Society & Culture - 2 December 2006

With the problem being the mistake of taking the symbols and beliefs as truth as opposed to means to an end (the end being love and an experience of God)?

2006-12-02 08:32:49 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

people have been so rude today

2006-12-02 08:31:30 · 13 answers · asked by Bambi 3 in Etiquette

for ex., $23.66...Would you calculate the actual 10% of that or would you round it to 24 and then calculate the 10%?

2006-12-02 08:29:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-02 08:29:51 · 24 answers · asked by Philippa 2 in Christmas

what heaven is like and how you will be taken there?

2006-12-02 08:29:50 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I can not find it in online or my dictionaries.

2006-12-02 08:29:34 · 5 answers · asked by Kimia 1 in Languages

can any one tell me the name of the stuff that you put on a christmas tree thats a bit like tinsle and icicles its not called icicles by the way thanks and why doesnt the spell checker work in this bit

2006-12-02 08:29:28 · 13 answers · asked by julie t 5 in Christmas

Does your god have feelings? I mean feelings of love, hatred, resentment, jealousy, revenge?

2006-12-02 08:29:26 · 12 answers · asked by Evil Atheist Conspirator 4 in Religion & Spirituality

She likes a lot of different things, and I just want a great idea. Something like clothes, jewelry, etc., but more specific. Thanks!

2006-12-02 08:29:09 · 14 answers · asked by bravo1219 1 in Christmas

2006-12-02 08:28:58 · 8 answers · asked by ? 2 in Other - Holidays

(like he taught Moses the Torah previously)

Click here to listen to beautiful recitation of Qur'an: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsj9GPd5YTg

'And when they see you (O Muhammad SAW), they treat you only as a mockery (saying):"Is this the one whom Allah has sent as a Messenger?'

"He would have nearly misled us from our aliha (gods), had it not been that we were patient and constant in their worship!" And they will know when they see the torment, who it is that is most astray from the (Right) Path! (Qur'an 25:41-42)

2006-12-02 08:28:39 · 9 answers · asked by muslim 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Please remember, this is ONLY a joke! I have several Christian denominations on my list already, but wanted to spread the fun around a little.

I would like to hear from as many different religions as possible.

Please spoof ONLY your own religion, or one you are very familiar with. NO NASTINESS please. Have fun!

2006-12-02 08:27:57 · 20 answers · asked by MamaBear 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I stumbled upon this site in Wikipedia and read on. My question is this: is this racist or a fact?

These Wiki articles tell me that on average East Asians and Ashkenazi Jews are the groups of peoples with the highest IQs and those with the lowest are Africans (still living in Africa), especially Sub-Saharan Africa. These were the given results from univiersities and qualified persons. It states that on average African (living in Africa) have very low IQs (60-80) in comparison to East Asians who all score over 100 IQ.

To think of it, it makes sense in a way. How else would one explain the lack of technological milestones in Africa (even in the times before Europeans came to Africa, a popular excuse to explain this by some)? No scientists, no machines or inventors, no philosophers, no doctors, etc.

Please look at the links before labelling me as another ignorant racist because if you don't you will not be able to understand what I'm asking here.

2006-12-02 08:27:47 · 10 answers · asked by teh @nn0y3d kItteh (^_^) 3 in Other - Society & Culture

A church I have been attending, has had a real bad past and stopped growing a while back, our preacher said the church is dead and has a vision, he is trying to take what few of us is left and start another church, kinda hiding that we are the ppl from the "old church", so we are leaving the old building and we are gonna meet in a borrowed building to start the first 4 preview services. Is the lauch is successfull we will later abandon the old church building and let things there dissolve. There is a lot of controversity about what we are doing, and have lost some ppl. I am confused, I have been prayerful,, but there's a lot I don't understand? Are deacon's important to have in a church? What about the church body's ability to vote on major decisions in the futer? Hiding that the dead church with a bad past is mothering a new church? Lack of funds? I can't tell details, I don't want to gossip, I just want to know what should I know about a church? I know the word of God is most imprt.

2006-12-02 08:26:24 · 13 answers · asked by jennie m 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Who likes the name Agavion for a Male Human World of Warcraft character? Does it sound masculine?

2006-12-02 08:26:16 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I'm being serious! So please take me seriously and answer seriously...

My friend, James, is 31 like myself. He has never EVER sinned. He has also never had sex and refuses to even think or talk about sex. He preaches in the street and hoodies and chavs hit him with bottles and sticks. Amazingly, James shouts out "Forgive them father" and things likes that!

When he goes home with bruises and scratches, he doesn't show them to his family as he doesn't want to worry them. So he tells them his marks are make-up from an amateur play.

He refuses to change my water-taps into wine though because he says that I need to put my energy into working and not drinking.

When I seriously ask him if he is the new messiah or Jesus' relative, he just puts his hand on my shoulder and says nothing but DOES give me a strange smile a bit like the Mona Lisa.

He is driving me crazy because he won't tell me who cuts his hair and, AND I've never seen his dad? Weird eh? What's your opinion?

2006-12-02 08:25:36 · 14 answers · asked by ? 3 in Religion & Spirituality

You'll have to excuse me, I have been looking at things in the bible and one of the things I have come across something about Jesus saying that bread was like his skins and bones and when you eat it you are eating him. Doesn't that mean that when you do this you are showing symbolism of cannibalism?

2006-12-02 08:25:17 · 10 answers · asked by Fastdog 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Now we know that the sun does not make anyone black. Maybe you will get darker or get skin cancer but after that you go right back the color you were. This is Jesus talkng if you don't know that read the whole book of solomon.

Jer 8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.


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Sgs 1:5 I [am] black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

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Sgs 1:6 Look not upon me, because I [am] black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] mine own vineyard have I not kept.

2006-12-02 08:25:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i mean about the alchemist-person,not that famous and best seller book.

2006-12-02 08:25:14 · 5 answers · asked by kikk 3 in Mythology & Folklore

2006-12-02 08:24:56 · 12 answers · asked by Supercali 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Revelation 4:2 At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. 3And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne.

2006-12-02 08:24:55 · 6 answers · asked by bachlava_9 3 in Religion & Spirituality

These are the short forks that you use for eating salad.

2006-12-02 08:24:36 · 9 answers · asked by Gen•X•er (I love zombies!) 6 in Etiquette

We are not being selfish, we like having guests! But our grocery expenses have been ridiculous considering that we are students (on loans!). How can I ask a close friend who eats at our place a lot to share the expenses for previous month?

2006-12-02 08:24:22 · 17 answers · asked by aditya_tx 2 in Etiquette

PREGUNTA A MODO DE CONSULTA.ESPERO ABRAN SU MENTE.

2006-12-02 08:24:09 · 6 answers · asked by angel 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you think it's too early to put up a christmas tree? When do you put yours up?

2006-12-02 08:23:42 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

2006-12-02 08:23:11 · 10 answers · asked by I am actually a Hot Dog 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Since they are not jugemental Christians?

2006-12-02 08:23:08 · 16 answers · asked by carl 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Well. I'm going to go to France as a foreign exchange student, and I was wondering if you French Natives could teach me some French sland terms or other useful terms in advance! Since the slang in our books is from the 80's!

2006-12-02 08:23:07 · 2 answers · asked by Jolette 1 in Languages

On the day Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments, he discovers that the Israelites have created a golden calf. To punish the people, Moses gathers a group of men and takes the following action in the book of Exodus, Chapter 32:

Then he [Moses] said to them, "This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: 'Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.' " The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.

So... one minute we have God carving into stone, "Thou shalt not kill." Then the next minute we have God telling each man to strap a sword to his side and lay waste to thousands.

Does this make sense ?

2006-12-02 08:22:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-12-02 08:21:39 · 31 answers · asked by biggi 4 in Christmas