Society & Culture - 24 August 2006

Once again and hopefully, the last time I'm gonna bring this up.
I stopped attending my church for almost a month now. And since only 3-4 persons would follow up on me at least once a week, and the rest do not care at all, my heart has grown even the hardest, the last string of attachment to them has snapped.
Question: Do I go back to "that same house of God"? Do I look for another? Or do I join the world now?
I've really slided.. down so deep.

2006-08-24 04:25:21 · 21 answers · asked by Muffin 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Imagine for a minute that you are a railroad engineer. Every day you have to wait a switch point and switch the tracks so the train doesn't crash. One day your only child comes to work with you, and plays near the gears that switch the tracks. All of a sudden your child falls into the gears. Just as you rush to save your child, you hear the whistle of the approaching train loaded with lots of people. You do not have time to save your child and switch the tracks. If you switch the tracks now your child will be killed. If you don't switch the tracks now all the people on the train will be killed.
What do you do?

2006-08-24 04:25:12 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How do we know the Greeks or the Romans or the Native American Gods weren't the correct ones to worship? How do we know there is only one God? Where is the proof?

2006-08-24 04:24:43 · 22 answers · asked by jxt299 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Of course not all Americans are this way. However it is true that populations of countries do contain certain attributes (as a whole sample - not every person being this way).

That being the case I have lived on four continents and have observed that America contains an unusually high proportion of superficial, ego-centric and what you might term 'false' people.

They generally also have much less interest in the arts, higher culture, world history and what you might call 'general intellectual knowldge'. Classic texts for example are valued much less than in other parts of the world.

Why do people feel this is?

2006-08-24 04:23:44 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I have been visiting this site for many months now.
Yet, of all those I see who profess to know the ways of Witchcraft or Occult knowledge from other sources, I have still to find ONE person who actually knows the correct manner in which the rule of "threefold" works.

Obviously, the person to give me the right answer, or close to it, gets the points for their effort.

A hint to those who claim to know:
The belief that every action has a "threefold reaction", ie: any spell cast returns threefold, is incorrect.

Please explain in as much detail as you feel necessary, to allow me to fully understand the reasonings for your answer, thank you.

2006-08-24 04:22:53 · 17 answers · asked by googlywotsit 5 in Mythology & Folklore

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First of all the soul is never born, nor does it die. The soul is that spark of divinity which is in each and everyone of us. That divinity (God), always existed and since we ARE the soul, then we too, always did exist and, will never cease to exist.
And just so that you know, you are not the body that have a soul, but rather, you are that soul that has a body.
This body is just the vehicle we use to get us through life.
The body dies, but the soul moves on.

2006-08-24 04:22:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Witchcraft has a demoralizing effect, and this is clearly visible in our strange, present society. Recent studies have shown that thirty-six percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 have at least one tattoo. Witches have set the trend for this, but Leviticus 19:28 forbids tattoos. It is also true that many witches make their money as prostitutes. Sexual sins are plaguing our nation as never before, because it is a spiritual problem. During the time of the witches’ sabat of Midsummer, or the third week of June, Los Angeles, California, hosted an erotica convention, which drew 50,000 participants who attended a series of sex seminars where they were taught techniques in perversion, and many were prepared to audition for forthcoming porno movies." Perhaps Christianity has fallen out of disfavor in your church for reasons you aren't cognizant of??

http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/2006/August2006.html

2006-08-24 04:21:52 · 31 answers · asked by jeeveswantstoknow 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Can people who reject this think rationally?
Can them?

2006-08-24 04:21:42 · 22 answers · asked by marhadiasa_k 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-24 04:21:05 · 11 answers · asked by kez 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-24 04:20:41 · 13 answers · asked by zorro 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2 Children, two divorces, work intermittent, not cash rich, rented property, hardly any friends to speak of; maybe it's because I have led such a transient life?

2006-08-24 04:20:04 · 12 answers · asked by Blessed 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Do you believe that the discovery of the Book of Judas, that contradicts centuries of Catholic Church dogma, was downplayed and the relevance of the contents supressed, in order for the church to maintain its spiritual dominion over its members?

2006-08-24 04:19:51 · 14 answers · asked by drumrb0y 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Peace and Love

2006-08-24 04:18:36 · 15 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Were they always seperate and whats some differences?

2006-08-24 04:17:53 · 8 answers · asked by akjdsgflu 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Women have the choice in the end wether to get an abortion or not. Men don't have that choice, they may give input but the woman decides in the end. If a woman decides to abort, it's her decision no matter how much the man would want the child. So he looses, but if she decides to keep the child, no matter how much the man doesn't want it, he pays child support, no matter what.

Ok so let's say this propousal would give the men in these situations a choice, if the woman wants to keep the baby, the man could opt. to not want it, all he would have to do would be sign a legal document and he has nothing to do with the unborn and doesn't have to pay child support. This will equal out the fact that if a woman doesn't want it and the man does, that doesn't matter and she could just abort it.

Would you support this propousal?

2006-08-24 04:17:51 · 7 answers · asked by Enterrador 2 in Other - Society & Culture

what do u like about jamaica.if u never been there do u want to go there?this is what i think sunning people food is wonderful and a lot more. u would have to be trust me they would say "sound de big thing dem " any body ever see the dutty wine trie it.

2006-08-24 04:17:50 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Holidays

2006-08-24 04:17:49 · 11 answers · asked by Olivia 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-24 04:17:29 · 10 answers · asked by iloveyoutoo 1 in Religion & Spirituality

HE IS VERY VERY SICK

2006-08-24 04:16:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I dont have spanish speaking friends....

2006-08-24 04:16:32 · 20 answers · asked by darkvale 3 in Languages

I'm a committed Christian and yet i am scared to go to Church on my own. My family are aetheists and so i don't want to drag them through what would be hell for them, and yet i don't want to be judged by anyone else there. What i really want is to go to Church when its empty...is that a bad thing?

2006-08-24 04:16:28 · 57 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

As a former Catholic, I have noticed a lot of weird beliefs regarding Catholicism. I think one chick was trying to say they don't follow the Bible. I agree that it has incorporated a lot more ceremony, pomp and circumstance, and (the Catholics I know) don't call themselves Christian (they are Catholic). So what are some of the "strange" things you see in Catholicism compared to other Christian denominations? [Belief in a God aside.] Or what misconceptions would you like to clear up?

2006-08-24 04:16:23 · 12 answers · asked by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-24 04:15:45 · 6 answers · asked by Olivia 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Allot of my black friends refuse to have a white or a Hispanics professor because in the past they did and all of them failed that class taught by a white or Hispanics teachers. Some of my Hispanics classmates refuse to take a class taught by blacks or a white teacher. They say it easier for them to pass a class taught by a Hispanic person than a class taught by a white or a black teacher. Same thing goes for my white friends and classmates. I promised myself not to take a professor with a PhD degree because my English and math teachers made us to work our *** off by giving too many assignments and test. I prefer to go with black professor than a white professor because I always failed their class. Out of 9 classes I had taken taught by a white teacher, I only passed 5 but I never failed any class taught by a black teacher.

2006-08-24 04:15:37 · 12 answers · asked by WEEDG 3 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-24 04:15:16 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

You know - stories, emails, hoaxes, etc. Let's see what kind of a list we can generate!

Thanks!

2006-08-24 04:13:33 · 13 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-24 04:13:08 · 11 answers · asked by Olivia 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Exodus 21:2-6 (New International Version) 2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. Also 3,4,5… & 6 Then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life. Also: Exodus 21:7-11, Exodus 21:32, Deuteronomy 20:13-14, Leviticus 25:44-46, Deuteronomy 15:16-17, Deuteronomy 20:13-14, Joel 3:8, Matthew 8:5-13, Matthew 10:24-25, Luke 19:11-27, John 13:16, Ephesians 6:5, Colossians 3:22, Colossians 4:1, I Timothy 6:1, Titus 2:9-10… Commandment Ten "Neither shall you desire your neighbor's house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." Even in the new testiment Jesus ignores it and never adresses the issue. Where is here any reference to slavery being opposed?

2006-08-24 04:11:47 · 20 answers · asked by skimadbeach 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I think its great Im against abortion so I think it is just the most perfect thing if you have an accident! Dont you?

Plan be is a pill that you can take if you have unprotected sex and it will prevent you from getting pregnant! Plan A should be a condom and plan C is usually an abortion

I dont support unprotected sex I would encourage any girl to pactice abstanance but the truth is they dont and they do get pregnant and maybe Im wrong but I think Preventing a pregnancy a few days after sex is far better than waiting three months when the baby has a heart and is truly a little person. Its not right and I dont believe I would ever have a need for it but I would encourage any woman who could be pregnant and doesnt want it to hurry and get this before another baby has to die! It doesnt prevent Aids or any other STD thats why everyone SHOULD use protection!!

2006-08-24 04:11:35 · 11 answers · asked by dreamgirl4myboy 4 in Other - Society & Culture

This is a universal truth, to fight the good fight. In the words of Sailor Moon(kudos if you know that one), I fight for Love! What do you fight for? Thanks all ♥

2006-08-24 04:11:08 · 22 answers · asked by ♥ Luveniar♫ 7 in Religion & Spirituality