Bedouins? or Amish?
It depends really on which kind of Amish or Bedouin you are talking about: traditionalist or modern. Traditional Bedouin use less technology than both kinds of Amish, but modern Bedouin have adopted a modern lifestyle, making them the most technological. Since modern Amish have been adding modern technology to their land (such as "telephone shacks" at the edges of their property, and adding...
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If a girl was made to have an abortion by her mother or father will she go to hell?
While I am an atheist and find the concept of an afterlife hilarious, most religions consider an action you do not perform and which you do not authorize on your own body to not be a sin for you. The people performing the action on you are generally considered to be the sinners.
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What makes medicine that needs other medicine to cure its side effects NOT poison?
It is a myth to think that there is medicine which lacks unwanted side effects, including "natural" medicines like herbs. Even marijuana has a long-term side effect of limiting short-term memory, and taking something else to improve memory while using "medical marijuana" is a good idea.
Just enough of the common foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea, works as a heart medication. Too much is a...
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Although it is demographically, is the United States a Christian nation? Should it be?
No doubt the "Treaty of Tripoli" has been mentioned at least once, in which a document created by President George Washington's administration declared the U.S. to not be a Christian nation, and this document was published in several newspapers with no complaints by any U.S. citizen.
Also it is difficult to declare the U.S. Constitution a Christian document when it does not mention God or...
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What place on earth will survive 2012?
All of the Earth. "2012" is a fabricated "prophecy" based on silly numerology and the mistaken impression that the Mayans "predicted" worldwide disasters on Winter Solstice 2012 (http://www.2012hoax.org/).
All the Mayans "predicted" on Winter Solstice 2012 was the transition from the 13th b'ak'tun to the 14th b'ak'tun, or in other...
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When will the next month be without a full moon?
The Lunar cycle lasts 29.53 days, from full moon to full moon.
February, with only 28 or 29 days, is thus the only month of the year which can miss a full moon entirely.
The next four Februarys which will be without a full moon are in 2018, 2037, 2067, and 2094.
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Would this mean a capricorn guy doesnt like you? If you texted a capricorn guy and asked if he liked you or am i wasting my time and he doesnt reply?
Capricorns are sincere, responsible, and reliable. A text message may have been perceived by the Capricorn as inadequate to the task of describing how he felt about you, meaning he has some strong emotions about you.
You may want to schedule a face-to-face meeting with your Capricorn, somewhere fairly private as Capricorns tend to be introverted, to let him describe his feelings for you in...
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If you texted a capricorn guy and asked if he liked you would he give you an answer? if not then why?
Capricorns are sincere, responsible, and reliable. A text message may have been perceived by the Capricorn as inadequate to the task of describing how he felt about you, meaning he has some strong emotions about you.
You may want to schedule a face-to-face meeting with your Capricorn, somewhere fairly private as Capricorns tend to be introverted, to let him describe his feelings for you in...
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If your star sign is aquarius ... when were you born?
Sometime from January 20th to February 18th.
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What do leo men like about pisces women? What can pisces women do to attract leo men xx
A Leo will love the compassion, sensitivity, composure and flexibility of a Pisces, who loves the strength and power that the Leo exudes.
You've got a lot of opposite qualities to work around in this type of relationship, but oddly enough the combination, provided you manage to make the relationship work, can lead to a lot of passion and romance.
Your Leo man is an extreme extrovert...
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Is there any hope for me with this guy? I dated a guy for 2 and a 1/2 years. We broke up because he moved home to be nearer to/finish college. He's much younger than me. He says he still loves me and liked what we had. Not interested in other women.
Can you move to be closer to him? He clearly wants a close relationship with someone he can see in person on a regular basis. If you can't move to be near him, then you may have to consider this relationship completely over and move on.
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How do I get a Capricorn guy back?
One question I have to ask is: how did you lose him in the first place? Capricorns are loyal, responsible, hard-working, and sincere, and it takes a lot to faze a Capricorn.
Capricorns are a little stubborn when they have made up their minds (their strong willpower has this bad side effect), and often insist on either being equals or in control, never enjoying situations where others have...
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Are Geminis and Cancers compatible?
Have you ever seen the stage show (or movie version) of "RENT"? While the characters' astrological sun signs aren't mentioned, the characters of Maureen Johnson and Joanne Jefferson (a couple for most of the show) fairly accurately represent the Sun Signs Gemini and Cancer.
Maureen is a bisexual performance artist who is largely superficial and delights in flirting, much...
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Tips on how to get my aquarius ex back. I am an aries girl
Given that you have that hot Aries temper, while the Aquarius has the even temper to put up with your hot temper, you were most likely the one who broke up the relationship in the first place. And since it takes a lot to get the easy-going Aquarius riled up enough to leave, you may not be able to get this one back.
You're going to have to go against some of your own personal natures to...
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What would you say to someone who’s self medicating on homemade drugs?
It depends on what is meant by "drugs".
If for example there's some amount of herbalism going on, then the person self-medicating may have done some research into the matter. You may want to ask about the research.
If the person is self-medicating using the dubious practice of "homeopathy" (i.e., diluting a substance with water to the point where the new liquid...
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If the world was only created when "god" said it was. How is it that there are finds or people from about 250 thousand years ago and dinausors?
The Young Earth Creationists' case rests on their belief that God Lies To Human Beings.
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1) Fossils are artificially aged by God to create doubts that must be dispelled by faith.
2) Carbon, radioisotope, and other forms of dating pieces of the Earth are all completely wrong, despite verifying each other.
3) Stars millions of miles away have had their light...
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Why did the Obama administration claim to have created jobs in Iowa congressional districts that didn't exist?
As other posters have pointed out, Iowa sends this information to the President, and the Executive Branch reports what the states tell them. The claims were made by Iowa, and were corrected by the President as soon as the errors were discovered. Other errors in state reporting were corrected as soon as they were verified as errors.
I think its really stupid that people are blaming the...
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Why do you feel; 1a) the Bible; 1b) Evolution has the answers to mans past.
Evolution. Evolutionary DNA and the fossil record were "written down" millions of years prior to the Bible being written down, and the Bible was written by people who had no access to the fossil record or DNA testing (as evidenced by the Genesis story in which striped bars were used to "genetically modify" herd animals, Genesis 30:37-42).
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Ok is there something wrong with me if just say I was raped by three men when I was in Highschool and at first it was not fun but after the first guy i started to like it so much I asked them to not stop to keep on raping me and or fucking me?
You had a physical pleasure-like reaction from the physical stimulation and mistook it for an actual desire to be raped.
This is quite common in rape victims, male and female, to have a physical pleasure reaction to the rape even though the victim did not want the rape to happen in the first place and did not need it for emotional pleasure.
It often takes years of therapy to come to terms...
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How will religion evolve?
Evolution is what happens to living things. Religion isn't actuall a living thing, so it will never undergo a process of evolution.
Change, on the other hand, can happen to anything, and religion may well change to become more supportive of the people in the world (than it currently is).
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Im fat should i go annerexic?
This is about the same as asking "I'm not insane should I go schizophrenic?" because anorexia nervosa is not a condition which you can voluntarily create in yourself (like most mental illnesses).
However, anorexia nervosa is characterized by refusal to eat regular meals and refusal to consume healthy portions of food, essentially the way in which one loses weight normally....
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Is lighting a lighter with another lighter dangerous?
I always see my friend doing it, but was worried whether it would cause an explosion?
It isn't dangerous, provided the flame is held only to the tip of the lighter and not to any other part of the second lighter, as he presses the button on the unlit lighter.
The butane in the chamber underneath the tip of the lighter appears liquid, but is only a liquid because it is highly pressurized in its chamber. At normal atmospheric pressure butane is a gas. Holding the flame...
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I'm making a sourdough starter for the first time. How do I know when it's ready to use?
At the "bubbly froth" stage, it is "done" and ready to be used in baking.
I know it sounds too simple, but that is the point when it is ready to use.
After it hits "bubbly froth", start keeping it in the refrigerator to keep stable. Use a lid but allow some breathing holes (if you're thinking "gee this sounds like a pet insect", most people...
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Do atheists also say things like "Jezus, why did you do that" or "God, I hope I'll be ok"? And what makes 'em do it?
Most atheists grew up in households where such things were said. What's learned in childhood tends to stick around with you until you die.
Lately I've been making the effort to say, when (for example) I've just stubbed my toe or woken up an hour after the alarm was supposed to go off, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!"
Thanks to Terry...
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My boyfriend will be sent to a state prison in pa.he practices rastafarian religion,the prison will attempt to make him cut his hair.where can i get a paper stating that he is a member and cutting his hair is against his religous beiefs
There is an organization which can help with this (other than the more general civil rights organization, the ACLU at http://www.ACLU.org/).
Go to the Becket Fund for help with this, at http://www.becketfund.org/
For the relevant Act of Congress which protects a prisoner's religious rights, the "Religious Land Use and Incarcerated Inmates Act of 2000", go to...
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What would you suggest to take for curing someone of the swine flu
Liquids (especially hot ones) and bed rest. Ibuprofen for fever reduction if needed, and over-the-counter cough medication for the coughing and sneezing. Paper tissues for the blowing of noses. Basically the same as you'd use for seasonal flu, as H1N1 only kills you if you have other serious problems (such as a weakened immune system).
If it gets severe, hospitals have other options....
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Wafer in Church in holy mass / communion!
Why does it taste so plain? How about different flavours? What can you suggest? How about red hot Mexican chilli or something more interesting?
Its plain because of the whole "bread of the poor" theology of the Catholic Church.
Never mind that they've decided that wheat is the grain of the poor, even for countries where rice is the grain of the poor and wheat must be imported at considerable unaffordable cost.
The whole point of the wafers are not the actual taste of the bread. The flavor is, as it were, added by...
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Is the joker crazy
No. The Joker is so much more sane than anyone else that he just looks crazy by comparison.
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Does the person at customer services also have the same smile at home as with the customers?
Depends on the person, and what day on which they've just come home from work: Fridays generate the best smiles, Mondays not so much.
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There is this website. it seems to loads perfectly fine when using FF in vista, but when i try and load it with FF in Ubuntu the "connection times out". Why? and what can i do?
Loads fine for me.
Ubuntu Linux 8.04.3.
Of course, I'm using the "Swiftfox" Linux native code compile of "Firefox" for i686 architectures. The generic Firefox you get with Ubuntu is compiled for i386, or "pre-Pentium" machines like the 386 and 486. Regular Firefox works well with Pentium or better CPUs, but Swiftfox has been optimized for Pentium or...
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IF A WOMAN WAS BAD IN BED....WHAT WOULD YOU TELL HER?
It depends. If she was bad in bed in the sense that she won't let you have sex with her, then break off the sexual part of the relationship.
If she will let you have sex with her...then she could become a regular Sunday night thing.
After all, she says yes to sex. Already she's a man's fondest dream come true. "Bad in bed" is rather irrelevant at that point.
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S it ok for an 18 year married woman to have a 17 year old guy for a best friend who is at the house while her husband's at work
Yes.
Your husband might think things are going on, but they're not going on, right?
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Do you think the White House is accurate in the amount of jobs it is going to claim that the stimulus has created or saved?
I think they're very accurate in the "direct jobs" number.
The "indirect jobs" number isn't going to be as accurate, but there are still a lot of "indirect jobs" resulting from the direct spending.
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Is there any 21 year old guyes out there that are single
All of the good ones are either married, gay, or dead.
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Where can I find the video for 2girls1cup?
Go to this link: (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=2+girls+1+cup).
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What can I get my boyfriend for his 18th birthday? I want him to LOVE IT.
I can think of a few things he is guaranteed to LOVE, but this is the public section of AB, not the adult section... ;-)
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Have you ever made sourdough bread?
Yes. I have made sourdough starter from scratch (adding "active dry" yeast to the mixture means it is no longer sourdough) and made sourdough bread, buns, and cinnamon rolls. There are ways of reducing the "sour" taste to the point where the person eating the baked item does not believe that it is sourdough.
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At the "bubbly froth" stage, it is...
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Everyday on the News the support for the Swine Flu flip-flops. Today they said that it wasn't properly tested on Children ages 3-10 years... Should I be worried for my Children?
The H1N1 vaccine trials on children aged 6 months to 17 years produced preliminary results on September 21, 2009. Reports of the pediatric trials: http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/QA/qaH1N1pedvax.htm, and http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/nioa-eri092109.php.
These results show a strong benefit to children aged 10-17 years, with 76% getting protection from the vaccine (about the...
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How do you get a pre-nup without hurting the feelings of your future wife / husband?
You don't. Feelings will be hurt.
Now, you do "catch more flies with honey than with vinegar", as the old saw says. By that I mean that while the pre-nup is insulting in and of itself, you could put in a generous "severance package" in the event of a divorce, making the pre-nup a better deal for your future ex-spouse.
Obviously you're trying to avoid a...
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Why do some of AB users do not respond to the email address provided to the public?
Because they've given an email address that they've given over to spam (i.e., the dark side).
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Aftr nt havng sex fo 5 days due to my prds 6th nigt my hubby after even cums in me does nt stop till he cums agn & after10 mins. brk he does it agn & agn in the nxt mornin and twice the nxt nigt till he coms to his routine f 1ce daly is it norml or m luky
If he's 18, then its normal.
If he's a lot older than that, then either you're lucky or you need to worry about what kinds of designer drugs he is taking (more likely the latter).
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How am I supposed to find online archives of newspaper articles from like 2001? You have to pay to get a membership and then see the search results, I'm not subscribing to a paper from a province I don't even live in anymore. Help? :(
Lots of Googling. Really. If someone else copied the article and used it (and the fact that you are looking may indicate some interest in the article) then it may still exist on a website somewhere in the world.
It may take awhile to find, as most people who put up an article on the web don't bother with making that article easy to find. All they have to do to show it to someone is...
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My ex told me that if he can't have me nobody else can... Should I be extremely worried or just wait til he's a bit over me. I don't want to overreact if it's not that big of a deal.
That is the starting point for stalking and "crimes of passion." Take him seriously until he gives you good reason not to think he might "make certain" that no one else can have you.
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Why is Halloween so bad for christian? my husband recently started going to a christian churh and he doesnt want our 2yr old son to go out trick or treating. What should i do i wanted to take my son tricker treating for his 1st time to have fun.
Frankly these days I'm a little surprised to find the children of atheists being allowed out for Halloween trick or treating. Nowadays its just not safe to let your kids wander around on Halloween night, and thats in spite of the "razor blade in the apple" or the "poisoned candy" being both urban legends.
There are way too many REAL "monsters" (the kind...
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I heard that people die if they are killed is this true?
A common misconception. They die if they are killed and not immediately revived.
For example, some hospital operations require the stopping of the heart, which in most circles is considered to be "killing the patient", but the intent is to revive the patient later.
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I have recently uploaded a video on youtube, but my voice is behind the movement so it looks awkward. How can I make sound and movement synchronized?
You'll need to re-encode the video on your home computer using video editing software, to get audio-video "sync".
A free software option is Avidemux (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/), which has an option right there on the main screen called "Shift" to shift the audio back or forward to make it match up with the video.
Avidemux does require that you re-encode...
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Whats the worst song you could get stuck in your head?
Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps"
It has the same general theme as Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" but with none of the charm, wittiness, and general intelligence of "Baby Got Back." The video is terrible too (also unlike "Baby Got Back").
Once you've seen the youtube link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4_-xKTDP0), please go get...
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Is it murder to pray for a natural abortion?
Theologically speaking, probably not.
After all, you cannot control God with prayer, so prayer is a meaningless act.
Secondly, if the fetus was going to die by the will of God, your choice to pray for its death had no effect on causing its death.
So provided your sole action is prayer, it would not be murder to do so.
EDIT: So I can take from your cowardly anonymous downrating that...
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Remember people used to say the antichrist would stamp us all with bar codes? Isn't that kind of antiquated technology? Why not use rfid in this day and age?
Pure evil has no sense of style, and would insist on the much uglier bar code rather than on the hidden-from-view RFID chip.
Cool evil would, of course, insist on the RFID chip, but only for itself and not for others.
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Would it be cheaper to run my home off of a generator than paying the electric company? I am 100% electric(no gas) and my average bill is about $170/month.
While I don't know exactly what your power usage is, using your $170 a month electric bill, and the average electricity cost of 12 cents per kWh, this would mean you were using 1,416 kWh per month.
Diesel generators (not including maintenance fees) produce about 10 kWh per gallon of diesel fuel. Current average prices of diesel fuel are $2.60 per gallon.
At 1,416 kWh, that works out...
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Would you give a homeless person CPR if they were dieing?
Yes, as the only part of old-style CPR which works is chest compressions, and "breaths" are irrelevant and take time away from the all-important chest compressions.
CPR works better if you avoid mouth-to-mouth and concentrate on the chest compressions. There's enough oxygen in the blood to sustain life for several minutes, but the blood has to be moved around for that to be...
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S there anyway i can get a new or just a computer i am disabled if so could you tell me
Check around your location for "computer recycling" organizations. One location in Kansas City, Missouri, called "SurplusExchange", sells computers fairly cheaply: right now they have 2.4Ghz PCs (think about four years old, but still fast enough for modern applications) for between $20 to $65, and $10 monitors, $2 keyboards, and $1 mice. Since LCD computer monitors became...
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Non-LDS Christians: Does the Bible say that Adam and Eve had to eat the from the the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in order to know how to "Be fruitful and increase in number"? (And please tell us your Denominational or Theological affiliation)
It is notable that the Bible mentions that Adam & Eve's *first* children, Cain and Abel, did not get born until *after* Adam & Eve ate the fruit and were expelled from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 4:1-2). This despite God ordering Adam & Eve to "be fruitful and multiply", long before they ate the fruit.
The only reasonable explanation for Adam & Eve waiting to...
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Why there are people on AB user and give wrong email address and fooling around when you respond and it's says failure.shame .
If someone doesn't want to respond to anyone through their private email address, then they value their personal privacy.
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Does your cat afraid of water?
Depends on the cat.
I have one who gets ecstatic at the thought of running water. He'll come running at the sound of a running tap, and always comes when someone takes a bath. When the basement leaks during a rainstorm, he's always lying down next to the "basement stream" running into the sump pump. He's a black longhair cat with the temperament of a "Maine...
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I lost all of my shortcut in start menu.How can I restore all of these shortcut?Please Help me.I don't know how to get it back.OS is vista 32 bit.
If you are lucky, you may be able to open the Recycle Bin and tell it to Restore recently deleted files, among which may be all your shortcuts.
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Have you ever gone on a "Vacation Biking" or would you like to?
I did a vacation bicycle trip back in high school. It was more of an organized affair through a 4-H program for young adults, through a program run out of the Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. A two day bicycle tour going from KSU to Fort Riley army base and back again.
Personally I'd love to do something similar again, though my wife's current bicycle has a very...
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Do you know how many people, under 25, in your state, are homeless?
It is difficult to determine how many homeless people exist in any state, let alone their individual ages. Homeless people, by definition, don't have homes, and Census workers typically do Household Surveys of people who (by definition) have homes.
Homeless people are only slightly easier to count than illegal immigrants, largely because being homeless is quite illegal in most towns...
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Why in King Follett J. Smith did say, "The mind or the intelligence which man possesses is coequal with God himself." which seems - as I understand it - to be at the very least EXTREMELY arrogant and perhaps even blasphemous? Where in the Bible is this?
While I have no love for the Church of LDS, this is quite unbearable "out-of-context" quote mining. There are plenty of things wrong with Mormonism without quoting something out of context and attributing a meaning never intended in the original document.
You were disingenously quoting from the "King Folett Discourse" by Joseph Smith (the guy who started Mormonism). A...
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I'm in a loving relationship for the first time. But for some reason I seem to can't get over my girlfriend's sexual past. Have you been able to get over your partners sexual past? Just hate that she had guys before me.And I never had a sexual past.
I've been able to get around a sexual past rather well, provided there's no leftover baggage of the viral or bacterial kind.
Think about it: she's more experienced now. She's learned a few new fun tricks, possibly some you haven't had tried on you yet. If you accept her as she is now, you get a woman who is a lot more fun in the sack than a woman who has no sexual...
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Where, how or why did the idea of knocking on wood to circumvent jinxing yourself originate?
Whil;e many claims have been made about the origin of the phrase (the wood is...the Christian Cross...the wooden beads of a rosary...the wood of a dryad's tree...etc.), the supersition doesn't seem to predate the nineteenth century, and seems to originate in the U.K.
The earliest documented references to "touching wood" are from 1805 and 1828 and concern chasing games...
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After viewing the attached video, do you think Atheists will change their beliefs? Why or why not? (I'm already a believer in Gawd, but my Gawd is "child-free.")
Wow!
A video "Jack T. Chick" tract! With less art!
And about as effective!
Atheists aren't going to change their views because some hallucinating theist wants the atheist to understand that the voices in the head of the hallucinating theist are threatening bad things if everyone doesn't obey the voices in the head of the hallucinating theist.
If we obeyed the...
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I am not virgin but now in getting marreid and i dont want to let know my husband that i had sex before what can i du
What Non-Virginal Women Did In Ancient Times:
They filled a small bladder full of pigs blood and stuck it inside themselves right before sex with their husbands (often popping a tiny pinhole just to help it along). Feign pain when he enters you, and the pigs blood will spill out of the bag as he penetrates you, covering his member and the sheets in blood and making him think he...
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If i sleep naked, does that mean i'm gay?
No. Even if you have sex with yourself (more commonly referred to as "masturbation").
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How do you organize the partitions on your hard drive (size and purpose)? How many, and what file systems do you use in them (NTFS, EXT...)?
If I'm going to install Windows and nothing else, I generally create ~49% C:Drive, ~49% D:Drive, and about 4GB (which hasn't been all of 2% in a long time) as a reserved space for the virtual memory paging file. Every partition becomes NTFS.
Linux generally gets a boot partition of about 512MB, and then the remaining space is 20% root partition, 25% /usr, 50% /home, and 5% swap...
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Can you install windows vista or xp on an external hard drive so it acts just as if it were in your computer?
Yes, using Sun Microsystem's VirtualBox software (http://www.virtualbox.org/). They have free versions which work well, and you can get extra features (and better efficiency) if you pay for them.
You'll need an OS on the main computer (WinXP or higher Windows OS; Linux; or Mac OS), and then you run VirtualBox on top of that, then whatever additional OS you want to run on top of...
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If you get into a fight with a deaf person is it the same legal repercussion as if the person you faught was not disabled?
Provided you are in the U.S.A., the legal penalty for assault and/or battery would be the same regardless of the disability of the defendant.
Where you may run into trouble is that judges and juries have some discretion in the penalties, and a person who has all senses intact attacking a deaf person may well be given the maximum penalty under the law, where two people of roughly equal...
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Concerning Hard Drives, does the term "Form Factor" refer to the size of the hard drive, i.e. 2.5" or 3.5"?
Yes, the form factor refers to the size of the hard drive.
However, the inch-based nickname of all these form factors usually do not indicate any actual product dimension (which are specified in millimeters for more recent form factors), but just roughly indicate a size relative to disk diameters, in the interest of historic continuity (from back in the distant past, ancient times (over ten...
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What does the two of pentacles tarot card signify when it comes to a job switch? Is it a positive indication?
Generally it means you are juggling two jobs (after all, the little guy on the card is juggling two "pentacle circles").
Right side up indicates that you may be able to handle both jobs at once, provided hours and workload really are compatible. If you really are switching from one job to another, ending the first job, it means you may be able to pick up an additional job on the...
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According to the Belief-O-MaticTM (see link), Which religion(s) are you best suited to?
I added in the 6th one because I have some leanings in that direction (the general environmentalism and the equality of men and women, not the spiritual beliefs).
1. Secular Humanism (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (94%)
3. Nontheist (78%)
4. Liberal Quakers (76%)
5. Theravada Buddhism (70%)
6. Neo-Pagan (66%)
I greatly suspect that one has to be an Ayn Rand Atheist (I'm...
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If something or someone contradicts the Bible, does that automatically mean that the Bible is wrong? Why or why not?
I'd think an automatic "Bible is all wrong because something contradicted it" is going a bit too far, but you might be able to whittle enough away from the Bible that it becomes difficult to claim its an Ultimate Authority, more like a "Reasonably Good" Authority or a "If You Are Reading The Bible While High On Whatever John Of Patmos Got High On To Write...
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I was in a debate with someone,and they kept claiming that premarital sex isn't sin.Why do so many make the bible say what they want instead of letting it just say what it says?Like Hebrews 13:4.
You're running into the slight difficulty that "premarital sex", like the word (or even the act of) "abortion", isn't mentioned in the Bible. Fornication is any act of sex outside of marriage. And that expression does not occur in the Bible.
For those of you who just reached for your King James Version, the KJV version is not one of the good translations as it...
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"...it is 'surely wrong' to see Mormonism as a Christian derivative in the way that Christianity is a Jewish derivative, because the LDS faith is 'in radical discontinuity with historic Christianity.'" (Mormon America, p. 324) Thoughts?
Joseph Smith copied too much of the Bible into "The Book Of Mormon" to claim that Mormonism is anything other than a derivative of Christianity.
The Mormon approach to paleontology is decidedly Christian Creationist as well.
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Is there an air conditioner I could get that does not need to be plugged into the wall or installed in the window to use?
You aren't going to find air conditioners which don't need electricity. Air conditioning is an energy-hungry process, and avoiding high energy use in your air conditioning system really requires advance planning, to the tune of "building your own home and making changes to the structure."
For example, wealthy ancient Romans "watercooled" their homes by pumping...
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Why is the Daily Show and Colbert Report pre-empted for the next few weeks (as well as last week)? Just a vacation? Can't seem to find anything about it.
They're skipping Labor Day Weekend, and possibly "9/11" weekend as well. Two major holidays means people aren't sitting at home watching TV, they're getting ready for barbecues and patriotic festivals.
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If one spouse go to heaven and the other to hell, is conjugal visits allowed?
On general principles I'd suspect that conjugal visits would be denied (sex being one of those thingys which God does not approve of), but the Bible indicates that *any* kind of visits from Heaven to Hell, or Hell to Heaven, are not only prohibited, but impossible (at least for normal people):
Luke 16:26 "And beside all this, between us [in Heaven] and you [in Hell] there is a...
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Evolution theory only predicts what could have happened in the past and proves scientifically what ever have happened. What can predict and
tell me what will happen in future (scientifically)?
What could possibly evolve from human species?
Evolution is like most other science in that it can make basic short-term predictions about the future, but will most likely be wildly inaccurate about the long-term future.
For example, in astronomy you can predict the future position of an orbiting planet, but your prediction will be off very slightly because you can not consider the effects of all the small bodies in the solar system.
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I think I'm emotionally gay but sexually straight. I can 't keep an interesting conversation going with a girl and bond with one in that manner. I'm able to do this with guys, I'm sure all guys do but don't you do that with women as well?
Sounds like you're emotionally straight as well. Gay guys are well-known for being able to keep a conversation going with a woman, often for years at a time.
Most straight men have difficulty talking with heterosexual women, especially interesting conversations, as any woman will tell you. If they didn't occasionally want a man's attention (physically or emotionally), women...
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Possible for a mom to make decent money working at home?
Most of the moms who are making *decent* money at home are working for phone sex services, which do most of their business at night when the kids are asleep.
Almost as much money can be made from working at Psychic Hotlines, with the same general hours of operation.
Both phone sex and psychic hotlines protect the private identities of the workers.
Most other "work-from-home"...
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Are there still leper colonies?
Ever since the development of an effective treatment for leprosy in 1982, combined with the discovery that leprosy isn't all that communicable (95% of the world's population are naturally immune), leper colonies have been disappearing. Of the few colonies I heard were still in operation (such as Culion Island in the Palawan Archipelago), I checked and found that they are now...
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I took birth control for like 3yrs and stopped bc i didnt have the money for it anymore. a few days later my bf n i had sex. he pulled out but i know that doesnt always work. am i at high risk of pregnancy? i also have pcos. thanks!
Birth control hormones take a little while to leave your system, but they start dipping the instant you miss a dose (such as stopping them altogether) so don't expect the remnants of the BC pill to protect you.
Men start producing sperm in their "natural lubricant" the instant they become erect, so "pulling out" is rather like "closing the barn door after the...
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Why is the blood supply required to test for syphilis? and I meant if a man who's bleeding from his mouth and has syphilis performs unprotected oral sex on an uninfected woman, can the woman get syphilis from the man that way?
The blood supply is required to test for all STDs, but especially for debilitating and lethal illnesses, such as syphilis.
As for the second part of the question, syphilis is carried in your blood, and mucous membranes (such as those found around the genitals) can absorb infected blood, such as blood infected with syphilis bacteria. So the short answer to the second question is YES YES YES...
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If you've been on Answerbag for more than a couple of years, how do you think the 'bag has affected you?
Well, not much. I mean, I used to leave the house and do things other than AB, but those other things are, IMAHO, highly overrated.
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What percentage of United States labor force (people) works in agriculture? Industry?
Right now about 1.5% to 1.9% of the employed U.S. labor force works in agriculture, down from 41% in 1900.
As "industry" is a very broad term (and even includes the "agriculture industry"), I'd need to know which industry you were talking about.
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Do you think Jesus hugger is a good slang to describe christians like tree hugger is used to describe environmentalists?
Tree huggers know all about trees and know what they are doing for the tree hugger at this moment.
Many Christians think Jesus was rich and didn't care if Christians were rich as well, putting them in the "don't know anything about Jesus" category and thus certainly not in the "Jesus hugger" category.
Since Jesus also said "whatsoever you do to the least...
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Do you think a swine flu shot I got back in 1975 or 76 is still good today? President Ford wanted everyone to get one so I did. Swine flu shots were provided free all across the country to whoever wanted to get one.
Swine flu back then was different from the new *Evolved* Strain we have today, so no, that flu shot is not going to be enough.
Until health care reform provides free vaccinations, you will probably have to pay through the nose for this new one.
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Someone talking about taxing the wealth. Is it possible in America? (Paying tax seperately for all the assets one own)
Under Clinton we had this thing called "capital gains tax", which taxed the wealth. He raised capital gains taxes and regulated the housing, banking, and financial industries. His administration presided over a massive economic and technological boom. The technology bubble eventually popped, but left behind miles and miles of useful new Internet connection wires and fiberoptic...
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If my girlfriend kissed another girl on the lips on purpose, not once, but TWICE and possibly more, is it considered cheating? What should I do?
I believe its not "cheating", more along the lines of "a situation you should ask to have repeated, in front of you or videotaped, and preferably both of them naked in a bathtub full of Jello."
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When it's late at night and there's nothing to watch, do you find yourself watching stupid infomercials? (:
Hang on, I have to stop using my ThighMaster while I finish making dinner with the Salad Shooter and empty out the Pasta Express. Oh dang, the cat has dragged the Miracle Mop onto the Ab Lounge again, soaking Matthew Lesko's latest edition of "Free Money".
Hang on, there. Now, what was the question again?
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I found out that my husband is talking to other woman online who sends nude pictures,he said he would never meet her, but the same thing happened before some years ago and he said the same thing and now he still does that, what to do? I feel so bad!
So what you are saying is that he didn't break his promise not to meet the previous woman?
Sounds a lot like he keeps his promises not to cheat on you. Trustworthiness is a valuable thing to have in a partner.
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How many married men here on AB are still madly in love with their wives? How long have you been together?
Ten years come September and still in love with her.
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Does sucking oil out of the Earth increase earthquakes?
The short answer seems to be "yes".
The less tinfoil-hatty answer is a *qualified* "yes": it causes earthquakes, but very small ones. You can feel the ground shaking, but the worst that will happen is minor damage and non-life-threatening injuries.
For more on the subject, go here:
Is Drilling for Oil Cause of Texas Earthquakes?
June 13, 2009
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In Heaven no one will be equal, everyone will be rewarded according to their works, your reward and position is determined by what yo do, Socialism must come from the devil then,agree or disagree? IF you want scripture I got it.
One could simply argue that what is true on Earth is not necessarily what is true in Heaven, and what is false on Earth is not necessarily false in Heaven.
Thus conclusions reached about Heaven do not necessarily prove conclusions about the Earth.
Besides which, I've got Scripture in favor of Socialism (on Earth, at any rate).
First off, the Old Testament is full of enforced...
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Ever since Lorena Bobbitt is it always open season on testicles for women?
I wouldn't think so, as Lorena Bobbitt (men, prepare to cross your legs) cut off Chuck Buttafucco's penis (cross them now!), not his testicles.
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If you had 400 stones, what would you do with them?
Try to cram them all back into the Keith Richards cloning machine.
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How do you teach a seven-year old to give pairs of numbers whose difference is 8? (Example: 9-1=8)
Ten dollar bills usually suffice for the teaching of anything to anyone.
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Do you prefer taller girls or shorter girls?
Shorter girls, but then, I'm really tall. Everyone I know who is tall has a really short girlfriend and/or wife.
Apparently its written into our genes or something that we will not fall in love with tall women.
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Does having children ruin relationships and marriages?
Having children certainly removes happiness from relationships and marriages.
Sure, ask a parent the point blank question, "do your kids make you unhappy?", and they're respond with the answer society demands of them: "No!"
But then ask them about the quality and happiness of their life, before and after having kids, without connecting the questions directly to...
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Why does the government insist on adding Aspartame to gum which already has sugar,or flouride to bottled water, when we have made it clear we don't want it added? I think it is population control,and it is deliberate malice against us. What do you think?
Its very hard to find gum without aspartame in it. Some of the Bubble Gums are sugar only. I used to be able to buy "Fruit Stripe" gum, but now they use aspartame as well. The cheapest gum in the world generally has sugar in it, those single-piece gums wrapped in individual wrappers.
It's getting to where I have to buy all my gum at a natural foods store, just to avoid the...
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Is it customary to give a bouquet of flowers to someone performing in a play each night of the performance or just at the last performance?
Any night is okay, but if you are there on opening night that would be the night. If you are unable to attend opening night, the final performance is also a good night.
Another thing to remember about live flowers and live performances is that opera singers (and other performers in an opera, such as the ballet dancers) consider live flowers in their dressing rooms to be terribly bad luck....
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Am I a loser for using this site so much or just addicted? my ex bf said that...
You're not a loser, you're an AB Winner!
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I'm tired of internet explorer's BS. I went to download Firefox and I got a warning from microsoft "Could not verify publisher, operation aborted" I swear it's a conspiracy, what do I do now?
You can download using FTP file transfer.
Try this one first within IE:
ftp://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest-3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%203.0.10.exe
If this link doesn't work, you can open a Command Line Interface in Windows (in XP: click on "Start", then on "Run", then type "cmd" and press Enter), and type:
ftp...
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If you are on answerbag and your wife or husband is in bed ... which takes precedence? This place is addicting. I think I might need to go to bed.
AB for certain, unless the wife says something about me coming upstairs and ripping off her clothes...
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Are crude hand gesture illegal?
If you are in the U.S.A., hand gestures are considered to be a form of free expression, which is considered to be protected as a form of free speech, and thus usually legal under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.
However, companies are permitted to make all kinds of rules about worker ethics and behavior, and your company may have rules banning the use of crude hand gestures in...
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What are the agruments for and against GMO's? Where can you get information on this issue? Is this food safety issue or nutrition?
Its partly food safety ("who knows what the new genetics in the gene pool will do over the next several decades?"), mostly nutrition, and partly about maintaining GMO-free corn stocks.
Companies creating GMOs have been focusing entirely on "increasing crop yields". The quick way to do that is "increase starches and water content". As they have been focusing...
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Why do CEO's and top executives need millions of dollars in bonuses when they run the company into the ground when there are millions of people surviving on $30,000 and lower incomes? I think they need to go back to college and learn how to add.
They agreed to contracts with the companies which stipulated that they would be paid bonuses even if they didn't do good work.
The *companies* need to learn how to add (or rather, "subtract"), not the CEOs. The fact that the CEOs got those lopsided contracts proves that the CEOs know darn well how to add.
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Are you with me on the "buy America" retaliation which states "NO" money granted to stimulate can be spent on American products?
No. Thats a terrible idea.
The stimulus money is going to come out of American Taxation. If you buy foreign products, thats less American Taxes to pay for the stimulus package, and the stimulus package is going to cost you more later on.
Its like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Almost literally, in fact.
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Why do some colleges have beds that require extra-long bed sheets?
Corporate CEOs have a strong correlation for "increased height". Most of them are 6' 2" or taller, and most of them have been to college.
Colleges are just assuming that tall people are more likely to get higher education than short people.
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Are you taking advantage of the peace and quiet to buy reserve food and water and toilet paper?
There's a time when it's *not* a good idea to buy up reserve food and water and toilet paper?
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If you were ever kidnapped and held for ransom in a small room with no windows and nothing but your daily meals for entertainment, what would you miss the most?
Not being able to get on AB.
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What are your theories on how the dinosaurs became extinct?
Dunno. God sure told them to be fruitful and multiply, and fill the Earth.
Genesis 1:20-22 And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.' And God prepareth the GREAT MONSTERS, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl...
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If you wear Glasses or Contact Lenses how strong is your perscription?
I'm a -13: 0 is "perfect vision", and negative numbers are "near-sighted". I can see clearly about three inches away without my contact lenses. Most nearsighted people ("myopia") are no more than -6 (I have no idea how to convert +/- eyesight numbers to the "20/20" system), but -13 is "extreme myopia".
I've actually been told by...
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In your opinion, which is better, Sims 2 or Sims 3?
Sims ONE. Sims 1 had NO AGING.
If you wanted your sims to stay a trim, fit 20-30-something, and their kids to have a lifetime of happy childhood, then you could retreat into that happy utopia in Sims 1.
Sims 2 came out, and MADE EVERYONE GET OLD AND DIE. Not exactly a blissful retreat from the real world.
I have no doubt that Sims 3 makes you get old and die, so the same gripes from...
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What items are excluded from GDP and why?
Do your own economics homework.
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Define progressive, regressive, and proportional taxes and give examples. explain the incidence and burden of these taxes
Do your own economics homework.
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Explain the income (allocations) and (expenditures) approaches to GDP. how is GDP adjusted for price level changes?
Do your own economics homework.
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Name and explain the economic functions of government. what is the most recent and important? why?
Do your own economics homework.
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Why so some CD-R don't work when they are brand new? There have been times when I want to record some music and it kicks out the CD-R from the drive and it tells me to insert a blank disk. This happens with the CD-R being new and never recorded on.
Recordable media sometimes have errors. Buying a brand-name recordable media over a generic recordable media can sometimes help, but you are still going to have brand-name recordable media which has errors that prevent recording on the media (probably a good thing, it *does* have errors after all).
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Have you ever sold books at a half price book store? If so how much did you get out of it? Was it worth it?
Once I got lucky and had a fairly rare book, but usually you are lucky to get 10% of the purchase price per book.
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Why do my IE7 bookmark 'LINKS' keep changing ?
I arrainge them → then in a few days they are re-alphabetized, starting with the folders. Can this be stopped?
Thats a "feature" of Internet Explorer 7. It can't be stopped, because only completely deranged weirdoes would want to prevent something that Bill Gates thinks is a FEATURE!
FireFox doesn't re-sort my bookmarks automagically. Can you switch to a real web browser like FireFox?
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How can I make my PC laptop run better? It is 4 yrs old, I run Symantec, Spybot, Adware. There are so many processes in my Task Manager that I don't know what they are. Everything is soooo slow.
Delete Windows and run Linux. Reason: Linux doesn't need Symantec (no viruses), and Linux doesn't need Spybot/AdAware (no spyware).
Ubuntu Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/)has made everything very easy for the beginner. OpenOffice is included standard and opens all existing Microsoft Office formats. FireFox (web browser) also comes standard. Lots of other software is also free and...
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Barack Obama has mortgaged the future of this countries children for many many years to come with unparalleled spending. Today, he said that we can't afford to spend what we don't have. What is going on and which stance are we to believe?
He's prepping us for budget cuts and tax increases.
You know, the things fiscal conservatives claim are necessary but always seem to wimp out on when their bluffs are called.
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Is this true: By definition, religion cannot be proven. If it were proven faith would be destroyed and it would no longer be religion?
Actually, by definition faith is "belief without proof" so you have faith when there's no proof, and faith is irrelevant when there's proof.
Religion is what you make it to be, so its not quite accurate to say that religion requires faith. There are quite likely some religions out there in which all the major doctrines have actual proofs, so faith is irrelevant to those...
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I'm at work right now and have the worst allergies. I need something to keep my mind off it. Do you have any good stories to tell?
BOO!
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Please help! my boyfriend of 2 years and i got into an argument because i wanted to have sex and he did not he said he want to wait till we get married but we just had sex 4 days ago & abunch other times i am soo horney he wont have sex what should i do
The answer is very clear: let him get married, then have sex with him.
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Is there a way where in IE the windows that are in back will stay there, I hate that as I'm typing a password for example a site that a page which was loading in background will pop up,and it happens all the time, over and over, I like to multitask.
Well, its Microsoft. You don't really have a problem, you're just one of those weirdoes who deliberately refuses to enjoy a *feature*. ;-)
Switch to a real web browser, like FireFox.
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What is the best pc game right now?
Whatever game I'm playing at the moment.
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Does anybody know how to hack into shaiya?
i have already tried downloading a hack from a website and replacing the game with it, but now it says that the clients dont match up or something like that.
Aeria Games have changed the code around so the old hacks no longer work, and no one has bothered to create a new one yet.
GameGuard really sucks, not because I think that online games should be cheatable, but because GameGuard limits users to Microsoft Windows operating systems (and not the infinitely superior Linux). No Shaiya crack equals no Linux users can use it.
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Are parsley infusion and vitamin c effective? I'm supposed to have my period this weak but I'm really paranoid (if i'm pregnant or not) and i'm already thinking about the parsley and vitamin c.
Traditional medicine suggests that this combination is a good emmangogue (menstruation-inducer). It's got possible bad side effects.
Also, you really need to get *an actual gynecologist exam* before attempting this method. There is the very real risk of an "ectopic" pregnancy (a complication of pregnancy in which the fertilized ovum is developed in any tissue other than the...
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How do i ask a girl that i previously dated but it didn't work out for my money back from paying for her movie tickets + her dinner on our date?
You don't. Your desired action is probably high on the list of "Miss Manners 10 Most Completely Wrong Things To Do Regarding Interpersonal Relationship Etiquette."
At the time you paid for the dinner and the movie, you weren't expecting any repayment, and you most likely did not indicate to her that repayment would be required at some point in the future.
The fact...
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Why do people pay high prices for pet shop puppies (that come from mills) when yo can get a cheaper puppy form a shelter a rescue org or even a registered breeder?
Pet shop puppies are like the "fast food" of pets (though I should make it absolutely clear that the "fast" part is where the comparison ends). You don't have to go out of your way to find a pet shop puppy.
Animal shelters and registered breeders are usually off the beaten track and require extra effort to locate.
The irony is that the shelters and the registered...
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Since Jews are followers of Moses and Mormons also follow Moses, are Jews and Mormons one in the same, or are Mormons a branch of Christianity?
Mormons aren't Jews. That kind of reasoning makes *Muslims* Jews, since they too follow Moses.
Mormons are a splinter group of Christianity.
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How many words can you make from the letters c a g d o p b n h m?
among
ado
ago
amp
and
bacon
band
bang
bond
bong
bad
bag
ban
boa
bog
capon
champ
chomp
camp
chap
chop
coda
coma
comb
cab
cod
con
cop
dogma
damn
damp
dang
gonad
goad
hand
hang
macho
moan
nomad
poach
pang
pond
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If you had to choose between the Sun & Moon, which planet would you keep in Earth's Orbit?
Is this a veiled Astrology question? Both the Sun and the Moon are considered "planets" in Astrology.
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If you are surrounded by lions so what will you do?
Watch them carefully through the thick glass of the tube passing through their zoo habitat.
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How many words can you make out of 'Mother's Day'?
Stormy Head
Toys Harmed
Shamed Troy
Mashed Troy
Most Hydrae
Heady Storm
Made Shorty
Dreamy Shot
Dreamy Host
Dreamy Hots
Adore Myths
Soared Myth
Ready Moths
Hydras Tome
Smote Hardy
Hardy Tomes
Shady Metro
Hey Stardom
Thyme Roads
Toads Rhyme
Tardy Homes
Thermos Day
Hearty Mods
Earthy Mods
Steam Hydro
Destroy Ham
Trashy...
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Write a program to verify a number is prime or not
Do your own programming homework.
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What meaningful acronyms can you suggest from BREAD?
Basic Research Education and Development
Browse Read Edit Add Delete
Berkeley Region Exchange And Development
Biostatistics Research Ethics and Design
Blue Ridge Equality Alliance Drivers
Bureau for Resources and External Dialogue
Berkeley Retired Employees Association Directory
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And of course:
Bible Reading Education and Devotion
Bible Reading Enriches Any...
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What's the difference between a free thinking liberated Woman and a tramp?
Ahh, this is the modern equivalent of the age-old question of "what is the difference between a bitch and a slut", with probably the same reasoning applied to it:
The "freethinking liberated woman" agrees to have sex with you.
The "tramp" does not agree to have sex with you.
The modern version is more polite, and also praises the person who slept with her:...
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I have all five planets conjunct with each other within 4deg in 7th house in sagittarius sign, they are sun moon mercury saturn uranus all planets conjunct each other within 4deg, what does that signify?
Traditional Astrology (provided this is a Natal Horoscope):
You will be extremely lucky in marriage (what the 7th House rules) and will find a mate very quickly. Your mate will be very rich, successful, good in bed, everything you ever wanted. You will marry for life.
One important detail: your long-term mate *will be* a Sagittarius. If this is a sticking point for you, bear in mind...
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Best, free pdf editor software?I have tried Pdfedit.exe,Pdfescape, pdf995 , free pdf to word doc converter v1.1...but cant edit the text using the above softwares. Cud u suggest me other?
Why not just use OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) to create the document, then use its "Export As PDF" function to create the same document as a PDF file?
That way you'd be able to change the document any time you needed to do so.
If you have an existing PDF document, it shouldn't be too difficult to copy out the text and graphics, format them in OpenOffice to...
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Non-Christians: Does it scare you when you hear someone say something like, "Jesus is my life?"
I'd need a few qualifiers first.
If s/he says "I want to be a nonviolent tolerator of all beliefs because thats what Jesus did", then I wouldn't be worried (much).
If s/he says "I'm making a whip of cords so I can beat up people who work in banks and casinos, I'm selling my coat so I can afford to go to the gun shop, and I'm going to destroy any...
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What do you think of when you see 'GHD'?
Two things: what's its street value and how good is the high?
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Are there any baptized Jehovah's Witnesses that vote?
The Watch Tower Society, which regulates all things "Jehovah's Witness", has stated that voting in elections is a "personal conscience decision."
Since you vote in private and how you vote is not made public, the only way a Jehovah's Witness could be punished for voting is by confessing s/he voted for a candidate which did not fit the religious requirements of...
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If AB was to start a monthly fee should those of us who are already here be exempt?
Heavens no. All members need to be treated equally.
This is the only way services like this one can be encouraged not to charge a fee to members and thus lose all their members to a similar service that doesn't charge a fee.
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Is the Jehovah's Witness religion a fraudulent one? Do they actually follow the bible as "closely" as they claim?
I don't think they follow the Bible any more fraudulently than any other Christian denomination.
After all, there are no Christian denominations which follow the Bible completely. Every single one of them, even the literalists, have to make some changes to what is written on the printed page (using the powerful tools of "interpretation," "allegory," and "oh...
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How did the tags "Left" for more liberal/progressive ideologies (Democrats) and "Right" for more conservative (Republican) come about?
It dates back to the French Revolution, when conservative supporters of the monarchy sat on the "right side" of the French Parliament, and more radical liberal populists sat on the "left side" of the French Parliament.
Since the American Revolutionaries (the ones who eventually formed the U.S.A.) got a lot of support in their Revolution from the French, and since the...
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Why do some people think Catholics aren't Christians? The Catholics were the ones who established the Church of Jesus Christ. They assembled the Christian Bible. AB even puts them under Christianity. So how could they not be Christians?
They were the first big denomination of Christianity, so they're Christians.
The only disagreement is over whether X denomination of Christianity is "true Christians", "only partly right Christians" or "false Christians."
The middle category was invented so that slightly more tolerant Christians (who are themselves "true Christians",...
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How would you feel if when you died God said there is no more room in heaven for you because of all the aborted children?
We're told that "God Wants All To Be Saved"
If Heaven wasn't made big enough for All (i.e., everyone who has ever lived), then that would imply that "God DOES NOT WANT All To Be Saved."
So the question appears to say more about the questioner (and the questioner's own faith in God) than about any of those who have answered the question.
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Why do people have to complain with your questions insted of answering the god dammed question?
This question makes me feel threatened!
;-)
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How can the U.S. government fix the economy, when the government can't live within it's means?
You're forgetting that the people who like to spend beyond their means (i.e., the borrow-and-spend Republicans) are out of government.
Now that we have an administration which isn't saying that government can increase spending while cutting taxes, perhaps Americans will follow suit and agree that maybe its a bad idea to try and mimic the Republicans by cutting their own income and...
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How do govrernment jobs stimulate the economy when in order to pay those workers, taxes must go up...is this more of creating a form of slave labor? After the bridges and schools are built...what happens to the workers?
The best people to put to work *maintaining* highways, roads, and schools are the people who built them in the first place.
Many of those who earned a living building roads and schools will have put that money to good use learning some other form of job, and thus would be no longer available to maintain roads and schools.
Thus the remaining few who didn't go into some other line of...
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What does Hitler, Himmler, Mengela and a pro abortionist have in common?
Hitler banned abortion.
Himmler went along with the banning of abortion.
Mengela went along with the banning of abortion.
Pro-choicers oppose the banning of abortion.
The first three have a lot in common, but they have nothing in common with pro-choicers.
Of course, pro-lifers want to use the state to control an individuals reproduction. That was something Hitler, with the support...
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What do you think of Obama needing a teleprompter to make coherent focused speeches...?
Every president has needed notes. Modern presidents, like former President George W. Bush, use teleprompters. Modern Republican Congresscritters use teleprompters too.
If needing a teleprompter means you can't concentrate, then apparently *being a politician* means you can't concentrate. The instant you run for office, you lose your ability to concentrate.
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If Obama said the only way to fix the economy was to make some changes to the Constitution and to take the wealth from the rich and give it to the poor...would you go along with it?
Since only the first $102,000 in wage income (and none of the investment income) is charged a payroll tax (Social Security and Medicare), one could argue that ever since Reagan masked the size of his huge deficits, caused by his unaffordable tax cuts, by increasing payroll taxes on the lower and middle classes, the rich have been taking quite a lot of money from the poor.
This payment from...
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Taking God out of Government...how does that fit into the Thanksgiving Day Address given by George Washington, our first President. Is seperation of Church and State being manipulated by Statists (Liberals)?
The Thanksgiving Day Address is a personal opinion of President George Washington. At no time during the address does he say that God is in the U.S. Government.
In the "Treaty of Tripoli", written by the George Washington Administration, we learn that President George Washington feels that, if any religion is in the U.S. Government, this religion is not the Christian religion.
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How about instead of people expecting the government to help everyone out by spending and raising taxes...lets start saying hi to our neigbors and get back to sence of community, and everytime you see a homeless person sit down and buy him some food?
Right now about 64 cents of my annual tax bill (and 64 cents out of everyone else's annual tax bill) pays for cash assistance, food assistance, and housing assistance for ALL welfare recipients nationwide.
I don't think I could buy a lot of food for anyone, let alone a single hungry homeless man, if I got that 64 cents back from the government.
So frankly I think that while a...
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The White House is allocating tickets for the upcoming Easter Egg Roll to G. & L.families as part of the Obama administration's outreach to diverse communities. Does this show that the new Democratic admin. values L&G. as equal to other families?
I would say that the Obama Administration does value families.
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Jews say that women & kids killed in Gaza atrocities,comitted by IDF are collateral damage.Isn't it ok then to say gas chambered jews who were killed in WW 2 are also collateral damage. If it's good for one then it should be good enough for the other.
What, ALL Jews?
Or are you overgeneralizing based on a vocal minority of Jews?
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Why do we, gays and lesbians, have to fight for our right to exist and be treated fairly?
The human race is largely full of people who are bigoted idiots, who would rather remain in blissful ignorance of the Real World, being spoon-fed their values and behaviors from selected portions of a Holy Book.
In such a world, people who don't fit the recommendations in those Holy Books (and certainly those who don't fit the ideals of the leadership selecting the portions) have...
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The body of God was found floating in the North Atlantic this week - pathologists, forensic scientists, the Pope and various other religious leaders have confirmed this. What would you do? what do you think others would do?
In the words of "Ash" from "Army of Darkness (Evil Dead III)":
"It's a trick. Get an axe."
EDIT: Bruce Campbell Rules!
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What is the best web site to download free books
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
28,000 free, public domain E-books and counting. They have over 100,000 free EBooks available including those books available on their Partners and Affiliates websites.
If you are looking for audio books, Librivox is currently converting Project Gutenberg's EBooks into Audio Books, using volunteer human readers. Their...
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Does it matter to you what color your deity was during his/her incarnation on earth (if he/she had one)? If so, why?
Well, H.P. Lovecraft suggests that one color that one would prefer a Deity not be is "ultraviolet".
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Why is it that my boyfriend can hear my vibrator from across the room from under a blanket with the fan on but he can't hear me half the time when i'm sitting right beside him?
Because the vibrator is creating an interference soundwave with the vibration sounds of the fan. White noise has been shown to amplify sounds, and both the vibrator and the fan are producing white noise at slightly different pitches, enough to amplify the vibrator's noise.
As for your voice, he may simply have trouble hearing your voice's pitch at that extremely short distance.
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Archeologists suggest that crucifixions never took place and the Romans did not crucify thousands of people 2000 years ago,because of lack of physical evidence. What do you think?
I'm not sure which archaeologists would be saying that, since it would mean that Constantine the Great issued a decree in 337 C.E. abolishing something that wasn't being done by the Romans (no doubt the Romans in the law enforcement system looked at each other and said "Stop doing crucifixions? What are crucifixions?").
The irony, of course, is that Constantine the Great...
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Where there any other people before, during and/or after the creation of Adam and Eve?
The short answer is "no" to all three, if you believe the Creation story in the Bible.
Here's a summary of the Genesis "creation of human beings" story:
1) Adam is created. (Genesis 2:7)
2) Eve, Adam's identical female twin, is created from his DNA. (Genesis 2:22)
3) Adam & Eve have an incestuous pairing and have Cain & Abel. (Genesis 4:1-2)
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Even the Vatican has accepted Evolution. Why don't Creationists?
Strictly speaking the Vatican hasn't actually given up on Creationism.
They've just switched from Young Earth Creationism to Old Earth Creationism.
The basic difference is that Old Earth Creationism accepts everything in Evolution, but insists that "God started the ball rolling."
EDIT: New information has come to my attention, further underlining the detail that the...
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Has the biblical Garden of Eden ever been found?
The Mormons claim it was in Independence, MO. They even claim to have found Adam's First Altar.
EDIT: Well, its certainly true that they claim its there. I don't personally agree with their claims, but they are one of the few groups in the world to actually stick a marker down and say "The Garden Of Eden Was HERE!"
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Why is it that adherence to a strict creationist point of view tends to be prevalent in USA, but not among European Christians?
Because Europeans had to put up with the problems of a theocracy for a very long time. They've had enough of science being slaughtered by religion.
Americans haven't had a theocracy yet (except for the folks in Massachusetts, who have done a good job making up for it) so they don't know its a terrible idea to let religion into government and let religion dictate science.
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Can you create an account on Yahoo! with false information about things like your name, birthday, and postal code?
Yes, people who are completely unethical would do something like that, though probably not if they knew representatives from Yahoo! read AnswerBag!
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HOW DO I FIND OUT IF SOMEONE IS MARRIED FOR FREE ON THE WEB?
You can't get married for free, and you can't get married on the web, so you most certainly can't get married for free on the web.
So there you go: whomever told you they were married for free on the web is lying. There's no need to "find out" anything, they're describing an impossible act.
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Anyone every heard of Z doll maker? wife bought one for ebay. its nowhere to be found. the letter Z surrounded by a circle on dolls upper back.
They're made and sold by Satan.
You will find it is now impossible to sell that doll to anyone else, and your wife will start acting like the little girl in "The Exorcist."
If the doll starts talking, toss it into a fire immediately. You won't get a second chance.
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Why are there so few conservative comedians?
Because Rush Limbaugh has cornered the market...largely by no one else being able to fit into the market with him.
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I find it odd that republicans tend to want the govt. to regulate the choice of abortion, which is still an opinion based issue. While they are ranting on about not wanting to be a socialist nation. Anyone else?
Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals, with a fair or egalitarian method of compensation.
Social conservatives are interested in opinion issues, but the "social" in their title...
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With all the financial frauds, scandals & deceptions, reported recently, do you feel not as dumb as you thought you was?
The phrase is "as you thought you WERE".
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I saw a water tanker drawing water from a large bore near my house. I noted the sign on the side of the truck. It said such and such's pure water. This same name is on bottles of water we buy over the counter. Is bottled water better than ordinary water?
The company truck you saw sells purified water. Purified water is local tap water, but it is run through additional purification processes, beyond what your local water treatment plants do to purify your local tap water.
Is bottled water better than ordinary tap water? That really depends on the water treatment plant, your pipes, and the quality of the bottled water.
It is a mistake to...
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Is it fair for street performers and beggars to rake in all that money and not pay income taxes?
Begging is an illegal activity in most jurisdictions. This means its either untaxable (the I.R.S. will never know) or 100% taxed (the police will take away ALL of your earnings as "illegal income").
Street performers, on the other hand, have the opportunity to keep most of their income by agreeing to report their income and pay taxes on it. If you file the appropriate permits...
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Why do crows dont experience shock when they seat on current wires?
You experience a shock when you touch a high-voltage wire because the current has the opportunity to arc through your body into the ladder you are on, and from there into the ground. Even if you were hanging from the wire, your body would provide a conductor for the electricity to pass through and then arc the remaining distance into the ground.
Birds and squirrels on the high-voltage wires...
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Per the movie "Freedom to Facism" taxing the money I make by my labor is unconstiutional, and the "income" tax never passed congress. So why is there so much taken out of my paycheck every payday? Can I legally go about eliminating taxes on my labor?
Brief explanation of where the states come into Amending the U.S. Constitution: 3/4ths of the States must ratify an Amendment that has passed both Houses of the U.S. Congress. The President is never involved in the process. When the 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913, there were 48 States, so 3/4ths would have been 36 states.
Tax protestors like to claim that the Sixteenth Amendment (the...
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If you did everything you could to protect your partners from herpes (condoms, dental dams, no sex during breakouts, take suppressives) is it so bad to NOT tell them about it?
Yes it is bad not to tell a potential sex partner that you have herpes. Herpes is always there and you can always give it to someone else even if you take precautions.
Its like offering to give someone a ride and not telling them that the seatbelt on the passenger side sometimes pops open without warning: chances are they won't need the seatbelt but they should know about the risks.
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When the State wants money, why do they always pick on the smokers. Why not tax wine, beer or hard liquor? It can be just as deadly.
Because smokers automatically "share" their deadly cigarette smoke with everyone around them just by smoking. Smoking is thus directly harmful to everyone around the smoker.
Alcohol is deadly to other people only indirectly: if I have an entire bottle of vodka at a sitting, you will not catch alcohol poisoning from me just by sitting in the same room. Lethal actions by a drunk...
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What is a good RPG like Oblivion?
Try the new "Fallout 3" game. Its by the same company, "Bethesda Softworks," and has a very similar gameplay to Oblivion.
I have a graphics card which works well with Oblivion, and despite Bethesda's claims about "system requirements", the graphics card and computer both work well with Fallout 3.
While there was a Fallout 1 and a Fallout 2, they used a...
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Is there anybody still using the floppy disk?
Yes, but its a very specialized piece of hardware.
Theater Lighting is controlled in many theaters by a programmable light board, and many of them still use conventional 1.44MB "floppy" (as in "the contents of the hard plastic shell") disks to back up the light cue sequence.
So yes, I still use "floppy" disks.
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Do you believe every feeling you get is a sign, or could it be you being paranoid?
Can you be paranoid that someone is trying to make you believe in signs?
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Who is your favorite conductor?
Gold Man!
(Iron isn't as good a conductor as Gold)
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Why am I not able to sign in into AB or even my yahoo mail from Internet Explorer but I can do that from Mozilla firefox?
Two possible reasons:
1a) IE is and always has been a piece of crap.
1b) ...and Windows also being a total piece of crap has resulted in your IE being overloaded with spyware and malware.
2) AB and Yahoo have noticed that Microsoft still hasn't fixed the serious security holes in IE (reported recently and going all the way back to IE5), whereas Mozilla/FireFox fixed their recent...
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Are there really miracles, or is it just chance? (There are 6.5 Billion people in the world, something miraculous is bound to happen, but is it really a divine miracle?)
"Miracles" don't occur precisely because the "supernatural" doesn't exist.
For example, the human body isn't completely understood yet, which is why so-called "miraculous" healing occurs: a part we didn't understand or know about yet kicked in finally. Probably thousands to millions of people have that part kick in naturally, long before the...
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Can u guess what I'm thinkig about now?
You're not thinking about a pink rhinoceros. In fact, you're trying very hard not to think about a pink rhinoceros.
Of course, *now* you are thinking about a pink rhinoceros. ;-)
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Why does Jeremiah 13:1 say not to get the girdle wet?
Probably because "the Lord" doesn't want any water other than the water of the Euphrates on the girdle.
In context, Jeremiah 13 goes on to have Jeremiah put the completely dry girdle next to a river, the Euphrates, which frequently floods, and this treatment causes the girdle to get all moldy and dingy, making it a perfect metaphor for the Lord's statement about evil...
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Is there an open source OS with a GUI similar to Windows that will run Windows programs?
Yes.
The Linux OS has a GUI similar to Windows (though it can be customized to be whatever works best for you, if the Windows GUI doesn't work best for you) and comes standard with an "application" called WINE which runs most Windows Applications. The "KDE" window manager is very similar to the Windows GUI, and there are window managers out there on the Internet...
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Is it ok if my boyfriend masturbates in the house while I'm there? Sometimes its after I denied him, but sometimes its not.
Well be sure never to deny him three times before his cock...oh, right, this isn't the adult section of AB.
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You're in a room. It's just you and a goat. There's an open window, about six inches by six inches, and it provides the only light. There are no exits, but food and water are not an issue. What do you do?
Mmmmm. Free goat cheese.
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If you were stuck in your attic or basement with a serial killer for one night, and you were given 5 minutes to hide, what would be your strategy to make sure that you lived?
I'd hide behind the serial killer, and stay there until he got bored and went away.
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Why do you need to get married? What's the point?
I'm not even going to try and top "Blessed has a COAT of many colors" romance and love answer to "why get married?"
On the purely rational, legal side of things, a marriage also creates the kind of relationship which is normally only achieved by being directly and biologically related to a person.
Co-habitating partners will not be permitted to make medical...
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Now, seeing as the AOC in Ohio is 16, would I be correct in assuming that a 16 year old can legally consent to sexual intercourse with a 20 year old? That seems like an obvious answer, but could the 20 year old still be charged by the parents? Say for gro
Ohio does not have an "age difference" clause in its "age of consent" statutes, so legally the 20 year old could have sex with the 16 year old.
However, the 16 year old is not an adult yet and as such is under the care and control of his or her parents. This means that the parents could bring a civil case against the 20 year old in court for some related reason.
The...
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Is there a way to have internet access without having a phone or cable or satelite tv I have a desktop but will soo not have a landline phone,I do have aconverter box and antenna for local television stations, is there a way to get internet services?
The Sprint telecommunications company sells a wireless service PC Card (plugs into laptops, and into desktop PCs with a special interface card) which gives you nationwide Internet access inside Sprint's coverage area at about double dial-up speed (about 128Kbps, compared to DSL at 384Kbps-512Kbps or cable at 5Mbps).
Last time I checked this service was $50 a month, unlimited Internet...
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Was Shakespeare one man or a troupe?
Most likely one man with some collaboration. The ideal "Shakespeare" would be a man who didn't have to work most of his life turning his parents' bankrupted grain business into a profitable grain business, so profitable that he would have become the richest man in Stratford-upon-Avon. Grain merchants wouldn't have had the time to be Shakespeare.
Shakespeare would...
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What would you call the dancing where the woman wraps her legs around the man, while he does the pacing to the music?
Dirty dancing.
There's also a dance called the Tango which is danced similar to what you are discussing, and various Latin American dance styles also sound like what you are describing.
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My computer works on Windows Vista and when I want to install an application, I receive the following error message : '.exe is not a Win32 valid application'. Any suggestions about what to do to fix the problem? Thanx a lot!!!
Well I'd say reformat the hard drive and install a real operating system...however, you may not find that one entirely helpful.
A more helpful answer might be that you are attempting to install an application which worked on a previous version of Windows, or in 64-Bit Windows Vista, but which does not now work in Vista because Microsoft chose to change everything around again in the new...
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What are some novel, specific and unique ways to combat suicidal urges?
Take some time into thoroughly researching all the different ways in which you can commit suicide, including (and this is the important part) what might happen if your attempt at suicide FAILS.
You'll quickly discover two basic problems with methods of committing suicide:
1) Most of them, if they don't work the First Time, leave you in a heavily disabled state, unable to do much...
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Salt kills more people than motor cars
Generally speaking motor cars kill people more violently and painfully than does salt.
Given the choice, most people would prefer to get killed by salt than by a motor car, largely because most people who are killed by salt live out most of their natural lifespan.
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And what do you burn, apart from witches?
Wood?
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I'm sure lots of people would want to live on the moon, for numerous reasons, but what would it really take to take-off?
We'd have to force everyone to get an education so that idiots wouldn't misread the door lock and empty the entire colony of oxygen. Some people might disagree with forced education but they wouldn't be the ones who live in the community (as is so often the case with those who disagree with forced education).
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Does the free, basic AVG Anti-virus software version work well?
Yes it does. Ever since I started using it the infection rate on the computer has dropped to zero.
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What percentage of people are homosexual?
The Kinsey 10% figure is the one most quoted, however it does mostly cover convicted criminals and asks if they have ever engaged in homosexual sexual acts (as opposed to their "sexual orientation"). Since our prisons are full of men who will have homosexual sex in prison and then leave prison and never have sex with a man ever again, convicted criminals aren't necessarily...
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In Michigan, if a girl is 17 years old, can she, or the male involved, get into trouble for having sex together if the male is 10+ years older than the 17 year old girl?
In Michigan there is no so-called "age gap" law, wherein it is illegal for a much older man to have sex with girl who is under the age of adulthood but at or over the age of (sexual) consent, which is 16 in Michigan.
HOWEVER, Michigan still has an interesting, almost "blue" law, still on the books:
"750.532 Seduction; punishment."
"Sec. 532."
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How many strikes do pedophiles get before they lose functional use of their genitals?
They never lose functional use of their genitals. Physical castration is illegal, and "chemical castration" doesn't work if the pedophile gets horny enough.
Attacking their genitals is a waste of time anyway. A horny pedophile without functional genitals (physical castration or chemical) will just use a broom handle or other easily-obtainable fake penis instead. Sentencing...
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Why do people want to destroy other peoples computers by setting viruses? and what sort of people know how to create them?
People used to create viruses to destroy other computers for roughly the same reason as kids playing "mailbox baseball": because there was some difficulty in doing it and destroying things can be fun (a Japanese company makes a lot of money taking money from Japanese men who like to smash replicas of ancient Ming vases and the like).
Nowadays some people create viruses because its...
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Does answerbag have a system for making certain questions available only to adults?
Yes. AB4Adults.
Go here: http://www.answerbag.com/age_verify
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I got my belly button pierced about 5 days ago. the piercer guy said to wash it three times a day with unscented soap and warm water..and to do NOTHING else. is this ok?
Its a nice basic idea, but it falls short of what a doctor would advise.
Treat your piercing like you would any other open wound. Keep it dressed and well protected with antibiotic ointment. Since it's in a strange place where air won't bet getting to it quite as easily as if you got your ears pierced, you have to be sure and keep it dry. Damp or sweaty clothing can irritate the...
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When someone says blowjob, what is the 1st thing that comes to mind?
A cocaine deal.
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When someone says blowjob, what is the 1st thing that comes to mind?
A sex act involving a man's or a woman's mouth being used to stimulate a man's penis.
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My husband left me 9 weeks ago,and move out we both have our names on the mortgage,he is say he is going to move back in,can he do that
If there's been no legal separation agreement, such as divorce, and you have not been granted sole possession of the house, then as you are both owners of the house (both names on the same mortgage) he is within his legal rights to move back into the house.
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The other night i found my girlfriend flirtn with her ex she says it wasnt but i could tell the tone in her voice, but i went off at her nd she got angry at me for over reacting. was i in the wrong?
You're being too possessive. Back off. Some women are flirty with everyone but go home with only one man.
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Before you do things, do you ask yourself if there is a reason to do so?
Only with chores. Everything else generally is action without really thinking about it.
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Is it true that Without God there would be NO Hope; without God there would be NO Security; without God mankind would prey on one another WITHOUT any thought of Remorse?
Of course not. Buddhism doesn't believe in God and countries run by Buddhists have less violence than Fundamentalist Christian countries.
Seems more like if you include a god then the population of "believes in god" splits up into multiple factions, each of which preys on the others without thought of remorse because those other groups don't worship god the same way the...
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Is it possible to stay with only ONE person your WHOLE life (NEVER slept with another man/woman, only them) ? Would they eventually get "bored" and see what it's like with another person? Can it work? (no need for anybody else, or an "experience" ?)
Introduce your loved one to limited use of porn. This will ensure that they never sleep with another man/woman.
If you just want to turn them off porn entirely, and further reinforce the idea that its great being with a real person, get them one of the various "Virtual 3D Porn" software games (a random Google search produces the name "3D SexVilla"). The completely...
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What do you think of the BNP?
The BNP has explicitly stated that it was a racist party since its creation in 1982, meaning that the BNP *is* the racist party everyone (including the BNP) thinks it is. For starters, the BNP requires that all members must be members of the "Indigenous Caucasian" racial group. The party does not regard non-white people in the U.K. as being British, even if they have been born in the...
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What do you think of the BNP?
The BNP has explicitly stated that it was a racist party since its creation in 1982, meaning that the BNP *is* the racist party everyone (including the BNP) thinks it is. For starters, the BNP requires that all members must be members of the "Indigenous Caucasian" racial group. The party does not regard non-white people in the U.K. as being British, even if they have been born in...
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Can people with mental health issues ever get over having to have medication and can the issue, well, dissapear?
The short answer is a qualified "yes".
Some mental illnesses are very difficult to cope with. Schizophrenia is very difficult for which to develop non-medicated coping measures, so most folks with schizophrenia will be on medication for their entire lives.
For milder forms of mental illness (still very bad, mind you, just not as bad as schizophrenia), the main point of the...
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How did jesus teach himself to pray?
Assuming for the moment that Jesus existed, he probably would have learned how to pray from his parents, who (we are told) were devout Jews and already had been taught how to pray by their parents.
Alternately, if you buy into the entire Gospel story that Jesus was "God made flesh", then Jesus just prayed to himself and thought about how he felt about it, and used the prayers to...
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Any one ever tried one of those legal highs? Are they any good?
Depends on what is meant by "legal". Strictly speaking nitrous oxide is "legal", meaning that if you buy a bunch of whipped cream cans (two of them have enough gas to fill a single standard balloon, the standard-size "hit") you are technically having a "legal high". Since all you want is the nitrous oxide propellant, buy the cheapest whipped cream. To...
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I told boyfriend i was going to a male strip club and he said ok i am going with you. what is wrong with this picture.
Nothing is (necessarily) wrong with this picture.
He's probably just being a little possessive, which can sometimes be a good thing.
And he could be a little curious what goes on at a male strip club. I'm straight and I must confess to a little curiousity, since I've heard the atmosphere in male strip clubs is less "dingy, dirty" and more "fabulous,...
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How can you lower your sperm count?
Masturbation will, very temporarily, lower your sperm count.
However, if the intent is to reduce the chance of pregnancy during subsequent sexual intercourse with a fertile woman, then this should not be your method of "reducing sperm count" as masturbation replenishes available sperm stores by replacing old sperm with healthy, fresh, robust sperm which can survive better in a...
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WHO ARE SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT SHOWED GREAT FAITH IN THE BIBLE?
Joseph Martin McCabe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCabe
...born centuries *after* the publication of the Bible, who had such great faith in the Bible that he became a priest.
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How can I clean out my computer? Tried a restore point and the reinstallation cd. Got it from a friend and need to start over.
If restore points and reinstallation CDs aren't working, you will probably have to reformat the hard drive and buy a new version of Windows (if you really want to be tied down to Microsoft) or install the free Linux operating system instead (such as Ubuntu Linux, http://www.ubuntu.com/).
There's a great utility for completely wiping clean a hard drive, such that there's...
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Do you remember floppy disks? How long do you think it'll be until nobody knows what they are?
Floppy disks still have specialized applications where they will linger for quite some time.
For example, in my work as a lighting and sound technician for theater productions, all of the programmable light control boards I've used (three different theaters) use floppy disks to back up the programmed light cues.
Floppy disks are also easily turned into bootable media. This still...
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On my school network, how can i get admin status? It is windows 2k
Ask your system administrator for Administrator access. If s/he refuses, find out the necessary job qualifications you need in order to get the kind of job which has Administrator access at your school.
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How compatible are librans and scorpios?
Um, run away? Run *far* away?
The Scorpio's jealous possessiveness will be most likely mistaken for romanticism by the Libra, but soon the Libran will feel restricted by the Scorpio's intense desire for control, and the Libran's sense of justice will clash with the forcefulness of the Scorpio.
Both of them will have to work very hard at their relationship, with the Libran...
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I have strep throat & ive been given amoxicillin but im TERRIFIED of taking medications. any1 on here ever have strep & not take med's & been fine ? any natural ways to get rid of it? please help.
Amoxicillin is safe enough to take for adults, but ONLY if you finish the entire bottle of antibiotics (yes, even if you start feeling better). The only thing you've likely to notice is that your "friendly bacteria" die off too, but some yummy yogurt eaten daily, a few hours after taking your antibiotic pill, will replenish the friendly bacteria while not replenishing the strep...
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If your BF buys you a poster of a puppy, but then you find out he's cheating on you and break up with him. Do you give the poster back, keep it, burn it, or rip it in front of his face?
What kind of sicko bastard rips up or burns a picture of a puppy?
Keep it, give it back or donate it to someone who isn't evil.
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What has 45,000 words in it? Not a dictionary or thesaurus.
A PhD dissertation by a grad student who doesn't really want to graduate yet?
EDIT: And a big shout-out to the Anonymous Coward who downrated me just now.
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Why don't black people give Abraham Lincoln the credit for ending slavery instead of MLK? Lincoln had a dream before MLK ever did.......or is it because he was a white man that his acts were forgotten?
There are a number of differences between Abraham Lincoln and MLK, but the most important one is that while Lincoln issued the executive order ending slavery, no one seriously enforced Lincoln's order until the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. insisted on its enforcement.
Its like how you don't take a new job title seriously until someone comes along and gives you an appropriate...
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Do any of you AB'ers make your own bread in a Breadmaker Machine,what are your experiences with this?
I make my own bread by hand, kneading, mixing, the works without a single electric motor.
I'll probably use a bread machine when my hands no longer work, but I'll never use a "bread machine mix."
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How do you convert video clips (MP4) into sound clips?
I take a 3.5mm male to male audio cable, plug one end into one computer's Line Out (Headphones) jack, and the other end into another computer's Line In jack. Then I play the MP4 video file, and record the audio on the second computer.
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If someones cheating on you is it wrong to do the same?
Do you think cheating is wrong?
If you think cheating is wrong, then it is wrong for you to cheat on someone who is cheating on you.
If you think cheating is fine, then it isn't wrong for you to cheat on someone who is cheating on you.
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I just turned 20 and have someone in a church class that I'm interested in and she, I believe is 16, is this ok?
Personally I don't have any difficulty with it, but you should check the local laws in your state first.
NOTE: There are no direct laws against a non-sexual relationship, which in all other respects resembles a "dating" relationship, between an adult and a child (though *all sexual contact* would be forbidden, including lip kissing). Parental rights, protected by law, can...
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Has your child ever told you a story of his/her past life?
I don't have children, but I have had children tell me of their past lives as I'm regularly in new age fairs and run into the children of new age vendors and psychic readers.
I tend to ignore the "I was Cleopatra" ones and listen more closely to the kids who say they were regular people in their past lives.
The most interesting one so far was one who said she used to...
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What was your least favorite part of high school?
I managed to get a locker to myself all through high school. Then during the final semester, someone else got assigned to share my locker without my knowledge, and he stole a very nice SLR 35mm camera and related equipment out of the locker. Since no one saw me put it into the locker, there was no way to prove a theft had even occurred.
That would have to be the worst part of my high...
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Are you a member of a large, active message board community? If so, which one?
Yes: Answerbag! ;-)
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Ever get random back pain after sitting in different positions than you normally do? I usually sit in a chair at my computer - but today I walked a lot and then sat on a blanket on the ground.
I have the same problem. Your body gets used to sitting in a particular way all the time, then you do something different and generally unused muscles get stretched and start "complaining" to your brain.
This is why one of the basic things to do before exercising is to "stretch" your muscles: you will be using most of them in any good exercise program. Perhaps if you...
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You work in a boring office. You have several co-workers, including one very quiet-natured, kind young man who has become your friend. What would you do if he showed up on a "most wanted" show on TV? Would you believe the TV or trust your friend?
I'd have to see a photo of him on the show to want to call the tip line. Many names, even full names, turn out to be more common than you think.
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Have you ever worried, while wearing white after Labor Day, that the "Serial Mom" (as played by Kathleen Turner in the movie of the same name) will suddenly show up and beat you to death with a phone?
This is the portion of the "Serial Mom" movie which causes me to look around furtively whenever I remember I'm wearing white shoes after Labor Day (to spare children from having to look at the bad language on the quotes page):
BEVERLY SUTPHIN is the name of the titular "Serial Mom" character
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[Juror #8 is talking on a...
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Which did/do you like better? College or high school?
High school was better. It was neat and orderly, and since it was all in the same building you could be remarkably focused on your own education and nothing else.
University gave me lots of choices, and lots of different buildings. Some of the buildings contained classrooms, some of them contained computer labs on which one could do many fun, unproductive things, and one of them contained...
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What was/is your diet like in college? Do you have to eat school food, or do you buy groceries?
Groceries, and very low budget ones.
Later on, after meeting my (then future) wife and being "converted" to vegetarianism, I discovered the incredible cheapness of vegetarian dining and wished I had done so in college. So much more alcohol, so many more computer parts, so much more fun stuff could have been purchased had I simply cut out the meat.
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Supernatural fans - is Sam headed towards becoming ultimate evil? Or is he doing the right thing?
If I'm completely honest about it, Sam does appear to be headed towards becoming the personification of the 66th Seal.
It all seems to be like some form of the phrase "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", or the Old Star Trek series' "Spock" commenting that "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or of the one."
By not...
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Today I've been having constant headaches, and those are in conjunction with being able to feel my own heartbeat really profoundly, small aches all over my body, and a general feeling of discomfort all over. Can you help me figure out what this is?
I hate to mention something and then have you assume you have it, but depression is quite capable of causing physical pain, in addition to emotional pain. In the absence of a physical illness, depression can cause all-over aches and pains, including headaches.
Painkiller medications can help (such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen), though to really get a handle on all-over pain caused by...
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What are some old television shows that you miss?
Firefly. Not much else.
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What diets/eating plans have worked for you?
Poverty has worked well for the past few months. I've lost something like 30 pounds with my diet and exercise plan of "one meal a day" and "gasoline is so expensive have to ride bicycle everywhere, including across town" (a bicycle cargo trailer made grocery trips into exercise trips).
I've drunk nothing but water and green tea. The latter I'm told is...
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Have you ever been snipe hunting?
Not so much hunting for snipes as hunting for people to snipe at... ;-)
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Ghost phenomena - what do you think it is?
We have evolved an odd quirk in our brains (recently discovered and written about by anthropologist Scott Atran) which makes us think that the shadow *is* (for example) a tiger, whether or not it is a tiger. This odd little quirk allows us a few extra seconds reaction time while we react to the shadow, and those extra seconds are highly valuable to our future chances at reproduction should the...
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When your friends invite you to something personally important to them (i.e. - an art exhibit in which they have a piece, a show in which they sing a song, etc.) how important is it to you to attend? If you promise to attend, to you follow through?
I'd say that if you are invited by a friend to view their work (be it physical or performance art), you should make every effort to attend, especially if you promise to attend.
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Do you have a theme song you sing in your head when you feel you look sexy and you know you got it going on?
Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" usually pops into my head when I get like that.
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Is one of the FreeCreditReport.com songs stuck in your head, often, and you can't get it out?
Yes, though I've managed to cleverly alter my memory of the words to make it fun to remember the song: instead of mentally hearing "free credit report dot com", I mentally hear "free KITTEN report dot com."
So much more fun to think about kitten reports than credit reports.
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Does it annoy you when people hand out religious information on the street?
It depends entirely on the religious information. The "Jack Chick" mini-cartoons are good for a laugh, everything else is generally boring and stupid.
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Is a person ever "too old" to dress up for Halloween?
You're never too old to dress up in costume for Halloween.
You can be too old to go "Trick or Treating" in costume.
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I'm afraid to sleep in the dark. What should I do?
Night lights are helpful to /roommates/ because they make going to the bathroom in the middle of the night so much easier for /her/, and help prevent your /roommate/ from stubbing her toes and bumping her shins on the furniture. If she gets back to the room late in the evening, after you have already gone to sleep, a night light will allow /her/ to get ready for bed without turning on a light...
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I am a 22yo college senior considering converting to Wicca. I was raised in a Christian home, and I've been to church, had a salvation experience, complete with hearing a voice call me "daughter". What can I do for further study? I'm scared a lot.
Given the way you have phrased this question, I'd suggest finding a group to join. Wicca can be practiced by yourself (suggested reading: "Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner" by Scott Cunningham), but you may benefit more from group activity as the others in the group can help you understand that Wicca isn't something to be afraid of.
Depending on the religious...
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Why are hypochondriacs so competitive?
Hypochondria is an attention-seeking mental illness. As such, they will compete heavily for the attention, and another person claiming an illness could take away the attention the hypochondriac so desperately needs.
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Is it possible to make a program counts from 1 to 1 billion in computer programming? how?
My programming skills are very rusty, but in a vaguely C-like code with count starting at 1:
make X of type <32bit Integer>
set X = 1
While X <= 1000000000 do
{
display(X);
X = X + 1;
}
On a slow computer it will take awhile.
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How do i find out if a person is an illegal citizen or not?
Get a fake police badge, stick an old driver's license in the clear plastic window, and run up to the person while waving the badge and shouting "Immigration! Immigration!" If the person is an illegal immigrant, their eyes will go "deer in the headlights" wide, and they will sprint away as fast as they can run.
This will be INCREDIBLY RUDE if the person in question...
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My bf went out of his way to contact his ex on myspace and ask for her number to chat, "assuming she is available, lol" he got mad when i told him i had a dream he cheated (which is true) why would he care if she is available if he isnt. hesaidhehatedher
Speaking as a man, we've got this "possession" issue with any woman we've ever been with. We'll get terribly offended to discover that the woman we were with before you has moved on to another boyfriend (to whom she can tell terribly embarrassing secret stories, involving pimples, pratfalls, and penis size).
However, this "possession" issue doesn't...
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Would you feel comfortable getting a flu shot (or any kind of shot) at a supermarket pharmacy, from the pharmacist on staff?
The pharmacist on staff must be certified as a pharmacist and licensed by the state, before s/he may administer a flu shot.
As such, I wouldn't mind in the least to have such a pharmacist administer the shot. Anyone who thinks differently is being overly and unjustifiably paranoid.
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We have an extreamly obeese person at are work that has a smell that is very discusting and turns you stomach its so bad that i can do the smelliest fart and no one can smell it over yhis person what can we do
You have three choices:
1) Tell the smelly person that they are smelly. There's no need to be rude, and rudeness may well get you the opposite result that you seek. If you are polite about it, the person in question may not have known about the terrible smell and can either alter personal hygiene habits or seek medical attention for a possible health problem (or both).
2) Report...
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I am a 13 years old and 20 days. my penis size ,when eract 4 inches when not 3inches.is that normal for my age
Men typically don't stop growing until their 20s, meaning you have about 7 more years before you need to worry about your penis size.
Speaking as an average size /man/ with a slightly thicker than average penis, most women prefer thicker to longer, because the "pleasure nerves" are all near the opening (even the "G-spot" is right up front), whereas a long penis...
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To all women. What exactly is "average penis size"?
Speaking as an average size /man/ with a slightly thicker than average penis, most women prefer thicker to longer, because the "pleasure nerves" are all near the opening (even the "G-spot" is right up front), whereas a long penis repeatedly banging into a woman's cervix may cause negative comments from the woman in question (to put it mildly and politely).
This means...
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My penis size is 4.3 inches will it affect mysex life
What is the circumference? Most women prefer thicker to longer, because the "pleasure nerves" are all near the opening (even the "G-spot" is right up front), whereas a glans repeatedly banging into a woman's cervix may cause negative comments from the woman in question (to put it mildly and politely).
This means that a 4.3 inch penis which is 1.5 inches in diameter...
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Is 5 inches exactly or a little under that an okay size for an adult penis when soft?
Average size for an adult is 5 to 6 inches when *erect*, so I'd say you're doing nicely. ;-)
Of course, there are two kinds of men: "grow-ers" (starts small when soft, but much longer when hard) and "show-ers" (starts off the erect size, just moves upward when erect). 5 inches is a respectable "show-er", but if you're a "grow-er", you...
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I am 14. and i have a 7cm schlong. is this normal? i am getting kind of worried
Most men don't physically end puberty until their 20s. You've got six more years to develop into average or larger size.
The soft tissues in your penis benefit from getting blood in them. Twice a day, give yourself an erection and maintain it for a few minutes (at 14 you may already be doing this involuntarily... ;-) ). You don't have to ejaculate, just let the tissues...
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Did we lose a war that i didn't know about? I thought this was a free country, and if you pay YOUR money for something you were suppose to be able to do what ever you want with it.
If in order to buy a <thingy> you have to agree to a license/contract, then you would be limited by the license/contract in what you can do with your <thingy>.
This has been true since the dawn of property rights. If you rented a room at the coaching inn, it was not your room even though you had paid money for it, because of the "licensing agreement" that you were...
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What is the size of the internet (interms of Numbers of users)?
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Internet User Statistics
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
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Population of the World
in 2008: 6,676,120,288 people
World Internet Users,
year 2000: 360,985,492
World Internet Users,
year 2008: 1,463,632,361
World Internet Users,
percentage of world population: 21.9%
And, the most important point...
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Do you think the internet could shut down and then come back withndifferent and tighter restrictions?
The Internet was originally developed as a computer network system which was so decentralized and sprawling that a *global thermonuclear war* couldn't bring it all down at once. In addition to the main trunk lines there are countless backup fiber, wired, and satellite connections which keep the Internet running and load-balanced (such as in the downing of a main trunk line).
Even now...
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Is it legal to download and use images from the internet?
Unless the website specifically states that it is OK to download and use images from that website, chances are downloading and using them without such permission would constitute copyright infringement. Read permission statements carefully: the permission could be solely for non-commercial use. If you were to use such images on your commercial website, you would still be infringing copyright....
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Why do people even bother with dial up internet?
1) Because landline phone connections are always more reliable overall than DSL, cable, wireless phone, and especially satellite Internet methods. When one of the latter three breaks down, usually the landline phone is still on and available for Internet.
2) Because when you travel, you can't always find a location with free wireless Internet or an Internet kiosk, but almost every...
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What parts of the United States still have slower Internet speeds than 56k?
I understand that the Amish have slower speeds on average than everyone else, if you add in the time they spend having to travel from their houses to the "telephone shack" on the edge of the property just to do their E-mail.
I'm not actually making a crude joke here. The 12v car battery and car battery DC-to-AC inverters have allowed laptops to creep onto slightly more...
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How many of you guys are still connected using dial-up? Why? Because there is no other choice in your area?
I still frequently connect using dial-up because I travel a lot and can't always stay at a hotel with free wireless Internet. There's also the point that while my cable Internet goes down about twice a year (usually during an ice storm) the phone lines have never gone down (even during the aforementioned ice storm) and I have a laptop and a car battery inverter (turns 12v DC car...
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Is there a way I can get free access to the internet?
If you live in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island or Southern Florida, *OR* if you have unlimited long-distance service on your phone line, there is a regional ISP which offers free local dialup service (and thus free dialup service outside their region if your long-distance is unlimited).
http://www.freedialup.org/site/
You register on their website...
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How much Archeological evidence is there in the Bible, Quran, and the Book of Mormon?
There is no archaeological evidence in the Bible, the Quran, and the Book of Mormon, as these aren't archaeological records.
What I suspect you meant to ask is "How much independent archaeological evidence *backs up* the statements made in the Bible, the Quran, and the Book of Mormon?"
Of the three books mentioned, the Quran has very little phenomena within it which could...
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Is it legal to refer to your organization as a "nonprofit" in order to encourage people to donate to it, when your organization is simply "not intended to make a profit" and has no official I.R.S. tax-exempt status?
Just so everyone knows, I'm not actually in favor of claiming to be a nonprofit when one is not a nonprofit, I just wanted to know whether or not such a statement was legal if the organization in question merely doesn't make a profit (sans actual tax-deductible status).
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Is it legal to refer to your "not intended to make a profit" organization as a "nonprofit" in order to encourage people to donate to it, when your organization has no official I.R.S. tax-exempt status?rs
Just so everyone knows, I'm actually opposed to this practice. I'm trying to argue against "calling yourself a nonprofit when you aren't in order to get donations" but I can't find the specific legal code saying this isn't allowed and/or is fraud.
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Which of the ten commandments have you broken and state which ones?
Which set of Ten Commandments? The set on the First Set of Stone Tablets, which were destroyed long before anyone other than Moses read them, or the greatly altered set on the Second Set of Stone Tablets, the ones which actually made it into the Ark of the Covenant?
Example: The Tenth (or 11th, depending on the counting system) Commandment of the First Set (the ones which were ground into...
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If you take the Bible literally as so many Evangelicals do (unless it hurts their point of view)All mankind from now clear back to Adam and Eve, each and every human that has ever lived, our entire gene pool, are based upon generations of incest? Right?
There are plenty of reasons not to take the Bible seriously, and also many reasons to make fun of Christians.
However, the concept of "literalism" is "to take what is in the Bible at face value", and incest is not in the Bible as the primary means by which human beings went from two to billions.
Yes, I know that allegedly there were once no human beings other than...
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Do Catholics believe in tubal ligation?
The short answer is that Catholicism condemns tubal ligation, as it is a form of sterilization of the woman.
Here's a Pope to explain the long answer:
"[T]he direct interruption of the generative process already begun, and, above all, directly willed and procured abortion, even if for therapeutic reasons, are absolutely excluded as licit means of regulating birth. Equally...
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OK, today in CCF (cadets) we were given ration packs. There was loads of stuff in them including little sweets for the boys which were ment to make them less horny haha. please could someone explain how they work, if they do that is?
It would depend on the level of superstition versus research in the "candy-making" department of the "Christian Children's Fund" group you are in. There are traditional substances which are /thought/ to reduce libido (sex drive, "horniness") but *don't* reduce libido; and there are substances which have some science to back up their use as...
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Why doesn't taros dral talk to me about "sensitive matters" in morrowind
He seems not to like you very much. He only gives important quests to people he likes and trusts.
Joining the Morag Tong can provide a Persuasion boost, you can use a spell and/or potion to boost your Personality, and you can use some spare cash to train up with a Speechcraft trainer (such as the Master Trainer in a very familiar city). Any of these ways (or in combination) should make him...
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What happens if the $700 billion bailout plan doesn't work?
Here are some predictions:
1) The Dow will fall 700 points and dip below 10,000.
2) Over 3,000 stocks will drop on the New York Stock Exchange.
3) The yield on the three-month Treasury bill will slip to around 0.42 percent, and the yield on the 10-year note will fall to around 3.49 percent.
4) Oil will dip below $90 a barrel.
There. Now that the predictions are out of the way,...
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What would have happened if the $700 billion bailout bill wasn't passed?
Wealthy people would have gone into a financial temper tantrum and the same thing that happened on Monday, October 6th would have happened anyway.
After all, the people who control the market were the people asking for the money, while saying, like any good criminal extortionist, that the market "might just have a problem" if the money didn't come through.
"We've...
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I believe that God has mercy on the souls that just can't take life's situations (sometimes there is just too much to bear), and unfortunately end up taking their own. Is there any input from the Bible that supports my beliefs?
The Bible doesn't actually say in any direct fashion that suicide is wrong, and in many places celebrates the suicides of major Biblical characters. In one instance suicide seems to be declared the better choice than living.
The Old Testament includes an example of Saul committing suicide (along with his sword-bearer), as described in 1 Samuel 31:4-6 and the same events described in 1...
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Have you ever had to whip out a rediculously large amount of change to purchase something? If so were you embarrased or not?
Ever since some supermarkets added "self-check" lanes, I've frequently whipped out a large amount of change to buy stuff from those stores.
There are usually "coin counter" machines nearby, but they usually demand about 9 cents in payment for every dollar in change they count, so putting the entire bag of coins in the "self-check" lane's receptacle...
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Are you hyped up on jolly ranchers and diet coke?
Yes!
No!
Maybe!
What was the question again?!
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In the canterbury tales, the friar wanted the people to give what to pay for the trentals?
You could always do a text search on the Project Gutenberg free EBook of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", either in modern English (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2383) or in the original Middle English (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22120).
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In the canterbury tales who was the one that sang?
You could always do a text search on the Project Gutenberg free EBook of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", either in modern English (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2383) or in the original Middle English (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22120).
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Is Jesus sufficient or is He only necessary?
Well, the LDS religion has a difficulty on this one, in that Jesus' value to LDS is lessened, relative to other Christianity-based religions.
In LDS, you are essentially required to put Joseph Smith and Jesus on an even footing, because of their requirement that you have a "personal testimony" (i.e., personal made-up reason to believe, that you claim to have received from God)...
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Where can I get Free audiobooks?
LibriVox (http://librivox.org/) has been converting Project Gutenberg's public domain plain-text EBooks (http://www.gutenberg.org/) into human-read audio books and dramatized readings since 2005.
They have a large selection of audio books of public domain books, largely works published before 1922 but there are some books which have been released into the public domain by their modern...
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In the novel, Frakenstein, by Mary Shelley, what does victor's mother say she wants for victor and elizabeth?
You can do a text search yourself for this information using the Project Gutenberg free EBook of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", from this link: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/84
Project Gutenberg Ebooks are all in plain-text for easy searching.
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Where can I download Halo:Contact Harvest ebook from?
You can buy it from these retailers:
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=204792565&listingid=19719796&dcaid=17902
http://www.amazon.com/Contact-Harvest-Halo-Joseph-Staten/dp/0765315696
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?r=1&ISBN=9780765315694&ourl=Halo%2FJoseph%2DStaten
The Audio Book version is here:
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Is Saw baesd on Agatha Christies And Then There Was None?
While there is one similarity, the presence of the killer among the "guests", the resemblance ends there.
"And Then There Were None" is the story of retribution for the capital offense crimes of the guests. The killer is trying to kill off everyone at the party, and nearly succeeds
"Saw" and all its sequels are the stories of one cancer patient trying to...
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Is there an online source to find a listing of book titles, and is there an online source to help name a book
If the book is currently in the public domain, you may want to try out Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/, as it has an extensive listing of titles, all in the public domain, of print books it has converted into plain-text EBooks. EBooks which Project Gutenberg makes available free of charge for anyone to download and use as they see fit.
The definition of public domain is the one...
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Are libraries essential to freedom in a democratic society?
Libraries are essential to freedom in a democratic society, but if a library decides to prevent the reading of some books on the sole grounds of censorship by refusing to stock them, it has no value to a democratic society.
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What was the last book that Jane Austen completed?
"Persuasion" was her last completed novel.
"Sanditon" was her last novel, but she died before finishing it.
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I want a PDF version of Resident Evil: Zero Hour for free online in English. Any advice
Here's some advice: Asking how to break the law in a public forum, where all messages are recorded for years, is a terrible idea.
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What are some of the lesser known works by Louisa May Alcott?
As all of Louisa May Alcott's books were written prior to 1922, they are currently in the public domain. As such, Project Gutenberg has most of them converted into plain-text EBook format, and makes these EBooks available for free download and use. You can find all of these Louisa May Alcott EBooks (and some free Audio Book versions of Louisa May Alcott's books as well) at:...
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Who Knows any good scary stories or ghost stories, because im writing a ghost stories book and i'm collecting the best to put in it. so know any good ones and please tell them to me and be scary.
I would suggest doing a text search for "ghost stories" in the Project Gutenberg collection at http://www.gutenberg.org/.
Project Gutenberg is a volunteer organization which takes print books currently in the public domain (old books and modern books whose authors have released them into the public domain) and converts them into electronic plain-text format (and other formats, but...
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How many books by Charles Dickens can you name?
Lots of them, but only because I happened to be looking at Charles Dickens' section at Project Gutenberg a few minutes previously (meaning that all of these texts and many more by Charles Dickens are available for free download in plain-text format from: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a37).
All the Year Round
American Notes
Barnaby Rudge
The Battle of Life
Bleak House...
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Which Charles Dickens novel features Mr Gradgrind?
"Hard Times- For These Times", by Charles Dickens, published in 1854.
It's in the public domain and as such available in a plain-text version for free download from Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/786.
While Project Gutenberg is working with LibriVox (http://www.librivox.org/) to add all of their Project Gutenberg titles as human-read audio books, Project...
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IS INSULATORS HAVE LOWER RESISTANCE THAN CONDUCTORS ! TRUE OR WRONG !
Insulators have higher resistance than conductors. Its basic electronics and electricity: conductors are used to conduct electricity, insulators are used to prevent the conducting of electricity.
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Is it true that Sarah Palin only has a Bachelors Degree? If so, is it important that she have a more advanced degree to help run the country?
Oh please, give this "everyone needs a college degree" thing a rest!
I'm competing for basic entry-level positions with PhDs. I'm being told that Masters degrees are required for community theater stagehand jobs. Paper tigers look great on paper but their actual skills aren't tested solely by college professors!
Palin has so much more wrong with her that...
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Is Jesus sufficient or is He only necessary?
Well, the Jesus fantasy is certainly necessary to the 5% of fundamentalist Christians who said in a study about ten years ago that, if offered irrefutable proof that God did not exist, would immediately embark on a crime spree of murder, rape, looting, and arson.
Sufficient? Something has to exist before its "sufficient", and there's certainly not enough evidence to suggest...
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Can prayer cure cancer?
In 2006 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) did a study on the effects of prayer for patients about to undergo coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG). There were three groups of patients:
Group One was told it would be prayed for.
Group Two was told that it may or may not be prayed for, and then was prayed for.
Group Three was told that it may or may not be prayed for, and then...
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I've heard that when someone loses a arm they still feel their hands/fingers sometimes- generally called the phantom limb effect. My question is if someone loses their lower body below the abdomen do they feel a phantom penis? Do they feel it get erect?
Well, the short answer is yes, men who have lost their penises can feel a "phantom penis" and even an "erect phantom penis."
Now, where it really gets interesting is the frequency of occurrence in each type of "amputated penis" man, be they normal men who had a penis amputated accidentally or due to an illness, or transsexuals who had their penis amputated as...
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Anyone seen the movie the cube? whats your thoughts on it?
Multiple cubes arranged against each other, with doors between them sometimes requiring complex unlocking methods. Each cube containing either a lethal threat, a reward, nothing, or an elevator to some other part of the complex. Its a brilliant idea for survival horror.
"The Cube" is excellent survival horror. Of its sequels, "Cube Zero" is also excellent survival...
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Is plain old simple custard pie out of style? It happens to be my favorite.
Custard pies are still very popular.
However, the most stylish food is the kind you enjoy yourself, and don't let anyone tell you any differently.
In the words of the character "Lord Arthur Goring" from Oscar Wilde's play "An Ideal Husband",
"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Other people are quite...
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Which is the best laptop to buy at the moment for around £400?
Wait until the end of September. Then you should be able to get an Asus EEE ultraportable laptop with built-in 3G wireless support for about £400.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/147955/asustek_to_offer_eee_pc_with_builtin_3g_wireless.html
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How many kilos would you think the Hulk weights?
Probably not much more massive than Bruce Banner, since Bruce Banner goes from his size to Hulk size without any added mass from any external source.
Of course, this is comic book "physics", where Superman can pick up the Eiffel Tower from one end without completely destroying the structure.
According to my calculations the Hulk is also about 2,000 tons, because he has to be...
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How do people get experts to work as volunteers? We have a micro finance organisation especially benefiting the poor and would be greatly aided to get experts on Credit/Lending to small borrowers , probably unbanked? riverbank.credit@yahoo.com
If you want experts who aren't retired yet, check out local Community Colleges which have some form of Business classes. Many instructors in such classes are actually business owners in the community who have business degrees and provide their expertise to the community college for a small salary and to build up the knowledge base for their own businesses. These folks are already used to...
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I believe in a God, do you?
No.
I do think that the Universe is highly-interconnected without having any "Higher Intelligence" behind it all, so apparently this makes me a monist in general terms and a naturalistic pantheist in specifics (though more a naturalistic spiritualist), albeit still minus any belief in "God".
I would be comfortable with the Wikipedia definition of "naturalistic...
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Do you still leaves cookies on the table for Santa on Christmas Eve... hoping that, just once..............?
....he'll get trapped in the elaborate man-trap cage you spent all year designing (conceived in April, shortly after breaking the $100 vase in the hall by swinging your Whiffle bat like you were told not to do) so that you can hold him hostage for all the XMas presents you know darn well you wouldn't get and didn't deserve that year?
It was my parents' fault, mind you....
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Is it just me, or does it seem like movie titles are a little uninspired lately? Why would I want to rent something titled "August", or "Meet Peter" when the title alone lacks thought?
I agree, this is a travesty. How will our children (once they have achieved the age of 21, of course) truly enjoy proper joke porn movie titles such as "The Sopornos" and "Saving Ryan's Privates" if the current movie titles continue to suck?
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If you've ever looked at the sun, there are sometimes these transparent circles of light that spread outward in a line. What are they called and how are they formed?
It's called "instant vision damage from looking at the sun."
Next time don't look at the sun.
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What can i use instead of a baking sheet in a microwave so that the cookies wont stick to the glass dish inside?
Parchment paper. Its available in cooking and baking supply stores.
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Where can I find an awesome guide to formatting my hard drive and loading Linux?
The Ubuntu Linux website, http://www.ubuntu.com/, is a good place to start learning Linux. Ubuntu is the easiest Linux distributions available, especially for people who have never used Linux. The Ubuntu website has a lot of good documentation, and a lot of community support forums.
One thing about Ubuntu I should mention is that I've been using Linux and UNIX for 15 years, and Ubuntu...
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Golf ball is so small, how do the audience see it?
Many people go to see a golf match and stand around the course and there can't possibly be a way for them to see that ball.
Telephoto lenses have helped "make the ball bigger", but golf seems to be a shared experience: you know where the ball is by listening to the crowd. The loudest "oohs" and "aahs" come from whereever the ball is located.
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Ok What Is an emulator
An emulator is a software application, usually running on a regular PC computer, which creates a virtual environment resembling another piece of technology inside of which software applications/games designed to run on that second piece of technology can run as if they were running on that second piece of technology.
Usually this means that the machine running the emulator has to be a few...
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Do guys ever lie about liking other girls to make the girl they like jealous?
Yes. As the saying goes, "all is fair in love and war", or at the very least considered to be fair.
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Do you take pride in baking Gingerbread men and then biting their heads off?
I take pride in baking Gingerbread men from scratch in my own kitchen using nearly-all organic ingredients, but they're so yummy I usually forget which part I bit off right after taking a bite. Mostly because I take quite a few more bites while the sensual sensation is still wearing off.
I have baked "anatomically-accurate" Gingerbread men for theater cast parties, and I have...
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Whenever I get an engagement ring, I want a tiny GPS chip built into it so if it ever gets lost, a website will track where the ring is anywhere in the world. Where can I find such a chip?
GPS systems aren't that small (yet), and even if you built one into a ring the GPS battery would die after awhile.
However, you could obtain a tracking chip from the Pet Chip folks. In their case they inject a small subcutaneous chip into the flesh of your pet, for identification purposes, but theres nothing which prevents you from obtaining one and sticking it in your ring.
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My husband is not for filling my sex driver anymore
Well, you have a few options:
1) You can download a new sex driver from a website.
2) You can invest in a peripheral device which substitutes for the faulty application in your life,
3) You can install a third-party application which is more compatible with your existing sex driver, and only use it when your primary application is unavailable, or
4) You can uninstall your current...
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Is it possible to be a sociopath and still be a nice person?
Yes. Good behavior is what you do, not what you think.
The only difficulty I can see is in the continuous reinforcement of good behavior experienced by normal people. Normal people empathize with other people, and thus quickly receive warning messages inside their own heads (internalized "punishment") when they perform bad actions on other people. A sociopath lacks the ability...
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If you are an atheist, do some of the other atheists on here annoy you due to their intolerance of everyone else?
Well I certainly can't fault them for being annoyed with all the annoying theists on AB. Sometimes the atheists go a little too far, but they certainly have good reasons for being annoying right back at annoying theists.
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If French kissing is distinguished by the use of the tongue, and Eskimo kissing by the use of the nose, what distinguishes American kissing?
It depends on the "morality" of the American.
High "morality" American Kissing is a tight-lipped kiss.
Low "morality" American Kissing makes French kissing look like a tight-lipped kiss.
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In Middle Ages, how explained the Church Lunar eclipse and Solar eclipse?
Geocentrism isn't disproven by a solar or a lunar eclipse (it is disproven by a lot of other things but not by eclipses).
The solar eclipse is the moon passing between the Sun and the Earth. If the Earth is at the center of the Universe and all solar bodies are rotating around the Earth, it isn't inconceivable that at some point the Moon would pass between the Sun and the Earth...
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McCain thinks that global warming is the result of human behavior (like Al Gore). Palin disagrees. Which one is right?
Well, if McCain is elected President and doesn't die of natural causes before the end of his term, then McCain is right.
If a President McCain does die of natural causes before the end of his term, then Palin will be right, and all those who disagree with the new President Palin will end up in CIA custody as "enemy combatants".
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Who agrees that virginity is a social contruct?
Of course its a social construct. Penetration of the vagina by a penis, allegedly the sole requirement for either gender, is very similar to things like turning 21 before you can drink or 16 before you can consent to sex. It is an arbitrary point set by society.
This idea that avoiding penile-vaginal penetration means one remains a virgin has led to some extremely sexually-experienced...
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After 1 years of my "Answerbag-activity", can you see into my heart?
Yes, and I've been wondering when you were going to do something about that lump in your left aorta...
(no, seriously, can't see a thing...)
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If a man can remain unaffected despite seductive advances from women, is he a strong guy or an abnormal fool?
He's a strong abnormal fool.
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Does anyone else have a cat in their lap/on their computer that is totally trying to sabotage their ability to type right now/or has, in the past?
Crazzz splgggl wgggl.
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If McCain wins the election and then dies during his term in office, will we have Sarah Palin as President with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as the new VP? (ps... thanks Jack)
Section 2 of the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the 25th Amendment covers the Presidential line of succession) provides that "Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress."
This means that the vice-president isn't...
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What do you think of protesters who call themselves “Born again Christians” who stage protests at the funerals of dead soldiers who served in Iraq, and insult their grieving families. Should this type of free speech be protected?
The Westboro Baptist Church is the greatest source of pro-homosexual feelings this country has ever known.
Here's how: if you say something anti-homosexual, you are instantly lumped in with Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. Obviously, you will try to avoid saying anti-homosexual things to avoid being lumped in with Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. Thus Fred...
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I've recently had a dream that I was involved in a romantic relationship with the Joker from Batman. Am I insane?
Depends. Was the Joker played by:
1) Cesar Romero? (the 1960s "Batman" serial TV show)
2) Jack Nicholson? (1989 movie "Batman")
3) Mark Hamill? (1990s "Batman: The Animated Series")
4) Heath Ledger? (2008 "Dark Knight")
IF (1): You have latent homosexual feelings which you try to hide by collecting 1960s kitsch and camp.
IF (2): You...
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Hey fellow female foot fetishists, who are you voting for this election?
I've seen a picture of Palin's feet, and ewwwwww! We do not want these feet to be the feet of the next VP!
Michelle Obama's feet are much sexier.
Vote Obama so that there will be cute feet in the White House!
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Why leftist women are not looking good like Oprah, Clinton and rose O'Donnell while conservative are beautiful like Palin, laura bush and Cindy McCain?
Tell us what you are smoking! We want some too!
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My oven is broken and i really want to make chocolate chip cookies, is there any way that i can make them in the microwave? My microwave is pretty high tech! Please help if you can!
There are lots of ways you can make chocolate chip cookies, but there's no better way than an oven (How Not To Make Chocolate Chip Cookies: Frying, Toasting, Microwaving, and Boiling, http://www.cakespy.com/2008/08/tough-cookies-not-ny-times-chocolate.html).
However, while you can't really make chocolate chip *drop* cookies in a microwave oven, you can make chocolate chip *bar*...
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How to Upgrade to Vista from Windows 2000
1) Start drinking some great alcoholic drinks.
2) Get so drunk you can't operate a computer.
3) Repeat as necessary until you wisely give up ever thinking you should convert your computer to Vista (I refuse to consider Vista to be an "upgrade").
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot there might be some people who can't or shouldn't consume alcohol. Here's an alternative...
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Who is spiritual here, not because it's a popular or cool thing to be but because something extraordinary or amazing happened in your life and made you think that way?
I don't think of myself as particularly spiritual, but other people I know tell me I'm very spiritual, so apparently there's a third category of people who are spiritual not because its cool and not because anything happened to make them spiritual.
As an atheist it is a little strange to run into people who think you are spiritual.
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There was a video in the early 80s that had a guy with a mohawk and he was strapped to a spinning wheel-like contraption. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Artist? Song?
Didn't all 80s videos eventually have a guy in a mohawk strapped to a spinning wheel? ;-)
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Why did the presidential campaign take so long?
Presidential campaigns *should* be long processes. If one guy stands up and everyone suddenly votes for him, I'll start believing the tinfoil-hat wearers' claims that the government has mind-control technology.
Everyone has different views about how they want their country run, even people inside the same political party. Long campaigns mean everyone with a good idea gets heard,...
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What did the Cathars believe?
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathar):
"Catharism was a name given to a Christian religious sect with dualistic and gnostic elements that appeared in the Languedoc region of France in the 11th century and flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries. Catharism had its roots in the Paulician movement in Armenia and the Bogomils of Bulgaria with whom the Paulicians merged....
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Since N.O.W. does not support Palin should they change their organization to N.O.L.W. (National Organization for the advancement of Liberal Women)?
Palin doesn't support *women*, making her an enemy of N.O.W.
Quite a lot of Conservative Women support rape and incest exceptions to any ban on abortion. And saying that community support is for "losers" isn't going to endear her to the countless Conservative Woman community service organizations. Palin opposes funding for state pre-kindergarten programs, programs which...
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Has Keith Olbermann taken *journalism* to a new low?
That is the last name I'd expect to see under the concept of "someone who has taken journalism to a 'new low'".
FOX News has taken journalism to such a series of "new lows" for so long that it would be difficult for *anyone* to achieve a "new low" worse than any of the records set by FOX News.
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Well, you all know that road rage can occur in motorists who find the traffic obstructing, right?
Can pedestrians have a foot path or sidewalk rage if cars stop them from crossing the roads to get home? if so, has this affected you and if so how?
The whole reason "road rage" exists is because we can't see the faces of the other person in the car which has done something we disagree with. We see no expression and assume the worst, hence the anger.
In person, however, we can see a facial expression and react accordingly. Frequently when a pedestrian makes a sudden move in front of me, while I too am walking, he can...
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Is distilled water safer than filtered water and botteld water as well?
Distilled water is water which has been converted to water vapor and then condensed back into liquid water again. This process means that anything which couldn't fit into tiny water vapor droplets didn't make it into the finished product, and anything that could fit in such a droplet was exposed to boiling temperatures, which frequently kills off most bacteria in water. It may not...
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Where are you going in life?
I try not to think about this question all that much these days.
Thank you so very much for reminding me...not
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As horror films lure in ever more youthful audiences, I wonder: how much, how young?
Movie ratings became largely irrelevant after the invention of the "multiplex". Such multi-theater complexes would frequently have a G-rated movie showing alongside the R and NC-17 rated movies.
Whereas in the old days the teenager would have to get a parent, guardian, or "homeless guy hired to play the role of Dad" to buy them tickets to the R-rated movie, nowadays the...
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Why is it that hydrogen has become so highly regarded as an alternative fuel, or source of renewable energy? The energy it can generate is less than the energy required to produce it.
The obvious solution to our world's energy needs is solar power. Clean, "renewable" in the sense that it would take the Sun exploding or cooling for it to go away, and usable over most of the Earth's surface.
However, there remain areas of the world in which solar power will not work or where solar power would be less effective. As the Earth is mostly water, using the...
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What was the first webpage on the internet?
According to the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee (and he really did create the World Wide Web, for an Internet which already existed):
Link: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#Examples
Q: What was the first web page?
A: Apart from local "file:" URLs on my machine (which was the first browser as well as the first server), the first http one (end of...
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Do you think if I travel by plane to Armish country that they would let me still come live with them and adopt their religion? or would I need to take a boat?
Being Amish is defined by how you behave once you are Amish. How you arrive on their land is irrelevant as long as you adopt their strict policy of "no outside influences" and decline motorized plane or boat travel once you become Amish.
The same applies to 16 year old teenagers who have entered the Amish period of "rumspringa" where they are allowed to "break...
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In general, fossil fuels are cheapest form of energy. How much are you willing to for gasoline and electricity derived from alternative sources?
When you remove the oil companies' government *subsidies* and *tax breaks*, fossil fuels are about twice as expensive than their current prices (some studies put the actual cost at some 15 times current prices). The U.S. government hands out billions in subsidies and tax breaks to oil companies to offset their fossil fuel production costs, costs which, if passed to the consumer, would...
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Is loyalty in heterosexual relationships a dying phenomena?
Not at all. Heterosexual cohabitation is rising and marriage is shrinking, but this hasn't affected the level of monogamy.
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What is a little sweet thing I can send to my boyfriend who is deployed overseas to let him know how much I love and miss him? (got the cookies covered already)
The sweetest thing I ever saw get sent to a loved one overseas was back in high school, when a German exchange student got a seemingly-lifelike flat picture of a rose from her boyfriend in Germany, laminated so it wouldn't get water damage.
It survives well in the mail, and if you brush on a little rose oil before mailing it in its own envelope (unsealed of course to make it easier for...
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Which is better, a silver plated or a gold plated conductor for amemory module? Hint: Consider the memory slot on the motherboard.Which is better, a silver plated or a gold plated conductor for amemory module? Consider the memory slot on the motherboard
They both conduct electricity well, but gold doesn't tarnish so there's less need for maintenance.
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What's your definition of porn? Nudity? Tasteful nudity? Art? What is it?
I know it when I see it.
Frankly any other definition is inadequate. Women can be downright slutty in a neck-to-shoes fully-clothed state of being, and the divine female form undraped can be the most unerotic thing anyone, including teenage boys (which is saying something), has ever seen.
I've even heard of men in Middle Eastern countries complaining how slutty a woman in a full...
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Does rising from the dead fall under natural or un-natural laws?
Unnatural. Once something is dead (usually meaning brain dead), its unnatural for it to come back to life.
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If you get your period a few weeks after you've had sex and possibly got pregnant, does that mean you are definately not pregnant?
Some spotting, which might resemble a "light period", can occur even while you are pregnant.
You will probably still want to get a pregnancy test to make sure.
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How does the Bible say to get married?
The Bible says it is a terrible idea to get married, because it distracts one from worshiping God.
1 Corinthians 7:1,29-35 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%207:1,29,32-34;&version=31;)
"Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry."
"What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have...
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Do you think that George Bush is responsible for high gax prices?
Not really, he's not intelligent enough to be trusted by his Administration with the Big Decisions.
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Guys: what do you think of those giant purses women carry around? and on the contrary, what about those teeny tiny ones?
Envy.
Cargo pants only slightly make up for not having societal approval for carrying around a big bag to hold stuff in.
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Is forgiveness divine?
Forgiveness is a human thing.
Carrying a grudge for all eternity is divine.
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Who is the priminister of the United States of America?
The U.S. government system is not a parliamentary system of government, such as found in the U.K., and as such does not have the office of Prime Minister.
As the Prime Minister is typically the leader of the majority party in a parliamentary system, and though the candidate must still be approved by the "Head of State", the closest fit in the U.S. system would be the Vice...
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Are the poppy seeds used in cookery etc from the opium poppy? (if yes then can other types of poppy be used and which is the most common?)
Yes, opium poppy seeds are the "poppy seeds" used in cooking.
Unfortunately, other forms of poppy have bitter seeds which aren't all that fun to eat, and some are mildly poisonous.
As poppy seeds do come from the opium poppy, they contain trace amounts of opiates. Whether or not this can cause a false positive on a drug test is a matter of some debate. The TV shows...
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What does these stories have in common Macbeth, and Medea
Hot potato, orchestra stalls, pluck to make amends!
If you want a real answer from a theater person, then you really will have to change the M word to "The Scottish Play".
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Is female ejaculate the same as an orgasm? I can squirt but I don't see that as being an orgasm.
Female ejaculate is similar in consistency and chemical makeup to male seminal fluid, and not similar to urine, so there's some similarity between female "squirting" and female orgasm.
We do have the same basic genetics shared between genders. The exact same structure (with slightly fewer nerve endings) of the female clitoris can be found under the glans of the male...
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Why do creationists so often misstate and misrepresent evolutionary theory and natural selection when arguing against it?
Because Creationism and Intelligent Design are composed entirely of misstatements, misrepresentations, and strawmen.
Of course, point this out to any of them and they'll accuse you of the same thing, no matter how much evidence you present or how many flaws you find in their arguments.
Pseudoscience doesn't have to behave like Science in that it doesn't have to provide...
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Why is that some men don't disclose thier salaries to their wife
Some men don't want their wives to know about all the resources available to them. If she thinks you make $30,000 a year when you actually make $80,000 a year, then she won't try to bug him into buying really expensive things that only a person with an $80,000 annual salary could afford.
The usual reason for this is so that the husband can create a private bank account. Sometimes...
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Is there any way to prevent implantation?
If you haven't had sex yet, one function of the Pill is to prevent implantation. This function is not performed by the Mini-Pill, which only works to prevent conception.
If you have had unprotected sex, "Emergency Contraception" is a large dose of regular birth control Pills to try to prevent implantation. It has a high rate of success.
EDIT: Funny, I'm not sure who...
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If semen gets onto the vulva and not inside, are the chances of getting pregnant high?
Sperm are powerful swimmers, and have the strength and stamina to swim the whole distance from the vulva to the fallopian tube (especially the XX sperm). However, the chance of pregnancy from sperm on the vulva is very slim.
You should realize that if penetration occurred at all prior to getting sperm on the vulva, it is important to note that the "natural lubricant" or...
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Why are people of India dependent on Americans?
I think this question belongs in the "ethnic joke" section, not "India". Its so untrue that it just has to have a punchline.
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Both of my sons were born in the USA, do they need visas if I were to marry a US citizen
Children born in the U.S.A. are automagically U.S. Citizens (the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution took care of that). They are examples of the oft-reviled concept of "anchor babies", in that because they are U.S. Citizens, once they become adults they can help expedite your Green Card (or even naturalization, if you like) and have you come live with them, no marriage to...
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If you have ever suffered from severe sleep deprivation, what did it do to you?
Its like having a trip on some not very good LSD.
Your vision is blurred, you hallucinate things which aren't there, your motor control is reduced, and the seven fat cows and seven thin cows are actually shaved buffalo.
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Jesus was a socialist. Jesus was not a concervative. Can yoiu handle the truth?
No! No! I can't handle the truth!
Oh wait, I agree with this truth. Nevermind.
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If Jesus was in politics- What political party would he belong to?
Whichever party:
1) Advocated paying taxes willingly to the government (Matthew 22:21).
2) Felt that the wealthy had an obligation to provide free food to the poor, even when the poor wanted to eat on a Sunday (Leviticus 23:22; Deuteronomy 23:24-25; Matthew 12:1-2 (the corn was free to pick, the sin was that they were working (picking the corn) on the Sabbath); Luke 18:22).
3) Wanted a...
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When there's two men who "get married", do they both go to the same bachelor party?
No, there are two bachelor parties before a two-man wedding. Gay men who get married tend to be "traditionalists" (well, as much as possible) about that sort of thing. They go all the way on marriage traditions, including the "groom shouldn't see the other groom before the wedding" and related marriage supersitions.
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Does anybody like Jeeves and Wooster, the Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry version?
Yes I do.
I got the DVD set for XMas and watch the entire series about once a week. The theme music is especially uplifting and always leaves me in a very good mood.
In fact, I think I'll go watch it again. Thanks for reminding me about an incredibly good way to pick up my spirits!
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17 teenage girls in massachusets made a pact that they would all get pregnant and raise their kids together, most are 15-16 years old. Why do you think they would want to do this? your opinion?
Well, human beings natural state is for all the women to get together and raise the kids cooperatively, so its not completely ridiculous.
Of course, in nature the way it goes is that the women making the natural arrangement are of all ages: older women who now know how to get old along with the younger women. And that is where you are quite right that this "pregnancy pact" is...
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In the movie "Pitch Black", Riddick discovers that the bio-raptors have a blind spot right in front of them because they see via echolocation (like bats do). Is it technically possible to have a blind spot with echolocation?
It's possible. Echolocation is still dependent on the position and placement of the sound transmission organ and the listening organs, and as such if you stand somewhere the sound waves can't bounce off you and go back to the listening organ of the echolocating creature, the creature can't "see" you.
If I remember that scene correctly, Riddick does move from side to...
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Is McCain the REAL flip/flop artist?
No, I'd say that his Republicrat flip-flopping is at about the same level as Obama's Demopublican flip-flopping.
Boy, this election really shows how there may be two parties, but there's really only one kind of politician who is "electable": the boring "in it for themselves, say anything to get elected and then break all the promises when they get there"...
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Are there any pagan worshiping groups in the USA?
Quite a few. There are national organizations, local organizations, and national collectives of local organizations. And if you can't immediately find one in your area, the nature of Paganism allows for the Solitary Practitioner.
One of the more well-known national organizations is the Covenant of the Goddess (http://www.cog.org/).
A large regional organization in the Wisconsin...
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How old was Titus at time he received an epistle from Paul?
The question is somewhat flawed as there is evidence that Paul never wrote the pastoral Epistles attributed to him, among which resides the Epistles to Titus (the pseudoepistles being Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 & 2 Timothy, and Titus).
Thus Titus never actually received an epistle from Paul, or if he did then it has been lost, as the Epistle of Titus which appears in the...
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Can something exist if it is completely unobservable?
If it is completely unobservable then by definition it does not exist in the Universe (or outside the Universe for that matter if the Universe is not a closed system), and thus is irrelevant to anyone in this Universe.
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How can I get my son to drink water. He is 13 months old, wont drink juice or water. He was breast feed for 10 months, and forula / solids till last week. Now on only solids I have been trying to get him to drink water. Any ideas?
You could try total immersion in water.
I'm not joking here. Infants can be started on swimming at a very young age. In fact the "waterbirthing" method capitalizes on an apparent genetic trait of human beings to be comfortable in water to ease childbirth and clear the mouth of the baby.
Provided there's no health problems for which "refusal to drink water"...
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Do scrambled eggs taste better if you mix heavy cream into them before cooking?
I've never tried cream, but milk makes them much fluffier and seems to improve the flavor.
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How often do you really re-watch the movies (DVDs) you buy?
Almost never. Sad, really.
Ironically, I have a lot of shows which were never released on DVD (broadcast only) and I watch them over and over.
The really annoying thing is that most of the DVDs I own were gifts from friends who come over from time to time. If I sold or "re-gifted" any of them, those friends might be a little miffed about my sale/re-gifting of their present. I...
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How can i find someone that is compatible with a 21 year old Capricorn female?
Virgo, Taurus, Pisces and Scorpio are good choices, but Cancer is the most compatible with Capricorn
You'd need a full natal astrological chart on both people for complete astrological accuracy. For example, a Cancer with a Libra Moon will only be compatible with a Capricorn for half the time, and you'll fight the rest of the time. Just knowing he's a Cancer isn't the...
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Who is the sexiest assistant / companion that has ever been on Doctor Who (old and new series)?
Old Series: Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), hands down. An argument could be made for Leela, though with hands up (if you want to live).
New Series: Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), though mostly because I've seen her in "Diary of a Call Girl".
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Just wondering, when a poligamy marriage occurs, the only one that is "right" is the first one and the rest is "spuritual" marriages. there are no"puplic paper trails" and how can they prove that is poligamy, don't most live by themselves and havea"visit"
Many jurisdictions recognize the difficulty in proving polygamy, which is why they pass additional laws which make it difficult for polygamists to live together.
The HBO Show "Big Love" covers what pretty much has to happen in most jurisdictions, and especially in Utah, when a polygamist family wants to live somewhere: in the show, the polygamist husband has his own house, and each...
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I know that if the temperture goes down there is possible paranormal activity. If the temperature rises is there paranormal activity?
The key point in paranormal research isn't the temperature of the "spot", it is whether or not the radical temperature difference between the "spot" and the surrounding area can be explained. Both "hot spots" and "cold spots", where there doesn't seem to be any explanation for why the temperature is different in that one spot from the...
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What gives us the right to Kill one another even in War when the Ten Commandments say " Thy Shall Not Kill " -- ? ---- Please don't bash me it's just been on my mind latley
Well, strictly speaking the Ten Commandments doesn't include a Commandment stating "thou shalt not kill".
Moses broke that set of stone tablets when he saw that the Hebrews were worshiping a "golden calf", long before anyone other than Moses was allowed to read that First Set Of Stone Tablets. He was some distance from everyone else, so I doubt he was close enough...
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If there is so much scientifical evidence that there is no "god" why do people still beleive? such as i read this in someones answer that the bible says the earth is only something like 2000 years old but there proof of it being over 2 million.
People insist that "God" exists because some people just need a crutch to get through their lives. They can't grow up, so they try to get "born" again so they can live their adult lives with a "Divine Mommy", just like they did as babies.
Religions in general are all "cargo cults". Everyone remembers how great it was to have Mommy take care of...
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What is something that it NOT very fun to do naked?
Antarctic research.
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Where can i find shirley temple movies to watch online for free?
The Internet library of public domain stuff, Archive.org, has two Shirley Temple movies in its database, watchable online for free. As an added bonus you can download both of them to your home computer as both of them are public domain movies, free from DRM and other restrictions (available in MP4, VideoCD MPEG1, and DVD MPEG2 formats).
The Little Princess (1939)
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I've downloaded a few distros of Linux, but I don't understand how I'm supposed to change what I've downloaded into a "live CD" I'm currently running xp home on an HP pavilion 533w
You probably downloaded a CD "ISO Image". On XP Home you will need a CD Burning application. Many new systems and many add-on CD Burner Drives come with an application called "Nero", but YMMV.
Put a blank CD into your CD Burner, run Nero, and select the option for "Burn Image" (could also be "Burn CD Image" or "Burn ISO Image"). Select the...
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Any politicians that inspire you and that you like(exluding Obama cuz he is a generic answer for the dope and dreams croud)?
Hillary Clinton.
Obama's entire campaign is entirely uninspiring because it is all dreams and he's a dope.
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Guys (or girls) do ya prefer Blonde, Brunette, Red, or Black?
The face underneath the hair holds more of my attention than the hair color.
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If They ban torture then what other methods will the y use to retrieve information from the person they are interrogating? Any ideas?
Methods that, unlike torture, actually work?
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Who would you like to pick to read the declaration of independence?
Stephen Fry.
That man could read the dictionary and I'd queue up to buy the DVD.
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How to lose weight and have a nice shape of body in a short time?
I've never seen anything work better than death for losing weight and attaining that perfect body shape in a very short time.
Yes, it will destroy your skin tone and attract bugs, but in the short run it is the quickest way to attain and maintain the modern standard of beauty.
(only half in jest)
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My TV died this evening. Should i hold a funeral and have a proper burial?
If by "proper burial" you mean "delivered to a TV recycling center", then by all means do so.
TVs have way too many toxins in them to be buried just anywhere.
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My younger brother is an independent contractor,he works for a realtor doing apartment rentals,thus he is technically not an employee...His boss is constantly verbally abusing him,degrading,and bullying him..aside of quitting,what is his legal recourse
Check with the I.R.S. to see if he is an employee who has been illegally misclassified by the realtor as an independent contractor, for starters.
This is a good primer on the differences between employees and independent contractors:
http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/laborlaws/l/aa121800.htm
From the article linked:
"Companies don't have to withhold federal, state and...
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In BSG, what does it mean when a Cylon gets boxed?
The specific human form Cylon model is prevented from downloading into a new body after a previous death (though still saved into the system), and existing human form Cylons in the same model have their consciousnesses uploaded back into the system.
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I have a kitten that is a little over a month old and her head is leaning over to the left side and she twitches alot but other than that she acts normal(eg. Eating,sleeping,drinkingetc)I don't know when somthing could've happend to her(She'sanoutsidecat)
Rabbits have a condition they can get called Tilted Head Syndrome. A tiny protozoa gets into their balance regions of their brains, and causes them to tilt their heads all the time. The protozoa can kill the rabbit so it is important to treat the condition, but the changes can be permanent. Many rabbits with permanent Tilted Head Syndrome can get used to the condition and cope with it in...
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What exactly did Obama say during his campaign that made people vote for him? All I ever heard was "We need a change" but never heard what changes he could actually bring.
I'm not sure what he was promising either. He talked a lot about "hope", but the problem is that "hope" without "substance" is no way to run a country.
The weird bit is that his website's policy statements were the same way. For example, he promised to spend $150 billion on renewable energy, but never bothered to actually define anything specific...
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Is there any scripture that says it's okay to refer to priests as "father"? Consider: Matt. 23:9, "And do not call anyone on earth 'father', for you have one Father, and he is in heaven." What does this mean to you?
The main point to make is that the early Christian Church was run by the elders in the Church, and 1 Timothy 5:1 stipulates that all elders, not just your biological father, need to be treated like fathers, and your father must be obeyed, so the term naturally stuck to the priesthood, the Church Authority Figure.
However, the Bible is rife with contradictions and complications.
For...
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What was the purpose of the greek religion
Same as the purpose of any religion: keep the people occupied with the care and feeding of the priesthood, while requiring no real work from the priesthood in return.
Well, that is to say, without requiring any more work than they were willing to provide, since one could argue that the temple rites for Aphrodite certainly "gave back to the community" in a way which no modern...
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It's your future. Your kids have just announced they are moving you into a retirement home in which you will have room for twenty-five of each of your favorites --books, movies, and CDs. Which 25 of each do you take with you?
I'd spend the last week scanning/copying the entire collection onto one computer with a couple terabytes of hard drive space.
After all, I'm retiring. My body is weak and my death comes soon. Its not like I'm going to want to have to walk back and forth to the shelf to get the original editions, wasting what little time I have left and expending extra unnecessary effort.
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If most Americans are against illegal immigration, then why didn't they at least consider a presidential candidate who was tough on the subject? McCain, Obama, nor Hillary would do anything to curb it.
Most Americans are publicly against illegal immigration, but privately recognize that they benefit hugely from it in the short run.
America is all about putting the short run ahead of the long run. This can be seen in their desire to get lots of government services now (in the short run) without paying any more taxes for them now (in the short run), thus forcing their kids to pay for all...
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Do you have a different alphabet from the classic "ABC" in your mind?
One of the few things I specifically remember learning in grade school was my 3rd grade teacher teaching us how to recite the "ABC" alphabet *backwards*.
This came in handy about 8 years later when, being a tall, gangly, uncoordinated youth, I was pulled over by a police officer and almost declared DUI because I couldn't walk a straight line. As I was stone cold sober at the...
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Are we too hasty in labeling prostitutes as characterless and immoral without giving a thought as to what would have forced them to this trade?
Yes. None of us know what circumstances led them into this line of work. Some of them could be forced in by a relative or spouse. Some could be forced in by organized crime. Still others do so to support family members, including children.
Nearly everyone has worked a job which made them feel disgusted with themselves, but I bet you still thought yourself moral in spite of the job....
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If some men are labeled MCP’s (Male chauvinist pigs) then what is the equal term for woman?
*Female* chauvinist pigs.
Chauvinism is extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group. It is not specific to any gender.
Misogyny is the term for the attitude employed by "male chauvinist pigs", so naturally the term used for the attitude employed by "female...
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Do citronella candles repel houseflies or are they used mostly for mosquitoes?
Citronella oil, including citronella candles, repel a variety of insects. Officially the EPA recognizes citronella as an insect repellent for mosquitoes, black flies, fleas, and ticks, so yes, flies are repelled by citronella candles.
EPA Citronella Factsheet:
http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/biopesticides/ingredients/factsheets/factsheet_021901.htm
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Why isn't there an equivalent of the Good Samaritan (as in the UK -- the emotional support phone line) for all of the U.S. rather than just four limited areas?
The U.S. generally focuses on getting people to "emergency care" rather than into general care, so you're only bound to find national suicide hotlines rather than more general purpose mental illness hotlines.
I know of one nationwide 24/7 U.S. suicide hotline, Suicide Prevention Lifeline (http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/), 1-800-273-TALK (8255). (Para obtener...
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I recently read an article that said some of the Bill of Rights applies to the states, but not all of them. Specifically, it said the 2nd Amendment applies to the federal government, but not the states. Is this true?
COLOSSAL EDIT & RETRACTION: It would appear that the questioner is right in thinking that the Second Amendment does not apply to the States, despite my understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment. This is because **the U.S. Supreme Court actually said as much** back in the late 1800s, first in United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875), and then again in Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S....
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Does marijuana have side effects?
Well, apart from the euphoria effect (which I presume you are not considering to be a "side effect"), you should be aware of (other) side effects from cannabis use including increased heart rate, dryness of the mouth, reddening of the eyes (congestion of the conjunctival blood vessels), a reduction in intra-ocular pressure (which is a good thing if you happen to have glaucoma), mild...
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What if a very advanced ailen arrived by flying saucer and declared they had direct contact with god and he looked and acted like Jabba the Hut? And they had both proof and photographic evidence of this god that could not be denied?
Throughout history, "gods" have always been defined as independent of physical messengers to get their messages across. By this I mean that the guy whose collection plate you are filling insists that "god" doesn't need this shaman/prophet/priest/minister/imam to tell you something, "god" can tell you himself.
All "gods" are actually dependent on...
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My veggies were getting frozen in my fridge so I thought that I had changed the temp, but turned out I moved the dial the wrong way and now my water and such are frozen. Should I let them thaw out in the fridge or leave them on the counter overnight?
Let them thaw in the fridge. Leaving them out on the counter will only make them rot as well as thaw.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but one other reason to thaw in the fridge is that fruit flies lay eggs on the surface of fruits and vegetables (even fruit/veggies which haven't turned ripe yet). Keeping the fruits and veggies cold keeps the eggs from hatching, but if you take...
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Its really hard to find a decent astrology report so i was hoping if anyone here is good at these kind of things they could please do my report, please i hope im not asking for to much 6th September, 1992, 12.00pm thank you :)
We'd need to know the latitude and longitude of your birthplace if this is going to be a natal chart.
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Have you ever done a "random act of kindness " for a stranger, and what was it?
A woman, clearly upset, wandered into the parking lot outside my home, while I was getting the groceries out of the car. She told me she was crying because she had just briefly gotten back together with her abusive boyfriend, and he had brought her to his new apartment she had never been to before, but that he got violent again and she ran out of his apartment and hadn't stopped until she...
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Define: 'testiphone'
Testiphone: device used by men to talk to their own sperm.
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If I offered you 4 points for no good reason, would you take them happily, or would you want a reason? Would you rather 3 or 2 because there is no reason? And if you would rather 2 or 3, what if I gave you 4 anyway? Would this upset you?
I'll take those four points now with no worries whatsoever... ;-)
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How long will cake batter from a box keep after mixed? (before baking).
Cake mixes contain leavening agents which start to activate as soon as water and other liquids (especially naturally acidic eggs) are added to the mix. Heat from the oven speeds up the leavening process, but the leavening agents are active the instant the mix becomes wet.
Ideally a cake mix should be put in the oven within a few minutes after mixing up the batter. If you let it sit out for...
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What is the last discovery that the Hubble Telescope made?
Around May 20th, 2008 (yes, this year and about ten days ago), the Hubble Space Telescope allowed astronomers to discover about half of the missing normal matter, called baryons, in the space between the galaxies. They'd been looking for what the universe is made of, and now they've found about half of the matter they'd been looking for.
And it was all thanks to the Hubble...
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What if you had an employee who came in late almost everyday and came back from lunch late, say you call her in to tell her about this and she cusses you out, (yes she cusses you out) what would you do, fire her on the spot?
I have an acquaintance who does this on a regular basis (cusses out her boss during the inevitable poor performance review). Somehow she always manages to get unemployment shortly after being fired (despite state laws in our area allowing employers to deny unemployment if "fired for cause"), and a new job in the same field within a month (sometimes sooner if she gets bored of...
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What do you think or feel upon looking at the stars/planets?
Oh man the Bible was right: I DO want to worship them! :P
(Deuteronomy 4:19)
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Im thinking of starting my own religion. It will be the best bits from other religions with a few of my own ideas thrown in. I guarantee it will be pretty cool for all its members. Are there any potential followers out there?
No follower here, though I would advise that you read the ABCDEF (Advanced Bonewits' Cult Danger Evaluation Frame, http://www.neopagan.net/ABCDEF.html) while designing your new religion, to avoid potential pitfalls which could result in the FBI playing loud slaughterhouse sounds (or, heaven forbid, even worse noises like Britney Spears CDs) outside your home and eventually burning it to...
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What would you do if your new friend's child was a huge brat and the parents didn't acknowledge their manners at all? Would you still hang out with them?
No, I really don't hang out with them anymore.
They have this weird "let the children learn their own ethical structure without parental influence" idea about childrearing, which they got from some wacko childless anthropology professor who apparently never read "Lord of the Flies" and thinks that kids develop better ethics on their own.
They also...
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Ever meant to have a fling and fell in love? Are you two still together?
Yes, and we will have been married nine years this coming September.
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Have you ever stolen something that you did not need?
Yes. A former friend of mine once stole something from me while we were still friends, so I once pretended to steal something from his vast collection of theater memorabilia before he got around to cataloging everything.
He still occasionally tries to find out what it was that I stole, never quite realizing that what I stole was something I didn't need and couldn't sell anyway:...
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Whats you opinion on this statement?
"there is no right or wrong ther is only opinion"
How can answering this statement not justify its premise?
If it is wrong then no opinion is required to make it false, but stating one's opinion justifies the premise regardless of the stated opinion.
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Why is the sky blue and why do ppl ask stupid questions like this?
Tiny creatures whose coffee is always spiked with methyl blue (makes your pee turn blue) are constantly urinating on the sky.
At night they go to bed and all the methyl-blue-stained urine drips off into public pools.
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I don't understand the whole Bible..did God command that I was suppose to understand the whole Bible?
God deliberately doesn't want most people to understand the Bible, because God controls who will be saved and who will be condemned. Free will is a fallacy when the information to make the right choice is denied to you.
Matthew 13:34 and Mark 4:34 make it plain that Jesus is speaking in parables so that most people will not understand his message and thus will be condemned to Hell....
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A Florida teen has been convicted of robbing a 9-year-old Girl Scout selling cookies, and he was sentenced to 3 years in jail. Opinions - too harsh? too lenient? or just unpalatable? :o)
If he had robbed an adult clerk in a convenience store, the punishment would have been similar.
Sounds about right since he attacked a prepubescent female child. The age and gender of the victim makes up the difference.
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How did bard learn of smaug's vulnerability?
Bard can talk to animals and birds, and a noble thrush which overheard Bilbo's description of Smaug's vulnerability flew and reported it to Bard.
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Which would you be more afraid of: a zombie, a vampire or a werewolf?
Considering that there have been countless different variations on all three, everyone with a definite answer has a particular variation in mind of whatever type of supernatural creature they want to meet.
For example, while "Night of the Living Dead" zombies lurch and move slowly, and thus would be more pleasant to meet, "28 Days Later" zombies are gold-medalist track...
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Did you take an AP course in high school?
Yes, I lucked out as my high school was in the same town as one of the state universities. I took College Physics. Got a B in it, mostly because I was a "nerd rebel" at the time.
Loved the teacher. He encouraged us to go above and beyond the basic classroom stuff. We did an "egg drop" where you could use any material for an "egg survival harness", provided...
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Why is polygamy considered such a bad thing in modern society, especially by social conservatives? Many biblical characters had more than one wives.
Polygamy is considered a bad thing in modern society for many reasons. Obviously the majority religions, as well as political conservatives, play a part, but there are other concerns about polygamy.
One very glaring point is that the American legal system has been designed including the concept of a marriage consisting of two people. Gay marriage works with minimal alteration under current...
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Which is the best Windows OS in your opinion?
The one in the box on the shelf, that you aren't buying and aren't taking home with you.
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Which is better for a weak pc; Ubuntu, Solaris or FreeBSD?
Ubuntu, but make sure you get "Xubuntu" instead of the main Ubuntu CD. Xubuntu is a scaled-down version of Ubuntu which runs better on older, lower-end hardware, but which still has access to the entire Ubuntu software repository.
You may want to try out the Linux distribution which Ubuntu is based on: Debian. Debian has a lot more choices during install than Ubuntu (making the...
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What are your thoughts on Umbuntu 8.04?
I've been running Ubuntu 8.04LTS for about a week now, and I think its a good version of Ubuntu Linux (1Ghz, 256MB RAM, 32MB AGP video). I left the default Compiz video "eye candy" in place, but even with my weaker video card and RAM the "eye candy" doesn't seem to slow the system down at all.
I like the new progress dialog boxes better than in v7.10, because...
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What Linux version is best to run on a windows 98 machine, 128 mb ram
In 128 MB RAM you might have some problems with Ubuntu. Ubuntu tends to assume you have higher-end hardware than that type of machine, and it installs a lot of software which really needs more than 128 MB RAM (and thus will never be able to run on your 128MB RAM machine).
If you absolutely have to do Ubuntu, acquire their "Xubuntu" CD instead of the regular Ubuntu CD (Go to...
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Which is the latest version of LINUX..?? please answer this......i am in real need.....
In a strict technical sense, "Linux" is just the core of the operating system, which is the "kernel". However, I think you're looking for a current Linux distribution, which means a kernel combined with a lot of different Linux software packages.
If you haven't used Linux much before, and from the wording of your question I suspect this is the case, then you...
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Is public shaming the best crime deterrent? All cases of such have worked that I've ever heard of.
It depends on the criminal.
If the crime committed was one of desperation, then public shaming is unlikely to work if the reason for the desperation is not dealt with as well. Even minor "desperation" is still a factor: "johns" featured on TV after their prostitution bust still go back to prostitutes if this really is the only way they think they can receive sexual...
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Im dating a guy whose ex-gf is still pregnant so they are 'forced' to have a relationship. what should i do?
Once the ex-girlfriend gives birth the tension should reduce a little bit. Right now the ex is undergoing an extremely difficult process which affects her immune system, physical health, and emotional health, and this will transfer onto your boyfriend during the pregnancy.
After childbirth the ex will mostly be dealing with the child and probably not much with your boyfriend, other than...
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If u got a chance to spend 100 Lakhs of money in 30 mins. Then where u will spend?
US$234,520.93 (current exchange rate), provided you're referring to the Lakh rupee which is 100,000 rupees in value.
A casino would be the quickest way to spend it all in 30 minutes, though if the money really had to all be gone inside that time you might hit a big win and lose the "bet".
If the money really had to all be gone inside of 30 minutes, I'd expect...
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Seriously - Isn't peanut butter the greatest thing ever?? Like one of those foods that you can just grab a spoonful and eat spoonful after spoonful?
Peanut butter is fantastic. It even tastes the same going out that it did coming in.
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Just split with partner of 3 years cos he was on internet sex sites. he's turned quite nasty cos he was fired because o it. We have a child together but all reasonable talk is out o window. He sees it as my fault cos I found out??? Wot now?
I saw the first half of this question and thought you had overreacted to his play dates with imaginary people.
Then I saw how he had gotten fired for using internet sex sites at *work*. There's nothing wrong with home use of Internet porn, but when he broke a rule which I expect is in every single workplace Internet usage rules, he announced that he's a complete idiot who...
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Is it so bad to have multiple sex partners- talking 8 in one year, and not having developed any real relationship with any of them bc they didn't see the point they just did it for the pleasure of having sex?? Is there something wrong with this person?
If this person had a great time and didn't care that no relationships were developed, then I see nothing wrong with this person.
Sex addicts don't do it for the pleasure, they do it because it is the only way they feel they can achieve human contact. If s/he really did have a lot of fun in the sex, then sex addiction isn't occurring.
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CHRISTIANITY WAS INTRODUCED TO THE AMERICAS BY THE?
The Lamanites and Nephites, about 2,000 years ago.
Ask any Mormon. ;-)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamanite)
Yeah, downrate a philosophical truth! :P
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Why is "Paranormal phenomena" under Science?
Because when long complicated words are used to describe something, typically the people using the long complicated words are scientists studying the phenomena.
Traditional practitioners don't bother with words like "paranormal", and just stick with old unscientific standbys like "psychic" or "ghosts".
The American TV show "Ghost Hunters" is...
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Why is SEX outside of marraige a SIN? If the very FIRST person you ever had sex with was the person you later MARRIED, is that still a sin?
Since for so many centuries sex often produced children whether the sex partners wanted them or not, religions which placed great importance in preserving patrilineal descent punished those who had sex outside of marriage to try to prevent women from having children by different men. In these cultures women were often sold off (also known as "betrothed") to men long before puberty,...
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Do you classify Harry Potter as a childrens book or an adults book?
Everything up to "Goblet of Fire" is still a "children's book".
Everything afterwards shouldn't be any closer to the "children's section" than the "teen section".
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How far can the farthest Wi-Fi emitter emit?
The current WiFi record is 382 kilometers, or 238 miles, but that is with a special setup and WiFi transmission in one direction to a specific receiver (http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9730708-7.html). Note that this is still using conventional WiFi technology and not the new WiMAX technology. You can build homemade parabolic antennas for your own transmitter...
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I had sex with my boyfriend for the first time.we didn't go upto intercourse.but during the sex his penis touched the starting point of my sexual part.he was about to ejaculate at that time.he pulled out himself at the next mement.can it cause pregnancy?
The "pre-cum" or natural lubricant which comes out of him when he is aroused can contain live sperm. If unprotected penetration occurred during your sex session, then he may already have deposited live sperm inside you, even though he didn't actually ejaculate.
This is why unprotected penetrative sex is a terrible birth control method: even if he doesn't ejaculate inside...
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Can mere FAITH save SINNERS.....Can LOVE change CHEATERS?
No (Matthew 25:31-46), and no (common sense), respectively.
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If you were innocent and being accused of a terrible crime that was committed, who would you want for your lawyer?
Zargon, the Man Who Can Control People With His Mind.
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What is the most random, pointless fact you know?
Depending on how you measure planetoid sizes, the Earth has either one moon or five moons.
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How would you compare the U.S.A to the rest of the countries of the world?
Well first I'd crumple up the U.S.A. into a ball, and then crumple all the other countries, one at a time, into another ball until the balls were identical in size, then I'd add up the other countries and there's how you can compare the U.S.A. to the rest of the countries of the world.
I realize you'll have uncrumpled countries left over, but no method of comparison is...
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Difference between Terrorism and Freedom fighting?
If you like them, they are Freedom Fighters.
If you dislike them, they are Terrorists.
Everything else is just padding on this basic concept.
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In the book of Genesis there’s a story tree of knowledge. God forbade Adam and Eve from eating of it but they did anyway; thus they were cast out of Eden. My question is: Could knowledge be considered a sin?
Since the general theme of the Bible is "don't learn anything", the Genesis story is just the set-up for, yes, declaring knowledge to be sinful.
After all, whose family line develops all the knowledge necessary to run a nomadic herding tribe? Cain's family developed all this knowledge, not Adam's additional progeny.
You remember Cain, the guy cursed by God to...
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If only born again people who believe whatever they believe, are the only ones getting into 'heaven', what happens to the billions of people who've never heard of christ, have different religious beliefs, etc. Only christians are to be saved, right?
All other beliefs are unbelief caused by God (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12), so yes, only Christians who have never had any fun whatsoever will get to go to Heaven.
The remainder (the ones God forced to not believe in God) will also be in the presence of the Lamb for the rest of eternity, they just won't enjoy it (Revelations 14:10).
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According to Apostle's Creed, Jesus descended to the dead. What was he doing there? If he was going to talk to the dead, or what? If he did, where there any converts?
Science fiction and fantasy authors have been using this one for material for decades.
Since it was essentially invented without any Biblical backing, no one will ever know.
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What do you believe/think to be the reasons behind religious intolerance? Different religions wanting to obliterate others etc; and religious people being nasty towards non-religious people! Why?
Every religion was founded on one basic principle: to feed, clothe, house, transport, and (officially in the more liberal religions, unofficially in the rest) sexually gratify the shamans, priests, ministers, imams, or prophets of the religion, without requiring the shamans, priests, ministers, imams, or prophets of the religion to do any real work in exchange.
All other principles were...
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Are there any other chat sites?
AB is the only chat site on the Internet. All other "chat sites" are figments of your imagination and should not be trusted.
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If AB had been in existence for all time, who would be the highest ranking member? what would his/her AB name have been?
Assuming that you're asking a veiled Christianity question, I would say that person would be Satan (AB Name: "BeautifulStar")
Think about it:
1) The Internet is full of vice and sin. We're told that God exists only in what is holy, therefore God wouldn't go anywhere near the Internet. Satan, in contrast, would have had his fruit stand online from the get-go.
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If love is suspose to be natural why do we have to work on it so much? Like the saying relationships are work.
Saying you don't have to work on your relationship means you really aren't paying enough attention to your relationship.
Nothing in this life is free from change, and anyone who thinks that their relationship can be free enough from change that it requires no work, is setting themselves up for extreme heartbreak later on.
One metaphor would be a great car: if you don't do...
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Is she still at it?
Yes, I'm hoping that ignoring her some more (the "silent treatment") will get her to stop.
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I'v been off meat for the last 3 weeks, and doing well. Is there any dinner ideas you can give to try out?
You could also try one of the many "fake meat" options now available in modern culture. Turtle Island makes a "Tofurky" roast which is very tasty, as well as a number of other meatless products. Their hickory-smoked Tofurky slices are great on sandwiches. I tend to keep a Tofurky roast and some Tofurky "giblet" gravy in the freezer for special occasions, and one...
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Drugs Sex or Companionship which is more important in a marraige
if my wife chooses Drugs and Companionship with another man am i in trouble?
I'd say that companionship with your wife is the most important part of marriage. I'm not sure how drugs would enter into a marriage, but as people age sex gradually becomes, shall we say, more "interesting" (in the sense of the ancient Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times...").
Companionship with other people is important, as people who have no...
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My wife has "Platonic" relationships with men that i do not like, should i leave her for choosing these relationships?
Personally I wouldn't leave my wife for having a friend I didn't like all that much, and this hypothesis of mine has been tested a few times.
If her friend really does suck, eventually the friendship between your wife and her platonic friend will end completely.
If you can't trust your own wife with her friendships, then you have to ask yourself which one of you is the one...
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Why is Wal-Mart such a "target" for jokes?
Well for starters they're a general-purpose store which tries to do everything. This means that if there's a product you can make a joke about, they will have that product or something like it.
Secondly, they mistreat poor people who work for them, deliberately keeping them poor because as income rises people are less likely to shop in Wal-Mart (as discovered in a few economic...
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I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook computer. On the front, it has three minijacks. One is a headphone/line-out jack, and one is a microphone-in jack. The third minijack just says "SPDR." What the heck is SPDR?
Thats your S/PDIF port. The standard is called Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format and uses its own special connector.
Your laptop has this additional port so that you can send audio data to a digital playback device without converting it into analog. This improves the final quality of the sound, and also allows your laptop to produce surround sound in formats such as Dolby Digital...
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I wanted to watch my movies file from the P.C on my t.v can you help me if it is possibble?
There are four things you can do:
1) Get a TV which accepts VGA/DVI input and plug your computer into your TV.
2) Upgrade your video card to a newer card which has a S-Video output, and plug it into the S-Video port on the back of your existing TV (there are S-Video adapters to let you plug S-Video into a really old TV).
3) Buy a new DVD Player which plays DivX/XviD AVI video files,...
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Why Wont You Let Me Eat The Tv?
Because you'd forget that you had eaten a TV, and would send heavy metals into the septic system the next time you went to the bathroom.
Recycle!
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What would happen if a fan of thrash metal and a fan of Barry Manilow met and fell in love?
I'd see potential for a new energy source from this throwing together of particles and anti-particles.
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If AB offered you a job to answer questions all day long at the rate of $1 per point, would you accept the position?
Where do I sign up for that job?
Or in other words, "Heck yes!"
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Is there a such thing as a gay Christian?
Yes. The Bible prohibits the behaviors, not the state of being homosexual. Celibate homosexuality is the most conservative way of being a homosexual in the Bible.
I suspect it would be a little easier to be a Catholic homosexual if you plan on occasionally having sex with your Romantic Ideal, because the Confessional exists to provide you with fairly direct information that your recent...
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Do you think that themartial arts turn some people into bullies?
Of the acquaintances I've known who have practiced martial arts, specifically the ones which also include a "combat philosophy", I've noticed a tendency in them to avoid combat whenever possible. I attribute this to them knowing that their superior combat skills would unduly harm weaker opponents, and usually there's some form of "honor" involved where...
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If you were a vegetable, would you want to be in a salad?
As a salad vegetable, I wouldn't be able to think, feel, or otherwise sense my own environment.
However, as vegetables and fruits frequently propagate themselves much farther and faster when they are good to eat, for the good of my species I'd enter into a salad with about the same gusto as human beings enter into sexual intercourse.
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If AB had sound effects, what would they sound like?
"Weird Al" Yankovic's collection of sound effects springs to mind, with frequent use of the "waaah waaah waaaaaaaah" muted trombone musical effect.
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In yahoo mail, is there a way to check how much space is available and being used?
Because Yahoo now offers unlimited space, there is no easy way to check how much space is being used.
The hard way would be to go through all your E-mail messages, note down the size of each E-mail, and add up all the numbers manually (a spreadsheet would be recommended).
Since the space is unlimited, and hard drive space is so cheap these days, I wouldn't worry too much about how...
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I have my pc in a bedroom upstairs, i have a white box (which is connected to the wall) in the room which connects to my modem. I need to move pc downstairs and still be able to get on the net but i also need to get xbox live up stairs%
Let me see if I understand you correctly. Your "white box" is your Internet connection and it is upstairs; your PC, which is currently upstairs, needs to move downstairs; but you need to be able to use the Internet on your XBox upstairs?
If you need to have both the XBox and the PC connect to the Internet, then you may want to move the PC downstairs, keep the Internet connection...
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How do I filter background noise out of a .wav file in Audacity?
Basically you select a portion of your WAV file which is all noise and nothing else, drag it out of the sound file, and then select "Effect > Noise Removal" and click "Get Profile".
Once you've performed this step, telling Audacity what the offending noise "sounds like", select the portion of the audio from which you want the noise removed, click on...
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I want to buy a DVD movie,rip it to my hard drive,edit it & make an edited copy for myself.How cld I do that start to finish?
The difficulty here is that answering this question would violate #6 of the AnswerBag "Terms of Use", since you are asking a question which can only be answered by posting "Prohibited Content" (http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/15):
"6. PROHIBITED CONTENT. You must not post to the Service any Content that, as reasonably determined by Answerbag, is or appears to be the...
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What are some good, free movie editing software programs for Windows? We don't prefer Windows Movie Maker.
Probably your best bet would be Avidemux (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/), which is easy to use and FREE, and has a version for Windows (as well as for Linux, Mac OS X, and a few other OSes).
Avidemux provides decent video editing and conversion capabilities, and supports many common codecs such as XviD and MP3. You can even alter video files with complex video filters such as...
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THEIST: How does the statement "nothing can cause itself" prove that the First Cause is God?
It doesn't, usually, because the person making the leap from "nothing can cause itself" to "God is the first cause" is stipulating that "God caused himself."
If you provide the counterexample *inside your own proof* then you haven't proven squat.
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When I defrag my harddrive on my XP system, I can see graphically where the fragmented clusters are, but I cannot make these clusters appear on my Vista system. Is there some way that I can visualize defrag on my Vista system?
Microsoft Windows Vista has no graphical option (probably so that there are more processor cycles to allow their resource-hog DRM "features" to run better).
To get a graphical defrag in Vista, you will (once again) have to go outside Microsoft to a third party for true innovation (after all, third parties are where Microsoft gets its own "innovations").
Fortunately,...
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I bought a used computer with windows xp. Found out the xp system was downloaded from another person. Is there a way to get updates?
If you mean that the Windows XP system on your computer was copied from someone else's copy, and that person is still using their copy of Windows XP, then "Windows Genuine Advantage(tm)" will make darn certain you do not get access to most updates.
Your only legal recourse is to purchase a (fairly) new copy of Windows XP. Windows XP Professional is supported by Microsoft...
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When was the last time a presidential candidate was not decided until the convention?
Well, Hillary Clinton is quite correct in pointing out that we didn't know that former-President Bill Clinton was the Democratic candidate in 1992 until the very late month of June.
Since it's only late March right now, I think its a bit early to worry about how slow its taking.
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Some say the Bible has predicted numerous events correctly. Of the ones you know which is the LEAST significant event, correctly prophesied? Quote the verse and explain how you link it to the event.
Prophecies are great, you can link them to anything.
About the least significant prophecy I've found in the Bible which is technically fulfilled is Genesis 6:3 "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
This is a very minor prophecy, but, so far, the oldest recognized people to have lived are a 122 year old...
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Do you get bored from watching porn only after a couple of minutes?
I think any man above the age of 13 who has watched more than one porn movie probably gets bored after a couple of minutes with most porn. Once the novelty wears off you start to develop specific needs for what you want out of anything, and if that something, be it porn, science fiction, food, cars, women, etc., doesn't fit your needs, then you get bored.
However, everyone always...
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I went to a party the other night. We played spin the bottle, and I kissed 3 girls. I was heavily intoxicated, but I realise this is no excuse. My girlfriend of 2 years is on holiday, so I will tell her when she gets back. Spin the bottle = cheating?
Well lets see. You deliberately chose to get involved in an activity which required you to engage in sexualized physical contact with the opposite sex.
Cheating has two parts: the behavior, and the intent. You were a bit weaker on the sexual behavior, because kissing can be a greeting in some cultures, but you chose to kiss other women you had already greeted and you already have a...
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What do porn stars do ... after they are to old/fugly to continue work?
While they're young, its better to be a woman, because they get paid more and can do lots of scenes (as opposed to a man who only has one, possibly a couple "money shots").
When they get older, its better to be a man. Male porn stars are dedicated, underpaid, and *rare*. There is also the fact of the "ugly guy, cute woman" paradigm in porn: the man can be ugly...
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What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
Probably not, because once you've been scared half to death, the next time you can only be scared half of your current level of life, which is 50% of your maximum. Since you will never lose more than 50% of your current life, you can never be scared completely to death in this manner.
Its a new version of the old Greek philosophy challenge of "if you move half the distance from...
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What are some acceptable alternatives to toilet paper?
Kleenex is close enough to toilet paper that it probably won't cause problems for your septic system.
While the "Farmer's Almanac" has a hole punched in it so that it can be hung by a nail in the privy, its pages are too thick for the modern septic system and pipes.
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Do you think it unethical to down-rate someone's answer if it takes the form of an opinion, but you didn't feel that it was 'helpful'? I mean, by that, it didn't add to your understanding of the issue?
If the answer doesn't actually answer the question, then it is unhelpful and deserves a downrating.
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If you went to the library and checked out two books..But when you called to renew them you found out that according to the library you didn't have any checked out..Would you bring the books back? Why or why not?
I'd return them because stealing is stealing even if you won't get caught and punished for it.
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How can you tell if someone is addicted to pornography?
Get naked in front of him (usually its a him) and demand sex now (provided you actually do want sex from him and both of you see the other's gender as "the sexual preference"). Lingerie is an acceptable substitute to complete nekkidity.
If he makes up an excuse to get out of hot sex with a live person, addiction to porn might be occurring.
If your nekkidity is an issue...
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How many of you have found that much of what you know about various religions is made up and cannot be quoted in scripture?
Quite a bit of modern religion is made up.
I suspect this to be because religions tend to get started centuries ago by people who think absolutes are real, and then when all the absolutes change a century later the religion is forced to make up stuff in order to keep the religion relevant.
Eventually it gets silly, like the author of "The Secret" saying Jesus was a millionaire...
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Who hates kissing someone who smokes?
Oh I really hate kissing a smoker. Its like kissing an ashtray after an entire bar has tossed smouldering butts into it.
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Why do you think some people are always looking for trouble, while most of us are just looking for a clean pair of socks to put on?
Well with the condition of my room looking for a pair of clean socks *is* looking for trouble.
I'll grant you that you'd have to be stupid if you kept looking for trouble even after you finished looking for a pair of clean socks.
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Do you vocalise your testicles?
First, you should probably not post questions while getting high on LSD.
Second, I think their vocal work sucks, but I admire their movement skills. Sometimes I'm sitting at the computer and they're just bouncing up and down in my pants. Sometimes I wonder if they think they might be able to get a job while I'm sleeping, maybe as "stunt testicles" for some high...
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I just learned that cauliflower has bugs in it when you buy it. how do you get the bugs out before you eat them raw?
Chop it up into smaller pieces and then wash the chopped pieces.
Don't eat it like an apple. Trust me on this one.
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Me and my wife have credit card dept of around a $100,000 I would like to know how to get rid of it. Do the companies that say they can eliminate it really work or are they a scam?
It is possible for these companies to help you get good credit back and cut down on the payments.
There are three bits of bad news. The first is that you can do a lot of what they will do for you all on your own. The reason they make so much money doing it for you is that most people with huge credit card debt are just disorganized enough not to be able to maintain their own credit...
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What can I do for my Aunt that is dying from a fast cancer? She lives far away and I can't go see her right now, I send her a card every week but I feel so helpless!
What kind of video playback technology does she have? If she's stuck in a hospital room, any chance you could send her a portable DVD player?
I'm actually not talking crass materialism here: you'd record *yourself* doing outdoorsy stuff (gardens, zoos, feeding birds, anything your aunt probably can't get out to do right now) and send her the videos to watch. Or just...
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The Bible says God is omnipotent, he knows EVERYTHING past, present, and future. If God knows that I am going to go to hell before I am even born, do I actually have a choice? If God KNOWS, how do I have a choice?
Well there's the problem with "free will" in a nutshell.
Free will has long been a problem for religions with an omnipotent single Deity. To make matters worse, it is hard to make prayer seem viable for a being which you can't order around: praying for something just means the prayer will get "answered" if the Deity happens to be, for example, headed to the...
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What is the difference between graphic cards GeForce8600 and Geforce8400?how much is geforce8600 with 1gb of memory is worth?how much is geforce8400 with 256 memory is worth?and what defference does it make witht the memory of a graphic card? like what is
The 8600 has a 50% faster Graphics CPU than the 8400. This means that games will display on your screen faster, improving your reaction time.
What you want to do is purchase a card with first the fastest graphics CPU you can afford, and then as much video RAM as you can get. A 1GB VRAM card will perform dramatically better than a 256MB VRAM card.
The only possible thing you may run into...
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Who created God, I mean where did he come from?
A shaman realized that if he invented an imaginary being who would be very upset with everyone unless people paid the shaman a lot of money to keep the imaginary being happy, he would be able to live the rest of his life like a rich playboy and never have to work again.
And thus God was created. Everything since then has been a variation on this theme: stick money in the collection plates...
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You get on with people of which star sign the most?
You mean Sun sign, right? Your primary sign is your Sun Sign.
Well, I don't get along with my Taurus mom or my Taurus sister, which is apparently Just What Astrology Says. And I get along especially well with my Libra dad, who gets along well with everyone, which is apparently Just What Astrology Says.
So I'm having a little trouble discounting astrology, at least natal...
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Why are astrology columns always saying something different about what's going to happen to you today or tomorrow...I mean, it's obvious that none of it is true!
Is it obvious that it isn't true? Or are you merely assuming that it isn't true because of your opinion of the system of astrology?
Natal astrology seems accurate to some extent, at least in my experience. Scorpios are backstabbing narcissists, Aquarians are flaky intelligent hippies, and the Virgos don't believe in astrology: in any new age store, they will *never* sell out...
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To you are morals a concrete and stringent set of rules, or situation-based, abstract and moldable set of outlines?
Morals are situation-based, abstract and moldable outlines. Even those who claim "concrete" or even "absolute" are frequently called upon to break their absolutes in the name of something which is much more morally justifiable, and failure to break those "concrete" rules can sometimes be the more immoral act than breaking them ever would be.
Sometimes the...
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I live in a dorm. We have T1 internet, split on a router between two computers, all though we share the T1 with a few rooms. My computer is very slow, but the other computer isn't as bad. What could be the cause, other than the CAT5?
Tell me about the two computers. A network speed difference can be caused by a lot of different factors, sometimes unrelated to the networking hardware. If for example he has more RAM than your system, or you have flaky RAM sticks, there could be an issue inside your PC which is causing dropped packets.
If both systems are essentially the same, then we need to check networking hardware....
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Answer in just one word:What signifies/clearly distinguishes/forms a clear boundary between good and evil?
Nothing.
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Is there anything to really be afraid of?
The American Corporate Farms, and by extension Most Of The Food Americans Eat.
1) Grain is sprayed with poisons, genetically altered, and generally overfarmed for highest yields. Current genetically modified corn produces internal poisons which kill off monarch butterflies.
2) Fruit is genetically altered and sprayed with poisons. What you get on the store shelves could be weeks old,...
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You can either pay for your child's/children's college education or satisfy your retirement needs. Which do you choose?
Well in the old days sending your kids to college meant that you were taking care of your retirement, since they'd take care of you.
Now the little snots can't be bothered to alter their yuppie lifestyles, so cast them out in the cold when they're 18, thats what I say.
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What are atheists feelings towards Anthony Flew, the once prominent atheist who later became a theist and blames his error on being misled by Richard Dawkins?
Creationism takes less effort because no real proof is needed and thinking is not encouraged. As such I'm not particularly surprised that an older gentleman with failing health would adopt such a system.
As if to demonstrate his need to reduce his mental exertions, Anthony Flew claimed he was swayed by an argument by Gerald Schroeder in Schroeder's 1998 book, "The Science of...
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Do you know any vulgar poetry?
A little known fact about Issac Asimov is that he wrote several books of dirty limericks. Here's the first one from my volume of his titled "Lecherous Limericks":
There was a sweet girl of Decatur
Who went to sea on a freighter.
She was screwed by the master
-An utter disaster-
But the crew all made up for it later.
Everyone's got to have a hobby. ;-)
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Has your dog/cat watched you make love? How did you feel?
Usually they cats just leave ("oh great, the people are going to make it impossible to nap on the bed"), but while they are kittens they are very curious about everything.
Once I was making love with my then-girlfriend (now wife), shifted backwards to slow down a little bit and happened to glance down. I saw the head of our youngest kitten looking up from between our pelvises, as...
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Is it normal for some people to need less sleep than others? i.e. Not sleep for 2 days at a time on a regular basis?
I don't know about all sleep conditions but not sleeping for days at a time is a possible symptom of "bi-polar disorder", previously called "manic-depressive disorder". Those periods of being awake for two or more days are the "manic" phases of the condition.
Since the human body needs sleep to be healthy, not sleeping at all for two days or more is not a...
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When your bf/gf passes gas in front of you what does that mean?
It means that s/he is the one. They are comfortable enough with you that they feel they can pass wind around you. This is also indicative of a personality which will not try to control your life, since they are currently not controlling their gas.
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To 'dutch oven' or not to 'dutch oven' this is the question ...what is your answer?
It depends on how you feel about her, whether you pay for the oven rental yourself or split the cost ("go dutch").
Personally if I was trying to impress then I wouldn't go dutch oven. I realize thats not very feminist but you just can't go against your own nice nature.
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Wasn't the innkeeper truly practical? Who would give his best room to a woman about to give birth? The stable made great sense. Plus the yells of childbirth would have disturbed folk who were trying to sleep!
The Irish were outraged when the Christian missionary told them this story. In Ireland, the innkeeper would have asked for volunteers to vacate their room, and unless everyone else was eldery or pregnant themselves, *there would have been volunteers* to go sleep in the stable in place of Mary. If there could be no volunteers (all the rooms were already full of eldery and pregnant women), the...
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Why can't you eat meat on Good Friday, but you can eat fish? Isn't eating fish eating meat?
Stipulating that this is a Catholic custom only (except for the last bit at the end):
In Ye Olden Days, meat from land animals was a luxury food. Very expensive, mostly eaten by rich people. Fish was what poor people ate, since anyone could catch fish (with a piece of string and a bent pin with a bug on it).
The Bible tells us that Christianity was started by a guy who believed that...
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Was Mary the victim of rape by a deity?
The Bible story says she was impregnated *before* she gave consent. This would make it rape, or at the very least "sexual assault".
Also, the traditional opinion of "female virginity" is "hasn't been penetrated by a penis", and we can all agree that Mary was never penetrated by a penis...merely by an infinitely-sized prick.
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Do you think the Office of Homeland Security should declare all spam illegal in the interest of national security?
Spam helps distract the U.S. away from realizing that the Office of Homeland Security is little more than a way for Bush to give his friends billions of taxpayer dollars without requiring them to do any work in return.
They'll never ban a distraction, and the more annoying it gets the more distracting it gets.
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If you were to decorate a torture chamber what kind of wall paper what ind of wall paper would you use?
It would really depend on the visibility of the room, and whether I was more artistic or anally retentive in my torturing.
After all, the darker reds and even black hide stains better, so if the room was going to be used for anything else, such as for dinner parties or child day care, I would want to use the darker shades to hide the blood and fecal stains. This would also be true if I was...
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My wife is growing a strange plant in the window box which she says is an African violet, but to me it looks more like marijuana. What should I do?
Here is what you should do: try one of the plant's buds.
After a little while, if you're still worried, then it is an African violet.
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I need a honest unbiased answer……was Charles Darwin a racist? If so, are evolution supporters trying to cover it up?
Evolution is of course an explanation *unrelated* to racism, and claims that Charles Darwin was a racist are immaterial to the validity of evolution, both the theory and the fact.
Englishmen of the 19th Century certainly generally considered non-Europeans to be inferior to Europeans. However, everyone is a little bit racist, and only a complete fool would claim that everyone with a little...
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Are there any rules considered basic to Islam (or really naughty Islamic sins for that matter), which are defined by Hadiths but not covered by the Quran? I'm thinking in terms of "Muslims" who say they believe ONLY in the Quran and not in the Hadiths.
I've seen a few examples here and there.
For example, the Quran requires extensive and creative interpretation to arrive at a death penalty for "apostasy" (leaving your religion) since the Quran does not directly state that the death penalty is the punishment for apostasy. The Hadiths are quite clear on a death penalty for apostasy, and as practiced today, Sharia law usually...
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If angels are found in clouds why don't aiplanes hit them as they fly through the clouds?
1) Imaginary beings are terribly hard to hit with anything.
2) If we allow for their unlikely existence, in the exact way that most religions say they exist (becoming physical only to perform an "act of God", such as keep you from running into traffic, kill off extra cancer cells, or impregnate you with God's Son for which God will never pay a cent of child support), then the...
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What is substantial proof of cognitive ability and intellectual reasoning?
The use of evidence to back up claims, as opposed to simply denying the other person's response with a crude abbreviation created by teenagers in chat rooms and on wireless phones, such as "LOL".
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Why does fur conduct electricity so well? I feel like I'm always zapping my dog
You aren't zapping the pet's fur, you're zapping the pet's skin through the not-very-resistant fur layer. Once you build up a sizable charge of static electricity, the pet's fur becomes quite inadequate to block the spark.
Here's a handy hint for avoiding zapping your pets when you pet them in very dry air: form a complete "circuit" between you and...
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That time of year again. SI Swimsuit issue time. What would you do if your girlfriend shredded it in front of your face?? Then put you down and called it porn?? Guys and Girls, answer please...
Find her stash of Harlequin Romances (or whatever is her trashy romance novel preference) and suggest that you should do the same thing to these clearly pornographic novels, but that you won't because you are a better person.
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Why don't atheists commit suicide? If life is accidental without meaning because it is purely by chance, why continue to lived with hope, dreams and desires if you are merely an accident without any purpose to existence? THIS IS NOT MEANT TO BE MALICIOUS.
Life has many pleasurable things in it. I exist to enjoy these things. Helping others to enjoy themselves prolongs my ability to enjoy life myself.
The question implies that it is impossible for anyone to develop their own purpose in life, that we are all mindless creations of some vague mythical Deity. I would say that we all have brains and imaginations, and as such existence need not...
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Plenty of people are in debt due to circumstances that aren't "shady" and are trying to get a job in order to pay their debts and repair their credit scores. Doesn't requiring good credit to get a job just perpetuate the problem?
Having bad credit is a situation most people desperately want to get out of, as you have stated yourself. Businesses may well be thinking that this desperation could lead an employee with access to company money to try and use said money to bail himself or herself out of debt. Trade secrets and government secrets are worth money as well, and they don't want people who might be tempted to...
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Is there any work at home jobs that are free to join? I don't need a get rich quick scam just a few extra dollars on the side.
I think you'll find that this kind of question attracts not "work from home" jobs, but "home-based businesses." The difference is that "work from home" means you work almost entirely inside your home, whereas "home-based business" (like the MPM seems to be) frequently means "sales" which means "frequently leaving your home to sell...
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My law teacher told me that you could write a cheque on a regular piece of paper as long as it's got all the necessary info and the account holder's signature. Is that true?
You can write a check on anything. As long as all the right information is printed on the item in question, the "check" is considered legally valid.
HOWEVER, thanks to the freedoms we have in this country anyone can refuse payment by check. This does mean you have to refuse to accept the non-standard check. If the man who owes you money throws a giant door at you, with his check...
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What are slang names that we, as LGBT people, come up for, when referring to heterosexual people?
I've never been called this name, but I have heard it used in an online discussion where the LGBT person was referring to a bigoted heterosexual he had met earlier that day: "pinchfarter".
Apparently another term is "egg packer", a term created in response to the very derogatory term for male homosexuals as "fudge packers." I don't recall where I...
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My boyfriend is a pathological liar, has attempted to cheat on me, has been caught looking at porn, going to strip clubs, has abused me in every way possible. Is it possible for someone like this to change?
I'm more concerned about the abuse, the lying, and the strip clubs, than the porn. If it was just the porn (which is not cheating in any sense of the word) you might be all right, but lying and abuse are marks of evil, and the third is him getting physically involved with real women.
If he feels comfortable with lying, abusing you, and having two-way relationships with real physical...
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I am a conservative Republican (voted for Bush). But I am so tired of the same old establishment and all its baggage, I may very well vote for Obama. Anyone else feeling that way?
Well, Obama does think that Ronald Reagan was an agent for positive change in America, so voting for him wouldn't be that much of a divergence from your previous political views.
Personally I'm seeing what I am starting to think of as the "Kerry Effect" in Obama's success: people are voting for him not because he excites them, like Howard Dean did back in 2004, but...
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If you could be come back and be born again, would you want to be the same sex you are now or the opposite sex? Why?
Right now I'd want to come back as a man because thats all I know.
However, if an afterlife existed such that, after shuffling off the ole mortal coil, I could look at both genders from an asexual perspective, I would allow for the possibility that I might choose to come back as a woman.
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Can I hook my dvd recorder to my computer?
Yes, but you'll most likely need some extra technology. Most Video Cards don't come with S-Video TV-Out connections so you may have to upgrade to a new video card. I suggest that you not get an ATi video card as they tend to use a proprietary S-Video TV-Out connection. nVidia Video cards use standard S-Video connectors.
If you don't want to get a new video card, you might...
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Does you cat love you or merely tolerate you?
I think she loves me. "Akane" will come when called, for starters, albeit only most of the time because appearances have to be maintained. She knows the instant I am awake and always comes to greet me in the morning. When I come home she runs to the door and greets me, and will not leave me alone until I have bent down to pet her head, and she will stand up and balance her paws on...
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If god exists, why doesnt prayer work?
Prayer doesn't work by definition, because you aren't getting a request filled, you're getting what your God planned to do anyway. You have no choice in the matter so prayer is nothing more than a way to pass the time waiting for whatever your God was going to do anyway, like idly flipping a coin and guessing which way it will end up.
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Kinda stupid question, but say you are having problems with a guy that works for the mafia. what would the worst thing possible that could happen if you beat the sh!t outta him?
Probably the worst you can imagine. His "family" regards criminal and civil laws as guidelines rather than rules, and you aren't just hitting him, you are hitting his "family."
Far better to go to folks in his "family" who are above him, and work within his system to achieve your aims. With any luck, and a reasonable quid-pro-quo request, you might get...
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Why is a jpeg file better than a psd for displaying an image on the web?
Photoshop designed the PSD image file format for graphic artists. Since Graphic Artists want their work to be very good quality, PSD was designed to support quality over small file size.
JPEG was designed to be compressable and to retain some quality even when compressed. This has made it ideal for the Internet as you can get a near-photo-quality picture online without the huge resource...
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Can anyone tell me what Budweiser stands for with it's letters backwards?
It doesn't matter which way you spell out the letters, "Budweiser" and "Resiewdub" still both stand for "decent beer."
I will grant that some people may be confused if you tell them to go have themselves a "Res" when they're expecting you to say a "Bud."
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The marathon man timed himself and found out that if he wore a bright white outfit he ran 20 miles in 80 minutes, but when he wore a dark outfit, he ran 20 miles in one hour and twenty minutes. What does this mean for his next race?
He's going to cut the price tags off his next new outfit so they won't weigh him down and increase his wind resistance, like the price tags on the new dark outfit he bought right before the second race limited his speed and endurance.
Those anti-theft devices weigh a ton!
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Were you on Answerbag yesterday?
No. AB should be only taken in moderation and never to excess.
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Do you think people who negatively rate questions or answers should explain their reasoning with the following scale: 1. I'm N/R for my own personal enjoyment. 2. I'm N/R because of an opposing view. 3. I'm N/R because the answer can be proven wrong?
I don't think its necessary, for three basic reasons:
First, you know it when you have been naughty and deserve downrating.
Second, you know it when you have a minority opinion and will be knee-jerk downrated.
Third, you know as well as I do that AB has more trolls on it than any other discussion forum.
So the why of N/R is either obvious or inevitable.
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Why is that Mormons practice their religion even though they deny their own history, when they deny on their mistakes?
Christianity as a whole has its difficulties as well. Christian mythology frequently disagrees with actual recorded history, be it the records of non-Christian writers throughout the past several thousand years, or the geological and anthropological records right there in the Earth's Crust. The history of Christianity itself is fraught with difficulties, inconsistencies, atrocities, and...
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Who thinks we should start a white college fund?(there is a black college fund so y not)
The whole point of the "black college fund" was that (at the time it was created, at any rate) the national income disparity between black people and white people meant black kids were less likely to be able to afford college than white people.
Starting a "white college fund" is the right of any American, but if income differences based on race are still fairly similar,...
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Why is John Kerry endorsing Barack Obama instead of his old pal John Edwards?
Because John Kerry benefited from the same type of endorsement, putting a perceived winner, Kerry, above a better candidate, Howard Dean?
Remember, Barack Obama thinks Ronald Reagan's Presidency is a good act to follow. That comment is high on the list of "non-Democrat comments."
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American people, How many of you think Hillary Clinton has costs herself Millions of Votes for her Negative Comment about the Late Dr Martin L. King Jr.
That comment was nothing compared to Barack Obama claiming that he thinks that Ronald Reagan was an agent for positive change in this country. Change, mind you, consisting of dismantling most of the things which Democrats hold dear.
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Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride; he sticks his head out the window?
When you do it yourself, you are a creature causing the dog pain (blowing air in his eyes).
While several old paintings depict "the wind" as "a guy blowing air out of his mouth" ("Venus on the Half Shell" springs to mind), the wind is just a bunch of air blowing at the dog's face. There is no creature causing the dog pain, and the dog knows that he'll...
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Women.. Reasons to have a circumcision in Indonesia this morning in The NYT. “1, it will stabilize her libido,” . “2, it will make a woman look more beautiful in the eyes of her husband. And 3, it will balance her psychology.” What say you?
Regarding #2: Traditional cultures which engage in FGM don't go in for foreplay anyway, so when is he **ever** going to be eye-level with her mutilated genitals?
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Just about all the good PC games I know of are either RTS or First-Person Shooters. Can anyone recommend some good PC games that don't fit into those 2 categories?
Bethesda Softworks "Elder Scrolls" games, especially Morrowind and Oblivion, are really good role playing games. They act a bit like FPS games but the main RPG focus means you can spend quite a lot of time advancing in the game without having to be a juggernaut space marine or similar over-muscled hero. If you play them on the PC then you gain access to all kinds of Mods which help...
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Why does a woman get pregnant, have a baby and then be a terrible parent or worse, hurt the child?
Post-partum depression is a very real condition which affects a lot more women than people seem to think, and which can lead to poor parenting and even harm to their own children.
When a pregnancy ends after nine months or more, hormone levels in the woman's body suddenly drop. A very common result is the "postpartum blues", a brief period of depression which usually ends...
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Cats; Do you think they're just ordinary? Or is there something smart there about them? Something other worldly. Some people think they're even connected to the afterlife. What do YOU think? Pets or Prophets?
Oh yes, they have human beings entirely worked out. They've arranged things such that they don't have to do anything they don't feel like doing in exchange for food and shelter. Dogs aren't that smart in that sense, since dogs always seem to think that they have to do something in return.
Cats also seem to reincarnate. I've been through two pairs of littermates...
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Do you still live witin 100 miles of where you grew up?
Yes, about 50 miles away today. In all my life I've only twice been more than 400 miles away from where I grew up, and both of those times were for less than two weeks.
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What, In Your Opinion, Is Better: Pipes, Bongs, or Joints?
Bongs. You can put hot water into them to add water vapor and make the smoke more soothing. Hot water adds more of the soothing water vapor than cold water does. My bong with its own built-in heating element (a coffee mug warmer) was the most popular one in my group of friends.
You can also incorporate bongs into your art projects. A friend of mine in college built a "stealth...
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Do you follow your daily horoscope, Do you rely on astrology much in your daily life, how accurate are the horoscope?
I don't pay attention to daily horoscopes or rely on daily horoscopes much in my daily life, or think that daily horoscopes are very accurate.
HOWEVER, I've run into so many examples of natal horoscopes (that is, the horoscope cast using a person's birthday date) being very good descriptors of the now adult person I know in real life, that I frankly put some credence into...
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Hey I was wondering, if you really wanted to kill yourself, how do u think would be the best way to die, without having too much pain ??? just wondering...
There isn't one.
Gunshots can leave you quadruplegic in a hospital bed, unable to kill yourself or do anything fun ever again. Prescription drugs and household poisons can leave you mentally and physically disabled, with less to live for but no way to end your own life.
Falling off a building is going to be the least physically painful as the damage from hitting the ground will...
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Which horror movie theme do you prefer watching: ghosts or zombies?
They're both "fantasy" horror concepts so either one is okay. I prefer American ghost movies to Japanese ghost movies as the latter genre's creators like to slaughter all their characters by the end, whereas the former genre's characters may not even be alive at the beginning of the movie.
Generally I prefer "Resident Evil" zombies to the more traditional...
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Horror Movies - what makes it good for you?
A fantasy situation (mysticism is ideal), suspense, adherence to the "rules", and carefully doled out portions of gore (though I'll usually waive the last one for a H.P. Lovecraft-inspired movie, as Jeffrey Combs rocks).
If you don't adhere to the rules, at least establish why the rules could change (the "Scream" movies played around with this), point out that...
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If Canada was really determined, for whatever reason, to produce its own nuclear missiles, could it?
Canada mines its own uranium and already has the technology to refine it into weapon-grade warheads, as evidenced by the fact that Canadian Uranium, refined in Canada no less, was in the U.S. bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Canada was a leading supplier of weapon-grade refined uranium from 1942 to 1965, continues to export refined uranium for non-weapon uses (though buyers...
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What is the difference between Mormons and Amish people?
The Mormon "Doctrine & Covenants" allow polygamy if the "law of the land" permits polygamy (D&C Section 132, and "Official Declaration 1"), whereas the Amish have a strict marriage policy of "one man, one woman." Under current U.S. law this means that Mormons also have a strict marriage policy of "one man, one woman," but the...
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What are all of these 'Idol' questions on here, scattered all over the site? Is it something important I am missing out on?
It is all about the writers' guild strike. Without anything other than "reality TV" like "American Idol", there's nothing else to talk about.
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You are the captain of a small whale-watching ship in the North Atlantic Ocean. Your ship has just been struck by a huge wave, and has capsized, throwing you, your three-member crew, and your fifteen passengers into the icy water. The
I'd answer "how horrible."
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Why do I want a bowl of cereal now?
Carbohydrates are something we all crave, and which make up a large portion of a healthy diet as the primary energy source. Cereal is composed mostly of carbohydrates, so if your body (not necessarily your mind) feels run down and low on energy, you may experience carbohydrate cravings.
And thanks so very much, now I crave a bowl of cereal as well...
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Do you think that God is really Mother Nature (by that I mean the stuff that compose the stars, planets, astroids, comets, etc--basically non-living naturally-created products), and that the devil is really Father Time (since time kills life)?
Time doesn't "kill Life", Time allows Life to exist in the first place. Existence cannot happen without Time in which for it to exist. Without Time, Life cannot exist, which strictly speaking means either that God is Time as well as Nature and thus your scheme is invalid, or that God is entirely dependent on the Devil for God's own existence. The latter, while allowing...
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What would happen if there was no evil in the world?
Humans wouldn't exist in the world.
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What the most amount of hours you have spent awake? why?
I was once up for three days at a 24/7 university computer lab doing nothing useful whatsoever (playing computer games and posting messages on the early 1990s equivalent of "AnswerBag", UseNet News). Untreated bipolar disorder was the most likely reason.
Incidentally, having done both, staying up three days is remarkably equivalent to a hit of LSD.
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Is it going to be creepy in any way to eat food that comes from cloned animals?
I don't know why people should be any more creeped out to eat food from chemically cloned animals than the food they currently eat from chemically altered factory-farm animals. They currently help promote the next bird flu epidemic by chomping down on antibiotic and hormone laced meat, there's no reason why the lesser concern of eating a cloned animal would cause even as little as...
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Do you ever think, that the people who are branded with the term "mental illness" are the normal ones and the rest of us ar the so called "crazy ones"?
No.
While "normal" is a subjective term, I see "normal" as "wanting to live as long and productive a life as possible." The desire to do so is the important point, whether you are capable of doing so or not, and should not be confused with "wanting to live long past the point where your life is no longer useful to you."
People who are branded...
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Do you think mothers should stay home to raise their children (as opposed to working outside the home) while their children are not in school?
I'm a little divided on this one. On the one hand, an actual biological parent (dad or mom) home with the kids, instead of a babysitter, is ideal. On the other hand, if the kid goes without important stuff like extracurricular activities because only one parent works, that can cause development issues just as much as being raised largely by day care centers and babysitters.
I find...
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Is it true that the chances of getting preganant just before a women gets her priod is very slim?
Slim but not nonexistent. Many women's fertility cycles fluctuate, sometimes wildly, which is why just counting days isn't good enough to plan out fertile and non-fertile days. Sperm can survive for 5-7 days inside of you.
If you have unprotected sex during your period, or even right before, and you ovulate several days early, you'll put his live sperm together with one of...
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I have a new Dr. that requires a blood test for the first appointment=( Would you be scared?
Only if he insisted on removing the blood with his teeth.
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What is calculus?
A small stone used for calculating.
EDIT: I answered "what is THE calculus", which is a completely different question from this question to which the moderators have moved my answer.
I reiterate my annoyance that the moderators move answers without reading the content of the answers, and thus move perfectly valid answers onto unrelated questions where the previously perfectly...
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How do you keep cats from jumping up on your parked car?
Cats hate the smell of citrus. If you can get a citrus-scented car wax, you may be able to keep them off for weeks at a time.
EDIT: Citrus is fantastic for keeping cats away from something. For several years we piled oranges around the base of the XMas tree. The only problem is that our cats all get disgusted when we eat an orange over the holidays and thus are no longer available to pet...
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Beer is fermented, cheese is "off milk", right? So can cheese or beer "Go off"? What about Coke?
Beer, cheese, and Coke will all become unappetizing well before they become dangerous to eat.
Some beers can be aged without destroying a good flavor, and possibly improving it as well. These beers are bottled while the fermentation process is still going on, though much slower than the fermentation that goes in the brewery. Some beers which can be aged include strong ales, some of the...
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That not what I mean. I have the disk for window xp pro,. What I need is the disk that runs the computer it self. I lost my com port and my WiFi. Is there anything that I can do to fix this or do I have to get a computer wiz to fix it.
Windows XP has "Restore Points" which might do the trick.
(1) Turn off the computer completely.
(2) Turn on the computer. Start repeatedly pressing the F8 key.
(3) Eventually you will get a plain text menu, which you move around in using the arrow keys.
(4) Select "Last Known Good Configuration" and press Enter.
This might fix the problem without a computer...
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How do you feel about this new National identification program for any US citizen over 16 years old? In order to fly or enter a Federal office building you will have to have an id.
The Oklahoma City Federal Building was blown up by a religious nutjob *outside* the building, so it won't help much there, but at least you won't be flying with anyone who seriously believes in the End Times being Right Now, the Rapture coming soon, and specifically in the Mark of the Beast nonsense.
Why Republicans want to punish their party's core voters, evangelical...
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Does the speaker of the house have to be natural born in the USA?
The Speaker of the House does not have to be born in the U.S.A., even though the Speaker of the House is third in line on the Presidential Succession list (created under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947). Members of Congress can be naturalized citizens, and in fact do not have to meet any of the other Constitutional requirements for the office of President of the U.S.A.
However, the...
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Does anyone know this movie? It's about these 'bad' kids who do (among other things) the following: put rat poison in a wedding cake, move a vehicle off a jack so it crushes someone, shoot two lovers in a van with a bow and arrow! It was pretty far out.
Sounds a bit like "Bloody Birthday." Here's the IMDB link: http://us.vdc.imdb.com/title/tt0082084/
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Can you skin IE7?
I wish I could, but unfortunately its a computer program and would not feel the pain I intended to inflict on it by skinning it.
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If you gently push a tooth(w/ a finger) in a certain direction for hours a day, will it gradually move in time?
Possibly, but you must remember that the human body is constantly healing itself. Every hour you spend not pushing on your tooth is an hour your body spends trying to move the tooth back into its old position.
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How long does it take to get a copyright or trademark once one begins the process to get one?
Strictly speaking, once you announce that you have copyrighted something, you have the copyright on it. The same applies to trade marks and service marks: put TM (for trade mark) on your product name, or SM (for service mark) on your service name on your business cards and letterhead, and you own that trade or service mark. This is how the law was originally written, and how it remains today,...
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Who do you allow to share a glass or straw with you? If anyone at all.
My wife and I share things like that. You really have to know a person before you share glasses and straws.
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What's your favorite part of pizza? Mine would be the sauce, then the bread.
If I'm eating pizza made by someone else, the toppings.
If I made the pizza myself, with my homemade hand-tossed herbed whole wheat yeast pizza crust recipe, then I personally prefer the bread first, followed by the cheese and then the toppings.
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Are terrorists misinterpretting the ideas of khuran? Explain.
Yes. The Qu'ran preaches love and tolerance, though it does include verses allowing you to fight in self-defense against people who are actually attacking you and your community. The Qu'ran expressly forbids the slaughter of non-combatants and innocent bystanders in any defensive war, and requires that you cease fighting once the enemy stops attacking you.
For more information on...
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Do you believe in positive thinking? I just thought recently and there are many books about positive thinking - does it really help? Or if you are afraid of something it will certainly happen? I'm confused but I think it makes sense. What you think?
Positive thinking does work. The big problem is that you really have to work on it to make it work properly. Most people get "stuck in depressive ruts" and really have to focus on substituting positive thinking for negative thinking.
Another common misconception about positive thinking is that all you have to do is think the thoughts and your life will change. Positive thinking...
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What do you call the glass encased 'instrument' that demonstrates the absorption of heat from the sun..in little squares that are suspended on a central pole and black on one side and white on the other..and therefore spin when the sun hits it?
It is called a "radiometer." The principle demonstrated is the conversion of heat energy into motion, or kinetic, energy.
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Which Roman god do u like the most? Athena, Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Pluto, or the jove himself?
Vesta. ;-)
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What does your employer do for you on your birthday?
My last one ended my temp agency contract on my birthday, though to be fair I don't think he meant it as a birthday "present."
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Do you generally write in cursive or print?
I usually use print fonts instead of cursive fonts.
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Explain how saving energy and other resources can save money.
Write your own science class essay.
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If you invented a "feel good" drug that was harmless and non-addictive, what uses would you prescribe it for?
Heartbreak makes you human. Any drug which removes heartbreak would make you less human.
Incidentally, heartbreak is based partly on memories. Since removing heartbreak would require erasing parts of your memory, I don't call that "negligible side-effects."
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How do you tell if it's love, or if it's just lust? What are your own theories/answers to that?
If you wake up with her, and she looks like Hell Warmed Over with Death Breath, and all you can think about is giving her a big kiss and snuggling closer to her, its Love.
If your first reaction is to recoil in horror, its Lust.
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Suppose you like alike a criminal who have raped a girl ;The girl know nothing about criminal.once the girl's boyfriend see you in the market and try to kill you mistaking you for the criminal . how will u prove your innocense if the girl is dead now?
Reword the question. If she doesn't know anything about the rapist then the boyfriend will not think you look like the rapist.
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What is this rating and the level? How does it help AB readers?
The rating and level shows how clever you are considered by other AB members, as well as your pure charisma. It helps you by giving you huge spiritual orgasms whenever you think about your level.
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What can girls use for protection if pepper spray and such are illegal?
Self-defense classes are generally never banned. Pick one which uses the weight and strength of the attacker against the attacker.
If you need something right now, pick a portable club. $10 in quarters in a sock is a common homemade club, and also makes sure you have some cash to call friends and relatives for help.
Check the wording of the law. Chances are the law bans all forms of...
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Evolutionarily speaking, the egg, because the offspring would have been the new species formally titled "chicken", not the proto-chicken parents.
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Who invented the compass?
China seems to have come up with the basic design of a magnetic lodestone or needle allowed to swing freely, around 221-206 B.C., but it was first used for fortunetelling rather than as a navigational aid.
The first guy recorded using it as a navigational aid was a Chinese sailor, Zheng He (1371-1435), who made seven ocean voyages. However, prior to someone actually writing down that they...
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Does anyone know of an online book club? One where the book is decided on and everyone reads it and then talks about it in an allotted amount of time.
The New York Times has the most prominent online book discussion group like you are requesting. You may want to saunter over to http://www.nytimes.com/ref/readersopinions/reading-group-picks.html and see about reading the chosen book and discussing it on their forums. The New York Times online book discussion is somewhat unique in that the author of the chosen book will sometimes join in the...
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How do I refer to the remarried widower of my sister? Is he still my "brother-in-law"?
Since the marriage ended in the death of his wife--your sister--and not by divorce or annullment, legally you're still related by marriage. A legal document--the marriage license--continues to exist past her death which indicates that she linked her family to his while she was still alive. This would mean that he remains your "brother-in-law".
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Would you support or oppose U.S. involvement in a conflict between other countries if it might result in a world war?if you support give me 3 paragraphs on why you support, and if you oppose give me 3 paragraphs on why you oppose.
I don't think I'd support writing your Civics class essay for you, and I certainly don't need three paragraphs to express that opinion.
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Which do you prefer; stevia extract, splenda, or raw sugar?
Stevia when I can use it in something (stevia-sweetened lemonade is very nice, with a hint of vanilla), otherwise raw sugar. Honey is also pleasant. The difficulty with baking is that so many recipes assume a certain amount of "bulk" from the sugar, so only having to substitute 1/200th of the sugar "bulk" in the form of stevia makes for difficult radical recipe...
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Do you think feminism has led to the moral deterioration of society in "some" ways?
A common complaint by the "moral" about feminism is that it led to greater sexual activity by women outside of marriage. Since men have been having huge amounts of sex with women and outside marriage for millennia, the only real difference feminism has made is that the women now frequently get to refuse to have sex with men.
Which is an increase in morality, not a decrease.
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Why water drops accumulate on outside of a bottle filled with a cold drink
The "coldness" of the drink causes water vapor in the air to condense back to liquid form on the side of the bottle, forming water droplets.
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What is the cost to have a tubal reversal? Can it even be done? How possible is it to get pregnant after a reversal? I am 39 and have a VERY strong urge for a baby, maybe it's hormonal or something. My BF would freak if he knew this. Am I normal?
First off, you're normal. Men get close to 40 and buy Ferraris with cute waitresses already in them. Women hit 40 and, if they don't already have kids, desire children. My wife and I think the constant demands moms make on their children for grandchildren is an expression of this need.
Tubal reversals are possible, they work, and the kicker is that they work because the original...
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Can people cry underwater?
Extreme sadness is possible underwater. The physical act of shedding tears happens as well, though the tears will be shed from the tear ducts into the water and won't be seen by observers.
No doubt you have hit upon a perfect way for people to dump their Significant Others without a tearful scene: take your boyfriend/girlfriend snorkeling and dump him/her while the two of you are...
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Why do all of the dubbed voices in animes suck? American cartoons have much better voice actors - I can't stand to watched anime dubbed in English.
While badly-dubbed anime is the rule rather than the exception, you may want to check around for an anime show called "Ranma 1/2" for an example of a time when they hit the nail on the head with the actor voices in the English dubbing.
All the "Ranma 1/2" characters you see onscreen have completely appropriate voices. Well, "Mr. Tendo" had a really good voice...
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Would you allow public displays of affection in schools,if you were the principle,dean,etc?
Heck yes. Holding hands; wet, sloppy kisses; and blowjobs in the stairwells. Teenagers should be allowed big group hugs between classes, blocking the halls and preventing other students from getting to class on time, so that the already limited school day can be further reduced for the current speedy flushing down the toilet of our children's education. After all, the thing children go...
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I had a baby 3 weeks ago and my boyfriend and i have been having unprotected sex for the past 2 weeks, but he pulls out. could i get pregnant if he pulls out
Yes you can get pregnant so soon after childbirth. The insulting racist term for a new pregnancy right after a childbirth is "Irish twins."
Thinking that coitus interruptus is "birth control" is based on poor knowledge of human biology. The bulk of the sperm arrive when he ejaculates, but live sperm can and do appear in the "natural lubricant" seminal fluid...
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I been married for 8 years,& my wife hates porn,she consider it cheating,but I love porn,recently my wife found out how much I love it,& now she wont let me touch her,kiss her,sleep with her,etc.What should I do?
Seems to me you have a few choices (if you really felt comfortable with "dumping all the porn" as an option you wouldn't be asking this question).
1) Give up all your porn and demonstrate to your wife that this is so. Chances are this is the lose-lose solution for you, because she sounds like the kind of childish person to hold a grudge and continue to deny you sex unless you...
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All the front-running democratic presidential nominees have said they would bring our troops home from iraq if they are elected president... ...How is this a good thing? If we pulled out wouldn't we just forfeit all that we have gained in Iraq?
Right now all we're doing is positive PR for terrorist organizations: "Look at the ugly invading U.S. Crusaders, they're here to rape your women AND your men, and kill your children."
We give out money to independent contractors who have to turn around and hand most of it to the insurgency to allow the contractors to do what little work they can do. Of those contractors...
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Will time travel ever be possible?how?
Well yes. We're all doing it right now. Since the start of this paragraph all of us have time traveled approximately thirty seconds into the future, depending on my typing speed and your reading speed.
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How many online churches exist where someone can become an ordained minister to perform weddings in the US?
The Universal Life Church does ordain people online.
http://www.themonastery.org/
The cool bit about the ULC is that they allow you to create your own congregation and name your new church anything you would like to name it. You get a fresh new church but with the old ULC behind it, which can be a mixed blessing.
My father-in-law started a new congregation through the ULC for purely...
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Why do people always want to see Vanessa Hudgens nude pics from her nude scandel
Why do people always wonder why other people want to look at pictures of nude women? The U.S. alone has a billion dollar industry devoted to satisfying the needs of Americans for pictures of nude women.
What I find especially confusing is this question itself. Vanessa's pictures frequently show up for free, which is additional viewing incentive to the millions of Americans who have...
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Should immigrants to English speaking countries have free English lessons?
If they come into the English-speaking country legally, then yes. Citizens should be able to speak the majority language to help them become more productive members of the society in which they live.
EDIT: This is also selfish on my part. If my car breaks down in a predominantly immigrant part of town and the local wireless phone tower is out of service, I'd like to be able to...
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I live in a rural area where office jobs come up only a couple times per year with tons of applicants. I've had training, but it's been 10+ years. Is it really worth it for me to pay for more classes when the chance of me getting a position is so slim?
If you want to work with office equipment and computers, but local office jobs have thousands of applicants, you may want to consider telecommuting, work-from-home type work.
Many outsourcing companies have discovered that folks in rural areas have a lower cost-of-living than people in cities, and thus can accept a lower wage than the city dweller for the same telecommuting job. This...
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How can you answer this question?
No.
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What would you do if you came home and i was using your shower?
I'd be confused as to how a person intelligent enough to break into a house without immediately alerting the authorities would be stupid enough to want to use my shower.
I'm still waiting for apartment maintenance to fix it, and until then it takes a steady hand and regular mid-shower adjustments to keep it on "comfortable" rather than "boiling" or...
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What do you do when you stop believing in LOVE?
I've always assumed that you die inside.
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While micro-organisms are at the bottom of the food chain are viruses at the top.. making the circle complete?
Viruses aren't alive. Bacteria are alive, so despite your misconception about viruses, micro-organisms are at the top and the bottom of the food chain.
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Is it possible for an ISP to trace or see websites you had visited? Can they give you a copy?
It is possible for your ISP to trace or see websites you have visited. If they received a court order to do so they could certainly perform this trace and log all of your Internet activity. Any Internet service for which you receive a bill (or have your personal information linked to in any way) is not completely anonymous Internet service.
Where you might feel relieved is that it is...
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How can i make my garden grow?
With silver bells,
and cockle shells,
and pretty maids all in a row.
If you can't afford a bunch of maids to tend your garden, I have it on good authority from Frances Hodgson Burnett that you can substitute a row of marigolds (probably because the natural marigold scent keeps damaging insects away).
EDIT: The irony is that the bells could keep birds away, and the cockle shells...
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Do you think im crazy for staying with my g/f for a year now after shes kissed two other guys and a female in that spam?
Kissing's fine. In fact, in some cultures if you took kissing as seriously as anything else then you'd suspect practically every family of incest.
Its when people "accidentally" fall onto each other and fingers and penises slip into your girlfriend's genitals that you should start questioning your girlfriend's feelings of affection towards you.
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If you buy leftover marijuana seeds from a friend, and plant it out in the forest in the summer time, will the plants produce much THC? How long will it take before it's time to harvest? Can you package and sell the ground leaves of the male plant?
Wild hemp doesn't magically turn into marijuana. Cultivation is necessary and essential to getting a high THC yield per plant. The THC needed in a plant for its own self-protection is at a negligible level for getting a human being high. If all you want is fibers for clothing, paper, and biomass, go all Johnny Potseed, scatter the seeds, and let the plants grow all on their own.
An...
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Why are stupid people called "dumb"? I thought dumb was another word for mute.
"Dumb" is another word for mute, but as modern usage has added "stupid" to its meaning, it is considered impolite to call a person with a speech impairment "dumb."
People who cannot speak at all are less capable than speaking people in providing an answer to a question. More precisely, they may know the answer instantly, but be unable to convey it quickly to...
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What's cookin?
Shhh, be vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits.
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Can you get high from smoking parsley?
If someone sells you parsley but completely convinces you that it is marijuana, you can get high from smoking parsley.
The power of belief that helps a six year old cancer patient successfully reduce the size of cancer tumors by imagining knights in armor attacking the cancer cells, or persuades a wounded soldier that sugar-pill placebos are powerful narcotic painkillers, will help you get...
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My b.d. say we not 2gether we still have sex he stays over every night he say he is not wit no 1 else and he tells me he loves me and he is wit me 95% of the time i found out he had sex wit a person is that cheating?was he leading me on?
So he says you aren't a couple and he is only with you 95% of the time, but you have sex and he claims to love only you, and now he has slept with someone else?
From what he seems to think, you two aren't involved enough for sex outside your relationship to count as cheating. However, cheating is in the eye of the beholder, and you seem a bit outraged at him sleeping with...
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I'm a guy and sometimes when I pee, I see 2 lines of urine dispensing out of my penis and then merge back to 1 line, why is that and have anyone experienced this before?
Most men only use their penises for two activities, which means that men generally ignore what their penises are doing the rest of the time. Despite your best efforts (or possibly because of them) you will see or think of something sexually stimulating during your daily activities (or accidentally rub up against something and experience manual stimulation), which will cause your reproductive...
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What are white orbs that show up in pictures?
Your Friendly Neighborhood Psychic will tell you that the orbs are spirits and/or energy beings, either still lingering around on the physical plane or deliberately here to provide help and guidance with the trials and tribulations of the living.
Evolutionarily speaking any species capable of having its dead return to assist the living would have a leg up on all the other species which...
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What should a service member do when his sister-in law tells him to get a divorce from her sister because their relationship is dead while he's been serving over in Iraq for 15 months and currently on his 4th tour of duty there?
I'm unfamiliar with how divorces are handled when one party is overseas serving in the military (and certainly don't know how they are handled when one is serving in defense of the Bush foreign policy and not in defense of the U.S.A.), but if a divorce is possible before you return home, don't get a divorce before you return home.
Your sister-in-law may have a point about your...
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When (if ever) do you think major religious texts (Koran, Bible, Torah, etc.) will be packaged under one encompassing title "The Varieties of Religious Experience: Humankind's Struggle With and Shaping of Supernatural Belief"? [derived from William James]
You say that this is not a question of belief in the Supernatural, but your original question seems to stipulate that there will be commentary by an editor, as suggested by the title "The Varieties of Religious Experience: Humankind's Struggle With and Shaping of Supernatural Belief" and by your suggestion that there will be an attempt made to find similarities between the...
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What are the dates of thanksgiving 1950-2007
TimeAndDate.com has a calendar generator feature which is fast and accurate, and creates calendars for a variety of countries including the U.S.A.
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/
Back in 1950, on the U.S.A. Calendar, Thanksgiving was on November 23rd. You can look up the rest of those Thanksgiving dates (as well as many other holidays) on the above link: just enter in the year,...
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I,m trying to find the name of a movie where a killer gets electricuted and then he comes back through the electric wires and kills more people
One movie using this concept is Wes Craven's "Shocker" from 1989, though the same director is doing a remake next year, also called "Shocker." A pre-"X-Files" Mitch Pileggi plays the serial killer in the original movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098320/
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Does anything come out of black holes?
We only know black holes are there because of radiation put off by things moving towards a black hole, radiation which shuts off when the stuff producing the radiation passes the event horizon of the black hole. So from what we know so far, nothing comes out of black holes.
However, the physicist Stephen Hawking has pointed out that quantum gravitational effects in black holes mean that...
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What motivated men to walk upright?
Evolving in the water of rivers. It is thought that the huge drought two or three million years ago sent most of the animals, including pre-human primates, off the savannahs of Africa and into the rivers of Africa. Walking upright kept them from drowning as they stood in the cooling water that most predators didn't like swimming in, and incidentally freed up their hands for tools. Their...
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How can I get paid to be online?
Realistic answers aren't get-rich-quick.
A realistic answer is "start a blog." Spend a lot of your time looking for new and interesting things to tell your readers. If you get popular companies will start talking ad revenue, and you will get paid to be online, but it will not happen instantly.
One of the best ways to get a job writing for a publication (online, print, or...
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A middle school in the u.s is banning children from giving eachother hugs. Meanwhile we were applauded for doing this in kindergarden-b/c hugs are like sharing your toys-an essential in life lol. So why ban hugs. What do u think about the hug banning?
The middle school didn't ban "hugs", they banned "public displays of affection", of which a "hug" is but one of the possible methods of "public displays of affection." The question is loaded against the middle school, because the wording inaccurately implies that the school only banned hugs.
"Public displays of affection" also covers a...
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When the interested rate go up, the stock prices down, why is this?
Interest rates affect the willingness of people to obtain loans. Loans finance a great deal of the economic growth. As interest rates rise, people become less likely to want to go into debt to finance new purchases, and this generally slows down the economy.
Investors react to the potential slowing down of the economy long before any actual slowdown occurs. When the interest rates go up,...
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Have you ever looked at a bunch of old photos and realized your life isn't as bad as you thought it was?
Only my wedding photos. :-)
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What is a charity and why should one support charity?
Charities are organizations that serve to violate Social Darwinism by preventing the deaths of people who would otherwise die all on their own. As Scrooge put it, "And if they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
You should donate to charities because the human race is a social species and should take care of everyone in it, and because...
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What does the MRI in MRI scans stand for?
Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
There's this really cool urban legend about metal particles in older tattoo inks being sucked out of your skin during MRIs, but I'm fairly certain that "Mythbusters" have debunked that legend.
I've even had an MRI. Funny story: I've had this unbalanced walk most of my life. My doctor sent me to a neurologist, who suspected...
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If you could choose the minimum required age that ab members have to be - what age would you choose?
AB suffers from way too many knee-jerk answers, so what AB needs is a nice *mature* minimum age, like 60.
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What is the best All-in-one Video converter.. which can convert all common format into another. Only Freeware plz.
A good freeware video converter, which can also do a number of other things such as resizing and joining video, is Avidemux.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
This application converts most video files, including conversions into standard MPEG1/2 video files for use in homemade VideoCDs and DVDs. The program is available in Windows and Linux versions.
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What disgusts you more? The stuff they use to make Jell-O or hot dogs?
Speaking as a vegetarian, and in terms of what the general public eats, both disgust me.
Fortunately, I've got both options in vegetarian forms, and as both vegetarian "Jello" and vegetarian hot dogs are made from high quality ingredients, the question is moot from a vegetarian perspective.
If I was a meat eater then I think hot dogs would be more disgusting as...
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Is Monogamy a dead or dying concept?
It's not dying, but the forms it takes are changing. Marriage is dying off and is being replaced by cohabitation, but these arrangements are still both monogamy.
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Can i use two keyboards in a computer?
You can plug more than one of the same kind of input device into a computer at the same time, you just will not be able to use both at the same time.
I often have two mice plugged into my laptop computer, a regular PS/2 mouse and a presentation wireless USB mouse, and I can use both one right after the other. The same goes for a work-related setup at home where I have two sets of keyboard...
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How do I move some of the memory for my d drive to my c drive?
Windows XP can have "virtual memory" swap files on more than one drive, so you can adjust your swap file sizes and "move memory" from one drive to another.
You would have to go into Control Panel -> System -> "Advanced" tab -> "Performance" button -> "Advanced" tab -> "Virtual memory" button. In the new window, in...
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I haven't eatin in days. I have a jar of toe nails, a troll and a jar of snot, what should I eat first?
The jars.
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What is better than www.google.com?
Sex, and lots of it.
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What amount of money on the ground is needed for you to stop and pick it up?
These days I'll stop on a dime outdoors or some building which is not my home. Indoors in my own home I will pick up a penny.
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Whats the best day of your life?
September 11th, 1999. I got married on that day to the most wonderful woman in the world. :-)
Our second honeymoon was September 11th, 2001. :-( Still a very good day, the only downside of which was that terrorist attack you may have heard about.
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Am I the only one that like's the idea of "The Last Man on Earth" thing? Like in the Twilight Zone they often used that idea in their shows.
I think you aren't the only one, but are both (a) among a minority, and (b) going to be unpleasantly surprised at your actual reaction if you were ever "the last man on earth".
Like the guy who discovers that he doesn't like the homoerotic overtones of his "share his girlfriend with another man" fantasy come true, you would likely discover that the reality is...
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My husband is feeling kinda blue because his childhood hero just died. I would like to surprise him when he gets home, but with what?
<wink, wink> <nudge, nudge>
Seriously, people extol the virtues of alcohol to help you forget, but fun with the divine female form undraped will not only help you forget, it will also improve your mood a lot more than alcohol.
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You are a secret agent and we are sworn to secrecy and will not tell a soul. We are cleared for this. What is your mission and how can we help?
I need 100 baby dill pickles, a box of Jello, an inflatable sheep, and a case of peppermint schnapps.
I won't tell you my mission because you wouldn't believe me.
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I like to smell the bike seats of women. Is that wrong?
Ahh yes, the byproduct of what they used to call "bicycle smile".
Sounds like you have an active lifestyle, running around town looking for bicycles off which women have just dismounted. Clean fresh air, plenty of exercise, I don't see anything particularly wrong with any reason justifying exercise in this rather fat nation.
Go to it and good luck!
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Do you consider yourself affiliated with a religion, and attend a service at least once a month?
Yes, Wicca, but only by marriage.
Strictly speaking official services are eight times a year, so Wiccans who attend all eight are roughly the same as someone who attends a service once a month. Even by that standard, no, I do not "attend a service at least once a month." Usually just Eostar, Samhain, and Yule.
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When someone comes out of the closet...do they ever go back in?
Some try, usually due to a similar pressure that stuck them in the closet in the first place.
It never really works, resulting in examples like Larry Craig cruisin' in an airport terminal bathroom, and the President of Exodus (a "self-torture will eventually make you want to pretend you aren't gay" organization) being caught in a gay bar.
You are who you are....
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What country do the ingredients in tylenol come from?
It all depends on the process used by the individual company to make the acetaminophen otherwise known as Tylenol (also known as paracetamol in countries outside the U.S.A.).
The base material used to make acetaminophen is phenol, which in turn is synthesized from benzene, sometimes in conjunction with propylene. Both benzene and propylene are derivatives of coal and also can be derived...
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I'm sorry, was that you?
No, it was that other guy who bumped you.
Incidentally, I think he took your wallet.
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Who do you want to be with when the end of the world comes?
The guy piloting the huge "New Earth" colonization ship away from the exploding Earth.
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What would one do if they lost their perscription medication?
Emergency rooms generally help out with a prescription for a couple of days of a medication to let you survive until you can reach your doctor, provided it isn't something a drug-seeking person generally asks for, such as the narcotic painkillers. Even then you might get them to prescribe one of the milder strong painkillers, such as hydrocodone. Life will still suck for a couple of days...
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My 8 year old daughter has always been very open with me. She just shared a secret with me about her and her female cousins ( ages 7 &10). They have been kissing each other in their private areas, one single kiss in the pubic area(she pointed to the area
Assuming that this means they are sexually active is falling for the pedophile reasoning that pre-pubescent children are capable of sexual attraction.
Young children can and do actively masturbate themselves to sexual climax. This is done for the same reasons that a young child eats a cookie or watches his favorite program on TV: for *personal* pleasure. They aren't masturbating to...
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Do people just make out anymore? Im in my late 20s and it seems like it is either nothing or sex!
People do continue to make out, but you are correct that stopping the makeout session before sex occurs has gone out of fashion.
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Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Depends on the recipe. Some of them use milk or eggs in the recipe, which are animal products and thus off the list of vegetarian foods. Whey is a milk product and thus not a vegetarian ingredient.
Some of them use honey, which is in dispute in the vegan community as to whether it is an animal product or not. Obviously insects make it, but it is less like cows making milk (comes out of...
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Do you believe in the theory of gravity?
Belief doesn't enter into a Scientific Theory (as opposed to a non-scientific "theory" (note small "t") like Creationism), but I have some doubts about the current configuration of the Theory of Gravity due to the new data coming in about the collision of distant galaxies not quite following the equations set down in the current Theory of Gravity, even when the...
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How old was the youngest person you've ever been sexually attracted to? And how old was the oldest?
I was nineteen when I met the 14 year old sister of a girl I was dating at the time. The 14 year old was ravishingly beautiful (looked more like a college student than a young teenager) and the brain of a college professor, two traits I was looking for at the time (and not finding in her older sister). I broke up with the older sister for other reasons, but actually waited, without looking...
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Do you think there is such a thing as a "functional pothead"?
I went to college with six functional potheads. They spent the weekends and some of the evenings smoking marijuana and dropping LSD. During the weekdays they earned 4.0 GPAs in the School of Engineering.
I didn't do drugs as often as they did, and as a consequence I didn't do as well as they did in school.
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How did somebody figure out that the marijuana plant got you high?
I figure quite a lot of plants were discovered to be edible by watching animals eat them first.
Marijuana was probably discovered to be "fun" by noticing that animals went back to the same plant again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and...
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Is there a way to flush THC out of your system quickly?
THC is fat-soluble and builds up in your fat cells, so in theory liposuction would do the trick.
EDIT: To whomever downrated me, everything I said is true and removing a fat cell containing THC would remove that portion of THC from your system.
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Will THC show up in my girlfriends urinalysis if she doesn't smoke? this is based on the fact that i cum inside of her and she swallows me sometimes... please i have to know the truth...the drug czar at her work said that it would show up...
THC is fat-soluble and semen has almost no fat, so it is unlikely that there would be enough of it in the swallowed semen to make any THC show up in sufficient quantities in the urine to be detected by a urinalysis.
I'd avoid the right-before-work-quickie if I were you, though, as if any of your semen is still on her when she does the test, she might be putting THC-laden semen right...
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Is eating marijuana a more effective way to enjoy the herbs peace making capablities?
Medical marijuana is much more effective smoked, because usually the condition for which you are taking it has "nausea" as one of the symptoms (often cancer and/or its treatments).
You're also looking at trying to get the THC past the body's digestive system, requiring quite a lot more marijuana than a single joint to equal a single joint. Remember that your body looks...
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What are the effects of using both cannabis and alcohol?
You become incredibly creative and funny, but because you stupidly drank some alcohol too you're so drunk you can't do anything with your new talents.
Mixing drugs just isn't a good idea, because each drug is its own experience. Back in college I always refused to do marijuana while I was tripping on LSD, and every party my silly friends tried both at once and always agreed...
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Water bong or Ice Bong?
Certainly not an Ice Bong! The thing which really makes bongs work is how much water vapor they put into the smoke. Warm or even hot water is better than cold water (and don't even think about ice bongs!) because it will add soothing water vapor to the smoke.
My favorite bong in college incorporated one of those portable coffee mug warmers, and because warm water works a heck of a lot...
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Are board games a metaphor for life and society and can they be used as basic social commentary? Examples would be greatly appreciated.
I would say that board games are a metaphor for life and society and provide basic social commentary. I can think of two specific examples of board games which reflected societal attitudes of the time period in which the games were created.
During the Great Depression and immediately following it, people were jealous of the rich robber barons who basically own everything and charge them...
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Is Jacobenia and Kings Crown the same plant?
The name Jacobenia has been changed to Justicia. Justicia is a plant genus, of which "King's Crown" is one species of plant in that genus. The Latin name for "King's Crown" is Justicia carnea.
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When was the last time you felt you were on fire?
Last night. The first-aid painkilling spray is helping a lot.
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Who is the funniest comedy team of all time?
Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
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Other than color, what is the difference between men and women's razors?
Generally women's razors have a "comfort strip", a strip of moisturizer right next to the blades which soothes your shaving area when it becomes wet. Men's razors generally do not have this "comfort strip", a fact which has encouraged me to buy big packages of women's razors, instead of separate men's and women's razors, for myself and my wife.
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\My husband keeps saying that he don’t want anything for Christmas? So do I not get him something or do I get him a gift. If so what do I get him?
My mother-in-law was the same way. She would announce that she wouldn't celebrate Christmas this year, then act shocked and annoyed when we took her seriously. Lots of late-night Christmas Eve shopping, and sometimes even presents consisting of whatever we could find at a "we never close" gas station convenience store.
My advice is to come up with something nice, thoughtful,...
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Does marijuana use kill fat cells?
THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) is absorbed by the fat cells and released very slowly when fat is converted into calories, but does not damage the fat cells themselves. It is also released so slowly that THC levels never reach intoxicating levels in the brain, though the THC is still metabolized by the body and this is what the drug tests pick up on for a month or more after inhaling...
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I had unprotected sex and two days later I got my period. Could I still be pregnant?
You could still be pregnant. Sperm can survive in your body for up to seven days following unprotected intercourse, and ovulation usually starts shortly after your period ends.
You should still get a pregnancy test to determine whether or not you are pregnant.
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Why are people making such a big deal about the fact the mitt romney is mormon? i can kind of see why people would like to know if the politicians are christian or not, but why do they need to specify that he is mormon?
You can't get elected in America unless you belong to a Christian sect that the majority of Christians consider non-threatening. Catholicism used to be threatening, until JFK broke into the Presidency and American Catholics started demonstrating some independence from the Vatican.
Mormonism has a lot of bad press from the 19th century, so it is seen as a threatening sect of...
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A Camel and a Penguin both fall into a vat of radioactive waste with a human and both the animals gain human features and super powers. Apparently Penguins and Camels hate each other and they do battle. Who wins?
The Penguins would lure the Camels into the water, then knock them over into the water and drown the entire Camel army. Penguins win.
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They say that masturbation helps prevent prostate cancer. does anyone know why?
Carcinogens build up in the prostate fluid. Frequent ejaculation cleans out the carcinogens and replenishes the fluid.
Frequent sex does not have the same effect as frequent masturbation, because sex, unlike masturbation, has the chance of contracting Sexually Transmitted Infections. Since STIs can be contracted from sources other than through sex, this means that a monogamous couple can...
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My church believes you should tithe 10% of your gross earnings. I try to be generous with my time, talents and money to help others & give to the church, but it takes almost all of my take home pay to get through the month. So, how do you do it?
The priest in my hometown Catholic Church had this to say on the subject of tithing: tithing is the giving of what you have to the Church, so if money is a problem then you can substitute volunteering in its place. Obviously dishonest volunteerism is completely inappropriate, so to be honest you should contribute volunteer hours based on your hourly wage at work. If your 10% tithe would be...
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How can you tell how high libido is for a woman? Guys just let it be known but "most" woman keep to themselves more.
I'd get to know her, lots of dates, perhaps a picnic in the park. Eventually you might have sex, and then you'll find out about her libido.
EDIT: Depending on what you consider to be "sex", you might even be able to practice some techniques prior to the full-blown wedding night "consummation." You should try something which couples the world over agree is a...
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How long has it been since you heard a good Chuck Norris joke?
There's a good Chuck Norris joke?
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Getting married on Samhain (Halloween): cool or creepy?
Samhain is actually a very lucky day for Pagan and Wiccan handfastings. The holiday symbolizes a drawing closer to the hearth, as the cold winter winds start to blow. This drawing close to the home and the hearth results in strong family bonds for those who choose to handfast on Samhain.
As the "drawing close to the hearth" is non-denominational, this applies also to other...
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How do you forget about your girlfriend breaking up with you for another guy?
Take any kind of hard liquor and add some Gatorade. The combination sends alcohol very quickly into your body, much quicker than just drinking the alcohol by itself. Drink about half as much alcohol as you drink all night long on any other night.
This achieves the twofold goal of helping you briefly forget the incident, while ensuring your relative paralyzation so that you cannot commit...
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Aint this country GREAT?
If you are referring to the U.S., it certainly used to be great.
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Is getting married on Halloween bad luck?
Well lets see.
You're a Judeo-Christian-Islamic person: it is a Pagan Holiday which hasn't been absorbed as a Judeo-Christian-Islamic Holiday. Tricky theological grounds there.
You're a Neo-Pagan/Wicca Person: You already know its a bad idea. On the night of Samhain (pronounced "sou-wen"), the "veil between the worlds" of the living and the dead gets a...
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Atheists: For you, what does the acronym TGIF stand for?
"Thank God Its Friday." Its not like its a crime against nature for an Atheist to spell out a common phrase the way most people use it. I don't use the phrase myself, mind you, I just don't see the need to fit into some weirdo Atheist mold just to appease the Christians.
After all, Christians like to celebrate Christmas even though it has nothing to do with the...
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Why are Atheists unwilling to admit that they worship science like how Christians worship god?
Christians worship an unchanging God and Absolutes. Science is based around Theories, not Absolutes, so it is impossible to "worship" Science in the same way that Christians worship God, regardless of whether you are an Atheist or a Theist.
To clarify the concept of a Theory in Science, Theories in Science are what normal people would call Facts. Theories have such a huge...
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What is your definition of homophobia? (Mine is ANYTHING THAT PREVENTS ME FROM ENJOYING THE SAME PRIVILEDGES OF MY SEXUALITY AND HUMANITY IN THE SAME WAY A HETEROSEXUAL PERSON DOES.)
The irrational belief that men agreeing not to compete with you for women is a bad thing for them to do.
Its always about the homosexual men too. The fact that lesbians can compete with straight men for their women never seems to bother them in the least, though possibly pornographic movies involving fake lesbian sex have desensitized them to this possibility.
"Whoo hoo! My...
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Where can I find a CUTE WOMEN'S Insane Asylum Prisoner's Halloween costume?
Try the lingerie company "Wicked Temptations" (www.wickedtemptations.com) and look in their sexy Halloween costume section for the costume called "Ella Mental". The costume neckline plunges almost to the breasts, and below that there's a daring cutout between the breasts, so it is a very sexy costume. The restraints are all velcro so you can look restrained without...
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Call me slow, but have you even noticed that most, if not all, the down-raters have the moniker 'Anonymous?' Or do people just get a new account to do so? What do ya think?
Of course they have to be Anonymous. Most of us AB experts are so fabulous that people are embarassed to downrate us.
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Do you believe in the kindness of strangers?
Steeeeelllllllaaaaaaaaa!
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A hundred-year-old man and his head one night old. What is this?
A hundred year old man who got a blowjob one night ago?
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Do you know anyone who is size 0? How did they get there?
I know someone who is a size 0 today.
Granted, she died ten years ago, which is a great weight-loss plan if anyone is interested. The pounds just melt right off your body, and you don't have to do anything, just lie around all day on your back.
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I'll bet your computer password is: ***** Am I right?
That password is a lot shorter than mine.
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How long should you date before considering marriage?
I don't pretend my experiences are the best for everyone, but here's my story:
I married my first wife after dating her for three years. We did not live together during that time. After we got married and moved in together, the marriage lasted one year. Less, really, as the divorce proceedings started a week before our first anniversary.
My second wife and I lived together...
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If President Bush broke the law when he authorized government agencies to use electronic surveillance to monitor American citizens without a court warrant, do you think that is an impeachable offense, or not an impeachable offense?
I wish people would just understand that Impeachment and Removal From Office is a political process, not a criminal process. This means that it is a punishment against the party controlling the White House by the party controlling Congress, though not necessarily fitting the crime itself. It is not officially started by any judicial body.
This is why former President Bill Clinton could be...
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What do we call asking god to bring evil upon someone?
A good idea. That way you won't hurt anyone but yourself (through all that anger eating away at your innards) because there is no one there to answer any of the requests.
Now, before all the downrating commences, think about it a minute: if the Zodiac Killer had stayed home praying to God that all his victims would be killed horribly, both the atheists and the theists are agreed that...
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Why do so many, if not all christian people believe that a person needs to believe in god to have morals?
What we are taught in childhood generally sticks around with us until we die, and it takes a major event to shift us from what we learn in childhood. Even atheists say things like "Thank God" which are completely incongruent with atheism, simply because we generally spent the first highly-impressionable 13 years of our lives around people who said such things. We also say other...
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What is the best punishment for a pedophile?
Locking them up isn't the answer. Locking them up with a bunch of regular violent criminals is the answer. You'd be surprised as to how many violent criminal guys out there are a complete stranger's worst nightmare, but would literally kill for their children's happiness (which is sometimes the reason they are in prison in the first place).
You probably wouldn't be...
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Do you believe that people can move things with there mind, through the transfer of energy that takes place?
Well yes. If I wasn't transferring energy from my mind to my hands I would get nothing done.
I still manage to get nothing done even while moving energy from my mind to my hands, but thats beside the point.
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Im going nude for Halloween, who will join me?
So you forgot to buy a costume, AGAIN, and you aren't all that creative with aluminum foil and silly string?
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What is it about alcohol that makes an average person look gorgeous?
Alcohol affects your judgement. If she's already a bit horny, the fact that you have a penis might be all the encouragement she needs.
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Why does it seem that there are so many more atheists in the world now then there have been in the past?
Not to malign atheism as a belief system, and speaking as an atheist myself, but I suspect that what is happening is less of an increase in atheists as an increase in the departure from organized religions. Not believing in your former religion and not choosing a replacement may be non-belief, but it may not be atheism.
Old religions are failing to change with the times, and as a result...
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I've been getting an unknown caller phoning me, and then when I answer I can hear them breathing on the other line but they don't say anything. What should I do?
An airhorn springs to mind.
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Do you have NPR programmed on your radio?
Yes. In fact, I grew up with the radio set to the local NPR station and the radio tuner knob broken off. Same with the TV set and PBS.
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In the Wizard of Oz, where does the red brick rode go?
In the book "The Wizard of Oz" there is no red brick road.
In the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz" the red brick road leads to the Munchkin Town Hall. It is the road on which the carriage carrying Dorothy travels to reach the Munchkin Town Hall.
In the original series of Oz books written by L. Frank Baum himself, there is a road paved with red brick which goes to the...
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I really need to work up my courage before I log on and check my bank balance or check my account statements. Does this sound similar to you?
Yes, I have this phobia as well. I had what I refer to as a "check bouncing cascade" about ten years ago, which is one accidental ATM transaction leading to insufficient funds for one check, leading to an insufficient funds fee, leading to insufficient funds for another check, and so forth (mine went for the rent check plus four bill checks). I am constantly afraid of seeing another...
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My girlfriend bit down on my penis well she was giving me head. It didn't break the skin or anything. After I went to the bathroom and i pee blood. Then I haven't been able to get it up anymore. But it is very itchy. I don't know what is going on? SCARED!
Go see a doctor, NOW.
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Three times as many people were killed by their own Communist governments in the 20th century than were killed in all wars combined. Do you think the Commies are sorry? Does it bother you that some still think Communism is good?
Considering that none of the "Communist" governments used the system of Communism created by Karl Marx, but rather used the government structure of Totalitarian Dictatorship or Totalitarian Oligarchy, I'm not sure why people believe that Karl Marx's system of government can be blamed for government systems like Stalinism, Maoism, and Castroism. Stalin wanted to make his...
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What evidence exists to support the existence of psychokinesis?
I moved a penny with my mind the other day. I stared intently at the penny. Then, solely with the power of my mind, I sent mental waves of energy into my hand, which knocked the penny off the table.
Truly an amazing experience. I'm calling The Amazing Randi tomorrow, I could use a million dollars.
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Hey! How did you get in here?
Oh thank goodness, I was hoping someone would find me so that they could tell me where "here" is.
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Would you purposely schedule a vacation on a gay cruise just to save money? (if you aren't gay)
Heck yes, and I'm incredibly straight. Homosexuals are very friendly and outgoing people, and not all of them are into the same stuff.
I'd just scan the scheduled entertainment and avoid the raunchier entertainment, which would put me in the restaurant with quite a lot of other homosexual folks who also aren't into the raunchier stuff.
Homosexuality isn't scary once...
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Why are redheads the least attractive to people out of all the hair color's ? Is there anyone who has a redhead fetish
Redheads are hot! Who are these weirdos who think that red hair is unsexy?
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Why do you hate hospitals?
Antibiotic-resistant staph infections.
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Men, what's the sexiest piece of jewelry you like to see on a woman?
I'd describe the jewelry and the placement in detail, but I suspect that my answer would be flagged and deleted as a result.
Suffice it to say that this jewelry is typically covered up by clothing, and this is true even if all she is wearing is a bikini...
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Do atheists use the term 'Thank god!' ? For example, if their son was finally home after being 3 hours late, do they say "Thank god!" or "Thank god,a being of supernatural powers or attributes,believed in and worshiped by a people,but who doesnt exist!"?
Well yes, I sometimes say things that my parents said when they were stressed, back when I was very young. Some of them involve a religion, and some do not involve a religion. Some of them would get this particular answer flagged and deleted.
The point, of course, is that we revert to what we learned as children when we become stressed. This is largely irrelevant to our current beliefs.
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What positive social change has "atheism" ever inspired?
The separation of church and state.
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I'm an Athesit. Weird dream: I go to a room where there's no power supply and Jesus making everything work with his "powers". He then tells me to get out because I'm a "bad girl" and "satan's helper". This place is famous in dream. What could this mean?
In dreams you are everyone in the dream. The "Jesus" character is the source of your personal power, though the "Jesus" character in your dream isn't necessarily the "Jesus" character in the Gospels, as "Jesus" is a well-known power figure. You have the power to do what needs to be done in your life, but you have strong self-doubt in your own...
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Do you ever go out in a huge thunderstorm just to enjoy it?
I haven't been out in a huge thunderstorm while it was raining, for fun, but once I watched one start for fun.
It was this huge thunderhead rolling in from the east. The leading edge was pure white, and the cloud color gradually went from white to dark grey as the cloud stretched east.
The reason why it was so fun was that the cloud was moving very slowly, but within the cloud there...
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What do you normally do on Sundays?
I'm an atheist, so I usually spend the afternoons playing chess with Satan.
Seriously, I do whatever I want to do, which often involves sleeping, the Internet, and cats, in no particular order. Unless the cats make demands, of course.
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How much alcohol have you consumed in the last three days?
Averaged over the past 5 years, about 0.00000001 ounces of champagne per day.
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What is math for you?
Math is Life!
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What are some good uses for paper towels other than cleaning up spills?
Lets see:
Insulation
Covering your windows so that the light coming in is softer.
Lighting fires
Stuffing your bra
Stuffing your trousers
Rolling up into little balls for the cat to play with
Blowing your nose (masochist kleenex)
Avant-garde artwork material
The entire roll makes a decent lumbar pillow, and usable as a pillow in other situations as well
Replacement...
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Are any of you athiest? just curious. i am not. i'm a christian. i just wanna know if there is anyone on here that is.
I'm an atheist. God does not exist. Absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
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Gray's Anatomy, E.R., or House? I'm a House fan myself.
"House", definitely. Doctors should be excessively smart, not "McDreamy". The fact that "House" is blatantly "Sherlock Holmes" sealed the deal for me.
"E.R." lost my interest when Dr. Mark Greene died (my wife and I frequently referred to "E.R." as "The Mark Greene Show"). When the last major character from Season 1...
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What is the last power tool you used and what did you use it on?
Well I used it on a "who", but only if you extend the definition of "power tool" to "tools you buy in adult novelty stores."
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On what day were you married?
September 11th, 1999.
We thought, "hey, we'll never forget our anniversary."
And we were right.
Double whammy: we started our five day, second honeymoon on September 10th, 2001. We went up in the St. Louis Arch on September 10th, and then had the St. Louis Zoo and Botanical Gardens all to ourselves on September 11th.
Incidentally, this is a family tradition. My...
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Whats green and sticky and smells like Miss Piggy?
A dollar bill that fell into a pigsty.
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What is black and white with red all over it?
A dead zebra thats been killed by a lioness.
Really, I saw it on a nature channel once.
The problem with wordplay jokes like this one is that you can't write them down and have them still work. "Read" and "Red" sound the same out loud, but once you put one of them on paper you have to have heard the joke already to make it funny.
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Did you ever go to dinner at a girl friends parents house or your in laws and unexpectedly the meal they served was food your didn't usually eat or like and it was almost gagging to the taste? How did you handle it?
I've been a vegetarian for 11 years and my wife has been one for 30 years. Eight years ago we both went to the house of a new friend of ours. We wanted to be a regular visitor because she was this master herbalist.
Unfortunately we hadn't made it clear that we were vegetarians. When we arrived we discovered she had spent the whole day making this elaborate dinner, the...
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Were you put off Black Pudding when you realised it was mainly made of blood?
I was put off Black Puddings back when I was playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and my 1st Level Characters kept getting eaten by Black Puddings.
I didn't know Black Puddings were made of blood until you mentioned it just now. Actually, I didn't even know they were a type of food until you mentioned it just now.
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Can you make an argument without quoting the Bible?
Yes, because I love my neighbor as myself.
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What song is about the struggle of growing up?
The song "American Pie."
Childhood is a lighthearted event. Then puberty hits and everything changes for the worse. Things keep on getting weirder and weirder, and nothing you hear has a coherent and rational explanation. You finally hit adulthood and all you know is that you had a wild ride through your teenage years, and still have no idea what it all meant.
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In your personal opinion what is the best version of Linux and why...
Wow, so many distros, so many reasons.
For home and business users: Ubuntu is probably the best one. Easy to install, easy to update, easy to add support for "non-free" stuff like MP3s and DVDs, just really easy. Server Ubuntu is very nice as well. The Ubuntu Package Manager is just fantastic.
For ultra geeks: Gentoo. Linux optimized for your specific kind of computer, and...
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Okay, so my radio station said "If Lindsey Lohan lived in Wisconsin she'd be snorting cocaine off of bratwurst" do you find this funny, cruel, offensive, some combination of the above, or something completely different (please specify)?
Terribly insulting. She wouldn't be snorting it off bratwurst, she would be snorting it off a nice slice of cheddar. Wisconsin is better known for its cheeses and yet the folks who came up with the idea of what Lindsey Lohan uses to lay out her lines of cocaine decided to insult Wisconsin by not mentioning their cheeses.
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At what age should one consider marriage?
When you can understand the concept. Naturally you should not actually get married until you reach the legal age of marriage and adulthood.
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What is meant by troll (on the internet)? I looked it up on Wikipedia and it said that's it is someone who tries to be inflammatory. But on AB, people are using it differently.
God what an idiot. Did you need help from your mother to get dressed this morning?
Edit: People who downgrade answers which actually present a good definition of what a "troll" actually is are ignorant unintelligent people who wouldn't be able to find their own bottoms with their hands.
Oh, and Hitler too.
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Do you understand yourself?
Wip flibble nip nip nip whee bongo.
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What is the one thing YOU KNOW you are not?
A woman. Granted, I do feel the need to check inside my trousers on a regular basis.
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Exactly what is the definition of a Freudian slip?
A slip is a thin silk undergarment, resembling a nightie, worn under a dress.
A Freudian slip is a slip on which pictures of cigars and trains zooming into tunnels have been printed.
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What are the symptoms of Lyme Disease?
You can't stop thinking about Limes. You start drinking them by squeezing a few of them into a glass of water and not adding any sweeteners. Soon you are sneaking them into your workplace and hiding them in your desk drawers.
I'm afraid that once you get Lime disease, there's just no hope for an easy cure. You're just going to have to go cold turkey and quit Limes...
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Will meat be eaten in paradise?
Of course meat will be eaten in Heaven, because vegetarianism is a SIN!
1 Timothy 4:1,3 "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; ... *commanding to abstain from meats*, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth."
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Ways to remove Jinns from children at age 2?
Put a lock on the liquor cabinet, and offer them chocolate in exchange for the bottles of the different kinds of gins they're currently holding.
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What would you do if, in the blink of an eye, hundreds of millions of people and every young child on earth disappeared into thin air? If you are an atheist, would this make you rethink your decision? Would you remember what the "crazy Christians" said?
No, I'd be worried about my own skin for an entirely different reason: it would be more likely for a multinational corporation to have just done something really stupid, causing the disappearance of millions of people, than for some unproven Deity to have done the same.
A slight alteration to a common phrase: "never attribute to a Deity what can be explained by common stupidity."
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Do atheists consider questioning evolution to be blasphemy?
Atheism is one belief: there is no Deity. With the exception of Young Earth Creationism, Deity is largely irrelevant to whether or not someone believes in Evolutionary Theory.
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What if you found out for sure without a doubt whatsoever that God really does exist, really does love you more than anyone else did/does, and really did send His Son to die for you so that you could live forever with Him? What would be your reaction?
I'd probably ask "since you love everyone more than anyone else has ever loved them, why are you so different from your autobiography?"
Edit: I call your attention to 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12, and await further cowardly anonymous down-modding.
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Atheists, how do you deal with religious family gatherings like christenings, weddings, and funerals? I want to be there for my family's big events, but I end up feeling alienated if not totally disgusted by the service itself. How to deal?
I've been to a lot of job presentations where I'm told by the boss that everything is really great because I'm about to get a piece of laminated paper as a substitute for something more substantial, like a raise or even a half day off. But I go anyway because it is expected of me.
I've been to middle school concerts where one-third of the orchestra didn't practice...
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I'm an atheist, and my family is trying to bribe me to go to church. Should I go? What is your opinion if I do? If I don't? Has this ever happened to you? Do you think it is hypocritical for an atheist to participate in church to appease someone else?
When I think of all the rotten things I've had to do to earn money, being bribed to go sit for an hour and listen to some people singing is a relatively minor activity by comparison.
I don't think it is hypocritical at all for an atheist to attend church to make loved ones happier. I do it all the time for Christmas with the folks. It is a couple hours for Christmas Mass and then...
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Is an Atheist a Pagan?
Depends on the atheist. Some nature worshippers do not believe in Gods and Goddesses as such. The Atheist could be one of those nature worshippers and remain an Atheist.
The difficulty I'm seeing here is the tendency to link mysticism with theism, when the two are separate entities that sometimes mix. For example, Buddhism is mystical without incorporating a Deity.
If you think...
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Are you getting sick of all these atheist questions?
Not entirely. The unexamined life ain't worth living.
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What are the magikal properties of copper?
It makes a great IUD to prevent pregnancy. The most effective IUDs use copper.
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Is there anything in the Bible that is remotely worthy of your respect?
The hot sex in "The Song Of Solomon".
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Do atheists believe those who have experienced paranormal phenomena are delusional at best.. liars at worst?
I don't happen to consider "paranormal" to be possible in the universe. Delusion isn't required for one to latch onto a stupid idea.
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OMFG, did you know that beethoven was deaf?
Yes I did. Granted, I learned this important fact not from music history, but from a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch.
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You were selected by a religious panel to narrow down the ten commandments to just nine. Which one will you take out?
The first two of the eleven commandments.
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Which one was invented first ; Motorcycle or Car?
The car, mostly because the first engine was steam-powered rather than internal combustion. The first car, invented by a guy named Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, hit the road in 1769 in France. The inventor then hit a wall with one of his own cars in 1771, making him the first man to be involved in a motor vehicle accident.
The first motorized bicycle didn't arrive until one was invented in...
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My husband and I do not smoke marijuana... We visit friends who smoke though. We visit these friends about 3 times a week. They smoke in the same room... would my husband fail a drug test if taking it today? He is 6'2 and 155 lbs.
A couple of studies have already been done on this, and the short answer is that he could sit in a car with the doors and windows shut and with four other guys constantly smoking marijuana, and he would not test positive for marijuana. This was one of the studies done on secondhand marijuana smoke.
They also did a study inside a 10 by 12 foot room, wherein four nonsmokers played cards over...
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My 5 month old (female) kitten has suddenly become obsessed with my hair. almost every night at 2:30am she tries to snuggle in my hair or crawl under my neck while I'm sleeping. what can i do to make her stop other than locking her out of the room?
Cats hate the smell of citrus fruits such as lemons and oranges. Find something naturally scented with citrus, such as a body spray, and either spray it directly on your hair or onto a headband or hat that you wear to bed.
She will approach your hair, recoil in horror, and go somewhere that doesn't smell like citrus.
Edit: I agree that this kitten is exhibiting "you are my...
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I keep hearing many news that young kids as young as 2 years or 3 years being raped in different parts of the world. I cant understand what makes them to do this worst act on such innocent souls.
Most of the reasons boil down to hate or to regarding the children as nonpersons. Ethnic cleansing covers most of the hatred, such as in Indonesia.
The mistaken belief that sex with a virgin cures AIDS has led to the widespread rape of children in Africa, and essentially treats the children as nonpersons.
Black markets being the same as unregulated free markets, capitalism bears some of...
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How to create Dynamic Content using Java
O'Reilly, as usual, has a lot of books you should read:
Learning Java, Third Edition
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnjava3/
Java Examples in a Nutshell, Third Edition
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jenut3/
Java Cookbook, Second Edition
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javacook2/
Wicked Cool Java
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270615/
Killer Game Programming in Java...
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Are you a leg man or a breast man?
Breast man, though I like 38C the best.
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Have you ever been to a farmer's market? If so, what is your fondest memory?
My fondest memories of a farmers' market were my parents taking me as a small child to my home town farmers' market. The farmers' market was from 6am to 10:30am Saturday mornings back then, though now the city has added evening farmers' markets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I was always very sad if I accidentally overslept on Saturday morning, as my parents liked to arrive...
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What's the worst thing that LimeWire can do to your computer?
Get you sued for millions by the MPAA or RIAA.
EDIT: Well it is the truth, after all.
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Heinlein or Asimov?
Asimov was better prior to the 1980s. Then Asimov woke up one day in the 1980s and said, "gosh, I'd better write more like Heinlein." And now they are virtually indistinguishable.
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My parent's divorce has had zero effect on me. If anything, I'm happy about it. Is this strange or perhaps insensitive?
Uh oh. You sound like the Strangely Calm Vietnam Veteran.
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How do you explain string theory to a cat?
Dangle six strings in front of the cat, moving them around quickly so the cat is never able to grab any of them.
Eventually the cat will realize it can't understand string theory, and the cat will go have a nap.
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I've been temporarily reduced to dialup Internet (normally have DSL). How did we ever survive this way? And this is 56k...my first modem was 2400 baud.
We survived on a 56K Internet because no one had invented Flash yet and people wrote webpages for 56K modems.
Back in the past we survived at 2400 baud because everything was text-only and most files were really small. I was an assistant to a local Computer Bulletin Board System operator, and one day he upgraded his BBS computer to a staggeringly huge 150MB hard drive. He used a...
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WhaT T.V. Show or movie are you watching right now?
Whats a TV?
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What is the name of the book closest to you
Well I wanted to say something erudite and literary like "Courtship in the Animal Kingdom" by Mark Jerome Walters, but I also had a tape measure nearby.
The actual closest book by about one inch is a technical book called "Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" (Samba is an open-source implementation of the Microsoft network drive sharing protocol).
To be entirely fair...
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What is the slowest modem you have ever owned or used?
To be quite honest, the slowest modem I have ever owned (and used regularly) is 1200 baud.
I was at the champagne party celebrating my home town's state university's upgrade of all its modems to 300 baud (though I was one of the kids drinking fruit juice), but I didn't actually get to use any of the modems.
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You know when you've been using AB too much when...?
When you think that something exciting to do on a Friday night is get on AB...
...and after getting on AB on Friday night, when you stand up for the first time and notice that it isn't Friday evening, but Sunday morning...
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Do men really want to rape a women if they find out she had been raped?
Rape is traumatic and always affects her self-esteem. If she has been raped once already, she probably has a much reduced opinion of herself, and may have felt that she somehow deserved the attack.
A man who knows this fact and is evil enough to rape women, may capitalize on this reduced self-esteem by raping the woman another time. She may be less inclined to fight back this time around,...
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According to popular belief, God gave us the Garden of Eden, which was supposed to be perfect, then a snake came along and screwed everything up. God's plans weren't foolproof. So who's to say that things won't go wrong in heaven?
Assuming for the moment that the Christian God exists as he is described in the Bible, one could argue that the Christian God is so perfect that he wonders what it would be like to fail. To test this hypothesis, he creates situations in which there is the possibility of failure, such as the creation of human beings.
This is a more complicated version of "can God make a rock he...
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If you could have superpowers, what kind of powers would you chose?
I'm going to fall for the psychological trick question and still say "invisibility" instead of "flight".
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How do you feel about a girl who sleeps with more than one guy in the same night? please say if you are m or f
Can I watch?
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My girlfriend has lost interest in sex with me, though she enjoys masturbation. She says she loves me and wants me, but just 'doesn't feel like it.' What can I do?
From an earlier comment you mention that her loss of interest in sex coincided with weight gain. From the context I can assume it was her weight gain.
Body shape changes can lead women and men to feel less sexy and thus less interested in sex. You really need to focus on her and indicate that you find her irresistible. You should spend your time together as if you were engaging in foreplay,...
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My husband wants me to have sex with another man. He would prefer to be in the room but if I am not into it, than without him is fine. What does this say about him?
It says that he is free and open about his sexual fantasies, because you can't get much more open than that kind of weirdo fantasy. No, I'm sorry, its just plain weird. That doesn't take away the fact that he feels he can open up to you.
If you really don't want to sleep with another man but would consider some form of alternative to please him, there are life-size male...
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Mother Teresa was the ___ of love and caring. a. anatomy b. dichotomy c. epitome d. osteopath
Opposite is the right word. In her home base of operations in Calcutta, India, she was referred to as "The Ghoul Of Calcutta." Another example is that she misappropriated funds for disaster victims and sent them to the Vatican instead. A great Catholic, but not a nice person.
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Are you bored?
Oh absolutely. I only come here when I am bored.
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Which other animals have a similar global population to humans?
It has been estimated that there are about the same number of rats in cities as people, so rats would be a good candidate for an animal which has a similar global population to humans.
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Any alternatives to deordorant as I've developed allergies and don't want to be a menace to society?
Depending on the allergies, you may want to try alternative deodorants found in natural health stores.
If those don't work either, you could always try the method George Carlin joked about in a routine: stick a bay leaf under each arm so you'll smell like soup all day.
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Every now and then I come across someone who holds the rather arsehole-esque world-view that the entire Middle East should be nuclear bombed. I wonder, are there many individuals with powerful political positions that share this view?
If the violent actions of an extremist minority was all it took to nuclear bomb a country, then the U.S.A. would be in the Top Ten Countries To Be Nuked.
Most citizens of the Middle East are frightened of (and those who aren't in shooting/exploding range are embarassed by) the violent extremists in their midst, and it would come as a shock to most Middle Easterners that anyone...
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What happens if you don't sleep?
About three days of sleep deprivation feels a lot like a hit of LSD. My advice is take the hit of LSD rather than stay up three days.
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Ive just heard about a new kind of date rape - they sterelise their victems aswell. Have you heard of this? your thoughts please.
This story is a hoax. It dates back to 1999 and was a hoax back then too.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/date-rape-drug.html
http://www.snopes.com/medical/drugs/progesterex.asp
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Can the majority of scientists be wrong? What does history teach us about the majority view of scientists? Is the major problem with evolutionists the unwillingness to accept a Creator which leads to a lack of objectivity?
A "Creator" is an attempt at explaining the beginning of life. The non-Creator version of the attempt to explain the beginning of life is is called "abiogenesis". Neither one is anything like Evolutionary Theory, because Evolutionary Theory is a mechanism, not a "beginning".
History teaches us that the majority view of real scientists is more often right than...
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If a stripper gets breast implants can she write it off on her taxes as a business expense?
Yes she can, or at least there is a U.S. Tax Court precedent for taking it as a business tax deduction.
10 Craziest
Tax Deductions (Deduction #8)
http://money.aol.com/kiplingers/tax/ten-oddball-tax-deductions
Breast Augmentation
To get more tips, a stripper with the stage name "Chesty Love" decided to get breast implants to make her a size 56-FF. A tax court judge allowed...
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If you are in a marriage with a ton of indifference and you meet this amazing woman who you share tons of common interests with and you make love, is it wrong?
Nope, it most certainly is not wrong. At least, in my particular case it wasn't wrong, because I married the wrong person the first time around. My "amazing woman with whom I shared tons of common interests" became my second wife, and we have been married for 8 years come this September.
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Wheres the weirdest place you've ever slept?
In the bleachers of the University of Kansas' Allen Fieldhouse, *during* a KU basketball game. To be fair I was only 9 at the time, but it would be the most unusual place.
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Have you ever fallen asleep during a film?
Yes, Pink Floyd's "The Wall", in an actual movie theater. I had been up for two days prior to watching it and couldn't beg off of a prior committment to see it with friends. It was so embarassing because I liked the film a lot when, some time later, I finally saw it all the way through.
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Why do people force their opinons on someone else?
Because your opinions are completely worthless.
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Do you give good massages?
Yes I do. My spousal unit always appreciates a massage from me, especially as I sometimes break into spontaneous bouts of massage. I frequently go all the way with the heated oil, scented candles, and relaxing music massage.
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Would gas rationing, for personal vehicles, be an answer to high gasoline prices? like 20 gallons per vehicle, per week? wouldn't this treat all motorists equally?
If every car had the same gas mileage then you might have a point, but unfortunately it generally takes a higher-income person to own a high mileage vehicle, and lower-income folks generally own low mileage vehicles.
So your plan would unfairly punish the poor and reward the upper middle and upper class. It isn't fair at all.
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If you witnessed a "homeless" looking person who was very dirty, dressed poorly and abit scary looking having a cardiac arrest, and he/she needed CPR using "mouth 2 mouth" & you were the ONLY one who knew how, would you give it to them? Why or why not?
Actually new research has shown that chest compressions are the most important activity in CPR, and that taking time away from chest compressions to perform "mouth to mouth" actually increases the chances that the person you are performing CPR on will die.
http://www.ohca.org/content/view/472/194/
So no, I wouldn't perform "mouth to mouth" on him, because I would...
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What are the best ways of alerting kids to "stranger danger"?
Walk up to random kids on the street, who you don't know already, and start yelling and screaming at them, while you jump up and down waving your arms. Then they'll know that complete strangers can't be trusted.
If its your kids who need teaching, hire one of your coworkers (someone unlikely to ever meet you socially) to do the same thing to your own kids.
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What "futuristic" device do you want them to come up with next?
Where are our hovercars? They promised us hovercars!
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Do you think it is fair that Paris goes to jail when people like Matthew Broderick, Brandy and Rebecca Gayheart have killed people with vehicles?
Matthew Broderick was involved in an accident, and no alcohol or drugs were involved in the accident. The son of the woman who was killed in the crash gave a public statement exonerating Matthew Broderick from blame in the accident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Broderick
Brandy killed someone in an accident on the freeway. She was driving the legal speed limit and didn't...
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If a deity is all-powerful, can a deity create an object so heavy that the deity cannot lift it?
Probably, but I bet that if he could get Jesus involved, and convince the Holy Spirit to stop haunting houses in the U.K., all three of them could together lift a rock that God by himself can't lift.
I guess if you don't believe in the Trinity then your God really can make a rock he can't lift.
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Should some AB questions be retired after 100+ answers? Aren't you sick of seeing the same old Qs at the top of the list 1 year later?
Absolutely not. It would be like moderating the questions for content which isn't explicitly banned by the rules, which in turn would lead to all kinds of headaches for the staff:
"Why did you erase the question 'If you visited Ireland, where would you go first?'??? Are you racist against the Irish???".
Besides, the link to "Latest Q&A" is very...
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What are some pros AND cons of AB?
Pros: You can ask a question and get it answered by an AB user.
Cons: You discover that AB attracts some of the stupidest people in the entire world to become AB users.
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Why do men feel so uncomfortable in Victoria's Secret?
Men are insecure in Victoria's Secret because no one is actually wearing the merchandise and nothing else.
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If you're married, do you wear your wedding ring?
Yes, it never comes off.
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What actual 'work' has God done other than his original 6 days? Is he really deserving of eternal worship given that he has only really worked for 6 days in all of eternity?
Well he did have sex once and knocked up the woman, but unlike many men today acknowledged that he had a son.
Of course, he didn't marry his child's mother (while insisting that everyone else should marry before sex, and especially after sex and pregnancy), didn't pay child support, never came to visit, and arranged his son's early death.
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What is the difference between the Old Covenant and the new?
The new covenant was, metaphorically speaking, when Hitler shaved off his mustache and claimed he was a completely different person.
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If men could get pregnant, do you think they'd be more responsible in life?
Heck no. For starters, abortion would be legalized in about three seconds.
Most pregnancies that actually made it to term because the man in question was too distracted by online porn and football, would result in terribly disfigured and disabled children (give up beer?????).
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Which character in " friends" comes closest in representing you
Erika Ford (played by Brooke Shields)
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Men: Do you think wearing a condom is like trying to wash your feet with socks on? I heard that statement in a bar one night. Wanna know what you think?
Nope.
Not wearing a condom is like washing a toilet with your face.
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What is an example of a righteous action that causes a negative outcome?
Voting Republican.
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Would you kill a pedophile if you had the chance?
Nope, I'd reserve that pleasure for his fellow inmates at one of America's Maximum Security Prisons. Most prisoners in American prisons really don't like child rapists and child killers.
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What are the fundamental beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses?
First Fundamental Belief of Jehovah's Witnesses:
Unbelievers should not be allowed to sleep in on Saturday mornings.
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WHO IS IT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR?
Go 'way, don't come 'round here no more.
Can't you see that it's late at night?
I'm very tired, and I'm not feeling right.
All I wish is to be alone;
Stay away, don't you invade my home.
Best off if you hang outside,
Don't come in - I'll only run and hide.
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How can I rename a file that says cannot rename file access is denied?
You need a nice little utility called Unlocker. When a file insists that it is locked by an application, Unlocker pops up and tells you which application is locking the file, and offers to unlock the file for you. Click Unlock and the file is unlocked for you.
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
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Is carbonated water good or bad for you? Better than normal water?
Bad for you, plain water is much better.
http://www.vaxa.com/healthtip/wht-bone-integrity.cfm
"What we do know is that [gastrointestinal] doctors are aware that carbonated beverages like sodas can exacerbate a condition known as GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), which has been linked to esophageal cancer."
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In your opinion, who won the Republican Presidential Debate?
None, all of them were pretty stupid.
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Who's the victim, if any, in abortion?
If someone else forces/coerces a woman to have an abortion then she is a victim, otherwise there is no victim.
If she doesn't get the choice to have an abortion she is a victim then too.
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Why do people think it is okay to just reach over and grab food from you?
Because they think they deserve to eat your yummy deep-fried bull testicles more than you do?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_deep_fried_what;_ylt=AgpI5zO76HKO.RnjXoni.w7tiBIF
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How do you believe the world began?
Random events controlled by gravitational constants formed the world out of floating pieces of rock and basic elements formed at the beginning of the Universe.
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Why to rock singers carry the whole mike stand around, instead of just the mike?
Penis imagery. An entire microphone stand is a much bigger penis than a short microphone.
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Should prostitution be legalised ? Do the benefits of legalisation or decriminalization outweigh the possible dangers?
It has been suggested I do some research on legal versus illegal prostitution, and I was not particularly surprised at what I found.
It has been claimed that legal prostitutes and legal brothels ignore the laws. While no one has provided any evidence yet to support this claim, law enforcement agents regularly ignore the laws when selectively prosecuting prostitutes (where prostitution is...
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Why is scientology so creepy?
Because they make their members sign billion year contracts agreeing to work without pay in the service of Scientology, in exchange for nothing more than therapy?
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Which was your favorite Matrix movie?
What do you mean which one? There was only one *Matrix* movie ever made. All others are merely bad dreams and should be discounted as the products of a deranged imagination.
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Do the Iraqi people really want our "help"? And are we really helping or are we just atracting terrorists to an already messed up situation, you know "Fight them there so we don't have to fight them here"mess up there place not ours?
Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation
By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted May 9, 2007.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/51624/
"More than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected for the first time on Tuesday the continuing occupation of their country. The U.S. media ignored the story."
IRAQ TO AMERICA: GET OUT....
November 21,...
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Is there such a thing as a stupid question?
Wow, what a stupid question.
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Why do guys love blow jobs and is it true you can never have a bad blow job?
We like the feeling of superiority, of the woman bowing before us to perform an act pleasurable to us men only.
We try to forget that her teeth surround our collective penis.
You can only have a bad blow job relative to the best blow job you have ever had.
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Why do public schools teach Scripture?
Of course public schools teach Scripture, like Missouri's public schools.
http://www.jewsonfirst.org/06a/public063.html
Or Georgia's public schools.
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070501/27187_Ga._Schools_Cautious_on_Bible_Classes.htm
Or Texas, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania public schools.
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Do you believe that the Theory of Evolution and the Bible are compatible? Why or Why Not?
Yes, if you look at Genesis as a metaphor rather than as an actual timeline. If you look at evolutionary history things happen in multi-million year timespans, so what is commonly called Old Earth Creationism is reasonably in line with Evolutionary Theory: "God did it, he just used Evolution to accomplish all Life, and a 'day' to God is several million years to us." Old...
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What is the best season to get married?
June and September, because the best times for blooming roses are June and September.
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Are you married? Happily, or not?
I'm married.
We fight frequently and make up afterwards.
Happiest I've ever been in my life.
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When Jesus walked the earth, was he a Jehovah's Wittness?
No, he didn't bang on peoples doors on Saturday mornings and wake people up to hand them clay tablets telling them how great he was.
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Do you take off your wedding ring?
I never take my wedding ring off.
Its presence on my hand improves the food I make.
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How sure are you that there is or is not a God? , From 0-100% (0 being totally sure there is not, 100 being totally sure there is.)
0% (or 100% certain that God does not exist).
With Deities there are only two choices: 0% and 100%. Either you don't think Deity exists or you have some reason to think Deity does exist. There is no middle ground ("agnostics" are merely weak theists) as there is nothing from which Deity is a logical, scientific progression. You cannot point to any one thing or group of...
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Should prostitution be legalised ? Do the benefits of legalisation or decriminalization outweigh the possible dangers?
Absolutely. Only ban something if you want people to get killed over it. Decriminalization's benefits outweigh...what dangers?
The top reason for the increase in the divorce rate is the creation of no-fault divorce laws, followed closely by money and then by poor communication. Infidelity is only number four on the list, making arguments about prostitution increasing divorce to be...
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If you were locked in a windowless room with a famous person (living or dead) for 48 hours, who would you LEAST want to be stuck with?
Any famous person who is dead. 48 hours is enough time for them to start to stink, and some of them have been dead for years!
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Do you believe that Christianity is valid and not a commercial scam? Why?
I don't think it is valid, but it is no more a commercial enterprise than anything else. There are free kittens to good homes and then there are catteries, but this does not mean because a pregnant cat giving birth can be a commercial event, that every pregnant cat giving birth is a commercial event.
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How come murdering a pregnant woman is double homicide but abortion is legal?
The answer is pretty darn obvious: fetuses aren't legally human beings so what is done about people killing them is entirely up to the individual, and some individuals serve as elected representatives.
Edit: Of course I'm going to get modded down by the "women should die in childbirth" crowd.
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Are you going to answer the phone?
No, its just that annoying caller who keeps saying "Seven Days! Ssssseven Days!"
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Is there any truth to the claim that young people are converting to Wicca after reading "Harry Potter" novels?
Christian websites keep saying that interest in Wicca, spells, and witchcraft increased 200% in 2004 as a result of the release of the Harry Potter series. Of course, none of them ever point to the actual statistics, which is vitally important to determining whether or not any of this is even worth the time to think about it: if the interest to start with was 1,000 people a year, a 200%...
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How many gods and goddess's, are there in the pagan / wicca
beliefs ? are the same for every pagan?
Wicca is a religion with as many gods and goddesses as the individual member desires, including zero.
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Does Paris Hilton deserve to go to jail for 45 days? Should she get "special treatment"? Will she be more famous when she gets out?
She deserves whatever jail time the judge sentenced her to serve.
After I read that she "didn't know her license was suspended" while driving 45MPH over the speed limit in darkness with her headlights off, I have no sympathy whatsoever.
She should serve the same time as anyone else. As for being more famous, people get more famous from prison time spent doing some...
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Should Congress ban all illegal immigrants out of the United States?
Yes, it will give them something to do instead of banning civil rights.
There is the added bonus that banning illegal immigrants will have no effect whatsoever on the presence of illegal immigrants in America, so everyone wins.
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MY GIRLFRIEND IS NOT INFECTED BY HIV AIDS NOR AM I INFECTED. IF I F**K MY GIRLFRIENDS A** WITHOUT USING CONDOM IS THERE CHANCE OF GETTING AIDS?
No. One of you has to have HIV/AIDS to give it to the other person. Anal sex by itself does not cause HIV/AIDS.
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There is a virus/worm doing the rounds, when you are using firefox, it automatically shuts it down and says 'use internet explorer'. Does anybody know a permanent solution to this problem?
One word: Linux
An added bonus is that you can use the same PC and not have to buy an entirely new Macintosh computer.
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Why do most Christians find Wicca holy icons to be Demonic, such as pentagrams, etc.?
What is novel about the pentagram as a "demonic symbol" is that it appears not only in the Bible as a symbol given to men by God as a protective symbol, but also appears in some poetry with a decidedly Christian explanation as to the symbol's meaning.
The Archangel Michael gave King Solomon a ring engraved with a pentagram, which he used to control and protect himself from...
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What Wiccan denomination/tradition is the girl in the movie "The Craft"?
Playgan
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Do love potions or spells really work?
Love potions and love spells need to be approached in the right way to have the preferred effect. You need to keep the perspective of changing yourself rather than changing others. Forcibly changing others, at least according to the Threefold Law, would result in something three times as bad happening back to you in return, and probably including the end of your forced relationship.
So you...
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Is it possible to be Wiccan and not believe in a god and goddess?
Yes it is possible, I'm an atheist Wiccan.
According to this website, atheist Wiccans are termed "Zororastrian Pagans", or in other words "Gods would only get in the way."
http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=11726
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In Wicca, is there a difference between "white magick" and "black magick"?
I don't see a difference between the two, all magick is both black and white. The universe is about balance. Magick is about subtle alteration of that balance for a particular human being or group thereof, be it you, your group, or someone else or their group.
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I would like to learn more info about Paganism and Wicca (both). Where can I find some good information, either in books or online? Are there any points you think I should know?
One exception to the "no Llewellyn books" rule I would make is Scott Cunningham's "Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner". Unless you already are aware of a Wicca group in your area, chances are you will be starting your exploration of Wicca all by yourself.
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Do Wiccans really use wands or ride broomsticks?
I don't bother with wands. Kitchen witchcraft all the way for me.
I did jump a broom when I got handfasted 8 years ago (and counting!).
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Who shouldnt you show your book of shadows to?
Christians with guns.
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As a Wiccan, are you a monotheist (all God/desses spring from a single source), a duotheist (all God/desses spring from one Goddess and one God), or a polytheist (all God/desses are separate and individual)? Or, none of the above?
Speaking as an atheist Wiccan (I believe the technical term is "Zororastrian Pagan", i.e. "Gods would only get in the way"), I would say none of the above.
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Does believeing in reincarnation mean i'm not a full Wiccan
Well it would depend on what form of reincarnation in which you believe. Wicca is a nature religion and nature generally recycles itself, so the type of reincarnation which holds that humans can end up in, for example, newborn baby bunnies, would be entirely consistent with Wicca.
You might have a little more trouble getting conventional "from humans into humans" reincarnation to...
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Is a musilm girl allowed to have hair extensions that are synthenic
The wearing of hair extensions, from real hair or synthetics, is forbidden to Muslims.
In fact, not only are you forbidden to wear them, you cannot make hair extensions and sell them to non-Muslims.
Edit: Some Backing for this answer:
http://muttaqun.com/hair.html
Fake Hair
Hadith - Bukhari 4:674, Narrated Humaid bin 'Abdur-Rahman , see also Bukhari 4:694, 7:816
That he...
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Can you give ip address to a switch?
It would depend on the type of switch. A conventional switch which merely transmitted packets between connections does not have a control module that could be assigned an IP address, so it does not require an IP address. This is the category most switches fall into, especially switches intended for the home user.
A high-end switch with additional features has a control module with its own...
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What are the odds against a random sequence of events resulting in the emergence of life on Earth?
Since the emergence of life on Earth has already occurred due to a random sequence of events, I'd say that the chance of it occurring is 100%.
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Who were the money changers? Why did Christ throw them out of the Temple? Were the money changers gambling?
The money changers in the Temple were there because of the Roman occupation and the insistence that Jews pay for their sacrifices in shekels. The Romans only allowed Roman currency in their conquered nations, so if you wanted to make a sacrifice in the Temple you had to exchange your Roman currency for Temple currency.
The money changers provided this service in the Temple courtyard, but...
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How do I take it slow and keep things casual? I tend to go from getting to know someone to serious relationship and would like to be able to take things slower.
Masturbate before every date (if a woman, masturbate to exhaustion). This will let you interact with your special someone without thinking about getting them into bed, and the good vibes from your recent activities will mellow you out the whole evening through.
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If homosexual marriage were legalized, would you save sex for marriage
Define "sex". Traditionally penetration is required for it to be "premarital sex". Everything else is just "heavy petting".
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If christians have funerals at churchs, where do athiest have funerals at?
They're held where your survivors want to hold the funeral.
Case in point: my nearly atheist mother-in-law got not only a church funeral, but a full-blown Christian revival band complete with someone playing a saw (sounds kinda like a theremin).
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Do atheists believe that Jesus Christ lived on earth approximately 2000 years ago?
Jesus existed approximately 2000 years ago. And so did Jesus, and Jesus, and Jesus, and Jesus, and Jesus, and that other Jesus, and whats his name, oh right, Jesus, and about a few hundred other Jesuses.
Which makes the whole issue of using 1st century B.C.E. and 1st century C.E. documents to claim that Jesus Christ existed somewhat problematical: which Jesus were they talking about? None...
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What do atheists believe about creation?
I don't think that a Supreme Being created everything, but thats just a logical extension of not believing in a Deity.
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When did atheism first become a mainstream belief system?
The oldest profession in the world is Shaman.
The people who said "hang on a minute, he's getting all our food and pretty things because he says there's a Deity who will punish us unless we give him food and pretty things, but he can't actually prove any of it" were Atheists.
So I'd say that Atheism became mainstream about the same time that some human got...
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I'm an Atheist. Can anybody proove that what I believe is wrong?
I don't like the question. I arrived at my own proof. What other people think is generally immaterial, because their experiences aren't identical to my own.
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Will the Flying Spaghetti Monster punish Atheists?
Arrrr Matey!
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What do you think about Pascal's Wager?
This is for those who have never heard about Pascal's Wager before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager
I'd prefer opinions rather than just copying stuff out of Wikipedia, but if you happen to share an opinion or a comment with Wikipedia then by all means share it.
EDIT:
A more accurate phrasing of the Pascal's Wager possibilities (assuming for the...
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Any thoughts on Madalyn Murray O'Hair?
I think the real question "he" is asking is "does atheism have philosophical leaders like religion has religious leaders?"
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On what did you base your decision to be atheist?
One day I discovered I was a Catholic "going through the motions". I realized that I had gone up to the last Catholic Sacrament before the choice between Marriage or Priesthood, entirely because I had never been presented with an alternative. I hadn't received any kind of divine guidance or revelation.
I was fair to religion, I gave it more chances. Clearly a couple billion...
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If you're an atheist, will you still say things like "Oh My God!" and what not?
Sure! And when I'm surprised, I also say quite a lot of other things my parents said while growing up, some of which (like "oh my god") I'd rather not repeat here in mixed company.
We learn to say things as children which continue into adulthood regardless of how we change as adults. When surprised, we revert to the outbursts we learned as children, regardless of our...
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If you don't believe in a creator or spiritual part of our nature, how do you explain our common urge to do the right thing, even at our own peril (against what evolution would suggest we do)?
I'm always amused when someone comes along claiming that evolution means killing off every member of your species until you are the only one left to enjoy the resources, the natural implication of "evolution means you wouldn't do the right thing."
We have a common urge to support our fellow human beings because that is what is best for species survival. That is what...
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What do atheists believe in?
I believe in something?
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Why is Athiesm under religion on AnswerBag... sorry this just doesn't make sense to me.
Because theists insist that atheists actually do believe in a religion, they are just putting on a public face of atheism. According to theism, it isn't that atheists actually think Deity does not exist, its that they would prefer that Deity doesn't exist.
I understand that the anti-homosexual brigade uses a similar hypothesis when considering the existence of homosexuality.
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Are you atheist? (Don't preach)
I'm an atheist. I got here not by default but through studying religions. I think that the First Amendment's "Freedom of Religion" should include me, but until our Fearless Leader agrees I still think freedom of religion is a good thing.
If I stated my reasons for thinking this then I would be preaching.
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What do you think the 28th Amendment should be?
I'd change the wording of the First Amendment from:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
to:
"Congress shall make no law."
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Has there ever been a documented case of a psychic who never made an incorrect prediction?
Perfection generally is not connected to being human. Why psychics need to be held to higher standards than doctors, psychologists, and even firefighters is beyond me. Skeptics must just delight in attacking some people and conveniently ignoring other people.
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If psychics really work, why can't they predict the winning lottery numbers?
I've heard it said among psychics that seeing the future, present, and past, is rather like looking through a keyhole and interpreting the image. Some psychics have their "eyes" a bit closer to the keyhole than others, but every psychic has a limited range of view. As such, its a lot harder to read a set of numbers, but a lot easier to see emotions on faces. Even slightly...
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I am a single mom looking for ideas on ways to make enough money to support my kids.I have no college & no job experience that amounts to anything worthwhile.I am stictly looking for ways to make $.Don't say Burger King cuz their min. wage pays nothing.
I'm splitting up my answers because this one might get modded down and I think the other one is a bit better.
A mom with school-age kids, ironically, might be best off with an overnight telephone sex line job. They pay very well (around $15-$20 an hour) and require almost no experience (the, umm, "you-know" experience is a plus but not required). You would go to work at the...
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I am a single mom looking for ideas on ways to make enough money to support my kids.I have no college & no job experience that amounts to anything worthwhile.I am stictly looking for ways to make $.Don't say Burger King cuz their min. wage pays nothing.
Make a lot of friends, fast, and then pump them for jobs. I had a bit of training and college already, but the job market around here is a little weird and I couldn't find a decent job. Then a friend of mine popped up and said "Come work where I work! You'll get to work in your field for five months (tech support for tax preparers during the U.S. tax season) and they give you...
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So what exactly is supposed to be a 'gay lifestyle'?
There's a gay lifestyle. It looks almost exactly like the straight lifestyle. The only real difference between the two is that the straight man will be holding the hand of a woman, while the gay man will be holding the hand of a man.
Okay, both men will want to skip the hand holding and hop right into bed, but you get the general idea.
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Is it a sign of the times so many people are diagnosed with depression, or were they just previously suffering in silence and now feel the strength to speak out about it?
I think that the gradual acceptance that mental illness is not a "character flaw" has caused more people to seek psychological treatment. This in turn causes the number of people diagnosed with depression to shoot upwards, but it doesn't necessarily indicate that more people are depressed now than in the past.
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I am depressed and it is affecting every relationship I have. I am a single mom and don't have the money for a doctor or medications. Any "natural" recommendations?
I have been underemployed for three years and I still managed to get in to see a psychologist AND a psychiatrist AND get medications, for about $15 a month.
Your local county frequently has a County Mental Health Center or something similar, and they have very good sliding scales and prescription drug programs. My standard fee at my extremely low income level was $6 per 1 hour session, $3...
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Does anyone know if someone is bipolar, could it make them love someone one month and hate them the next and repeat again and again?
Or even faster. It has been recognized that being bipolar can result in changes which last hours, not necessarily days.
However, another condition can cause similar issues: Borderline Personality Disorder. There's a book written on BPD, called "I Hate You, Don't Leave Me", and the title pretty much sums it up.
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Is 24 years old too young to have depression?
I've been officially, clinically depressed since I was 12, when I had my first nervous breakdown accompanied by a blackout period.
24 seems a little too *old* to be having depression, though this comment is tongue-in-cheek.
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How can someone forget about past mistakes?
You can forget about the ones which don't follow you around for the rest of your life. No, I'm not talking about procreation.
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When someone asks about ways to die and is clearly suicidal do you think it acceptable to give funny and stupid answers?
Nope. I ask them about methods they've considered and I point out either how those methods will fail in ways which will leave them alive and ever more miserable, or that those methods will really kill them but give them plenty of time to reconsider without allowing them to back out.
Part of the reason people kill themselves is that they just aren't thinking straight. I step in...
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I'm seriously depressed, anyone got any general words of positive encouragement to help me out?
I've got something that seems unpositive but you really have to think about it to realize that the life you have could be a whole lot worse.
*All suicide methods suck.*
The methods which are guaranteed to work (such as tall buildings) give you plenty of time to reconsider without giving you a chance to back out.
The methods which aren't guaranteed to work (such as guns,...
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What do you do when you feel stressed out to relax?
I bake bread. No bread machines for me, honest yeast bread. People talk about punching bags and exercise, but part of bread making is kneading the dough, and that is so much better than punching bags and exercising.
Kneading involves punching the dough. Dough feels soft and supple, like the face of that boss at work who has handed you too much work and expects to have it all done in two...
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My boyfriend can only achieve orgasm from porn and masturbation. He wants to make this work, but will he ever be able to enjoy me?
Anorgasmia (otherwise known as Inhibited/Delayed ejaculation) can be caused by prescription antidepressants such as common SSRIs (Prozac, Zoloft, Effexor) and some of the stronger varieties. If he is taking any of these prescription psychiatric medications he may be experiencing drug-induced anorgasmia.
Since our society frowns on mental illness as a "character flaw", he might not...
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Is it possible with Identical Twins that one twin be heterosexual and the other be homosexual?
Actually yes. The twin studies to determine if homosexuality was genetic used cases in which one twin was already known to be homosexual. Flipping the figures around, in 48% of male identical twins cases in which one twin was gay, the other twin was heterosexual. The original studies still found that homosexuality was slightly more prevalent among both if one was homosexual, but it was...
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If you found a cell pohne on the side walk....what would you do with it?
I've already got a wireless phone which suits my needs, so if there was no "Home" number to call to return the phone, I'd donate it to one of those programs for battered women's shelters which gives out wireless phones to battered women so they can always dial 911. The phones do not require activation to be used as 911 phones, as there's a law which says...
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Do you find it easy to forgive?
it is a lot easier to forgive those that you know than those that you don't, at least this has been true for me.
However, the understanding of the situation is the primary reason for forgiving or not forgiving. Just the other day I got lividly angry about a particularly complex problem a technical training class instructor gave to me in class, mostly because he wasn't able to...
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How much do you know about other religions? Which one religion you would like to know more?
I came out of Catholicism but I passed through a lot of other religions first looking for Deity. I even went as far as Confirmation (one of them Catholic Sacraments) because no one offered an alternative. I was an Altar Boy long after most Altar Boys quit (they usually get out by 13, I was one until I was 16).
One day I realized I'd spent the last six Sunday Masses without any kind of...
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If God (of whatever religion) made us all, why did he make some of us not believe in him?
If we're going to use the Bible God, then according to the Bible, "God" *makes* atheists. Romans 9:15-18. John 6:44. And then he makes sure they *stay* atheists. 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12.
The Bhagavad Gita makes a similar reference to Krishna commanding you to do something which is wrong, and then punishing you if you do it or if you don't do it. BTW I gave a $5...
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Jesus or Santa?
Santa. He's more likely to exist.
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Do you say "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays"?
I say "Merry Yule" and "Happy New Year". The former is a religious expression and the latter is a non-religious holiday.
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If a person's first sexual intercourse is against his/her will, should that be counted as past sexual partner/loss of virginity?
I'm going out on a limb here and say something which will probably get modded down due to the other answers, but in nearly every culture and religion in the world a woman who is raped (penile-vaginal) is considered to no longer be a virgin. There is also the nature of the physical penetration, as this is also a traditional sign of loss of virginity.
I can see if someone doesn't...
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Is is ethically wrong to sell something that was received as a gift?
Situational ethics apply. Strictly speaking you have received all disposal rights with the gift, it is your right to do what you want with the gift. The only thing which really matters is your own opinion of what would be the proper thing to do with the gift. A better question would be "is it ethically wrong to immediately divest yourself of something you just received as a gift?"...
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Do you believe in the physical manifestation of either good or evil?
Yes. Hi! (to both).
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Do you think that you can take most Answerbaggers at "face value" or there are still a lot of yarns being spun?
Oh my yes, we're all spinning huge yarns all the time, including this one.
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Do you fear death?
Nope, its the "how you die" part that has me a little worried. There are way too many unpleasant ways to die.
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Why is communism considered bad?
I think there's a basic confusion about Communism given that we really haven't seen it practiced for any length of time.
One basic misconception is that Stalinism is communism. What Stalin came up with was a totalitarian dictatorship (or possibly an oligarchy, haven't decided yet). He just stole the name of Communism because it sounded better than dictatorship. Many of the...
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What is the true meaning of christmas?
The turning of the Wheel of the Year four days previous to December 25th. The recognition that the Sun has been reborn once again after the longest night.
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If God (of whatever religion) made us all, why did he make some of us not believe in him?
Why should an omnipotent, omniscient being care at all what a bunch of (metaphorical) bacteria thinks?
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Would it be appropriate to say, "Merry Christmas" to all at AB?
The Sun came up yesterday, so Merry Yule to all!
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My girlfriend has never seen a porn video before and wants me to watch one with her. Should I be worried?
Nope, though you might want to read some porn video reviews and pick out something more along the lines of "normal sex". You'll want to avoid the more extreme varieties of sex since she has never seen a porn video before.
Obviously it will not be "normal" sex, but if you can get something fairly close to the real thing it won't be a traumatic experience for...
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My man looks at porn about twice a week. I don't like it. Do I have a problem, or does he?
Porn can be an addiction and porn can be a sign of problems in the relationship.
However, porn can be a sexual release in a perfectly healthy relationship in which both partners are frequently not in the same room and frequently don't have the time to "hook up". Take my case: my wife works nights and I work days. I get up at about the same time she goes to bed, and vice...
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How much of a priority is sex in your relationship, and how serious is your relationship?
At the beginning my (at the time, soon to be) wife had a much stronger sex drive than myself. Sex was still important to me, it just wasn't as high a priority as it was to her. Our relationship has remained very serious. Heck, there was that wedding 7 years ago.
As we grow old together sex becomes, well, interesting, in ways we never had to deal with before. Fortunately we have a...
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Is it really true that once you have sex with your boyfriend this ruins all possibility of marriage as well as respect he had for you? Dr. Laura preaches that once a woman does this, she considered nothing more than an unpaid hooker....Thoughts?
I'd say it depends more on the partner than on the sex. If he "loses" respect for you *after* sex, I'd bet with very good odds that he didn't respect you at all *before* the sex.
I lived with my current wife of 7 years for 3 years prior to our wedding. Two years prior to moving in together, we were already sleeping together.
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At what age did you lose your virginity or haven't you yet? And what age are you now?
19. I'm 35 now.
The only problem is that I wish I'd waited a little longer. Hurry this sort of thing and you might get a lousy first sexual experience like I did.
You don't have to wait until marriage and you don't have to wait for your soulmate, but you should wait until you end up with someone you like. That alone makes the whole experience more fun than...
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I have found a condom on my husband's jean's pocket. is he cheating on me?
Your story sounds like he is cheating, but I sometimes keep a condom around in a pocket. We're old enough that pregnancy is very unlikely, and neither one of us sleeps around so disease is not an issue.
The problem is that, well, sex without a condom is *messy*. Use one and everything is in this easily disposed little "bag". So if we're out and about together, and...
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What is the best free online role playing game?
Shell out US$40 for the "Diablo II" game and "Diablo II: Lord of Destruction" expansion pack. Then play free with lots of other people on Battle.Net.
I happen to enjoy that game very much. You learn tricks from other people on how to achieve higher levels, and you always run into people who are only too happy to give you free stuff (such as me).
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What supplements are the males actors in xxx adult movies using to maintain long lasting erections.
I don't know about getting the erections in the first place as I've never had trouble with that, but I can tell you that another part of maintaining an erection is to control stimulation. I have had my suspicions of how male porn stars achieve this self-control, and I have had one experience I would like to share which is what I think they are doing.
WARNING: **I am not a medical...
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Are you left handed or right handed, when you write?
I do not believe the ten percent figure is accurate, do you?
Left hand. I cannot write at all with my right hand.
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If Adam and Eve were the first humans, did they look like monkeys, as that's where evolution tells us we started?
I've always had the odd little daydream of "perhaps Adam and Eve were a collective pair of evolved beings, representing the level of consciousness when human beings started to develop the concept of 'right' and 'wrong'."
Obviously the Genesis authors didn't have that sort of thing in mind when they wrote Genesis, but it makes for an interesting modern...
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Do you know who the first person to get drunk in the Bible was?
No one saw that the very beginning of the Bible has an example of drunkeness:
Genesis 2:25 "The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame."
Clearly they are both drunk. Then they sober up:
Genesis 3:7 "Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked"
I would tend to assume that no one answering this question has ever...
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How do you distinguish a person who believes in God VS a person who practices the Christian religion? Not a trick question. No penalty points. But, BONUS points for simple, clear answers.
I'm going to assume that you mean the Christian God here, as without that distinction it *is* a trick question.
Christianity is long on belief and short on ritual, so it is difficult to "practice" Christianity without belief.
I have heard that Islam is roughly the opposite, requiring more ritual than belief. Judaism also is a mostly ritual religion, which is why there...
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Why do people so vehemently attack the Jehova's Witnesses for their beliefs?
They wake us up on Saturday Mornings.
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I am fourteen and have never had a girlfriend in my life. Is this okay?
I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 17, then not again until 19.
I don't think it is at all bad to not have a girlfriend at the age of 14. The girls and women we come to like very much are out there, but there is no set "schedule" for their arrival in our lives.
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What percentage, or other statistical figure, of gays and lesbians turn straight every year? What are some of the common reasons for the change in sexual orientation?
I'm sure there are a fairly high percentage of gays and lesbians who ACT straight every year, but none of them are actually "turning straight."
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