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What was your Great Grandmother's first name? Maternal grandmother's mother: Mary Maternal grandfather's mother: Birdie Paternal grandmother's mother: Mary Paternal grandfather's mother: Elizabeth

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What exactly does it mean that God will never give you anything you can't handle? It seems He gives many people things they can't handle. For example: Mental illness. People with mental illness don't have to "handle it" - the people who live with them do. That being said, it's an un-Biblical, feel-good, ra-ra, ruggid indvidualist, American health-n-wealth cult, drivel by a self-help guru. The Bible does say that God will never allow you to be tempted beyond your ability to resist. It also teaches that the Will of God will never...

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In your opinion, if a man tells his gf he does NOT want to be a father and she assures him she's on the pill, but she still gets pregnant, does that man have to pay child support anyway? Even on the pill, a woman can get pregnant. If she never misses a dose and never takes the wrong pill, she still has about a 1% chance of getting pregnant over a year's time, and a 10% chance (1-.99^10) of getting pregnant over 10 years. So they're both still gambling, and thus both assumed the associated risks and financial liability for the results. So, yes. Now, if she tells...

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If God didn't allow Adam and Eve to eat out of the Tree of Life, why didn't God just put the tree in a very inaccessible spot? Or at least put up a "force field" of some kind ot ensure that Adam and Eve never even touched it? You're confusing the Tree of Life with the Tree of the DECIDING of God and Evil. In the end, after Adam's fall, that's exactly what God does do: He makes the Tree of Life inaccessible to them ... though an Angel with a flaming sword isn't exactly a "force field", functionally it doesn't make much difference. As for the Tree of the Deciding of Good and...

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Is war the answer or should peace be resolved? The answer to what? Where? When? A criminal nation will launch a war because (a) it wants or is willing to benefit itself, no matter how terrible the expense to others AND (b) thinks it will win. An excessively proud nation (when they think they'll win) will wage wars against any nation that doesn't kowtow before them. (That's unusual now, but it was pretty much the...

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Was JRR Tolkien trying to relate Lord of The Rings to the real world in any way, or was it just meant as a fantasy world with a completely fictional story? Yes, but not to anything specifically. Nothing in it is meant to be an allegory for specific persons or events; rather it is a story of universal "applicability" by all readers in all times. The reader - ANY reader - could read it and feel it in some way applied to him, his situation, and his worldview, finding insights and resonance with his own experiences. For example, The Ring...

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What countries are NOT affected by the current economic downturn? South American countries in general: their banks and investor classes weren't significantly invested in the G8 markets, banks, or government securities; they aren't particularly dependent on exports to North America, Europe & Asia; AND they have a strong agricultural base, excellent mineral resources, a growing population in the productive age ranges (18-49), and increasing...

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Led Zeppelin or Graf Zeppelin? Alchemist ... The question was really about whether you’d be more in your element/at home at a Led Zeppelin concert or flying in style on the Graf Zeppelin. Also, the Hindenburg (LZ-129) was the German airship that exploded. It was only in service for a year: June 1936 to June 1937. It crashed at the US Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N.J. The Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127) was the first...

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What do you think about religion? Hate it or love it and why? I'm indifferent-to-inimical to every almost every religion but the right and true one: orthodox/biblical/historical Christianity, though I do have a great deal of respect for Judaism... and a good bit of sympathy/empathy/resonance with animism. But what I really hate are (1) anti-religious, atheist, secularist a--holes who insist that all religions are equally false, and (2) PC...

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Myth or fact? What have you heard/ learned about Judaism and have wondered if it's really true? Is it true that if you ask 2 rabbis 1 question, you'll get 3 answers, 2 more questions, and a quizzical anecdote that turns the whole thing on its head?

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How do you feel when you hear the Shofar? Ready and hungry for battle! And joyeous to know that God is here and leading the way! (Lets go kick some Canaanite ass!)

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Why are words that begin with "h" followed by an "an" if it's a consonant and not a vowel? I.e., an historic moment. Because the rule applies to the beginning sound, not the letter. Silent Hs are easy enough to comprehend - an honor -vs. a horse. But even a soft H (an H-sound pronounced before an unstressed vowel, followed by a second syllable that is stressed) requires "an": an historian vs. a histrionic. The reason behind all of them is the same: you use "an" instead of...

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It what situations does "less is more" apply? When you move to a country where you're making only half as much as you made in the States, but with much shorter hours, more vacation time, no commute, and a cost of living that's a tenth of what it was in the States! - from a man who's now living the good life in Thailand!

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Why sometimes, love is not enough? If by "love" you mean a sweet soapy feeling arising out the mating instinct, then, no matter how wonderful or intense, it will wax and wane as all such feelings do; it is of little value in the day to day requirements of living together in the real world. If by LOVE you mean a committment to stand by the other person, care for the other person, and to do anything that's proper...

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Is it okay to "let" young children win games, or is that giving them the impression that they can never lose? It's a case by case judgment call. Even champion horse trainers when training their most promising thoroughbreds for the racing circuit will train them by racing them against another horse whose jockey forces it to lose. The purpose of this is to build confidence (and testosterone) in the horse they're preparing for the Triple Crown. (Yes, it's a scientific/medical fact...

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Do you believe the ruins located in the Atlantic Ocean are those of Atlantis? I must have missed something, but I haven't heard of any ruins being discovered recently in the Atlantic. I've heard about the ones near Japan in the Pacific, but not the Atlantic. However, as sea levels were about 100 feet lower towards the end of the last Ice Age, Stone Age settlements may well have existed in these coastal regions, and been destroyed in the Quarternary (Ice Age)...

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What does SUV mean? Stupid Useless Vehicle.

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If I said I believed in the Greek Gods, what would you say to me? Probably something like, "What do you mean by 'believe in'? ... And what do you believe about them?" Or, I might just ask, "Why?"

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What do you feel an employer owes an employee? Whatever's customary (and therefore 'understood') plus-or-minus what's stipulated in the contract.

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What was the longest war in history? The battle of the sexes.

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If God views stealing cookies from a jar JUST AS SINFUL as setting off a dirty suitcase nuke in DC, don't you think that's so draconian it makes Kim Jong-il look like a Cub Scout? He doesn't. But remember, sinful acts flow from sinful hearts, not the other way around. People (and angels) are damned for being unrepentant rebels/traitors/adutlerers against God. How they manifest their inner corruption is another matter. God, however, provides a road back to Him -- which requires repentance ... which is considerably more demanding than just having to say,...

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How many is "a few"? More than a couple, and less than several. It may also mean "some" or a very small number compared with the whole: e.g., the Roman Republic was an oligarchy (government by the few) in which the few (about 1800 men) controlled the government over the many (about 30 million).

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In elementary, how did you get to school? Did your parents drive, did you walk, take the bus, ride a bike, etc...? I walked (... 20 miles in the snow, up hill both ways, everyday, including weekends! -- had to get up 3 hours before I went to bed ... ). Actually, up through the 5th grade, the school was right behind my house (though I couldn't go direct because of a fence and a briar patch on the other side) and the route there was probably about 200 yards. In Grade 6, I'd moved to a new town,...

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Would you marry / date someone who can't / wont keep a job? Isn't that a traditional characteristic of a traditional wife?

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Who invented the first steam engine and in what year? There were crude steam engines in both Ptolomaic (Greek/Macedonian) Egypt and in ancient China at least as early as the Chin dynasty (i.e., by 200 BC in both places). The Chinese even used steam to drive a vehicle, while the Greeks used them apparently only to power winches and various stationary gadgets. We know that Hero of Alexandria made use of steam power in some of his machines, but...

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How many different States/Countries have you lived in and where? 9 US States & 7 other countries: New Jersey Pennsylvania New York Rhode Island Virginia South Carolina North Carolina Florida Illinois Canada Mexico Belize Norway UK Bahrein Thailand

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What is U.S. currency backed by? The fact that you need US dollars to (a) pay your US taxes, (b) buy crude oil on the global market, and (c) participate in the world's largest economy (America's -- it's larger than the rest of the G8 and China combined). B and C together have made the US Dollar the world's reserve currency. All 3 give the US dollar effective value. The US dollar is essentially a bond...

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When is looting acceptable? According to International Law, British Common Law, (Napoleonic) Code Law, the Statutes of all 50 States and the US Federal Government, military regulations of all NATO forces, the UN, and long-standing ideals and conventions of Western Civilization: NEVER. It doesn't matter if the owner is known to be dead, as it is presumed he has heirs, and thus they are the legal owners. It also...

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How far would you go to save the current relationship you are in if it started to fail? In what circumstances would you just give up? (Mine's just fine! It's a simple quesiton.) Don't know. I've never had to go farther than her earlobe.

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What is your opinion on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints? (A.K.A. Mormonism?) My "opinion" of the LDS (the religion and its theology, not its adherents/members) is that it is a non-Christian and anti-Biblical heretical cult invented by a known charlatan, and that its claim that it (and it alone) offers "the restored Gospel" is demonstrably false: the distincitives of the LDS's so-called "restored Gospel" in no way resemble ANY teaching...

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Does it really matter where people adopt their children as long as they are giving the children good homes? Or should people really adopt from their own countries? Very few American children are available for adoption due primarily to abortion, contraception, the social wellfare system, and the foster care system. Also, the legal process of adoption is long, arduous, expensive, and still frought with legal gliches and loopholes that can cause the adoption to be voided, and private adoption - though somewhat easier and cheaper and a whole lot faster - is...

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Is it ever appropriate to judge an individual on how they look? If so when? Yes. When they're dressed totally inappropriately or slovenly, unwashed and unkempt, with no excuse or explanation other than outright contempt for everyone around them -- like showing up at your grandmothers funeral dressed like something out of a 90's Grunge band or the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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How did racism first start? Seriously. Tork: Ish Unga bunga bunga? (Who's that guy over there?) Bonk: Grunt, hinga lahka! (Don't know. He looks funny though.) Tork: Lana heepy peepy. (Our women seem a little too interested in him.) Bonk: Rao dirga bam-bam! (Lets kill him!) Tork: Okee Dokey (OK, lets go.)

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Why is October the 10th month of the year when oct means 8? (Sept means 7 as well) Because the ancient Roman calendar (instituted by Romulus, supposedly) originally was determined by the cycles of the moon and the seasons of the agricultural year. It began in March, in the spring, and ended in December with the autumn harvest (the Med has a longer growing season than Temperate zones AND the world was actually warmer in 700 BC than it is now). The Roman year was ten months...

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Do you think models really are beautiful? What makes super-models and other contenders is that their looks are really more striking and exotic than beautiful: in other words, they're features are often exaggerated - often to the point of the almost grotesque - but it really captures your attention (and subconscious) when you see them on a magazine cover - which is, after all, their purpose. But just looking at them, in the flesh,...

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Does anyone know any good quotes on tolerance? Every society is necessarily founded upon intolerance. ~ G. Bernard Shaw

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How can you tell if you are suffering from neurosis? "Neurotics build castles in the clouds. ... Psychotics live in them." If you're constantly attempting to deny reality and pretend life is other than it is - like by thinking you can shop and buy your way to happiness while believing you won't go broke, or that you pretend that the electric company will just stop bothering you AND leave your power on even though you...

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If the Great Flood in Noah's time allowed waters to rise above the tallest mountains, it would've risen above Mount Everest. Wouldn't it have been very, very cold up there, and the ocean have been one giant ice field? Well, the silly CRI creationists claim that Everest and the great mountain chains (and the Atlantic Ocean, and the Tectonic plates, and the Grand Canyon, ... ) were all a product of the same cataclysm as the Flood: prior to it there were only gently rolling hils. A more sane and Biblically-based interpretation is to understand that the author was engaging in hyperbole. Finally, the only...

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Why are interracial babies said to be the most beautiful(not that all babies are adorable)? ;-D Never heard that one, myself. Though Eurasians (or Amerasians) of all ages can be quite striking... and many are drop-dead gorgeous.

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What is a better TV show? Simpson, Family Guy or South Park? King of the Hill.

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Will the international extradition process have priorities – for example, to extradite murderers first and take a long time to get to a fugitive simply on the wrong end of a civil lawsuit? It's usually costly to extradite someone (over $100k at least in legal and admin costs) so it's typically only done for major crimes and high profile cases: i.e., if you're wanted for DUI, a few cases of petty-theft, or passing a few bad checks, no government's going to initiate extradition procedures. Of course, your host country might very well deny you a visa or deport...

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What is your opinion, (if any), of Morticia Adam's sense of style? It's to die for.

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The Bible says “You Shall Not Lie,” but what does it say about making jokes? Just for the record, the "lying" the Bible condemns, when examined in context, falls into 4 catetories: 1) promise breaking - not doing what you vowe or obligate yourself to do. 2) cheating someone in trade, like by using dishonest scales. 3) falsely accusing someone or slandering them (EVEN when you believe the claim to be true), or giving the guilty and alibis, denying the...

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I said Happy Hanukkah to a few people today, and they responded "I'm not Jewish". I am Jewish and when I am told Merry Christmas, I just say thank you, you too... Should they have done the same? It's because in the US, Jews are less than 3% of the population while Christians PLUS "cultural Christians" are 90% of the population. Consequently, "Merry Christmas" is a generic cultural expression and therefore presumably inclusive while "Happy Hanukkah" is religion specific, and in almost the entire world it's what one says to someone KNOWN to be...

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If The Bible Had Comments, what comments would YOU add, and to which books or verses thereof? (Consider the parlance of the times, and answer accordingly.) Many editions do have comments, not to mention text critical notes, and cross-references to other passages that are being explicity referenced, alluded to, quoted, or paraphrased. The most notorious (and useless) is the Bible of Dispensationalists (Fundamendalists with a capital F) "the Scofield Bible". As for me, I'd add the text critical apparatus found in the Cambridge...

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If God didn't allow Adam and Eve to eat out of the Tree of Life, why didn't God just put the tree in a very inaccessible spot? Or at least put up a "force field" of some kind ot ensure that Adam and Eve never even touched it? Uhhh ... it's a metaphor, buddy. They were forbidden to eat of fruit of the tree of the DECIDING of good and evil -- meaning that they were forbidden to do what God spends the first chapter-and-a-half of Genesis doing: going around saying "This is 'tob' [which means 'beneficial to man'] ... This is good ... This is good ... This is not good ... this is very...

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Can anyone name all 50 states of the USA without looking them up? Not a problem ... so long as I can list them in geographic order: Maine-Hawaii.

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What outlandish assumptions did you have as a child? That if you walked off a ledge or cliff you wouldn't fall until you realized you weren't standing on anything. Yeah, I watched a lot of cartoons.

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Which US State would disappear first if sea level rises? California? Hawaii? Where did these people learn Geography! These are two VERY mountainous states. In fact, in terms of highest mean elevation, California and Hawaii rank 9th & 8th out of 50 respectively -- meaning that 40 states would be mostly submerged before they were. And going by their highest points, California is 2nd only to Alaska, and Hawaii is 5th -- meaning 48 and 45 States...

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Besides James Bond, What Movie that Sean Connery starred in was the best? THE UNTOUCHABLES!!!

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Is "25" pushing thirty? Well, think of this way: you have fewer than 260 Saturday nights until you're 30.

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Some may say that God doesn’t intend for some people to raise a family, get rich, or whatever they hope to achieve. If to deny certain things for people is a part of his plan, then why give us free agency? Because the point of free will is to freely choose God or to reject Him, to freely do what's right and good, or to chuck it and try to get what you think you want, no matter the cost. It is not freedom to get what you think you want, and freedom should certainly not be equated with a guarantee of succeess in what you apply yourself to diligently and faithfully. But when someone wants...

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What secures a formal relationship between a boyfriend and a girlfriend? It used to be marriage. But since the Supreme Court essentially voided marriage in '72 (by it the only contract that could be canceled unilaterally by one party at any time just because they wanted to) even marriage doesn't secure the relationship anymore. Now there's nothing that secures the relationship.

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What is the meaning for when a newer euphemism’s meaning becomes known well enough that it’s eventually just as harmful as the euphemism it replaced? The Euphemism Treadmill.

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I'm so going to be DR-ed for this -- if we are supposed to be all equal as humans, and the purpose of equality is to NOT single out any group for any reason... what is the purpose of minority celebrations, i.e. Black History Month, or Disney's "Gay Day"? 1. Equality does not mean everyone is or is supposed to be the same. 2. The purpose of equality has nothing to do with NOT singling out any group. Equality in a political context simply means that all men stand equal before the law - specifically: - There isn't one law (and punishment) for one class of people, and another law (and punishment) for another class of people. - There...

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How many species are currently extinct and what percentage of species that have ever existed are currently extinct? Nobody knows nor can know, since ... 1. We are discovering new species (living and extinct) all the time. 2. We occassionally discover a living species which was thought to have become extinct. 3. It's unclear as to how to classify a parent species that evolved into new daughter species, but there are no known living instances of the parent species: e.g., should we count various...

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How far do you have to travel each day for your job? About 350 yards.

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Is it a sin to judge people, and if so: is it a sin to judge judgmental people? If by "judge" you mean "evaluate and and form an opinion about", the answer is most certainly NO. If, however you mean "condemn", it's not *necessarily* a sin, though it is possibly foolish. The Christian injunction is not against condemning sin and sinful acts (in fact we're required to), nor against bringing the one who commits them up short for...

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What is everyones opinion on women not working, and just staying home to take care of the house and children? Personally I dont think I would feel as though i was constributing enough! There's nothing more important than nurturing and raising kids and making a house a real home. Modern society has been neglecting/denying this for 40 years and has been wreaping the consequences increasingly ever since. But back in the day when this was the norm for wives and mothers, they didn't just "stay home" - they were a vast army of totally free and independent...

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How did the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America get the name "Mayflower"? The same way every ship get's its name: the guy who built/paid for it, named it - usually formally at its launch: that's why they call it a Christening; the analog to the combined rites of infant baptism and child naming ceremony. Why the builder picked "Mayflower" in this case is unknown (as is the case with the choice of the vast majority of ship names).

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Why do so many men think women are just out to marry them? Experience. Why do so many women think any female friend or acquaintance of their man is out to steal him?

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Is being alive(born/concieved/breathing) a sin? To most gnostic and Manichaean sects, yes. Also, it could be argued that in Buddhism that life is 'sin' - since if you had no kharmic debt and were completely 'awake', you wouldn't have been born ... at least the second (or third, or fourth ...) time around. But according to Judaism and Christianity, there is no sin in simply being alive: animals and plants are...

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Other than Nazi Germany, what countries and empires executed people for being developmentally delayed?men Before European imperialism, every non-Christian and/or non-Jewish country on earth - but not typically at the dictate of the state, but at the decree of fathers: typically, retarded, mongoloid, or deformed infants would be exposed at birth, and baby girls were (and in many places still are) also often exposed. Pagans of the ancient world were quite astonished by the fact that Jews and...

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What will the Antichrist do, when he comes to earth? Exactly what the vast majority of people want him to do.

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What is your favorite blonde/brunette/redhead joke? Why to blondes have bruised belly-buttons? . . . . . ... Blonde men are stupid too.

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Have you experienced every human emotion? Do you have a checklist?

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Can you believe in God but not the bible? That what depend on what God you believe in. One can certainly believe in "the God of the philosophers", not to mention the God of the Hindus, the God of just about all animistic and/or pantheistic beliefs, and even the (impersonal, ineffable) "God" of the Buddhists without believing the Bible. Though I suppose one could believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob...

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What are the worst break up lines , someone can say? I just found out you're my sister.

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Why do men cheat on their girlfriends--and deny it? The male generally has a strong inclination towards polygamy due to the raw genetics and physiology of the matter: 1 man can sire hundreds even thousands of offspring, whereas 1 woman can at most bear 20-30 and prefers a tenth that number. Consequently, a man's most basic sexual urge (though by know means necessarily his hearts desire) is to have sex with as many different women as...

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Does the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation? We're talking about an almost instantaneous drop in blood pressure to zero-over-zero. The result is much the same as a perfectly executed sleeper-hold, only faster -- except, of course, it's permanent: the victim experiences rapid onset of rapidly narrowing tunnel-vision with disorientation and drifts VERY quickly into total black-out.

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If you say words in school that sound somewhat close to cusswords, would you still get in trouble for it? (Ex: 'Sith-less,' 'Sith Happens' (You know…) 'Toon Pang' ('Poontang,') 'You plucking binge,” 'Son of a binge' (You also know…) etc.?) Are you thinking of going back to high school, you cod rammed plucking pizza ship?

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If there is a separation between church and state, why can't homosexual couples get married? You could just as well ask, if there's a separation of church and state, what is the state doing marryig people at all, let alone determining who can and can't get married to whom? The answer is that the State's involvement in the matter is nothing more than a matter of estate law, and its interest and cognizence ends there. The purpose of marriage as far as the State is...

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Why hasn’t the UK adopted the Euro yet? Because back when they had the pound pegged to the Mark (in preperation for the move to the Euro) it killed Britains exports and made a mess of its economy. When they went their own way in '93, they're economy, exports, and balance of Trade recovered beautifully. Lesson Learned.

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How much of a chance does a homeless person have of landing a job? Far better than he has of keeping it. I worked with the homeless for years. The biggest problem is that if you get them a job, if they even show up the first day, they just stop showing up for work, typically within 3 days of starting. Even if you get them ready and drive them to work yourself, after a few days, most will just wander off the job, get themselves fired (seemingly deliberately)...

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Is it gay for a guy to hug another guy? Only if they're both gay.

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What was the most boring episode on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and how was it so boring? Without question, THE LAST ONE! All three pointless worthless incoherent stupid hours of it.

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Whatever happened to the Witch of the South in "The Wizard of Oz"? And was she a Good Witch, or a Bad Witch? In Baum's books, The Good Witch of the South is named Glynda. She is beautiful and ever-young in appearance (and much older in reality), and it is she who tells Dorothy that her magical SILVER slippers will take her whereever she wants to go. She is also the most powerful witch/sorceress/magician in all of Oz, and rules Quadling County, which is well defended by her army of Amazons. She...

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What is the fastest growing career sector in the United States today, and why? Trash-out services for Repos.

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What makes the rich richer and the poor poorer? Compound interest.

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At what point in history did humans discover that a woman having a period meant that she was fertile? Long before there was history. Assuming that consciousness evolved with the species, I'm sure by the time they were fully conscious, women always just knew. They might not have shared that little fact with men for thousands of years, but given the known olfactory capabilities of primitive man, I'd be pretty sure men had figured it out on their own too by the time they'd...

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Can you name every animal youve ever had? Name and species? I must confess, I've forgotten the names of everyone of my goldfish, turtles, and fancy mice, and all but two of our gerbles. I do, however, remember the ducks though, and everyone of our dogs... and the kitten my sister brought home and my mom made us give to a riding stable once it got a little older. DOGS Boscoe - Beagle Chopper - Springer Spaniel Parcel Post - A runaway we took...

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Do any two members of your family share the same birthday? Yes, several in fact. A 1st cousin of mine and I have the same birthday. Another 1st cousin and my father have the same birthday. My sister and her daughter have the same birthday. My sister's twins have the same birthday as another one of our 1st cousins and my wife. And that's out of only 22 people. Also my grandmother and her mother have (had) the same birthday.

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When giving your resignation to take a job with another company, should/would you tell your current employer where you are going to work next? It's not their concern, but, if they asked, I'd tell them unless there was some reason not to. I might even volunteer the information if I thought it would help us both.

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How long has it been since you've seen the ocean? Does the Gulf of Thailand count? If so, it's been 9 months. But I was last out on the open ocean (the Atlantic) June 2002, though I've been out on the Caribean (2003 & 2004), on the Connecticut shore (2005), and out on the Andaman Sea (2006) since then.

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If Allah chose Jesus as one of the prophets, then why did Jesus say he was the Son of God? The claim that Jesus is The Son of God -- properly understood -- is not contradicted by the Koran or Islamic doctrine, but in fact confirmed by it. "The Son of God" is a Semitic expression that means "the man who perfectly reflects the moral character of God." The Koran says that Jesus is not only the Messiah, but that: 1: God created Jesus to perfectly conform to...

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If Allah chose Jesus as one of the prophets, then why did Jesus say he was the Son of God? To LuckyLefty: I'm sorry to disillusion you but there is a mountain of evidence in the Bible that Jesus claimed to be both "the Son of God" and, more importantly, "the Son of Man" (The divine world-creator and world-judge who sits on God's throne). Just for starters, you should check out the following passages: Mt 8:20; 9:2, 6; 10:23; 12:8, 32, 40; 13:37,...

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What is the proper way to store a cigar so it stays fresh as long as possible? If stored properly, how long can a cigar last? Cigars should be stored at 70 degrees F, 70% humidity. The hotter it is above 70, the more you should lower the humidity; the colder it is, the more you should raise the humidity. If you're looking for something cheap, small, and simple, that will keep your cigars for weeks and even months (but not years), the best poor man's humidor is a simple if largish piece of tupper-ware. ...

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In a political or religious debate with someone who believes the opposite of you, have you ever changed that person's mind to agree with you? Frequently. But it's kind of like Babe Ruth's home-run record compared with his strike-out record.

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How many versions of the Bible have been published? re ninja man>>Not to mention the fact that Greek is a very complex language, with single words conveying whole sentences of meaning in English<< Biblical Hebrew is a very literary language and every word is rich with nuances and associations. But New Testament Greek is Koine - the pigeon-Greek of 1st Century traders, sailors, merchants, and foreigners. It is vastly simpler than...

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How many versions of the Bible have been published? For an intro into the original texts and early translations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_the_Bible For all translations in all languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_by_language For a list of English translations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Bible_translations For a discussion of English translations: ...

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Consider in the feudal wars, the opposed side's army is under siege in a fortress with your army surrounding them. You wish to capture most of them alive. What would be the most effective measure in doing so? Well, they're already captured in effect, and still alive, so the trick is to just keep them there. So I'd think I'd pile a small mountain of rock in fron of the gates, and then leave enough archers around the place to shoot anyone climbing over the wall. If that's not an option, I'd just do the time tested method: offer to make the commander my vassal and lord of...

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Why wouldn’t Finland’s prison system work in the United States? Probably because our convicts aren't Finnish.

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Geraldine Ferraro suggested Barack Obama only achieved his status in the presidential race because he's black. Racist comment or not-and why? Everyone with a brain knows that Obama wouldn't be where he is right now if he weren't arguably black, just as Palin wouldn't be where she is right now if she weren't a woman. Obama is where he is--a Senator and the Democratic nominee for president--because he became an instant media sensation and darling, and he became that because they saw here was a (liberal) black...

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Are people born with pedophilic tendencies, or do they pick it up in the environment they grow up in? The evidence is that is environmental. Almost all pedophiles were victims of pedophilia themselves. The psychologists I've known who specialized in the field insisted it was 100% about anger. Of course that kind of conflicts with the prevalence and manner of man-boy love in Classical Greece, but then the catemite was never a pre-pubescent, never forced, and actual penetration was...

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Is a pre-teen capable of informed consent to sexual activity? Since "informed consent" is an eclusively legal category, the legal answer is, NO.

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What do you believe the Arc of The Covenant is? The specifications for it are laid out in detail in Exodus 25:10-22 EX 25:10 "Have them make a chest of acacia wood--two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. 11 Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it. 12 Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two...

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A CNN story highlight stated that “Bush is only 2 points higher than worst presidential approval rating in history.” Who had THE worst, what was their rating, and why? Actually, Nixon is #3. Georgey is now 1 point below Nixon's in the depths of Watergate. But #1 is still Harry Truman, 2% below Dubyah, with a bottom rating of 22% in the last days of his presidency during the Korean War. But Dubyah may beat him yet. Intriguingly, Dubyah holds the record for the highest approval rating (92% after the 9-11 attacks)and Truman is #3 (87% at the end of...

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What is the deity of Judaism? Who, not What. And He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; The Holy One of Israel: YHVH Elohim, El Shaddai, YHVH Sabaoth, YHVH Raphae, the LORD God Almighty, Lord of lords and God of gods, creator of Heaven and Earth, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, quick to forgive abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to all generations, and forgiving wickedness,...

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Do you believe that the Anti-Christ will come? Biblically, everyone who denies that Jesus is the Christ, and/or denies that the Christ came in the flesh, is antichrist. That is the only way the word is used in the Bible. 1JN 2:18 … just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen; from this we know that it is the last hour. …. 22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the...

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What ever happened to the Arc of The Covenant? Nobody knows for sure, but the best 2 theories are: 1) it was taken to Egypt by Jewish refugees shortly before the final siege of Jerusalem by Babylon. It was maintained by a Jewish sect there for centuries, and then was taken to Ethiopia, and its remains are still in a church there. 2) it was hidden in a secret passage deep under the Temple Mount. see http://www.greatdreams.com/ark2.htm

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Do you have big ears? Small ones? Weird ones? This is really a question about Obama, isn't it?

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In what accent would “world” be pronounced “woyld?” Brooklyn ... wheh ya siton dah coib an watch da boids on toitey-thoid street. (and also in the Bronx back when it was still mostly white)

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If Jesus visited today, instead of so long ago, how would he get his message across to modern society? Would he play in a band? Would he use advertisments? What do you think? Considering that when he did come, he came to a rural backwater; hung out with losers and outcasts; never wrote anything even though it was a fairly literate society; never went near any of the great centers of culture, learning, and power; never spoke in any of the many civic auditoriums, theatres and amphitheatres of his day; spoke primarily in small synagogues and private homes; lived the...

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When am I supposed to use “whom” as opposed to “who” and vice-versa? "Whom" is used as an object; while "who" is (in formal Engliah) used only as the subject. But "whom" today is archaic and all but dead except in "to whom it may concern." When was the last time you heard anyone say, "With whom are you going?", "To whom did you give it?", or "For whom is this?"

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How is the American Pledge of Allegiance recited in other languages? In Thailand it would sound like ... I pe(t) aree-SHEN to ra FRA(k) o(p) ra yu-ni-te(t) sa-TAY o(p) a-me(r)-ree-GAAA, an to sa ree-pu(p)-RI(k) faw wish i(t) sa-TAN won na-SHUN, unde(r) a GAH(t), in-di-wi-si-BE(R) wi(t) ri-be(r)-TEEE an shu(t)-TI(t) faw AW(r) The language is what we expats here call TANGLISH, though some prefer the term THAIGLISH. *NOTE, k, p, and t in...

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Do you think it will make America look terrible if Obama were to be assassinated while he is in office? One insane act by one private citizen can't make a whole nation look bad. Now ELECTING Obama -- that will make America look terrible.

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How many books are in the Catholic Canon of the Bible? 7 more than are in the Protestant Canon: Tobit, Judith, 1 & 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch. Additionally, there are also extra/deutero-canonical additions to Esther and Danielin the Catholic canon. The 7 books plus the additions to Daniel and Esther, though part of the Catholic Old Testament are not part of the Hebrew/Jewish Canon either. The Eastern Orthodox, however,...

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How is Nero Caesar realted to the devil or the number 666 in history? Why do we call him the devil's son? In Hebrew gematria, every letter has a corresponding number. Summing these numbers gives a numeric value to a word or name. The Greek spelling, “Neron Caesar,” transliterates into Hebrew as “נרון קסר” or “nrwn qsr”. Adding the corresponding values yields 666, as shown: Resh = 200 Samekh = 60 Qoph = 100 Nun = 50 vav = 6 Resh = 200 Nun = 50 ...

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For those that have moved from one country to another - What advice would you give for someone considering the same? Do it. But make sure you check with an international shipping company well in advance to find out what can and can't be shipped into the new country, and their laws concerning import duties for personal belongings of foreign residents: many places wave the duty in such cases, but only if you bring your belongings in within 3-12 months (depending on the country) after arriving in their...

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Do any buildings exist that were erected right ABOVE a street? Where are those buildings and streets located? Can you upload or link pictures of them? The Chicago Post Office - the Eisenhower Exprwy (I-290) runs right through the middle of it.

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Do you like sarcastic people? Moi???? Oh, no, not at all.

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Do you think the aliens we think of today, be angels in the Bible? Well, if your idea of "aliens" encompassess extraterrestrials who: 1) don't live on any planet and did not evolve on one 2) can materialize and dematerialize at will without instrumentation/technology 3) can assume multiple forms, but have a preference assuming the form of: a) very pretty young human males b) flaming giants 4) are naturally luminous and often seem...

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Are you familiar with the sport rugby? If yes, what do you think of it? It's AWESOME!!! to play. And if you think the game is rough, you've never been to an after-game party! I could never get into watching it though. But then I could never get into watching any sport.

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Is racism a learned behavior? That would depend on how one defines racism. People in general, women more than men, and children in particular, identify with and generalize the familiar. It's just apart of how we're wired, and also how children learn. All peoples have an inherent tribalism, that naturally produces an "us-them" view of things, and in all primitive societies, the word for...

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Can Christians get baptised? Is it possible? There's no such thing as an unbaptized Christian. The Bible's pretty clear: 1) You hear, 2) you believe, 3) you repent, 4) you get baptized as soon as possible. The only unbaptized Christians are those that get killed between 3 & 4 on their way to the baptismal, or who are prevented from it by such things as being locked up in prison. Now, do you mean RE-baptized?...

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What should I stockpile for the coming depression? Assuming a massive bailout bill passes, the last thing you should be saving is money. Rapid devaluation/inflation will eat it away by half inside of 2 years. SPEND IT ALL!!! but on real wealth producing assets (e.g., don't buy stock in a grain company: buy a farm!) Otherwise, convert it into Swiss Francs or Brazilean Reals.

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Did Noah have any plants on his ark? GEN 6:21 "You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them." So the answer is, yes.

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Can you name something that will NEVER happen? Christian Shultz will stop asking stupid repetitive questions.

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What kind of things should a 14 year old vegetarian boy be eating and how much of it to stay healthy? He should be eating meat.

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How many of your constitutional rights have to be violated before you will fight back against your government? Unfortunately, the ACLU has never learned to count past the number 1, but at least there's the NRA to focus on #2. But niether seems to have any interest in fighting for #4, and EVERYBODY'S forgotten #10! The big problem is Americans sign away most of their rights as soon as they "voluntarily" enter into the Social Security System, obtain a drivers license, obtain a...

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What would get me to stop questing for the "Most Inquisitive" title entirely before reaching it? To deserve the title, you actually have to be interested in the answers, not in just asking the questions.

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Do you think religion prevents freedom to explore? That would depend on the religion. It's niether a coincidence nor an irony that the Scientific Revolution and age of exploration occurred in Christian Europe, nor that the vast majority of the greatest scientists in history have been genuine and (for the most part) orthodox Christians, and that most of the rest have been Jews. The Biblical view is that God created nature and...

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Who think they should remake star wars 4,5, and 6? I would only like to see Jedi remade if they rewrote the whole damn thing, made Vader an even bigger bad-ass instead of pathetic wimp, dumped the "Leia's my sister!" cop-out, and ditched the frickin Ewoks!

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How did the typical website look ten years ago? A lot fewer ads, videos, and animation. Flash was still a year away. But back then the Internet was still fun. Even though finding anything was like searching for a book in a library after an earthquake.

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At what age did you start drinking alcohol? What did you start with? Extra dry Beefeater Martinis on the rocks with a twist ... and beer. I'm not sure how old I was, but I was still crawling/toddling. I'd steal my dad's drinks off the table. But I didn't start in earnest until 14 when dad gave me the keys to the liquor cabinet and made sure I learned to hold my liquor. And I started with Beefeater martinis. Today, I prefer Boodles though.

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Do you think there's such a thing as being -too- "laid back"? Not in Thailand.

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Was Palin the stupidest mistake McCain ever made? Well first of all, picking her wasn't exactly HIS choice. The choice was pretty much dictated to him by the leaders of the conservative and Christian base of the GOP in return for their support. That being said, politically, she was the BEST decision *he* has made. Palin is only seen as a negative by people who never would have voted for McCain anyway. And the more they shriek and...

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How many countries have you visited thoughout your life? Well, not counting the US and including territories, protectorates and colonies: 1. Canada 2. Bermuda (UK) 3. Mexico 4. Jamaica 5. Bahamas 6. Virgin Islands (US) 7. Virgin Islands (UK) 8. Sweden 9. Norway 10. Cuba 11. Bahrain 12. Qatar 13. U.A.E. 14. Diego Garcia 15. Djibouti 16. Egypt 17. Italy 18. Spain 19. Dominica 20. Antigua-Barbuda 21. Martinique (France) 22....

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Have you ever been held a gunpoint to do something? Yes. Every April 15th.

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Would you ever allow your child to drink while underage if you were supervising? Allow it? I'd require it! I'd do as my father did: give them the keys to the liquor cabinet at age 14 and be sure they know how to mix a proper martini. Any kid who can't hold his liquor by age 16 is no child of mine!

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What do you think are the Pros and Cons of having a world government or hegemony? To simabumaster: >>Of course you love the idea of Christianity prevailing in the public eye.<< I don’t even know what that means. But the fact of the matter is that Christianity – real Christianity - is the religion that has transformed the world for the better. >>But religion has been, and continues to serve as, one of the most divisive instruments of...

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What do you think are the Pros and Cons of having a world government or hegemony? To simabumaster: (part #2) you wrote>>Christians are the most protected group in the world.<< Yes, the thousands of Christians being beaten and murdered in Vietnam and butchered in the Sudan every year, and the tens of thousands in slave labor camps in China and North Korea, and the over 30 million of them murdered by inimical regimes in the last century certainly bear that...

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What is "Karma"? The concept began in ancient Indian religion and spread - via Buddhism - to East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is directly tied to Dharma. Both concepts/beliefs found resonance with existing Taoist thought in China. The ancient Hindus (and, in their own way, the ancient Chinese), instead of postulating a divine legislator and judge, saw "eternal law and law enforcement" as...

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If you had one question to ask the World or Earth. What would it be? Why does everyone say you're a sphere when every child can see that you're flat and lumpy.

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What started the Renaissance? Nothing. It never happened. Periodizing History is a flawed enterprise at best, but Renaissance scholars today are pretty much agreed now that there never really was any such thing as "The Renaissance". It was armchair historians of the 18th and 19th centuries who first coined the term, imagining "The Middle Ages" to be some dark, benighted, superstitious, ignorant (read...

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If Yoda were to speak your favorite quote, how would it come out? Women: a mistake were they? Or on purpose to us do it did God?

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What do you think are the Pros and Cons of having a world government or hegemony? Pro: the guilty cannot escape by fleeing jurisdiction. Con: the innocent cannot escape by fleeing jurisdiction. Pro: there would be no interference from foreign powers in domestic affairs Con: there would be no foreign powers to exert political pressure to prevent injustice Pro: there would be no currency arbitrage or speculation, no foreign exchange charges, and no ability for one area to...

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Is it true that JFK said that in 40 years the US president will be black? If he did, then he was wrong. He's been dead for 45 years. But then maybe he said it in a seance or something.

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What is the worst restaurant in your town, and how is it the worst? I live in Bangkok, a city of 8 million Asians, and seemingly every other one of them runs a restaurant or food stand. If I ate at a different one every meal, it would take me until May of 5658 AD to identify the worst one.

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In what situation might you hear someone yell or say, "You Can't Win! ?" When you're arguing with a woman.

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Who was the 1000000th user on Answerbag? I don't know, but keep this up and you'll be the last one. Again, if you're going to keep doing this on AB, Christian, please delete the Q&A application from your FaceBook account. You are absolutely ruining Q&A for everybody on FaceBook, and some of us (like me) can't connect any other way (because our email service won't accept the AB "reply to...

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What scientific evidence positively proves that some people are born gay? There is no proof of it and lot of evidence against it: e.g., if sexuality/sexual peference was genetic, then ALL sets of identical twins would have the same sexual preference; but this is not the case. There is some scientific evidence for a correlation between percieved/preferred gender on the one hand and the neurology of the brain and size of the hypothalmus on the other (i.e., studies...

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Taking average maintenance & driving style into account, how long and/or how many miles/kilometers would a typical Cadillac Sixty Special last before breakdown? Christian, If you're going to keep doing this on AB, please delete the Q&A application from your FaceBook account. You are absolutely ruining Q&A for everybody on FaceBook, and some of us (like me) can't connect any other way (because our email service won't accept the AB "reply to confirm your AB account" message). In case you don't realize it, on...

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What was the 10000th question asked on Answerbag? If I had to guess, I'd say it was one of yours.

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Why does someone keep downrating my Japanese surname questions once in a while? Perhaps some folks who post through FaceBook didn't like the fact that your questions have flooded ALL 20 pages of "latest Q& A", and everybody else's questions and answers keep getting bumped off the list before anybody sees them.

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Why is Sarah Palin getting much more attention than Obama's running mate Joe Biden? Palin got, and gets, a lot of attention from the Right because they're ecstatic that they actually can go out and vote for McCain now (as opposed to just voting AGAINST Obama) without getting totally drunk first, cringing when they pull the lever, and needing to puke afterwards. The Left and the Leftist media give her so much attention because they HATE conservatives and conservatism...

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The US Coast Guard captured a boat with a large amount of cocaine in international waters yesterday. If it's in international waters, does any country have jurisdiction to arrest the people for drugs or confiscate the cocaine? And if the terms, conditions, caveats, and provisos of the Law of the Sea, Article 111 aren't met, there's always an even older law: when you rob a crook, he's not going to call a cop. Fact is, International Law is basically what the US and UK say it is. And no other nation is going to go to bat for one of its nationals or a boat flying its flag caught running drugs within...

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Why is a bathroom sometimes referred to as a "restroom"? No one actually ever rests in there do they? Because in older public buildings - and still some very high class ones - the restroom is primarily that: a room with a couch or a day bed or two ... with an adjacent lavatory. Offered primarily for the Ladies' amenities, it was a place where they could go to recover from the vapors, fainting spells, and other corset induced difficulties, or actually just to lie down and take a nap in a...

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Why shouldn't the government subsidize solar panels for us all? First you need to answer the question, WHY SHOULD IT?

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Where did the term "holy cow" come from? The term "sacred cow" has been used in English since the early days of the British Raj to refer to anything that's treated as sacred and/or "off-limits" which should not be. The idea derived from the British attitude that the Hindu attitude towards cows was ridiculous. "Holy Cow!" however, though inspired/suggested by the term "sacred cow", began...

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Is there really such a thing as a pathological liar? 2 words: Bill Clinton.

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What is the most difficult language in the world? Thai - it has 47 consonants and they don't pronounce any of them! When spoken by natives, it typically sounds like deaf mutes cussing each other out. Like Chinese, it's a tonal language, but due to their inability to articulate consonants clearly (and often not at all), there are about 360 different words that sound more or less like "kai", and as many that sound like...

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Has John McCain lost his mind? Lost it years ago. He's what happens when the GOP lets the Media pick its nominee.

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How is the famed compliment "Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant" said in other languages? In Koine (NT) Greek it's "Eu, doule agathe kai piste" Literally: "Good! Slave good and faithful"

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Since Jesus Christ didn't eat pork because it was against his religion, how come Christians eat pork? The New Testament is absolutely clear on the fact that Jesus pronounced all foods clean. It was one of the things in His and early Apostolic teachings that most infuriated and outraged the Jewish authorities. As for certain "claims" that Jesus was told by the Angel Gabriel that people shouldn't eat pork -- that's nonsense from the Koran -- made up 6 centuries after the...

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What kind of food is served at a traditional Taoist festival, and where can I get recipes? You have your choice of anything up the yinyang.

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How long would the life expectancy be for all life on Earth if after Kurt Vonnegut's Ice-Nine were to alter the world's water? Here's a better question: how long would your life expectancy be if you were to actually get one?

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Do you believe there is a reasonable chance at all that the Large Hadron Collider will really form a black hole that will eat up our Earth? None at all. If it did succeed in creating a quantum singularity, that would not be a black hole, but a white hole that would vaporize CERN. Just read your Stephen Hawking.

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What is the most boring topic you know of? I'd say it's a toss-up between the origin of Japanese sirnames, when any and all tv shows "jumped the shark", and the average life-span and maintenance history of various automobile makes.

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What was the name of Frankenstein’s Monster? Herman. Don't you watch Nick-at-night?

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Do you think that there is too much certainty in the world? I'd say the problem is there are too many people who are certain about certain things, about which they are certainly wrong, and not enough people who are certain about things which are certainly right.

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Is the glass half empty or half full? Or did some just steal my glass? First you must realize that the cup is always full of something. Then you must realize: There is no cup.

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Why do athletes/track runners,run anti-clockwise on the track and not clockwise? Duh... because they'd run into the people going the right way!

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Was it Americans that repressed the Native American or was it the British before them? Something of the quintessential loaded question, don't you think? The fact is niether the British government, nor the colonial governments, nor the State or Federal governments before Andrew Jackson "repressed" the Indians (at least in any sense of the word used by historians, anthropologists, and political scientists). They just never really took any territorial claims...

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What else could you do with an English degree besides teaching? Anything you want. (I'm assuming, of course, that since you are or are considering being an English major, that you would NEVER want to be an engineer, and accountant, or work as a research scientist in the pure sciences.) In addition to various literary, publishing, journalistic and academic careers, (and those include editing, proofreading, and even advertising) believe it or not,...

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Do you ever have trouble "feeling" God? I do all the time, and I question my faith. What are some things to do to feel a closer connection? Try loving your enemies, blessing those who curse you, and doing good to those who do you evil. Or just ask yourself when you come across someone you really don't care to be around, "What would I do *if* I loved this person?" Then do it. Immerse yourself in the Word, of course. (But remember, when David said, "He maketh me to lay down in green pastures", he was...

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How dangerous can religion get to be? Nor more dangerous than irreligion can be. Most religions, however, at least encourage people to be moral and just, and a few teach people to be compassionate and merciful. Irreligion however says its fine to be just as selfish and self-serving as you can get away with being. And whatever atrocities smug modern secularlists try to lay at the feet of "religion" in general, and...

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Do unborn babies feel pain when they're aborted? See the movie, "Silent Scream". Also, be aware that a foetus has a fully functional central nervous system within 30 days of conception.

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Whatever became of The Knight's Templar? re. darcyknox>>Yales Bone and Skull Society which has had influence in every presdential adminastration is a direct off-shoot(one of many) of scottish freemassonry, the offshoot of the knights templar.<< Scottish rite Freemasonry is about as much "an offshoot" of the Kinghts Templar as PETA is an offshoot of the Franciscans. There is NO evidence of any connection ......

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I am spiritually tired and I find no solace in the Christianity. Who and where can I faith and comfort in humanity and the necessity of my continued existence? There is nothing to find faith in humanity for ... except it's infinite capacity for error. As for comfort, if you can't find it in God and His people, you certainly won't find it humanity writ large. You might try buying a dog. None-the-less, I'd suggest you give the body of Christ another try. You just need to find yourself a good church -- not a "purpose...

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Is it true according to Christian beliefs, that babies are born sinning? How can they be sinning? They're inncocent infants. They are not born sinning: they are born sinners and sinful. In Christianity, one is not a sinner because one sins, but one sins because one is a sinner. It has to do with their nature -- which is to say Fallen human nature is innately narcisitic, deceitful and self-serving. Proof: you don't have to teach a child to lie -- it comes naturally to them. You do, however, have to teach...

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Where is the biggest parking lot in the world? According to the Guinness Book of World Records it's ... The West Edmunton Mall in Alberta, with 20,000 spaces, though Universal Studios Orlando also boasts about 20,000 spaces - but in two adjacent (but separate) structures. In 2017, these will be surpassed by the (currently under construction) Dubai World Central parking lot of 100,000 spaces.

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Does the President have to pay taxes? Yes, but only on his $400,000 salary and any unearned income from past investments (which are put into an independently managed blind trust during his tenure to avoid conflict of interest). He does, however, get to live in and/or use The White House, Camp David, Air Force 1, the Presidential limos, etc. etc. etc., and have ALL the living expenses for himself (including all food, tailor made...

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If you could tell the person you love three words (not "I love you") right now, what would they be? Come to bed.

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The Bible talks about homosexuality in a few places, but where does it speak about necrophilia? The Bible doesn't menton it because it was unnecessary. Corpses were considered "unclean" by every ancient society and culture in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle east. Just being near one defiled you, and required purification rites. (And it was sacrilege for a Greek or Roman priest to even attend a funeral, and they were forbiden by law from attending them -- the funeral...

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Why do people laugh at creationists? Because they haven't got any real arguments against them. Read Sowell's book, "The Anointed: Self-congratulation as a basis of social policy" for some insights into the phenomenon. *Of course, some Creationists are ignorant inbred wack-jobs, but then so are many evolutionists. "The masses" on both sides of the argument believe what they believe not out of...

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What will happen to America if after McCain gets elected? Hard to say ... since McCain's insane. But one thing's for certain: America would be spared the torrent of catastrophes that Oblahblahma would cause us. Given his VP pick, I'm just hoping McCain wins and then croaks 15 minutes after the inaugural. Now THAT would be good for America.

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Is omission the same as lying? Omission, equivocation, and other forms of "mental reservation" are forms of evasion and deception that - if done correctly - can insulate the person who does so from a charge of "making a false statement", presumably to some supposed authority or agent thereof, and thereby skirt possible retaliation. Morally, they are absolutely the same: if it's wrong to lie to...

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What verses prove or give evidence that the "Age of Accountability" is indeed 13 and over? There's no verse in the Bible that mentions an "age of accountability" per se, and nothing in the New Testament that touches on it at all. Now if by it one means really "the age of full culpability for their wrong actions," the only indication is in the book of Numbers, which sets it at 21. Specifically, because of their disobedience and faithlessness, all the...

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So allegedly, babies cannot be fingerprinted at birth because their fingerprints haven't fully formed yet. Why don't schools fingerprint incoming Kindergartners then? Because Big Brother would like it too much if they did.

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So allegedly, babies cannot be fingerprinted at birth because their fingerprints haven't fully formed yet. Why don't schools fingerprint incoming Kindergartners then? Because Big Brother would like it to much if they did.

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When did Latin as a language become extinct? Uh ... never. It's still the language of the Roman Catholic Church - and not just their liturgy: all their official documents, communications, and scholarly works are written in it. Latin is also still spoken by many antiquarian academics throughout Europe (though more and more they speak it for the same reasons some people speak Klingon, rather than for any practical purpose, but they...

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Does Sarah Palin have any real political credentials? Considerably more than Oblahblahma.

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What ever happened to the notion of "Power to the people."? As soon as the New Left of the 60's actually looked at who "the people" are and what they wanted, they dropped it and started berating them as fascists, racists, bigots, and inbred white-trash rednecks instead.

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I think the saying "No good deed ever goes unpunished" doesn't make sense. Did someone mean to say "No good deed ever goes punished" but make an accidental slip of the tongue and say the opposite of what they mean? Re "I think the saying "No good deed ever goes unpunished" doesn't make sense." -- live a little long and get more experience in the real world and you'll soon find out that it's true. One type of example is an actual "reward" you don't want -- like being entrusted with a special responsibility/project that's a real back-breaker ......

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"Pride of Lions, "Flock of Geese," "Pack of Wolves." What are a group of spirits called? To have a collective name, the creatures have to be social animals, i.e., a dozen owls cooped up together would just be a dozen owls, as they're solitary animals. I can't say I know of definitive societies of spirits, but you might try "Legion" and/or "Host" for infernal and celestial spirits respectively. You also might try "conclave" in honor of...

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I know there used to be more than 26 letters in our alphabet. What was the last letter taken off of the English alphabet, and why? The last one to be removed was the long-s. It was the same sound as an s, but written in the middle or at the start of a word, while the s we have now was only written at the end of a word. The long s looked like an f with a lower tail, but no cross, and is frequently confused with an f when read by modern readers. It was common until the end of the18th century, and continued to be used...

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What is the world's oldest language? Baby talk and Mommy-ese (the cooing sing-song way mothers really do communicate with their infants, completely apart from the actual syllables they utter ... and it's absolutely universal). But after those, the oldest *written* language still in use today is Hebrew. Modern Hebrew is closely based on Biblical Hebrew. In it's current alphabet (taken from the Phoenicians) it goes...

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Is the Book of Mormon a second book of the Bible? Exodus is the second book of the Bible. The Haftorah (the Prophets) is the 2nd part (of 3) of the Tanach (Hebrew Scriptures). The New Testamant - as the name implies - is the testimony to/presentation of the 2nd covenant, better known as "The new and EVERLASTING covenant" prophesied by Jeremiah. The Book of Mormon, on the other hand, is the first book of Joseph Smith...

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When was the church first organized? Addendum: The New Testament shows that the apostles set up a minimal organization in each of the churches they started, appointing one or more overseers or elders (the two words are used interchangably) over each church to lead and govern it, and giving them the authority to choose more overseers/elders and also deacons. These earliest elders are pretty much the parallel of the elders in...

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Have you ever held an exotic animal? In Thailand, elephants don't exactly count as "exotic" - but I have pet them, fed them, and ridden them on several occasions, and I once got a massage from one -- really more of a gentle beating with her trunk. The young ones also like to "kiss" me a lot... though they use their trunk, not their mouth. I have, however, gotten to play with four tiger cubs on one...

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When was the church first organized? What do you mean by "organized"? For that matter, what do you mean by "the church"? Be that as it may, there was a minimal kind of organization from the very start. The first body of believers in Jerusalem were led by the apostles, who in turn appointed deacons to see to collections and distributions of alms and basically take care of the needs of the poor. The first...

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The government and its agencies only seem to use American-made goods. (For example, no American PD drives BMWs as their police cars.) Regardless, does the American government use ANYTHING made outside of the US? The steel they use in all government projects is almost all made in Japan or South Korea.

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What do you think of any self-serving activity? I hate them! Salad bars and pump-it-yourself gas stations should all be abolished!

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How much water would we have to transport (or teleport) off from Earth (to the Moon, or wherever,) in order to lower the sea level by just one foot? And "Jack-The Computer" needs to work on his computational skills. The overall rate of increase due to percipitation, runoff, and polar thawing, is essentially identical to the overall rate of evaporation and polar freezing, so it wouldn't just "fill right back up again." (Reminds me of the guy who was afraid that pumping bilige water from all the boats on the lake...

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How much water would we have to transport (or teleport) off from Earth (to the Moon, or wherever,) in order to lower the sea level by just one foot? Easy as Pi. Calculate the surface area of the earth (4*pi*radius-squared) and then multiply it by 70.8% (the percentage of the Earth's suface covered by seawater) to get the total area of seawater -- or just look it up online or in an encyclopedia -- and then multiply the result by 1ft to get the volume in cubic feet. Answer: approximately 3,886,165,324,800,000 cubic feet or...

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If the 2008 election was between Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush, who would win? Hillary Clinton would lose in a race to Pia Zadora or Rudoph Hess, let alone Laura Bush. About the only person she might beat is her (sham) husband ... or perhaps Barak Oblahblahma.

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Do you suppose the vestiges of Communism in China are slowly peeling away? Re: "China was never "communist", it was - and still is a violent dictatorship." You're presuming that there is some other kind of communist country. But these days, China is a socialistic corporatocracy run by an entrenched (and increasingly fabulously rich) elite... just like the USA. (Not that the US has slave-labor camps for dissidents ... yet.)

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Every time I eat apples, I burp. Does this happen to any of you? Why might this happen? I don't have the problem with apples, but I do have the problem with orange juice (especially concentrate), chilli pepper (even dried), and anything made with corn syrup - especially high fructose corn syrup. And I don't have to wait: it's an almost immediate reaction. In my case, it's a food allergy.

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What do you think your evil twin is doing right now? Undoubtedly, making more money than I am.

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Why can’t recycling catch on widely enough? Why is dumping trash the old-fashioned way still the most popular? Because recycling of almost all household trash items actually costs more resources than it saves, and therefore also does more environmental damage (somewhere else). The only things it really makes any economic sense to recycle are tin, copper, titanium and (if you have a few tons of it) scrap steel. Also, it makes no economic sense, and no ecological sense (when looking at the global...

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What shows that take place in the past erroneously use parlance that’s only used today but not in the time period the shows take place in? All of them.

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What do you think of Madonna comparing John McCain to Adolf Hitler? About as much as I think of her likening herself to the Virgin Mary.

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Why no sex till marrige is not good? How about we consider the alternative: Why having sex before marriage isn't good. 1. Because contraception isn't foolproof: a sexually active female on the pill for 10 years still has about a 20% chance of becoming pregnant at least once. 2. Abortion as contraception is infanticide. 3. Illegitimacy places terrible emotional, psychological and financial burdens on the mother, and...

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Why are some people against having a Muslim president? Because... 1) a faithful Moslem would be compelled by his own religious convictions to make America into an Islamic republic under Sharia law, and ... 2) Americans wouldn't have any respect for a faithless ("cultural") Moslem", since we don't respect people who don't have the guts to actually believe their own religion.

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What do you think of when you think of Turkey Istanbul .

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What is the worst movie you've seen so far, in 2008? Epic Movie, followed by Lost Souls followed by Zeitgeist. (I live in Thailand - takes a while for the VCD to come out here.)

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Is the Zeitgeist Movie saying the truth about god? In a word, no. As to "keeping an open mind", back in my early 20s I read a lot of pop literature by cranks and defunct theorists who said a lot of the same stuff, and exactly the same kind of stuff, that is spewed in part 1 of Zeitgeist, and advocating the same soapy, contentless, "human potential" spirituality and eco-religion Zeitgest does at the end. Not being...

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What are your thoughts on Zeitgeist the movie? Part 1 is entirely bunk. Part 2 is almost entirely bunk. Part 3 is mostly bunk. In fact, this movie is so packed with so many lies, baseless assertions, and ridiculous innuendos masquerading as “arguments”, I have to wonder if it is actually an outright hoax, a revenue generating scheme for professional apologists and debunkers, or yet one more NWO/Globalist Conspiracy tactic...

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Have you watched the document Zeitgeist (5 parts on youtube), what do you think? It mentions some powerful stuff, how certain people control media, get us to start wars, pass laws etc etc... all for their own benefit. Unfortunately, yes. This movie is so packed with so many lies, baseless assertions, and ridiculous innuendos masquerading as “arguments”, I have to wonder if it is actually an outright hoax, a revenue generating scheme for professional apologists and debunkers, or yet one more NWO/Globalist Conspiracy tactic to confuse, divide, and discredit the Patriot movement. Having...

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Have you seen the documentary Zeitgeist? http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ What do you think? Unfortunately, yes. This movie is so packed with so many lies, baseless assertions, and ridiculous innuendos masquerading as “arguments”, I have to wonder if it is actually an outright hoax, a revenue generating scheme for professional apologists and debunkers, or yet one more NWO/Globalist Conspiracy tactic to confuse, divide, and discredit the Patriot movement. Having...

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Has anyone seen the Zeitgeist movie? Unfortunately, yes. This movie is so packed with so many lies, baseless assertions, and ridiculous innuendos masquerading as “arguments”, I have to wonder if it is actually an outright hoax, a revenue generating scheme for professional apologists and debunkers, or yet one more NWO/Globalist Conspiracy tactic to confuse, divide, and discredit the Patriot movement. Having...

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Have You Seen The Zeitgeist Movie, If So What Did You Think? Unfortunately, yes. This movie is so packed with so many lies, baseless assertions, and ridiculous inuendos masquerading as “arguments”, I have to wonder if it is actually an outright hoax, a revenue generating scheme for professional apologists and debunkers, or yet one more NWO/Globalist Conspiracy tactic to confuse, divide, and discredit the Patriot movement. Having...

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Where do you turn for answers: Science or God? That would depend on the question. If the question is: "Will it work?" or "How does it work?" or "How do I we make it work?", then Science would have to be the first place to turn. If the question is: "Is it right?" or "Should I do it?" or "Why should I do that?", Science can't answer those, and has to defer to God.

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Is it un-American to be an atheist or an agnostic? Well as long as some are harping on a decontextualized quote from a treaty with a Moslem nation which they wrongly attribute to John Adams, I thought I'd point out something that John Adams actually did say: "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the...

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What should an atheist do when being verbally assaulted by a fundamentalist Christian? Probably the same thing a Christian should do when being verbally assaulted by an atheist.

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What’ll it take for ice-nine to work? Can it be done in real life? Assuming you mean Vonnegut's Ice-nine (from Cat's Cradle), it would take a change in the laws of Physics... and a change in Scientific nomenclature since real Ice-IX doesn't melt at 45.8°C (114.4°F) like Vonnegut's did, and it's not a super-stable form of ice, but a metastable form that requires only slight interaction with outside influences for it to lose what...

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What is an example of passive aggressive behavior that you have experienced? Did you want to shoot the person who did it? Why? Does lying down behind the wheels of my car so I couldn't leave count? If not, I'm sure leaving narcisitic melodramatic notes occassionally scrawled or signed in blood does. How about threatening suicide a couple times a week? (She'd have loved to commit suicide, but only if she could attend her funeral and listen to everyone bemoaning what wondeful tragically misunderstod...

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Is Australia the next mega-power in the world? No. It's too small/unpopulated, and the Aussies have evidently lost their balls ... and they've never had an instinct for empire, and can't be tricked into building one (like their Scotch-Irish cousins in America were). But if "The New World Order" conspiracy fails, (and I'm certainly hoping it does) I'm putting my money on Brazil!

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In these times, the US is chiefly outsourcing I.T. and other high-tech industries to India. When their time comes, where will India outsource their high-tech industries to? I dare say the Indians won't be that short-sighted and stupid. The Corporate buffoons who thought they'd save big-bucks on outsourcing never anticipated: 1) that they were killing their own market, and 2) that the US Dollar would lose almost 50% of its value over just 6 years ... turning all those "savings" into increased costs and hefty losses.

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Do any of you have parents that drive like 10 miles under the speed limit? My parents never did that ... though my mom probably should have in the last year or 2 before they took her license away! My grandmother, however, drove 30mph on the interstate and 60mph on her hometown windy suburban roads ... and always with her foot on the brake!

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Other than "muffler bearing" and "blinker fluid," what other mythical automotive components have comedians made up? Headlight fluid. A spair transmission. A transmission without a reverse gear -- he told the mark one with a reverse would cost an extra 20%. Right and left specific tires - e.g. "I don't know how this happened, but youv'e got the right tires on the left and the left on the right, and that's really dangerous ... though not as dangerous as having the front wheels in...

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Why did NASA decide to be frivolous in their spending by R&D’ing the Space Pen instead of simply using pencils, which the Russians did? We also spend millions of dollars per fighter & attack jet aircraft on a massively redundant system of sensors, computers, and control mechanisms to automatically keep the plane from going too fast. The Russians just put a red line on the air speed indicator. But as for the pen question: it derives from government and legal requirements for logs and all other records, since the ink...

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The US government gets trillions of tax dollars every year. Aside from the war on Iraq, what other wasteful spending have you heard about? Social Security payments. Medicare Payments. The entire cost of the EPA, OSHA, and Department of Veterans Affairs. Militarizing the police forces of every American municipal police force AND those of Mexico and Central America. Probably the bulk of government grants. Bailing out Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. ... and probably just about 80% of the federal payroll.

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What's a good negotiation tactic? Silence. For example, after your opposite makes a concession, just look at him as if to say, "and ....?" Keep him bidding against himself.

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Have foreigners made flash videos that parody (albeit accurately) the American’s lifestyle? (e.g. pull up to a McMansion in a guzzling SUV, an obese mother steps out with her teenybopper kid in soccer uniform, & other stereotypes of a Suburban American? In Thailand, the Thai's don't parody it (intentionally) -- they hold it up as the lifestyle to which they all aspire!

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What percentage of republicans do you suppose are white? Who are you classifying as "white"?

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Do you figure that quite a few closet racists will vote for McCain, even if they are Democrats? Not nearly as many a the open racists who will be voting for Obama.

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What if we stopped being so consumeristic and actually paid attention to the plights of the starving and diseased people of 3rd world nations? Do you feel ashamed of your self just a bit for being too sucked into the first world economy that your are? Every person in those 3rd world countries is chaffing at the bit to be sucked into that 1st world economy, and would be even happily consumeristic (even more than any of you) given the chance.

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Do you feel that you are continually evolving as a person? No, I attained personhood a long time ago. Now, am I continuing to learn and expand my horizons? Yes.

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Wasn't Melissa Joan Hart incredibly sweet and who could resist her cuteness and charm? I must confess, "Clarissa Explains It All" had me wishing I was in Junior High again ... ... until I learned she was actually 16-19 years old when she did the show, and then I didn't feel like such a perv.

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How do you tell your parents you love someone without them yelling at you? I'm 13 and they'll just get mad and say I'm too young? Well ... you are too young.

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Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4, What does it say? "History, in general, refers to study of past events of human society which are different according to what really happened in specific period of time..." It's from the English version (translated from Thai by a Thai) of a Thai 7th Grade Social Studies textbook. On line 5 it continues, " ...based on reliable evidence accompanied by ideas and searching for facts or...

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Which G.I Joe toys were your favorite when you were a youth? #1: the Navy Frogman with his DPV (Diver Propulsion Vehicle) #2: the Rat Patrol desert jeep with the 50 cal in the back!

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What is the name of the closest Hospital to you? Rohng Pai-ya-bahn Ka-sem-rahd Bahng Yai. (It's 30 km outside of Bangkok.)

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What's the stupidest question you've ever been aksed? There are 3, all from my mother, and all in the same conversation. When I went to grad school (1993) I told her I was going to buy a computer. This provoked an inquisition, beginning with ... 1) What do you need a computer for? ("Uh ... to write my papers," I replied.) 2) Well why don't you just buy a typewriter? ("And in just what antique store...

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What's the stupidest question you've ever been aksed? There are 3, both from my mother, and all in the same conversation. When I went to grad school (1993) I told my her I was going to buy a computer. This provoked an inquisition, beginning with ... 1) What do you need a computer for? ("Uh ... to write my papers," I replied.) 2) Well why don't you just buy a typewriter? ("And in just what antique...

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"God speaks to philosophers in the language of philosophers and to simple souls in the language of the simple ones, and only to these last does He reveal truths hidden from the wise and prudent of this world." Do you approve this statement? No. When the Bible talks about being fools for Christ, and condemns "the wisdom of the world", it's not saying its more blessed to be a moron. It's saying that what the world MISTAKES for wisdom (looking out for #1, saving face, chasing after public approval and social status) is really folly, and that those people who reject these vane pursuits -- called Fools by the...

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Does the bible see women as lesser beings? No. If you want examples of religions or sacred texts that regard women as a lower form of life, or something intrinsically less worthy and noble than men, you'd have to look at ... well ... just about every pagan religion, past and present, including classic Hinduism, and also Buddhism and Islam. But the religion along with its religious stories and myths that probably had the worst...

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What does everyone think about Barack Obama saying that the US should strike Pakistani Al Qaeda targets if Pakistan fails to address the issue? Saying it on the campaign trail, and actually doing it once in office, are 2 different things. Saying he'd do it is a good way of appealing to those middle-American middle-class white voters outside the urban areas who are, for right or for wrong, ultra "pro-America" - meaning that their first reaction to hearing of any insult to America by tin pot regimes and third world...

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Which presidential candidate intends to keep troops in Iraq, and why? Also should add that Obama's "plan" for Afghanistan is exactly the same as Johnson's plan for Vietnam in 1964 ... except that his involves launching air and commando attacks against Taliban forces IN PAKISTAN which will undoubtedly have the same winning effect that said policy had in Cambodia and Laos - except Pakistan will be lost to the Islamofascists instead of the...

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Which presidential candidate intends to keep troops in Iraq, and why? Both of them. The "why" is because the Rockefeller's and their minions want it, and they control the National Security Council (regardless of who's Presdient) the CFR, the Federal Reserve, the NSA, Exxon, Aramco, Mobil, Atlantic Richfield, the IMF, the World Bank, and most of the banks in the country including the two largest in the world (Chase Manahattan and Chemical...

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What if the following superstition came true for ALL Communist regimes and not just the USSR's?: "When a Communist nation hosts the Olympics, its regime has only 11 more years to live!" Despite lip service to the contrary, China ceased to be a communist state when they turned on the Gang of 4 in the Fall of '76. Just going by what it looks like, China is a corporatist-socialist (i.e., Fascist) state ... as is Vietnam. In fact there are only 3 communist countries left: Laos, Cuba, and North Korea, and they'll be "assimilated' into the...

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Is there anyone in the world who actually takes Ann Coulter seriously? If there is, does anyone else find that a little frightening? Just found this article. I thought it says it all beautifully. It certainly answers your question. http://www.magic-city-news.com/Bernard_Chapin_102/Ann_Coulter_The_Phenomenon9113.shtml

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Who do you hate more: ann coulter or hillary clinton? Hillary is the viscious, outrageously corrupt, sanctimonious, self-righteous hippocrite ... and traitor and enemy of all that is American. Ann Coulter just uses the weapons of the Left against them (absolutely deliberately), and she does it better than they do. In other words, her methods and style are every bit as much of the mockery of the Left as what she actually says. See... ...

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What kind of people are those who hold very long grudges? The Irish.

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Why don’t we have 3-speed gearshifts anymore? Because we also don't have huge, heavy, low rev-ing gasoline engines anymore. We also now have super-highways where you can actually expect to get up over 65 mph and keep it there for a while.

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Can those exorbitant patenting fees be paid in a monthly installment plan? The exoribtant portion is the legal fee(s). You can pay them in whatever manner you set up with your patent attorney... ... but he's not very likely to to complete the patent filing for an individual with no real assets until he's been paid in full.

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I have tried to figure this out for SO long... and am coming up with nothing. So, risking being the one with the stupid question... Why on EARTH do people write the word "god" as "G-d", leaving out the "o" and replacing it with a hyphen? In addition to what's been said already ... Traditionally, Jews when writing the name of God (roughly transliterated YHVH) in Hebrew, they would not write the vowel points for His actual name below the letters, but would write the vowel points for Adonai (roughly transliterated e-o-ah), reminding the pious Jew not to utter the sacred name (Yahweh) but to say Adonai (which means...

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What is the Trilateral Commission, and does it really exist? In addition to what's been said already, it should be pointed out that the origin of the term - Trilateral - was that it not only drew its members from three blocks - the US, Japan, and Europe (primarily Germany) - it also divided the world into three spheres of influence, at least as far as financial/economic imperialism went: Japanese banks/financiers were allotted Asia, Germany's...

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Have you ever won a trophy? Not a trophy ... but I did get a Gold (plated) Medal form the King of Norway. (1 of 6 crewman on the winning boat of the 1983 8-Meter (yacht) World Cup.) (The skipper/owner got the trophy.)

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How does Superman's ability to fly work? Originally, in the very first stories, he couldn't fly. He could just jump essentially as far as he wanted to. The original idea didn't have anything to do with the effect of solar energy on his body, but the fact that he came from a planet with vastly greater gravity and air pressure, and generally much harsher conditions, to which the Kriptonian race had adapted. The idea was...

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Do people ever have trouble pronouncing your first or last name? Here in Thailand? Yes! You wouldn't think "Jack Wallace" to be that challenging, but for Thais it's damn near impossible. Jack comes out "Jaa", "Jax", "Jatch" or "Jach" (pronounced like the ch in Loch Ness). and Wallace comes out "Wallet", "Walletch", "Wallish", "Warret",...

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How much money did Tom Cruise make on "War of the Worlds"? Way too much.

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What were the major causes of the US Civil War? Now, what was the principle reason for the secession of the original 7 states? These states were totally controlled by a handful of super-elite, super-wealthy families who had gotten use to controlling the US Senate as well. Their power and wealth were based on their vast slave holdings (only 5% of Southerners owned slaves ... and 15% of slave owners were black (or Creole) mostly in and...

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What were the major causes of the US Civil War? The immediate cause of the Civil War was the rampant and shameless theft of Federal property by the seceeding states, and the absurd claim that they had title to the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. Between Lincoln's election and inauguration, Buchanan's Secretary of War, John Floyd (a southerner) moved large stores of munitions, heavy armaments, and rolling stock to the...

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What will you do when the antichrist comes? Obey or rebel? Problems with "when" and "he". "Antichrist" is used in the New Testament only as and adjective to refer to anyone and everyone who denies Jesus is the Christ ... and also anyone who denies that Christ "came in the flesh," as opposed to being just some spirt pretending to be human. 1John 2:18 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that...

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Does the "gay is a sin" thing have to do with pride being a sin? The Bible doesn't say that being "gay is a sin" - it says that sexually immoral acts (fornication, adultery, sodomy, beastiality, etc.) are sins. It also says that catemites, sodomites, and the effeminate "shall not inherit the kingdom of heaven" ... along with gossips, whelchers, liars, thieves, drunkards, swindlers, idolatoers, slanderers, the covetous (people who...

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Is forgiveness ethical? An interesting choice of words... that you chose ethical instead of moral. Morality is first and foremost about NOT wronging people and fulfilling your obligations. But as no one can ever deserve to be forgiven (if they deserved it, it wouldn't be forgivness) and forgiveness is by definition gracious (i.e., NOT obligatory), it goes beyond mere right and wrong, but arguably transcends...

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Who would solve the Who-done-it first: Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple? Whoever Agatha wanted to.

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How many Feminists does it take to change a light bulb? The typical Feminist answer: "THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Why don't Virginia and West Virginia reunify? Because the WVa seceeded from VA because the Anglo-Saxon gentry of the Tidewater had been taxing the Scotch-Irish of the Appalachians while giving them nothing -- much like what happens in PA today (Harrisburgh, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh consume the limited substance of the counties of the hill country) and there is no reason for them to believe that that wouldn't happen with...

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Is there some rule in Christianity that says that we have to go to church? Isn't it the same if we worship and pray at home? Short Answer: read the Epistles and Acts and see for yourself that to be a Christian means being a member of the body of Christ - which is to say an active serving participant and beneficiary of a greater whole. Rugged individualism is found no where in the Bible. Slightly longer answer: The walk of Christian faith is meant to be done in community -- you can't very well "love...

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What religion (other than atheism) is the most open-minded? Open-minded about what? And I've never known atheists to be open-minded on anything pertaining to religion.

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Do you own a pair of slippers? I live in Thailand, so of course I do ... several, in fact. But here they call them "Long-Tao-Sai-Nai-Bahn" ... ... which translates literally as ... "Put-on-foot-inside-house"

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Why do you suppose that atheists have a lower divorce rate than Jews and Christians? The problem is with labels (even ones chosen for oneself) and statistical methods. Arguably most self-identified Christians and Jews are strictly nominal ones: they may (or may not) have some un-defined vague notion of some sort of "higher power", but they're by no means devout in their supposed faith, with no real theological convictions. Not taking their religion terribly...

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The term "Christian" does not come from "Bible", but from "Christ". Should not a true Christian rather follow the Christ than the Bible? Say, mainly follow Christ's reported sayings and acts and do not mind the rest very much? The word "Christian" comes from the Greek term for those who were following Christ to become like him (it literally means "little Christ"). So, of course, Christians should follow Christ. But how else do we know what Christ is like except from the Bible? Furthermore, Christ Himself taught us that ALL of the Scriptures (at that time just the Old Testament) were about...

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Whatever became of The Knight's Templar? As noted already, the order was officially disbanded in 1312. While most of the French Templars had been executed, killed during "interrogation" by torture, or imprisoned for life (all part of Philip IV's evil plan to sieze their lands and treasury in France), the Templars outside of France were absorbed into other orders, mostly the Hospitallars and the Knights Tomar. The 8...

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Any first time sex stories? "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain."

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Does the Second Amendment need to be adjusted since Americans no longer own muskets or flintlock pistols? Addendum/FYI: The 2nd Amendment's words "a well regulated militia" is 18th century English. "Regulated" meant "equipped, armed, and trained" as in "military regulars." "Militia" meant "the assembly of all male citizens capable of bearing arms." These had nothing to do with what we think of as...

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Does the Second Amendment need to be adjusted since Americans no longer own muskets or flintlock pistols? If criminals, maniacs and the agents of would-be tyrannical governments are carrying assault rifles, automatic weapons, tear gas, and body armor, then law-abiding free citizens need to be carrying them too. As no law and no government can keep these weapons out of the hands of criminals and maniacs, nor is willing to give up these weapons for its agents, then all "gun-control" laws...

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Who are some famous graduates of your high school or university? Kurt Vonnegut spent 3 years at Cornell, but was drafted (WWII) before he graduated ... and consequently wound up a POW in Dresden just in time to witness the allied fire-bombing. Others from Cornell: Bill Maher Anne Coulter Keith Olbermann Jimmy Smits Christopher Reeve Pearl Buck E.B. White Edmund Muskey Dr. Henry Heimlich Howard Hawks (one of the great directors of the golden age...

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What's your favorite quote about love? There's love ... and then there's deep neurosis... DON'T CONFUSE THE TWO!!!

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Do you believe in the big bang theory or creationsim? why? Uh ... you're suggesting that the two views are antithetical when they're not. Every Theistic philospher, theologian, apologist and scientist believes in the Big Bang Theory, and argues that the Big Bang is proof of both Creation and the Creator. And for the record, even the young Earth creationists don't argue that it's necessary that the universe is only several...

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If Jesus died for my sins so that I can get into Heaven, does that mean I can be as sinful as I want? Why not try reading the Bible on you own, and figure that one out for yourself.

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Are you aware that Evolution does NOT contradict Creation? That would depend upon how one defines both "Evolution" and "Creation". The philosophic naturalist/materialist defines evolution as a totally random and purposeless process that had no particular species in mind, least of all homo sapiens, and that all living things and species are just cosmic accidents. This certainly contradicts any creationist's view of the...

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What's the difference between a muffin and a cupcake? Muffins are for hugging, cuddling, snuggling, and possibly spending the rest of your life with. Cupcakes for flirting, pinching, and maybe a little back-office nooky.

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Despite advances in aviation safety, why hasn't another hydrogen blimp (like the Hindenburg) been built? 1) The FAA (and their counterparts in the industrial nations) probably wouldn't allow a hidrogen airship despite its safety (the Germans only lost them to enemy fire in WWI and to 1 to a saboteur in 1937 -- for the doubters, the remnants of the bomb that destroyed the Hindenburg are still in the New York City bomb squad archives), and 3rd World Nations don't have the discipline or...

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Do you believe in luck or fate? Niether. I'm certain of Providence... which is unlike fate in that it is personal and deliberate, and has a definite plan based on absolute justice AND compassion.

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Are there different recipes for Coke in different countries? The syrup concentrate is the same. What differs is the water and the sweetners, both in quantity and type. In the US, they now use high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar, and it makes it taste like crap. I don't know why, but it makes me think I'm drinking liquid nylon. In many other countries -- where sugarcane or sugar beets are more common and corn is not heavily...

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Should you trust your conscience if it thinks your gf is cheating on you or if she is not telling you the whole truth. Uh ... that's not your conscience. Your conscience is what makes YOU feel guilty, not what makes you suspect other people's guilty. What you're talking about is just intuition. As to whether you should trust it or not ... I don't know ... is it any good? Are you a fairly perceptive and intuitive person? Or do you tend toward the paranoid-schizophrenic with low self-esteem?

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Do you throw garbage out your car windows? Why? I live in Southeast Asia, and I'm probably the only person here who DOESN'T throw garbage out of his window. Heck, here they throw garbage out of their home windows! "Asian Environmentalism" is an oxymoron up there with "Military Intelligence" and "Republican Agenda".

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What do you think the world would be like if John Lennon hadn't been killed? Dylan, if you think the world would be any different other than we'd have a few more 3rd rate failed songs like all the ones he wrote in his post-Beatles career, you've lost all touch with reality. When I think of John Lennon, I just remember the words of his oldest and all-time best friend and fomer band member, Paul McCartney: "John was an asshole."

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Better actor? Johnny Depp, Brendan Fraiser, Hugh Jackman, george clooney, Hugh Grant, Denzel Washington or Wesley Snipes? George Clooney is an actor? At any rate... Denzel Washington and Hugh Grant are excellent but with a very limited range. I never really thought of Wesley Snipes as an actor (a movie star, yes, but an actor, no) though his totally contrary-to-type performance in "To Wong Fu..." was great if pure camp. Hugh Jackman of course made X-Men, but I've never been that...

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What would happen if a large citizen's militia stormed into the IRS headquarters and tarred and feathered every single person there? It's a protest. After all, aren't they are exercising their Second Amendment rights? Well, if you hold to an insurrectionist view of the 2nd Ammendment (as everyone should!), then there's nothing wrong with an armed assault on IRS hq, as the IRS is the great instrument of unconstitutional government and arbitrary rule, with no regard for the true rule of law, staffed by brainwashed twits and out-n-out quislings and thugs who enjoy being petty tyrants and licensed...

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How would you go about getting marijuana through airport security, i have to leave on a plane for missouri tonight and i do not want to be stuck there without any bud for three weeks, and if no answers, does anyone live in missouri :]? Just take it right out in front of them, and offer them some, to let you through.

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Wasn't the apple on the Tree of Knowledge actually supposed to be a pomegranate? In the ancient Near East, it was alway depicted as Peach. But then there was the Freudian interpretation: "It wasn't the apple on the tree, but the pear (i.e., pair) on the ground!" But actually, it's supposed to be a metaphor - "to eat of the fruit of the tree of the deciding of good and evil" means to ingore the eternal decrees of God and try to make up...

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How many sit ups can you do? With someone holding my feet, and lying on a decent gym mat, I can do 180-200 in 2 minutes. Going solo on a hard floor, I do 250-280 in 5 minutes. Last time I tried to go for an all out max (with no rest) was 3 years ago when I tested for blackbelt, when I reached 1161. Not bad for a middle-aged guy, I should say. But then I was a gymnast in High School and college, and a small boat...

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What is your favorite word in the Military Alphabet such as Alpha, Charley, etc.? GOLF!!! What else would it be?

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For my AP English class, I have to read a biography or autobiography of my choice and write an essay agreeing or disagreeing with the subject's views. Any suggestions of good, interesting biographies to read, keeping the topic in mind? Albert Speer's semi-autobiographical memoires, "Inside the Third Reich".

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Do you think that reincarnation can occur even if the human soul is non-existent? If "the soul" is just another term for "the self" - which is to say "who you really are inside", mind/temperment/personality/identity and all your thoughts and memories - then the soul exists ipso-facto. Whether or not it is immortal is another question entirely. If the soul is not immortal, then what exactly is re-incarnating? And if not the soul/self, then...

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What was the diameter of the Death Star Superlaser? LASER? I thought it was a meson canon.

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Are enemies a lot easier to make than friends? No. Enemies are actually a lot harder to make than friends. But once made, they are a lot easier to keep!

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If Nuclear Weapons are so destructive and have the potential to obliterate the human race, why haven't countries who possess them taken steps towards disarmament? First, they don't have the potential to obliterate the human race, at least at the current stockpiles ... or even at the height of the Cold War. It's just that elitists equate the populations of NYC, Boston, LA, San Francisco, DC, Chicago, and the inhabitants of the principle urban centers of northern Europe with "the Human Race". But nobody's going to nuke Bolivia or...

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Where does Scandinavia end and Lapland begin? Has it been delineated and demarcated or is it just arbitrary? Lapland is in Scandinavia ... even though the Laps aren't exactly Scandinavians ... but then, niether are the Finns: both peoples came out of northern Asia (kind of like white mongols) as opposed to the Nordic origins of Swedes, Norwegians and Danes.

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Can you bring large amounts of gold bullion on an airplane? No problem carrying it on a domestic flight in the US... though expect to attract some attention at Security. Not that it's dangerous or contraband, but it's presence will become known to Security and anyone else around who's paying attention, so it's kind of like waving a lot of cash around. You're basically advertising to be robbed. If you're travelling...

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What's your favorite line from South Park? Regarding Canada ... "They're not a real country anyway."

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What is your definition of a "good person"? Jesus. Anything short of abslute moral perfection is corruption. Being "a little bit sinful" is like being a little bit syphilitic.

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Isn't Carl Sagan's favorite word Billions? Having been his next door neighbor for 3 years, I'd have to say he had two favorite words: "Carl" and "Sagan".

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Why don't civilian commercial ships and cruise ships use nuclear power? Short answer: Money. Diesel propulsion is vastly cheaper. Diesel engines are far easier and cheaper to build, maintain, and operate. One 18 year-old with a vo-tech training could keep one going, as opposed to a couple dozen specialists and watch-officers, includiing several with degrees in nuclear engineering, needed to operated a nuclear powerplant. Diesels also are virtually...

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How much can one's political ideologies influence the way they act? Can you provide some typical behavioral patterns or mannerisms that are particular to a specific group? Re:>>People motivated by any form of ideology typically behave in a very similar way: irrationally. Ideology, like faith, is premised on belief. By believing whole-heartedly in anything it puts up blinders to opinions and evidence that run contrary to your opinion. << So you're saying that people who believe in nothing and act only on impulses to satisfy their base apetites...

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Do you have direct deposit or do you receive actual paychecks? Are you happy with your current situation and if not, are you going to change the way that you get paid or just go along with the current situation for now? Niether. Almost everyone in Thailand, foreigners and natives alike, get paid in cash once a month. Paying by check for anything under the price of a BMW in Thailand is almost unheard of -- everything is done by cash or ATM transfer. Being paid in cash has some significant advantages for both employer and employee ;) so there's no incentive to change.

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Is it true that Mormonism is the only religion that allows its members to pray for answers? Uh ... no. In fact never heard of a religion - aside from strange pseudo-prophet led cults (like Mormonism) - that DID NOT allow its members to pray for answers.

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Honestly, how difficult is it for government officials and people with extreme wealth to stop being so damn selfish and start helping people who are losing their homes to foreclosure, dying due to natural disasters and disease, and otherwise in poverty? Re garding government officials, please remember that they are supposed to be bound by little things like the rule of law and the Constitution (which includes, if I recall, a provision that no person shall be deprived for life, liberty, or property by the government without due process of law -- i.e., unless the person is convicted of a crime, the government can't take his property just...

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Is scotland a part of norway? Scotland is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and is a located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain. The crowns of Scotland and Norway MIGHT have been united if not for the early tragic death of the child-queen, Margaret the Maid of Norway (grandaughter to the late king of Scotland, and crown princess of Norway), but she died before being...

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When atheists ask questions about God, are they really looking for answers or for an opportunity to ridicule believers? In my experience (which is considerable: I've spent much of the last 20 years as a professional apologist), the vast majority of the time it's not so much a desire to ridicule believers or their belief as one of the following: a) a desire to gloat a bit over their own imagined intellectual superiority, showing how clever (they think) they are, or b) a defensive response...

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Why did Eve eat the forbidden fruit? Temption or Disobedience? Niether. Eve was decieved. It was Adam who was temped and consequently disobeyed.

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Why do a lot of users here appear to forget that an "Edit" button is ever-present on every one of their answers? (For example, after a commenter points out an error in one's answer, the answer doesn't get edited. Why?) Because some of us post from FaceBook where there is no Edit button available. And some of us who have tried to venture into AB-land directly have never been able to get the damn ap to confirm our accounts, so we are unable to edit any of our own posts, or even comment or give points on others.

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Who was an unwanted child who went on to become a world-renowned luminary? Uh . . . Jesus?

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According to new research, "not only are gay men and straight women similar in how their brains are shaped, but gay women and straight men are similar as well." What could be the consequences of this? Not much. Differences in brain structure are to be expected with differences in experience, psychology, learned behaviors, etc. In other words, correlation does not prove causation. It's just as likely as not that the brain develops in accord with chosen habits and lifestyle choices, as it is that choices and inclinations are due to different brain structures. To conclude that...

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"Isnt it ironic"? What is very ironic to you? That in colloquial speach "ironic" is evidently come to mean the exact opposite of what it means: common usage: ironic == "it figures" or "wouldn't you just know it" actuall meaning: ironic == "no one expected it or could have seen it coming".

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Can you contradict yourself in one sentence? Examples please :) "There are contradictions, and then there are contradictions." "I'm not prejudiced: some of my best friends are _________." "All people who believe in genocide should be shot!" "Intolerant people should not be tolerated." And the world's one and only 1 word oxymoron: "Sorority."

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What are the similarities and differences between the words Elohim & Allah? In all semitic languages, the word for "god" is pronounced either El or Al, a difference in pronunciation that simply marked from where (and possibly from what social class) one came ... kind of like "Amen" today ('A' as 'father' == Britain or educated East Coast, West Coast, or urbane US; 'a' as 'hay' == rural, Bible Belt, or...

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If you come across anyone who thinks the Humanities are boring, what would you tell them in order to convince them that it's actually a worthy and interesting subject? Nothing. Cast not your pearls before swine.

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Why do most people conform to society? Why do most people speak the language spoken around them instead of just vocalizing sounds that just feel good and right to them?

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What if the Zeppelin was a SPANISH invention, instead of a German one? (Its demise was due to Nazi politics and WWII more so than the Hindenburg disaster.) Would the airship have been more popular today? The Spanish, like the English, French and Americans (who kept crashing all their airships due to just being stupid in ways peculiar to each nationality), lacked the mindset, attitude and discipline necessary for operating a Zeppelin safely and efficiently. Spain also lacked the necessary scientific and engineering dynamism required for an airship program. Zeppelins may yet make a come back...

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What US, federal department(s) can we do without? Education Labor Energy Health & Human Services Housing & Urban Development Homeland Security Transportation Veterans Affairs Also should nix: ATF IRS EPA OSHA (should go, even if it's parent D.ofLabor doesn't) FTC CFTC USCCR FCA FCC FDIC FMSHRC NCUA NEA NEH NLRB Amtrak Peace Corps. SEC SSS SBA SSA (Social Security Administration) and I'm...

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What is your favorite type of Terrier? I would have said a Westie or Scottie ... until I married a gal with a love of Yorkies and we got two of them. They were definitely Daddy's little girls. (But they were "big" ... for Yorkies: 8 & 10 lbs; I couldn't have tolerated Teacup Yorkies .)

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So are any of you celebrating Juneteenth this year? Kevin, you're the first person I've heard mention Juneteenth in 30 years. And the only other person I've ever heard mention it was my mother ... but then her mom and grandmother were from Dallas. For the ignoratti out there: Juneteenth (June 19th) is a the celebration of the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas. It commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union...

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Has the Wyclif's Bible many translation errors? How could the translation of Scripture into English be considered at that time a crime punishable by charges of heresy? Yes, there are errors, though none are terribly significant. That's not why it was condemned. It was condemned because: 1) Wycliffe's loud and influential attacks on the worldliness of the Ecclesiastical establishment and the encroachments and usurpations of Papal Curia against secular government far from Rome had made him a lightning rod of contraversy, and rendered...

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People say they kill wolves for population reasons, is that also why wolves kill people? they really care about us so much they want to increase our quality of life by eliminating the bad apples? 1) wolves don't attack people unless rabbid. They attack livestock and pets. 2) people are more important and more valuable than wolves, and if you don't know that, you're not only a moron, you're dangerous, wharped and immoral. 3) as people are more important and more precious than wolves, so is our food and our livelihoods. When the wolf population grows so large...

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Have you heard about the Mesopotamia in Argentina? Yes. "Mesopotamia" just means "land between rivers". In Argentina, the land between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers is called Mesopotamia and it is shared by the provinces of Corrientes and Entre Ríos.

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Why does God want to send cowards to hell? Why must he spite the shy, sensitive, easily-embarrassed types? Addendum: I don't think God wants to send anybody to Hell. It's just that in the world to come (the new Heavens and the new Earth) there's no other place for the corrupt and unregenerate: pride, faithlessness, and self-love would destroy the very harmony that God would establish -- just like they did the first time.

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Why does God want to send cowards to hell? Why must he spite the shy, sensitive, easily-embarrassed types? Being shy, sensitive, or easily embarrassed is not the same thing as being a coward. A coward is someone who knows he has absolute overwhelming moral DUTY to do a thing, but does not do it because he is afraid of the consequences to himself. In other words, his sins are self-love (over and above his love of God, righteousness, and all other people), and faithlessness (failure to trust in...

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When airport security searches your laptop once you fly to the US, are they able to search for and recover your deleted files? How? People claiming your laptop files won't be searched on entering the US don't know what they're talking about. Yes, if you are just flying domestically, security typically will only make you remove it from the case and boot it up. But if you are flying FROM overseas - especially Asia - and you fit a profile (adult middle or working class white male flying coach and dressed...

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Whats the best Lloyd Webber musical in your opinion? And your fave song from it. Webber stuff comes in two vaieties: 1) silly, lame, pop, vapid, tripe (Cats, Midnight Express, Joseph) and 2) pretensious, pompous, overblown extravaganzas that take lofty themes and then empty them -- who else would create a musical about Eva Peron without politics or Jesus Christ without religion? That being said, I do love the music to Phantom (probably because he stole most of...

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What's the diff between REAL GDP and NOMINAL GDP? Specifically, if China's artificially low valued Yuan makes for a lower nominal GDP than Japan's, how can one say China has the largest economy in Asia? addendum: I already know the whole buzz word answer about exchange rate valuations and "current price adjusted value" (whatever that means!). What I want to know is what it really means and why it matters. If the value of China's exports are artificially deflated due to currency manipulation then that's their real value! So what's the point of talking about...

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If you (a male) were a guardian and had to spank a 5-year-old for some reason, what if he then said, "Males should only spank females when they're making love! You're being homosexual right now!" Then what would you say and/or do? He's 5? I think I'd stare at him with arms folded and the menacing look that says: "I'm waiting." And keep him there until he apologizes. Then I'd wash out his mouth with soap and send him to bed without his supper. Either that or continue spanking him, and harder, while asking him, "So is this gay?" Until he says it isn't and apologizes....

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Is it true that Women: can't understand normal thinking? I'm wouldn't say that they can't understand it. I'd just say that they don't typically engage in it on their own. Women don't typically consciously REASON through a problem to work out a solution (what men call 'thinking'): they more often just come up with the answer intuitively/unconsciously, and then - if called upon to explain/justify the conclusion...

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What's the most expensive gemstone in the world? It's all just corundum.

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I'm confused about the word "species". Take bears for example. Are polar bears a species of bear? or is it all bears that are the species? Polar bears are really just arctic otters with a hyper-active pituitary. (Yes, I'm being facetious. But if you look at the way they're built, and how they move, hunt, and play, they have much in common with otters that they don't with other bears.)

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I'm confused about the word "species". Take bears for example. Are polar bears a species of bear? or is it all bears that are the species? Polar bears are really just arctic otters with hyper-active a pituitary. (Yes, I'm being facetious. But if you look at the way they're built, and how they move, hunt, and play, they have much in common with otters that they don't with other bears.)

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Why do guys always lie about their height? I have been out on five blind dates all have lied about their height by an easy 3 to 4 inches and I have had other women tell me the same. Assuming you aren't dating any boomers (guys born between 1945 and 1963) it could be they all are actually 3-4 inches taller ... or would be if they could stand up straight: Gen-Xers and whatever they call the one after that all slouch. Also, after a hard day most mature men often are about 2 inches shorter than they were when they left for work in the morning. Just settling and disk...

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Can the cowards who keep downrating me for answering a question that literally asked for my opinion, show their face and come debate with me please? Interesting complaint from someone posting as "Anonymous". I dare say it hasn't occurred to you that the person(s) who downrated you may have tried to post a comment, but this glitchy ap won't let them. (Happens to me all the time: I submit a comment, and I just get an interminable "Posting comment ..." message, and the darn thing never shows up.) So what...

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Why do creationalists try to argue against evolution when they have no idea of what evolution is!? For example, someone asked me "Did we evolve from rocks?" If they know enough to argue they will know the answer is NO! To 23Skidoo: One of the worst things about our public education system is that it teaches people just to accept stupid fadish ideas uncrytically, including the patently false lie that "religion teaches people to accept truth from authority." It also teaches them that believing in something in spite of a lack of supporting evidence and in spite of evidence to the contrary is a...

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Sometimes I feel that our laws are selfishly made for humans neglecting other animals. If someone kills a human being he/she is punished. But people kill and eat animals but they are not punished. Any thoughts? Yes. You're a moron. And one who obviously learned all he knows of ethics and morals late at night in a sophomore dorm. If you were fed to endangered carnivores, it would not only serve you right, I'm sure it would improve the gene pool.

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What countries don't have any volcanoes, whether active or dormant? Here's a list all the countries that DO have them. Afghanistan Antarctica Argentina Armenia Ascension Island Australia (active volcanoes only on island territories: none on the mainland or in Tasmania) Bolivia Brazil Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Costa Rica Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Dominica Ecuador...

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If you could give everyone in the world one non-human characteristic (animal trait or superpower) what would it be and why? Well, flying - Superman style - would be pretty cool; but if we had to have wings, they'd need to be 30 feet across, and they'd kind of get in the way. For something natural yet inobtrussive, I think gills would be my choice, or at least the ability to hold our breath as long as dolphins and whales.

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Are higher gas prices the result of a weakening dollar or increased demand / less supply? The falling dollar, tension in the Middle East, increased demand world-wide, and the fear of dwindling supply, all has been causing commodities traders to bid up the price of crude oil. At the same token, increasing prices justify and finance more exploration, and makes oil that's more expensive to extract profitable when it wasn't profitable to get it at lower prices -- which will...

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Women don't want men to/who live at home (with their parents.) However, will they not mind if a man lives next door to their parents, or even in a duplex whose other unit is the parents'? In much of "the developing nations", women actually like men who live with their parents. In most of the world outside of Northwestern Europe, Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand, children are expected to take care of their parents, especially a 1st born son, who typically is expected to live in "the family home" which he will one day inherit. Men who do this are...

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How would it differ if the USA had no states and was just one whole country? Would it make any difference? re >>Like some other countries (like Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Norway, Sweden).<< Not on your life. France's population is on the order of California's, and it has "Departments" (instead of states) which though much more under the control of the central government, they still have certain powers of self-government. Sweden only has the...

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What is Soviet Russia? WAS would be the better word. A soviet was technically a communist committee that ran any of the 11 "republics" that were formed out of the old Czarist Russian Empire in 1917. The 11 soviets began as the chief communist cells in each of the principle regions/provinces. 3 more were added (by conquest) in 1939 - the Baltic States - and the last one - Moldova - was established in...

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Is it true that 1 marijuana joint= 5 cigarettes combined or is it just propaganda from the goverment? The statement concerns the carcinogens and potential for lung damage, not the buzz they give you or the addictive effect. It is based on scientific analysis of the carcenogenic content AND medical (non-laboratory) studies compiling findings from people with lung cancer and other lung diseases comparing those who admitted to regular cigarette smoking and regular marijuana smoking. To the...

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For whom do the bells toll? You have to ask? FOR THEE! you illiterate oaf!

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As a member of an SG team would you prefer to be armed with a staff weapon, a zat gun or a machine gun with a few clips? Staff weapon is lethal and spearlike. Zat gun is small: the first shot renders unconscious, and second shot kills. I think I'd prefer to be armed with a few hundred syringes of Thorazene and other anti-psychotics, since I'd obviously need a hell of a lot of them if I thought Stargate was real and I was an SG team-member.

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Would you be offended if someone ate you after you died (of natural causes)? Only if he took a bite and then shoved the plate away and sent it back to the kitchen bitching at the waiter demanding fishsticks or a burger instead.

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How many years into the future do you believe that humans will evolve to be something that is no longer "homo sapiens" as we know it? Never. Transpeciation by evolution is nonsense and contraried by all the evidence.

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Are wolves friendly or just diabolical? If you're talking about real ones, the answer's neither. They're predators, they're territoial, and they're pack (social) animals. In the wild, they care for their own - and may even care for abadondoned/lost dog pups and human babies - and they protect their own and their position in the hierarchy against perceived threats. They also hunt and kill to eat, though...

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Do you think nipple rings are tacky? To say the least.

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Is it un-American to be an atheist or an agnostic? re. 773491's answer: "not at all, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were agnostic!" Niether Jefferson nor Madison was an agnostic. Both were devout theists and providentialists -- who even believed in public prayer, confession, repentance, penance and fasting -- and even that the government should declare national days for such in bad times to reconcile the nation to God,...

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If the Times Square New Year’s Day crowds in 2000 were TWICE THE SIZE of 2001’s crowds, doesn’t that imply that the new Millennium really started in 2000? Recycling more questions again, Christian? I guess you've run out of television shows.

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How many English words that end with 'S' are not plural? And then there are all the Latin loan words that end in US (alumnus, octopus, hippopotamus, omnibus, posthumous, status, calculus, radius, phallus, humerus, alias (spelled alius in Latin), nimbus, etc.) and the Greek ones that end in AS, IS, and OS (atlas, pancreas, axis, thesis, parenthesis, stasis, eros, telos, etc.). Most of these, however, show up in the Sciences, Medicine, Math, and...

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What's one thing you miss about being a teenager? If you are a teenager, what will you miss? 5 things really: 1) having all the essentials and most frills paid for by my parents 2) having Carte-Blanche to totally screw-up 3) being able to spend the last 2 hours of the woking day playing sports 4) being able to be an irresponsible, self-centered, cavalier, narcissistic hedonist AND ... 5) having lots of babes who actually thought 1-4 made me hot!

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Please let me know what your initial thoughts are when I utter Rosie O'Donnell's name? "Please let me know what your initial thoughts are when I utter Rosie ..." A LARGE DAIRY COW! "... O'Donnell's name?" ...WITH DISTEMPER.

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Hell is a place for eternal damnation designed to torture the souls of evil man. The Devil is the ruler of this place and the instigator of all this pain. So, the Devil punishes bad people. Does that make him a good person? To: slothmister/Kevin Rose, re: your comment: “So by not believing in god we are refused entry to heaven? Hmmmm, EGOTISTIC comes to mind.” You weren't paying attention. Real Goodnes/Love/Joy/Righteousness/Compassion IS God ... it's just that while you imagine these to be different if related abstract qualities, they are all really 1) one in the same and 2)...

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Hell is a place for eternal damnation designed to torture the souls of evil man. The Devil is the ruler of this place and the instigator of all this pain. So, the Devil punishes bad people. Does that make him a good person? Your theology is completely wrong - both in your premises and your chief inference. (But what else is new.) There's nothing of this to be found in the Bible, nor is it part of Catholic, Orthodox, Nestorian, Coptic, or Protestant theology. The Devil is not the ruler of Hell ... nor is he the primary punisher. He is merely Hell's most notorious and most miserable exile/prisoner,...

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Was the Sleeping Prophet a Disciple of Christ? Edgar Cayce was either a fraud or delusional ... and possibly a little bit of both. His life isn't exactly noted for following in the footsteps of Jesus, nor being conformed to the image of Christ -- which is the definition of a disciple of Christ -- so I'd have to say the answer is no.

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Why do creationalists try to argue against evolution when they have no idea of what evolution is!? For example, someone asked me "Did we evolve from rocks?" If they know enough to argue they will know the answer is NO! Perhaps the person you're referring to actually understands it better than you. If all life evolved from a single living cell, and that single living cell was but a chance combination of compounds, primarily water and various minerals, then the evolutionist is essentially saying that all life evolved from "rocks". Though it is a crude way of putting it, allowing for the...

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What are you favorite mixed metaphors? A friend last night kept saying she does not have a "dog in this race" when she meant either "horse in this race" or "dog in this fight". SOME CLASSIC ACCIDENTAL ONES "Are bears Catholic?" "Don't let the rug rats bite." "When you come to a fork in the road, TAKE IT!" "Lets run it up the flag pole and see if it floats." "Step up to the plate and take the bull by the horns." "Don't count all your chickens in one basket." "Don't take...

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It si possible be in love after 40's? Yes, both to fall in love and be in love. When I met my (2nd) wife, I was 44 and she was 43. It's been almost 3 years now, and we're still positively "goopey" over each other. But, it's not the same as when I was in my 20's. Then, real love and deeper biological drives (other than just the need to get your rocks off) come on you something like an assault - a...

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Are any of you Americans going to fly Old Glory on Flag Day, June 14th? Yep -- right next to the Stars & Bars and the Royal Standard of Scotland!

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When a euphemism replaces an offensive word & gets used often enough, doesn't the euphemism become as offensive as the word it replaced, and therefore require a new euphemism of that euphemism? Didn't you ask this same question a few months ago?

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I'd like to go to Disneyworld (florida), but I know nothing about the different theme parks they have there. I will only have 2 days. Which park(s) would you recommend? Why? Any "must sees"? The best park for ... - little kids: The Magic Kingdom (1-2 days) - adults: Disney-MGM (1 day) (Seems they've chaged the name to Disney Hollywood Studios) - active teens: probably the 2 water-parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach (1/2-1 day each) - the more intellectually stimulated: EPCOT & World Showcase (1-2 days)

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If water cannot compress, then how do you explain the added water pressure at the bottom of a lake? Maestrothief simply hasn't got a clue what he's talking about. Pressure and compression are not the same thing. Pressure is about lbs/sq.in. : Compession is a measure of change in volume. Liquids are - by definition - "incompressible", meaning that no matter how much pressure you put them under, they don't shrink in volume (at least until the pressure gets to be...

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Why did Satan rebel against God? The Bible never says expressly. But judging by what the Bible implies, I'd say it was because he was obsessed with "Justice" to the exclusion of Grace and Mercy: Pride is incompatible with Love.

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Have you read any books by George Orwell? If so, what do you think of his writing and style? Would you recommend him to other readers? Animal Farm is simply brilliant. 1984 - except for the brilliant (and prophetic) appendix on Newspeak - is an interminably dreary read: though 20 times as long, it says nothing that Animal Farm doesn't say better. (It has nothing that can compare with, "All animals are created equal -- but some animals are more equal than others." ... But still it must be read. It certainly...

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Does anyone else find it amazing that some people actually vote based on political party (I.E. "I always vote Democrat. I don't care who the candidate is."), instead of making an educated decision and voting for the most qualified candidate? Not amazing in the least when you understand how politics and political parties work, and that you're NOT voting for the candidate as an individual, but as another tool of the machine. Ever hear of "The 11th Commandment" in politics? What amazes me is that so many people could be so naive as to think that a party nominee will be anything but partisan in his politics -- except...

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Do you find It's called a typical Q&A glitch. For some reason, the stupid ap frequently truncates questions at parentheses, quote marks, and hyphens. And the techno-geeks in charge either can't or just won't fix it.

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What popular foreign food (popular in it's source country) do you find disgusting? Have you ever actually tried it and if so was it as bad as you imagined it would be? My current "favorite" is Thai "Fish Sauce". Note the name does not imply that is sauce FOR fish. They actually put fish in a press, squeeze out the juices, let them ferment, mix in even more salt, and then bottle it. And it's their #1 condiment: they put it on practically everything -- even eggs! Not surprisingly, it tastes (and smells!) like really bad fish...

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Which country would you find the source of the Nile River? The Nile is fed by three major rivers: The Blue Nile and White Nile converge at Khartoum in the Sudan to form the Nile, and slightly later it is joined by the Atbara River. The head of the White Nile is Lake Victoria, bordered by Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The head of the Blue Nile is Lake Tana in Ethiopia. The head of the Atbara is also in the Ethiopian highlands. Lake Tana has been...

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What was the worst spin-off series of all time and which one was the best? Far more nauseating than Joanie Loves Chachi ... light years beyond Voyager (it at least had 7of9 after the first 2 seasons) ... infinitely more ill-considered than either Emus or Flo ... and even more pathetically desperate than Golden Palace ... are ... ... ... *The Brady Brides* and ... how could we forget ... ***The Brady Bunch Hour*** (see...

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Should companies compensate their employees somehow after enduring a massive move to a new building? Yes. They should be allowed to keep their job ... at least until the next RIF.

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According to some research, most incompetent people do not know that they are incompetent. http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/011800hth-behavior-incompetents.html What do you think? Could it be because incompetent people continually are being protected - not only by their fellow incompetents, but also by the competent who are afraid to hurt their feelings and self-esteem? And is the reason why the competent tend to under-rate their abilities because they've always been under attack by a range of critics and detractors: the incompetent, their jealous rivals, and...

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What does ps stand for and why do people say pss and psss at the end of their letters? Actually, the Latin is "Post Scriptum". Never heard of PSS or PSSS. If you didn't mean PPS and PPPS, then maybe what they meant to say was "pssst" - as in "listen carefully -- I'm about to tell you a juicy secret."

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What author after you read one of their books made you read everything they have written? Both G.B. Shaw and G.K. Chesterton -- who oddly enough in life were the best of enemies.

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If you were a drill sergeant, told one to "drop and give me 50", and he takes a $50 bill out of his pocket, drops it on the ground, and gives it to you, THEN what would you do? Hit in the gut with a rifle but, hard enough to rupture his spleen. And then make the whole platoon run in full gear with heavy packs until they all dropped from exhaustion. Didn't you ever see Full Metal Jacket? (Oh, yeah, and I'd keep the $50.)

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What do you think of May-December relationships? They're perfectly fine and socially acceptable ... as long as the man is the older one and has lots of money.

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Have you been accused of being a genius? Accused, tried, convicted and sentenced to life in academia without possibility of parole.

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What is the most boring state in the US and why? In terms of geography: Indianna or Kanasas In terms of people: Ohio - sometimes I think it's a state populated exclusively by middle-class middle-managers for the phone company.

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If you owned an enormous yacht, what would you name it? Throatwobbler Mangrove (We'll see who the true Monty Python fans are here.)

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What is the difference between pornography and erotica? The root word is pornia. While in its simplest and earliest usage it referred to "temple sex" (usually sex with temple prostitutes, or participation in orgiastic religious rites), the Greek speaking Jews and the Christians after them used it to refer to ALL sexual immorality -- which was defined as anything other than covenantal sex (sex between a man and his lawful wife, his lawful...

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What kind of a man desecrates a defenseless text book? Probably the same sort of man who desecrates a defenseless flag or crucifix. Actually, that's not fair. There's nothing sacred about a textbook - just look at the way most kids treat them! And if it contains garbage, there's nothin wrong with demonstrably treating it as garbage. So strictly speaking, a textbook can't be desecrated. But a man who attacks things that...

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How long does a large cargo ship take to sail from Japan to the US? A typical container ship will take 40-60 times what it takes a jet.

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Do you ever look back on your teenage years and go "Wow, maybe I really DIDN'T know what the Hell I was doing"? If you think you were stupid in your teens, just wait until you hit 40 and wake up to how stupid you were in your 20s!

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Can you describe your life in 8 words? Not exactly, but the decades of almost every human life can be described in 8 words: Childhood: SPILLS teens: DRILLS 20s: THRILLS 30s: BILLS 40s: FRILLS 50s: ILLS 60s: PILLS 70s: WILLS

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Why do *you* think so many people don't believe in the theory of Evolution? The majority of them, I'd have to say, don't believe in evolution for the exact same reason that the majority of those who DO believe in evolution believe in it: IT'S THE FASHION AMONG THEIR SET! The typical person who accepts the theory of evolution as a matter of course, and derides all those who don't accept it as ignorant small-minded bigots, typically knows no...

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When and why did "fire" become the command to shoot? Canons and the earliest hand guns (the hand cannon and arquebus) were fired in the same way: you actually set fire to the powder in the flash-pan. The command "fire" meant to put the fire to the powder.

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How old was Brad Pitt when he started acting? Why don't you just look it up at IMDB.com like everybody else?

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When will be be finally free from depending upon oil to fuel our vehicles? When engineers and businessmen find an even more economical, effective, efficient and consequently more profitable alternative. But then all the whiners and enviers will be complaining that they're making too much money on that too, and the demagogues will jump in to loot and oppress the productive once again, and the fattest of the fat cats will support them as a way of gaining...

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What have been the long term affects from Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia. The absence of 1.4 million human beings, all the descendants they would have had, and all the contributions they would have made. I.e., about the same effect as abortion has in America every year.

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If you could share just one peice of knowledge what would it be? The security protocols, passwords and encryption codes for the Federal Reserve. Unfortunately, they don't seem too keen on sharing the information with me.

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Which French cheeses are amongst your favorites. Ossau-Iraty Pouligny-Saint-Pierre Fourme d'Ambert Beaufort (like Gruyere - but Gruyere is from Switzerland) Abondance Comté Saint-Nectaire Laguiole Cantal Roquefort

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Where is the poop deck? On top of the stern castle! Where the Hell else would it be?!

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Do you have to pay taxes on life insurance proceeds (excluding interest made from the proceeds)? If you're talking about the pay out ("benefit") when the insured dies, in the USA at present, if the beneficiary is the insured's spouse, the answer is NO, they do not constitute "taxable income" -- and for the same reason, life insurance premiums on such policies are not deductible. If the beneficiary is not the deceased's spouse, I think it depends on who...

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What are the origins of the top hat and magic wand? Ditto on Yarnlady's note on Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin. As for the wand, the use of wands became common in High Sorcery in the 16th century -- each wand was made from certain materials and enchanted under certain circumstances to give it particular arcane influences and sympathies, as they were supposed to exist within the old system of correspondencies. For example, a wand of elm,...

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Why are oil companies under so much scrutiny and pressure while companies like Google and Microsoft, whom make huge profits as well, are not? Because liberals are hypocrites as well as morons. It's like they're a bunch of silly little girls who think we should stop all killing of animals, but still eat meat. (FYI, for you militant vegans and PETA crackpots, if you could outlaw all ranching (for meat, leather, fur, and other by-products) the immediate result would be the automatic extermination of all such livestock, since...

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I'm gaining weight and I think I need more physical activity. I don't like school sports because they're really competitive, and my school doesn't offer intermurals. I get bored walking or running. I don't have time for anything extensive. Advice? Take 20 minutes a day to do SOMETHING strenuous that get's your heart rate up to cardio-training levels (160-170) and uses as much of your whole body as you can: calisthenics, jumping rope, biking, swimming, dancing, aerobics, and if you can get it, sex (as long as you're the one doing most of the work).

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When someone tells another, "she just needs some space right now," what do they really mean? It means she's considering a restraining order. . . unless she's a histrionic drama queen who's just saying it because they say it on soap operas and bad "romance/relationship" melodramas - in which case, just try to give her lots of space and you'll find she's threatening suicide as soon as you reach for the door.

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Was the moral of the story of The Three Little Pigs "Don't let talking pigs ruin your day"? I thought it was "Learn to manage your anger and don't eat too many fatty foods."

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What do you associate with the number 8? V8 - both the engine and the drink 8 Ball Behind the 8 Ball Magic 8 Ball Crazy 8s

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How old should children be before they should stop watching Pokémon and it's similar variants? This presumes they should have ever been watching it in the first place. So, my vote is: not more than 5 seconds older than when they first stumbled across it while channel surfing.

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Are all generalisations dangerous? Only really bad (i.e., stupid) ones like "All generalizations are dangerous." Generalizations are absolutely necessary. They are the only ways the human mind comes to understand the outside world. "Fire is hot" is a generalization. "Monkeys have tails and apes don't" is a generalization. When it comes right down to it, you can never know what...

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Could anarchy ever work? If so, explain how. You're missing the point of anarchy. The best thing about anarchy as a (non)form of government is that it DOESN'T work! Anarchy is for people who prefer to take their chances with a supposed war of all against all than to be oppressed in any way by a supposed government.

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What causes girls to go wild? In my experience, gross generalizations about women, or any gratuitous sexist remark.

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Which superhero would make the best boyfriend/girlfriend? NONE! They all have WAY too many issues!

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What is deconstruction? (the literary criticism kind) Example of Deconstructing a text: The nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" - when deconstructed along feminist lines - reveals embedded sexist and patriarchal attitudes, in that it just assumes that Jack should be mentioned before Jill, and that Jill is just a tag-along character who follows Jack (in mention and in action), as she just goes "tumbling after". Far from a simple...

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What is deconstruction? (the literary criticism kind) Example of Deconstructing a text: The nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" - when deconstructed along feminist lines - reveals embedded sexist and patriarchal attitudes, in that it just assumes that Jack should be mentioned before Jill, and that Jill is just a tag-along character who follows Jack (in mention and in action), as she just goes "tumbling after". Far from a simple...

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Soda or Pop? Ant or Aunt? SwimSuit or BathingSuit? Soda or Pop? Ans: Coke (regardless of brand or even if its a cola) Ant or Aunt? Ans: Aunt prounounced Ant. Swimsuit or Bathing Suit? Ans: Girl's 1 piece = Swimsuit Girl's 2 piece = Bikini Guy's classic swimshorts: Trunks fadish Guy's "shorts": Dorkshorts Speedos or less: Nuthuggers

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Do you think that people can become addicted to anything? Not exactly, but I do think anyone can become addicted to at least one thing, but what things they may become addicted to depends on them. If you're lucky, you'll either never find them or, if you do, discover that your addictions are exercize and organic vegetables.

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How can I gain weight? Eat something (at least 300 calories worth) EVERY 4 hours, including in the middle of the night. This will keep your body from going into a catabolic state. Just make sure you're working out too. Also, unless you're hypo-glycemic, STAY AWAY FROM SUGAR and simple carbs EXCEPT immediately after a workout or serious physical activity. Any other time, it produces an insulin response...

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Have you seen the scenario in movies when a hysterical person is slapped hard in the face in order to stop their hysteria? I've had people do this to me and it caused me to become even more upset. Where did that idiotic fictional scenario originate from? The military. It works with guys who freak out in or around combat. But try it now and you'll be Court Martialed (if there are any witnesses ... who'll testify.)

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With the First Amendment in place, how are libel and slander laws able to be enforced? To add to (or rather refine) what has been said already... the 1st Amendment is a restriction on the legislative power of Congress ONLY. Hence the opening words, "CONGRESS shall make no law ..." The rights defined in the Bill of Rights are NOT a testimony to the birthright of every human being, or even every American, but are actually "negative rights", which is to...

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I rarely ask religious/biblical questions, but if there is no fear in love, and it says in some parts to fear Him, and in some parts to love Him, then which one is it? The fear of the Lord is the BEGINNING of wisdom... but... Perfect Love drives out all fear.

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If God does exist and all who accept Jesus into thier lives make it to heaven, and assuming they did, what would you say to people like Hitler, Bin-Laden, Sadam, Khan ect? Could you also forgive them? None of them ever did anything to me, so I have nothing to forgive them for. But if they had, as God has forgiven me, I owe it to Him to forgive them. But be warned, forgiving strangers is easy; what's hard is forgiving the people you supposedly love. Forget Bin-Laden: just try forgiving your parents.

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If you live your life and try to make the world a better place for your being in it, does it make a difference whether or not you believe in God? Well, as I'm not a Calvinist (or a Lutheran) I believe the words in red indicate your future in eternity is determined by how faithful you are at reproducing and mulipyling the grace that has been shown you. But I have to wonder, what makes you think you'd like to spend eternity with God (as that's what salvation/life in paradise is) when you don't want to spend 15...

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Why are the Americans and British always looking down on Australians? Because that's where the are. Just look at a map!

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When the stock market goes down and people lose millions and millions of dollars - where does all that money go? Real losses (what the investor actually paid) just went directly to the seller and the brokers/traders/et al, when the investor bought the securities from/through them. Paper losses are another matter. Example, if you bought 1000 shares of a stock in 1990 for $10/share, and in 2000 it had increased to $100/share, and then in 2001 fell to $20/share, you had a paper loss of $80,000, but that...

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What is the meaning of life? No! What's on Second!

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What is the meaning of life? No! What's on Second!

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What is the meaning of life? No! What's on Second!

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Which was was the first constitution written under Enlightenment principles? Arguably, the first (implemented) constitution of the 1st French Republic (its 2nd written one), at least in part. Which was principally why it failed miserably. the US Constitution (like all practical/functional constitutions) was based on English Common Law and various medieval institutions, all of which had their origins in ancient tribalism and/or the Bible. If you want a more...

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Is LSD addictive? Almost any substance taken to excess over an extended period will produce some form of withdrawal/smptoms of phsical dependence when use/consumption is suddenly terminated. Psychological/emotional addiction is another matter, and the answer depends on you. While I've never known anone who tried to drown their sorrows in LSD, I have known a few who were addicted to it because they craved...

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Did you hear about Circassian people before? Onl from one obscure reference in the movie Lawrence of Arabia, from which I gather they are a fair-skinned, blue-eyed ethnic group in the Middle-East somewhere, probably from the highlands of the Caucasus and/or Persia. But now you've inspired me to go look it up.

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I am about as non-religious as they come (I'm not even an Atheist), so is it weird that religious texts, music, etc., interest me? Not weird at all. Just think of all the couch potatos who obsess over sports and action movies. And academia is filled with people who are fascinated by phenomena, processes, and movements they have no interest in becoming involved with personally -- as an "insider." Even Marx didn't have the slightest desire to actually associate with the proletariat and didn't care a fig...

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Can being stared at be considered as a form of torture? Only if you're 3-6 years old, a girl, and the person staring at you is your big brother.

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What would you say, think, or do if your government began enforcing a public dress code? If it included a ban on body piercings, tatoos, goth & punk getups, and exposed mid-drifts, butcracks, and underwear, I'd applaud! If it also banned t-shirts wih rude and tacky slogans/images, the new regime would have my vote for life!

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Do you trust your neighbors? A better question would be, "What would I trust them with?"

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Are all stereotypes bad? Can you give an example of one that's not? Blacks are good singers, dancers, performers, athletes, and public speakers. Women are soft, sweet, and gentle. East Asians are good at Math. The French and Italians are good lovers. Jews are good at business and making money, and also make good lawyers. Scots are good engineers. Thais and Indonesians are very gentle. Irishmen make good cops. Grandparents dote lovingly...

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I have to lose some 100 lbs but i m making small goals.. like a 10lb in a month.. tell me some goos excercises for instant fat burn.. i m on a diet.. whch has veges.lentils,meat.. all boiled.. the prob is my work out routine.. To burn fat, you have to do LIGHT exercize - keeping your pulse about 111-120 - for OVER an hour. For me, I got the best and fastest results with a treadmill, walking on an incline, for 2-4 hours at a time, almost everyday. (You can watch tv, listen to music or audio books/lectures, or even read while you do this.) I supplemented this with a little cardio work (20-30 minutes, 3-4 times a...

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What do you normally call the gluteus maximus? on a girl or a child: bottom on a guy: (in polite company) backsides or (in not so polite company) ass.

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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? The sin of deciding to make up your own rules as you like when you like is never justified ... or even remotely intelligent.

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Who is your favorite character on the Addams Family? original TV show: a tie between Gomez and Morticia the 1st movie: Wednesday the Newyorker cartoons that started it all: none of them had names then, but my favorite was the boy who would eventually be named Pugsley ... but Charles Addams wanted them to name him PUBERT. For some reason the TV show's producers decided against it.

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Where have all the ethical doctors gone? Driven out of practice by outragious malpractrice rates and a Medicare/SocialSecurity/HMO cartel that tells them they're worth less per hour than their plumber or their vet. they then go to work for pharmaceutical companies. At least that's what my brother-in-law did.

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What are all of the processes involved in preparing to develop a baby in-vitro and become a single father? How much does this cost? IVF in Thailand will cost you about $7000 with a 15% chance of success. If there are no problems with the pregnancy or delivery, it would only cost another $2000. But the cost of the "mother-for-hire" would be another thing -- possibly quite cheap given the financial desperation of many, but as the mother and a Thai, she'd have all rights to the child, and if she changed her...

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How much would gas prices be now if Bush hadn't fraudulently won the 2000 US election? Flag on the play! I hate Bush, but there was nothing fraudulent about his victory ... other than that he ran as both a conservative and an evangelical, and he's neither. Also, the US doesn't go to war because the President (or the Vice President) wants to. It goes to war because the CFR, EXXON, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chemical Bank, and the National Security Council wants to....

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Does the process that goes into getting you your milk concern you? Does the process that went into getting you YOU concern you? If sex doesn't freak you out, why should milk and milking?

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In regards to Matthew 19:24, where would Jesus draw the line for being considered "rich"? Anyone who thinks that his possessions are really his, instead of God's which God has put in his care to look after for a while or to use for God's purposes.

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Would u consider any religious people u know to be closed-minded? None so closed minded as the un-religious people I know.

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Are Muslim terrorists motivated by pure evil, or rather by what they perceive to be righteousness, faithfull pursuing what their religion tells them? Your basically asking, "Evil or Faithful Wahibism?" To which I must answer ... "theres a difference between the two?"

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So, who is the twelfth and final human Cylon aboard the Galactica? I haven't been able to see it since October 2005 -- have they outted Tai's wife yet?

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Do you yourself, get more points for questions or answers? Definitely answers. I don't ask questions because I know everything already.

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In the olden times, why did they burn witches at the stake? No person was ever burned at the stake for witchcraft in England or their American colonies, nor were they dunked. (People were dunked for other reasons - but never as part of the investigation, only as part of their sentence after being convicted.) "Witches" were hanged after being convicted of practicing black magic--that is for seriously injuring someone through magical or...

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If someone went to punch you, what is your natural reaction? Duck, hit back, run? Why? Smile. Makes people think I'm tough. But really it's just that I have the reaction time of a Lizard in Alberta in February.

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What's a line from a movie you've always wanted to say in real life?:P This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have offend SOMEBODY! ~ John Adams in 1776

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What is the best Russian Reversal joke u can think of? S o v i e t E x p r e s s ! It can leave home... but you can't.

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What are some slang alternatives to the word 'gun'? I thought gun was a slang term. "This is my rifle, this is my gun, this one's for killing, this one's for fun!"

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Do you think the oil companies are going to try to crush the electric car again? Actually, it's the automotive industry and the consumers who are fighting the electic car. The oil companies and the utilities have been pushing for the electric car for years because it will consume even more fuel per mile than the current gas guzzlers, while costing the oil companies less money to deliver it to the consumer -- it's a lot cheaper delivering oil by train and...

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Is it possible for someone who calls himself the decider to be so indecisive about things? Judging by the manifest evidence, yes. But are you honestly suggesting that it would be better for us all if "the great decider" was MORE decisive? Remember, that while the good thing about dictators is that they can get things done, the absolute worst thing about dictators is that they can get things done!

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Christians accept the Bible as fact yet argue against evolution despite 100,000's of bits of evidence for it. How do YOU justify saying ONE book is OK to prove one thing but 1000's of books are not OK to prove something else? It's simple: you trust and/or are persuaded/convinced by the author of the 1 book, and neither trust nor have been convinced by the authors of the other books. After Einstein left Nazi Germany, Hitler sponsored and promulgated a booklet intended to discredit him and his Theory of Relativity entitled, "1000 Scientists Against Einstein". When a journalist showed it to Einstein...

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If all of the US presidents were alive to play The Weakest Link, who do you think they would vote off after the very first round and who do you think would win it? As the first to go is typically the utter numbskull, Harding would be the first to go. The best players (i.e., the most slippery, cunning, and ruthless yet able politicians) would be Lincoln and FDR, one of whom would probably emerge the winner unless enough of the other ones caught on to the canabalistic essence of the game and united against them. But I think both would recognize Ford,...

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Is a civil war between the "Right" and the "Left" a possibility in America? How possible? I sure hope so. The only problem is the real Right have this thing about the rule of law, and thus won't revolt and string-up their Lefty masters like they should.

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Which one are soldiers more bound by duty to defend: The Constitution, or the President? (Think of this in a context where the President's orders do not coincide with the rights of the Constitution.) Addendum: Under historic military law, while enlistedmen have no choice but to obey an order (they're just cogs in a machine: only the officer who gave the order should be held responsible), a commissioned officer has had the option of "asking to be relieved of his command" rather than obey and implement an order from his superior. Up through WWII, this was still accepted and...

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Which one are soldiers more bound by duty to defend: The Constitution, or the President? (Think of this in a context where the President's orders do not coincide with the rights of the Constitution.) The Constitution. But defy a direct order from a superior that was "consistent with military objectives and national policy goals" and you've bought yourself a one-way ticket to a Court Martial with the verdict a foregone conclusion. You'll be making big rocks into little rocks for the next 20 years. It's something of a Catch-22: if ordered to commit an atrocity...

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Will there ever be a King of England any time soon? And who do you think it will be? The Queen will NEVER abdicate. As the abdication of her uncle nearly wrecked the monarchy on the eve of War, and certainly drove her father to an early grave, she sees abdication the way most people see suicide: as a grossly cowardly act and a complete derelection of duty. In her coronation oath she swore to dedicate her WHOLE life to her people and duty as monarch, and she absolutely will...

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Why didnt the bears make the playoffs So Chicago fans can STILL keep talking about the 1985 Bears.

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Why is gold, silver etc. such a big deal??? I mean why are they treated so differently from other metals? After all its just a piece of metal! They are ... 1: very useful (in some cases can do things other metals can't, and go do some things better than other metals) 2: easier to work with 3: far prettier/more lustrous 4: no where near as susceptible to corrosive oxidation (they don't rust) 5: extremely rare

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What would make universal health care in the U.S. work? You might as well ask, "What would make 100 MWat hamster powered electric generators work?"

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What is your analysis of the phrase "Because I said so?" How does that make you feel? Most often it's used just out of exasperation. But I've never heard a parent use it in answer to questions like, "Why is the sky blue?" or "Why is national health insurance a bad idea?" You only hear it in answer to 'questions' like, "Why do I have to clean up my room?" and "Why can't I go to a Rave with all my friends?" ...

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Why does the band H.I.M use a lot of Satanic lyrics and symbols, but I see the frontman, Ville Valo wearing cruicifexes sometimes? For the same reason Satanists use them in a Black Mass: to desecrate them. It's part of the deliberate blasphemy.

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Do you support Affirmative Action? Negative.

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What is a polygamy? A felony in all 50 States and Canada. Technically, it means "many marriages/mates" and was widely practiced by wealthy men in ancient times, especially kings, chiefs and princes, as: 1) a means of ensuring male heirs and that they would always have direct male-line descendants somewhere. 2) a way to show off as to just how virile, powerful, and important they were 3) a...

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Another teen planned to bomb his school. What needs to be done to end this rash of violence? Oh yeah! You could also put an end to No-Fault Divorce and forbid all married women with kids to hold a fulltime job. This would go along way towards making sure kids had a more stable homelife, with a fulltime mom and dad - and with so many women out of the workplace, working dads could actually bring home enough money so the moms didn't have to work, greatly reducing the principle...

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Another teen planned to bomb his school. What needs to be done to end this rash of violence? I don't know... you might try putting up plaques in the schools that say, "Thou Shalt Not Kill." It also might help to stop teaching kids that morality is relative, that this life is all there is, and that they're nothing but a temporary collection of cells, a cosmic accident, with no more worth, dignity, or purpose than pond scum. Be that as it may, the fact is that...

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Why do we put ourselves in positions where we are lied to and deceived on a regular basis and yet we still stay in the situation? Because AB is so fun!

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How many women do you think that Richard Dawson has kissed on The Family Feud? There were over 2500 "episodes" of Family Feud with Dawson as host. For most of its 9 year run, there were 10 per week (5 in the morning, 5 in prime time) with Dawson doing 33 weeks a year, and the rest with re-runs and guest hosts. I remember when the show went off the air, various "chit-chat", morning show newscasters were all announcing that he'd kissed over...

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Obama,Hillary,McCain or None of the above? Definitely, NONE OF THE ABOVE!

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Do you think Carl Sagan is dancing with the stars? I should add, that Sagan being a dogmatic Atheist and Materialist, continually mocked the mere suggestion that he'd be doing anything after death, and insisted it was utterly absurd to even think of him (or anyone else) as somehow in the present tense (i.e., as still existing) after death.

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Do you think Carl Sagan is dancing with the stars? He spent his career dancing with the stars -- the Hollywood kind. As for right now, I think he's burning in Hell. But then I knew him. We were neighbors for 3 years when I was at Cornell. Lousy human being and an absolutely miserable scientist -- the man got his PhD in "Extra-Terestrial Biology"! The whole Astrophysics department at Cornell viewed him with nothing but...

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Is every answered prayer a coincidence? There are no coincidences and ALL prayers are answered... It's just sometimes the answer is, "No."

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Are there any not poisonous, drinkable liquids which do not contain water in some form? Everything, with or without water, is poisonous if you get too much of it. In small enough amounts, no substance is poisonous. Of course, the safety toxic dose of say, plutonium, is significantly less than that of milk.

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How can we act more humanely towards plants? By doing whatever the hell we want with them. There's nothing more human than that.

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Favorite Yoda quote, tell me you will? "Not short enough your reign has been." -- and then he proceeds to get his ass kicked by a sith senior citizen, runs away escaping by crawling through an airduct, and then spends the next 20+ years hiding in a swamp.

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Favorite Yoda quote, tell me you will? "Not short enough your reign has been." -- and then proceeds to get his ass kicked, runs away and spends the next 20+ years hiding in a swamp.

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Why did Darth Vader turn to the dark side of The Force? Because when it comes to scriptwriting, character development, and moral philosophy, George Lucas is a moron.

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What's your favorite book that you think I've never heard of? The Napoleon of Knotting Hill by G.K. Chesterton

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What is the difference between androids and cyborgs? A cyborg is a CYBernetic ORGanism. The original idea was a body of living tissue, but with a computer for a brain, and possibly a few hightech prostheses. Cyborgs are not necessarily human-based: in many stories and films there have been cyborg dogs, cats, apes, and anything else the writers thought would be cool or frightening. An android (as the root word ANDRO implies) is an entirely...

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Why is Britain only great? Britain (or Britania) is the name of the island on which England, Scotland, and Wales are. Once all the British Isles including Ireland came under the direct rule of Parliament in the late 1600s/early 1700s, the English started using the term "Great Britain" to refer to the British Isles under one government, and to create some sense of one national identity. After Irish...

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Do you judge people when they use poor grammar? Yes. It's my job. I'm an English teacher.

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Does the displacement of a ship (in tons) equal its weight? Its typical/average/estimated operating weight, yes.

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Where is the line drawn between patriotism and nationalism? Patriotism is love of one's country. Nationalism is fear of or disdain for all other countries. A man who truly loves his wife doesn't typically try to bed every other man's wife, nor does he try to force them to sleep with his.

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Where is the line drawn between patriotism and nationalism? Patriotism is love of one's country. Nationalism is fear of or disdain for all other countries. A man who truly loves his wife doesn't typically try to bed every other man's wife, nor does he try to make them sleep with his.

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Is control an illusion? Can you really be in control of anything? Please give it some real thought before answering. You are never in control of your circumstances ... though you can affect them in varying degrees. You can, however, not let your circumstances control you, and thereby be in control of your self.

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What are some early warning signs that a kid may/will become a pedophile when he grows up? 1 big sign: if they're a pedophile when they're a kid. I'm not being flippant. I worked with juvenile sex-offenders for several years. The reigning paradigm of the officialdom was that their chances of being totally rehabilitated were slim to none. But then they were applying ideas drawn from alcholism (and other addictions) that "once an alchoholic always an...

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Why is Red a Republican color and why is Blue a Democratic color? What colors represent some of the other political parties in the US? Regarding the GOP and the Dems, Up until the 2000 election, it was the other way around. GOP campaign posters for most of my life (60s to present) have been blue background, or blue background withe broad horizontal white stripe. Democrat posters were typically red, or red with a white horizontal stripe ... except in the Northeast and Westcoast where in the late 70's and on they opted...

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Is it wrong for someone to pray to living / deceased relatives for spiritual and emotional guidance? Not if you're Chinese.

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Does the Pope have special dietary rules? None that are specific to to being pope. I don't know to what degree he keeps the old Catholic "suggested" dietary regimen as a way of showing/practicing devotion - specifically: no meat on Fridays or during Lent, and spring lamb at Easter. He probably celebrates mass (takes communion) every day though.

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Is your Soul more valuable to you than your Spirit? Have you got a definition in mind for either one? FYI, the Hebrew, Greek and Latin words that get translated as "Soul" and "Spirit" basically just mean "the self" and "your breath/life" respectively. Essentially, the Biblical view is that both are just 2 sides of the same coin: you could no more choose between them than between the inside or...

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How fast can an aircraft carrier go? Due to hydrodynamics, (for the most part) the longer a ship is, the faster it can go, provding it has the powerplant to drive it. The theoretical maximum speed of any hull shape is called its HULL SPEED, and it can be closely approximated (within 5%) by the equation: HV=1.34x(LWL)^0.5 (where LWL is the length at the waterline measured in feet, and HV is the HullSpeed measured in...

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Does anyone know why there's people on this app that dont watch anime? Because anime is for strange kids and adult losers. AB is for the curious, amateur humorists, and conversational polymaths ... and people looking to get an answer from someone other than technocrats. Speaking for the majority of AB users: isn't there a dedicated Anime discussion board for all you Anime geeks on the web somewhere? Do you really have to keep clogging the Facebook...

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Have you ever questioned your sexuality? Brought it into the station once, roughed it up a bit. Gave it the 3rd degree. Detained it for the legal limit. But the damn thing just pled the 5th and refused to say anything with its attorney present.

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What verse(s) would various sects/denominations/etc. of Christianity be interpreted as an instruction/a rule/a directive not to masturbate? What do other kinds of Christians interpret those verses as, if not that? Why do you ask, Christian? ... At any rate, the classic (if somewhat strained) example is Genesis 38:6-10 >>Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the LORD's sight; so the LORD put him to death. Then Judah said to Onan, "Lie with your brother's wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to...

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By saying that "people need to be more open-minded," aren't you being closed-minded about people who aren't open-minded? Silly contentless, referenceless abstractions used only in an imprecatory sense are utterly meaningless, and just become lables of approval or diapproval. "Open Minded", like "Tolerance", "Progress", "Change", and "Freedom", has become just this. Without specifics (i.e, without discussing specific freedoms, or specific things to be...

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What are some misconceptions of massage therapists? That they are all granola-crunching, grass-juice swilling New Age flakes. In reality, only about 97.8% of them are.

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What is the most noticeably historically inaccurate movie you've ever seen? Farenheit 9/11 But in the (didactic) entertainment department, it's a toss up among: Elizabeth, 1492, Dances With Wolves, Last Samurai, King Arthur (it claims to be based on "recently discovered historical evidence that shed light on the origins of the Arthurian legend"), Kingdom of Heaven and just about every movie ever set in ancient Rome including: Ben Hurr, The Robe...

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How would war change if the leaders had to fight too? Wars would be just as common and bloody, if not more so. Just consider the history of the world from the Stone Age up until the 1600s (when those Oh so benevolent despots decided it was beneath them to get their hands - or hair - dirty.) But we would have lots braver brawnier leaders! (Just compare Alexander, Hanibal, Marius, Caesar, Charlemagne, the Lion Heart, Gustavus Adolphus,...

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Does diversity strengthen or weaken a society? What sort of diversity? In what areas? And how much? There has to be something "common" to a society's members other than just where they live for it to be a society in any sense of the word. In other words, there must be something significant common to all its members that makes them think of themselves as "US" and as everybody outside their society as...

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What was your favorite memory of the year 2006? The first one: dawn, on January 1, waking up with my new bride on our hammock on the porch of our bungalow, just in time to watch the sunrise over the Gulf of Thailand from edenic Thansadet Beach on the island of Koh Pha-Ngan. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=422813&id=669102712 http://plaa-thansadetresort.com/picture.php?filename=DSCN11.jpg

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Plz anyone tell me . my boyfriend's mind just focus on sex & just sex ...what can i do to move his mind away of this point as i want him to focus with my persomality more than my body????? Stop fornicating with him.

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If u HAD to choose would it be Britney or Paris??!* I think it's spelled Brittany, and I've always prefered its rugged unspoiled coast and countryside to the sprawling traffic-jammed metropolis of Paris. ... Oh ... you meant the stupid spolied whores. Well in that case, I think I'd make a B-line for The Monks' Republic of Athos (no women allowed).

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Please share a good (minimum of 3 word) illiteration with us? Mine comes from a news anchor Irv Weinstein: Pistol packing punks. Irv Weinstein! Holy s---! The Ted Baxter of Buffalo? (That voice! That hair! Dear God, I never knew which was more pompously yet ridiculously fake.) Is he STILL on? He's been anchoring the "Channel 2 Eye Witness News" at least since the 60's! ... announcing nightly yet "another 12 alarm fire in North Tonawanda." (Buffalo NY joke re. North Tonawanda:...

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What is your favorite Archie Bunker quote? 1) Consoivitives is called "right wing" becuz deys is right, and librals is called left wing becuz deys is wrong! 2) [to the very butch feminist] "Pull up your fly!"

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When you join the military, how long are you obligated to serve? In the US, if you're signing up in the Regular forces (not the Reserves or National Guard), standard commitment is 4 years Active Duty followed by 4 years in the Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR), though there are some special jobs/programs where you commit to 2,3,5, or (for pilots) 7 years Active Duty. Depending on the program, after you separate/deactivate, you will either have to spend the...

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Are you supposed to tip a maid / housecleaning service? If you're talking about a maid in a hotel or motel, the general rule in the US is if you stay for more than 1 night it's appropriate, the longer the stay the higher the tip. If you're talking about a maid in a private home, no. Though you should give your own maid/cleaning woman, gardener, regular trash man, regular postman, et al. a (monetary) gift at the holidays.

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What would you do if you found a bag that has $1M in it? Exchange it immediately for a sound currency, as my $1M will be losing over $500/day in buying power until I do. After, that, I'd hop the next plane for Bali.

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Is it true that eating flax seeds without grinding them can cause your intestines to rupture? Never take things on authority. The best way to find the answer is to try it yourself.

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Are you a fighter? I am and I hope you are too. NO! You wanna make somethin of it?!!!

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If you could solve one of history's "unsolved mysteries" which would you choose? It's a toss up between 3: 1) Where do pens go? 2) Why when you put 8 identical matched pairs of socks in the wash, you come out with 13 unmatched socks? 3) What do women want?

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Why is the US as divided as the last three Presidential polls indicate? Because it's the deliberat policy of their masters: DIVIDE AND RULE!

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If the new millennium started in 2001, then why were Times Square's crowds only half as populous in 2001 as it was in 2000? Because the vast majority of the human race aren't Math geeks, don't like them, and don't invite them to their New Years Eve parties.

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What's your favorite King of the hill quote? Hank: [to the too-cool rockin youth pastor] Don't you understand, you're not makin Christinaity bettter; you're just makin Rock-n-Roll worse.

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Who here likes Old English? Assuming you mean the language ... Just to make sure... You do know that Shakespeare and the King James Bible and the like are NOT written in Old English, right? They're written in MODERN English. Chaucer wrote in MIDDLE English. OLD English was the language of the Anglo-Saxons before the Norman Conquest, and is a language virtually unintelligeble to most English speaking people...

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How successful would the human race be if our life span was only 30 years? What do you consider a "successful" species? One that simply survives, or one that sends people to the moon, has global personal telcommunication devices, jet travel, and super computers? Of course if you consider the usual hallmark of "advanced development" -- high life expectancy rates - then your 30 year cap would seem to prejudice the evaluation.

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What's the difference between an engine and a motor? re: t3h_JaKaL I understand you were focusing exclusively on the technical meanings, and I'm sorry if my post was less than charitable in tone. I really just wanted to point out that the words had - and still have - non-technical meanings which predate the technical ones, and from which the technical ones derive.

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Why did the years skip from 1 BC to AD 1? Why wasn't there ever a year zero? 1) Because the Zero wasn't introduced to the Western world until the Middle Ages / there's no Zero in the Roman numeral system. 2) Because years are not cardinal numbers; they are ordinal numbers: the year 1 AD is "The 1st year of the Lord", and the year before that (1BC) is "The 1st year before Christ". When counting ordinals, there is no "0th"...

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I never knew that Scandinavia was a country, did you? *oops: I forgot Finnish is a radically different language (Central Asian in origin), but Finnland was ruled by the Swedes until Peter the Great took it from them, and it has always had close cultural and economic ties with Sweden ever since.

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I never knew that Scandinavia was a country, did you? Ok, just to be contrary to the tide here ... Scandinavia is a country ... in one sense of the word: an area inhabited primarily by one cultural or ethnic group. It is not a nation. Nor is it a state. But it is a country in the sense that Germany and Italy were countries centuries before they were unified into single "nation states". There are of course differences between...

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Don't you think people should start dueling to solve disputes again? I think that worked pretty well..... The last recorded (or at least publicized) duel in Europe was in 1878, the instigator/challenger no less a personage than Reich Chancelor Otto von Bismark. Disgusted by being constantly frustrated by a Liberal member of the Reichstag, the Chancelor challenged his nemesis to a duel. His opponent (who was also a medical doctor) being the challenged had the choice of weapons. So,...

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Don't you think people should start dueling to solve disputes again? I think that worked pretty well..... The last recorded (or at least publicized) duel in Europe was in 1878, the instigator/challenger no less a personage than Reich Chancelor Otto von Bismark. Disgusted by being constantly frustrated by a Liberal member of the Reichstag, the Chancelor challenged his nemesis to a duel. His opponent (who was also a medical doctor) being the challenged had the choice of weapons. So,...

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An ant can carry 10 to 20 times its body weight. If it grew to be as big as a human, would it still be true? No. The thickness of it's legs would have to increase disproportionately so as not to buckle under the load of it's own bodyweight, let alone what it was carrying. By way of comparison, if human beings were 12 feet tall, they'd need legs like polar bears, short and squatty, compared to the rest of the body. At 12' tall, all of your other measurements being increased...

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Who is excited about finally seeing the final episode of Star Gate 1 next Friday? You mean it's still on?

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What name do people who are not residents of the United States of America like to refer to citizens of the United States of America as? State your country if you are not a USA citizen. Though an American, I've worked internationally much of my life, and traveled the globe. My direct experience in and with citizens from over 100 countries confirms that every people in the world calls us "Americans" -- however spelled and/or pronounced and/or inflected with the necessary suffix (e.g., Americano, Americanski, KonAmeriga [that's Thai for: Thai for "a...

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How come conservative people always resort to the most childish defense mechanisms? If your'e talking about "the old generation's" tendency to overreact and see pending apocalyptic catastrophe and the end of civilization in every youth trend, fad, and cause-celebe, then I'd say it's just the nature of old dogs when suddenly surrounded by new tricks. It's always been this way. It always will be. You'll behave the same way (at least...

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Do you think that people who use clothes-lines instead of electric dryers are trashy or environmentally conscious? In the US in suburbia: they are trashy. Also downright rude, given that the people using them always decide to hang out everything, especially the underwear, when their neighbors are having a lawn party. In a US City: they're trashy AND stupid. In the US in the country: if anyone does drive past they won't notice them for the wrecked pickups, falling down shed, toilet planters, and...

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Which mythological creatures has Hercules slain? Perseus killed Medusa. The other Gorgons were immmortal. In his 12 labors Hercules kills: the Lernaean Hydra the giant Antaeus the monster Geryon the monster Ladon (in some versions of the story) the Nemean Lion the Stymphalian Birds (well, most of them - the rest fled never to return) a herd of drunken centaurs the Amazon queen Hippoylte Diomedes (a mortal man, but thoroughly...

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Have you ever touched, something you were told not to touch? Chronically. I have ADHD and a problem with supposed authority. But the best was... In an interminable and unbelievably boring Material Science lab at Cornell, there was an impressively large and mysterious piece of equipment with a prominent switch labled "World Destruct Button". In the up position (where the switch was) was the label "World Continues to Exist". In...

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What is your favorite roller coaster? Any Tuk-Tuk in Bangkok ... especially when a friend gets in another one, and you offer an extra 100 Baht to the driver who get's there first. You won't stop shaking for a week!

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I ride english and whenever i post at the trot my legs move a lot. How do I keep them still? I heard posting with your knee helps I can only imagine what this suggests to people who know nothing of horse riding.

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What's the difference between an engine and a motor? In terms of etymology, originally motor was just another word for mover, especial "the prime mover", i.e., the thing that moves the rest of the device. Meanwhile, originally, an engine was any device or system (mechanical, chemical, electrical, or even human, social, or political) that effects a result: a catapult is an engine, a crane is an engine, a bomb is an engine, a political...

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Who was your favorite Apostle? John. If he was Jesus' favorite, who am I to argue.

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Who was your favorite Apostle? John. If he was Jesus' favorite, who am I to argue.

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How long does it take for people to recognize the global effects of global warming? The Earth has been warming graddually for the last 200 years ... after cooling for 600 years. Fact is, the Earth was warmer in the year 1000 and in the year 1 than it is now. The Earth's average temperature has been varying between about 2 degrees warmer and 4 degrees cooler than it are now for the past 8000 years ... or ever since we emerged from the last Ice Age. The principle driver...

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Why do so much people give up faith in God just because of a tragedy in their lifes? Because they think that God should be more concerned with giving them and everyone else what they think will make them happy now, and not that He should do everything in His power to make them and everyone else righteous, humble, and truly compassionate so they can and will be happy for eternity.

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What would be a really bad name for a restaurant? Condoms & Cabbage No, I didn't just think that up. That's the name of an actual restaurant in Chiang Rai, Thailand

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Is there a book that you read more than twice? Which book was it? The Bible. ... that and ... The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy

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What happened during the Night of the Long Knives in Medieval England? Not Medieval England, but legendary Late Roman/Dark Age "Arthurian" Britain: it was a massacre of king Vortigern's native British warriors and chieftains by Vortigern's Angle, Jute, and Saxon mercenaries, in the days before the reign of Uther Pendragon.

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How many pairs of underwear should you take with you on a one week vacation? Depends on where you're going and whether you plan to drink the water.

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Before we had such high and advanced technology as today, how exactly did we humans survive in the past without it? 1) a poplulation 5% of a what it is today 2) a lot of back-breaking work, 6 day work-weeks and 12+hour workdays 3) 90-95% of the population in agriculture/food production - with crop failure about 1 year in 3 and all out famine on average 1 per 12 years. 4) high infant mortality rates, high pregnancy/childbirth mortality rates, and a good old-fashioned short lifespan! (These weeded out the...

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Which roles have you enjoyed that Stellan Skarsgård has played? Having seen him only in 7 movies (counting PiratesOfTheCaribean 2&3 as just one) I'd definitely have to say that his "performance" in Deep Blue Sea would NOT be among them. But then the movie really just stunk. Even Samuel L. Jackson and LL Cool J were decidedly uncool. What actors will do for money! His most widely known roll (without pounds of latex and a fortune in...

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What are the most cliché questions on Answerbag? Any and all ANIME questions!

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In the Hope family there are seven sisters and each sister has one brother. Including Mr. & Mrs. Hope, how many are in the family? The minimum number would be 9: 7 Miss Hopes, their brother Mr. Hope and his wife, Mrs. Hope ... assuming that the brother didn't marry one of his sisters. This also assumes that one of the 7 sisters isn't a sister IN LAW; if on is an in-law, then there need be only 8 people in total.

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What is your take on this famous phrase: It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image� [Ludwig Feuerbach] My take on it is that he's a jerk. But I do like Voltaire's comment: "God created man in his own image... and then man returned the favor."

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Why do so much people give up faith in God just because of a tragedy in their lifes? Mark 4:3 "Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns,...

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How does a non-British tell whether someone is faking a British accent? Ask him what Bubble & Squeak is. Unless he's a real Anglo-phile, has lived in England, or has worked with working & middle-class Brits for a while, he probably won't have a clue. Also, if at a restaurant, bar, or coffee shop, he asks for the check, he's a fake. Brits ask for "the bill". Also, if he tips well (except in the US), he's not a Brit. ...

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Would you stop me if I were to punch a Neo-nazi in the nose? Not so along as I'm allowed to punch "Reformed" Communists in the nose too.

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What comes to your mind when say 7? "This movie won't just scare you... it wil F--- you up for life!"

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What comes to your mind when say 7? "This movie won't just scare you ... it wil F--- you up for life!"

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Why is the dark side of the force so tempting to the weak of mind and the feint of heart? Because George Lucas is a philsophical and ethical nitwit.

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What is Jesus doing and saying in the Sermon on the Mount? Repent, seek God's forgiveness, encourage/show others to do the same, welcome and forgive those who do, keep praying for those who don't, love them all, know that God wins - and so will you if you live life God's way.

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What ethnicity is Catherine Zeta-Jones? Welsh father, Irish mother, born and raised in southern Wales, speaks Welsh fluently, and still considers Wales "home".

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How does Superman shave if his hair is so strong? Being a crypto-metrosexual (or would that by, "Krypto"?), but also a really tough one, he uses his super-strength fingernails and super-speed to pluck all the facial hairs out!

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The media has been a big influence on other people's opinions for a long time. When did this all begin? Ever since the first orator mounted a rock to speak to the crowd, people with a gift for such things have been working to sway the many. Even the great plays of ancient Athens had religious, political, and moral points (they were performed at major religious festivals, after all) that were intended to shape and change policy and to even effect how people voted (or rioted). In 1912, G.B.Shaw...

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Do mirrors sometimes lie? Yes. Aside from showing you in reverse, the reflected image can be distorted in many ways (fat or thin, tall or short) and some can also reflect a slightly blurry image, having the same effect of "soft focus" or air-brushing - reducing wrinkles and small "imperfections" - while others can magnify and exagerate them.

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Is the United States ready for a new state? Are any United States territories looking forward to be a state soon? 1. Of the 4 territories and DC, only Puerto Rico is populous and influential enough to warrant giving it 2 votes in the Senate, and neither Puerto Ricans nor Americans have any desire see that happen. 2. The rapid onset of the North American Union render the question moot. 3. The real question is how many of the existing States will secede rather than be apart of the North American...

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Ladies (and quite possibly a few men) when you played with your Barbies/dolls, did you spend all your time setting up the house, doing their hair and dressing them, and then get bored and stop playing? Well, I played with GI Joes, and occassionally - when home on leave between missions - I'd have them check out my sister's Barbies, beat the snot out of Ken, and take the babes back to their swingin bachelor pads to show them what it was like to be with a real man ... but of course then I was only 7 and still thought that "sex" meant smooching (and rolling around...

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Do you drink to escape from reality, heartache or pain? No, I drink to celebrate and enhance reality, joy, success, and pleasure! Also, on very rare occassions, I'll get rip-roaring falling-down drunk when I'm pinned, utterly blocked/frustrated, and angry as hell, and can't see any constructive way of beating the b*st*rds back! I then wake bright and early, utterly rested, cleansed, and refreshed, and either see a way of winning...

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What is the Holy Trinity? Part II: The other was “God-Who-Is-The-Presence-Of-God”, whom they associated with the Ruach Qadesh and The Shekina Glory (the manifestation of God over the Ark of the Covenant in the Tabernacle). The central characteristic of this one of the three is that, while the first two are very much “out there”, that is, external to ourselves, this most enigmatic of the three...

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What is the Holy Trinity? PART I: The Trinity is not a self-contradicting riddle. It’s a name placed on a class of Biblical phenomena and Christian experience, just as “gravity” is just a name placed on a class of physical phenomena. Attempts to fully explain what each really is, are another thing. Now attempts to describe (and defend) the Trinity without reference to the Biblical evidence and...

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What is the Holy Trinity? To the Scotch-Irish pioneers, it was: The Holy Bible, The Long Rifle, and The Whiskey Jug.

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No sex = no babies. How hard is that to understand? Not hard at all, unless you're one of the millions who live in a constant state of denial, neurotically believing that "99% effective" means "no chance of becoming pregnant". FYI, the "99% effective" figure touted for the CORRECT use of the Pill, means that 99% of women using the Pill (correctly) each year don't get pregnant in that year -- and 1%...

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Some times it feels like my boyfriend friends are more important to him then i am. he would hang wit them wether he has plans wit me or not.. is that something that i should talk to him about and if so what do i say to not start an arguement The fact is, almost all men, especially young men, would rather spend 95% of their time hanging out with the guys then spend the time "talking" (i.e., listening to endless drivel about her feelings, someone elses' feelings, basic gossip, what someone did or said - either in real life or on TV or in a fictional book -- or supposedly did or said, or even worse: clothing,...

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If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does become disoriented? Juding by the fact that no Asian I've met in Asia (Thais, Cambodians, Laotians, Burmese, and Southern Chinese) has any idea which way North is (even in their hometown), or that the Sun always rises in the East and sets in the West, nor that if you go around the block you will get back to where you started, I'd have to say they were born disoriented and remain that way their entire...

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Are there any Urban Legends in Rural areas? There are 3: 1) You have a lot more opportunity in a city 2) You can have a lot more fun in a city. 3) If you go to a city, you'll get mugged, raped or murdered.

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Have you ever lost faith in someone? Of course. I'm 46 years old. And I use to do a LOT of work trying to get "people in need" and troubled kids back on their feet, un-troubled, and onto the straight and narrow. There were dissapoitments of course, but then there were also a few out-n-out betrayals, one of them beyond malicious. But the worst one was not any of my "projects" -- it's a Hell of an...

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Which US state / Caribbean nation / Central American country tends to get battered most by Hurricanes? Best guesses are welcome too ☺ Florida is hit most, just due to its extensive North-South length, it's flat terrain, and that it can get hit from both sides. Mexico and the Bahamas are next. The seacoast of North Carolina get's "side swiped" by them more often than you'd think. Texas and then Louisianna come next, but they get hit head on. Also, Hurricanes tend to go either south or north of...

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Do you think global warming is real? It also seems to have peaked in 1998: all but one of the last 10 years was slightly but significantly cooler than 1998.

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My left eyelid keeps twitching ...has been doing this since I woke up this morning. Sometimes it is every few seconds...then it will stop for a little while, then start up again. What causes this and how can I make it stop? It's driving me nuts!! I'm sure there could be many reasons, but the most common cause is a lack of certain basic minerals & electrolytes, particularly Zinc and Manganese and possibly also Sodium and Potassium. It may be accompanied (or caused by) dehydration. Take a basic multi-mineral supplement and perhaps zinc tabs too if you work out/sweat a lot, and drink plenty of water and maybe an electrolytic...

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What age did you first discover that the opposite sex wern't just annoying and were actually quite interesting? Ͼ Ͽ I've always thought they were both annoying and interesting.

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Is it better to do cardio workout before or after lifting weights? Do your cardio on off-days or after lifting. When doing it after lifting, keep it short: a good technique if you can swing it is to split your lifting in to 2 sessions on a day, and do 10-15 minutes of cardio at the end of each session. Also, alternate between strength & mass-building programs and cardio & endurance building programs about every 8 weeks.

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Dating some at work; good idea or bad idea? If you JUST date cassually, it's not that risky if both of you are reasonably mature, well adjusted adults: you'll either just stop, or decide to get married. Now having a sexual relationship with someone at work is dangerous and stupid because emotionally and psychologically breaking-up amounts to much the same thing as a divorce.

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Whereas showing masculinity is mandatory for men in America, why isn't it required as much in Japan? Because until it's rapid modernization in the late 19th century, only daimyo's were allowed to strut and be macho, while all other males had to be cringing, submissive, demure little yes-men. When the warrior elite lost control, the bureaucrats, servants and merchants who took over continued to emulate their fathers instead of their former masters. European history was quite...

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What qualifications do you need to be a grade school teacher? In Thailand... If you're Thai: being related to/friends with the school administrator, principal, or one of their staff members that are in good with the boss. If you're a foreign native speaker of Mandarin: you must be fluent in Thai, and know someone who know's someone to get you out of China with a work visa in Thailand If you're a foreign native speaker of...

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Don't you think all men should wear a condom whenever they have vaginal sex? That would kind of make it difficult to have children.

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Did T-Rexes have hermaphroditic abilities? We don't even know if they had feathers and webbed feet.

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Why don't some US citizens start burning the flags of countries that burn the US flag as a form of retaliation? Because we don't have a national inferiority complex like they do. And as we all know, "Living well is the best revenge."

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Am I required to show a police officer my drivers license if he requests it in California? If you're driving, yes. It's part of the contract you signed when you applied for your license. If you're not driving, no, but he can detain you (nicely, so long as you're being nice) until he can identify you by other means or 48 hours have elapsed. BUT IN EITHER CASE, you have the right to insist he show you his ID first -- after all, who's to say it's...

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If you are Sicilian, are you considered Caucasian? Yes... you're certainly not Negro, Mongoloid(East Asian), or whatever they're classifying South (non-Aryan) Indians, Malays, Pacific Islanders and the Aboriginees as these days. Caucasian peoples include Semitic, Hamitic and Turkic peoples, even Arabs, as they all descend from a branch of the human race that developed in the Caucasus Mountains. And remember the Sicilians are...

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Will the U.S. Constitution be obsolete in a North American Union? If so, what will take it's place? Yes. It will be replaced by the policies and whims of a bureucracy controled by international financiers (Rockefellers) ... which is, actually, pretty much what we have already in the US despite the Constitution.

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Is it un-American to be an atheist or an agnostic? RE: Ankhorite (continued) >>the First Amendment, written by Thomas Jefferson and based on a Virginia law he had written earlier in his life: "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."<< Madison wrote it, not Jefferson (he was still in France) – though Jefferson did write the Virginia Statute...

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Is it un-American to be an atheist or an agnostic? RE: Ankhorite >>The answer Jack gave you here http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/2582043 is good up to 1776, but is misleading because it stops short of what happened when we adopted the U.S. Constitution in 1789. << Far from it. The Federalist Papers, the various debates over ratification, the Congressional Record of the First Congress, and the Northwest Ordinances all support my...

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How much does hormone/steroid usage and animal cruelty in the food industry deter you from consuming meat? Neither deters me in the least. But now I live in a Buddhist country. Being good Buddhists, Thai's won't kill an animal -- unless it's small like a chicken, duck, fish, mollusk, crustaceon, goose, dog, cat, bat, rat or pig ... as these really don't qualify as "animals" - at least that's what my Thai wife tells me. But then the point is simply to avoid bad...

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Would you date this person: "Just so you know, i don't like gay people. I love guns... and Idon't believe in welfare. Oh and I'm in the military."? Why WOULDN'T you date this person? And if it's a chick saying this ... ... well ... that would be really HOT! (But don't think I'd be interested in a real relationship with a gal in the military.)

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Are you a mean drunk? No. I'm very sweet, funny, cute & cuddly. And then I pass out ... smiling ... very wide.

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What are the potential benefits of stem cell research? Contrary to Nohbdy's otherwise excellent post, my reading is pretty clear that fetal stem cell research is a dead end, while non-fetal stem cell research holds all the potential he describes. Also, contrary to popular disinformation, in the US both fetal and non-fetal stem cell research are totally legal. What is illegal is government funding of fetal stem cell research. The...

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What would you do if the government just declared marshal law? Here in Thailand it (the interim government of coup leaders) did for a couple of weeks in Fall 2006. No one noticed. ... But that's Thailand.

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The Model T rolled out 100 years ago this year. The Amish are 100 years behind us technologically. Why don't they drive Model Ts yet? Because they don't want to mortgage their farms to shell out half-a-million dollars for a 1908 vintage classic.

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Do you believe that Satan is real as in a spirit, or do you consider it as bad luck? RE>It's true organized religion created the devil to scare people into joining their faith. Organized Religions were used to conquer most of Europe by Alexander The Great check up on your history. Organized religion has affected many lives as a belief though. In a sense the idea of Satan changed the world already and may continue to do so as long as the world exist.<< ...

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What's your favorite Latin phrase? ad infinitum ad nauseum

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How do you win an argument with someone who is ignorant? If he's just ignorant (without knowledge of the subject) it's easy! Just make up all the facts you need to to support your case. He won't know they're bogus. He has no knowledge to contradict them.

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Looking for a great all-inclusive on the Mayan Riviera. Want something close to shopping and day-trips/excursions. Not a resort in the middle of nowhere. Recommendations? My advice is "Forget the All Inclusives." 1) They're a waist of money 2) They're overcrowded 3) They're a bit tackey My suggestion is to rent a place (villas, casitas, bungalows and cabanas available) on Soliman Bay or in Akumal and rent a car/jeep. You won't regret it! My favorite place is Palapas Caribe. But there are lots of excellent bungalow...

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Is "copulate" a naughty word? There are no naughty words any more than there are wholesome or well-behaved words. All virtue or vice attached to a word's use depends entirely on the heart-attitude and intention -- or the lack of it -- of the speaker. But at a more mundane level, "copulate" is really a clinical sterile word - but then so are penis and vagina. That hasn't stopped people from using...

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WITHOUT BRINGING RELIGION INTO IT, can you name one good reason WITH FACTS, to support an argument against gay marriage or the gay lifestyle for that matter? As long as we're talking about legalizing gay marriage in the USA, yes: 1. The vast majority of the Americans are totally against it and won't stand for activist courts and judges that have no regard for the will of the people, let alone the history and traditions of the entire human race. The US (supposedly) being a democracy, that's all the argument one needs. But,...

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Are we headed for a GD II? (That is, a 2nd Great Depression?) Actually, there have been many great depressions - and the one in the 1880's made was far worse in the US and around the world than the so-called "Great Depression" of the 1930's. But, yes, we are headed for a depression, and given the oil situation, the emergence/development of "3rd world economies", the dependence of US agriculture on 1) oil and 2) subsidies,...

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Do tattoos look good on women? Tattoos don't look good on anyone. They always look bad -- and that has always been their appeal. That's the only reason they became popular in the 90's. It was part of the whole "grunge/ugly is cool/I'm a counter-cultural rebel (just like everybody else)/heroin-chic" fad.

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Which Central American country has had the most governments since the release from colonial rule? By "governments" I presume you mean constitutions, regimes, and juntas, not what the English speaking world outside of the US would mean . (The change in control of Parliament from one party to another after a general election: e.g., Tory rule of England under Thatcher and Major was one government, Labor control under Blair and Brown is another government, but all are under the same...

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Were angels always depicted as having wings and if not when and where were the instances in the history of mankind that they were not? I'm not referring to fallen angels here either but only the good ones. In the Bible, when angels actually show up (as opposed to how they're described in Psalms or in narrations of a vision, or depicted in art [e.g., the Cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant]) they are never described as actually having wings, and are often described simply as looking like young men.

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West Side Story, the best musical ever? If not, what is? West Side Story doesn't even make my Top 40. But then that's probably because I just can't stand the story. I hate Romeo & Juliet too for the same reason. Just never could stomach all that glorification of teen angst and melodrama. I just want to jump up on the stage and shout: "Stop being so #$&!ing stupid!" That and "Get over yourselves!"...

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Why is it that a director casts the prettiest girl in a play, rather than the best actress, or singer? The girl he chose can't sing, or act!! Yet there are plenty of girls who can sing and act a lot better only they are overweight and/ or short. In my experience, it was neither looks nor talent, but in Private School it was about politics, money, and sucking up to the wealthiest parents, and in College it was about who was sleeping with and/or blackmailing the director. It's also often about drama-club/glee-club/theatre-group politics, where the insider and veteran is typically favored over the talented outsider new-comer. ...

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At any given time, approximately how much (%) of the Earth's land is for sale? Aside from sacred/holy sites like the Temple Mount, the Great Mosque of Mecca, the Church of the Holy Sepluchre, and the Vatican -- ALL OF IT! The price just has to be right.

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Can anyone give me a creative example of a covenant (an agreement) between two parties? (not the one between God and man though) Marriage. Can't get more creative than that.

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A few days after the 5-year anniversary of the Iraq War, 4000 American troops have died since it began. Whereas this war has averaged 800 deaths per year, how many of these deaths did we have every year in our previous wars? And yet the overall per capita death rate of on-duty and/or in warzone US military personnel has been lower in these last 5 years then it was in any 5 year period since 1985. Also, an American had (and still has) a greater chance of being killed in Washington DC than in Iraq, at any time during this war. Don't get me wrong: I believe this to be an unjust and illegal war that is...

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What not to say to a feminist group? 1 - So THIS is where they've contained Mad Cow Disease. 2 - You know usually women of your limited physical appeal make up for it by having an actual personality.

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Does warmer climates make people tend to be lazier? Yes! Have you ever heard anyone talk about "Thai efficiency", "The Sri Lankan Work Ethic" or "The Mexican Dream"? Hot muggy climes make you slow and drowsy, and just drain you. I know, I've lived in Thailand for several years. Here, A/C is proven to be the most effective way to enhance productivity ... and just activity.

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In the tradition of THE RABBIT OF SEVILLE and WHAT'S OPERA DOC? what musical would you like to see the Looney Toons ensemble immortalize? As for me, I'd like to see them do Phantom of The Opera! They have the pefect cast! Christine ............. Bugs Carlotta .............. Daffy Raoul ................. Wile E Coyote Firmin and Andre .... Porky & Sylvester Little Meg .............Tweety Madame Giry ........ Granny Piangi ................. Foghorn Leghorn Joseph Buquet ...... Dog The Auctioneer ...... Marvin...

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Which looneytoon do you like the best? The world's one and only Oscar winning rabbit: Bugs!

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Is it un-American to be an atheist or an agnostic? As the rest of the world sees and stereo-types Americans: YES! An American who doesn’t believe in God is by their way of thinking as much a contradiction in terms as an American who hates hamburgers and football. Europeans especially see Americans as the most religious and the most patriotic of peoples. They have a name for Americans who are Atheistic, unpatriotic, soft-Left,...

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What is the fastest submarine in the world? Actually, the Russian Alpha-class had a top speed in excess of 65 knots and was in fact faster than any of our torpedos, but when it was at speed, it set off every sono-buoy in the North Atlantic. At least that's what they taught me at the US Navy's Surface Warface School 23 years ago.

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If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? 8! ( you didn't say anything about spelling them correctly )

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Does the CIA listen to my phone calls? No - because the CIA has no charter to operate domestically (withing the US). It's the NSA that listens to your phone calls!

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Let's say I was looking for a census data map that indicates, by zip code, what percentage of people are renting VS owning their current residence. Where would I look? Caution on stats by zip code: zip codes are NOT static. Their boundaries are changed frequently, especially where there is a lot of development. You can't determine trends by looking at demographic data from a zip code collected over time.

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What's your favorite math joke? Old Math teachers never die. They just reduce to lowest terms.

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Which Roman emperor was the coolest of them all? Which one was the cruelest? Which one was the most ineffective of them all? Who would you be and why? Depends on your politics, religion, and which historians you believe ... and what you want to believe. Though arguably the proto or pre-emperor, no one matches Julius Caesar for both style and ability. His flair and dash are unrivaled. Octavian (dubbed "Augustus" in English histories, but the fact is ALL the emperors were titled "Augustus" ... except Tiberius who...

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How would you feel if your child told you they were gay? Yes. I would care.

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Excuse me, I'm typing up a class paper on the finer things in life, so I was wondering if I could interview you? 1. Cuban cigars 2. Fine wine 3. Exquisite cuisine 4. Elegant yet homey and comfortable surroundings 5. Engaging conversation 6. Gracious, lovely and charming company 7. Gentle music to complete fully set and preserve the mood 8. AND TOTAL FREEDOM FROM ANNOYING POLSTERS, TELEMARKETERS AND STUDENT-RESEARCHERSS CONDUCTING SURVEYS!!!

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Who's got some good recipies and or meal plans for putting on mass? There are plenty of meal plans out there, but no one mentions these two simple rules: 1) eat EVERY 4 hours, including the middle of the night. 2) consume no short-chain sugars/carbs EXCEPT *IMMEDIATELY* AFTER A WORKOUT when you should consume a lot of glucose to a) replenish your glycogen reserves so you can get a full pump next workout and b) trigger a surge in GH and testosterone...

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Who's got some good recipies and or meal plans for putting on mass? There are plenty of meal plans out there, but no one mentions these two simple rules: 1) eat EVERY 4 hours, including the middle of the night. 2) consume no short-chain sugars/carbs EXCEPT *IMMEDIATELY* AFTER A WORKOUT when you should consume a lot of glucose to a) replenish your glycogen reserves so you can get a full pump next workout and b) trigger a surge in GH and testosterone...

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How could Nancy Pelosi become president of the US? By there being a super-major double screw-up by the Secret Service.

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Why are some people so reluctant to disclose how much money they make? I've never understood this. 1. It's a vestige of old views about what was private and what was public: basic idea was it wasn't anybody else's business. Of course these days when people openly discuss the most intimate details of their lives, from religion to sexual dysfunction, it's hard to imagine what's considered "private" anymore. 2. Basic courtesy in an essentially egalitarian...

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How good are you at forgiving others' transgressions against you? When the transgressor *genuinely* repents and, humbly and contrite, asks my forgiveness? Excellent: I always forgive. When the transgressor has no interest in repenting? Also, Excellent: I don't forgive. Now where I need to make some progress is at working, risking, and sacrificing to move the unrepentant transgressor to repentance so I can forgive him. That is an uphill battle all...

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At what point does being compassionate become the same as being a "doormat"? Never. Doormats are passive. Compassion is always active ... and rigorous. Being compassionate does not mean being permissive, nor does it mean enabling someone's self-destructive behavior. Always remember, there's Love ... and there's deep neurosis: DON'T CONFUSE THE TWO!

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Who is the most over rated actor or actress? Please note - this is about the most OVER RATED actor/actress, not the worst. Also Kevin Costner, Bruce Willis, Arnold, et al, are NOT "actors" -- they're MOVIE STARS! I'm interested in the people that Hollywood Hype promotes as "great actors" who, in fact, suck. Or are at least blazenly mediocre. I'll start: COLIN FARRELL

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Why does AB change characters in my questions, like it changed the Is there a better category for the question among the limited Q&A/AB categories allowed THROUGH the FaceBook portal. I assume the problem has to do with the interface between FaceBook and AB ... like the same problem that keeps truncating my questions like it did this one.

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Why does AB change characters in my questions, like it changed the I know it wasn't a typo on my part: if you look at where the keys are on the keyboard, there's no way I hit the wrong one by mistake, and besides, I spellchecked it in word and then just pasted it into AB, and when hit paste again, it comes up with a Q, not a P. Does AB just have a problem "minding its P's and Q's"?

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What's the most useless fact that everybody knows already? I think it's "a tomato is a fruit". Squirrels have monocular vision to spot predators, but need depth perception when they jump from limb to limb, and so simulate binocular vision by rapidly shaking their heads just before they leap. Just watch one next time.

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Should religious and spiritual experience be individual or group-based? Why? That would depend on the "religious experience". Since Christianity is primarily about learning to love you neighbors, it's kind of hard to do that alone without any neighbors to love. Judaism is primarily about celebrating and commemorating a covenant relationship between God and His people, and being a "beacon unto the Nations"; as such, it's kind of...

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Whats lessons at school did you hate? 1. Penmanship 2. "Social Studies" when all it talked about was imports and exports of various regions. 3. Spelling 4. Algebraic PROOFS. (loved the actual math, but hated the pointless and mindnumbing proofs we had to do, and all the silly axioms we were supposed to memorize: my "favorite" illustrating the stupidity of the whole thing: THE ADDITIVE AXIOM OF ZERO:...

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What's the best way to fend off a Harpy attack, keeping in mind that you are unarmed? Stay single. Better still, join a monastary.

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Doesn't it seem like there was a lot of begetting and fighting in the Old Testament? "A lot" compared to what? FYI, the Geneologies (the long "and so-n-so begat so-n-so" lists) are found only in Genesis and 1 Chronnicles (OT), and in the geneologies of Christ given in Matthew and Luke (NT).

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What's the best way to kill a Hydra? Don't mess with the heads and go straight for the heart.

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Why did San Francisco keep its trolley lines although many other major cities nationwide took them out? The cable cars stayed for the same reason they were built in the first place: San Francisco's topography. All those steep hills and streets made electric trolleys and busses at first unfeasible and later uneconomical, and always a lot more potentially dangerous. The cable cars were indeed (and probably still are) the most practical, safest, and cost effective way of getting Mass Transit...

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Do you observe people's body language when you meet them and draw any conclusions with it? I use to without realizing it, especially facial expressions. Then I moved to Southeast Asia and discovered they speak a totally different body language (and it's the physical equivalent of "poker face"!) and thereby discovered how much I depended on it in the West to understand what someone was saying/meaning, and even to give the whole conversation context. It seems the 90%...

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Once we find out what a euphemism is synonymous with, does it become just as painful as being told the original word/phrase the euphemism stands for? What are some examples? That's called the euphemism treadmill. The classic examples are: 1. Fool -> Simpleminded -> Slow witted -> Retarded -> Mentally Handicapped -> Mentally Challenged 2. Crippled -> Lame -> Disabled -> Handicapped -> Physically Challenged -> Specially Abled and the odd thing is, crippled people didn't have a problem being called crippled, but they...

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What do bergen,norway,and london england have in commen? They both of 6 letters, 2 duplicate vowels, 2 syllables, and end with an N.

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Why don't you believe the theory of evolution? Because reason, the fossil record, and everything we now know about how cells work, argue against it. And, for the record, I don't have the least problem with evolotionary theory Biblically/Theologically. My arguments against it are scientific and philosophic, not religious. FYI - when Newton formulated his mathmatics for Gravitation, he said and believed that the pheonomenon of...

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What real names do you know of sound hilarious, stupid, or just plain unfortunate? I once had to sit at a formal conference where we all had name plates across from a man named: HARRY DEWEY BALLS I live now in Thailand, and POPULAR names here are ... For Girls: Tittiporn, Kittiporn, and Vachina For Boys: Toadsack, Ballsack, and Prik

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Don't you think eternal life could be boring? Only boring people get bored.

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If God made Adam and Eve and they had two sons, Cain and Abel, then how did the human race continue to grow? Does the Bible talk about another woman who came into the picture at some point? Has it ever occurred to you that you could just pick up a Bible and read the relevant passages for yourself? It's only two chapters: Genesis 4 & 5 But, since that probably requires too much effort, the answer to your question is, NO, the Bible does not talk about another woman. In your question, I presume you're referring to Lillith, who was originally a Chaldaean demon of...

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Is Satan in hell? Just going by what the Bible actually says, you have to clarify what you mean by "Hell": a) Hades/Sheol/the Grave - the abode of the Dead b) Tartarus/the Abyss - the pit where the great fiends are held prisoner c) Gehenna/the Lake of Fire - the place the outer darkness of absolute, ultimate and final damnation, where "the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched",...

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Should the senior/elder generation be voting with the younger generation in mind instead of for their own benefit? Actually, both the younger and the older generation should be voting with all the past generations in mind who fought, struggled, and sacrificed. The present generations should work, live and vote to be true to the legacy of their forebearers.

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Which celebrity did you like before they were popular? Ian McKellen. I saw him in Amadeus (playing Salieri to Tim Currey's Mozart) the first week it opened on Broadway back in 1981. I've be a fan ever since. He was reasonably well known in the UK before then, but it was another 10+ years before he was truly famous in America and internationally, when he started getting great movie parts in major US films.

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If god had something against homosexuality why did he make them that way? ROMANS 1:18-2:11 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood...

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Imagine you have two minutes with the world__s political, business and cultural leaders: what challenge would you set them? "See if you can get out of the room before the frag-grenade I just pulled the pin on goes off."

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Is cheating ever justified? If you're talking about in school, games, sports, or the like, YES: when a significant portion of others are undeniably cheating and getting away with it, and the people charged with enforcing the rules are refusing to do so. There is no reason to hamstring oneself by "playing by the rules" when the rules are clearly not in effect, respected, or being enforced. BUT the...

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Have you ever had any experience which made you believe in god or increased your faith? If yes then elaborate a little. Many, but if you're looking for the "Grade A - Galillee Miracle" variety, here's one: On a short mission trip to Eastern Europe back in '93, we stopped in a little town in southeastern Poland and linked up with the local contact for the program. He was the only one who spoke English in the village, and (after 45 years of Communist rule) he, his wife and a couple of...

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What is there an abundance of where you live? Rice, rice fields, Thais, chili peppers, palm-oil fried food, heat, sunshine, rain, humidity, litter & garbage, guns, stray dogs, street-side food vendors, push-cart food vendors, electrical systems with nothing wired to ground, air pollution, vehicles with no emission controls, cops and bureaucrats on the take, cheap poorly made household items, motorbikes, Buddhist talismans and magical...

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Do you think that violence, aggression, and warfare are products of our biological make-up, or are they just products of cultural conditioning and environmental influences? Nonsense. Nations don't go to war out of an infantile temper tantrum. Soldiers don't fight and kill because they hate what's in front of them but because they love what's behind them. In point of fact, LOVE, not anger, hate, or a propensity for violence is the real cause all the evils and violence in the world: love of country, love of God, love of family, love for a...

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What are some signs that you have a fear of commitment? When you have a GF that has a fear of not getting one. No, that doesn't mean you really have a fear of commitment -- it means you have what women imagine is/label as a fear of commitment. I've never met a man who did fear commitment. I've just met many a woman who took the man's unwillingness to commit TO HER (or one of her friends) AT THAT TIME as some infantile phobia...

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Does the fact that for every 1% increase in the percentage of female police officers there is a 3.5% increase in the number of shootings BY police officers affect how you feel about 1. Sorry for the truncation -- the question box displayed the whole question and gave me now message it was too long: it just truncated it without warning. At any rate, it's still obvious what the rest of the question asked. 2. More particulars on the statistics: this was not a national statistic, but an aggregate of individual police departments. The study showed that the departments...

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According to the Christian bible is shrimp an abomination? Is it in the Bible? Yes. So are circumcision, Levirate marriage, and the command that all debts are to be canceled every 50 years. Does the Bible tell Christians they can't eat shellfish? No. In fact, the New Testament specifically tells them they can eat shellfish and other formerly "unclean foods", and that the old kosher laws no longer apply. The reason being is...

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Did you cheat in school , it's ok to tell us --? Only in an 11th Grade "Art History" test when we had to name the artist of every painting (small, bad photos of them, anyway) on display in the display case. The whole class cheated by design - and did every year - it was a standard joke in the school. The way it worked was that each student was the resident expert on one of the artists (only one artist per student, as that's...

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I exercise and eat healty, but i'm not losing any weight. what do i need to do to see changes? To burn fat, you need to exercize with heartrate between 114 and 120 bpm (not very strenuous) for over an hour straight. Typically, the body doesn't start to burn fat until it has depleted both the sugars in your bloodstream (about the first 30 minutes) and the glycogen in your muscles (the next 30 minutes). Once you hit the 1-hour mark, keep at it for as long as you can as at that...

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Is there anyone in the world who actually takes Ann Coulter seriously? If there is, does anyone else find that a little frightening? Yes. Lots. And I'm proud to be one of them! So, do, please be afraid. Be VERY afraid. ANN COULTER FOR CHIEF JUSTICE!!! At any rate ... If you'd grown up in the NYC metro area - meaning Boston-to-DC - among the effete elite (like both Coulter and I did) and consequently been inundated with the absurd pretensions of the Left and the "liberal establishment" - who...

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If I don’t go to church, a set of pitfalls happen to me for the rest of the week. Therefore, when I go to church the next week, why aren’t these pitfalls reversed? 1. God won't be used as a means to an end. 2. Satan is more interested in keeping you out of Church than he is making life outside of Church difficult for you.

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Do you say herb with an h or a silent h? In America (and that non-country to the North, Canada) only hillbillies, poor hicks from the upper-midwest, uneducated Brooklynites and immigrants pronounce the h. But all the Lymies, Aussies, Kiwis, and Africaners I work with say it with the hard h -- but what do they know! They also "study Maths" and "play Sport"! So obviously they haven't got a f---ing clue! We...

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Do you think AB has hit it's peak?Or will it keep growing? Don't know about AB in toto, but the Q&A porthole through FaceBook is being ruined by the ever increasing flood of "questions" about Anime tripe (e.g., "Who's the hottest inter-racial badass Anime character of ambiguous sexuality?" and "Who's your favorite conflicted paraplegic cyborg villain in and what heroine would you like to see him hook up...

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How come LDS(Mormon) church is the only one singled out. When others are grouped together like Christian, Muslim, Protestant etc...? Short Answer: Mormonism is it's own religion with its own totally unique theology, and has nothin fundamentally in common with the various Christian sects and denominations. Just claiming to "follow Christ" means nothing, as they have their own radically different and unique ideas as to who and what Christ was and what it means to follow him. Bahai, Moslems, Manichees,...

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In your opinion, is it "wrong" to not be very talkative? (Not morally wrong, but socially and otherwise.) There's quiet and then there's anti-social ... and also social insecurity/anxiety. There's nothing wrong with the first; there is something wrong with the others: they can be hurtful to people as well as indicating emotional and/or psychological issues that need to be addressed. But a person can be naturally taciturn and yet still be quite social -- 90% of the English...

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What's the first thing that comes to mind when i say Tomato? A curvaceous saucy lass -- as in "she's a hot tomato!" That's no what I always think of when I hear the word, but for some reason that was the first thing a thought of when I read this question.

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When I speak out about my abusive childhood, it helps me heal and might stop it from happening to someone else. My mother says I'm violating "Honor thy father and thy mother," since it makes her look bad. Do you think so? It fascinates me that "Honor thy father and thy mother" is a commandment given in the Torah, which is written primarily to the NEXT generation of Israelites, the ones who had to grow up and languish in the wilderness for 40 years because their parents had so totally #*$%ed up that God made the whole nation live in the desert until every last one of the first generation had died. And...

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If homosexuals are born homosexuals, are pedophiles born pedophiles? Uh, unless the AMA and APA have been pressured recently into re-writing their views on the matter, neither say that sexual orientation is inborn. Both reject so simplistic a theory as to human sexuality, especially aberrant sexuality. As for pedophiles, fact is 90-95% or pedophiles were themselves molested as children, yet 80-90% of people molested as children never become pedophiles....

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It's a given that outside influences (the media & other learned social norms) teach us to be hetero. (Our natural programming kick-starts that, of course.) Hence, isn't it plausible that gays learned to be gay by various outside influences? Sexuality is extraordinarily complex: no one is "born" Gay and there's not such thing as a gay gene (if there was, than if one identical twin was homosexual, his twin would necessarily be homosexual, and this is definitely not the case). None the less, genetics and inborn temperment certainly play a significant role, but in concert with environmental factors, especially ones...

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Which credit card do you think is looked upon more favorably: Visa or Master Card? In terms of which card retailers would rather accept: it depends on which processing & servicing entity (the middle-men between the CC issuers and the retailers) gives them the best rates and service, but generally Visa and MasterCard are both totally competitive, and thus equally accepted. In terms of which card speaks best of the person using it: neither! That would be American...

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If the story of Noah ever happened (or something similar), could they already have invented writing at that time? Well, according to Genesis (see chapter 4) they already had cities, musical instruments,and bronze & iron tools and weapons, so they certainly could have had writing. As for the first writing system, nobody really knows when writing was developed or by whom. The earliest known written records were written/cut into clay tablets - and the only ones that have survived with writing somewhat...

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Do you suppose Satan interferes with the birthing process and is therefore responsible for birth defects, alternative mentalities, and so forth? Satan's objective is damnation of souls: pain, misery, and misfortune are only tools: a means to an end ... as are pleasures, good health, and riches. If he can keep you (and/or others around you) on the path to hell better by keeping you doped-up with comfort, conceit and contentment than he can by prompting you to resentment, envy, and bitterness, he'll keep you as...

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Is the bible the most successful piece of political propaganda ever released? Spoken like a man who's never read anything of medieval history ... or the Bible.

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Is it completely wrong for me to think of God as - Santa Claus for adults? A fantasy, to make people behave? Well, if by "God" you mean YHVH Elohim - "the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob", then, YES, it is completely wrong of you to think that. He's no fantasy and He's no Santa. Also, if by "God" you mean any of the supreme gods of most pagan and quasi-pagan (like Buddhism AND Islam as they are practiced in most of Asia and Africa respectively) religions of...

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What comes after humans? HUMBLE! (At least, that's what it says in my dictionary.)

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Wouldn't the Lord just seem a whole lot more gracious if he would offer to those who are otherwise Hellbound a reincarnation into someone new? Even if their rebirth is in a 3rd-world country? And just how gracious would it be of God to send a 3rd-world country an otherwise Hellbound individual? Don't they have enough of them already? And what makes you so sure a "3rd-world country" is better suited to being a Purgatory than are the USA, Canada, Australia or Europe? If the fact that God allowed the Hitlers, the Stalins, and the Pol Pots of this world, and the...

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Is the bible the most successful piece of political propaganda ever released? And just what political system, political ideology, political party, or political candidate do you imagine it was contrived to promote? Now the Davidic Corpus (Judges, Ruth, and 1&2 Samuel) certainly has a political agenda: championing the Davidic monarchy over a united Israel -- which is hardly relevant today -- but 1) it wasn't very successful at that, and 2) the political point...

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During certain statutory rape cases & convictions, why does nothing in the justice system consider the girl lying about her age & saying she is older, as a mitigating factor? That the "victim" *may* have lied doesn't cut it. But if the defense can provide evidence that the victim did lie about his/her age, and that a reasonable person would not have suspected the victim was under the age of consent, then that is not only a mitigating circumstance, it is an exculpatory one: i.e., the Jury is free to consider it and find the defendant Not Guilty...

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How would things change if the earth's rotation doubled in speed? The catastrophic effect of the actual accelleration aside ... If the Earth's rotation was 1/12hours, the magnetic field would be twice as strong and the VanAllen Belts would filter out more cosmic rays. The latter might have a positive effect on over-all health of organisms, but by halving the sleep/wake cycle of all organisms, there would also be a possibly disastrous (ecologically...

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What is your favourite symphony? The EROICA! Beethoven at his most revolutionary.

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Why don't we have intermissions in movie theaters anymore? Why do we have to wait all the way to the end of one to go to the restroom or quench our thirst? Intermissions in the middle of a film were very rare: reserved only for what were then thought to be super-long films like "Gone With the Wind" and "Spartacus". Movie "Intermissions" in the past were really just breaks BETWEEN films, back when the movie house had but one theater, and would show a B-Movie, Newsreal, Travel-logue, and "selected shorts"...

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Do you have anything that numbers in the thousands? 1. Books 2. Students I've taught

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What are 3 words you'd never want to hear a pilot say? *Be creative.* "Please, remain calm."

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What's the worst thing you ever did to a babysitter? Not nearly as interesting as the BEST thing I did to a baby sitter.

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In what order would you place the Harry Potter books from most favorite to least? 4&5 GoF & OoP - tied 1 SS 2 CoS 3 PoA 7 DH 6 HBP

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How would it differ if the USA had no states and was just one whole country? Would it make any difference? Assuming you're getting rid of Counties too, at least as entities with any powers of self-government... There would be no State leglislatures, and thus no State laws. All legislation would be national, passed through Congress, and the power of the President's Executive Orders would be grossly expanded. There would be no State Courts (or county courts): all trials would be...

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Are u for or against hunting? Hunting (as permitted and regulated in the US and Canada) is absolutely necessary and essential for controlling animal populations/preventing disastrous over-population. The same holds true even in African game preserves.

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How slow can you slow down light? The speed of light through a medium is always slower than the speed of light through a vacuum. If you start up a nuclear reactor (cold/off - to - full power) suddenly, there's a burst of neutrons that actually travel through the water around the containment vessel faster than the light does through the water, causing a flash (a light shockwave, the em equivalent of a sonic boom).

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Is there an actual mathematical equation for time travel? There is a mathematical equation for actual (as opposed to relative) time dilation due to acceleration, which is the basis of "The Twin Paradox". When accelerated, clocks tick at a rate of t' = t(1 + Φ / c2) where Φ is the difference in gravitational potential. In the Twin Paradox, Φ = gh where g is the acceleration of the traveling twin during turnaround and h is...

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So Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize, anyone think this was fixed? I know I do! The Nobel PEACE Prize is always politically (and ideologically) motivated. Now, is there a tacit conspiracy among the squash-headed Left? Evidently. Did certain interested parties at (and behind) the UN communicate with their friends on the selection board and let them know what a boon that would be for their cause? More than likely. Were other inducements added to influence...

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What, if any, politically incorrect views do you have? No, you are not as good as I am. :)

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If you can have one title of grandeur... what would it be? Emperor of the Known Universe sounds pretty good, as long as absolute autocratic power and a mega-fleet of Star Destroyers comes with it. But if I have to stay earthbound and historical, I've always fancied Columbus' title: Lord High Admiral of the Ocean Waves

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Would you be offended if you saw someone wearing a T-Shirt that said: "Jesus Was Wrong"? 98% of slogan-bearing or "joke" t-shirts offend me ... even when I agree with what they say (which I don't, in this case). It's not so much about the view expressed, it's the fact that the very fact of reducing it to a slogan and wearing it on a t-shirt is intended to offend -- and since it is intended to offend people who are simply going about their business doing...

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What word sounds utterly dirty but has no meaning or it's meaning is innocent? (example: Vaseline, or urinal, or Phark) Mukluks! Prick Peter Dick Uranus Harass Osculate Diddle Doohickey Musterd Damped Driven Harmonic Motion Intercourse (means to communicate or exchange information) Ecstasy (means to be taken out of oneself) Dido and Aneas Ophelia, Ophelia! Tan Pric (It's Thai for "Eat Chili!) Titiporn (Seemingly the most popluar girl's name in Thailand) Titipoo (The town in...

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Do you how know to say anything in Spanish? Hace tres porcos peqeños en sus sapatos.

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Is sarcasm your second language? Sarcasm has *never* been my second language.

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What is the most accurate stereotype that you have encountered? 1. That all women hate negative (and sometimes even positive) stereotypes about women. 2. That the problem with women is that they all take everything personally.

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If God has a plan that he made at the beginning of time, then what is the purpose of prayer, since praying for things would be asking him to change his plan for you? The purpose of prayer is not to ask for things you want or to change God's Will to satisfy your heart's desir. It's to draw near to God and commune with Him, and it begins by pouring out your heart to Him ... and then ... before you know it ... your heart changes so that your heart's desire is conformed to His.

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How can I become a ninja? 1. Be born into one of the Ninja clans that no longer exist because they were exterminated by the Shoguns. 2. Once you succeed at that, you should be sure never to tell anyone you're a Ninja because... well... that defeats the whole Ninja "ethos" and iscontrary to their MO. -- they were assassins, after all, and they worked by stealth and disguise, and never ever divulged...

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Why are kids getting "older" at a younger age these days? I've been working with kids (mostly adolescents) ever since I was one back in the 70's, and I have to say you've got it backwards. The maturity level and responsibility level (as well as the educational/knowledge level) of kids has been dropping pretty steadily for the last 30 years. They have an astounding lack of self-discipline, initiative, accountability, and are almost...

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Are some animals (other than humans) gay, bisexual, asexual, or transgendered? While there are a-sexual and androgynous species among the lower orders of animal life, all vertebrates are heterosexual - that is, during mating season/rut, they attempt to mate with members of the opposite sex and don't attempt to mate with members of their own sex. (Exception: inexperienced adolescents can get very confused, especially the males -- "I've got this thing, but...

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What do you think of when you think of Wales? Evenings drinking bitter at the Llewelyn Arms Pub on the Quay (and in the wall) of Conway Wales, watching the tide come in.

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What is the average starting salary of a lawyer in a large firm compared to the average salary of a lawyer in private practice? The profits (fees+bene's+share of awards-costs) of lawyers in private practice are ... well ... private. But, unless he is (a) a mob lawyer, (b) an old-money blue-blood estate lawyer, or (c) a famous trial lawyer, the typical lawyer in private practice (either solo, or with a single partner) nets less than the starting salary of top tier law school grads at big law firms - which I believe...

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How come the people who wrote the bible weren't all-loving like God? 1. Because no fallen human being can be all-loving. 2. Because they were sinners. Which, by the way, is what the Biblical authors would have said - and in some cases did say - themselves. But you're question suggests you've got the wrong idea about both God and Love. You're confusing being "all-loving" with being a cosmic sugar-daddy, a permissive, indulgent...

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Why is it that once you try group sex you can't stop? Because once self-love has let you to confuse self-glorification with self-degredation there is no depth to which you won't plunge head-long. It's easy to sink; it's hard to climb, but once you've tricked yourself into believing falling is climbing you're in a nose-dive at full throttle. As with all addiction, the pleasure's will wear thin while the need grows...

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In my state (OK) school bus drivers are required to wear seatbelts, yet there are no seatbelts for the students. Why is that? Money. Both for the State and the school bus company/State contractor. Also The State in it's omniscience and omnibenevolence of course knows it is better able to care for children than are their parents, and school busses are obviously so much safer than family vehicles, and school bus drivers are of course better, safer, and more responsible drivers than parents. So seatbelts are...

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Do you think the EU will become one country in the future? If by "one country" you mean "one people with one culture, one national identity, and one language", then NO, not in this century. If by "one country" you mean "1 centralized State and no intermediate jurisidictions with substantial autonomy", then again, NO, not in this century. If by "one country" you mean "under one Federal...

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Would you like to help stop fascism?? Please define fascism? Let me help. Fascism is the belief that "the State" - understood as "the Body Politic", NOT "the government" - is ALL. That is to say that all individual identity, morality, ideology, law, values, "deeply held beliefs", and everything that we'd associate with culture, society, and community, originate in, are conditioned...

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Would a genetic clone have the same fingerprints as the original? What are they teaching you people in school these days? Fact 1: no 2 people have the same fingerprints, noteven identical twins. Fact 2: a true clone (as opposed to a "partial clone) is genitically the same thing as an identical twin, so, No, it wouldn't have the same fingerprints as the original. *a partial clone is one like the cloned sheep "Dolly": it involves the...

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How do "you" know when you are to drunk to drive? The real question is, if you're really too drunk to drive, how would you know?

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Do you tithe? As a Christian is meant to under the New Covenant? Yes: I freely share the bounty of my inheritance in Christ (supernatural love and Grace) with everyone, especially those who need it most, and yes, the works its way out into financial matters: I freely share what I have, counting nothing as my own -- well, most of the time. As it is twisted, misinterpreted and corrupted in many modern...

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What exactly is a Mormon and how is a Mormon really different for any other Christian faith? And is it true that not black people can not go to Mormon heaven? Mormons believe that "Father God" was once a flesh and blood mortal human being on another planet until he got promoted to "God" status. He now lives on the planet Koleb with his harem of millions of spirtual wives making millions of spirit-babies who then incarnate on Earth. If you go through all the Mormon sacred rituals (most of them strangely similar to the...

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Tell me the basics of Kant please. That he is so incomprehensible in German that even native German graduate students pursuing PhDs in Philosophy read him in English translation.

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Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity? In "heaven" you've no body and are basically nothing more than a dream. Now at the resurrection you'll be naked -- spiritually and morally as well as physically yet (for the followers of Jesus) also robed in Christ.

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No marriage = no divorces. How hard is that to understand? As a simple statement of necessary pre-requisite, it makes perfect sense. As a guideline for living it makes as much sense as, "No eating = no obescity".

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Why are fools and fanatics always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts? You mean like the foolish fanatical PC, Postomodern twits who are always certain that people who are certain of their views are fools and fanatics?

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What will it take to cure your political apathy? Break-up the bi-factional elite's control of both major parties who essentially only give the people a choice between A and A! (The only difference between the administrations of any of the Presidential candidates (aside for Ron Paul) is the rhetoric, the posturing, and the occassional bone thrown to the dupes in their "base". Overall policy will be essentially the same.) ...

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Why does Emperor Palpatine become deformed when his Force Lightning is returned to him, yet Luke doesn't get deformed when Palpatine strikes him with it? Because it's a cliche motif in fantasy stories! Extreme and violent use of extreme and violent arcane/psychic power withers and ages the person daring to wield it, usually instantly. (Also, he's not withering because the power's being deflected back on him: he's withering because he's using so much of it in the first place.) Palpatine says as much in one of those...

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Lets just say I was walking down the street with 5 ounces croched, not causing any harm. 2 seconds later a cop pulls by an stops to ask me questions and says he smells Just having a hunch does not constitute probable cause. Niether does "thinking he smelled something suspicious". The latter may be probable cause for a "stop", but he can't just search you at that moment, nor do you have to turn-out/empty your pockets if he "asks" you to. He can stop you, and talk to you, and if in the process of your conversation he finds...

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Why did God allow Satan to tempt man? 1. Free Will - Satan's as well as man's 2. Adam could have said no (God only promises to protect you from temptations that you - being you - can't resist.) 3. Had Adam said no, he'd have been an even better, stronger, more faithful and resolute man than he was before. FYI - 1) Satan's name was never Lucifer: that's a bad misunderstanding of the Greek...

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When we see aliens or ghosts and spirits, could it be Satan or his demons? Regarding a "ghost" or "spirit" Scripture and Christian Tradition are pretty clear that it is one of the following: (1) a delusion/hallucination, (2) something infernal, or (3) an actual visitation by one of the Saints in Glory or an actual angel. That's why the Bible says to "test the spirits". As for the alien/ET question, consider the words of...

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In the olden times, why did they burn witches at the stake? First of all, put all popular romantic images of "ancient witches" ala the modern Wiccans, Harry Potter, Bewitched, and the Wizard of Oz out of your mind. When your read "witch" in any pre-19the century source, or in regard to a non-Christian or pre-Christian culture, think "voodoo priest/priestess" or something like the witch/villainess from "Sleepy...

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Is there any safe place to hide inside a burning house? The Safe! (But take an Oxygen tank and make sure someone outside has the combination.)

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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 Faulty Premise. (2 of them, in fact) Faulty Premise 1: The 10 Commandments do NOT say "Thou Shalt Not Kill" -- that's the unfortunate if poetic mistranslation of the King James Version. What the decalogue says is, "Thou Shalt Not 'Ratsach'" The Old Testament uses six separate words which in some instances (in various translations) are translated...

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Why is China worried about their economy overheating? What could go wrong if their economy overheats too hot? "Over heating" is an unfortunate expression for it. The basic problems of rapid yet unsustainable growth are: 1. It creates a financial bubble that will burst when Demand starts to substantially decline just as Production is over-expanding -- meaning high inventories, lay-offs, unemployment, and -- since much of the expansion was financed by debt -- default, bankruptcy, and...

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I know that women hate being women from time to time, but what id like to know is do men hate having to be men from time to time? Physically? No. Especially when we consider the alternative. In terms of what's required or expected of us? Rarely, but yes.

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What did your grandfather do for a living? Mine- Real Estate Agent My paternal grandfather was a lawyer -- even plead a case before the Supreme Court - and was at one time Secretary (chief legal officer) for ALCOA, US Steel, AJ Heinz, and the Mellon Bank ... yes, he was from Pittsburgh -- and yes, he had money ... but then he died 2 weeks before the Stock Market crashed. So much for the family fortune. My maternal grandfather was a WWI pilot and then worked...

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There was a massive blackout where I live. When was the last time you experienced a power outage? In Bangkok? About every 67 minutes ... give or take an hour.

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How could the German population so easily have been brain washed to commit mass murder during the WWII era? Historical considerations and the long-held racist/Darwinist beliefs of Germans aside ... The "textbook" answer for the last 40 years is the findings of the Milgram Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

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Not trying to offend but.... If you were a serial killer - how would you kill me? In 3 steps: 1. Force feed you Captain Crunch and Count Chocula without milk. 2. Make you down a 2-liter of Coke or Mountain Dew 3. Stand back and wait for you to explode or die from diabetic coma.

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When did it become legal to be a Christian? Is it everywhere legal? IN EAST ASIA Christianity was first brought to East Asia by Nestorian and Mar-Thoma Christians beginning in 5th century. They frequently suffered persecution in China and Indochina for pretty much the same reasons that any counter-cultural proselytizing religious minority suffers persecution, especially when the indigenous religion is elaborate, highly developed, wedded to tradition and...

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When did it become legal to be a Christian? Is it everywhere legal? IN ARMENIA Christianity had entered Armenia as early as 40 AD. The Armenian royal family converted in the 3rd century. Armenia became the first country to adopt Christianity as its state religion, in 303 AD. Consequently, Armenian Christians never suffered state/judicial persecution by their own government, though they were frequently oppressed by foreign invaders and overlords. But over...

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When did it become legal to be a Christian? Is it everywhere legal? IN THE PERSIAN EMPIRE There weren't so much "Laws" in the Persian Empire as there were the "current policies of the King". The Persian High Kings would often countenance – or at least turn a blind eye to – popular persecutions of Christians, but took little interest in fighting Christianity itself UNTIL it became associated with their deadly enemy, Rome,...

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When did it become legal to be a Christian? Is it everywhere legal? IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE (FYI, this is the subject of my awarding winning thesis, and subsequent book: “The Curse of Christ”) In the Roman Empire, Christianity was effectively illegal from AD 64 to 311. Simply being a Christian was punishable by death, though apostasy - as demonstrated by publicly cursing Christ - would gain one instant pardon, even up to the moment of execution....

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There is a Communist Party tonight. I need to dress up as a communist. What should I wear? Hillary. .

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What's the craziest urban legend you've heard of? That industrial civilization is causing Global Warming and - IF WE DON"T STOP PRODUCING ALL THESE GREEN HOUSE GASSES IMMEDIATELY [in prcoess necessary to keep half of the world's population alive, and the other half out of desperat poverty] we'll soon cause the icecaps to melt, New York, Boston and LA to flood (I only wish!), but will ironically eventually cause an ice age.

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If god had something against homosexuality why did he make them that way? See: Romans 1:18-32

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What is the most dangerous city in the world? Having had a chance to think about this one, and do a little research, it would seem to be a contest among almost every city in West and Equitorial Africa.... though if you're talking about just road-accident dangers, then I think it's a toss up between Mexico City and Bangkok.

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If it meant helping more children get health care whose parents can't provide them with it, would you support a tax raise on cigarettes? (Someone proposed this in Bush's speech today, and I wondered what your guys thoughts were on it.) And just where in the Constitution does it give Congress or the Exectutive the power to fund healthcare for private citizens/residents of the States? (FYI, the Elastic Clause applies only to the Government's authority to administrate itself, the Federal territories, and DC.)

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If you could ban one fashion fad (past or present) from ever showing its ugly little face again what would you choose and why? Simple: the current one with "waist" lines at the pelvic bone and 70% down the ass! Even worse than the view of a guy's boxers or calvins (or lack of them) is the view of girls who dress like Britney Spears but are built like Janet Reno or Carney Wilson -- and the "fashion" is even ugly on Spears!

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Have you ever rolled dice to decide what decision to make? (roll a 6 on a d6 to phone that cute girl, roll 16+ on a d20 to get out of bed in the morning, etc.) Dice? No. But I have flipped coins - not a coin, mind you, but 7 old Irish pounds (or really "Punts") at once. When I was looking at jobs overseas, I had a choice between Venezuela and Thailand -- the job looked much better in Venezuela, but living in Thailand looked preferable, so I couldn't make a decision. In desperation, I pulled out 7 old Irish pounds, looking...

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How many legs does a dog have if you call a tail a leg? Assuming that you're not calling a leg something else, then the answer is 5 -- 6 if a particualrly excited male.

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Would Jesus really want millions of trees cut down yearly? Just out of curiosity, would you have even thought of asking, "Would Jesus really want millions of babies aborted each year?"

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What is the best way to tell a girl you don't like her when she likes you a lot? If she hasn't put you on the spot yet, just ask another girl out in front of her, or at least try to be seen looking romantic with another girl, by the gal or her friends. If she's "professed her feelings for you", then just be honest ... and DON'T be subtle: be kind but absolutely clear and emphatic.

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What is the biggest risk that you have ever taken? Driving a motorcycle in Bangkok. ... but then I do that every day now.

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Did they really have only two of each animal on the Ark? Two flies, two moskitoes, two mayflies, two fleas? And how many viruses and bacterias? Here's what the Bible says on the matter ... and ALL that it says on the matter: Gen 6:19 - "and of every living thing of all flesh,you shall bring two fo every kind into the ark, to keep them allive with you; they shall be male and female. 20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, ofevery creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind...

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How long does "later" mean when someone says they'll call you back later? To quote a great comedian (who's name I can't think of at the moment) "When a woman says she'll call, she means, 'when she gets home'. When a man says he'll call, he means, 'before he dies.' "

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If children go to Hell, do they suffer less there than the adults in Hell until they grow to become adults themselves, do they suffer the same, do they stay children forever, or what? If you're asking about Christianity, the fact is the Bible never says, but the implication (as I read it) is that they don't go to Hell. As for growing-up/staying a child: we'll all be resurrected into a glorified uncoruptible immortal body and will live forever. You can draw your own conclusions from there.

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What is the most dangerous city in the world? What types of dangers are you considering? FYI: An American has a greater chance of being shot, stabbed, beatten to death, or blown up in Washington than he does in Iraq. The Clear Message: America should pull out of DC immediately!

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When will ALL US citizens realise they are NOT the only armed forces in the world fighting for our freedom? When will they start congratulating/thanking the many other countries that do their bit instead of thinking it is only them?When will they wake up? Uh... ours ARE the only armed forces in the world fighting for our freedom. The other armed forces of the world are fighting for THEIR freedom! ... ... or at least their national interest. If we're fighting the same threat, that's just a wonderful coincidence. :) But don't decieve yourself for one minute that any of our "allies" is doing what they do...

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A group of mercenaries have captured a group of 50 natives. They offer to free 49 of them if you shoot 1. Do you kill the single native for the sake of the 49 others? Or refrain from the murder because murder in itself is wrong? Hmmm... Depends how much a like (or dislike) the natives. But seriously... I'm not responsible for their actions, but only for my own. (Though I'd probably incline towards Karl's response.) But then there's this question... What if a group of natives have captured 50 mercs ... ? Does your Rouseauian love of the 3rd World cause you to give a...

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Which has more evidence to support its claims: the big bang or creation by God? (no one-sided, closed-minded answers please) Please clarify: Proof for the existence of God, proof that God created the univese ex-nihilo, or proof of the Creation theory propounded by 6-Day Creationists based on their totally bogus misinterpretation of Genesis 1? I don't think there's any real evidence of the third one. As to the first or second, what sort of proof would you be willing to consider? Overwhelming...

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If you had to shoot 1 person in the head to save the lives of 10 people, would/could you do it? What if it was 100 or 1000 people? The question is flawed because it reduces the question to an actuarial formula. How about this: If you could save 1 sweet kid with Downes only by shooting 100 "genius-level" eugenicist fanatics trying to murder him, what would you do? Remember, "saving lives" is ultimately an exercize in futility -- you're only putting off the inevitable. The best we can do...

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There are no good or bad actions, just ones that cause evolution or stagnation. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? The statement is only agreeable to an honest Materialist who doesn't believe in good or evil (or anything transcendant) in the first place... ... and even they would have a problem with the implicit association/confusion of "evolution" with "good" and "stagnation" with "bad". For the Materialist, there is survival or extinction:...

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What were the Nephilim and where did they come from? Would you know what it were if you saw one? The Nephilim get one mention in passing in Genesis 6:4 - "The Nephilim were in the Land in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of Adam/men/the Earth, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown." The passage is even more ambiguous in Hebrew. (For one, there's no punctuation in ancient...

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Is it a problem that the Japanese yen (¥), the Chinese yuan (¥), the Korean Won (₩) and the US Dollar ($) have all the same symbol (¥) in Chinese? And that the yuan has internationally the same symbol as the yen? Can't speak for IN China, but internationally the Yen and the Yuan have different symbols: the Yen gets 1 cross-line, the Yuan 2. (And the US dollar gets 2 vertical lines, while all other "dollar" currencies get only 1 -- because the symbol was originally a U superimposed on an S (US - get it) and then they truncated the bottom of the U to get the US dollar symbol ). But...

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Why did the Edsel fail? Bad Marketing! First, there was it's name: The Edsel -- named for one of Henry Ford's sons, and the name had even less sex-appeal than he did. Second, there was it's imfamous grill: it was described as "an Oldsmobile sucking on a lemon!"

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Where is a safe place to send your poetry / lyrics to have them noticed and paid attention to? Safe from what?

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How should the word Celtic be pronounced: as 'Seltic' or as 'Keltic'? The 's'eltics are a basketball team. But 'k'eltic and 'k'elt is how it's pronounced when talking about the ancient peoples & cultures of the British Isles. And yes, it's "The book of 'K'ells".

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If Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse got into a fight, who would win? Mickey would win. But only because Bugs always loses (and only loses) when he needlessly pits himself against a harmless innocent, a not-so-simple simpleton who's just minding his own business, e.g., the Tortoise or the Easter Bunny. So, Mickey just being Mickey would cause Bugs to humiliate himself trying to one-up him. (And I hate Mickey, while Bug's was my first hero and role...

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Is it a sin to smoke or eat marijuana if your a Christian?Gen 1:12 Gen 1:29 Mat 15: 17-18 Is it intrinsically sinful? Who am I to judge. But unless you're convinced that no government anywhere ever has the authority to forbid/criminalize the act of smoking or eating marijuana, then you're definately sinning when you do so in a jurisdiction where it's illegal. Christians are supposed to obey the laws where they are unless there is a compelling moral reason for...

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Who does not say anything, agrees. Do you agree? As a matter of law, yes: "Silence implies consent." A matter must be expressed to be resolved; he who does not challenge a claim in a timely fashion, concedes it. But in basic social situations (or parenting kids when you know they know what you think already), definately not.

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What can you do with the cremated remains of the deceased? Are there legal or religious rules about them, and how are those rules made? In America, "LEGALLY" you can't just dump/spread cremated remains anywhere you like. You'll find you're bucking everything from actual local regs for the handling of human remains to EPA regs and anti-littering laws. (Knew a woman got arrested and fined for dumping and pollution when she scattered her late hubby's ashes on a lake, in accord with his wishes......

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What, if any, politically incorrect views do you have? Dear Freeluncher: the question was what politically INcorrect views do you have. Everything you've expressed represents the party-line of perfect "Political Correctness" as is evidenced by the fact that their all absolutely cliche sentiments expressed continuously on every college campus, not to mention every cocktail party on the upper East Side and every editorial page of the...

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Do you think that people who have done "bad" or "wrong" things in the past have any right to talk about doing the "right" or the "good" thing? Why or why not? If only people who have never done a bad or wrong thing were allowed to speak about what's right or good, then no one could ever say anything on the subject. Of course, people and societies are generally agreed on what's evil (at least in broad paramaters and in theory). It's the evils they're willing to tolerate where all the disagreement lies.

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What is something that should never be said on TV, radio, or any public broadcast? That the real purpose of mass-media is to sell deodorant to people who don't need it. (Oops, I let the cat out of the bag.)

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If you were sent back in time to the day before the Titanic set sail and were offered tickets to go on-board for the journey, would you go? You have no information as to if you would survive or not. If I could sail 1st Class Deluxe? Very tempting. But then I know what I would need to know to survive ... or at least greaty increase my chances. FYI: the 1st class weren't first in line for the life boats and the 3rd class passengers weren't locked below. Problem was the 3rd class passengers mostly went where they always went on deck: the 3rd class deck at the stern, where...

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What ever happened to the original bible? wasn't it destroyed a thousand years ago and altered to enable the church more power and control over the people? Uh... no. The 66 books of the Bible are each now essentially as they were originally. Every single PhD in NT and OT criticism at Cambridge, Oxford, Tubingen, Paris, etc. are unanimously agreed on that. The Old Testament books are in Hebrew (except for small portions of Daniel, Esther, Nehemiah and Ezra that are in Aramaic) and have been maintained by the Jews. All modern translations...

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Anyone else think asians ar bad drivers. i just got in a wrck with one two days a go and she barely spoke english Re, the last: It's not prejudice if it's a reasonable conclusion drawn from the available data. Now, fact is, Race has nothing to do with it, but cuilture sure does. Thoroughly assimilated 4th generation Asian-Americans aren't the problem. Asians born and raised in Asia are. And if you ever so much as tried to cross the street in Asia, you'd know why: ASIANS ARE...

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Has anyone studied at a Buddhist monastery/temple? And if you have, what was it like? Yes, I have. It was uncomfortable, mind-numbing, boring as Hell and twice as hot -- but that's monasteries in Thailand. Most monks here don't do much and know even less - at least about their religion. The bulk of monks are 20-year-olds who opted for 3 months as monks instead of 3 years in the Army, or older laymen doing penance (often instead of going to prison). The life-long...

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What is your favorite 'he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer' type phrase? And I just remembered this one: "He has an intellect that would embarrass a tree-stump!"

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What is your favorite 'he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer' type phrase? In that exact format ... "Not the brightest crayon in the box" Other favorite expressions for stupid... 1. "He has to unzip to count to 11" 2. "Couldn't find his ass with both hands if ya drew him a map and gave him a live demonstration" 3. "Blond from birth" 4. "An individual who shall remain blond" 5. "Could do with a...

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What movie will people continue to quote for the rest of time? Terminator. (And if I have to hear 1 more person say "I'll be back" with a bad Arnold impersonation, I will not be resposible for my actions.)

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What movie will people continue to quote for the rest of time? Terminator. (And if I have to hear 1 more person say "I'll be back" with a bad Arnold impersonation, I will not resposible for my actions.)

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Help! I am trying to housebreak my puppy(now 6 months old) She seems to be backwards...she has an "accident" and THEN goes to the door and rings the bell I have tied to a string from the door knob. How do I get her to go to the door first? Sounds like she's confused -- probably because after she's go in the house, THEN she's been taken to the door. I had a similar problem with a puppy: in this case she was one of the pups that would go everytime she got excited ... especially the moment you came home and started telling her how cute she was. Took me 3 months to figure out the trick was to come in very softly...

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Is Leviticus the most offensive book of the Bible? I've heard Leviticus called many things (dull, wierd, archaic, obscure, obsolete, confusing, etc.) but never "offensive". If you think Leviticus is offensive, try reading the Prophets and the NT. Can't thing what you find offensive about Leviticus except for the one line about Homosexuality being an abomination. Leviticus is actually an amazing book, but it can't...

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What is The Buddha's favorite food? Rumor has it, it was pork. He even suppossedly died from indigestion after eating way too much of it one night. If so, his habit of eating pig-flesh may have been an intentional way to distance himself and his teachings from those of many Hindu ascetics of the time, all of whom condemned eating at all! (just 3 grains of rice for me today, please) - especially meat - and most especially...

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I don't mean any offense by this question, but why is it that so many Christians lack compassion, kindness, and tolerance, yet still call themselves Christians? Isn't this contrary to the teachings of Christ? 1. Because the Church isn't supposed to be a museum of Saints, but a hospital for sinners (and brother, do we get them! Unfortunately, sometimes the lunatics takeover the asylum.) 2. Because, many people were born and raised in a Church, but have never actually been converted. ("Conversion" in Christianity does NOT mean a change from 1 religious allegiance or membership to...

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Why do people believe that Jesus was the Son of God? If someone made the same claim today, what would it take for you to believe them? The term "son of God" is a Hebrew expression that basically means "a man after God's own heart". All sons of Abraham, and especially all of Israel's kings were supposed to be "sons of God." However, the New Testament (and Jesus Himself) calls Jesus THE son of God, meaning "the Son of God Par Excelance". He is the man who perfectly reflects...

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The US government has just commissioned you to select four more presidents which will be seen on a different side of Mt. Rushmore. Who are they in order from left to right? Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt & Lincoln are not valid for this answer. Ronald Reagan John Adams Andrew Jackson and I'd have to flip a coin over Grover Cleveland or William Howard Taft. As for Clinton - everything he did was either a failure or felony. As for Carter - only the former. As for Kennedy - he was the original Neo-Con. He ran to the Right of Nixon (which, admittedly, wasn't hard). The beatified JFK as the darling of the New Left (who...

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Is society becoming too politically correct? It became TOO PC about 5 minutes after they first coined the term. PC today is nothing but effeminate totalitarianism with the insidious goal of destroying the memory as well as the fact of Western Civilization and Christianity.

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If an alien appeared in your yard, what would you do? Kick his ass back to Mexico! (Yes, that's satyre.) (Of course, here in Thailand, I am the alien.)

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Do you trust your neighbors? A better question is... What would you trust your neighbors with, and how far would you trust them with it?

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Is it true the British say "onest" instead of "first"? No, but they do say Maths instead of Math, and Sport when they should say Sports... AND IT REALLY TICKS ME OFF!!! And don't even get me started on "Football"!

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What stance does Buddhism take on sex? As a man who is both a seminary trained Christian theologian, and a man who lives in a Buddhist country with a Buddhist wife, I think I'm fairly qualified to speak on this subject. 1) Christianity's actual teachings on sex (as opposed to what you may have understood from your mother or the nuns) is entirely positive - indeed super-positive: the teaching is that God created sex...

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If you go under liposuction?? what are the chances of getting the fat back even if you eat properly and exercise( inner thighs) The fat that is removed won't come back. But if you are genitically predisposed to get fat there, and exercize and diet don't work well at getting rid of it, you'll get new fat there. It may take several years; it may take a few months. But you can always have it removed again. Be forewarned, though, lypo doesn't do a good job when removing A LOT of fat at once, and it...

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Do you think that Moses may have crossed an alluvial swamp when it mentions that he parted the Red Sea? Read and judge for yourself: EX 14:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, 2 "Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon. 3 Pharaoh will think, `The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.' 4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will...

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How common were preteen marriages and childbirths in ancient times and when did they start becoming less common? Preteen marriages were never common in the Western World (Greece, Rome, Medieval Europe, or even among the Semitic peoples of the Near East). They did happen, of course, though usually only among royalty and nobility, and the marriages weren't consumated until much later: e.g., Julius Caesar and his first wife were married at 10 and 7 respectively - his uncle Gaius Marius had made him...

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What does the saying "great minds think alike" imply? A mutual admiration society. Either that, or someone trying to evade a Plagiarism charge.

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What is the big deal about boobs ??? guys can you tell us . Because we are preprogrammed to by our DNA. DNA wants to reproduce and it wants good breeding stock. Nice full breasts scream "good breeder" and "good nurser" to our instincts. Broad hips, good skin and hair, and curves in all the right places do the same. And it's the same reason women are naturally attracted to men with strong square jaws, broad shoulders, and...

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Whay are guy sexy crazy? It's not that we're sex crazy, it's just that we're male. The genes in all animal life instill a drive to reproduce in their carrier. A male human could, in theory, sire on the order of 10,000 children in his life (and that's without medical assistance). A human female can bear on the order of 20-30 and prefers a 10th that number, since with bearing them comes the...

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What was the longest prison duration served by any prisoner while he was still alive, who was he, and what crime did he commit for this sentence? Jouanna Thiec Imprisoned at the age of 16, in 1685. Released at 89, in 1758. Her crime: being a Calvinist in France after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes. Her entire imprisonment was spent in a single stone cell, 18'x40', originally shared with over 30 other women, all of whom died there.

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If historians announced that Jesus was black and gay, and were able to support it with indisputable proof, how would you react? Since the guardians of polictical correctness keep downgrading my answer just for stating the facts thought I'd add two points: If if could be proved Jesus was black (which it can't be, since it's already absolutely proven he wasn't) then, while it would make a shambles of everything we know, understand and believe about genetics, anthropology, and ancient history, it...

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If historians announced that Jesus was black and gay, and were able to support it with indisputable proof, how would you react? Since the guardians of polictical correctness keep downgrading my answer just for stating the facts thought I'd add two points: If if could be proved Jesus was black (which it can't be, since it's already absolutely proven he wasn't) then, while it would make a shambles of everything we know, understand and believe about genetics, anthropology, and ancient history, it...

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If I were to propose the idea that Eastern Philosophy contributed to the downfall of Western Society, how would you react? Would you agree or disagree? Does my beginning with this principle make me a "bad" person, in your opinion? People have been saying that in the West since Herodotus got back from Egypt and Babylon. But I'd certainly be willing to entertain and discuss the proposition. But you'd have to be clear about what you mean by Eastern Philosophy, Western Society, and it's downfall; and you'd have to show just what features of Eastern Philosophy you felt to be contributory, and then show...

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What would it take to build a lightsaber, as seen in the Star Wars movies? The Force.

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What does the Bible say about reincarnation? Resurrection is not reincarnation, aka "the transmigration of souls". To confuse one with the other is to be guilty of the same fatuous logic that confuses a horse chestnut with a chestnut horse. Resurrection is the Jewish and later Christian idea that a person (indeed all people) would be brought back to life by miraculous act of God on Judgment Day, raised to life again...

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I am getting married in a week and a half, we are both virgins. She has been taught as she grew up, that sex is bad. She has been working on getting over that over the last several months, but I want to know what else I can do to help her. Have her read the Song of Solomon... or better still, read it to her.

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What does the Bible say about reincarnation? Nothing. Reincarnation never enters into the Bible at all, and is unknown in Old Testament or Intertestimental Judaism, or early Christianity. The earliest books speak of the grave (sheol) in terms of it being a kind of abode of the dead. In the Torah, from the 2nd Chapter of Genesis on, death seems to have an absolute finality to it -- thus David says to his (dead) son, "You cannot...

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I do weight training Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for an hour. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday I do cardio for an hour. Think it's a good idea to do 30 minutes of cardio on the days I weight train before I go to bed? Not before you go to bed, but it's good to do it earlier -- best if you break it up into two 15 minute blocks, 1 right after you weight workout. Also, unless you've got a LOT of blubber to lose, DON'T do cardio for more than 30 minutes at a stretch any day. If you're trying to put on muscle, best to do cardio for 15-20 (intense) minutes 2x per day, plus a few minues on...

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What do you usually mix your Rum with? Women. But mixologically speaking: Dark Rum: 1) bitters 2) bitter lemon Light Rum: 1) tonic & lime 2) whatever I've got to make a good daiquiri

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When someone addresses a card to "Master"... what the heck does that mean? Actually, it's the formal salutation for a boy. For any male over the age of 13 it's an insult, like calling any Spanish speaking post-pubescent male "Seniorito". Before 13, it's polite and respectful; after 13, it's basically means "fag" or "girlie-boy". Essentially, Master is the male equivalent of Miss. With women, the change to...

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Have you ever written a poem you are actually proud of? Only the ones I've plagiarized.

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Would you want to become immortal? Think hard... I already am. So is everybody else. Problem is, you've got to die once before you get an incorruptible immortal body. The question is not whether one is or would like to be immortal. The question is, how will one spend their immortality.

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I think that boredom is the root of all evil. What do you think? Do you agree or disagree? Disagree. Pride (self-love), fear/self-preservation (self-love), and the desire to be a law unto yourself/autonomy (self-love) are the roots of all evil. There wasn't even a word for "boredom" in English until the 17th Century, but there was certainly a lot of evil. But, while you put the cart before the horse, it is true that idleness permits, evokes and invites many...

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I think that boredom is the root of all evil. What do you think? Do you agree or disagree? Disagree. Pride (self-love), fear/self-preservation (self-love), and the desire to be a law unto yourself/autonomy (self-love) are the roots of all evil. There wasn't even a word for "boredom" in English until the 17th Century, but there was certainly a lot of evil. But, while you put the cart before the horse, it is true that idleness permits, evokes and invites many...

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How come in Star Trek, all of the space vessels that the Federation (Humans) have are all different from one another, but any of the other races only have one (maybe 2) types of ships? For the same reason all Romulans have had the same stupid haircut for 40 years: because every enemy or completely alien society is a monolithic mass devoid of individuality. The only personality they have is collective: i.e., a stereotype.

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Have you ever watched video footage where someone actually does die? What was it? Yes, a few times, though certainly not for pleasure or morbid curiosity. The most recent one was a couple of years ago: a video emailed (illegally) by a soldier in Iraq showing an insurgent being shot down in the street after he tried to drive through the baricades to a secured area. He'd sent it to a school friend who I'd mentored for several years. He was showing it to a couple...

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I've recently received an email saying that I could get $8,650,720.21 because some guy didn't put it in his bank account, and he died in a plane crash before he could. So, what is the craziest email that you have ever gotten? Ah ... the famed "Nigerian Letter"... though now the folks in South Africa have learned about it (7 years after it had pretty much died out) and are trying their hand at it. I've gotten hundreds of these emails over the last 12 years. Probably a dozen in the last 2 weeks. Though I don't recall any specifying an amount down to the penny: it's always been nice round...

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What did you think of the ending to the final Harry Potter book? Workmanlike, but effectively tied up all the threads, albeit in a "mostly as expected" and occassionally clumsy and awkward manner ... just as would be expected from a competant ghost-writer trying to meet a deadline. I thought Deathly Hallows - like Half-Blood Prince - had a little too much teen angst while having lost ALL the wonder of the earlier books. True, childhood wonders...

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Would it make sense to you if people were offended by Buddy Christ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Christ Christians in general, and Catholics in particular? Yes ... but only because *that* DOGMA parody was woefully off the mark - i.e., it doesn't apply to the RCC, and therefore just isn't funny, just as parodying Republicans for being bleeding-heart liberals or PC Nazis isn't funny. It seems just mean, rude, childish and most of all DUMB. Now, if Jay & Bob had used...

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If someone dies every second and someone is born every second, why does the world population increase? Because you're premise is wrong. Globally, births currently outpace deaths. But the global birthrate has been falling -- below replacement rate in most industrial countries -- and the main reason for increasing populations in the industrialized and industrializing countries is the greatly increased life-expectancy and immigration from "the developing nations". IF current...

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Why can't the US get with the program and switch to the metric system like everyone else? Because ... 1) the metric system is dumb! (It was, after all, invented by French terrorists.) 2) the English system is perfectly fine AND perfectly decimalizable - manufacturers don't design and build machinery and precision equipment using yards-feet-inches-and fractions of inches; they build in decimalized inches: e.g., 4327.3872 inches 3) our nuts, bolts, screws, etc. are actually...

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Why did you leave your last job? They stopped paying me.

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If historians announced that Jesus was black and gay, and were able to support it with indisputable proof, how would you react? Well, as an Historian (with the degrees to prove it) I'd just say "Is it Easter season already?" Anybody who claimedsuch a thing would be yet another crank-hack trying to get his 15 minutes of fame and a segment in a documentary on A&E. The fact is, the indesputable proof already "in" - at least in so far as he wasn't black and he wasn't gay.

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If the Romans never celebrated Saturnalia, would there be a Christmas as we know it? The "as we know it" introduces an interesting if ambiguous qualifier, that I'm not sure how to answer, but I'm assuming your question is based on the popular misconception that Christmas is an originally Roman Pagan holiday that was appropriated by the Roman Catholic Church. If we drop the "as we know it" qualifier, then the answer is, most definitely ... YES!...

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Is Judas really to be blamed or to find fault with if he was responsible for the fulfillment of a prophecy made from ages way before his time? The divinity of Christ AND the culpability of Judas "Divisive" questions? What Nonsense! Yes, there have been a few cranks on the fringes and well outside of Christianity that have questioned or denied Jesus' divinity and only two miniscule and shortlived heretical cults that EVER denied Judas' culpability, but for 99.999% of all people who have ever called themsevles...

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Is life just full of 'what ifs'? No. Life is filled only with "what is's". "What ifs" are for the people who aren't at the moment engaged in actually living.

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How would you rate Bill Clinton's support of his wife for her bid for president? Paybacks are Hell. But of course everything Bill Clinton has ever done has either been a failure or a felony.

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If your brother slept with your wife, and you and your wife got divorced over it, and then your brother ended up with your wife, and they claim to love each other, do you think you could still go to thanksgiving at your parents house with the family? I don't think there'd be enough room in the trailor for all of us.

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Did African American soldiers make a significant difference in the American Civil War? There were a few "all black" regiments (though always with white officers) in the Union Army during the Civil War. Initially, they were paid something like half the rate of the normal wage for Union Soldiers, but the first black regiment basically spit the insult back at them, and refused to take any pay, officers included. I don't know when or if the Army changed the policy....

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What are some negative impacts of free or universal health care? Imagine the world's biggest HMO run by people at the DMV ... with inspectors and comptrolers from the IRS. Or just visit your local VA hospital. In Canada, for example, your local hospital may only set compound fractures on Thursday mornings. If you get a compound fracture on Thursday afternoon, they'll pack it in ice and wrap it up for you, and tell you to come back in a week. ...

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What would Jesus buy? Now? Nothing. It's all His already. In His ministry? Hard to tell, since the disciples seem to have done all the shopping. But He did buy the human race once (and for all) with His blood.

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Are you too friendly with the word "liberal"? The word? Yes. They we it's misapplied and wrongly claimed? NO. "Liberal" is supposed to be a virtual synonym for "freedom-loving" as well as open-minded, supporting such things as free and open civil discourse within the bounds of traditional courtesies. When first adopted for political-social agenda, it was the label for those who championed intellectual freedom,...

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I'm alwase hungry... what's the problem? Even if I eat a lot of fibers, fruits and végétables, I'm hungry. I drink a lot of wather and exercices every day : I'm still hungry... it's horrible :( Add more fat to your diet... and dark chocolate. The cruel irony is you'll be less hungy, will eat less, and yet will probably put on wait.

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Is there really a huge difference in your normal weight or when you are dripping wet? Yes . . . if you're a shaggy dog or a sheep. But that's where the expression "xxx pounds soaking wet" came from.

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What do you think about H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007? I think it makes it clear that the "violent radicals" and "homegrown terrorists" have been right about the government all along, and more and more people are begnning to realize it, so now Statists are getting scared.

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What year will the English language be the most spoken language of any other in the world? English is already the most spoken language in the world, and has been for the past 50 years or so. More people speak English as a 2nd language than any other 2nd language: it's absolutely required for medical doctors, scientists, computer engineers, and getting a PhD in just about anything. It's also required for banking, international trade & business, and even for being...

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What is your ideal world? The one in which I'm absolute autocrat of the planet. That way I can fix all the real problems and enjoy doing it. In the meantime... Visualize a World Without New Age Idiots!

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Why did Satan rebel against God? Pride and hatred of humility and mercy - which is to say a hatred of what makes love love.

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How can man fight Satan's temptations? 1. spend more time with God, studying (and applying) His word 2. when Satan reminds you of your past, just remind him of his future 3. laugh at him, as Satan can endure anything but being mocked

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Do you have any good time saving tips for daily life? Stay off of AB.

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At what age do you start thinking of people as "grown ups"? When they have a job, a car, a credit-rating, are living on their own/aren't feeding off their parents, and know how escrow works.

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Do you think there is a chance that love isn't real? Could it just be feelings or chemical reactions or hormones or pheremones? Well, feelings, chemical reactions, hormones and pheremones ARE real. But I gather what you mean is, is what we CALL "love" really what we IMAGINE/THINK love to be, at which point I'm sure you see the problem: you've either got a circular tautology or an impenitrable mystery. But, as I see it, the question is flawed in that it begins with a false premise: that love is...

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If you were an equation (or some other mathematical function) which one would you be? A^n + B^n = C^n for all values of n > 2 (Now we'll find out who the real math geeks are!)

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What doesnt turn a guy on?? Picking your nose, nagging, and asking him if you look fat.... just for starters.

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What was Jesus doing those three days he was "dead"? Was he really dead dead, or just relaxing? Well, the body was really dead. As to the soul/mind/spirt ... The Creeds all say "he descended into Sheol", which could just mean he was really dead, or it could mean mor than that, specifically that his spirit was in the abode of the dead: but in 1st century Judaism that could mean a conscious state, an unconscious state, or some sort of semi-sleeplike state somewhere in between....

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If you take some statements from the Bible literally, it contradicts modern science. Is it the same with other important religious texts such as the Qur'an? The Vedas, the Upanishads, the various myths, the Ramayana, the Bagavat Gita, The Quran, the Tao Tey Ching, and probably every religious work in history make statements that, if interpreted INCORRECTLY (like say by insisting on a literal meaning of what was clearly intended to be figurative or an analogy) will contradict known scientific and historical facts, other statements made in the...

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Should people be afraid of their governments, or should governments be afraid of their people? BAD TYPO- sorry: should read: "... (and NOT despise) ..."

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Should people be afraid of their governments, or should governments be afraid of their people? Depends on the context. The essence of a free country with a constitutional government is that the government should fear the people - meaning of course that those in office should respect (and despise) the governed, and that being cashiered in the next election (or by electoral recall or impeachment) is always a very real possibility. Now-a-days in America, however, the people should...

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What does death feel like? Cold and bony, judging by all the pictures and Woody Allen movies. As for dying ... well, assuming you're dying from something cutting off blood and/or oxygen to the brain (and not from something that destroys the brain instantaneously) I assume it's a lot like passing out, except possibly with a lot more pain and terror thrown in... at least until oxygen starvation starts to take...

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My friend recently told me that the bible only says there is a hell, it doesn't say there is anyone in it. Is this true? OT and Jewish sources talk about Sheol ("the grave"), the abyss (originally the fathomless depths of the sea - but also where the great fiends and monsters are bound), and Gehenna (the flaming garbage dump outside Jerusalem where children were once sacrificed to Mollock, and therefore a place of ultimate uncleanness). The New Testament uses Greek terms, using Hades for Sheol,...

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My friend recently told me that the bible only says there is a hell, it doesn't say there is anyone in it. Is this true? OT and Jewish sources talk about Sheol ("the grave"), the abyss (originally the fathomless depths of the sea - but also where the great fiends and monsters are bound), and Gehenna (the flaming garbage dump outside Jerusalem where children were once sacrificed to Mollock, and therefore a place of ultimate uncleanness). The New Testament uses Greek terms, using Hades for Sheol,...

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Who do you think you are? I'm not sure, exactly, who I am. But one day I hope to become one of THEM ... since THEY obviously have all the power in the world!

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Are u for or against hunting? I am not a hunter. I have never hunted. I probably never will. But I come from a county in Western Pennsylvania in which there are more deer than people, and almost as many bear. If it were not for hunting, the deer population would explode and more vast numbers would die from starvation every winter. Contrary to Disney and PETA, sport hunting in the US is hugely regulated and controlled...

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If someone tells a joke about your country, do you laugh, or are you offended? If it's intended as a joke, is on point and decent satyre, or at least based on a reasonably valid stereotype, of course. In other words, if the author/teller exhibits that he understands us. If he doesn't, the joke's just not funny: nobody tells jokes about whimsical Germans, organized Italians, or confrontational Japanese.

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Are people on the other side of the world really trying to take our freedom away? Arguably, but the more pressing reality is that people on YOUR side of the world are ALREADY taking your freedom away.

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Is it a sin to support gay rights? Do you mean defending the basic civil liberties of people, even those who are gay? Of course not. It would be a sin not to. Do you mean force-fedding the most radical social engineering experiment in history down the throats of the majority of people who oppose it; according "privileged" and "protected" status to homosexuals (entitling them to quota claims and the...

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Except for religious references such as the Bible, what was the last book that you read that was written before the 19th century? It was either the Decameron or Althusius' "Politica" back in October. (Can't remember which one I read last.) Before them, I re-read the Purgatorio and Paradiso last July.

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What is the difference between a religion and a cult? When used to describe a religious group (as opposed to a religious act: e.g., paying cult to Shiva, or the cult of the martyrs) the word cult has 2 principle definitions, one sociological, one theological. The sociological definition is popular in the secular media, and is the one most people are familiar with, though sometimes odd sects and religions get labled a "cult" of this...

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Is it cruel to wear real fur? Only if the animal is still alive. If it's dead, how can wearing its fur be cruel? It's not using it anymore. Now raising it in a nasty cage, or catching it in a vicious trap, and then bludgeoning it to death or electrocuting it, or whatever, and then NOT putting its fur to some good use, now THAT would be cruel.

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How do i make my girl more horney? Try listening to her.

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Why do you think men cheat? Could you proofread your questions before you submit them? This question doesn't make any sense. Did you mean: 1) Why do you think men cheat? 2) Who do you think men cheat with? 3) Who do you think are the men who cheat? 4) Who among you think men cheat? or something else?

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My girl friend says tat she doesnt want me cause i am younger to her but she proposed me wat do i do now when i sms or call her she says dnt disturb give me a solution pls There's love, and then there's deep neurosis. DON'T CONFUSE THE TWO! Dump her. Move on.

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When do characters usually die on sitcoms? When the actor wants too much money and bigger dressing room.

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Do you think that people who grew up without much money are more apt to appreciate it if they find themselves in a position where they have quite a bit of money? Why or why not? It depends on how hard they had to work for it to get it ... and how much they'd hate to go back to having little-to-none.

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Do you think it's a possibility that money CAN bring happiness, or at least aid in someone's happiness? Money buys freedom, mobility, convenience, comforts, pleasures, access, and the raw necessities of life. Happiness, however, is up to you.

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Do you think it's possible for someone to NEVER commit a logical fallacy in writing/debate? Why or why not? Of course it's possible. (And is this an attempt to bait people into the fallacy ofa universal negative?) It's just not very likely.

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Are the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) preparation programs really worth the money? I taught LSAT, GRE, SAT, ACT & GMAT for Kaplan for several years. The answer pretty much depends on your teacher and you. The fact is the class *can* be well worth the money and then some. All my students saw marked improvement: many even got perfect scores. Those I've known that have tried it on their own just using books, didn't seem to do as well as I knew they could have...

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Do you think heaven is real? Do you believe in it? I believe that there really is an outer-space and that there really are stars, planets, comets, meteors, nebulae, asteroids and moons in it, and that we're not just looking at lights projected onto the sky. I believe that there are angels/spirits/extra-dimensionals, and that they live somewhere, not nowhere. But most of all, I'm certain there is eternal life with God and also...

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What is your favorite Shakespeare quote? Lady Macbeth: Infirm of purpose! Bring me the dagger! (Repeated with only insignificant variations at every breakfast table between every man and wife at least once a week since Adam awoke to find Eve -- though today its more likely to be: "Infirm of purpose! Get me the telephone!")

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What was the first legal currency in the USA? As you said the USA - which was founded July 4 1776 (or really July 2) - the first currency was gold, silver and copper coins, originally denominated in "pounds" (20 oz of silver/.5 oz of gold), shillings (1 0z of silver) and pence (1 oz of copper). Marks/Pfenigs, Thollars, Gelders, Francs/Sous, and "pieces of eight" were also used. Granted, the USA wasn't minting...

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If Jesus and Moses went against each other in a duel... Who would G-d root for? Who would Satan root for? If Jesus is who he said he is, then Moses would have to have been who he claimed to be too (because Jesus affirms and acknowledges Moses as such). In which case Jesus wouldn't be dueling Moses, nor would Moses be dueling him. If Jesus is NOT who he said he is, then he's a fraud or a nutcase. If Moses is none-the-less who he claimed to be, then Moses would have no more problem...

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Why are alot of Americans against the UN? Re... "The world needs the UN to protect it from nations who have the following traits. - A fundamentalist/conservative religious majority. - A Nepotistic and corrupt government. - An expansionist/emperial attitude driven by greed. - A powerful military" The UN protects us from these? By all the evidence it empowers and enriches these beyound all reason. I can't speak...

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I'm making a PC game set in Medieval Europe where you take control of a nation. I've already made the map, but I have a problem: I'm not sure which nations to include. I can only have fifteen, so which ones should I add based on the time period? Suggestion: try to find a copy of Games Workshop's board game "Blood Royale" for some excellent ideas as to how to do this, though on a PC you'll be able to go fare more in depth than they ever did - and they only had 5 powers, not 15. (A great game, but it's been out of print for almost 20 years ... God I'm getting old!) Also, check out the PC game *EUROPA...

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So, the UN inspectors have concluded that Iran is NOT pursuing nuclear weapons yet GWB insists an invasion of Iran is still a possibility. Does that man ever learn from his mistakes or is he a complete idiot? GWB only "knows" what his advisors tell him and cause him to believe. Don't be so obtuse as to think that the US invades a country just because the President wants to. The US invades a country because the National Security Council and about 300 exceedingly poweful unelected men decide it's in "the National interest." We'd have gone into Iraq regardless...

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Is there a separation of Church and State when choosing National Holidays? The Establishment Clause, as understood and intended by the Framers - as is evident in ALL their writings on the subject and 160 years of Jurisprudence afterwards - was intended to prevent the Congress from creating a National Church such as they had in England (the Anglican Church), NOT to ban "religion" (as the term is used today) from government, politcs, or the public square....

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Have you sinned this week? Sin is the one Christian (and Jewish, and Moslem, and Hindu, etc.) doctrine of which we all have absolute incontravertible empirical proof. The Proof: Every person occassionally, even frequently, does something he believes/knows is wrong - even if only by his own standards; every person occassionally, even frequently, does NOT do what he believes/knows is right - if only by his own...

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Do you remember when "dialing" a telephone actually involved a dial? Yep. My folks even had one in their lake cottage in Chautauqua NY until Mom sold the place in 2001. The local privately owned (monopoly) phone company of Jamestown NY was still living in -- well, the Depression, if not the Dark Ages. They even had party lines up until the mid '80s.

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Could the Holocaust be proof that maybe the Jews aren't really God's chosen people? (You may think I'm a jerk for asking this, but it's a legitimate question. Oh, and I'm not Christian.) One could just as well see it as an argument FOR their being His chosen people - particularly if you understand the God of Abraham and what He means by His chosen people, and what He means for them. As Tevya says in Fiddler on the Roof: "Dear God, I realize that we're your chosen people. But just once in a while, couldn't you choose someone else?"

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Was Jesus created for the sole purpose of coming to earth to die for man's sins or did he exist before that? As pointed out already, Jesus - or rather "God the Son" - is uncreated, eternal, and eternally generated/ing from the Father. Like the Father, He is what He is and because He is. He does what He does because of Who He is.

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If there are only two broad categories of things that exist in the universe, what are they? The Creator and the created. But for the materiaists out there, you're stuck with a minimum of 3: 1. matter-energy (different forms of each other) 2. space-time 3. information

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How can everyone be decendants of Adam and Eve? Wouldn't their offspring's incestuous couplings lead to problems in human development? The Biblical problem is much less problematic than the scientific one. The Biblical problem can either be resolved by (a) postulating an initial genetic perfection that only gets corrupted through subsequent generations by genetic drift and/or "effects of sin", or (b) the patent Biblical evidence that Adam and Eve, Cain, Seth, and Able, walk out into a world with other people,...

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If the leaders of the world said that all meat on the planet was possion would you starve or become a vegetarian or vegan? Actually if the leaders of the planet said that all meat was "poisson" then at last we could live on an all seafood diet for all meat is now classified fish! Be that as it may, all foods and all substances are poison if ingested in large enough quantities - even water and oxygen. TOXICOLOGY 101: There are no unsafe substances; there are only unsafe levels. The "leaders"...

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Do you think people have the power to make decisions to choose their own way to die? The power? Well, obviously not if they're a) unconscious/comatose, b) completely paralyzed or catatonic, or c) so mentally/psychologically ill or damaged that they can't make anything that could be considered an actual "choice". Apart from that, people certainly have the power to choose between various ways to commit suicide that may be available to them, and the power...

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Is there such a thing called spousal rape, and what can be done to prevent it? I'll just tackle the first question: That would depend on whom, when, and where you ask. I would contend that there is certainly such a thing as spousal abuse, and even spousal sexual abuse, but (on strictly semantic and legal grounds) there is no such thing as spousal "rape". Rape is a violation of woman's right (or her family's/father's right in...

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Would Religion have a place in the world after the Technological Singularity occurs? If not, how can those who want to keep their religion, cope? What the heck is "the Technological Singularity"? If you mean the point where all scientific and technological questions have been answered, that is of no concern or threat to religion -- other than how such science and technology will be used to enslave, manipulate, deceive, oppress, and harm human beings. Science cannot answer fundamentally religious questions: the scientific...

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Can you go to hell for being a pimp? "Being a Pimp", which can mean anything from pandaring prostitutes to johns, to being a chick-magnet/ladies' man, to being a (pozer)"gangstah" is a little too vague and broad a classification to evaluated, but even so, your'e asking the wrong question. The question isn't "what can I can get away with and still go to heaven?" If you're asking...

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Regardless of your religion, does anything make you more uncomfortable than a complete stranger saying "I'd like to talk to you about Jesus"? There are certainly many things that make me more uncomfortable. But, I know what you mean. You've got to wonder if these people learned evangelism at an Amway convention. When it happens, just *suggest* that they should take a closer look at 1Peter 3:15: "But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone WHO ASKS you to give the...

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In your opinion, do women seem more likely to backstab another female, than a man would do to a fellow male? I heard this recently and am curious on your thoughts. In the general day-to-day typical social behaviors of men and women, YES! "Sorority" is probably the only 1-word oxymoron in the English language. In business where money, careers, and advancement are at stake, men are probably more likely to backstab other men (except in show-biz where women are ruthless and cut-throat as hell) - though when a man does it it's usually...

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How long does being drunk last? Depends on when you stop drinking. I knew one guy who was drunk for 47 days.

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About what percentage of women would you say is attracted to hairy chested men? Considerably more than are attracted to men who shave their chests ... and vastly more than like men who shave their legs.

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Three words after sex, what would you say? What's your name?

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What is more important, to love or to be loved? No one can love anyone unless they have been loved first. Ultimately no one can truly love anyone until they know the love God has for them. Also, to "love yourself" doesn't mean to like yourself, enjoy yourself, think well of yourself, or think yourself attractive. To love yourself means to take care of yourself, working to feed yourself, protect yourself, and guard/improve...

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Why did Jesus die on a cross? Why not a rock? Or a pike? re. Anonymous: "Actually He did not die at all if you ask me." If there's one thing Historians of the 1st-5th centuries are sure of, it's that Jesus was crucified and died. None of the rest of the history that follows makes any sense if that wasn't true. No one would have ever invented the story if it hadn't happened. If Jesus had escaped or survived the...

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Are there churches in north korea? The only Christian churches (*defined as "a community of Christians" not "a church building") in North Korea are either underground churches or expat churches in foreign enclaves. Under the communist regime in North Korea, all religion is prohibited and deemed threatening to the security of the state. As a result of this policy, Christians in the region must worship...

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Im 20 and ive had more than 50 partners. and had sex more than 800x. does that make me a whore? if so. cue to me bein disease free should my gf feel bad about havin sex with me? A guy is never a "whore" ... unless he's selling it to other men or into exhibitionism. So no, you're not a whore. The appropriate term is Schmuck (aka "garbage dick").

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Im 20 and ive had more than 50 partners. and had sex more than 800x. does that make me a whore? if so. cue to me bein disease free should my gf feel bad about havin sex with me? A guy is never a "whore" ... unless he's selling it to other men or into exhibitionism. So no, you're not a whore. The appropriate term is Schmuck (aka "garbage dick").

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How do you know when you love someone? If you're a male, it's matter of simple math: 1) count up the number of times in a day you think of the other person (not "of" in the sense of "about", but in the sense of thinking of her interests and what she wants/needs.). 2) count up the number of times you think of yourself. 3) subtract the later from the former. 4) if the result is a positive number,...

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What is the oldest university in the United States? In the world? I see a problem over definition here. A Univeristy is NOT fundamentally a school (a place for teaching the young.) A University is an association of masters/doctors in a number of disciplines who do research, evaluate each other's findings, set standards for membership into their college (association) and for advancement in degrees, and the like. The fact that they occassonally...

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Would you like to know what human flesh tastes like? It taste's like pork. (And I bet you all thought I'd say 'chicken'.) Seriously, the canibals of New Guinea and the Pacific call 'man' "long pig".

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What famous person do other people tell you that you most resemble? Kurt Russel. I don't see it either.

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Why does everyone only talk about Christmas, can't they easily say "Holidays"? Because I find it offensive honestly. I find people wishing me "Happy Holidays" offensive - both culturally and personally. On the personal level, it strikes me as being as "personal" as a letter that begins "Dear valued customer:" or worse, "Dear sir or madame". On the cultural level, In the Americas and Europe Christmas is as much a secular as a religious holiday - perhaps even more...

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Hitler killed 6 million Jews, yet Chairman Mao Zedong killed ~20 million of his countrymen during his Cultural Revolution. Why isn't Chairman Mao nearly as reviled? Because leftists, pinko's, commie sympathizers and their squash-headed dupes control the media and academia. ... and Mao killed 140 million. It was Stalin who killed 20 million... the lightweight!

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What does God, Jesus, and/or the Bible say about punctuality? "Do unto others as you would have thme do unto you." "Love your neighbor as yourself." "Show proper respect to everyone." and also ... "According to the measure you use, so shall you be measured."

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Did Jesus have super powers? Biblically speaking, no, Jesus did not *have* superpowers. He had the Holy Spirit (what/who the Old Testament called the Ruach Qadesh, the Shekinah [God's Manifest Glory], and "the Face/Presence of God") resting on him in perfect fullness. By his own testimony, it was by the power of the Holy Spirit that he did the miraculous things he did ... well, except for the so-called...

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Why did Jesus die on a cross? Why not a rock? Or a pike? Crucifixion was a public degradation ritual. Its intent was to UTTERLY disgrace, shame and humiliate the victim as well as kill him. Instrumental to this is the fact that the victim is held up for all to see and mock, naked, his arms pinioned, unable to even control his bowels, and struggling for hours in agony just to breathe. The point of the Gospel writers and of Christian theology -...

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How many of you ABers have parents who are still married? (which is rare now a days) Mine were married for 40 years, and would still be married today if Dad hadn't died 11 years ago. Also, life-long marriages are not rare. They're not even rare in the US. Yes, now slightly more than 1/2 of all marriages in America end in divorce - but that's not the same thing as "half all people who get married get divorced". You see the odds are skewed by the...

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Do some people love Jesus Christ more than their own family? Which "love"? If they have more natural affection for him than for their own family, that's either very wierd, or very sad that they have such a bad relationship with their family members. I'm assuming that they don't harbor an erotic desire for Jesus - though all the great mystics spoke in such terms of him -- but (usually) as an analogy. Now in terms of...

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What does God, Jesus, and/or the Bible say about punctuality? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." And remember, "According to thine own measure, so shall ye be measured."

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Why do men offer u so many promises and dreams then rip them away from you without feeling upset about it Addendum: if he's dreaming out loud, and inviting you into it, feel good about the level of intimacy he's offering you -- he's let you in to that place where you at least think you've always wanted to go -- you won't find his feelings, but his hopes and dreams there. Just don't mistake the dream of the moment for his actual life goals or one of his chief...

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Why do men offer u so many promises and dreams then rip them away from you without feeling upset about it As man I can tell you that men are dreamers. We all dream to do far more than we can ever do, but we genuinely hope to make as many of them happen as possible. It's just that reality (and real responsibilities) and the demands of the moment get in the way. Also, being dreamers, we're more likely to waste time by seeking fantasy escapes in the current moment (like by playing video...

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Kingdom of Heaven: what is your take on this crusade movie? As a movie, it rates about 2.5 stars. The 1980's style work-montage is especially stupid and pointless. Norton was exceptional, though - albeit in a supporting role. Eva Green is always gorgeous - and tragic. Did like the 2 knighting scenes. As history, it sucks. It's also decidedly anti-Christian. Also, as with all epic movies set in "History", it's not...

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If you're flying your canoe through a football field and the wheel falls off, how many pancakes does it take to build a doghouse? ghoti! (fish)

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Are there some important laws, that time travellers should follow? 1. When going back in time, don't forget to take a universal alminac, the Britannica, and plenty of penicillin. 2. When going forward in time, be sure to take an optical scanner/high-def camera with plenty of charge and memory so you can bring back all the stock reports, lotto numbers, sports wins, and the specs/designs on any nifty inventions you'd like to patent.

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Can someone find me information about the Pope being involved with Hitler in his earlier years please? Singwell's post is excellent. Just wanted to add this: Even if Joseph Ratzinger a) hadn't been a kid, and/or b) was a truly enthusiastic and genuinely believing Nazi THEN, that wouldn't mean he is now or that his past beliefs and associations disqualify him from anything, least of all the Papacy. Peter denied Christ 3 times and Paul persecuted the Church with malice,...

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Who would you vote for between Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell or Rudolph Giuliani? These are my choices? I vote: EMMIGRATE! All three are tools/minions of the CFR/World Bank/IMF/Trilateralist/National Security Council clique; all rhetoric and posturing to the contrary are just smoke and mirrors. RON PAUL IN '08!!! ------------------------------------------------- "A sprawling apparatus of coercion, surveillance, and social regimentation? Oh, George and...

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What is deism and why do its adherents believe in God? What three U.S. Presidents were deists? Deism was an intellectual/philosophical fad that swept through the English atistocracy in the wake of Newton's discoveries, reaching it's zenith circa 1725 and dying out around 1750. The principle doctrine of Deism is that "God" - as the great architect and engineer - simply designed and made the universe at the start, but did such a good job of it that He didn't...

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In writing the constitution, why did the founding fathers substitute the pursuit of happiness in place of Locke's right to property? Just had to point out that "the pursuit of happiness" isn't in the Constitution either. It's in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson changed Locke's "property" to "the pursuit of happiness" for the simple reason that he was a better writer.

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Wat do u do wen u love someone nd they love u but they are scared to show u nd commit? You let him get on with his life, his career, his friends, his time at the gym, etc. etc. The fact is, guys aren't "scared to commit". They are reluctant to get bogged down in situation where all of their time outside of work and sleeping - and even much of that - is bound to a woman. They need to be flexible, react, and change plans at a moment's notice without clearing...

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Being a bi guy, or anyone for that matter, is it wrong to love to swallow a guys load so much? This dude I kinda see, I blow him and swallow a few times a day - is that so wrong or slutty? Uh ... ... ... Yeah.

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Being a bi guy, or anyone for that matter, is it wrong to love to swallow a guys load so much? This dude I kinda see, I blow him and swallow a few times a day - is that so wrong or slutty? Uh ... ... Yeah.

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I really don't feel like packing. How can I get motivated? Read a right-wing newsletter/scandal sheet. You'll be eager to exercize your 2nd Amendment rights in no time.

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Who won the fight between Superman and Batman? Batman. Yes, Superman is invulnerable except to Kryptonite (easily obtainable to a man of Bruce Wayne's means), and has all the super powers whereas Batman has only money, gadgets, and excellent if mortal physical conditioning. But WAR is about the will to fight. And there Batman wins hands down: He's a TOTAL PSYCHO! Since the battle won't be over until he says it is, the...

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Do you feel that one should ALWAYS tell the truth? Why or why not? "Why yes, herr Oberfuhrer, I am hiding Jews in my attic." Telling the truth is like sunshine: people use to say it was good for you.

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What music did teens growing up in the 1930s generally enjoy? They were kind of forced to enjoy what their parents and grandparents enjoyed. Radio stations and record companies catered to adult tastes and conservative "hometown" Americana family attitudes then. The shift to a youth dominated market didn't occurr until the late 50's when the first Baby Boomers started spending their allowance money. None the less, in the '30s,...

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Ok, Who agrees with me that relationships work based on maturity level not age difference. You can have 20years age differenc or more but be on the same maturity level and the relationships work. Really think about this. Am I right. Yes, you can have a 10, 20, 30, or even a 40 year difference ... so long is it's the woman who's the younger one.

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Is the future perfect at sunrise? No, the future perfect is what happens in the future before something else happens.

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What was the most memorable scene or quote from Braveheart? QUOTE: (After the obvious ones already cited - "All men die ..." and basically any other one involving the word FREEDOM - is this one:) "The problem with Scotland is ... it's full of Scots!" SCENE: (Again, after the obivious ones) Where Edward throws the prince's boyfriend out the tower window and then bitchslaps his son into a sobbing fit. Love it or hate...

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Were you given "the Talk" by your parents, or did you take Sex Ed in school? Before "the talk" (and the thing that prompted it) was the 10 year old friend (I was 7) who introduced me to the primary terminology: seeing a teen couple making goo-goo eyes at eachother on the beach, he started jumping up and down, pointing, shouting, "You committed intercourse!" Being the worshipful young sidekick, I joined in, and the next thing I knew my...

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What is moderation? Steering a course between too little and too much, and too often and too rarely. The Greeks who coined the phrase "Nothing too excess - all things in moderation" included "moderation" in the things that could be carried to excess, and so moderated their moderation by engaging in a orgiastic bacchanal twice a year. ... And the Catholics gave us Mardi Gras and the...

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Has the US ever lost a war? Technically, no. The US has never surrendered to an enemy nation. After that, it's a matter of semantics. In Vietnam, the US Military not only won the war, but won it three times. The leftist Press in the US kept encouraging the North Vietnamese, re-kindling their broken will to fight. That same Press also succeeded in breaking the American will to fight (the majority, anyway) after...

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How do you make your popcorn? I always made it on a cookie sheet in the oven. You mean there's another way?

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A recent Associated Press study found that a quarter of Americans believe that Jesus is going to return in 2007. Do you believe this? No, I rarely believe anything the Associated Press says.

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Do you know of anyone who went to college just to work in fast-food or other menial jobs that takes less than even a high-school diploma to work in? No, I don't think colleges offer degree programs in these yet. But some do offer degrees in Home Ec.

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If you could make one thing absolutely certain, what would it be? The momentum of a particle the position of which is known with absolute certainty. (Take that, Heisenberg!)

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Is there anything you have too much faith in? Gravity. .

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What kind of salary do you need? Am I to construe that as a job offer?

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What/Who is your favorite cameo appearance in a movie? Why? Charleton Heston in the Tim Roth/Marky Mark version of Planet of the Apes - "DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL!!!!!" Have to say, his overacting does get better with age.

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Do you ever play "Devil's Advocate" for ideas that may be contrary to your own for the sake of discussion? Interesting question. Why do you ask?

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What is notable about the Negev desert? It's the location of the real Mt. Sinai, for one. (Contra the Byzantines, the Bible always placed Mt. Sinai in Arabia. It was identified by scholars from Biblical Archaeological Review about 15 years ago. Still has the 12 stone pillars set up around it. Even looks well scorched at the top. But then it does have a Saudi missile base on top of it now.)

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A question about the physical appearance of Jesus. Did Jesus look like God the Father? Or like God the Son? Or just like His Mother? Jesus looked just like God ... in character. That's what "the Son of God" means. As for physical appearance, I'd have to echo Alyson's view (except for maybe the dry saracstic sense of humor), with the one addition that - according a long standing oral tradition, he looked a lot lke his brother James. He also may have been pretty small even for the time - as Mary...

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If you could ask for only one thing in your life, have it come true, but nothing else you would want ever would, what would you ask for? To know (and understand) absolutely everything. (The black-mail possibilities alone are virtually endless!)

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I just graduated,is there any suggestion for finding a job? Asking people on AB how to find a job is like asking D&D geeks how to meet girls.

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Nature offered us a garden. We gave back a parking lot. Why would we do such a thing? A garden is a wholly artificial and ordered place of human nurtured (or cultured) floral and arborial beauty, protected from the real world and real nature, usually by a hedge or a wall. And it’s a constant battle to keep nature out! Nature most assuredly did not give us a garden. Nature doesn’t actually give us anything. It just is. It is what it is and does what it does...

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Does anyone else feel like they can't even look at a kid nowadays without potentially being labeled a child molester? Try being a 40 year-old, single (divorced), male, volunteer youth pastor - and one who's extremely popular with, and genuinely loved by all the kids almost instantly, especially the troubled boys without strong or good father figures, who just flock to you. The fact was there was no way I could do my job in such a way that no one would ever suspect that I might be a pedophile - let...

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What would you do if you could not talk to the person you loved the most for 10 months? (And I mean absolutely NO communication) This questions presumes I can get a word in edgewise now.

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Who are the most famous Australian authors? Add Colleen McCullough to the list.

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At what age/time in life, would one say adolescence ends "officially"? When you're out of school, living on you own, have a car you bought yourself, full-time job, not only supporting yourself, but sending money to your parents (rather than the other way around).

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Why wasn't the Apocalypse of Peter included in Biblical canon? Though it was referenced by Clement, likely used by the author of the Apocalypse of Paul, and was included in the Muratorian Canon (c.200 C.E.) as well as the Codex Claramontanus, it was omitted from other canon lists. It is difficult to speculate why it fell out of favor in the orthodox church. It probably included several contributing factors: 1) the church was very leery (and...

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What is the oldest university in the United States? In the world? Univeristy is actually the Anglicized version of the Latin word for trade union/guild. What we call Universities today began in Europe in the Middle Ages as scholar guilds - and as in all guilds, the masters took on apprentices. The oldest ones to become known as teaching universities were the universities of Paris and Bologna. Paris was known primarily for the liberal arts and theologogy...

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Just wondering what most people think of the Lilith myth (referring to Adam's first wife). Thoughts? (Link in my answer, for those who don't know it) For AmorphousBlob: For similar reasons (though different motives) that people - and preachers - make up and repeat stories about Noah's neighbors laughing at him, or the innkeeper who lets Joseph and Mary stay in his barn, or Mary Magdalene being a prostitute, or Judas being a Zealout who thought Jesus would fight back if arrested, starting the revolution, or Jonah running away because...

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All but a few of the signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence were Free Masons. They thought that organized religion was the bane of civilization. Are these statements correct? Do you agree with that thought about organized religion? Both statements are incorrect. Masons constituted 8 signers of the Declaration, 9 of the signers of the Articles of Confederation, and 12 signers of the Constitution. Ben Franklyn, often claimed by Masons as one of their own, was only an honorary member of the Paris lodge, was never initiated, and never frequented Masonic lodges in America. The Mason known to be signers of the Declaration...

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Have you ever taken a moment to consider how very little what we as humans do actually achieves? If you're speaking of us as individuals, and the number of wasted hours and wasted lives, dithered away by the greater mass of humanity bogged down with the mundane and idle distractions, I suppose it is depressing, at least when looking at the last century or so. But do remember, just staying alive and feeding your family was a pretty impressive accomplishment for most human beings in...

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What is the most famous Canadian television show? re. Due South: it had a Canadian writer/producer/star, but I believe it was technically an American production as it was filmed in America, cast in America, produced in America, and purchased/financed/aired by an American network (except for its last "season" as I recall),

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Do you think that History repeats itself, just in different forms? History never repeats itself ... but it does often rhyme.

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I cant stop thinking about sex, is it normal an wat can i do? Of course it's normal ... if you're a 14 yearold boy. Passed that, it shouldn't be such a pre-occupation (or obsession). If it's a real problem, the trick is not to try to NOT think about it. You must train yourself to think about something else.

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Did you ever sing in a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois? or pick beans in Guatemala? Why yes, of course. Hasn't everyone?

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Do you like the side of good, or do you like the side of evil? Despite rhetoric and self-deception, most people prefer evil, which is to say they (we) pefer what's easy, convenient, personally pleasant (or least unpleasant), rather than what's right. Evil people aren't monsters and fiends: they're banal dullards, comprimised by and with the world. Most of the evil and injustice in this world happens, and is allowed to happen, not...

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What God or Goddess, from any religion, would you say was the most unforgiving? Why? #1: Satan - yes, there are actually satanists out there; and they think grace and forgiveness are crap. #2: Kali - at least as conceptualized by the Thugi and indeed by most Hindus until she was "re-imaged" in recent years a wholly benevolent mother figure -- but then is there anyone less forgiving of outsiders than a mother defending and avenging her children? As for Allah - in...

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Why do Apostolics make Hell sound worse than it is, or at least worse than other denominations make it sound? I don't know how Apostolics make Hell sound, but I don't know how any person or group could make Hell sound as bad as it is. For the record, almost the entire Biblical doctrine on Hell comes out of the mouth of Christ Himself. He's the original Fire & Brimstone preacher. And brother, does He preach it! Paul, by contrast says almost nothing of Hell. Niether do Peter,...

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Are Confederate Flags racist? No. They are a symbol and statement of defiance against Federal tyranny and despotism, and resistance to intervention by an alien power into local community affairs violating all principles of self-government.

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Can there be such a thing as an "empty headed questions" When there are no stupid questions? A phone call between myself and my mother when I went back to Grad school in 1994: Me: I'm going to go buy a computer today. Mom: What do you need a computer for? Me: Well, to right my papers. Mom: Why don't you just get a typewriter? Me: And in just what antique shop do you suggest I find such an artifact? Mom: Well, maybe you know best, but what do you do when the...

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What are some lame, overused expressions for which the users ought to be slain? "I gotta tell ya, ..." "Can I be totally honest with you?" "Just between you, me, and the lamp post, ..." "Can you keep a secret?" "I'm just sayin ..." " ... well ... I dunno - y'know?" "Does this make me look fat?"

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What is the most famous Canadian television show? Toss Up: SCTV (which was a Canadian spin-off/rip-off of the Chicago comedy club original) and Kids In the Hall.

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"The world of reality has it limits; the world of imagination is boundless." What do you think of this quote? Rebuttal: The universe is not only stranger than we imagine: it's stranger than we can imagine. "There are more wonders in heaven and earth than are dreamt in your philosophy, Horatio."

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Why are fools and fanatics always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts? Methinks I detect a false premise. No one would think a mathmatician who's certain 2+2=4 a fool or a fanatic, nor would anyone think any adult who questioned it wise. Just remember the purpose of opening your mind is so that one day you can close it again. True, some questions are unaswerable (at least in this life). But some answers are undeniable and inescapable. Wisdom is knowing...

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Do you run a node of The Onion Router (TOR)? There's gotta be a joke in there somewhere. But damn if I can think of it.

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How does one acquire the Apostles ability to be able to speak in tongues at will? If you mean the ability to suddenly speak someone else's language when they don't speak yours, then the thing is to go preaching the Gospel in places where no-one speaks English (or any other language you know) and be so constrained for time that you don't have the time to settle in, become a long term missionary, and learn their language the hard way. This may not work, but it...

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Have any schools of philosophical thought emerged from Sweden? "Jantelagen" (a Swedish utopia) is Sweden's philosophy of social equality. The guiding principle (from the mythical town of Jante) is that no one should act or think he is better than anyone else or aspire to be so. The practical effect of putting this into effect in the 1960s was that no child could be failed in a school, and thus most children didn't learn much, nor did...

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HOW MANY HOURS IS THA RIGHT AMOUNT IN THA BEDROOM? if we're talking about sleep: "7 hours for the woman, 6 for the man, and 8 for the fool." ~ Napoleon

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Since just about every possible "educational" question can be looked up on wikipedia, doesn't that just basically make answerbag a place to get to know one another better? On Wikipedia you can't be funny... or sarcastic.

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What is the main premise in G.W.F Hegel's philosophy? Do you want really want the main premise? Or do you mean the main point/conclusion?

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Do you find your boss attractive? My boss is 1) a guy, and 2) looks like Erve Villachez (played Tatoo on Fantasy Island, and Nick Nack in Man with the Golden Gun) But now HIS boss ... vroom - varoom!!! (and her name is Boom!)

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Are all men (and women) really created equal? As Jefferson meant it, and as Christian Theologians meant it before him: YES. All men are created equal BEFORE GOD - i.e., there is no class system, no privileged birth, and no "untouchable" status, in the Grace of God, and thus "all men should be equal before the law", i.e., there should not be a different law for some because of power and "hereditary...

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What three books would you suggest President Bush read? 1) The Federalist Papers 2) The Origins of Totalitarianism 3) William of Ockham's "A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government"

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Making love or Rough Sex? I've always preferred it ... athletic ... ... as in wild, crazy, wake-the-neighbors, gorilla sex... ... but never "rough".

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Do all countries have their own spy agencies? I assume the Canadians just sponge of the Brits and Americans like they do in everything else.

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Whats the best way to make my girlfriend orgasm? I used to be able to do it all the time and now i cant no matter what i try. When all else fails, try talking with her. Of course, if you've already tried the "sensitive guy" trick, you could go the other route and pull a caveman routine. (Not brutal of course- unless she's really into it - but strong, tough, resilient, and determined. And above all, ardent.) Beyond that, remember, a woman's whole body is an errogenous zone. You may...

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How do Jews view Jesus? re: "Jesus was not a descendant of Isaac, Abraham and David, as required for him to fulfill pophecy. This is because he was not really the son of Joseph, but was begotten by Gods spirit." Problems of translation: the Greek word translated "only begotten" in the King James actually means "the one of a kind", or in its context, "the only one of God's...

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Is humanity separate from, or a part of, nature? If "nature" is everything, as a philosophic materialist would claim, then man is ipso facto, a priori, a part of nature, as it can be no other way. If "nature" is the realm of chemical, atomic, subatomic, and electro-magnetic interactions all goverend by "cause and effect" and probability, then while the human body is part of nature, the mind must necessarily be...

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In a girls opinion. Is sex better in the dark or with a little light so u can see eachother. Judging by experience, it depends entirely on: 1) how out of shape you are, mitigated by how blind and or drunk she is 2) how out of shape she thinks she is, mitigated by how blind or drunk she thinks you are

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Do you see skinny dipping as something sexual or not? Care to tell about past experiences? At a nude beach or naturist resort? No. Anyone who thinks such experiences are sexual has obviously never been to one. 5 seconds on a typical nude beach is more effective than a cold shower or 5 hours at a NOW convention. On a hot day after backpacking, hitting a water hole in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of the guys? Niether sexual nor wierd; in fact it's wholly natural,...

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How do Jews view Jesus? From Jesus' crucifixion to about 135 CE, Jews were divided on the issue. Shockingly to modern Jews (and many Christians), "the Church" was not a Genitile institution created by Paul, but was an originally Jewish institution created by the other apostles, and it was dividing synagogues from Spain to the Indus for the first century of its existance. In 85 CE the Rabbinical...

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Which European country had the most monarchs in the shortest period of time? If you count the Roman Empire as a European country, then the Roman Empire. It went through 50 emperors in 70 years in the 3rd century.

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Since I was a little girl I have unknowingly and knowingly been friends with gay boys. Can anyone explain why this may be? Could be some truth in all these answers. Or it could be just that you don't like women, and are afraid of men.

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From having to pay a $10m+ settlement to a grieving father for protesting at his son's funeral, is the ferociously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church finally going to shut down? Hmmm... ad hominem, hate speach, inciting to murder, and the ever-popular accusation of hypocrisy against a group BECAUSE they are practicing what they preach. How tolerant, enlightened, and liberal of you all. Now is "in your face" shrill, nasty, demonstrating within in eye and earshot of of grieving family and friends at a funeral in bad taste and just cruel? Absolutely. I...

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4 reasons why some asians drive very bad? Oh, Yes, I'm such a racist. My wife is Thai. My stepsons are Thai (and they like me much more than they like their Thai dad). My son is half-Thai. My best friend is Chinese. A work and live among Asians. And I've made Southeast Asia my home. Get a clue, Arisztid - acknowledging that there is such a thing as race (and culture, and thus racial and cultural differences) does not...

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Does it really matter if you sleep with a guy onthe first date or the 5th, if it's all the same anyway? Well, if a girl's going to be so easy as to sleep with a guy on the 5th date (or any time before the wedding night) then why not throw all pretense aside and just have sex as soon as you can get a room. As you say, "it's all the same anyway."

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4 reasons why some asians drive very bad? Speaking as someone who drives a motorcycle in Bangkok ... 1) because they believe in Karma and Reincarnation. 2) because they think "safe following distance" is 3.7 millimeters. 3) because in (Southeast) Asia, laws are really nothing more than a suggestion. 4) because "thinking/planning ahead" and "learning from experience" are completely outside the...

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Why are all (or most) of the US military's aircraft gray? Army, Marine, and low-flying "attack" aircraft are usually forest/army green - at least on top and sides, though the higher fliers are grey-blue on the bottom. Navy fighters used to be bright blue on top and haze/blue-grey on the bottom. Night fighters and stealth aircraft are flat-black.

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Is there anything for which a car cannot be a reasonable analogy? Hmmm.... A car!

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What are the differences between an extreme-right dystopia and an extreme-left dystopia? Which one is more frightening to you? In an extreme Right dystopia, you cannot have sex with anyone unless the State says. In an extrem Left dystopia, you have to have sex with everyone the State says. (euwwww...Janet Reno???!!!)

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Why do beautiful girls fall for guys who treat them like crap, and allways keep the good guys on a "friends only" basis.... should the good guys start being jerks or are the girls just wrong everytime and keep thinking theyll be right the next time 1) deep neurosis due to serious father/family issues during formative years. 2) their mothers openly (and loudly) disapprove of the guy, which is probably the greatest female aphrodisiac on earth. 3) the thrill of the "bad boy", life in the fast lane/wild side, and the obvious primal instinctive/subconscious attraction to guys with a lot of testosterone. 4) the fact that NO ONE is...

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Bum or boobs? Legs. ... and that cheeks (on the face) and nape of the neck.

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Is being a "bleeding heart liberal" really a bad thing? After all, what's so wrong about hoping for compassion, empathy, understanding, peace, and love? Nothing wrong with it at all as long as you're footing the bill for your own compassion. It's when you want to force others (at government gun point) to subsidize your pet charities that it becomes evil, insidious, and anything but empathetic, compassionate, and peaceful.

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I dont get it, i mean i'm very sympathetic ,funny,enjoyable... but just not goodlooking enough? why cant guys date me for my soul? Instinct. 1) Men instinctively want to be admired, especially by other men, and then includes being thought of as the Stud chick magnet who get beautiful babes. 2) The underlying biological imperatives directing us to be sexually attracted by "good looks"because good proportions, good skin, good hair, etc. = good health = good breader and good gene source.

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Would you like to be genetically engineered with chloroplasts so that you can photosynthesize and make your own sugars? Keep in mind that if your cells contain chloroplasts you'll be green. =) naaah - I'm hyperglycemic as it is. But if I could be built like the Hulk and green, that would be awesome.

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Wouldn't it be tragic if you and someone of the opposite sex were the last two people on earth, and wanted to repopulate, but it turned out that one of you was sterile? Only if you care more about the perpetuation of the species than you do about having all the sex you could ever want and without any consequences. Now if one of you was frigid, that would be ... well quite funny, actually.

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Who was / is the hottest First Lady in presidential history? Dolly Madison -- and what cupcakes!

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If the Hitler family decided to participate in the immigration trend when Adolf was a child, and immigrated to the United States, would Adolf have indeed gone on to become an artist? No, because, well, he sucked. But he might have had a decent career painting backdrops for 30's sci-fi serials.

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Should boys be allowed to dress like girls in school if they want to? This is a serious question? The obvious answer is: NO. Why? The obvious answer is: Because it's (ultra)wierd It's also the symptom of a bonfide psychological disorder known as Gender Identification Disorder, and it should not be encouraged - though it should be recognized, diagnosed, and treated.

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Could you say that Communism and Christianity are the same in the sense that they are both utilitarian, idealistic, and dogmatic? I wouldn't call Christianity idealistic: it has ideals, but it was meant to be realistic - jut a very hard but honest realism. Also, if there is no general resurrection - or any other form of after-life - and no Judgement, or if these are ignored/omitted from other consieration of the Faith, then there is nothing utilitarian about Christianity at all. Also, Christianity isn't...

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What is your favorite cartoon quote Also from the Simpsons: Lisa: But I don't understand. How is it one convicted felong can get so many votes, and another convicted felon get so few.

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What is your favorite cartoon quote Judge: Never before in my entire history on the bench have I seen such flagrant disregard for human life and well-being. I'm fining you to the maximum extent of the Law: TWO MILLION DOLLARS! Mr. Burns: <unphased> Fine. Smithers, could you get my wallet out of my back pocket, please? Smithers: With pleasure, sir. Mr. Burns: There you go. Judge: Oh, thank you. Burns: And...

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What is that one item you nearly always seem to forget when you go shopping? The shopping list.

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Does anyone else find it disturbing that we pay athletes and celebrities millions upon millions of dollars, yet teachers, social workers, firemen, police officers, and soldiers barely make enough to live on? The vast majority of pro-athletes and wanna-be celebrities (assuming you mean actors, writers, aspiring film makers/directors/cinematographers, artists, dancers, fashion models, et al.) make squat. Most hold down 1 or 2 extra jobs just to live in tenement flats and road-houses and can barely afford to eat -- partly why they're all so thin! The competition to make it to the well paid big...

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Do men sometimes pretend to be totally incompetent with household chores, so that they won't be asked to do it again? No, but after days, weeks and years of continuous conditioning by our wives, we eventually come to believe, and take it for granted, that we must be incompetant at everything.

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"Lot's wife was nothing, my wife looked back once, while she was driving and she turned into a telephone pole!" Do you find that funny? Yes. Don't you?

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Isn't everything plagiarism since we learn from books and that information stays the same? Good artists borrow. Great artists steal! and also remember the 3rd Law of Academia: "Taking from one source is plagiarism. Taking from two is Research!" (FYI, the 1st Law is: Publish or perish. The 2nd is: Never use your own money!)

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What are your thoughts on North Carolina wine? Wow, I could have had a V8! (V8 costs less, and tastes about the same.)

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Do you make sure not to use a vocabulary that is to large for AB when asking or answering questions or simplify the words? As we have so many different levels of education here on AB. I routinely endeavor to eschew obfuscation.

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In Roman history, were the fields of Elysium specifically for soldiers, or did other people who were considered virtuous also enter the fields upon death? Elysium was not part of the Roman idea of the afterlife – it was a Greek idea. Elysium forms no part of the realms of Hades and the Dead, but is a fabulous and happy land in the western extremities of the Earth, inhabited by a few favorites of Zeus, such as Menelaos (Interesting that the greatest letch in the Pantheon would have the world’s most famous cuckold as his favorite,...

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Do you think that our society as a whole still values virtue? Why or why not? Please keep in mind that I'm asking in regard to the entire society, not simply whether or not you yourself value virtue. Virtue - originally anyway - means "manly strength". Using the word as an abstract singular however grossly confuses the matter. The very fact that you and most people today speak of "virtue" and not "the virtues", indicates how muddled we've become on the subject. That understood, we must recognize that different societies - and different segments...

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Aristotle said that "Virtue requires us to honor truth above our friends." What do you think? Do you agree or disagree? Why? Aristotle was a cultural imperialist, and a racist, sexist, and misogynistic pig who never let the facts interfere with his grand overarching theories of everything. And I have to believe that anyone who combs his hair over his bald spot is somewhat lacking in intellectual honesty. What Aristotle never understood was that philosophy is not a system, but a way of life. It's about the...

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At what point in time did Ad Hominem fallacies become legitimate forms of argument and debate? What are you talking about? Ad Hominem was THE FIRST legitimate form of argument and debate. Every 5 year-old starts there! When Roman rhetoricians coined the term, they were putting it forward as HOW TO ARGUE, not as something that was out of bounds - though they did point out that you shouldn't be fooled by it yourself. It reamained central to all debates (the fun ones...

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I think someone is trying to scam me. I posted an add in the newspaper to sell a litter of puppies and was contacted by someone from Illinois (I live in Ohio)...the whole thing is suspicious...I will post the e-mail he sent me. What should I do? All internet business proposals that involve sending you a check, a money order, or even a cashiers check for more than what you are asking, where they want you to send the overage back to them or to some other unknown party quickly, is a scam.

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In your opinion, what are the key attributes of someone who is virtuous? Courage. It's the one virtue on which all others depend.

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Are you "footloose and fancy free"? Well, I haven't warn socks in 2 years. Does that count?

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