Society & Culture - 16 September 2006

I hear this term bantied about, but noone's explained it to me. What is an 'Indigo person' supposed to be?

2006-09-16 13:15:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

this link is for Science FACT on when was God: http://xfacts.com/sumerian.htm

and some more Science FACT on How and Why:
http://xfacts.com/sumerian_culture.html

and you know-it-all disbelievers PLEASE HOLD YOUR CLOSE-MINDED BREATH! For I only offer PITY to those who don't even entertain the notion. Religion never stays constant, Science does. THANK GOD!

2006-09-16 13:15:31 · 6 answers · asked by Gotta Lotta Nerve 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-16 13:13:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

More accurately, what is the Jewish belief on why God did these things?

2006-09-16 13:13:02 · 7 answers · asked by Nowhere Man 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I don't like "lol". Somehow it seems fake.Almost like saying aloud during a conversation,"I am laughing now".

2006-09-16 13:12:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2006-09-16 13:11:45 · 11 answers · asked by Imad A 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-16 13:11:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

why did they do 9/11 or 7/7
whats the reson

2006-09-16 13:11:26 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In a different question of mine someone said they liked the Quran better because the Bible had 66 authors and the Quran had only one.

I'm not sure if that's the right number of authors but I do know it was several people. If 66 is the right number, wouldn't you have to agree that it is absolutely amazing that 66 people agreed in unison to what God's word was and is? That to me is a miracle in itself that should add to the Bibles trustworthiness.

2006-09-16 13:10:57 · 13 answers · asked by crash 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I read this within a reference to another question. I never heard of this before. Just Wondering. Thanks! :)

2006-09-16 13:10:56 · 11 answers · asked by Michelle G 2 in Religion & Spirituality

what would it be, and why...also, how would you use the ability to do other stuff

ex i'd have super speed, use it to vibrate through solid objects, possibly kill in sports,

2006-09-16 13:10:24 · 24 answers · asked by God 4 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-09-16 13:10:04 · 14 answers · asked by jesus_freak557 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Is it true?

2006-09-16 13:09:36 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

In reaction to the Pope's comments, some Muslims are burning churches.
My question is....are these churches Catholic?
Or are they Protestant churches which are in no way represented by the pope?

2006-09-16 13:09:27 · 9 answers · asked by BoredomStrikes 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Why ppl changes GOD's orders and says these are his orders?

2006-09-16 13:09:13 · 3 answers · asked by S 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-16 13:08:54 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men. She is to be kept silent.

1 Tim 2


Woman should remain silent in the chruches. they are not allowed to speak, but must be submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they shoud ask their own husband at home. for it is disgraceful for a women to speak in the church.

1 Corinthians 14

2006-09-16 13:08:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Or who listens to what he says?

2006-09-16 13:08:08 · 13 answers · asked by jesus_freak557 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Since homosexuality directly affects an individuals ability to reproduce wouldn't it have been eliminated?

Is homosexuality just another sexual perversion and therefore subject to objective morals?

Just askin'.

2006-09-16 13:07:08 · 28 answers · asked by george_the_cat 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

i think i would of liked to lived in the 1700s

2006-09-16 13:06:55 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-09-16 13:06:46 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

One member of her family came up to the grieving mother and told her that the reason her son died was because she had taken up "those Satanic matrial arts". Fortunately for the speaker, the mom was too stunned to deliver the proper response. (I had to be held back though.) I later overheard the same person claim that martial atrists as part of their training get possessed by demon familiars.

So I guess my questions are: Is there no limit to stupidity? What is it about religion that turns the rational mind off? Why is Xenophobia somehow an acceptable practice among the religious?

2006-09-16 13:06:13 · 22 answers · asked by Scott M 7 in Religion & Spirituality

If I'm supposed to be smart enough to figure out that the christian god is the "one true god" of all the gods and goddesses known to humanity, why would I be stupid enough to deliberately choose the bonfire?

2006-09-16 13:06:11 · 10 answers · asked by bobkgins_sock_puppet_2 1 in Religion & Spirituality

The Christian god, according to the Christians' own mythology, saw fit to destroy almost all life on Earth after getting peeved that it didn't turn out right - which is absurd for an omnipotent omniscient entity but we'll gloss over that for now - and promises everlasting torture for anyone who displeases him. Do you really feel comfortable about spending eternity in the company of such a character? It seems to me that you should be rather worried about his state of mind...

2006-09-16 13:06:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Im not saying the pope was right or wrong. but the reaction by those upset as his remarks was crazy. what are they trying to prove.

The Pope makes some remarks that taken out of the larger context of the speech could be taken as him claiming Islam is a violent religeon.
So to protest being called violent, what do they do?

Why, They firebomb two churches.
I guess that'll show 'em that Muslims aren't violent.

Can anyone explain how doing a violent act to protest being called violent shows that they are not violent?

(and don't flame me. I do not claim all Muslins are violent. I am refering to those that firebombed the Churches in protest.)

2006-09-16 13:04:00 · 13 answers · asked by CG-23 Sailor 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Ben Stein (T.V. personality) wrote this.


If they know of him at all, many folks think Ben Stein is just a quirky actor/comedian who talks in a monotone. He's also a very intelligent attorney who knows how to put ideas and words together in such a way as to sway juries and make people think clearly.

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The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

Herewith a few confessions from my beating heart: I have no freaking clue who Nick and Jessica are. I see them on the cover of People and Us constantly when I am buying my dog biscuits and kitty litter. I often ask the checkers at the grocery stores. They never know who Nick and Jessica are either. Who are they? Will it change my life if I know who they are and why they have broken up? Why are they so important?

I don't know who Lindsay Lohan is either, and I do not care at all about Tom Cruise's wife.

Am I going to be called before a Senate committee and asked if I am a subversive? Maybe, but I just have no clue who Nick and Jessica are.

If this is what it means to be no longer young. It's not so bad.

Next confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him?

I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too.

But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something lik e this Happen?" (regarding Katrina)

Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.

And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"

In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school . the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.

Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.

Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.

Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards .. honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein

2006-09-16 13:03:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

if so could you give me some info. cuz i was invited to attend some of their meetings

2006-09-16 13:02:36 · 6 answers · asked by eaglestraces123 4 in Religion & Spirituality

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
-- Benjamin Franklin, letter to Richard Price, October 9, 1780,

Do you understand the quote? He's saying that if a religion needs public funds to keep operating (as EVERY church in the US gets 100% tax breaks I think this qualifies) then that religion is a bad one.
It also makes an excellent point about god's non-existence. Can you find that subtle clue? 10 points to the person smart enough to figgure that one out.

2006-09-16 13:02:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-16 13:01:13 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

christian church as powerful and influential as it was during the days of the knights templar

2006-09-16 12:59:37 · 17 answers · asked by Brutal_Yet_Beautiful 2 in Religion & Spirituality