Society & Culture - 2 July 2007

"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence. "
Spanish Proverb

2007-07-02 16:23:06 · 14 answers · asked by Amma's Child 5 in Religion & Spirituality

My husband has to do a reading for his Grandmothers funeral this week. He has been researching and just can't find anything fitting. Does anyone have any ideas for readings? We are at a loss she was so specia to him that we need something really special. Thank You

2007-07-02 16:22:29 · 7 answers · asked by darlene 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-02 16:22:11 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Royalty

I truly WANT to believe in the goodness of the people in our world, but when this is what your book teaches, how can we not be afraid of you?

Qur'an:9:5 "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war."

Qur'an:8:59 "The infidels should not think that they can get away from us. Prepare against them whatever arms and weaponry you can muster so that you may TERRORIZE them. They are your enemy and Allah's enemy."

Qur'an 47:33 "Believers, obey Allah, and obey the Messenger. Do not falter; become faint-hearted, or weak-kneed, crying for peace."

Qur'an:2:193 "Fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief) and religion is only for Allah. But if they cease/desist, let there be no hostility except against infidel disbelievers."

I am not religious at all, but I cannot see how ANYONE could believe in a book that teaches them to hate...

Help me understand why.......

2007-07-02 16:20:29 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

from the evil anti-mormons on the Internet?

2007-07-02 16:18:08 · 11 answers · asked by Cheese and Rice 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I am going out to witness to people on the streets, about the saving Grace of Jesus Christ. My question is... what do you think of that?

2007-07-02 16:16:50 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If I believe in Allah but do not believe that Muhammad is his prophet, ie I think Muhammad is a charlatan and therefore we do not need to blindly follow what Muhammad said. Am I still considered a muslim?

What about people living before Muhammad's time. There wasn't a Muhammad yet, so were they muslims?

2007-07-02 16:16:37 · 2 answers · asked by ali 6 in Religion & Spirituality

And, would you still be my friend if you knew my P.O. was a Muslim?

2007-07-02 16:16:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

He weaseled his way into my heart and just as quick smashed it. How can I learn to trust again when this is the third time this has happened to me? Don't tell me I'm the only gay man on the planet who wants and expects faithful mate. I can't beliive that only 3 months into something I was all of a sudden boring. Maybe he never was serious, how do you know when someone is faithful? Am I missing something or doing something wrong?

2007-07-02 16:15:12 · 8 answers · asked by raymond_h 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Well...im having a problem. Been depressed for awhile over it.
I am a christian man in a relationship with the most beautiful,
smart and funny woman ever of 4 years. I really want to marry her
soon, but were having problems. She's had trouble with men before.
Cheating, lying and so on. So now her opinion is very bad about men.
She believes every guy is a lustful guy, wanting sex, cheating,
porn. But i tell her not every guy. I don't do that stuff, and
i honest tell her that. Its hard. I dont like being accused
of things i dont or will never do. I really love her so much
and i hate her upset, as a christian...how do i tell her in
a good way that I aint like those guys?

Thanks

2007-07-02 16:14:20 · 18 answers · asked by minutes2midnight56 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you believe the scientific or Biblical creation of the universe? I believe in the scientifical theory. I just feel as if Adam and Eve couldn't bring us where we are today with all the different people in the world, thus, god creating this world we live. I am not very religious. Religion confuses me, yet I pray to god.

2007-07-02 16:14:04 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I told my friend I was going to get a bar code of a cheezit box tattoed above my elbow,but he say's that it has something to do with the mark of the beast and that he has the Bible to back him up.I've been reading in Revelation where he told me it was but I don't see anything about it.Is he just messing with my head?!?!

2007-07-02 16:12:31 · 21 answers · asked by rage against me! 1 in Religion & Spirituality

You know what I mean? I spoken to a few of you guys and you all seem to have different ways of twisting around your knowledge of science so that it doesn’t upset the delicate balance going on in your knowledge/belief equilibriums. Well why don’t you get together and work out a list of standard laws that allows for the existence of evolution but also allows for Gods hand to be involved with it? Why don’t you book a conference centre!?!?! I can see the headlines now; “The 2008 Neo-Christian Conference.”

2007-07-02 16:11:04 · 16 answers · asked by Desiree 4 in Religion & Spirituality

If you were the only person who could move where would you go what would you do?

2007-07-02 16:10:12 · 4 answers · asked by iwonder??man 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-07-02 16:09:10 · 12 answers · asked by Mo 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I've heard this so many times in R&S but no one bothers to explain it. Don't mind me if this is a stupid question. I'm biblically challenged.

2007-07-02 16:07:42 · 15 answers · asked by Sneaky Shoelace 4 in Religion & Spirituality

homosexuality is forbidden in all religions. if you believe in the bible, the holy Qura'an, the jews' holy book. u will know about Sodom & Gomorrah. these were 2 cities which were destroyed by god for what was happening in them. homosexuality and the like. god destroyed them and covered a sea over them (the dead sea) and that sea is so salty you cannot go down, you just float (aint that a coincidence). the book of genisis says this but yet christians allow gays to marry? excuse me but am i the only one finding something wrong here. religion is not like politics, its like if they refuse homosexuals theyll lose popularity. example,a priest is one that lives and breathes the bible, but yet he agrees to marry gays. i dont care if this is the 21century, religion dont change, what was written thousands of years ago doesnt just change because some people disagree with it. In islam you CANNOT be gay, simple. if you muslim and 'become' gay it means you are no longer a muslim.

2007-07-02 16:06:19 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-02 16:05:18 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

To hell with the drinking questions...lets just get drunk!
This has seemed to be an off day for all sorts of things...including YA.
So lets just drink and be over with it!

2007-07-02 16:04:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i mean i cannot love at will, so no, i am sorry but i dont love him...it is impossible for me to love a something i have never experienced and i am afraid that in here the almighty one is him so he could have done something more specifical to let me know him...That is if i dont love him it is really his fault not mine. But anyway i believe in him...Would that be acceptable for you??? (take the question from a hypothetical point of mind i am not personalizing)...
And for whoever says that i have to try harder to love him, i only have to say that if i try hard i can even love Peter Pan...or mind is easier to deceive, auto suggestion, induction...Anyway believing i love something/someone doesnt necessarily mean i really love something/someone.

2007-07-02 16:04:34 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This question is a series of

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtO9o9cMvJsw_FgPFkkQhHDsy6IX?qid=20070702172335AAMQf13

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ank8Q3G5cZXUQZykesf6SN_sy6IX?qid=20070701174143AAhtAFw

Do you get angry when you childern said "I don't love you anymore". In other way, Do you love your children with uncondational love ?

2007-07-02 16:03:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-02 16:03:14 · 10 answers · asked by Mo 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-02 16:03:01 · 11 answers · asked by Desiree 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-02 16:00:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

“Along with many of my former peers, I was taught by Pakistani and British radical preachers that this reclassification of the globe as a Land of War (Dar ul-Harb) allows any Muslim to destroy the sanctity of the five rights that every human is granted under Islam: life, wealth, land, mind and belief.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770

2007-07-02 16:00:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I know about endangered animals and endangered languages but what about endanged religions? Christianity is a large majority of the world's religions and is fast consuming other religions so I know that there are some endangered (or extinct) religions out there... If you know of any than PLEASE tell me. Websites much appreciated!!!!!!

2007-07-02 15:59:16 · 11 answers · asked by westhillsgarage 2 in Religion & Spirituality

(knowing that Sai Baba is famous for vibhuti *apparition*)
See picture of it here:
http://www.mountainvalleycenter.com/store/images/nagchampa.JPG

2007-07-02 15:59:06 · 3 answers · asked by Amma's Child 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I just don't understand this. There are so many weirdo's out there and with the internet it's even easier for these weirdo's to have access to these young girls. My cousin even posts provacative pictures of herself up on her MySpace page, I am always telling her what the dangers are of doing that, but it doesn't stop her. Why do young girls do this? Don't they understand that it's dangerous?

2007-07-02 15:58:32 · 7 answers · asked by Easter Bunny 4 in Other - Society & Culture

I went to take the test to get my drivers permit and I failed it for 3 questions. I didn't study for it but when I woke up in the morning I just felt like going because I was bored, lol. When I was there I had all documents but I didn't have the proofs of address, I was in the line and there was only one person and I was like freaking out and then I looked into my bag (the one I use to go to school) and there was a salvation!!! it was soooo random, I had a letter from BYU (yeah, that one rocks and I'll go there) and my report card with my grades and my address and they said, OK. I got my eye exam and I passed it! WEIRD. well, I was so possitive and used my modelling skills for the picture and I was cool in my computer and then at the end it said: you got 14/17... that sucks! only 3 more. Dang!!!

How many times did you have to take it?
How lucky were you?

By the way, I'm not depressed about that, lol, I'm just bored ^_^

2007-07-02 15:58:28 · 22 answers · asked by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4 in Religion & Spirituality

it's not harmful as drugs...

2007-07-02 15:57:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture