Society & Culture - 5 September 2006

Some early Christians, most notably the Gnostics believed the crucifixion of Christ was actually a gigantic fraud, an illusion perpetrated by Jesus who actually stood off to the side laughing while Simon of Cyrene died in his place.

How did Simon die? Where did he go?

2006-09-05 07:41:52 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

There are real psychics in the world and no, they are not evil, demon possessed or deluding themselves and others. Seems that the extremists on either end of the religious spectrum react violently to psychics. Why is that?

2006-09-05 07:41:18 · 30 answers · asked by a_delphic_oracle 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Cant you see that God can only cure illness. Man can only treat. Mankind is busy inventing names for trivial behavioral traits and finding drugs for them!!!!! LOL. This is a true sign that we have definitely lost the vision.

2006-09-05 07:41:17 · 12 answers · asked by icyhott4urmind 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-05 07:41:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I believe in God, and believe in Jesus Christ as not just a great teacher but an incarnation of God. However, I think that the Bible is full of many things, including truth, but also fables, personal accounts, writers' opinions, mythology, etc. I am an intellectual and analytical and cannot, no matter how hard I try, take the Bible as literal truth and instruction, and I don't believe that God intended it as such (a fable or myth can be God-breathed and useful for teaching, correction, etc.).

I feel a call to be Christian and would like your opinion as to whether you think this is possible. I take the Bible seriously, but not literally, reading it in the context of history, other texts, and my own interpretations. I don't think God would want me to sacrifice my brain to believe in Him. (I'm not implying Christians are stupid - I am remembering years in Bible studies when my questions were discouraged, I was told to stop reading non-Christian books, punished for my "doubt," etc.)

2006-09-05 07:40:31 · 49 answers · asked by LisaT 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-05 07:40:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Does anyone know the address?

2006-09-05 07:39:47 · 4 answers · asked by bme79 3 in Community Service

I'm an active, single Dad. And, I admire women. I like legs and skirts; that will turn my head.
However, when women dress deliberately provacative, I don't admire, it turns me off.
For example: I was grocery shopping with my daughter. As we were turning from one aisle to another, there were two young women standing there. Both relatively attractive. What caused me to laugh was, one of them was not only a fake&bake, she had on this pair of pink shorts about 3 sizes too small.
Obviously dressing for attention, but I don't find that look appealing. I like women dressing hot, but this was ridiculous.
What say you?

2006-09-05 07:39:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Like don't just say Christian, say Catholic or Lutheran or Baptist or whatever specifics you can get...?

2006-09-05 07:39:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I do.

2006-09-05 07:39:05 · 9 answers · asked by starfisher 1 in Religion & Spirituality

....want to hang around for all eternity with someone worse than Jeffrey Dahmer or Adolf Hitler -- a deity who tortures untold billions of people, not just to death, but forever and ever? Would you really be happy or comfortable in heaven, knowing that those uncountable multitudes -- perhaps even some of your friends and loved ones -- will suffer torment without end, for no other reason than His whim?

And if you WOULD be able to enjoy yourself -- if you're really THAT lacking in compassion or empathy for your fellow human beings -- do you really think you're going to make it into heaven?

2006-09-05 07:38:08 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

neighbourhood wardens

2006-09-05 07:37:58 · 4 answers · asked by Emma F 1 in Community Service

2006-09-05 07:37:34 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2006-09-05 07:36:37 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

"For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not
thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to
adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas how rarely.
Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental
health are in perfection. And at those weird points of time, where the
confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I
captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem, is but a dream within
a dream."

2006-09-05 07:36:31 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

people always seem to want some credit for their good deeds beyond a simple thank you.i was always taught that true charity should be anonymous.

2006-09-05 07:36:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I see a lot of questions refering to Fundamentalism or fundamentalists. What is your definition of fundamentalism? Are fundamentalists by your definition people who think it's their way or the highway and the only people who are good, "God-fearing" people believe as they do? If so, what's the difference between this belief and some religion who says "give me your right to choose and I will guarantee you will get to heaven."?

2006-09-05 07:35:54 · 5 answers · asked by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-05 07:34:53 · 33 answers · asked by Thundercat 7 in Religion & Spirituality

When my grandmother was 27 years old, she decided to devote all of her time to helping other people. she worked at a pre-school in the poorer areas of North Long Beach without pay to help single parents and low income families. Any small amount of money she did get she ending up giving to the preschool to help the children or to the Church. She believed it was God's calling, and she was always happy with her life and never passed up the opportunity to help another person. i believe she is a model christian and i have the utmost respect for what she has accomplished.

nowadays, i see many christians on yahoo answers, such as whynotaskdon, preaching hate and damning others who do not believe in God. yet, i see no kindness to other people. i ask all of you, what makes you think you deserve salvation? what do you do each day to spread God's love?

2006-09-05 07:34:41 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

that you could have walked and talked with are LORD JESUS when he walked the earth?

2006-09-05 07:34:13 · 8 answers · asked by bassetluv 4 in Religion & Spirituality

What should I do?

2006-09-05 07:33:16 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

I would like to know if their is a good chance that the girl could have a miscarriage?

2006-09-05 07:32:04 · 5 answers · asked by Edeline A 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I have a young niece who was born with a birth defect that made one arm shorter than the other, with the shorter arm also missing a thumb. I constantly see kids approaching her and flat out staring at her and asking inappropriate questions. One little girl actually stood there and counted my niece's fingers and felt the need to point out the shortage. It bothers me to witness these things. My niece seems to take it in stride but sometimes I wish I could really tell these children they are being rude. What is the best approach?
Many times these kids' parents are also there and the parents never bother to correct them. What to do?

2006-09-05 07:31:22 · 16 answers · asked by Kimmy 4 in Etiquette

2006-09-05 07:30:41 · 18 answers · asked by . 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Will some newer religion take over when society feels our current beliefs are untrue?

2006-09-05 07:30:29 · 12 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5 in Religion & Spirituality

pls no funny answers ..

2006-09-05 07:30:04 · 41 answers · asked by myxz_heart_broken 2 in Religion & Spirituality

these directories were used by the post office

2006-09-05 07:30:03 · 7 answers · asked by happy al 1 in Community Service

2006-09-05 07:29:56 · 9 answers · asked by Alex N 1 in Languages

Alcohol gets you a lashing under Islam, LSD is proscribed in America, tobacco kills you, but they don't say when. In England we have restricted alcohol intake in public regulations that could baffle foreigners. And lots of other funny laws as well. Power brokers (doctors are the agents) can dispense poweful pharmeceuticals with long term effects, but the short term chemicals are barred. Is this a political power thing?

2006-09-05 07:29:06 · 9 answers · asked by Perseus 3 in Other - Society & Culture

A previous question got me thinking about this, why is there no mention of Micro-biology in the Bible? If Bible is the word of God, God should know what atoms are, but he neglected to mention this in the Bible. Why is that?

2006-09-05 07:28:57 · 38 answers · asked by Southpaw 7 in Religion & Spirituality