Society & Culture - 21 August 2006

see this news article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13070896/

I am just curious why athiests deny even the possibility of the spiritual yet are willing to consider the possiblity of there being 10 or 11 dimensions. Isn't that a bit hypocritical?

2006-08-21 04:59:12 · 6 answers · asked by bregweidd 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I have noticed that low class Americans can not effectively distinguish or establish a valuable priority order. I'm black, and I am predominately talking about ghettos (projects, subsidy, etc.) I consider myself a civil rights activist and am encouraged to speak to the masses about creating new, more positive outlets and reconstructing society. I am looking for an approach to uplift and alter the focus of thousands of people, either to help each other or help ourselves establish a stable direction. I want to be influential like Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X who clearly changed people! What is it that I don't understand about a revolutionary movement. Its not about the clothes and cars...its about ghetto mentality and that ritual needs to be broken ASAP for the sake of our future. We need to reconstruct

2006-08-21 04:58:51 · 6 answers · asked by Benny 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I run into so many religious people who have issues involving drugs, alcohol, fidelity, smoking, lying etc. yet they think they have the authority to preach to me and impose on me bible verses to better my world in the guise of wanting to love me as their neighbor.
If you can't and dont know how to love yourself enough to stop abusing yourself to what extent can you love your neighbor?

2006-08-21 04:58:46 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-21 04:58:35 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask
> your
> forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.
> We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil
> good,' but that is exactly what we have done.
> We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed
> our values.
>
> We have exploited the poor and called it the
> lottery.
> We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
> We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
> We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
> We have neglected to discipline our children and
> called it building self esteem.
> We have abused power and called it politics.
> We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and
> called
> it ambition.
> We have polluted the air with profanity and
> pornography and called it freedom of _expression.
> We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our
> forefathers and called it enlightenment.
> Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today;
> cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!"
>

2006-08-21 04:58:21 · 5 answers · asked by Wayne S 3 in Religion & Spirituality

give a describtion of whatr each had on it an whre did they sailed to

2006-08-21 04:57:55 · 23 answers · asked by kyra a 1 in Mythology & Folklore

If you could change your community, would you want it more liberal or conservative socially?

2006-08-21 04:55:56 · 14 answers · asked by anitahooker_transvestite 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-21 04:55:49 · 11 answers · asked by Sarethor 4 in Other - Society & Culture

When I was growing up I was told 2 prime facets of Jesus life:
1. He was fully human and fully divine during his time on earth.
This meant his death paid for our sins.
2. He never once sinned, proving that a sinless life is possible, and
proving Satan wrong.

Here's my question. If Jesus was just a man (no angels, no star, no voice from above) in the exact same household, with the exact same upbringing (as far as scholastic and moral, not the "training to be messiah" part).... would he still have had a sinless life?

If you say yes; then isn't it possible that have there been others who have lived a completely sinless life (discounting original sin, if you believe in that).

If you say no; then aren't you saying that Jesus only had a sinless life because of his divine advantage? What does this prove for the rest of us about living free of sin?

2006-08-21 04:54:11 · 26 answers · asked by Eldritch 5 in Religion & Spirituality

No, I'm not in school anymore.

2006-08-21 04:54:01 · 10 answers · asked by daryl_not_daryl 1 in Religion & Spirituality

let me do it as an excuse? Judging is judging and lets not forget John wrote the passages that stroke the ego and John is not the savior of mankind.

2006-08-21 04:52:45 · 33 answers · asked by shippochan 2 in Religion & Spirituality

If no, why do you believe what's written in an old book that says the same things? What if Fox News tomorrow said "God spoke from the heavens and commanded it to rain." and then they showed a clip of the sky and a booming voice saying "Let it rain." and all of a sudden you saw the sky get dark and it start to rain.... would this be simply them making this up or would it be real?

2006-08-21 04:52:44 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

They were laughing about it and were discussing how to hide the body under a bed in the cement in the ground? I must be going loopy-maybe it's because I am pregnant...I couldn't understand why I wouldn't run away. It was like a was meant to be loyal to my friends and stay and get involved but I knew it was wrong. Past life experience or dodgy hormones?

2006-08-21 04:52:35 · 18 answers · asked by soggyflipflopbrain 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm looking for the machine that enables farts to be seen in the air.
I'm told they wear miniature bow ties?

2006-08-21 04:52:22 · 7 answers · asked by boop 2 in Etiquette

What wrong with picking on the Buddists or Jehovahs Witnesses or the Scientology lot? I mean the Scientologists are barking....yet not enuff people are poking fun at them!

Also, which religious 'group' has the least tolerance for people poking fun at them?

:)

Peace, y'all!

2006-08-21 04:52:09 · 24 answers · asked by Chris M 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-21 04:51:59 · 12 answers · asked by fire 1 in Religion & Spirituality

And seem to prefer persecuting each other. Christian, Atheist, Muslim etc. There seems to be no room for understanding and a live and let live philosophy. Why?

2006-08-21 04:50:24 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-21 04:49:45 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

im 21 and i'm thinking about getting a real job, but then i get really scared like, why do i need all that extra money, my bills can easyily be paid with a retail job but my saving from my last job are gone and i am without work, i don't want to be a greedy person, i don't want to drive or own a car.

i don't want to change and be this evil money lead person, but it would be nice to not have to eat ramen all the time..
i'm so sick of retail it seems so wrong the bosses tell you to make people buy more stuff, (they don't need it)

should i go for this job and get a the money car and lots of meaningless posessions, or should i be poor and not have anything and live i a tent.... this world feels so greedy and wrong

2006-08-21 04:49:43 · 10 answers · asked by 21/f/mn 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I do not condemn. nor do I say it is wrong. I AM MEARLY ASKING.....WHY?
Please do not send a question as an answer. and please do not be aggressive in the answer.

2006-08-21 04:49:35 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

this girl(who sometimes i felt she doesn't like to talk to me because i am from diffrent race )came to say good bye because it was her last day in this job and i just smiled and said goodbye,not shaking hand ,not wishing luck...
ugh,i act like an a...h...
i shouldn't do that,i know that my conscience would kill me, it started nagging me now.

2006-08-21 04:48:56 · 43 answers · asked by me 2 in Etiquette

People are of the belief that Jesus lived his whole life without sin. Are regular non-divine humans able to do this? Is it impossible for us? If so, why is it impossible? What would happen if we could live our whole life without sin?

2006-08-21 04:48:16 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What happened to the wearer or his other shoe??

2006-08-21 04:46:53 · 37 answers · asked by mr_spike432 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Like wicca, witchcraft, lovespells, etc.

2006-08-21 04:45:53 · 20 answers · asked by jrhod263 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I went out to eat with three friends. One of them is obese and another one of my friends who is suppose to have a high IQ, called all heavy people 'fat', right in front of her. I looked at my heavy friend and she looked bothered. Yes, I know she has issues with food, but isn't this a little insensitive?

2006-08-21 04:45:53 · 39 answers · asked by Elizabeth S 3 in Etiquette

If there is a heaven, everyone there doesn't have a care. Yay. If there isn't a heaven and you just cease to exist when you die. Everyone that dies doesn't have a care there either. So really, there is no difference.

Also from the perspective of thinking about someone close to you that has died, does it matter to you whether they are in heaven or just a body in the earth. Do you miss them less or more if they are in one place or another?

2006-08-21 04:43:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

and the vegan had a gun...would they choose to Kill the animal who was ready to attack...or Die because they don't believe that animals should be killed? The animal just wants to eat so is he wrong for wanting to eat a human?

2006-08-21 04:42:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

anything more important that the Bible could communicate?
Why is it ambiguous and contradictory on this subject?

2006-08-21 04:41:19 · 41 answers · asked by Not a happy bunny 4 in Religion & Spirituality

if they love what they lost so much, why are they staying put?

2006-08-21 04:40:12 · 20 answers · asked by kelleygaither2000 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-21 04:40:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality