Society & Culture - 20 June 2007

I lived in a haunted house for a few months. I heard the ghost knocking on the walls and walking up and down the stairs. My dogs could hear it and would wake me up, growling at the ghost. Are ghosts troubled souls or evil spirits? Share your experience and thoughts with me.

2007-06-20 10:50:36 · 13 answers · asked by Miz D 6 in Other - Society & Culture

If I don't marry my crocodile girlfriend who is pregnant with my baby?

AFLAAAAAC!

2007-06-20 10:47:42 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In addition,why are there 2 snakes on the medical cadeus & only one on the Mental Health cadeus?

2007-06-20 10:47:26 · 11 answers · asked by Doc 69&70 1 in Religion & Spirituality

how many of yopu have heard of this practice of female genital mutilation? another retched practice from historically musim countries that still goes on today. yopung girls often die from it.

source (one of hundres): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_circumcision

2007-06-20 10:44:37 · 13 answers · asked by bill h 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 10:43:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

from what you heard about Islam (except the Media) ???
& whaty have you heard ??

2007-06-20 10:40:19 · 19 answers · asked by aimooon87 3 in Religion & Spirituality

OK, If you're Christian, what part of Christianity do you belong to - Roman Catholicism, Armenian Orthodox, Lutheran, etc. - and what makes its teachings and values different from all the other branches of Christianity? If you're not Christian, what religion (if any) do you follow and what branch of it do you belong to (if there are any branches of that religion)? Thanks!

2007-06-20 10:40:05 · 24 answers · asked by yo 2 in Religion & Spirituality

... what are you looking for?

2007-06-20 10:38:15 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

in its basic form the story reports that mohammad longed to convert the people of mecca[who were after all his kinsmen to islam]. as he was reciting sara-al- najm[q; 53] considered a revelation by the angel gabriel. satan tempted him to utter the following lines after 19 and 20. have you thought the third the other]. here mohammad is talking about the moon god and his marriage to the allat the sun goddess and there daughters. these are the exalted sharang whose intercession is hoped for 22:52 is revealed to mohammad to comfort him. now if anybody tells you that the koran is the most prefect book is either on drugs or brainwashed.

2007-06-20 10:38:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

*cries*

AFLAAAAAAAC!

2007-06-20 10:36:15 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I don't see it carved into the 10 Commandments...and not everyone is going to believe the Bible...

Ideas?

2007-06-20 10:34:50 · 28 answers · asked by Stella 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I think it would be a lot of fun to start a Bible study.Everyones invited,everyone a teacher and a pupil.Pick a subject.Everyone vote on that subject and go with it.Take turns with where its based at.What do you think?

2007-06-20 10:34:34 · 11 answers · asked by don_steele54 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 10:33:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The underlying principle is that genetic mutations do occur and can be passed on to offspring. But, is it reasonable to suppose that humans will continue to evolve over any length of time?

The problem I see is this: in order for humans to evolve as an entire race, the necessary genetic changes would have to occur in all humans that have children within a given generation, so that those changes can be passed on to the entire population of future generations. However, such a widespread genetic change affecting everyone the same way is very unlikely. There may be some who inherit certain mutations, but these individuals are just as likely to mate with other humans that didn't receive the genetic change. The end result is that isolated genetic mutations are not going to have much of an effect on the world's population as a whole.

If the same concept is applied to our ancestors, how likely is it that some descendants would become humans while others became apes?

2007-06-20 10:32:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Has God done something for you that is not humanly possible?
Something that's out of your control?
How did you know that God has answered?

2007-06-20 10:31:25 · 15 answers · asked by thememtheory 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Hey gang, I have been a regular on R&S for about 2 months now and all i am seeing is the same drivel and name calling, the same unintellegent questions and the same one sided arguments. I would really like to carry out a civil, polite and lengthy disccusion with someone about some of the topics on here. Anybody is free to email me and I welcome any questions thoughts, statements or observations. I hope to hear from you!

2007-06-20 10:31:00 · 16 answers · asked by dougness86 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Non-Christians if you were once Christian, how were you treated when you left the church?

Christians please don't say a true Christian would never leave, either answer the question as asked or skip it. Please.

2007-06-20 10:30:46 · 8 answers · asked by Aria 3 in Religion & Spirituality

What attributes set Christians apart from other religions ?

Is there a single word that can apply to ALL TRUE CHRISTIANS ?

2007-06-20 10:29:12 · 43 answers · asked by dave777 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Yet another Pink Martini cover (I guess it's a traditional Japanese song) Does Taya Tan mean anything?

2007-06-20 10:28:58 · 1 answers · asked by Joe M 7 in Languages

Something simple, yet totally encompassing...and timeless, for my eternal confusion?

2007-06-20 10:28:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 10:28:34 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

''And if you only could see when the Mujrimun (criminals, disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, etc.) shall hang their heads before their Lord (saying): "Our Lord! We have now seen and heard, so send us back (to the world), we will do righteous good deeds. Verily! We now believe with certainty." (Qur'an 32:12)

'And as for those who are Fasiqun (disbelievers and disobedient to Allah), their abode will be the Fire, every time they wish to get away therefrom, they will be put back thereto, and it will be said to them: "Taste you the torment of the Fire which you used to deny." (Qur'an 32:20)

2007-06-20 10:28:27 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I know there was a similar question to this, but i wanted to check something and it is a bit different.

As far as i am concerned, Good and Evil are man made terms. For something to be considered as good or evil, it has to be either for, or against someone's morals.

Now, what i don't understand is, people claim that certain things are evil. What if the fact of it is, there is no good or evil, the 2 things were only created in the first place, because someone far back along the time line decided he wanted things done by his own personal set of morals.

A view on this is the assassin. A person stolen from birth and trained as a killer, he is taught it is right to kill, does this make him evil? No i say because his morals state he is in the right.

Has any one else got any views on this?

2007-06-20 10:28:16 · 8 answers · asked by Xzar 6 in Religion & Spirituality

In Quran God says "And nearest among them(Muslims) in love to the believers wilt
thou find those who say, "We are Christians": because amongst these are men
devoted to learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not
arrogant" {Quran 5:82}

Both Muslims and Chirstians believe in the Second coming of the Christ, both are instructed to follow him word by word on his second coming. What will take for these two not to judge the world and each other but organize with each other for common good and leave the judgement of there actions solely to God!

Another Surah from the Quran says
"Verily! Those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah(God) and the Last Day and do righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve"

Jesus Christ also asked not to Judge.

So what are Muslims and Christians waiting for???

2007-06-20 10:28:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do you think they would stop wasting their time making new profiles..and just finally go away from this site? Maybe we should try it.

2007-06-20 10:27:10 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to hang out with a diverse set of “spiritual” individuals. All of them had an underlying quality that I can’t quite put my finger on but they all processed a mixture of intensity, focus, connectedness and tranquility. The mix included Neo-Pagan, Christian, Buddhist, and a woman who describes herself as a mystical agnostic.

The common thread was that rather than these people being devoted to a given religion/god/goddess they were all devoted to introspection, mediation and development of their own spirituality. Their spiritual exercises took a very high priority in their life.

So it seems to me that religious/spiritual enlightenment/maturity has everything to do with the dedication of the individual and very little to do with the path the individual is on.

2007-06-20 10:27:03 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

what is it that you feel about having sex before marriage...and tell me, why do you feel this way, what influenced your thought?

2007-06-20 10:23:13 · 28 answers · asked by jamlynne 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 10:22:32 · 16 answers · asked by sallybowles 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-20 10:21:30 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

She is Italian and this must be a typo or something because its spelled: Onyszczuk

2007-06-20 10:21:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages