Society & Culture - 18 August 2006

committed in the name of atheism under atheistic totalitarian regimes like the french revolution, the 3d reich, the soviet-union, cuba, north korea?

2006-08-18 01:41:29 · 42 answers · asked by zorro 2 in Religion & Spirituality

intersting news clips that American never seen on Tv.

http://brasscheck.com/videos/middleeast/me5.html

what do you think of this news clip called " US citizens who say NO" ?

2006-08-18 01:41:02 · 7 answers · asked by commonSense 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 01:39:05 · 7 answers · asked by pojames 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Happy the one who has become like us;
who has become all surrender and contenment;
Who has become the pledge of love and madness;
who has become a jewel in the sea of purity.


As salt resolved in the ocean
I was swallowed in God's sea,
Past faith, past unbelieving,
Past doubt, past certainty.
Suddenly in my bosom
A star shone clear and bright;
All the suns of heaven
Vanished in that star's light


Come, come, whoever you are.
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that

you have built against it.”


Lord, said David, since you do not need us,
why did you create these two worlds?
Reality replied: O prisoner of time,
I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity,
and I wished this treasure to be known,
so I created a mirror: its shining face, the heart;
its darkened back, the world;
The back would please you if you've never seen the face.
Has anyone ever produced a mirror out of mud and straw?
Yet clean away the mud and straw,
and a mirror might be revealed.
Until the juice ferments a while in the cask,
it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright,
you must do a little work.
My King addressed the soul of my flesh:
You return just as you left.
Where are the traces of my gifts?
We know that alchemy transforms copper into gold.
This Sun doesn't want a crown or robe from God's grace.
He is a hat to a hundred bald men,
a covering for ten who were naked.
Jesus sat humbly on the back of a donkey, my child!
How could a zephyr ride an donkey?
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.
Reason, tread the path of selflessness into eternity.
Remember God so much that you are forgotten.
Let the caller and the called disappear;
be lost in the Call.


We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat:
our victory and defeat is from thee, O thou whose qualities are comely!
Who are we, O Thou soul of our souls,
that we should remain in being beside thee?
We and our existences are really non-existence;
thou art the absolute Being which manifests the perishable.
We all are lions, but lions on a banner:
because of the wind they are rushing onward from moment to moment.
Their onward rush is visible, and the wind is unseen:
may that which is unseen not fail from us!
Our wind whereby we are moved and our being are of thy gift;
our whole existence is from thy bringing into being.

2006-08-18 01:38:50 · 9 answers · asked by Afshin A. 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 01:38:44 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

You are probably gonna tell me anyway, I might as well collect them all in the same place...

Love

Ichi

2006-08-18 01:38:22 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i have started a forum for all the punjabi's and sikhs which mainly covers topic which relate to sikhism and all things that associate with it...i wish to make every online punjabi to b part of it... How should i popularize this forum?
the forum link is http://www.forum.amritsarovar.com

2006-08-18 01:38:06 · 3 answers · asked by Funky_leo 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Doesn't this set up a world where everyone thinks they're better than everyone else, and therefore wars and persecution and torture are acceptable to convince someone of the "Truth"

2006-08-18 01:38:01 · 14 answers · asked by schenzy 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Tell me honestly, what lead you to become an Atheist? Please give nice responses for I'm just asking a question and I'd like to know why. Tell me your story or the day you decieded to be an Atheist...or tell me something...nicely but truthfully though.

2006-08-18 01:37:40 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Have a wonderful Friday!! Today is my joy day! I have a fresh pot of coffee, the sun is streaming in my front withdow and all is good. I am hoping all of you find joy in this wonderful day!

2006-08-18 01:37:39 · 16 answers · asked by Miss Vicki 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 01:37:02 · 13 answers · asked by Avantasia11 3 in Languages

If we evolved from homo erectus or whatever, then, at some point, one of these "animals" gave birth to a human that had slightly different DNA, but enough to make it human. So the mother would eventually become wormfood while the baby eventually dies and goes to heaven? Some bible\koran\torah basher please explain.

2006-08-18 01:36:16 · 3 answers · asked by mojawoja 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Are you trying to play judge and convict these askers? Why not just let God deal with them as he will in his own time and leave them be?

2006-08-18 01:33:02 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you". (Ephesians 4:31-32)
What do you think abouy this vers?

2006-08-18 01:32:42 · 14 answers · asked by Princess 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Can someone tell me how the message of Christ has become used to support violence of any kind?

2006-08-18 01:32:35 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why don't they aim their energies toward Wiccans, Muslims, Buddhists, etc? If they're so concerned about pure science, why are they willing to let these groups fluorish in the mainstream and influence schools?

2006-08-18 01:32:19 · 9 answers · asked by chrisbgsu 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 01:31:59 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do you like to lead or are you more confortable being led and why?
What makes you think you have or don't have what it takes to be a leader?

2006-08-18 01:30:47 · 12 answers · asked by Scooby 6 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-18 01:30:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I mean if u look in my profile my age sex and location is all posted in there all u have to do is click on profile duh...

2006-08-18 01:29:53 · 21 answers · asked by angeldreams110 2 in Other - Society & Culture

To all that know what that means,
Just wanted to say be safe this Freya's day and have a good weekend.

2006-08-18 01:29:09 · 8 answers · asked by ? 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 01:28:37 · 12 answers · asked by Wafflebox 5 in Etiquette

if yes, explain and justify.

2006-08-18 01:24:42 · 21 answers · asked by landbaby1 1 in Community Service

**don't u think it's like betraying ur parents who have brought you up well to a good stage stage...comment after thinking about it..
**what do u think about arranged marriage
**discuss the pros and cons of both love and arranged marriage...
**i am talking about cases where u runoff when ur parents don't accept......
**answers from teenagers a must!!!!
**parents-what do u think about it?

2006-08-18 01:24:04 · 12 answers · asked by nagarajanav1988 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Sorry to sound rude but I just don't get it and living in the south have no Muslims to ask.
Why the Peace be upon him rhetoric every time his name is mentioned or typed?
Doesn't thought count?

Thank you

Genuine Inquiry

2006-08-18 01:22:45 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am not getting this...I am asking some profoundly dumb questions that I deserve a good kicking for...but people don't, they just copy and paste huge tracts of the Bible at me...

What is your opinion of people who do this?
What is the opinion of the people that do this?
People who do this, don't do this, do this instead...

Have a thought of your own:
demonstrate one of your God's finest inventions: interlect and reason

2006-08-18 01:22:20 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 01:21:30 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 01:20:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-18 01:20:25 · 14 answers · asked by Clark Kent 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Talking about amendments in tolerance, behavious of Man in todays world.
Money crosses over passion and relationships more than God.

2006-08-18 01:19:59 · 18 answers · asked by raseema 3 in Religion & Spirituality