Society & Culture - 30 August 2006

'Cause your God hasn't been around for quite a while! Is he a bad dad?

2006-08-30 06:35:04 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Isn't this a bit like saying "America is a free country. You can drink whatever you want, but you better drink water or you're under arrest."

2006-08-30 06:34:34 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What if those of us who are regulars here met in real life at a bar and grille, what would happen, we would all introduce ourselves, would we go find our favorite avatar and talk, would we go off into little groups, would it erupt in to a big debate over the finer points of the Bible, would there be a big debate over evolution v creationism, would we notice "heh so and so was just here a minute ago, and where did that one girl whats her name go she was just here, she always answers so and so's questions, oops!"

Would we talk as people, would we hug? Would we say heh its nice meeting you, fun talking to you there on the yahoo answers.

Would we talk about football and baseball playoffs, and senate races around the country, would we talk about wars and rumors of wars in far off places.

Would we all meet at a bar and grill and shake hands and look one another in the eye and say, I respect you and thanks for being apart of my life?

2006-08-30 06:33:09 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-08-30 06:32:42 · 4 answers · asked by pigsilk 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I've noticed on this site that a some posters cringe when a question comes up related to sexual orientation research. Why is that? (I don't always agree with the research, but I do like to hear about what the researchers have to say.)

2006-08-30 06:32:33 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

the research with medicines and others ( such as stem cell )
Lets be real folks. OKay, how many of your parents take arthritis medication, blood pressure medicine, diabetes medication, heart medication? WHY ? If you're against medicine and its research YOU should let those people suffer from their ailments since something or someone had to poked and proded and researched to make the medicines, right?
Oh so its only okay when it doesnt involve humans and embroys?
Before I had my son we thought I was barren and we were gonna have to take drugs. my mother inlaw piped in ( southern baptist ) and was like thats messing with GOD, and I looked at her and I said well stop taking your arthritis medication so you cant walk anymore and then you can feel the pain I feel not being able to have a baby, she shut her mouth quick after that.
Point is, all medicine has been researched and tested in ways that is questionable, so lets stop all testing and research and lets live in pain, right?

2006-08-30 06:32:10 · 6 answers · asked by wilowdreams 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Then why do Chrisitian nations like the US and UK become so militarily involved? I mean, we're worse than the stinking communist for God's sake!

2006-08-30 06:31:57 · 20 answers · asked by Tofu Jesus 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I need to breakup a couple. she stole my man . the problem is that they live in another city, anybody knows some kind of black magic spell,like Vodu or Macunda from Brazil.

2006-08-30 06:31:45 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

What does this stand for?

2006-08-30 06:31:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

A religion? and what do they believe in?

2006-08-30 06:30:38 · 8 answers · asked by Lizzeth 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Greetings all... I would really like to put down to paper exactly what my spiritual beliefs are, both as a record of my spiritual path for myself, but as something to pass onto my children later in life. I can't figure out what exactly constitutes the main tentants of a religion (i.e. 'what you believe about the afterlife' and 'what are your concepts and perceptions of what 'God' is?'....) Does anyone have any ideas just for the outline of an essay of this nature, and what I should include in it? I don't want to leave anything important out... has anyone else ever done this?

Blessings and Light!

~RW

2006-08-30 06:30:28 · 5 answers · asked by Phoenix's Mommy 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Atheists keep saying that religion is evil and dangerous, that religion is the cause of many wars--if not all wars. Atheists seem to have a particular dislike of Christianity. Islam comes in for a lot of atheist criticism too. But Christianity and Islam are heirs to Judaism.

Do atheists blame the Jews for the vast majority of evil in today's world?

2006-08-30 06:30:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

after all you think he is the one and only God. Then why can't he make all the people believe in him? Why allow religious wars?

Or is 'Satan' THAT powerful enough to make SO MUCH non-believers? And God just sits there powerless?

2006-08-30 06:28:30 · 30 answers · asked by BiCUBIC 2 in Religion & Spirituality

eg- Star Hobbies, Hobby Center
I mean it should have word Hobby

2006-08-30 06:27:56 · 10 answers · asked by Sakina 3 in Other - Society & Culture

When forced into a corner, evolutionists resort to the claim "Even if scientific discoveries do not confirm the theory of evolution today, such developments will take place in the future." The basic starting point here is evolutionists' admission of defeat in the scientific arena. Reading between the lines, we can translate as follows: "Yes, we defenders of the theory of evolution admit that the discoveries of modern science do not support us. For that reason, we can see no alternative but to refer the matter to the future."
Yet science does not function by such logic. A scientist does not first of all blindly devote himself to a theory, hoping that one day the evidence to prove that theory will emerge. Science examines the available evidence and draws conclusions from it. That is why scientists should accept the "design," or the fact of creation in other words, which scientific discoveries have proved.

2006-08-30 06:27:30 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have never been abroad but I know americans are stero-typed as fat, ignorant and are generally not well liked. what can we do, as individuals ,to debunk this stero-type when traveling to your country? this question is not for americans.

2006-08-30 06:26:40 · 22 answers · asked by Crazy dog lady 3 in Other - Society & Culture

In fact, people hardened in wickedness could take real comfort in the thought that they would simply cease to exist at death rather than having to answer to God for their sins. What must surely have consoled Adolf Hitler as he saw the inevitability of the German defeat was that he could annihilate himself as a center of consciousness by committing suicide just before the Russians overran his bunker in Berlin; he must have scoffed at the idea of ever having to answer before God for the millions he had had killed, and to be punished accordingly. So his certainty of annihilation must have made it easier for him to carry on his wickedness. Nor can any of us justifiably classify as "terrible" the non-existent state in which all of us were for the countless ages before our births; though without any center of consciousness, no one remembers that time as at all undesirable.

2006-08-30 06:26:32 · 15 answers · asked by curious_inquisitor 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Why don't you get it yourself!!!

OR

sure darling!

what's your answer gonna be? where are you from?

2006-08-30 06:26:09 · 19 answers · asked by answer@yahoo 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I get disgusted by all the "wanna hook up" crap and the illiterate fools who can't find spell check on their computer. also, i'd rather see an avatar than an uploaded pic of someone's nasty butt. Clean it up, obtain a breif knowledge of the English language, then come back and ask your stupid questions.

2006-08-30 06:25:05 · 14 answers · asked by green-eyed monster 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Where this difference comes from ?
Example :
Moses : Moshe !

2006-08-30 06:23:54 · 10 answers · asked by citizen high 6 in Languages

i need 2 kno something so tell me if u are...

2006-08-30 06:22:21 · 7 answers · asked by wish i could have my navy man 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I live in downtown chicago and you literally can't go anywhere without running into a beggar, i would always just give but maybe life made me cynical and having to work my *** off for everything i do have makes me look at them like , **** you i worked for this and all you do is stand there and beg and then when i think about how many people pass there way in places like downtown and how if they get my dollar and 700 other peoples dollars, they end up with more money at the end of the day than i have and that pisses me off, but i just read somebody post about how jesus says to give to beggars and give to borrowers so now i'm confused should i feel bad for not adding to these people's daily bankrolls anymore or just keep giving to be christian like?

2006-08-30 06:22:16 · 14 answers · asked by princesstheruler 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Kids are so fat and lazy today. If you want to decrease the rate of obesity, kick the kids off the computer and Xbox and make them play outside. Man. it is so annoying and sad.

2006-08-30 06:22:15 · 14 answers · asked by Aaronkun 3 in Other - Society & Culture

my means "shining light"- jelena.

2006-08-30 06:22:04 · 8 answers · asked by momita 4 in Other - Society & Culture

This has been a problem for over a decade and I've never known why,but it's embarrassing.I really thought getting baptised 3 months ago would do the trick-but it hasn't.Any followers of Christ out there help me?

2006-08-30 06:21:58 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The welfare abusers, the junkies, the people who use other people. People who abuse the system. How can we get these people off the program and make them NOT exist?

2006-08-30 06:21:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2006-08-30 06:21:37 · 2 answers · asked by ladyarwen4ever 1 in Other - Society & Culture

The thing is embryonic stem cell research has the potential to cure many dbilitating diseases. However, many people oppose it because it destroys human embryos. Thousands of these embryos are disposed of, wasted and killed every day when they could be used to change some poor persons life. It seems like a very cruel thing to do, to me its akin to a vegetarian standing in front of a starving man and throwing out slabs of meat rather than feed him because it is against their beliefs. Please rethink this, you are condemning people to a life of suffering so you can protect something that is going to die anyway. All I want to know is: Why?

2006-08-30 06:20:36 · 22 answers · asked by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 in Religion & Spirituality

very often when debating homosexuality and the bible. When I see the rare tv show where the issue is challenged, Leviticus is always brought up . Its clear as day in the New testament. Has any Christian noticed this? Why not go to this chapter?

2006-08-30 06:20:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Last night I had a detailed dream that my dog who I had to put to sleep in May (he was 15 and could no longer walk due to arthritis) and my aunt's old cats that were around when I was a kid just appeared out of nowhere to me. I remember hugging my dog so hard...it was wierd, but comforting.

Can anyone relate?

2006-08-30 06:19:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality