Society & Culture - 12 July 2007

The Ayatollah Khomeini told the Muslim faithful that marrying a girl
before she began menstruating was “a divine blessing.”

2007-07-12 17:24:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-12 17:23:55 · 23 answers · asked by Uncle Wayne 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-12 17:21:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Did you belong to "traditional/mainstream/orthodox" Christianity before you joined your particular "cult"? (and I say "cult" with all sarcasm)? When did you know it wasn't right?

2007-07-12 17:19:31 · 20 answers · asked by mormon_4_jesus 7 in Religion & Spirituality

In Genesis 6:15, God instructed Noah to build an ark that was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. This is a ratio of 30 to 5 to 3 (length to breadth to height). Until about 1858, the ark was the largest floating ship ever created. In terms that we understand better, the ark was about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. In 1844, a man named Isambard K. Brunnel built his giant ship, the Great Britain. He used almost the exact ratio of the ark—30:5:3. As it turns out, these dimensions are the perfect ratio for a huge boat built for seaworthiness and not for speed.

2007-07-12 17:19:24 · 12 answers · asked by JayDee 2 in Religion & Spirituality

if God truly created man in his own image, and the fossil record clearly shows that humankind originated in africa, does it stand to reason that God is black??

2007-07-12 17:19:16 · 13 answers · asked by drtyfckr 3 in Religion & Spirituality

All I hear is that we are doomed, stupid, depressing, evil, going to burn, etc.

2007-07-12 17:19:08 · 10 answers · asked by stacie c 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Hate to put you on the spot but just wanted to know if you get baptized, and if so, then why do it, if it has no meaning in your church, had a disscusion about it today with a baptist, just wanted to get more insight as to why you think that, when Jesus commands it! thanks for your answers!

2007-07-12 17:18:20 · 4 answers · asked by didnotknow123 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I am talking about the ones that wear thick glasses and study all day long. Is it true that these kind of people are more likely to succeed in life compared to the average person with some other talent like sports or being able to play a musical instrument? If so, shouldn't all parents advise their kids to be like that?

2007-07-12 17:17:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Obviously, you would have to have a rebuttal to this by now... just wondering what it is?

Simple version:
-- There is something moving
-- Everything that moves is put into motion by something else.
-- But this series of antecedent movers cannot reach back infinitely.
-- Therefore, there must be a first mover (which is God.)

and any other responses to him...

This is a diplomatic question, so only educated answers please.

2007-07-12 17:14:55 · 17 answers · asked by Nep 6 in Religion & Spirituality

if they had accidently fell in love with their cousin or would you just not be able to get past that?

2007-07-12 17:14:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

What I mean is; does one go from a state of not believing in anything then being influenced by incoming data and then making a choice to believe in something. Or does one start out with a belief in something then make a choice to no longer believe in it?

This is because someone just told me that I apparently choose to be an atheist. I beg to differ, because I don’t remember making a choice at all whereas a Christian or any believer is the one who has clearly made a choice.

And yes, it’s another take on my favorite question; are Christians just non-practicing atheists?

2007-07-12 17:12:53 · 17 answers · asked by Desiree 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Im a nice and quiet person whom some label as a nerd.(but my friends realize that I can be funny at times and loves music SO much)...and yet some dedicate their lives to making mine hell. There are a handful of girls in school whom, among various mean things, attempt to sabotage my projects for school and talk rudely to me. And then there are the boys...the really stupid ones who follow those girls around like sheep also enjoy being annoying. They took it into their duty to throw a few pebbles at me in p.e. class....
Why are these people so rotten, and how can I get them to stop!?

2007-07-12 17:12:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

I know it would be heaven, but share what you think it would be like right here on earth now, today. thanks.

2007-07-12 17:11:32 · 12 answers · asked by expertless 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-12 17:10:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

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That paper that Aaron Carter is holding.... I wanna know what it says but I can't read it :(

2007-07-12 17:08:20 · 6 answers · asked by Gotnothingtodo! 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-12 17:07:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was saved in a UPCI Church. i was babtized when i was fifteen and sixteen when i recieved the gift of the holy Ghost. I grew up in a angnostic Family. and My friend helped me find my way to salvation through repentence and babtizm . most of the time i would go with the rules.. when i came into the chuch i stuck out right off the bat.. he told me he loved me and he was my best friend for along time.. unitll push came to shove and the church accused me of backsliding.. he turned on me .. in a vicious way. My question.. is this to i go to the chuch that i was saved in.. or do i go to a church where my Salvation is between me and God and not MySelf and the United Pentecostal Church International?

2007-07-12 17:07:17 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i wonder

2007-07-12 17:02:07 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I mean, look at every major government today. China, one billion people - evil communist government that slaughters its own people. America - adminstration that does nothing but lie and bend over to corporate interest. India and Russia - corrupt to the bone and more. (One Indian coworker I met said the only place he ever smoked weed was in an Indian police station, and that all cops there were flexible to cash money - no lie).

Everywhere you go, liars profit, and the vulnerable are preyed upon. This is the 'winning point' of market ideals, that the strong prey upon the weak, and the weak are blotted out for being unsatisfactory in their method of deceit and lies. Everywhere you go there is outrageous death and fabrication. It's part of human nature, so they say.

I think that even if we were to embrace Jesus now, he'd be so disappointed he'd write the lot of us off. Wouldn't blame him. What do you think?

2007-07-12 17:01:14 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

...or send them to special Mormon only schools where they get taught essential facts, like how special underwear can save them?

2007-07-12 17:00:47 · 15 answers · asked by Desiree 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Lets say, some future civilation living right now as i speak. Since time linear?

Lets say that society is very advance, they invented a time machine...lets say they're evil and against god..and decideds to back to the birth of Jesus and kill him. If jesus is dead, that means he didn't die for our sins..


Is there a scenario where religion can take out science..like when those nuke bombs were dropped on nagasaki and "huroshima"...japanese cities...could your prayer have prevented it?

2007-07-12 16:59:58 · 15 answers · asked by Anthony L 3 in Religion & Spirituality

what do u see

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do u see a thug do u see a drug dealer do u see a cocaine slang er a wife beater a womanizer, what if i told you I see a young black man in his 20s who had a loving father from England and a loving mother from the Caribbean who are both black and they are both well educated they speak proper english and can apreciate diffrent forms of music, they grew the son up in the subarbs, and what if i said that the young man grew up to to be a manager of a radio station at the age of 20, but you dont see all of that today i was pulled over by a cop because my girlfriend was runing and i was chaseing her trying to get my ball we were both laughing and smileing when i caught up to her a cop car pulls up and asks for my id and asks me questions about what i was doing with the white girl runing. why is there still so much rascisim when it comes to interacial coupels

2007-07-12 16:59:02 · 17 answers · asked by dean 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-07-12 16:57:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was in yahoo chat the other day...and a man entered w/ "child porno fan" in his sn...so what do you do? You report abuse but what exactly happens to him? Someone admitting something so gross and offensive...and nothing happens? His name was allowed and that's not right. There should be more investigators, more jobs given to investigators to catch these people and lock them up before kids get hurt. Why does yahoo allow sn's like that?

2007-07-12 16:57:13 · 1 answers · asked by Killer Bee 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Is that an old term than isn't used anymore? That was the standard when I was little.

We would say oh there is Sister Jean or Brother John....I don't hear that anymore.

2007-07-12 16:56:33 · 26 answers · asked by 2ndchhapteracts 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm trying to email a German company. i need to say:
I know to say:
Ich wohne in dem Vereiningten Statden (spelling?)
but I need to ask them if their AXBO is compatable with the US outlets.

2007-07-12 16:51:14 · 5 answers · asked by ChicaInquisitiva 3 in Languages

Have your children received Jesus, and at what age did they make the decision?

2007-07-12 16:50:39 · 30 answers · asked by af 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-12 16:50:03 · 10 answers · asked by George 4 in Religion & Spirituality

anyone says my fav you get points and are also a very wise person

2007-07-12 16:49:47 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality