My wife took a history of religion class, and I read some of her texts. What if God exists, but He doesn't give a damn about earthlings? Would that offend you? Would you still worship such a God?
If I'm an atheist, would believing in an indifferent God actually make me a theist, or is the very definition of atheism preclude that from happening?
2006-10-03 15:13:29 · 8 answers · asked by powhound 7 in Religion & Spirituality
I like a lot of Asian art and decor and was wondering what the dragon means?
2006-10-03 15:13:21 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture
A lot of people say he doesn't but I feel something inside that says he does, and scietists say it's a gene but I think that may be true but there is more than that. And we don't even understand it.
2006-10-03 15:13:18 · 22 answers · asked by Mr. Basketnutz! 2 in Religion & Spirituality
Do you think people get married, just so they wont be alone?If so do you think that this contributes to the overall decay in our everyday values?Why get married if your not in love?IS it for the thrill or the simple fact you can say you were married?
2006-10-03 15:12:35 · 12 answers · asked by I'll bee dat 2 in Other - Society & Culture
I used to be into the Romanov family a few years back. I thought I heard that some of the bodies were found? But I have not been able to locate any proof of this.
Does anyone have any information?
Thank You!
2006-10-03 15:12:24 · 8 answers · asked by White Trash Beautiful 4 in Royalty
2006-10-03 15:11:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
and sent out 2 x 2 to every citys
2006-10-03 15:11:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Why majority of muslims hate us, eventhough almost all of them want to come to this grate nation of ours.
2006-10-03 15:10:54 · 17 answers · asked by Ex M 1 in Religion & Spirituality
Does anyone believe in God anymore? How can anyone look at the sky on a starry evening and not believe? The rainbow is beautiful, thunderstorms are awesome and a winter storm is a most unspeakable beauty. How can you look at your precious children and not thank God? Please, I really don't understand.
2006-10-03 15:10:04 · 19 answers · asked by BlueAngel 5 in Religion & Spirituality
Every time it comes on, i never hear them mention the artist names. It puts you in the mind of a Kurt Carr or Fred Hammond song with a female singer in the background that says "I need you Lord, I need you Lord". It is one of my favorites and I thought this would be the quickest way to find out the name before I download it. Thanks and God Bless.
2006-10-03 15:09:15 · 3 answers · asked by ElegantSweetie 2 in Religion & Spirituality
if through science and/or spiritual technological advancement, got to a point where you could be transferred from the body you have, into a new body, like an artificially created body, would you do it?
like what I'm thinking of would be that say you'd get elderly, or critically ill, have the process started and this new, empty body would be made/grown/whatever, and aged to say teens or 20's or whatever as you like, and a procedure would be done to transfer you from your old body, into the new one. mind, memories, soul, everything, you'd go to sleep, and wake up in this new body, still you, remembering everything, and go on living in that body.
I do NOT mean a "copy" system like in the movie 6th Day, but a transfer, such that if you actually died regularly, you'd be dead-dead, but that you could avoid dying from a illness or age.
so would you, and what religious/spiritual beliefs do you hold?
2006-10-03 15:08:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2006-10-03 15:08:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Is it possably for a born women to get a working penis put on her so she can use it just like guys do?
2006-10-03 15:08:30 · 11 answers · asked by kinky couple 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Just curious, I cant read Italian!
2006-10-03 15:06:37 · 14 answers · asked by ? 4 in Languages
I went to the post office today, and while waiting in line, I thought about this question: Does postmen/women deliver mails to post offices too?
2006-10-03 15:06:20 · 3 answers · asked by dewdropinn 3 in Other - Society & Culture
2006-10-03 15:06:12 · 7 answers · asked by Cherylyn 1 in Other - Society & Culture
I've read in the bible in many places and it seems to me there is a high value placed on the "Beleiving" such as: Blessed are those that have not seen yet "Believe". That who so ever shall "Believe" in me shall have eternal life etc...
Are you with me....??
It seems clear to me that this "Believing" part seems to be mandatory.
So we have a very old book "the Bible" and the stories written in them...most of us have never witnessed the level of miracles the bible
describes...and then the story of Christ as God and the creator of everything came and died for us...and then asked to accept all of this without question....yet we are required to just "believe" that this happened...and somehow this means we have eternal life in heaven with God...just "believe" that God raised Jesus from the dead...etc
Why the "Just Believe" in something that on the surface seems hard to be believe...but that seems to be the magic key.
help me understand!!
2006-10-03 15:05:47 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
who so ever shall reciveth me reciveth him that sent me
2006-10-03 15:05:46 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
How could I not be proud of my handsomeness?
2006-10-03 15:05:09 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
What is happening with our government or what is happening with Britney Spears? There seems to be a majority of the population more interested in the latter.
2006-10-03 15:04:18 · 5 answers · asked by nunya 3 in Other - Society & Culture
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The discovery by John Mather and George Smoot of "cosmic ripples," which won them the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday, was lauded in 1992 by cosmologist Stephen Hawking as "the greatest discovery of the century, if not of all time."
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While most physicists do not go that far, they are universal in their praise of the experiment, in which the pair and their team designed a satellite and used it to find proof of the Big Bang theory of the universe's origins.
They found faint variations in microwave radiation that dated back to just 300,000 years after the fiery birth of the universe.
These ripples in the microwave radiation, they said, were the primordial framework on which the galaxies, stars and other stuff of the universe took shape. It explained why the universe is lumpy and not a smooth sheet of matter and energy.
"The discovery changed everything," said Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist at Case Western University in Ohio.
"It produced a revolution in what we know about the universe -- we know it is expanding, we know it is flat ... and we can measure that to an incredible accuracy," Krauss said in a telephone interview.
"Cosmology now is a precision science."
Until then, theoretical physicists had cobbled together small pieces of evidence that the universe and everything in it had appeared suddenly about 15 billion years ago from an infinitesimally small point in a vacuum of nothingness.
When the 40-member research team announced some of their findings to a meeting of physicists in 1992, an "audible gasp was heard from the audience," according to the American Institute of Physics.
Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge University physicist who explained theories about how the universe was formed in his popular book "A Brief History of Time," was one of most excited. "It is the discovery of the century, if not of all time," Hawking said in a statement at the time.
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"I don't think he was completely out of control," Krauss said. People had known what to look for. "The picture, however, had been blank up to then," he said.
"Then it was clear -- it wasn't a vague idea. It was clear the lumps were there."
These fluctuations were faint variations in temperature, and scientists have since followed up on those measurements to try to understand, for instance, dark matter -- mass that no one has been able to see or measure but which must exist because of the amount of gravity measured in the universe.
Some teams have come up with new theories of dark energy -- a mysterious force that may be accelerating the expansion of the universe.
While the implications may far outlast humanity -- the end of the universe may be coming in a few more billion years -- Smoot has been clear on the need for the work.
"It is extremely important for human beings to know their origins and their place in the world," Smoot said in a statement.
Krauss said the prize supports his own arguments -- made to NASA and the U.S. Congress -- that funding should go to similar experiments.
President Bush has urged NASA to concentrate on getting people to the moon and Mars.
"New experiments on the cosmic microwave background, new experiments to probe dark energy, to look for habitable planets -- all these have been delayed and/or canceled because we are sending people back to the moon," Krauss said.
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2006-10-03 15:04:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Because if not then freewill is just an effect of a cause not a choice.
2006-10-03 15:03:14 · 7 answers · asked by Xo 1 in Religion & Spirituality
2006-10-03 15:03:11 · 13 answers · asked by elaine.patton 5 in Other - Society & Culture
1 for Moses and 1 for Elias. but while peter was speaking what happened
2006-10-03 15:02:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
I need to do a project on Ivory Coast
2006-10-03 15:02:39 · 8 answers · asked by Phaseragon 3 in Languages
its pronounced like "way" but how do you spell it?
2006-10-03 15:02:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages
Care to share some common or uncommon stereotypes? I just think its an interesting topic..
2006-10-03 15:02:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups
I was just wondering why arnt ghosts naked, because the clothes what they wear dont have a soul.
2006-10-03 15:02:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
I tutor one night a week for a 13 year old (math). A few times the woman has forgot to pay me. I just say "oh, am I getting paid" or something along those lines. What should I say?
2006-10-03 15:01:58 · 27 answers · asked by Ryan G 2 in Etiquette
What hope is there for people turning 50, who have not finished any college or certification program, and cannot go back to school?
2006-10-03 15:01:22 · 7 answers · asked by devotionalservice 4 in Religion & Spirituality
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