Why don't more atheists and theists on Yahoo R/S share their BELIEFS rather than attacking others? Reading through the questions this section would probably be more appropriately labeled Hate Mongering. I would love to hear more about peoples beliefs and how they personally practice them but this whole section is filled with hate. Why all the mudslinging?
2007-06-12 16:40:59 · 23 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5 in Religion & Spirituality
My friend owes me money but I don't know how to politely remind her. It's just a small sum, but I won't be seeing her for a while so I need to remind her ASAP.
2007-06-12 16:40:17 · 18 answers · asked by para p 1 in Etiquette
What is your contention regarding Embryonic Stem Cell research. Keep in mind that:
-Blastocytes, the undifferentiated embryonic cells that scientists would conduct research upon, aren't technically living beings (that's analogous to a seed being tantamount to a fully developed angiosperm).
-the Bush administration has denied public funding for ESCR, but doesn't altogether prohibit it.
-Methods have been devised to study stem cells without a) harming said embryo, or b) using embryos that had already died (atributed to natural causes, of course).
2007-06-12 16:39:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2007-06-12 16:39:08 · 49 answers · asked by MrsOcultyThomas 6 in Religion & Spirituality
This is a serious question! I know there is a verse that you read when cleansing the soul or preforming an exorcism, anyone know what it is? THANKS!
2007-06-12 16:39:03 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
2007-06-12 16:38:16 · 10 answers · asked by september 2 in Other - Society & Culture
i always wanted to know.
When a young girl talks with them, does it bring back times when he was a teenager or 20?
2007-06-12 16:37:30 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
In music that is edited they still say damn. It is also not censored on TV. Beyonce, who says that she is Christian says it, and she doens't censor it in her music. I'm Christian and I also hear some other Christians saying damn...sometimes. Would saying it be considered cussing?
2007-06-12 16:37:11 · 29 answers · asked by Dimples 3 in Religion & Spirituality
I just posted a totally legitmate question, and yet one of you got all teary eyed when they read it cos, oh guess what? I was right. cos if i wasn't right they wouldn't have deleted it.
But here it is and hopefully you guys won't shiit yourselves again...
All i ever hear is
"WHY ARE CHRISTIANS ALL THE SAME, IF ONE IS SOMETHING THEN THEY ALL ARE THERES NO CHANCE THAT ANY ARE DIFFERENT FROM ANOTHER CAUSE THEY'RE ALL THE SAME, AND I'M GONNA KEEP MAKING DISCRIMINATING REMARKS TOWARDS ALL OF THEM BASED ON NO REAL STATISTICAL FACTS AND JUST STRICTLY MY OWN BIASED OPINIONS, WHEN INSTEAD IT WAS JUST ONE IN PARTICULAR THAT MIGHT HAVE MADE A COMMENT THAT I DIDN'T TOTALLY AGREE WITH WHICH MAKES THEM WRONG COS I'M ALWAYS RIGHT COS I'M AN ATHIEST,
HAHAHAHLOLOLAOMOLROMF!!!!!!!!!
I THINK I'M SO SMORT COS I'M AN ATHIEST AND I MUST BE RUIGHT. I'M ALSO AN IGNORANT PRICK AND A HUGE DOUCHBAG TOO."
well... they may as well say that.
and yur always insulting us so dont cry.
2007-06-12 16:37:01 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
True Australian Ghost Story
This story happened a while ago in Brisbane, and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's true. John Bradford, a Sydney University student, was on the side of the road hitch hiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a storm. The night was rolling on and no car went by.
The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stopped. John, desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door, just to realize there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn't on! The car started moving slowly. John looked at the road and saw a curve approaching. Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life.
Then, just before he hit the curve, a hand appeared through the window and turned the wheel. John, paralysed with terror, watched how the hand appeared every time they came to a curve. John saw the lights of a pub down the road so, gathering strength, jumped out of the car and ran to it. Wet and out of breath, he rushed inside and asked for two shots of tequila.
He then started telling everybody about the horrible experience he went through. A silence enveloped everybody when they realized he was crying and....wasn't drunk.
About 15 minutes later, two guys walked into the same pub. They were also wet and out of breath. Looking around and seeing John Bradford sobbing at the bar, one said to the other, "Look, Bruce.. there's the bloody idiot that got in the car while we were pushing it."
2007-06-12 16:36:33 · 5 answers · asked by autumnleaves 3 in Religion & Spirituality
I am a christian,, recently actually. my parents are pastors but i was neevr intothe whole God thing until about two weeks ago. anyways my boyfriend, joey, his parents are also pastors, and he isnt a christian. how can I be a good influence on him without goin back to my old habits? and another fact is we both live in zimbabwe, but we are 6 hours apart. so i have to be good at being a good influence on the phone more then anything. so please if you have any tips I would greatly appreciate.
if this is necessary I am 17 he is 21
2007-06-12 16:36:21 · 22 answers · asked by tandita 2 in Religion & Spirituality
I have been told that I am "blue-blooded", because I come from an upper-class old money WASP family. Because of this do I have to act like a gentleman?
2007-06-12 16:36:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture
i pray a lot and it just seems like when i pray for others, good things seem to happen to them but when i pray for myself, nothing good comes of it. am i doing something wrong or just being selfish?
2007-06-12 16:35:32 · 16 answers · asked by elmo198221us 1 in Religion & Spirituality
Please don't delete my question!?
2007-06-12 16:35:05 · 15 answers · asked by socmum16 ♪ 5 in Religion & Spirituality
Or just one?
2007-06-12 16:34:31 · 14 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Religion & Spirituality
At what point does a theist start to cross the line between debate and evangelism?
2007-06-12 16:34:14 · 8 answers · asked by robbob 5 in Religion & Spirituality
When Muslim men die and pass to Islamic Paradise (Heaven), they expect to enter a utopian dimension where wine, milk and honey flows, fruit-trees flourish and rivers gush forth with the purist water.
Here, they plan to be greeted by 72 young virgins of "perpetual freshness" (houris) who will lead them into palaces loaded with luxurious thrones surrounded by gold, silver and jewel plated furnishings.- a holy place where believers reclined on jeweled couches surrounded by the finest silks can experience unlimited erotic sexual pleasures.
Islamic scholar Yusuf Ali described the virgins as "the companionship of Beauty and Grace - one of the highest pleasures of life. In the higher life it takes a higher form...The pronoun in Arabic is in the feminine gender. It is made clear that these maidens for heavenly society will be of special creation,-of virginal purity, grace, and beauty, inspiring and inspired by love, with the question of time and age eliminated."
The virgins, according to another Islamic commentator are "creations of God, intelligent yet soulless and created to serve the believer who goes to Paradise. They are created for the purpose of serving the believer, and as such, they don't exactly have free will. They are described as pure, beautiful, dark eyed, lustrous, virgin, and more perfect than any human on earth. Imagine the woman of your dreams."
Quranic commentator Al-Suyuti (died 1505 ) explained more graphically that Muslim men in Paradise experience non-ending arousals and that ever time they have sex with one of the angelic maidens, they find her body reconstituted as "virgin."
"The sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint," Al-Suyuti explained. " Each chosen one [Muslim] will marry seventy houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all (will be appetizing)."
Islam's Prophet Muhammad was heard saying about Islamic Heaven: 'The smallest reward for the people of paradise is an abode where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyyah [a Damascus suburb] to Sana'a [Yemen]."
To assure Muslim men that they will be able to fully enjoy their heavenly rewards, Muhammad said, "A man in paradise shall be given virility equal to that of one hundred men."
2007-06-12 16:33:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Why does God give me so much suffering even when I repented and try to follow him as a Christian. I have NO friends, and the friends I thought I had were befriending me merelly to use me for his/her advantage? I feel like absolute crap and want to die because that always happens to me. No one is actually a friend for who I am, not my talents. Why do some people like me suffer so much in the social realm while so many others are beloved by friends?
2007-06-12 16:32:37 · 18 answers · asked by Luke J 1 in Religion & Spirituality
Is there anything put away that if found might tell a storied secret? Do you have anything in your computer that might reveal things about you that want kept private?
2007-06-12 16:32:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
Hello,
This is a question many young Gay and Homosexual men and boys, seem to be concerned with.
Especially, those who are in their teens, and still living with parents, siblings, relatives, and are being harrassed about their sexuality, sexual preferences, and sexual orientation!
2007-06-12 16:32:27 · 22 answers · asked by BringBaka 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
2007-06-12 16:32:09 · 8 answers · asked by Miss Metro 5 in Languages
2007-06-12 16:32:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
1.whats wrong
2.are you mad at me or something
3.do you love me
4.yes of course i love you
5.im bored
6.would you teach me how to skatebored
7.please
8.do you want to go to the movies
9.do you want to come over to my house
10.i dont want anything
11.do you wanna play hide and go seek
12.or do you wanna play a board game
13.or maybe even a video
14.what are you doing this weekend
15.i dont know
16.sorry
thanks everbody for helping me!
ildqueen5@yahoo.com
2007-06-12 16:31:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages
For Christians - I have heard some of you say....if someone has never discovered God then they go somewhere besides hell. What is this place?
For Atheist - Do you think this is the only life we get a chance at?
2007-06-12 16:30:23 · 35 answers · asked by JimBob from 'Bama 2 in Religion & Spirituality
I have when I've travelled to an urban area to go out to a club or something and haven't been very well recieved, but you know what, it took awhile but I found there are so many others out there who don't fit the club scene and are just as gay. Has anyone else had this experience or is it a rural thing?
2007-06-12 16:29:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
2007-06-12 16:29:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality
word of god? Why or why not?
If you don't consider the apocrypha part of the "true canon," why not? The bible as we know it was compiled by on sect of Catholic Christians 1600 years ago, so is there any reason to think they were infallible?
And we now know that many of the books of the NT were not written by the authors they were presumed to have been written by...many of the epistles were known to be later forgeries, yet those books are still part of the accepted bible.
Please no snotty replies, I'm trying to understand your thinking.
2007-06-12 16:27:47 · 10 answers · asked by Mom 4 in Religion & Spirituality
2007-06-12 16:24:35 · 4 answers · asked by jbrich77 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups
Remember the episode where Butters was "bi-curious" and they sent him to some relgious camp. I'm not going to explain the whole thing but I never heard that word be used at all before that episode. Ever since it aired I hear the word bi-curious all of the time.
This was like a month and a half ago.
2007-06-12 16:23:44 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I hate wearing suits and fancy clothes, I love to wear sweats, I like to walk around the house in my underwear, I like it so sue me! Why do they want me to dress gay? I am a taxi driver not some kind of businessman!
2007-06-12 16:22:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups
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