Society & Culture - 8 July 2006

some intellectual answers. I was raised Catholic, changed to Episcopalian (yes, similar) -- both of which are Christian groups. I am 48 years old. I believe in God/Jesus because I was TAUGHT that is what I should do. Ok, so there are a LOT of religions out there - different beliefs, different "BOOKS" (like the bible) and others believe different. I know a person who "studys religion" meaning EVERY religion and he gets a little out of all of that and does not belong to any particular church. Don't you think that is smart? I do. For the Christians out there, why do you believe in the Bible alone when there are SO MANY "writings" that exist in the world? If you were raised Jewish, you would believe in the Jewish faith. Correct? So we believe in what we are taught - the way WE were raised. If your answer is "because that is what the Bible says" THEN WHY don't you open your mind to see what the other "books" say? You would possibly change your thoughts on certain things. (Terrorism aside)

2006-07-08 08:28:00 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

sometimes i feel bad for throwing away food that some country out there doesnt even get that much a day.. what more can U.S do to aid african nations

2006-07-08 08:27:17 · 13 answers · asked by Sad Monkey 3 in Other - Society & Culture

I totally want to know the ethnic background of this girl that I saw at the government agency today. She is sittin' next to me and I noticed she marked "Asian/Pacific Islander" on the survery anyway tho I know for sure she is 100% not asian. I swear she has a long brown blondish hair and green eyes whitish tanned skin and she does not have that common asian eyes. She was holding a green foreign passport that says "PILPINAS PASAPORTE" and her last name is Casillas. I memorized it lol but I wonder where on earth did she come from? maybe Mexico because the pasaporte word sounds spanish to me What country is that? I'm suppose to ask her but she wasn't talking in english with her companion i guess anyway I'll wait for answers.

2006-07-08 08:27:08 · 14 answers · asked by keishagirl23 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-08 08:26:13 · 3 answers · asked by sonnyboy1219 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I saw that Chappelle Show skit...how about something diffrent?

2006-07-08 08:25:56 · 47 answers · asked by Armi 1 in Etiquette

Well, there are a few other question about afterlife on here, but I'd like to ask one of my own. For information, I myself am agnostic. However, I have one friend who calls himself a "militant atheist" and another who is a Christian. We were discussing an afterlife, and the atheist pointed out that people want to believe in an afterlife because it is comforting to them; it is frightening to believe that nothing happens after you die. It's better to believe that you will have this wonderful eternal existence with all of your loved ones after life. My Christian friend basically agreed with this, and said that it was comforting for her to believe that after she dies, she'll be with her family again, etc.

My main question is: what is so scary about just dying? Personally, I'd be more frightened to believe in an afterlife because there's the chance of not going to heaven. But in any case, I don't understand why people want so badly to believe their is "life after death"?

2006-07-08 08:25:38 · 17 answers · asked by maypoledancer 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:24:51 · 4 answers · asked by catsmeow 1 in Languages

religious?

Why?

2006-07-08 08:24:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:24:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I miss feeling close to God-what can I do to finally shake off my old bad habits/backsliding?

2006-07-08 08:23:27 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:23:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am curious to what people think it means to Live Life in Truth. I know what it means to me. I would like to share my opinion but I feel that may influence the direction or thought path that one will take when asking themselves this.

I wish you all well and challenge each and evey person to Life Life in Truth! Our words and actions are like drops of water, they have profound ripples that travel great distances. Many times effecting people we dont even know in ways we are never aware of.

The world could use a few more people living in truth, can you imagine what the world would be like if we all did?

God Bless.

2006-07-08 08:22:33 · 12 answers · asked by Brent G 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I believe you can achieve heaven right now while you're on Earth. It's progressing your spirit and soul to higher levels of consciousness through state of mind. Universal laws teach us about life, many factors of physics imply this. I believe in God and I believe in the science of it. The science is never taught in the Bible. The science of it can't be denied, God's word can't be denied either. I believe in both. God made science! Anyone agree with this philosophy?

2006-07-08 08:22:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have done a lot of thinking and i am still thinking if God realy exists.I have come to a concluzion that he is a person that people mede up a long time ago to make them selfes fell safer.I say that God is mans imaginary friend.
What do you think of God ?

2006-07-08 08:22:10 · 23 answers · asked by danut g 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:22:06 · 8 answers · asked by Wade F 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I am trying. I am the man. My emotions are the battlefield. My perceptions are omniscience. I live within the broken eggshell of childhood dreams and that is NoYuuk! My life is a testament. (My sub-conscious mind is enslaved, while my conscious mind battles on)

2006-07-08 08:22:05 · 8 answers · asked by Lucas Brown 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-07-08 08:21:15 · 15 answers · asked by shane m 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:21:00 · 7 answers · asked by Atticus 2 in Other - Society & Culture

It would seem that God the Father and Jesus Christ are two separate Beings--even the prophet Stephen saw Christ and His Father standing next to each other (with Christ on the right) when he was stoned to death as a martyr (Acts 7:55-56).

2006-07-08 08:20:53 · 31 answers · asked by pacard 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:20:50 · 8 answers · asked by tanya_63735 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2006-07-08 08:20:46 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:20:45 · 12 answers · asked by yo 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:20:29 · 1 answers · asked by twix_soccerman 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I was once told that the odds of Evolution occuring were roughly the equivalent of placing a watchin in a bag, nailing it w/ a hammer, and after shaking the bag a million times, one shake would place all the pieces back together in their original watch format. There is no doubt these are very small odds, but the question is, what origin belief do you subscribe to? Evolution? Creationism(Intelligent Design)? or Panspermia (the belief that life on earth is the result of an extraterrestrial meteor carrying single celled organisms crash landing in the primordial soup, thus evolving into us)?

2006-07-08 08:20:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If you believe a species can make a series of small evolutionary changes, what prevents those steps, other than God preventing it, from potentially turning into a major (macro) evolutionary change?
The only rational conclusion I can come up with is that either God has a problem with macroevolution and prevents what would otherwise happen or Man has a problem with the implications of it (ie. man from monkey) and thus denies it.
Did I answer my own question? Or are there other thoughts.

2006-07-08 08:20:04 · 5 answers · asked by Helt2 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:19:07 · 3 answers · asked by Kenny ♣ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:17:34 · 16 answers · asked by Asian Cutie 4 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-08 08:17:09 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Can God communicate with people through premenitions, other people, and mostly in dreams?

2006-07-08 08:17:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-07-08 08:16:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality