Society & Culture - 14 July 2007

hey me and my friend are really bored, its mid-night, and we are 15

i live in a gate community of only 5 homes so toilet pappering/ property destruction isn't really an option, but we need something to do.... something really fun

2007-07-14 20:23:48 · 6 answers · asked by david 2 in Other - Society & Culture

"Even an atheist is tempted to lie to a bereaved child, that the loved person or animal is not really dead, just somewhere else healthy and happy. Soothing that pain is about the only legitimate function of religious lies."
— Roedy

2007-07-14 20:22:18 · 14 answers · asked by HawaiianBrian 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Firstly. If you send an answer that attacks me then you show the weakness in the Atheist movement and ideology.
I am genuinely curious and I don't want idiots or narrow-minded morons answering this question.

Secondly: If you are a Theist with an absolute rulebook (Christian, Muslim, ect) then please don't answer this question.
If you are a Theist without an absolute rulebook then please answer as well.

My question is: If something is right because I believe it is right then why is it right? If someone else disagrees with it how could it be right?
Let me give you an example: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM or female circumcision) is a practice that is despised by many people, but there are countries why say it is normal, good or right for this to be done. How can we in the west say it is wrong and how is it wrong just because we say so?

Example 2: The death penalty. The US has it in some states but not others, how can it be right in some states but not in others?

2007-07-14 20:21:05 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Were they the low bidders on the contract?

2007-07-14 20:16:18 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am faced with a paradox and, as a student of the sciences, I strongly dislike paradoxes. My religion is Christianity and I am also a scientist. I recently started having conversations with others in the field of science and find that they are immediately averse to my faith operating under the false assumption that my science is flawed as they are under the assumption that the christian faith in incompatible with science. This troubles me greatly, but I will not choose between my faith and science. There is such an incredible amount of science in the bible from the flaming bush seen by Moses to the great plagues of Egypt to the concept of creation to the walls of Jericho falling down and more. So my question is this: Why, in the minds of scientists and christians both, is science and christianity irreconcilable and what can be done as a scientist and a christian to reconcile the two and still be respected as a scientist?

2007-07-14 20:15:18 · 20 answers · asked by Raptor 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I say that unless you have 3 wintesses who heard God's message to you, you have no right to claim God spoke to you.

This would cut down on the number of people who commit crimes and purport to be carrying out God's will, or at the very least eliminate those awkward moments at dinner parties when they start telling you about their message from God, their guardian angel or the Virgin Mary.

Failure to follow this law will result in you being locked up as a mental patient.

Who's with me?

2007-07-14 20:14:35 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If you believed in God, would you pray for more hair?

2007-07-14 20:11:34 · 8 answers · asked by Cap'n Cheney 3 in Religion & Spirituality

is religion a barrier to SPIRITUALITY
or
a catalyst to SPIRITUALITY.

why?

2007-07-14 20:08:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-14 20:06:44 · 9 answers · asked by pamanael 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Okay...i write...........GASP! You don't think there's anything wrong with that?? WOW! If you went to my school you'd be like, the only one!!!! DUMB! Oh, my god. I am so sick of preps judging me because during READING i am writing idea's for my story. Dumb, huh? Or am i the dumb one? Is wanting to be a writer TOTALLY sick and twisted??? Trust me, it's a lot better than what i wanted to be when i was 5. I wanted to be a vampire and be married to Chucky the Doll. (I had issues...ALOT of issues) But now people ask me "If it's true i write stoies in class" I say yes and they start laughing. Am i not getting the joke or...what?

2007-07-14 20:05:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-07-14 20:00:57 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have heard or read somewhere that several of the Psalms and at least one book of the Bible were written by angels. Anyone else know about this, and if so which are the passages referenced?

2007-07-14 19:58:09 · 15 answers · asked by bishopsjewels 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-14 19:56:33 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-14 19:53:39 · 15 answers · asked by ahmad seyam r 1 in Languages

by: Henry Ward Beecher

HOW DO YOU LIVE?

2007-07-14 19:47:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How many souls have been already doomed by the "Mark of the Beast" also known as the VERICHIP a product of Applied Digital Solutions.

2007-07-14 19:46:48 · 14 answers · asked by James 1 in Religion & Spirituality

About the way I see things, I ask God every night to show me the truth, if my dreams, obe's ect are from satan then to show me, teach me the truth of it all, what religion is right ect, I have begged him to show me over and over. He seems to keep me on the same path, more dreams, the only difference is I am not scared of them anymore. but nothing has changed except the peace I feel over my life. I refuse to go to church, I feel most not all in the church are hypocrites. I did say not all. But I feel peace, total peace in my choices. so am I wrong, or should I listen to what I believe God is telling me?

2007-07-14 19:45:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-14 19:38:17 · 11 answers · asked by Al Shaitan 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Well all muslims respect Jesus(peace be upon him) but we dont believe him to be God it is not insult to Jesus even Jehovah witness also dont believe in trinity nor do jews.Christians should not set standards for other religions.No where in the Bible the word Trinity is mentioned.Peace & blessings.

2007-07-14 19:38:16 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was raised in NC , I worked the tobacco in the summer and came home to an open windows house..IN THE FALL we went to school no a/c..windows wide open..
No such thing as a/c "spas" we sweated all summer.
Is the climate controlled world better for us?

2007-07-14 19:38:13 · 11 answers · asked by tagway 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-07-14 19:38:12 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-07-14 19:34:51 · 53 answers · asked by I WALK FUNNY 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-14 19:33:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How many of you have in your religious library a copy of the Jewish Bible according to the traditional Hebrew text?
If no, then why not?

2007-07-14 19:31:14 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

when the day comes where we all have to come before God. She also said that I was not humble enough to accept their religion. It saddens me to learn that this is the way she preaches her faith and I'm more certain now that they are misguided and deluded. How should I tell her nicely that this is not for me?

2007-07-14 19:27:58 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-14 19:25:47 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

We all have our own reality- the way we perceive the world to be, not the way we want it to be necessarily, but how we think it operates, what God/the Universe is, etc.

Most people think there is an absolute truth that is true whether we believe it and see it correctly or not.

Many religions claim their reality is definitly the same as the absolute truth.

If this describes your beliefs, how do you know your reality is the absolute truth?

Isn't all we have our own perceptions? How can you be sure then?

2007-07-14 19:25:22 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

not that im unfaithful and all
just want to see what evidence people may have there is a god and jesus and stuff.

2007-07-14 19:21:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

give good details of what you think heven would look once you arrive and my second question is when you get there what would you do first?

2007-07-14 19:18:33 · 12 answers · asked by kwtechno 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Aren't they meant to be good, honest teachers of a faith?

2007-07-14 19:14:21 · 22 answers · asked by Skaggy says: 5 in Religion & Spirituality