Society & Culture - 28 June 2007

I have had 3 Kirby salesman knock on my door this week alone! I can't stand door to door salesman either! If I want to buy something I will go buy it. I sure don't want some pest knocking on my door! The most annoying part is when you tell them you are not interested they still don't shut up! They ignore the no solicitation signs all over the neighborhood and on my door too. Who else is annoyed with these pests?

2007-06-28 19:31:46 · 9 answers · asked by Stefbear 5 in Etiquette

1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (English Standard Version)
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18For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written,

"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."


20Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

2007-06-28 19:29:30 · 12 answers · asked by Even Haazer 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I love my friend very much but I am worried about someone he is into that is carrying bad spirits or he himself has spirits. Anywho there are many bad things happening to him and he's feeling stressed and overwhelmed by certain things. I want to help him get rid of the negative energy and bring the good back to him and release the presence of those demons or spirits how do i do that.

2007-06-28 19:27:43 · 6 answers · asked by ? 3 in Mythology & Folklore

If you wanna impress the girls, wear pants your size and take that thing off of your head. So the girls can see what you have to offer. Hang with the fellah or hang with girls. You pick

Oh yeah. No bad names. No need for that. Don't do that. Makes the person doing it sound more than silly

2007-06-28 19:27:39 · 2 answers · asked by Babe 3 in Etiquette

So people go to church and pay tithing at their individual church. Does that church keep all of the money and use it for its needs, or does it like send it to the church head and then the church head distributes funds as they are needed to the chruches? Would a catholic church that was not making enough money to keep itself running get closed? And please, no comments on how giving money to churches is evil, or a waste, or paying court settlements, etc...

2007-06-28 19:26:56 · 7 answers · asked by lilfry14 3 in Religion & Spirituality

They just seem to not be as affected by deaths of family members, family pets or close friends to the same degree as the average person. It’s just something I’ve noticed and I’m not sure if it just the Mormons I’ve met that are this way or all of them. I mean, it kind of makes sense – I don’t think it’s too presumptuous to say that those guys do believe in some pretty full on stuff.

2007-06-28 19:26:29 · 21 answers · asked by Desiree 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Hello i am 15 years old and I am a girl.I want to know if these thoughts are common in others.Post a response if you feel that you should maybe Please? would help this cause to know an answer.I constantly think things like "is there a god?" I think about how I am made of flesh and bone which are just meat like ham(lifeless meat) I have a brain but all it is is meat.I know my mom and dad are made of meat but sometimes they comfort me into thinking that there is some deity watching me in the sky(which I highly doubt)but on a daily basis I go back and forth between believing and nonbeliving in a god,mostly because biologically, I desire to be happy like other people and for some reason I cannot be happy knowing that I'm a piece of meat and so is my family.I cannot choose to permanently believe or not to believe until I know(I will never know) so I must deal with it mentally which does bother me somewhat because if there is no god that means everyone is meat and so is everything and every

2007-06-28 19:25:39 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I need a creative and unique one ...

2007-06-28 19:25:13 · 9 answers · asked by Duna 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Okay, so it's on here all the time and I just dismiss it.

So here's why I'm asking instead of reading the 1,000 other times it has been asked. First is to get through all the *drink* type answers, and ask what is the best answer you've ever heard to the question.

I mean really it's a valid question, God can do anything, well then God can either make a rock so big He can't push it, or He can't.

Either way there's something He can't do, it's unavoidable.

"Nothing is impossible with God" is something I hear all the time on here, well how is this possible?

2007-06-28 19:22:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Everytime you see it again, do you get emotional?

2007-06-28 19:20:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

I have heard people say people who cuss like that have a bad spirit, what do you think?
I went to get lunch yesterday a young woman maybe 20 or so was saying the F-word every 8 or 9th word.
I almost ask her to stop I was with my 65 year old mom so it was embarrissing.
She kept looking at me like she was dareing me to say something.
What do you think should be done in a situation like that?
and do you think its a bad spirit? and the Holy Spirit in Christans provoke it?

2007-06-28 19:20:44 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In Exodus 20: it reads the following…
1-God spoke all these words saying:
2- I the Lord am your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage:
3- You shall have no other gods beside Me.
4- You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image or any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or the waters under the earth.
5- You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I the Lord your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and upon the forth generations of those who reject Me.

My question to you is, if the Lord gave this commandment to us all, why do you fall on your knees and pray to saints?

2007-06-28 19:17:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-28 19:16:18 · 2 answers · asked by kuttyma 1 in Religion & Spirituality

When you actually read the bible you notice that none of Jesus's true followers allowed anyone or anything to bow to them- they knew this takes glory from God (father of Jesus). So why does the pope and other catholic officials allow it? Are they better than Peter, Paul, John.ect....

2007-06-28 19:15:40 · 12 answers · asked by jesusisking51 2 in Religion & Spirituality

For example : shakti lives in us as Prana shakti, what other such forms can you tell ?

Jai Mata di

2007-06-28 19:15:39 · 13 answers · asked by Divya Jyoti 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Well I'm agonostic so i'm still trying to figure out what I want to believe. But I have used God's name in vain in anger and other situation. And since this is an unforgivable sin. And a local pastor told me I'm going to hell since you can't repent for it.

Mark 3:29 "But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin."

I'm screwed I guess. Who knew one pharse has given me a one way ticket to hell.

2007-06-28 19:13:29 · 21 answers · asked by Jayclark 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Is it Kali? or luxmai? or some other ?

Jai Mata Di

2007-06-28 19:11:48 · 7 answers · asked by Divya Jyoti 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Don't get me wrong, I'm not some jerk theist trying to "save" people. I'm a 17 year old kid thats decided to give up organized religon, and possibly become an atheist when I move out of my parent's house.

I recently read both Dawkin's and Hitchen's books, and am really liking the sounds of atheism, I have always been a logical person and am pursuing a degree in Science next year (Science = opposite of religon). But still, I can't help but fear eternal damnation. I was raised Muslim, but the concept of monothesium and an afterlife are still there like in Christianity, and the idea of Hell seems universal. Perphaps because it has been beaten into me for so many years, I have trouble accepting this illogical place.

My question to atheists is this. Do you fear Hell? If you were brought up religous, was there like a grace period where you feared hell, like a long process toward's atheism, or did you just give it up easily , without second thought.

Thanks in advance for any help :)

2007-06-28 19:10:48 · 37 answers · asked by Go Leafs Go 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I want to translate a phrase from English to Latin or some other ancient language. What are some good sites where I can do this for free? I've looked and I can't find any. I need some accurate, free sites where I don't have to sign up for anything. Thanks!

2007-06-28 19:04:25 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Do you ever wonder what ham tastes like? Are you ever tempted to try it? Or does the thought alone disgust you?

My stepdad converted last year and I imagine he had a hard time giving up bacon.

2007-06-28 19:04:18 · 9 answers · asked by sakotgrimes 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-28 19:03:38 · 9 answers · asked by KrishanRam(Jitendra k) 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Bless those that curse you? that's one of my favorites, pray for those which despitefully use you? that's another good one, what are yours?

2007-06-28 19:01:22 · 21 answers · asked by Girly Q 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-06-28 19:01:10 · 36 answers · asked by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4 in Religion & Spirituality

They agreed to give themselves a pay raise. What is going to become of us people?

2007-06-28 19:00:23 · 17 answers · asked by don_steele54 6 in Religion & Spirituality

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2007-06-28 18:59:51 · 5 answers · asked by K Babe 1 in Mythology & Folklore

The word "gaydar"? Up until a few days ago, I never knew that the word Lifestyle was offensive, so is gaydar offensive too? I hear that word alot more than lifestyle

2007-06-28 18:55:06 · 24 answers · asked by For Da Be Dan- Liza p 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I know that atheists don't believe that there is a God, but I was wondering if atheists are as skeptical about other tenuous phenomena, as they are about God. So I made a list of ten things, and if you would answer yes, if you think it definitely exists, no, if you think it definitely doesn't exist, and maybe, if you think it could exist. I am curious as to how diverse the answers will be, or if atheists will have a fairly common response.

1. Aliens
2. Ghosts
3. Bigfoot
4. ESP
5. Astrology
6. Reincarnation
7. JFK Conspiracy
8. Telekinesis
9. Numerology
10. Hypnosis

And as a control:
11. God

2007-06-28 18:54:16 · 30 answers · asked by Timon 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Would you say eewww! or politely refuse it? EEWWW!!

2007-06-28 18:53:16 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-06-28 18:51:00 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Neither the word Trinity, nor the explicit doctrine as such, appears in the New Testament, nor did Jesus and his followers intend to contradict the Shema in the Old Testament: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord’ (Deut. 6:4). . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies. . . . By the end of the 4th century . . . the doctrine of the Trinity took substantially the form it has maintained ever since.”—(1976), Micropædia, Vol. X, p. 126.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “The formulation ‘one God in three Persons’ was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, prior to the end of the 4th century. But it is precisely this formulation that has first claim to the title the Trinitarian dogma. Among the Apostolic Fathers, there had been nothing even remotely approaching such a mentality or perspective.”—(1967), Vol. XIV, p. 299.
In The Encyclopedia Americana we read: “Christianity derived from Judaism and Judaism was strictly Unitarian [believing that God is one person]. The road which led from Jerusalem to Nicea was scarcely a straight one. Fourth century Trinitarianism did not reflect accurately early Christian teaching regarding the nature of God; it was, on the contrary, a deviation from this teaching.”—(1956), Vol. XXVII, p. 294L.
According to the Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel, “The Platonic trinity, itself merely a rearrangement of older trinities dating back to earlier peoples, appears to be the rational philosophic trinity of attributes that gave birth to the three hypostases or divine persons taught by the Christian churches. . . . This Greek philosopher’s [Plato, fourth century B.C.E.] conception of the divine trinity . . . can be found in all the ancient [pagan] religions.”—(Paris, 1865-1870), edited by M. Lachâtre, Vol. 2, p. 1467.
John L. McKenzie, S.J., in his Dictionary of the Bible, says: “The trinity of persons within the unity of nature is defined in terms of ‘person’ and ‘nature’ which are G[ree]k philosophical terms; actually the terms do not appear in the Bible. The trinitarian definitions arose as the result of long controversies in which these terms and others such as ‘essence’ and ‘substance’ were erroneously applied to God by some theologians.”—(New York, 1965), p. 899.

2007-06-28 18:50:14 · 13 answers · asked by Keith 2 in Religion & Spirituality