http://www.answerbag.com/profile/44479 New Answerbag answers from Im Alec has abandoned this account Wed, 30 May 2012 00:51:38 -0700 Wed, 30 May 2012 00:51:38 -0700 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11648037 Do you believe that there is a cure for cancer but they are keeping it well hidden from the public?<br /><br />Since cancer is actually a cluster of diseases, not one, it would require a cluster of cures. And no, I do not think so; you simply couldn't keep a secret that well. In order to make it worth while, the tens of thousands of people whose incomes you are protecting would have to know to pay their... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:34:32 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11648037 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11648020 Now that burning jet fuel melts steel, what will they use to build jet engines?<br /><br />The internals of jet engines are continuously cooled via ducts built inside them. The hotter parts are made of titanium, often single crystal titanium. Even the bits made of steel are very special steels, not ordinary industrial steel. (The name steel covers a huge range of materials, all iron... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:29:39 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11648020 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11647996 Ewwww! Le-s-bi-an and bi girls are so GROSS. I'm freaked out to go near them because they can think stuff about me.<br /><br />Whereas men thinking stuff about you, probably worse stuff, doesn't faze you? Men's sex fantasies often include violence; women's rarely do. So you would prefer a man fantasizing about dragging you away by your hair, caveman style, to a woman thinking of seducing you in a fantastic night club? ... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:23:24 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11647996 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11647855 Will the women of Afghanistan every be free? Will the the laws of Islam bring this treatment to other countries?<br /><br />It will take a long time before they are free. But it is not Islam that is the cause of their suffering, though it is the means. it is being a poorly educated and backward mountain countries. As Islamic countries become more educated and developed, their women become freer. Peace, education and... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:54:43 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11647855 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645475 People say love is blind, is that true?<br /><br />Love is indeed blind - and needs to be. For a couple to form, each has to commit to the other. If each member of the couple was sitting there rationally saying "this partner scores 95%, but if I see someone scoring 96%, I'll go with them", people would never be able to make a commitment. Love... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:36:05 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645475 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645465 Is it up to SCIENCE to prove LIFE elsewhere or is it up to us to BELIEVE?<br /><br />Neither. Until we have evidence of life elsewhere, it has to go in the Unknown category. You shouldn't believe in something for which there is no evidence. Science will look, and reports what it finds. My personal opinion (not belief) is that, while there almost certainly is, has been or will be... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:31:00 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645465 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645443 How big was the bang?<br /><br />As big as it could possibly be. As big as the whole universe! There is no way it could be bigger. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:21:20 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645443 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645442 Psychologists claim that 50% an individual's character/personality is genetically determined. Would it affect your choice a partner?<br /><br />NO. I would be choosing a partner who I considered attractive, intelligent, and likeable enough to start with. If they are good enough to be my partner, be it nature or nurture, they are good enough to co-parent my children. It doesn't matter how they got good enough, only that they are good... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:20:34 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645442 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645400 Should rapists and pedophiles be given a choice between a long prison sentence.. or voluntary castration and a shorter sentence? and why?<br /><br />Castration does not stop the impulses that lead to rape and child molestation. And I would be very, very, reluctant to return to any sort of physical punishment, even voluntary. Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:57:33 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645400 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645317 Is there a limit to the amount of knowledge we can get before it turns dangerous as per society's standards?<br /><br />You are simply wrong. Read "The Better Angels of our Nature" y Stephen Pinker. Things are getting better, and he has the historical records to prove it. Overpopulation may be a problem, but the other ills you mention are simply false. You are suffering from Good Old Days syndrome - the past was... Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:16:46 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11645317 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11641742 Why is it sick to enjoy giving cruel people a taste of their own medicine? I don't think it's sick, I think it's a good thing.<br /><br />By doing so, you become one of them. If it is right to punish cruelty with cruelty, you should then be cruel to yourself. Someone who behaves cruelly is a cruel person, for whatever reason they do so. Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:47:16 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11641742 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11641592 Politics. I suppose the only folks who love it are politicians and those they service. Politically speaking, what causes you to recoil? Why?<br /><br />I would disagree, if you look at the big picture. Politics, in the sense I think you are objecting to, is simply manipulating people. Office politics is common, and some participate with gusto. All forms of social one-upmanship are basically politics, and again some climb with pleasure. Electoral... Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:39:09 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11641592 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11641472 True or false? A vote for anyone but Ron Paul is a vote for a known liar.<br /><br />How about Jon Huntsman? It seems to me that he is trailing precisely because he does not produce the bombastic lies all the others do. But that may be because I have heard so little from him. Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:53:29 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11641472 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11641468 Is greed regulatable or boundless and unconfinable?<br /><br />Greed for what? It is, I think, one of the problems with money that greed is much less easily sated. Greed for clothes, sex, cars will sate eventually, even if sometimes at levels most of us regard as ridiculous. The greedy person runs out of space, energy, time. But since money is just a number... Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:50:37 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11641468 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11641462 If American slave owners hated black people so much in the past why did they rape so many of the black female slaves?<br /><br />They didn't hate them. They used them. A farmer doesn't hate his cattle. He may even have a certain affection for them. They just treated blacks as other than human, as property. You are applying modern values in an inappropriate way. Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:47:38 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11641462 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11635799 do you agree with inter-racial relationships? ie black marrying a white<br /><br />I don't even care about so-called multi-racial relationships. I think race is a very loose construct, and every relationship is between two individuals. I don't even want to honour the concept with an answer. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:04:31 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11635799 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634836 Where did fur hats originate?<br /><br />On animals. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:38:09 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634836 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634703 I just started dating a guy and I'm already feeling bored, antsy and a little irritated with him. What should I do?<br /><br />Don't you feel that this is a silly question? If you don't like him, move on. That is the purpose of dating: to find someone you like being with. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:34:50 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634703 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634701 Who are the name coiners? "Coalition of the Willing"/"Operation Desert Storm"/"Weapons of Mass Destruction".Who gets the credit/debit?<br /><br />I have to say that the American sound-bite engine makes European's cringe. "Operation Desert Freedom", "Patriot Act", "Axis of Evil". Nut that our politicians are entirely innocent, but our satirists tend to get hold of such unsubtle summaries and mock them pretty fast. In our armed forces,... Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:33:08 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634701 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634683 Are humans evolving as a society into something better, worse, or are we the same as always?<br /><br />Definitely getting better. Read "The Better Angels of our Nature" by Stephen Pinker, in which he shows, at length and in detail, how our behaviour in all areas has got steadily better since the 18th century. While wars and atrocities have not gone away, they are smaller and fewer wars and... Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:27:06 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634683 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634671 If there is no known particle related to gravity what is the nature of its existence?<br /><br />Gravity is a distortion of space-time. Gravity is well described by one of the two incompatible master theories of contemporary physics, General Relativity. Particles are described by the other master theory, Quantum Mechanics. It is a running sore at the core of modern physics that we have two... Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:22:45 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634671 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634578 How do you pray, or look at it if you don't believe in the "one nation under God" saying?<br /><br />I think it perfectly reasonable to consider God as a metaphor, just The Nation is. While a nation in principle has finite boundaries, it is not the rock and soil that people love and fight for, it is the people. Likewise, I see God as a metaphor for The Community. "God" say "thou shalt not kill"... Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:45:24 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634578 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634571 Can a Prime Minister be both head of government and head of state at the same time?.<br /><br />It would certainly be possible. It would generally be regarded as a bad idea. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:40:08 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634571 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634558 I'm a teen and my generation will destroy culture? Agreed?<br /><br />Since this is what every older generation has said for at least three thousand years, it has got to be right. Just look at the cultural wasteland around us, created by people, /every single one of whom was at one time guilty of teenagerhoood/. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:30:12 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634558 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634550 Did an insect with the brain roughly the size of two grains of sand figure out papermaking and nest architecture by itself?<br /><br />When examined, it is usually found that the building behaviour is governed by one or two very simple rules. E.g. build in a straight line until you have reached one body length, then turn sixty degrees. Start at (say) thirty degrees to the airflow. These can be investigated by subverting them.... Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:27:47 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634550 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634527 Could a guy be gay if he takes great pride in his clothes/fashion/grooming? Why or why not?<br /><br />Any guy could be gay. Or not. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:20:50 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634527 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634521 Are brussel sprouts disgusting things?<br /><br />No. I really like fresh, properly cooked, brussels sprouts. The problem is that most people encounter them at school, when they are grown too big, boiled to death, and then kept warm for hours before serving. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:18:14 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634521 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634518 Should Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady, get a state funeral like the royals? There has been talk of it here in the UK, what do you think?<br /><br />No. She should get a respectful funeral as have previous Prime Ministers (assuming her family so desires), but not a state funeral. She was a multiply elected, hard-working PM, and deserves reasonable honour. But not qualitatively different from other PMs. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:16:48 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634518 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634515 what made Satan so bad and evil?<br /><br />The concept of Satan was invented as a repository for bad and evil, a symbol to use to describe the base side of things. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:14:51 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11634515 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11633201 Why are true Christians organized? Why would organization be needed to carry out God's commands, will?<br /><br />If you are to meet together in Jesus' name, someone has to book the room, arrange the refreshments. If you are to help the poor, someone has to buy the food, someone has to cook it, and someone arrange that these are done in the right way at the right time. If you are to do anything as a... Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:39:34 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11633201 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632260 Would the IP addresses for my phone and my laptop be different?<br /><br />Yes, inside your house network. But if you are connected to the internet through a router using NAT (which you probably are - don't worry what it means) then your household has a single IP address as seen from the Internet, which is split up into local ones by the router. So the answer can be yes... Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:48:47 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632260 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632255 If one could know the meaning of "astroid deflector" would one give us its definition please?<br /><br />An asteroid deflector is a conceptual machine intended to change the course of an asteroid which would otherwise hit the Earth. None have been built, and they would be very expensive. But there are various designs which have been discussed, in case we should need them Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:46:44 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632255 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632252 Neither time nor gravity require a particle in order to exist; that would suggest their existence must be infinite -no beginning, no end?<br /><br />You have put your finger right on the huge crack in current physics. We have two theories, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, which are both highly effective at solving problems in their areas - and are completely incompatible with each other. Quantum Mechanics knows nothing about gravity at all,... Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:44:50 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632252 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632239 My bf wants me to move in with him. We've dated 4 years but it's been unstable - he says the fighting will stop once we move in together.<br /><br />I agree with previous answers. It is very, very unlikely to get better if you move in together. In fact, it is likely to get worse, and be harder to break up. If after four years, you do not think it is highly likely that he is your life partner 9and you obviously do not), then it is high time... Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:36:37 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632239 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632231 What is a double-blind experiment? What would single-blind or zero-blind experiments be?<br /><br />A double blind experiment is one where neither the subject of the experiment nor the experimenter knows whether the subject is being given a treatment under test or an old treatment or a dummy. In a single blind test, the subject being given the treatment would not know if they were being given... Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:31:19 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632231 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632221 Is there a different time differential to earth and the depths of outer space.Earths time is linked to earths orbit of the sun.Not out there<br /><br />The linking of time to the rotation of the earth around the sun is a very human concept. The is not how time is, it is how humans choose to measure it. It is convenient way for people who think in seconds, do jobs in minutes, have working sessions in hours, need to sleep every day, and adjust... Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:25:53 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11632221 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11631080 Atheists - Do you continue your atheism in the coming new year too?<br /><br />Whence should come the sudden light of revelation? Why should preachings that have sounded like rubbish for forty years suddenly become wisdom? Why should I abandon the rationality that has been my guide for decades? Which brand of poppycock should I suddenly adopt? Be clear: if I were to... Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:14:17 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11631080 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629901 Atheist: Why don't you believe that there is a creator?<br /><br />There is no evidence for a Creator. Now, we don't know what caused the Big Bang, so there is room for a possible creator there. But if there was a creator then, there is no reason to believe that it has shown the slightest interest in its creation since then, and certainly not to this minuscule... Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:12:00 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629901 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629333 Multi-vitamins: Why have 3330% of a vitamin or 200% of mineral of a daily dose. Isn't this just hype. Literally, money down the toilet?<br /><br />Exactly. For healthy people on a healthy diet, vitamin supplements are a complete waste of money. There are a few cases - pregnant mothers, dark-skinned people in northern climes - where supplements may be useful. For others, if you need vitamins, change your diet, don't buy pills. Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:59:23 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629333 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629328 How can you tell when a guy's penis is demon possessed?<br /><br />When the special effects men have finished their job. Demons exist only in fiction. Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:57:24 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629328 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629324 Were the German people themselves at least partially to blame for the Holocaust?<br /><br />As individuals who looked the other way. But aggregating this into blame for "the German People" does not help, because it includes those who did not look the other way, those who came before and those who came after. It puts a mark of guilt by association on the innocent. Those who knew of the... Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:56:27 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629324 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629313 I read there are 10000...(80 zeros) particles in the universe. Does this mean that we cannot count beyond that?<br /><br />Not unless your concept of counting is limited to counting on your fingers and toes. Mathematics needs no tie to the physical universe. What is surprising, as some have said, is how often mathematics turns out to describe the universe. But we have representations for, and uses of, numbers far,... Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:50:56 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629313 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629297 What day was Jesus really born?<br /><br />Nobody knows. But if the story of the Roman census and the journey to Bethlehem are true (which I certainly doubt), certainly not in the middle of winter. If you are to force people to move around the country, you do /not/ do so at the time the roads are at their worst. Remember that there were... Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:44:40 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11629297 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11627327 Were neanderthals smart and peaceful but wiped out by dumb and violent homo sapiens sapiens?<br /><br />Nor particular reason to believe so. Or, to be honest, to believe otherwise. Recent studies have show that the range of Neanderthals was sufficiently small that an Ice Age could have squeezed them out without intervention from Cro-Magnon man (roughly, us). And it is now believed we interbred with... Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:54:08 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11627327 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11626294 How is atheism reasonable?<br /><br />How is it unreasonable? We do not believe in things for which we have no evidence. There is no evidence for God or Gods. So it is reasonable not to believe in them. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:07:02 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11626294 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625833 My sons girlfriend is bisexual and a tomboy and my son is going to marry her.? I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO?<br /><br />Start planning what to wear at the wedding. The details of the girl's sexuality really shouldn't matter to /you/ at all. It is /his/ choice, not hers. If she chooses to remain faithful to him, her sexuality doesn't matter. If she is going to cheat, does it matter whether she cheats with a man or... Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:56:19 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625833 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625804 If someone uses your name without your permission saying you support something/someone you don't what can you do? Can you sue?<br /><br />Probably, provided you can show they were doing it. What you get will depend on what damage the court thinks has been done. The rules vary /a lot/ with jurisdiction. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:47:08 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625804 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625794 Ignorance is no excuse. We are responsible for what our staffs do in our name. But what if we really didn't know? Doesn't that count?<br /><br />Unless you can show that what your staff did was totally unpredictable exceptional, you are responsible for the way your office is run, and hence for the general trend of their activities. If the soldiers of an army form death squads, their officers cannot say the did not know; they should have.... Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:45:41 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625794 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625467 Does true romantic love exist at all?<br /><br />Apparently so. Brain scans of those who claim to be in love show a distinctive pattern of activity when shown a picture of the beloved, which is similar to that produced by cocaine. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:15:09 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625467 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625177 What if scientists accidentally woke up Mitochondria Eve, and she started terrorizing people with killer plants?<br /><br />But what of ordinary people woke her up? Wouldn't that be much worse? Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:06:52 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625177 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625124 Do you think electric companies are monopolies? We really only have 1 choice. Why aren't there at least 2 options? Especially in cities.<br /><br />In the UK we have a choice. There are four or five major suppliers, and a dozen or so minor ones. But it does depend on a National Grid, so that generators and users can be completely separate. The US has a much less well developed Grid (or rather, several). Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:18:11 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11625124 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622833 Why don't more Muslims condemn Hamas?<br /><br />An awful lot of them do. Including fatwas from leading clerics. But they don't get reported because it ins't News when a leading cleric talks common sense. But when some hothead spouts venom, it is News. And it becomes Archive News, and is repeated unto boredom. And you can always get a crowd to... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:14:26 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622833 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622819 Should marijuana be decriminalized or even legal? Why or why not?<br /><br />Anybody who wants marijuana can get it. But there is a huge criminal industry to supply it, one of the highest paid sales forces in the world, and a hugely expensive anti-drugs police system. So we have a choice: 1. Drugs. 2. Drugs plus drug related crime. No Drugs is simply not an option, much... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:10:26 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622819 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622445 Would you like to watch Jon Huntsman play Go, Johnny Go!? This is really good. Have to put the video as my answer. Too many letters!<br /><br />I like him even more. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:11:45 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622445 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622264 Cosmology, Evolution and other sciences just come up with theories so are speculative but God is a fact. Thoughts?<br /><br />In scientific terms, a Theory is an explanation for Facts. Facts are measurements, experiments you can make. Fossils, DNA, galactic photographs, maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background are Facts. For God to be a Fact, you would need to be able to weigh, photograph, or otherwise measure God. God... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:59:02 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622264 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622239 Is an orange (fruit) called an orange because it is orange in colour? Or is it the other way around?<br /><br />I understand that the fruit comes from the colour. The ruling family of the town of Orange in France, the House of Orange, took the colour we now call Orange as their house colour. They later became the leading family in Holland. When a fruit of the same colour appeared, it was named after the... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:47:27 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622239 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622126 Who the he** does she think she is? Mrs. Obama wants us to eat healthy! Some nerve! Just like our doctors do. Who the he** are they?<br /><br />Almost as bad as those bastards who want peace and prosperity! Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:59:26 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622126 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622096 If you found a stack of money outside, would u keep it or turn it in to the police? just curious what someone else would do :D<br /><br />Yes, if small enough. Coppers found anywhere, small sums in my own home. Just too much bother to try to find the owner. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:43:26 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622096 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622064 Lao Tzu (604 B.C.)has said Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end." What is he suggesting? How do you feel about it?<br /><br />People believed a lot of strange things that far in the past - gods, dragons, witches etc. I feel absolutely nothing about a 2500 year old superstition. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:30:04 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11622064 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11621990 to kill or not to kill?<br /><br />What? I will kill disease bacteria by the billion. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:06:25 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11621990 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11621986 Stubborn/bullheaded doesn't mean you're strong. What does it mean?<br /><br />I disagree - it can mean that you are strong - in a bad cause. Or, of course, a good cause. ML King was stubborn in a good cause. Are you saying that therefore he was not strong? Hitler was stubborn in a bad cause. Are you saying that it was weak to kill six million Jews etc. and conquer a dozen... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:04:26 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11621986 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11621971 If you took vows of chastity, silence and poverty, which one would be the most difficult for you to honor? Which would be the easiest?<br /><br />Chastity - no problem. I have been effectively chaste for years. Silence. Frustrating, but I could do it. Not that I see the point. Poverty. Depends, of course, on what you mean by poverty. I have dependants and expect to live into old age. I don't want to be rich, but I want more than just a... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:57:26 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11621971 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11614080 Why can't we have normal first names for politicians?<br /><br />David, Nick, Ed. Seem perfectly normal names to me. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:05:59 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11614080 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11613975 Being considerate: nature or nurture?<br /><br />Being considerate at all: nature. To whom we are considerate, and what we actually do to be considerate: nurture. Everybody is considerate to their immediate family, but that can still be in the framework of a very dominance-based culture. The idea of treating women equally, rather than being... Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:30:04 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11613975 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11613963 Is Ron Paul our last hope?<br /><br />I like Ron Paul, and think him honest unlike most of the others, but I disagree with him to much. I wish people would pay more attention to Huntsman, who seems to have made the fatal mistake of being sensible. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:26:30 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11613963 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11613949 Would you vote to legalize prostitution?<br /><br />Yes. In my opinion, the current situation is the worst possible one for the prostitutes. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:24:31 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11613949 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11613947 At birth we should be implanted with a computer chip that controls our intentions..eliminating any that are harmful. Pro/con and why?<br /><br />Obvious no. Who gets to define "harmful", by what right? And who supervises them? Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:23:43 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11613947 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11613936 Can you say one POSITIVE thing about McDonald's?<br /><br />There are no Macdonalds in Antarctica. Somewhere is safe. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:21:45 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11613936 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11607713 How do men sit/walk w/o their penis scrotum getting in the way? How do they go about it?<br /><br />They are not actually between the legs, they are in front. In order for them to cause problems, which occasionally happens, they have to be pushed back. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:24:55 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11607713 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11607698 How can atheists deny what you do during life doesn't affect what happens to you after you die?<br /><br />What evidence is there that anything at all happens after we die? It is a matter of observation that overeating makes us fat. What observations have we about life after death? Ho many people have been spiritually "weighed" and the results returned to us? It is the atheist view that when you die... Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:21:23 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11607698 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11595256 Did you know that scientists at Cern have discovered neutrinos travelling faster than light?<br /><br />/May/ have discovered. The measurement has not yet been confirmed, and something as startling as this requires more than a single experiment to be regarded as proved. The possibility of experimental error must be taken into account, especially when the measured excess if speed is very small... Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:16:04 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11595256 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591715 Are electrons composed of quarks?<br /><br />No. So far as is currently know, the electron is a fundamental particle and has no internal structure. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:02:30 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591715 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591628 Maybe the 2012 end of the world prediction is a prediction of an economic collapse. Thoughts?<br /><br />The prediction is complete cobblers. It is an invention in the 1960s of a prediction by the Maya that they did not make. It has no authority at all. So there is no point in interpreting complete bullshit. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:32:54 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591628 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591424 What do fossil findings reveal, the multitudes of creation, or a gradual evolution of lifeforms?<br /><br />The arrangement of the fossils and their dating shows evolution. Your quotes, stripped if their theology, just show that there are many different species, wherever they may have come from. The quotes give no idea whether the species are those that exist now, or some hypothetical list of species... Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:53:52 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591424 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591312 Do you know someone like this: they say they prefer their home cooking to eating out.Have they tried all the restaurants to eat out then?!<br /><br />It may be not the food, but the environment. For example, I know people who really, really do not like being watched while they eat. No matter how good the food, if strangers watch them eating, it tastes bad. Other's find the pleasure of their food spoiled by the knowledge of the price. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:18:06 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591312 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591264 If physicists find the basic building block of the universe will that solve all mysteries of existence or will it create more questions?<br /><br />Almost certainly. Apart from anything else, knowing the rules doesn't tell you how they work out. To a reasonable approximation, we know all the rules for atoms and electrons at the temperatures we live. But that doesn't mean that chemistry, the study of the interactions of atoms and electrons,... Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:02:31 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591264 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591109 why does every u.s aspiring president/previous/current/ and politicians kiss isreal's butt???<br /><br />Because pro-Israel lobbies have the US political system under control. Anybody who enthusiastically supports Israel will find their political coffers filled. Anybody who criticizes Israel will find themselves under attack from all directions. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:07:36 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591109 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591101 Should zoos be banned b/c they limit animals freedoms/space & disturb their natural habitat? why/why not?<br /><br />Zoos need to be well regulated. The best zoos give their animals quite a lot of space. Generally, it is quite easy to give the smaller animals a fulfilling environment. It is much harder for larger animals, especially the predators, which are used to a huge range. Therefore I feel that large... Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:05:11 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591101 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591074 Do u know anything about Bermuda Triangle..<br /><br />Yes. There is no mystery. It is just an area of sea with turbulent weather and a large number of ships and planes crossing it. The number of accidents match what you would expect for the traffic crossing it. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:53:30 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11591074 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11590985 explain the volatile and non-volatile<br /><br />Volatile memory loses its contents when the power is turned off. Non volatile memory keeps its contents when powered off. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:16:42 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11590985 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11590983 Scientists have now discovered what they are calling the God particle, the cement that holds the universe and all life together? Thoughts?<br /><br />Not that /they/ call the God Particle. That one or two called the God Particle, to the intense embarrassment of the rest of the physics community; a name which has, unfortunately, been picked up by the press and spread everywhere. It is one further step in our understanding of the universe. It... Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:15:29 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11590983 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11590924 Are atheist protected by this law (found in the description)? kindly elaborate it.<br /><br />Atheism has no "establishment". However, they are protected by the last sentence, so you cannot be required to be a believer to get a job (as, I believe, is legally if not actually the case in Indonesia). Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:47:36 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11590924 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586575 It's well documented that the Fed's WON'T enforce immigration laws, how should the SCOTUS rule on Arizona's law?<br /><br />The problem with Arizona's law is not with enforcement when people are shown to be illegal immigrants, it is with the drastic weakening of the presumption of innocence for people who the police think /might/ be illegal immigrants. When the law does not explicitly say so, the only reason police... Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:53:21 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586575 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586556 who was the wizard in financing who bailed out the nation during the depression?<br /><br />Nobody. It is widely agreed that the reaction of financial experts and politicians made the Depression much worse than it needed to be. When money supply was shrinking dangerously, central bankers cut money supply. When trade was shrinking, politicians put up trade barriers. The Depression... Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:47:06 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586556 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586540 Can someone legally be fired for not doing their agreed-upon job duties for religious reasons?<br /><br />Which is correct: Christians do not have any rights not held by everyone else. Nothing in the law does, or constitutionally can, give Christians a privileged position. Of course, Christians have the same right that non-Christians have to the free practice of their religion where it does not... Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:40:53 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586540 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586536 Can someone legally be fired for not doing their agreed-upon job duties for religious reasons?<br /><br />I cannot answer for the US, but in the UK people certainly can be fired. Churches are allowed to specify believers for specifically religious duties such as priests, but not non-religious ones such as, for example, cleaning the church. Someone who got a religious job by falsely claiming belief... Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:38:49 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586536 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586507 When all doubts about the existence of God Almighty are finally removed, it will be too late, why do you wait?<br /><br />Which God? Why should it be your God of all the other improbable ones that turns out to be real? Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:19:33 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586507 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586505 With all the evidence of Life being behind life, does God need to provide more evidence of His existence, are there grounds for doubt really<br /><br />What evidence? Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:18:27 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586505 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586504 Why do we simply return the illegial immigrants back across the border, only to have them come back?<br /><br />Alternatives: Kill them: immoral. Physical punishment: still immoral. Imprison them: expensive. Prisons already at bursting point. What else do you suggest? They have no possession or money to confiscate. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:17:58 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586504 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586502 What vibrations are the highest on this planet?<br /><br />Hugh energy gamma rays from cosmic sources. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:15:37 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586502 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586496 What would you use to escape from prison?<br /><br />Lawyers Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:08:40 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586496 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586476 Given the averse conditions to life that exist on other planets and moons is the earth's multiple life sustaining attributes a chance event<br /><br />That is something to which I would say we do not know the answer, but are researching hard. Recent discoveries have shown both that the formation of life roughly as we know it is, if circumstance are right, much more probable than I at least had previously thought, and that the right... Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:56:06 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11586476 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11583005 Tho' Gingrich is gaining support, some on the right don't like him and are saying so. What is it they know? Why don't they like him?<br /><br />The profile I heard recently is that he is full of ideas.some good and some bad, and can't tell the difference. If you look only at his good ideas, he is great. But it you take all his ideas, there are some really rotten ones as well. One (Rep) speaker said he is simply not Presidential material.... Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:21:33 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11583005 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11582614 We've eliminated all constraints. No rules, no regs, no taxes,no government, no nuthin'. Anything left about which to complain? What?<br /><br />People Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:57:18 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11582614 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11581070 California school district allows students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in both English and Spanish. Should this be allowed?<br /><br />Why the hell not? If you cannot recite the Pledge in Spanish, you should certainly not read the Bible in English. All churches should be forced to teach the Bible in the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:11:27 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11581070 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11580842 When those college kids try to get you to give money to Greenpeace, do you ask "why, need more AKs to attack whaling vessels"?<br /><br />Have you any evidence of Greenpeace attacking whaling vessels with AKs, ever? Personally, I disapprove of people giving money for Tea Party Baby Roasts. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:25:55 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11580842 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11580827 Fossils = evolution?<br /><br />No, fossils are clues. From fossils yo can deduce evolution - because it happens to be true. If, for example, creationists were right, fossils would show no relationships. The pattern of fossils that actually exists proves evolution. There are an infinite number of other examples which would not... Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:23:18 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11580827 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11580791 What year did you live your first house?<br /><br />1980 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:15:34 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11580791 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11580774 matter had to come from something? true or false? matter somehow came from nothing? true or false?<br /><br />We don't know. So far as we know, the Big Bang, when all the matter/energy currently in the universe appeared or was created, came out of nothing, But we don't actually know anything before about 10^-35 seconds after the putative Big Bang. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:11:44 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11580774 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11580760 Why would anyone who truly understands science, believe that intelligence can arise from non-intelligence without Intelligent input?<br /><br />Anybody who proper understands the concepts behind Natural Selection. I bet you cannot do a 1000 piece jigsaw at first try. Rules: once you have picked up a piece, you cannot put it down anywhere except its right place. Impossible. Therefore you cannot do a 1000 piece jigsaw. QED. Actually, you... Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:08:09 -0800 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/11580760