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Can someone give me a list of sins? Recently, I've been depressed and literally thought of anything bad that happened to me or anything bad I did, purposely or accidentally and I got the word sins stuck in my head. I also started wondering what are the numbers are about when I see people go to confession boxes on tv and the priest gives them a number after their confession.

The bible is contradictory on what classifies a sin. You could read the entire thing, and you'd only have a vague idea of what you're supposed to do. For example:

Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side ... and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
-Exodus 32:27

That clearly contradicts many other things, such as:

Thou shalt not kill.
-Exodus 20:13

Which is even in the same book. The "official" list of sins is the ten commandments which can be seen here:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%205&version=31
Do you really need a book to tell you what is good or bad? I'm not Christian, so i might be biased, ;).

The numbers after a confession is the penance(way of making up) for sin, "28 hail Marys" means they have to say "hail mary" or some prayer called hail mary(I'm not sure which) 28 times.

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when you get a hormone test what happens? or like what does the doctor do?

They take blood or urine, depending on the hormone they are testing.

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how do you make your font bold or italics...and can you change your font/font color?? if so please explain.
thanks in advance
xo

In html, the bold tag is the italic is you can change color with . These tags will work on myspace and many other sites. In forums that use BBcode, use [b] for bold, [i] for italics [color=coloryouwant] for color. You can use the buttons in wordpad, MSword, or openoffice for rich text files, doc files, and opendocument files. You can not change font in text only files. On advicenators, answers in your column and description will apply any html tags you have, but answers on the "view answers" page will show the tags and not be formatted.

Examples:
html(for myspace, your personal sites, and many other things)

this text will be boldthis text will be normalitalicthis'll be bluethis will be bold-italic and blue

BBcode(for many forums such as phpBB forums)
[b]thisll be bold[/b]thisll be normal[i]italic[/i][color=blue]thisll be blue[/color]

In word and openoffice, click the down arrow on the underlined A to select color, highlight the text you want colored and click the underlined A. Click the B, I or U for bold, italic, or underlined, respectively. Wordpad is the same, except instead of an underlined A there is a small A with a paint brush.

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whats the most effective was to clean your retainer?

soak it with those denture-cleaning tablets

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i'm a pretty emotional person, and with what i've been going through nowadays, i have emotional breakdowns almost everyday. i write what i'm feeling, but sometimes i feel like it's not enough. i wanna be able to share my feelings with others who might be feeling the same way, and can help me out and stuff. so i was wondering what are some online diary/journal that i can use. please don't say xanga or livejournal. i want it a little more private, but can be seen by other people too. or something similar. please help! i really need it right now

You could start a blog at blogger.com . It's almost impossible for someone to stumble into your blog without you advertising it.

http://www.my-diary.org/ allows you to make your diary private.

You could create diary entries on docs.google.com . these can be accessed anywhere by you, and you can create links to them if you want to share them.

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Im really musical, so I've been thinking of teaching myself guitar. Does anybody know any websites that may help me at all? Like websites that can teach my the basics like 'Mary had a littel lamb?'

http://guitar.about.com/library/blguitarlessonarchive.htm

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I really love short animation and I cant seem to find DVD s anywhere. Asking question on Advicenators is not my easy way (spoon feed me) but my last chance. I got this videos of General Chaos uncensored animation and love them. I ve also seen various every now and then for instance Le Cyclops de la mer and many others.
Where can I find more DVDs and order them? Or maybe even downloaded them online.

Well newgrounds.com has short flash animations. Most aren't near the quality of ones on DVD, but they're alright. Go to collections at newgrounds, and it'll be just like DVD except poorer quality. Maybe you'll find something if you go to
http://btjunkie.org/browse?c=7&o=72
it's a list of the most recent anime torrents on btjunkie.

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i got a small layout from whateverlife and put it on my myspace well i had some pics on my about me from my photobucket acount and some of them are still there however the ones that were thumbnails disappeared and i want them back! what happened?

Photobucket sucks, they have limited bandwidth. That means if too many people see them they disappear. Go to google and search for image hosting, upload to one of the ones on the first page.

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hi, well is asda,the walmart store in england, a public limited company? like where people buy those things, i think my business teacher said the americans call it a corporation or something?? help please... thanks in advance

no, asda is private, you can't buy stocks. However, it's owned by walmart. walmart is public(can buy stocks), so if you buy stock in walmart you indirectly buy them for asda.

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ok... so, on my brothers computer I went to a site, and i got a virus, actually a trojan.... it took me about a week to realize that the reason why I couldn't get rid of the virus... is because it has attached itself to a WINDOWS file... and I do not have access to them... even on the administrator user... sooo... how can I get rid of the virus, my friend told me to get a HEX EDITOR, and I did.... but I don't know how to use one??? it had a lot of blocks... and I can enter numbers... and a symbol will come up on the other side...??? I have no clue wat to do, if anyone has any other simpler way of getting rif of this PLEASE help me...if it helps its C:\WINDOWS\comdlg64.dll is the file that is infected

That's part of a trojan. You'll have to delete it. It will be very difficult. Here's how to get rid of the dll only, though it's very likely the problem will still persist, as this is part of the BraveSentry trojan.
-restart the computer
-after it beeps on startup, hold F8
-at the menu, select safe mode with command line
-log into administrator
-at the prompt type
del /f C:\windows\comdlg64.dll
-if it gave you an error, type these lines, seperatly, one after the other
cd C:\windows
regsvr32 /u comdlg64.dll
rename comdlg64.dll comdlg64.old
del comdlg64.old

Here's how to remove the entire trojan
-be in safe mode w/ command line
-type and press enter to each line of the following list
cd C:\windows
regsvr32 /u bravesentry0.dll
regsvr32 /u bravesentry1.dll
regsvr32 /u bravesentry2.dll
regsvr32 /u bravesentry3.dll
regsvr32 /u comdlg64.dll
regsvr32 /u msupdate32.dll
regsvr32 /u tio[X1].dll
regsvr32 /u winbixnkq32.dll
regsvr32 /u zlbw.dll
-Go into regular safe mode(not just command line) for the rest of this
-go to start, then run, then type regedit and click ok
-doubleclick HKEY_CURRENT_USER then software then rightclick bravesentry and select delete
-remove these entries the same as above:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\bravesentry\scan
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\bravesentry\systemsecurity
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\bravesentry\updates
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\runbravesentry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\bravesentry
BraveSentry
--------------
-go to start>search
-search for the following files. Try to delete exact matches. Some are actual programs you shouldn't delete, if it's in C:\windows\something don't delete it unless you know it's a bad file.
bravesentry.exe
vxgamet[X2].exe
vxh8jkdq[X2].exe
win32.exe
xpupdate.exe
bravesentry0.dll
bravesentry1.dll
bravesentry2.dll
bravesentry3.dll
comdlg64.dll
msupdate32.dll
tio[X1].dll
winbixnkq32.dll
zlbw.dll
alg.exe
kerneles8.exe
maxd64.exe
services.exe
taskdir.exe
voi[X1].exe
vxgame[X2].exe
desktop.html
Explorer 2238
dxvwabxj.exe
BraveSentry
BraveSentry.lnk

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(8th Grade)
I just realized, I have no clue how to study. I'm pretty much an all A student and I've never studied much. But now, test and exams are getting harder and I need to know how to study for high school. Exams are in three weeks and I have no idea how to best study for them! Any tips?

I'm a visual/audio learner if that helps. :/

Personally, I write things I want to remember. I just pick what I want to remember, and I write it down a few times; always does the trick for me.

Some people use flash cards, or make acronyms, or just read things many times.

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hello =)
kayy, i need something funny to read! preferably something online.. an ironic blog, a sarcastic article.. or something like that! but tips on a book would be okay too =) anything like superfuuny! and usually i fin irony + sarcasm really funny.. so anything like that would be awesome! thanks!

http://www.bored.com/categories/funnybone/funnybone.html

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Alright, I'll be waiting in line for this concert for about five hours. I live in San Diego. It's still really cold here at this time. So I'll be waiting in line int he cold. However, once we start getting inside and jumping around on general admission and for those of you who go to rock concerts and knows how crazy and hot it gets...it's going to be the total opposite of the weather outside. Advice on what to wear??

Bring a bunch of hand warmers and put them in your gloves, hat, shoes, and armpits. Bring a light jacket you can put in your pocket, or a disposable poncho(or a few layers of ponchos). You can also cover up with those shiny emergency blanket things(they work in the dark). Jog in place if possible. If you're really getting cold, do math in your head, it raises your heart rate(which'll warm you up) and gets your mind off the cold. You could buy a propane-fueled handheld space heater, they aren't too expensive; you could leave it outside and hope no one steals it.

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For our school we have to do a science fair project. I don't know what topic i should do so does anyone have any suggestions? I need to know asap. Thank you thank you thank you!

run copper wire from a few 9-volts to some water. Hydrogen will come off one end, oxygen off the other(you can tell the difference because there'll be more H). Be careful, when mixed, hydrogen and oxygen is kinda flammable, possible pretty explosive-like. If you capture the bubbles, do so in something not glass, if it ignites the glass will shatter and blind you. If you light the bottom of a container(plastic or something) holding the pure H that comes off, it'll make a clean, steady flame.

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you if you go to a myspace layouts site and or any normal "glitter-textmaker" site you see they write down the htmls.I'd like to put a html code in a box so others can copy and paste it.
I want do this so people can have nice layouts from me.How do I put the html "in a box"
(without the html coming true on MY site, if you understand cant word it!)

Instead of < and > write < and > , respectively so to show the basic layout of html, you'd go:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

To put it in a box you can put it in tags, like this(change background-color for box color and color for text color):


<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>


or in a form, like this(cols and rows change size):


<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>


or with tables, like this:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>


I really enjoy questions like this, so if you need any more help with your site, please ask me.

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im 14 almost 15 a male and im not really sure on how to loose weight. i can't see my doctor because it would have to be the nutritionist and id have to wait till december or january and thats too long. i dont know what to eat because alot of healthy foods don't have much protein so somtimes i have to eat not excatly heathy foods which to me theres no point cuz i'd just gain the weight from the protien foods. and i dont know what excerises help and what would be good for a teenager. what should i do? what foods would be good and what exercises would be good?

You can get a customized food pyramid here: http://www.mypyramid.gov/

If you want to eliminate things with protein, you can take spirulina, a type of algae(which is tasteless in pill form), this will take care of all your protin needs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina for info
Here's some random seller off google:
http://www.herbalremedies.com/17200.html

Any kind of exercise will help you lose weight. However, it's better to jog instead of run and lift light weights many times instead of lifting heavy weights few times. Jogging and swimming are good ways to exercize.

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Does anyone know where I can find Lygaya written out on the internet, in english or french, preferably english.

Are you sure you don't mean ligaya? I found some lyrics for that, I don't think it's French, though.

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I have to write an essay comparing two things, and I cannot think of anything to compare that isn't too general. If anyone can give me original ideas, that would be helpful.=)

liberal/conservative
capitalism/communism
democracy/dictatorship
good/evil
western/eastern hemisphere
state/federal government
Direct current/Alternating current
laptop/desktop

I just thought of those looking around my office.

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Im trying to be somewhat creative for my bf for this christmas (we've been together for well over a yr & a half by this point) so what i do give him i know he'll appreciate!

I've sewed him fleece PJ's, bought him cute boxers, and now i want more creative ideas..


Any other creative idea's (details wanted if possible)

Firstly, I don't specialize in relationship questions. You probably wanted to ask this of everyone, as opposed to just me. You can do that by clicking "get advice" on the upper left.

Here's my advice, though:

I think it was really nice of you to sew the PJs yourself, I'm sure he'll appreciate that. I would recommend you get him something more material, to go along with you're creative stuff; something he can use, not just admire. Maybe a video game, or you could mix a cd, or a movie; something like that. If you really want some nice creative gifts, you could go here: http://www.findgift.com/

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is there a way to purchase things on ebay without using a credit card i absolutely wont put any bank account iformation online.


i also want to know how to get an avon catalog sent to my home ive tried to to the website but have no luck

ebay: you can use your social security # to register, and some sellers will accept cash or check.
avon:
http://sneakykitchen.com/myavon/catalog.htm

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