Society & Culture - 17 August 2006

Serious answers only please...no mocking

2006-08-17 10:47:29 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-17 10:45:28 · 59 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-17 10:45:25 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

For the sake of argument, let us suppose that this perfect God did create the universe. Humans were the crown of his creation, since they were created in God's image and have the ability to make decisions. However, these humans spoiled the original perfection by choosing to disobey God.

What? If something is perfect, nothing imperfect can come from it. Someone once said that bad fruit cannot come from a good tree, and yet this "perfect" God created a "perfect" universe which was rendered imperfect by the "perfect" humans. The ultimate source of imperfection is God. What is perfect cannot become imperfect, so humans must have been created imperfect. What is perfect cannot create anything imperfect, so God must be imperfect to have created these imperfect humans. A perfect God who creates imperfect humans is impossible.

2006-08-17 10:44:15 · 11 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-17 10:43:03 · 8 answers · asked by Raymond 6 in Other - Society & Culture

i love my boyfriend of two years but we fight so much over stupid things. we never used to fight so much. we fight about everything and we are supposed to move in together tomorrow. we live in his parents house right now but we have to move out, and we found a place but how are we supposed to live together if we always have something to fight about.

2006-08-17 10:42:45 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

If God was all that existed back then, what disturbed the eternal equilibrium and compelled him to create? Was he bored? Was he lonely? God is supposed to be perfect. If something is perfect, it is complete--it needs nothing else. We humans engage in activities because we are pursuing that elusive perfection, because there is disequilibrium caused by a difference between what we are and what we want to be. If God is perfect, there can be no disequilibrium. There is nothing he needs, nothing he desires, and nothing he must or will do. A God who is perfect does nothing except exist. A perfect creator God is impossible.

2006-08-17 10:41:11 · 21 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Before you say people do: How can people in the material world physically create a spiritual realm?
Isn't the only creator God?, especially on such a grand spiritual scale.........
If most people are going to hell like it says in the bible, God must have always known this, so what's the point? so when did he create hell, then or in the future on judgement day?

2006-08-17 10:40:59 · 67 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-17 10:40:43 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

How much do our occupations really say about us? I feel very little. Yet in the UK people on TV (eg quiz shows) are always introduced by their job. "I'm Mabel, I'm 37 and I'm an office worker." Am I the only person who objects to this and feels it's meaningless?

2006-08-17 10:40:21 · 15 answers · asked by filmwatcher59 4 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-17 10:38:56 · 17 answers · asked by jasp_chile 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-08-17 10:38:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tilton
Does anyone from the Dallas area remember him? I heard that they finally tore Word of Faith down. Did you know he has started a new church in Florida? Is this guy following me around or what? At the top of his ministry he was making over 80 million dollars a year. Wow! The Jesus business must be pretty good.

2006-08-17 10:38:24 · 9 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Or at least, what has been your meaning of life if you don't want to generalize?

2006-08-17 10:38:12 · 19 answers · asked by MariaOne 2 in Religion & Spirituality

ever notice, how most religions have special observances that their followers must obey? Some examples The Sacrament, Baptism, Circumcisions, special head wear, wearing special clothing, carrying special items etc. This is all promulgated to make one feel apart or special. I have a special relationship with God because I ______________ fill in the blank. The first step of brain washing is to get you to think you are special in some way. If I can get you to mutilate your children in the name of God, (by circumcision) I can get you to do just about anything in the name of God. This technique is also used by governments and political organizations all over the planet. The Nazis and Communists used this technique very effectively during WWII era. Is it possible that a special group has you in its clutches?

2006-08-17 10:38:05 · 6 answers · asked by Paul S 3 in Religion & Spirituality

What is this kind of God all about? Likes animal sacrifice and sprinkling of blood..., sent himself/son down to kill himself/son as a human sacrifice although, we are all born into sin, still, so Satan always has the better advantage of winning your soul, then they duke it out in some soul winning game seemingly, he lets horrifying atrocities happen constantly with countless prayers unaswered and then it's always 'his will' no matter what, then in the end, most of the people he knew were to be created burn in his created hell anyway........what kind of God is this anyway?

2006-08-17 10:37:39 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-17 10:37:22 · 15 answers · asked by dave the rave 1 in Community Service

2006-08-17 10:35:15 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

...would you worship me as your only true saviour?

2006-08-17 10:34:11 · 5 answers · asked by mathewthere 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I personally view myself as very open minded to all ideas. I consider everything I have read about a certain subject and the proofs I seen and make a judgement from there. And even then I am still willing the question these judgements.

That is how I eventually converted to Isalm, my faith, what I believe to be the truth faith. But, does that make me closed minded?

2006-08-17 10:34:00 · 11 answers · asked by WhiteHat 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I know alot of people did bad stuff then but they didn't brag about it and it wasn't accepted by society as normal. That decade was a family decade with married parents, stay at home mothers, safer neighborhoods, obedient children (or at least they feared what would happen to them if they disobeyed parents or authority figures). There were a few issues at that time but nothing as serious as what we face today. I would gladly trade todays modern gadgets for a safe neighborhood where I could walk down the street in the daytime without some thug harrassing me.

2006-08-17 10:32:50 · 39 answers · asked by reallyfedup 5 in Other - Society & Culture

Democracy allows for something like this to happen. Is there any way to prevent POPULAR BAD IDEAS from making it to places of power?

2006-08-17 10:32:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-17 10:32:31 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

Which tells us that this concept was around before the existence of the laws of Moses. Given that this simple concept has been proven by science (every action causes and equal and opposite reaction) why refute it?

2006-08-17 10:32:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
by Roy A. Rappaport

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521296900/sr=8-1/qid=1155850147/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4601281-6516967?ie=UTF8

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
by Pascal Boyer

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465006965/sr=8-1/qid=1155850245/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4601281-6516967?ie=UTF8

2006-08-17 10:31:58 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

PS. if you answered my last 2 questions I don't plan on killing myself, But I am depressed as hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-08-17 10:30:51 · 14 answers · asked by ღ♡♥Alexis♥♡ღ 2 in Religion & Spirituality

okay.. I used to work with this japanese guy and on his arm, in japanese characters, it translated to "Japanese Pride." Now... I know of a couple people that have "Mexican Pride" or even "Brown Pride" tatooed on them Why is it when a White guy gets a tatoo that says "White Pride" he's automatically considered a racist?

2006-08-17 10:29:37 · 18 answers · asked by VetteLeo 6 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-17 10:29:10 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

does anyone kno this story, i always hear his name pop up, but i cant find any info..does anyone kno?

2006-08-17 10:28:52 · 5 answers · asked by chrismango13 3 in Other - Society & Culture

racist to a certain race? look at ur own race and everything it has done. now do u feel ur race is any better then another? i could point out things that ive seen different races do, even whites (im white) and none of it is right. before u judge someone elses race look at ur own first.

2006-08-17 10:28:37 · 2 answers · asked by emilybailey1980 3 in Other - Society & Culture