Society & Culture - 7 June 2007

What are the differences that set them apart and what are the similarities? For example beliefs, ceremonies, traditions, etc.

2007-06-07 13:39:25 · 11 answers · asked by Parker M. 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I've decided I'm converting to Islam, and my husband has decided to do it too. Where can we go to do this? I lost contact with a friend of mine who was knowledgable about Islam, I think she was deleted. Can a muslim tell me how to do this? Do I need witnesses or anything?

2007-06-07 13:39:22 · 37 answers · asked by Happy Wifey 1 in Religion & Spirituality

If somebody who you really love was murdered, and their murderer was a christian, would you want them to be sentenced to death?

Wouldn't that be sending them to heaven according to your beliefs?

2007-06-07 13:38:34 · 3 answers · asked by funaholic 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I hear Liberals and Conservatives all shouting about tolerance. Is tolerance the act of taking what anyone believes and immediatly accepting it, trying to NEVER, under any circumstances, hurt someone's feelings or self esteem? Or is tolerance simply not encroaching on the beliefs of others while holding true to your own?

2007-06-07 13:35:18 · 13 answers · asked by KJLONG 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Why? What do men see in men? what do women see in other women? It just don't make sense. I am proud to have a girlfriend and proudly say I'm not a gaywad. Call me a homophobe if you like, its just wrong.

2007-06-07 13:34:52 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

with an angel or demon,spirit or ghost?please share your stories,im willling to read anything. thank you

2007-06-07 13:34:21 · 7 answers · asked by Amberella Autopsy.[Lip] 2 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-06-07 13:32:54 · 14 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Let me rephrase this question as too many people think they know me so well..

Ok hypothetical question as my last question was "too much to the point" and so therefor was not written PC enough. I love how people "generalize" my thoughts on children with disabilities based on a question.

-Lets say you have a friend who is pregnant. She gets testing for birth defects and finds out the child has spina bifida. She feels that she is unable to care for a child with disabilies of that extent and considers abortion. Would you as one who opposes abortion step up to the plate and tell her you will adopt her baby?-

*think this time you can answer the damn question and stop griping about what you think you know about me?

2007-06-07 13:32:21 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-07 13:32:09 · 2 answers · asked by Jason 1 in Mythology & Folklore

ok let's start a war hard bolied eggs and soggy onions. take five paces and let rip, fart in other words.

2007-06-07 13:31:45 · 3 answers · asked by "!" 5 in Other - Society & Culture

Is it the Bible? and other books too? or the Church? And if it is the Bible, do you believe in all of it or just what agrees with LDS Church?

2007-06-07 13:30:25 · 11 answers · asked by yaabro 4 in Religion & Spirituality

what did you see and did you go to heaven or hell?? did you see god?

2007-06-07 13:30:07 · 17 answers · asked by kersty_patrick32 1 in Religion & Spirituality

What would someone have to do to make you believe they were god? (Just to clarify, I'm not planning to announce such a thing anytime soon!!:)

2007-06-07 13:29:59 · 17 answers · asked by Antonio 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Your writing is so excited and vivid when you describe the mournful screams of atheists burning for eternity because they refused to believe a book.

Does your pulse quicken when you think about it? Do you smile?

2007-06-07 13:29:16 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

...for deciding who goes to heaven and who goes to hell?

According to the bible, a man who rapes and murders a child can go to heaven as long as he accepts jesus as his lord and savior, yet an atheist - no matter how good of a person they were, or how many good deeds they did - will end up in hell.

Don't you see a flaw in that system?

A "perfect" god would be able to find a better way...

2007-06-07 13:28:49 · 27 answers · asked by funaholic 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Or the war in Iraq, or this new-age American war against Islam? There must be plenty of people who still do, and who think America is moving in the right direction. I think each of those people should be sent to Baghdad for two weeks with 100 dollars and the clothes on their back. When they all returned the president would have 0% approval rating and things would change really quick around here. Who agrees?

2007-06-07 13:27:44 · 20 answers · asked by chazzychef 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I mean no offense, but it's really almost all I see. The last 10 questions I read or answered were all about fear.

"What would I do if my kid was dying, wouldn't I feel sorry for the rest of my life if I didn't pray"

"What would I do if I died and met God who will send me to hell"

"If I'm on my deathbed, would I convert to avoid hell"

Etc, etc, etc.

You DO have something else to offer, right? It can't be ALL about fear, I hope?

2007-06-07 13:25:52 · 19 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-07 13:24:43 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

which of the following did not find his colony 4 humanitarian reasons?
A. Peter Minut
B. Lord Baltimore
C. Roger Williams
D. James Oglethorp

i want short answers plz!

2007-06-07 13:24:31 · 3 answers · asked by cuteze wootze 1 in Royalty

I will get to wear some silver dangely earrings and a peal necklace. I'll make 1000 dollars for a shoot of twenty pics. It will be breasts and face only. Should I do it? He's already showed me some he's done before and their tasteful. I'm just about a month under 18 . Should I go for it?

(notes: he's also under 18, We're dating, it will be done in black and white in 1920's style. He doesn't own a scanner or digital camera so there's no way it will get online unless he borrows mine. )

Should I do it?

2007-06-07 13:24:15 · 50 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Can anyone please tell me how wasting your life hating someone you will never meet benefits you?

2007-06-07 13:23:44 · 6 answers · asked by princezzjin 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-06-07 13:22:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do they also not hate child rapist murderers, just the act of raping and killing a child? Explain. Christians?

2007-06-07 13:22:46 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

and the sinners are judged by howed they lived according to the 10 Commandments in the Old Testament....then what exactly, was the point of Jesus? Don't tell me he died for our sins, because if you break one of the old commandments you'll be toast. And don't say you have to repent, because you could repent in the OT and be OK as well.

So really, what was the point?

2007-06-07 13:21:38 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

, being a mother, or living in the city/country...what other life would you prefer?
Would you:
A. Like to be working on a farm out in the country? city?
B not like to work,period?
C. like to own your very own company and have others working for you ?(for those of you, who are not at this time)
D.like to be a stay at home momma?
E. like to be a stay at home wife,or girlfriend, or partner etc..?
F.be a kept woman?
G.be a dancer?
H.a model?
I. be an actor?
J..none of these above
K..be something else
L..can't decide
M.don't know
N.Tell ya later

what would you like to be doing now?
share, and thank you!

2007-06-07 13:20:56 · 11 answers · asked by ladyk 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Do you REALLY want to spend ETERNITY with a bunch of people who get tiresome after a day at Bible retreat?

2007-06-07 13:19:19 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-07 13:17:06 · 16 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm sure even Christians have a few.

Childhood or adult Sunday School. Or Saturday for Seventh Day Adventists.

Mine are the ones that require page flipping, "And now if you'll turn with me to........"

Like using David and Goliath as an example of God's enduring love and power, but neglecting to mention that Israel was wiped out not long after that because the surrounding nations perfected the very type of armor that Goliath was wearing.

Reading from the Bronze Age stories of Joshua's conquests, but neglecting to mention that the Iron Age changed all of that, and the tall tales of God's glorious battles didn't quite cut it anymore when the invaders were wiping out your city and carrying your women off.

Or telling us that the Jews were punished for rejecting Jesus, when the fact is that their long slippery slope to diaspora and near oblivion began when Empires emerged in the Mediterranean, and it had nothing to do with any Messiah, real or fictional.

What are your favorites?

2007-06-07 13:16:14 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-07 13:15:31 · 18 answers · asked by willow 6 in Mythology & Folklore

I am curious as to what different people from different places around the world think of each other. I think the result will vary depending on 2 major points, How old you are and where you are from.
I am 33 y.o male from Melbourne Australia.

2007-06-07 13:14:36 · 3 answers · asked by dazmac1 2 in Other - Society & Culture