Society & Culture - 19 October 2006

I do not have to agree with what you believe. I don't believe that I have been fanatical in my beliefs but because I don't agree with a certain number of people I am getting emails that call me a hate saturated bigot. I also just recieved one that told me 9/11 was not that bad compared to all the murders Christians have committed. So please, just because I am a Christian, do not assume I am a fanatical who is out to tell everybody else what is wrong with them.

2006-10-19 07:16:22 · 11 answers · asked by flashypsw 4 in Religion & Spirituality

That you accidently put something in the fridge that doesn't belong there?

hehehe

2006-10-19 07:16:21 · 5 answers · asked by ? 6 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-10-19 07:16:16 · 8 answers · asked by greenery 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Me, I trust everyone without question. You don't earn my trust, you lose it.

Elaborate if you will please. Thank you.

2006-10-19 07:15:37 · 39 answers · asked by . 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Have you tried prayer when your all alone and asked God to touch you spiritually if he is real?I dont mean by waiting one sec. and say well nothing happend.I mean have you asked with an open heart and told God why you need this confirmation?

2006-10-19 07:15:05 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

this week it says,

"forgive your enemies, it messes with their heads"

That doesn;t sound very christian like to me, what do you think? My daughter attends this church as well.

2006-10-19 07:14:51 · 22 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-19 07:14:18 · 9 answers · asked by wdzone 3 in Other - Society & Culture

Then he passed by the women and said, "O women! Give alms, as I have seen that THE MAJORITY OF THE DWELLERS OF HELL-FIRE WERE YOU (WOMEN)." They asked, "Why is it so, O Allah's Apostle ?" He replied, "YOU CURSE FREQUENTLY AND ARE UNGRATEFUL TO YOUR HUSBANDS. I HAVE NOT SEEN ANYONE MORE DEFICIENT IN INTELLIGENCE AND RELIGION THAN YOU. http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/sunnah/bukhari/006.sbt.html#001.006.301

This is mainstream Islam, in other words, most Muslims you ask about this will not deny its truth. In my experience, the most common reaction from Muslim woman is that they try to make a joke out of it or use it as some type of affirmation of their significance.

Why would Allah want men to know that mostly woman are going to hell? I mean, forget the absolute absurdity of this, on its face, lets just consider why Allah would even reveal this at all? I mean, does he want men to feel greater license to do wrong? Men do 99.99% of all murder right...

2006-10-19 07:14:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Who are the taliban exactly?
I know they are a terrorist in the middle east but more specifically who are they?

2006-10-19 07:13:48 · 8 answers · asked by ? 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Romans 8:29-30 - Paul says:

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

II Peter 1:10

Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

We ought to work daily to answer the Creators calling. The Creator God Almighty called us - to do His will. He has a plan.

2006-10-19 07:13:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

There is a beauty of the soul
Unseen with human eyes.
Far brighter than any star.
Clearer than sunny skies.
This is the jewel with us all.
Hidden away inside.
I am greatful to have glimpsed this gem.
That from the world you hide.
May you live your life in peace.
I would wish you untouched by tears
But I know that sorrow too
Accompanies these earthly years.
So may you always hold on to
The gem that is you,
And may throughout these years
It shine with beauty true.

2006-10-19 07:13:27 · 25 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-19 07:13:18 · 16 answers · asked by JIMBO 4 in Religion & Spirituality

USA! USA! USA!

2006-10-19 07:12:15 · 19 answers · asked by KittenyKatz 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I am about to be ordained, and my church has asked me what Bible I'd like as a gift. I plan to go into hospital chaplaincy right after divinity school, so want it to be a widely-accepted version that's easy to hear (NRSV, NIV, NASB). I'd like cross-referencing, and ideally, parallel-passage notes for the gospels. I do not want study notes or a large concordance within it to carry around. I also would like a full-sized version, because I will do some preaching and would like to read it from the pulpit. Finally, I'm looking for something in basic black leather. No NRSV I've found online has all these features. I found a wonderful NIV that meets all of them perfectly, published by Holman, but out of print now and unavailable. If you're a pastor or chaplain and have a working ministry Bible you really like, I would very much welcome your recommendation. Thank you!

2006-10-19 07:12:13 · 17 answers · asked by justaschmo 1 in Religion & Spirituality

http://islamyesterday.com/science/

the independent source that is the learned men of science that everyone has been waiting for

2006-10-19 07:10:48 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

what was it abou the christian religion that impacted you the most? What changed your mind/heart?

2006-10-19 07:10:29 · 3 answers · asked by who me? 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Is any one having a costume party, or dressing up for work? What are you planning to be? Most creative gets best answer!

2006-10-19 07:10:16 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Halloween

what exactly is an atheist. I have an idea of what the definiton means but I do not want to assume anything out of respect. Now if it means to not believe in god, then do you have faith of any kind.
Please explain to me
I am a mother of 2, and I have faith in myself, I believe in the manifestation of my own world, and that the word god is just a definition to imply the complex meaning of what more is beyond our own existance

2006-10-19 07:10:16 · 25 answers · asked by fryedaddy 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you think that people's religion should stay out of politics completely or that believeing a spiritual leader knows more about politics than the average person? Do you believe that religious leaders are always right about who they tell you to vote for?
Should Christians remain neutral in political conflicts?

2006-10-19 07:10:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-10-19 07:10:01 · 5 answers · asked by kw 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-10-19 07:09:37 · 3 answers · asked by admire 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Whatever is there in this creation is truth. Nothing else, but from ‘it’ only the creation is created.
Means – TRUTH is the name of that prime element – ‘Prime soul’, from which this creation was created, and got functional as well.
In other words – From which this vast (creation) get light, and the medium from which all worlds got created, got stability and got the direction; that is the ‘Almighty’.
Whatever is there in this creation is the representation of that ‘Almighty’ only. It is spread in all the ‘inert’ and ‘conscious’ in an equal way. Whatever is visible or invisible, is only the visible and invisible form of it.
Sincerity and religious is- one, they are not separate. This is not our hand, but is the hand of the ‘Prime Soul’. What ever is done in the whole world, is done only by the hands of that prime soul. We should understand that – whatever we are doing for ourselves is done by that ‘Prime Soul’ for us. Whatever we don or don’t do, is done or not done by the prime soul.
Now you will ask – Whether the sins and all the atrocities carried out in this world are done by the ‘God’ ? The answer is – whatever we do for our necessities is done only by ‘him’. But, whatever we do for our happiness for satisfying our desired and, for fulfilling our satiety, somebody else takes the pain for it. Where as, we derive pleasure out of it. When those sins, atrocities or misdeeds of somebody gives joys to him, somebody else gets the pain for it. If you think of other’s happiness, you have to take the pain and have to kill the desires.
A person starving of something for a long period may get defeated against his morals to carryout some misdeeds. That is why the saints have urged to practice restraint. Since we don’t care for others happiness they try to snatch things of their use from us. They trouble us. With one’s sacrifice, another gets the ‘happiness’. Whatever is there in this world is one. All are created only from the ‘same one’. Everybody’s welfare is the welfare of us. Same case with the happiness and the joy also. For one’s happiness, another has to carry out the act of surrender.
To keep half of the people happy, another half has to take some pain. Like this, if we cooperate with each other, may sacrifices for each other then all will have their part of happiness. The weak persons always depend on others. Their moral responsibility is to give up laziness in order to do hard labor for bringing changes to their conditions. They should not connive their laziness to be a helplessness.
Here, the topic is not on sin or virtue, religious – atheism, arms or compassion. The topic is – how to take care of others happiness. As long as we are selfish, we can’t feel the agony or the joy of others; and atrocities will thrive on in this world that long. Every person, for his own requirements will tell lies, will sin, will trouble others, create violence on others and will torture. If everybody thinks of fulfilling requirements of others also, these heinous activities will definitely come to an end.
Whatever the ‘prime soul’ does, he does it through us. He does it keeping our happiness in his mind. In result, half of us get the happiness and the other half takes the pain. After taking food we feel good, but the stomach has to take the pain of digesting it. We enjoy trekking; but the legs take up the task of that by taking some pain. If different parts of the body stop performing their part of job, the whole body is affected. In that, the life is put in a danger, and other parts of the body starts defecting. Thus, sacrifices for each other is a must.
Like this, in this total creation, every body is dependent on each other, for their own requirements. Joy and grief are like day and night. If happiness is required, then one also has to share little miseries with others. Happiness for all should be kept in the mind.
Eradication of sins and atrocities from this world is not in the capacity of a single person. The day we start caring for others happiness, the sins and atrocities will vanish from this world that day. And we will be in great happiness, and can give others the same.

2006-10-19 07:08:56 · 4 answers · asked by ibkhandel 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Most times more than others, it is the same thing.

2006-10-19 07:08:28 · 4 answers · asked by Mitchell B 4 in Religion & Spirituality

My female friend is a little hippie girl and she is wonderful! She has dread locks, and I was just wondering what types of jobs can she get with this look. She really wants to get a decent job, but is not sure her employer will want someone who is a hippie. She showers and bathes, and is very clean, but she loves the freestyle clothes and beads. What advice can you give to me to give to her, because she's a bit anti-computer!!!!!

2006-10-19 07:08:14 · 14 answers · asked by BOOYAH 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

This happens to me with some white females in the South.

I don't have an attitude. I am a meek person.

One day, I went to the gas station and this clerk had a nasty attitude with me for no reason.

I mean, before I had even opened my mouth to request a purchase, she was rolling her eyes and sighing.

Next example, customer service.

I called customer service about my checking account. I explained what was going on and she tried to rush my conversation and me off the phone.

I had to actually call back to get the service that I needed.

The hospital.

I had went to the hospital to see about my sister.

I kindly asked her to locate my sister's room # because they reloxcated her, but she really did'nt want to assist me at all.

You have some people on this forum saying that black women are the only ones with attutudes, but in my case, I get that out of some white women.

When I speak to them, they don't even look me in the eye.

2006-10-19 07:08:06 · 12 answers · asked by Mary C 4 in Other - Society & Culture

I am Muslim and I met a Muslim girl and we fell in love with each other, after a week she told me that she is not a virgin that she made a mistake with another man and prays to Allah to forgive her for her mistake.. I understand that it was a mistake and I want to marry her, she never told her parents of her mistake, so her parents think she is still a
virgin my parents also think she’s a virgin. Now if I marry her is it 7araam on my part???

I want to Ostorha because she understands her mistake and asks for forgiveness from Allah everyday.. now if I marry her do I get SAWAAB????

also the wedding night as a custom both parents want to see her blood on a cloth the next morning. This is a must to show this cloth with her virgin blood on it….If I cut myself and put my own blood on the cloth and tell my parents its her virgin blood and also tell her parents the same, would that be 7araam to lie to both my parents and her parents and keep it a secret for life to Ostorha?????

2006-10-19 07:06:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Mav concerned with all the fighting. Mav invite you all over for dinner in cave. Mav having stingray and alfalfa sprout quiche with truffles.
Please RSVP

2006-10-19 07:05:31 · 21 answers · asked by Mav here! 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I realize it is a matter of growth, but does it have to be at the expense of our fellow man's integrity. People have such a hard time believing that I am trust a woman who generally cares about people, but just in this act I recieve so much ridicule, and I am told I am nieve for being so, why?

2006-10-19 07:04:15 · 5 answers · asked by fryedaddy 3 in Religion & Spirituality

What kind of candy should i hand out for halloween?

2006-10-19 07:03:25 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Halloween

2006-10-19 07:03:23 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality