Society & Culture - 3 September 2006

2006-09-03 04:36:28 · 16 answers · asked by omu v 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-03 04:35:13 · 13 answers · asked by dinqey 2 in Other - Society & Culture

me and my friend were arguing because when he asked what religion i was, i said that i was everything..i beleive that you can be any and all religions that you want to be....even if your not set in those exact ways...i can be christian, buddhist, ans lutheran if i wanted to..whos going to stop me?? whos going to tell me that im "pollitically incorrect"? well i say polliticaly incorrectness can screw itself sideways...yeah....im everything..i just want your opinion...thanks much! ♥

2006-09-03 04:35:06 · 16 answers · asked by Bodhisattva 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-03 04:34:49 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-03 04:33:54 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Snoogy wookums? Smoochy pooh? etc. lol

2006-09-03 04:33:23 · 6 answers · asked by Brian M 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Ok I speak decent spanish, but have trouble with future tense or "will "shall" "should" type of translations seem to not exist? How do you say something like "I will fix that later", or "It should have been done (but wasnt...). Its a GRAMAR question, not translation question. What word and verb form is it? Or is it even a verb?

2006-09-03 04:32:52 · 4 answers · asked by sexy34 3 in Languages

In a previous question, someone announced the words Hail Mary is NOT in the bible, and then announced if it's not in the bible it can't be true. Interesting. Then started a faith bashing tirade.

Gabriel the archangel said in Luke 1:28 "Hail Mary the favorite one, the Lord is with you."

Bashing faiths based upon hatred isn't exactly the best way to make your point. But, it does make you look like a hypocrite.

2006-09-03 04:32:30 · 21 answers · asked by Villain 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Has somebody been pushing you're button's lately, have you got to the point of explosion????

2006-09-03 04:32:21 · 16 answers · asked by Ã?â?¥Ã?ÄPixie Queen~* 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Are they really this cruel? If you don't follow their belief or religion or their disbelief...they go WAYYYYY out of their way to make you feel stupid or call you names like idiot!



I know good people out number bad ones 10-1

Is this low Self-Esteem or some type of deep insecurity...why does that happen?

2006-09-03 04:32:03 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

is that really a selling point? People whinge about people in India taking calls...what are you jealous ..that they are becoming an exonomic power on a par with the west...quit whinging...

2006-09-03 04:31:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

im 16 by the way......

2006-09-03 04:31:34 · 10 answers · asked by rahul 1 in Other - Society & Culture

How do you deal with it?
How do you accept those feelings inside you?
How do you come to terms with it?
Would you change those feeling if you could?
When did you know and how?
When did you come out, if you are?
How did you meet other people like here?
How do you deal with family

2006-09-03 04:31:25 · 14 answers · asked by Raziel 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

If we're all created in god's image and we've been less than...adequate in his eyes. What does that make of him? Is he less than adequate in his eyes? Doesn't that make him a sort of hypocrite for condemning us and changing nothing, and wouldn't that hypocrisy further taint his image? Just a question.

2006-09-03 04:31:14 · 17 answers · asked by Scott 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-03 04:30:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

By homophobia (in this context) I mean actions that harrass, dehumanize, and threaten the lives and well-being of gay men and lesbians.

And if homophobia is a sin, is it good enough to simply ask Jesus for forgiveness, or should some amends be made to the people that have been harmed?

2006-09-03 04:30:29 · 31 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I understand faith. I'm just trying to understand literalism.

2006-09-03 04:30:21 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

there were no clergy, and people were allowed to simply read the Holy book of their choice?

2006-09-03 04:29:47 · 5 answers · asked by toyoyo 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Well it's the 11ism hour, quite frankly when most people get their lazy butts out of bed to go to church.

I used to go to church in the past but I have many issues with various aspects of Christian theology. Most churches, even many of the liberal ones, have an underlining philosophy that Christianity is the only way and ones "salvation" is in question if there is not intellectual adherence to their belief system.

I have tried out other churches like the Universalist Church and the Quaker church but they either tend to be too open ended without enough form, or they have political underpinnings.

2006-09-03 04:29:06 · 24 answers · asked by Love of Truth 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-03 04:28:36 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

but love for the world?

2006-09-03 04:28:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"Be the change you wish to see in the world"
-Gandhi

Peace and Love

2006-09-03 04:27:28 · 15 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Religion & Spirituality

It was our original religion. Why don't we finally break the bonds of patriarchy and get back to Her worship?

2006-09-03 04:27:15 · 16 answers · asked by Isis 7 in Religion & Spirituality

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof: So you believe in God?

Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?

Student: Sure.

Prof: Is God all-powerful?

Student: Yes.

Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hummmm???
(Student is silent.)

Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?

Student: No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?

Student: From...God...

Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?

(Student does not answer.)
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?

Student: Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?

(Student has no answer.)

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?

Student: No, sir.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student: No, sir.

Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, and smelled your

God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student: Yes.

Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof: Yes. Faith! And that is the problem science has.

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof: Yes.

Student: And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof: Yes.

Student: No sir. There isn't.

(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?

Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light.... But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would be able to make darkness - darker, wouldn't you???

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.)

Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?

(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelled it? ....No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable
protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.

Student: That is it, sir... The link between man & god is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive.

That young man was ALBERT EINSTEIN.......

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2006-09-03 04:26:26 · 11 answers · asked by mark48226 1 in Religion & Spirituality

which carrys more wait in the eyes of god

2006-09-03 04:26:00 · 12 answers · asked by gasp 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I understand that being Christian means believing in Christ. But can one not follow the principles of being a good person without following any religion?

2006-09-03 04:25:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Although a muslim turned athiest, the only religious figure i respect and honor is jesus christ.

i dont like the God who sent this gentle and kind jesus to die on a cross.

comments?

2006-09-03 04:25:07 · 27 answers · asked by ahmed 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-03 04:25:01 · 3 answers · asked by MBK 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-03 04:24:03 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

my husband is a Cherokee indian...his great grandfather is still alive and is a medicine man in california.that's just a little background...this is his question: why are black people still so hostile about slavery? it sucks for them true enough...but at least they were allowed to LIVE! Native american indians were exterminated!!!warriors,elders, women, and babies...even their ponies were slaughtered!!! American indians are truely the minority!!!!! black people aren't a minority any more, there's as many blacks now days as whites!and besides...black people were selling their own into slavery! so think about that next time you want to whine about being a minority...try being a native american indian

2006-09-03 04:23:59 · 18 answers · asked by bigmammarush 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups