Society & Culture - 18 October 2006

the whole point of the movement was to try and stop war and violence,racism,bigotry andtrying to make the world a nicer placeto co-exist with everyone, regardless of race creed and religon why do people just fall into the trap of beleving the steryotype view?peace aint so bad a thing is it?

2006-10-18 05:40:10 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Scholars vary on when they believe and who the believe wrote the Old Testament...but it's widely accepted that the Old Testament was not written until several hundred years after the fact...especially re: Abraham, Moses, Noah and ect....considering these are supposed to be the word of God....why were they not written sooner? and considering that Oral tradition was commonly used...isn't it safe to assume then that these "stories" could have been altered or changed accordingly over time?

2006-10-18 05:39:02 · 16 answers · asked by kissmybum 4 in Religion & Spirituality

If so, shouldn,t they try to find the commonly agreeable interpretation of the scriptures, the prophets, and the incarnations instead of quarrelling about who is satanic and whose faith is from God? Same God would not send conflicting and divisive messages to His children. Does He? He does not want His children to quarrel and fight and hurt each other. Does He?

2006-10-18 05:38:55 · 34 answers · asked by stvenryn 4 in Religion & Spirituality

What religeon are you and why? Where do you live? Thanks ahead of time for answering this question.

2006-10-18 05:38:36 · 37 answers · asked by Brutally Honest 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Even when you act nice and proper and answer a question without hate or animosity, people STILL attack you. The only reason I can think of is that they enjoy insulting people, they enjoy antagonizing people, they want to get a reaction, and finally they must have REALLY LOW self esteem. They are mean because that is the only behavior they know. So go ahead get your rocks off and insult me. Guess What? I just can't seem to care about you people. I feel sorry for you. I pity you. Maybe they should go to a shrink and get those issues sorted out.

2006-10-18 05:38:02 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How do you spend that part of the day

2006-10-18 05:37:18 · 18 answers · asked by Star 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I just dont understand why so much energy is wasted bashing christianity, or islam, or judism, or any other religion. If you don't believe it that's fine. I used to be an atheist, and would make the same silly comments and ask the same questions. But I have the answers now.

2006-10-18 05:36:04 · 30 answers · asked by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I asked a question the other day about why people think religion or lack of is a barometer for intelligence and several answers were that a "study had been done that proved" that 1) atheists were more intelligent than believers or 2) that believers were more intelligent than atheists.

I've looked online and through several databases like Lexis-Nexus and can't find an actual study correlating the two directly or inversely. I've found articles from people who drew conclusions from studies they've read about based on religiosity and education but not any actual studies on intelligence and religiosity. So, if you know of a study, can please direct me to it? I'd like to read it.

Thanks!

2006-10-18 05:35:37 · 12 answers · asked by Muffie 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Buddha taught that humans suffer because we continually strive after things that do not give lasting happiness. Focus on suffering & ending suffering sounds depressive to me. I find it hard to comprehend coz I was brought to put love, peace, honesty, respect & friendship as most vital for us. And how's does that apply to people with terminal illness? the The Four Noble Truths & The Noble Eightfold Path doesn't cover it. (ref: http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/beliefs/purpose.htm)

2006-10-18 05:35:26 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i don`t want to be buried cremated or dumped in the sea what are my other options

2006-10-18 05:35:23 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

the Muslims so that it does not interfer with their Holy Month. I heard this on the radio, and was just wondering how you felt.

2006-10-18 05:35:13 · 3 answers · asked by kickinupfunf 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Is this in the koran? Or is just a social thing? I was under the impression that all Sharia Law was gathered from the koran.

2006-10-18 05:35:12 · 12 answers · asked by Goddess of Nuts PBUH 4 in Religion & Spirituality

like in class room two boys behind u .one of them ask if the other would fu** u ? loudl that u really should hear but the girl that really heard this told she didn't heared it so what should i do and how she is probably feeling about this? cos she was in tears then and that friend laughed but said yes ;d so dunno is this bad or not M? we are teens age 15-16 if something depends on that...

2006-10-18 05:34:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

every time a shooting goes down at a school people press gun control dos any one agre that guns dont kill people
people kill people
its not the guns that need to be taken the guns away

2006-10-18 05:32:39 · 18 answers · asked by rokr 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-18 05:32:13 · 7 answers · asked by handsomeface 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Thank you :)

2006-10-18 05:31:48 · 7 answers · asked by NylaEla 1 in Languages

I open doors for people, say my pleases and thank yous, etc but people either have bad, bad manners, are plain ole rude OR BOTH!! Someone can see you are following right behind them to go into the same door as they, yet they VERY seldom hold it open for you. You're reading something on a bulletin board, for example, and they walk right in front of you without saying "excuse me or pardon me"..... the list goes on and on. We just moved to Canada and Canadiansseem to be the WORST!!! My husband is Canadian and he is embarrassed to say he is............... he too finds rudeness all around him.

2006-10-18 05:31:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

religion-christian orthodox

2006-10-18 05:30:10 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How come a lion and a tiger can produce offspring if they mate. Animals without a common ancestor can't mate, or was it a divine miracle that God created two entirely seperate species on different continents who just happen to be able to mate. Another nail in the creationist coffin I fear.

2006-10-18 05:29:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Gees theres soldiers kill thousands and have NUCLEAR WEAPONS!!!!!!yet everyone is worried about N Korea who has done nothing or Troops getting killed in Iraq because there was supposed weapons of mass destruction?
Has the world gone nuts?

2006-10-18 05:29:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Since mankind is human and makes mistakes, doesnt making peace a goal to achieve peace set mankind up for failure? If one were to raise the bar so to speak so to clear the peace goal and many times over, wouldn't healing be a better goal?

2006-10-18 05:29:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This is what I believe, the false prophet would be Mohammed. And the new religion is Islam, It came 400 years after Christianity. Jesus said that the new religion would grow so big and be a big threat to world peace. Well, compare tensions between Christianity and Islam today. And once again I have very good friends that are muslims. So my purpose by writing this is not to offend anyone. Muslims does not believe that Jesus are God´s son. We have freedom of speech and write. That is a right for everyone! What do you believe, think and know about this? So I hope I don´t get killed by some fanatics for writing this, hehe. I don´t want no fattva on my head!!!

2006-10-18 05:27:53 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Think about this...

Man has been inventing religions for thousands of years : sun worship, moon worship, ocean worship, star worship, Egyptian religion, Inca religion, Aztec religion, Maya religion, Native American religion, Greek religion, Roman religion, Aboriginal religion, African tribal religions, mono theistic religions, Maori religion etc etc. the current crop of religions seem to be more in the long list of man made religions that have come and gone over the millenia.

2006-10-18 05:27:51 · 8 answers · asked by Cindy 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-18 05:26:06 · 9 answers · asked by MissJ 2 in Christmas

"And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die"

(Deuteronomy 21:20-21).

.... Let the excuses begin !

2006-10-18 05:25:27 · 26 answers · asked by Cindy 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Is seeing an attractive woman dressed in a pair of jeans and a babydoll top, with her beautiful hair hanging in a sculpted ponytail, and her feet in some very cute sandals...a provocation to rape her?

I'm very curious, because although I know most men will look at a pretty lady walking down the street, only sickos and psychopaths rape them. However, this seems to be reason numero uno why Muslims advocate the veil, burka, etc. for women, and it seems like an extreme prophylaxis to deter a potential assault, when the women aren't doing anything, it's the sickness in the potetial rapists heart and mind.

Who is really safe from anything these days? This argument for "hijab" really seems overkill. Women still get assaulted in veils and overgarments. Would it not be more sensical to just make rape a capital offense, punishable by castration and life inprisionment or death depending on the severity? That should curtail rogue "passions" and give females more freedom. Right?

2006-10-18 05:24:04 · 20 answers · asked by Goddess of Nuts PBUH 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-18 05:23:38 · 6 answers · asked by INOTFRIEND 4 in Other - Society & Culture

According to Judeo-Christian Legends, God has tried to wipe out mankind (Floods), and has committed countless acts of barbarism against humanity (killing all firstborn of egypt etc.) Shouldn't we kill this misanthrope before it succeeds?

2006-10-18 05:23:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I live in Metro West Orlando used to be wonderful very very little crime but since the super wal-mart was built the crime has sky rocketed . its not safe to live the life we had before the wal-mart .you can't even go golf without your side arm .....

2006-10-18 05:22:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Community Service

I'll grant you that we aren't very good at it and I'll also grant that everybody is going to have a slightly different idea about what purpose and meaning and morality are. Nonetheless, it is my understanding that religious people are taught, in no uncertain terms, that humans are absolutely not capable of figuring these things out with God. But are you sure that that assumption is correct?

2006-10-18 05:21:53 · 9 answers · asked by Alan 7 in Religion & Spirituality