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The fact that there are *some* questions that it is silly to ask about religion, does not mean that there are not *other* questions, that one SHOULD ask: To take the case you mentioned, the point of all the questions was to get a very narrow definition of what the 'cow' was, to possibly get...

Aapa: Well I agree completely with that, you should not believe a confused report without evidence, but you should not *disbelieve* it, simply because you prefer to, if there is evidence that it is true. And if some level of evidence, say X number of independent reports, Y number of photographs...

Ha! You try 'snatching' my gun from me, and we'll see how well that works. Hint: you better be able to run faster than 1000 feet per second. Which I don't think anybody can. 'Snatching' the gun away only works if the woman doesn't shoot. That's why you teach her to USE the gun. Assuming I...

Ah. Ok. I just worry about scams and stuff, I myself once entered a 'Poetry Contest', after which I kept getting repeated emails telling me that I had supposedly won one of their prizes, and asking me for MONEY to have my poem published, to buy their magazine, to buy a ticket to their awards...

Ershad Ahamed, you wrote: Ah. I didn't say that they spent too much time 'beautifying themselves'. I said that spent an awful lot of time *obsessing* over their own bodies. *Obsession* can take many forms. Spending too much time worrying about beautifying your body, and putting in on display...

Apparently there *is* such an organization as the 'national society of professional engineers'. However, that doesn't prevent someone from impersonating them. I don't know enough about you to say, if there is a good reason why you should be getting this award, then I would say it is legitimate...

ErshadAhamed wrote: Ershad: Well, there are a few *advantages* to being a woman as tall as I am (5'9"). One of them, is that I don't worry much about being attacked by other *women*, regardless of whether they are lesbians or not. Not many women want to attack a woman who is 6 inches taller...

Seeking Allah's Mercy: Also regarding dark faces, my own face tends to get 'dark' a lot. I work in a newspaper warehouse, so am always getting ink all over my face. And hands, and clothes. There's really no way to avoid it in this sort of work. So perhaps I am a bit over-sensitive about such...

Seeking Allah's Mercy: I am sorry you were offended by my comment, and glad that you have explained it. I tend to take things very literally sometimes. At any rate, I don't understand the proscription against a Muslim women having her body uncovered in front of WOMEN non-Muslims. Unless the...

John Smith wrote: John, I think the word you are looking for here is *ulterior motives*. 'Ulterior' refers to secret, specifically *evil* motives. 'Alternative motives' is a much more morally neutral term; if he seems interested in your religion, but has 'ulterior motives', that would mean...

Question: Do you know anything at all about this person or 'National Society of Professional Engineers' that wrote to you? Are you an engineer, or have you done something noteworthy to contribute to that feild? If not, I'd be a bit leery of this, it sounds like the 'bait' to some sort of con...

See, I don't like that. I don't think there is anything wrong with a person being a black and having a dark face or being white and having a white face, or having an in-between face. Why would God change someone's face color? Michael Jackson did that, and I think he ended up looking like an idiot.

ooh, I know what an 'avatar' is. It's a term from a religion, I believe Hindu-ism. An 'avatar' in the Hindu religion, is a *representative* of a god (one of the Hindu gods). It is sent by the god to represent it, in some sort of function, either to carry out the god's will, or to deliver a...

My question would be one based on logic: If you choose to disbelieve the reports of these school bombings, the question would be WHY you disbelieve the reports of them. Is your reason: 1. You have actual, real, evidence to show that these reports of school bombings are false. Bear in mind...

It's medically possible. There have been studies done on homosexuals, both men and women. The brains of a lot of them are 'wired' differently than ours, such that when given pheromones (scent chemicals) of men and women to smell, the brain of many male homosexuals, reacts in the way a woman's...

Sakeena: You need to be more objective. This is true of SOME, but not all, Christians. Just as it is true of SOME, but not all, Muslims. I will give you another example of some Christian prejudice (or maybe it is government prejudice) I heard of a while back. Some soldier from the US got...

Asja wrote: I don't know anything about what God might or might not think of adultery and fornication. As I am not a Muslim, I don't regard the Koran as proof. I don't regard the bible as proof, either. I DO know that there are psychologically disturbed people, who gain sexual...

LoveForDeen wrote: Well, I like to think I am fairly hardworking compared to some people, who seem to have endless excuses for not coming into work, or who go to work, but then do little or no work when they get there. I probably COULD work harder, but when I put out 20 tons of newspapers in...

ErshadAhamed wrote: Hmm, if this happens a lot to people you know, I would say that they are very weak-willed and irresponsible, and it is an interesting question as to WHY. Since I listen to music a lot, yet I do not behave in this irresponsible fashion of losing track of time. Ei: I have...

Misdiagnosing people as dead while they were only unconscious was actually so common and feared during the middle ages, that it became the practice in some areas to bury people with a string tied to their hand. The string went up through a pipe that went above the ground, and was attached to the...