Society & Culture - 23 July 2007

Let's say your son made a mistake, will you forgive him or kill the other son?

2007-07-23 06:34:16 · 52 answers · asked by Kimo 4 in Religion & Spirituality

sin", then why did God destroy the whole cities of Sodom
& Gomorrah, (known for it's immorality and gay lifestyle?

2007-07-23 06:34:11 · 25 answers · asked by judy f 3 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

if they have a god why does theres make them live in a dirty hot stinkin part of the world where disease and poverty are rife.
and we get far better and some of us cant even be bothered with church. it would be so much easier if we left them at their own devices and keep the extremists in the desert

2007-07-23 06:33:39 · 11 answers · asked by vk 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Do you think God has or has not changed his mind about the following 3 requirements:

Faith
Obedience
Shedding of blood

How are you fulfilling these today?

2007-07-23 06:31:45 · 24 answers · asked by Dr. G™ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

have grown up with a big family that drinks alot. my granma has eight brother and sisters. and they are all big drinkers. and she will have card parties were they play penucle and they drink and cuss and have a good time. i have heard dirty jokes. and they don't mind kids cussing. they are all great people, they will stay up until 6 in the morning playing cards and drinking.

i notice alot of people think it's wrong to have kids were there is alcohol. but this is how i was raised. i think it's fine. they have let me taste alcohol. i actually think kids are more resonsible with alcohol when raised like this. i want to know why some people are so offended by this envirernment? i am a good kid and so are my cousins and my sisters and it is so much fun growing up this way. i have so many great memories. i wouldn't change a bit of it.

why do people get offended by this? why do people believe kids should be know were around alcohol? what are your opinions on this?

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1 hour ago
just so you know, i have a really great respect for alcohol, and from what i know so do my cousins my age.

and they don't drive home after drinking. my aunt and uncle who live like an hour away from me stay at my granparents house. and everyone else lives like a block away. i have only seen one person drink and drive.

1 hour ago
i don't want people to think these people are bad. it's not like they teach us bad things, they just have fun.

1 hour ago
i want to make it very clear that these people aren't alcoholics. aslo my grandpa was a school janitor, but he hasn't ever drank even a drop of alcohol. and my grandma worked at a dry cleaners, but they both raised 5 of my grandpas sisters after his parents died. when they had no money to begin with, and today they have one of the best housed in our comunity. my other uncle served in the army, and one owns his own bisness, one of my cousins owns his own bank chain, ones a fire rescue person.

so these people do have good jobs. and they don't live in crappy houses. most of the people are pretty well off.

1 hour ago
and we were never offered like whole beers. it was always like a sip of whine or something.

2007-07-23 06:30:28 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

I won't say who wrote this, apparently that's against the TOS but suffice to say that this person posts a lot here.
On to his answer;

"Seems to me that it takes a lot of faith to believe that the Universe just "came about" from a "Big bang" that "just Happened" From a Big bang that took place from "nothing."

Amazing isn't it? This person finds it difficult to believe that anything came from nothing (and I agree).
Yet when he reads in his bible that god just "made" the universe out of nothing, he has no problem with that.
Am I missing something? Is this some massive joke?
Can people really be this ignorant and still have enough intellect to type on a keyboard?

2007-07-23 06:30:17 · 33 answers · asked by Yoda Green 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-23 06:30:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-23 06:29:17 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Florida town of Ave Maria is like many other large family neighborhoods. The town will have 11,000 homes in its community.
Ave Maria has a specific purpose. The quaint location isn’t built for golfers or retirees like so many other Florida developments. Ave Maria is a refuge of sorts for Christian values in a secular age
town is centered around an 1,100-seat Roman Catholic church and a traditional Catholic university.

No adult book stores or strip clubs adorn the town, and local businesses are urged not to sell contraceptives or birth control.

But some civil libertarians are raising objections to this modern-day city of God.

opens its gates to the public for the first time on Saturday. It is the brainchild of Dominos Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, who built the town as part of his life-long dream. The staunch Catholic envisioned a community that would draw residents who shared his Catholic values.

2007-07-23 06:29:09 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

For years I have prayed for God to keep my mother healthy and happy in her old age, but in the past year she has become bedridden and doesn't even know who I am. Is it even worth the effort to pray? I have become disillusioned with it.

2007-07-23 06:29:05 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-23 06:26:25 · 24 answers · asked by Deke 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I really like this verse but I don't know where it came from in the bible.

2007-07-23 06:25:44 · 10 answers · asked by emily 2 in Religion & Spirituality

What do you believe comes first: the knowledge of self, the knowledge of intelligible objects, or the knowledge of being and non-being? Do you believe, for instance, that a person first knows reality, and its opposition to non-reality (implicitly, of course), and then later, by reflecting on his or her act of knowledge, the intellect comes to know the existence of that knowing act and its thinking subject, and thus he or she comes to know the existence of this "chair" or that "bed", seized by his or her senses.

In other words, do you believe that in intellective knowledge, the universal comes first, and that sense is restricted to the individual and particular?

2007-07-23 06:23:34 · 16 answers · asked by delsydebothom 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Doesn't make much sense to me.

2007-07-23 06:23:08 · 9 answers · asked by COLTSfansince1994 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-23 06:20:37 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The first two boons Yama immediately gave..but when Nachiketa asked for Atma vidya as 3rd boon...yama asked him to take whole earth's kingdom or wealth, or children..but not to ask for this as boon... and it was with great reluctance that he finally agreed...(Kathopanishada)

Can you tell me why Yama did not want to give him Atma Gyan as 3rd boon ?

2007-07-23 06:20:09 · 13 answers · asked by ۞Aum۞ 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Im surprised. I just came to have a look for the past 3 nights. But there seems to be so much fighting amongst you, so many thumbs down to people expressing their religious beliefs.
Whats going on?
You all have different opinions dont you?
There's really no right or wrong is there?

2007-07-23 06:19:43 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

and why did you choose that path (if you weren't bor with it)

I'm VERY new to Wicca, and my friends were all born Wicca. they told be a bit about it, and I liked it

2007-07-23 06:17:41 · 44 answers · asked by ■ Jessie ■ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

The religion reporter for the Los Angeles Times lost his faith after eight years of covering religion in all its forms...and decided he needed a new beat. I found him extremely courageous.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-lostfaith21jul21,1,6552887,full.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage

I know I had to walk away from a lot when I left Christianity for Paganism...there's still a huge rift in my family...but I didn't have to think about my livelihood or public reputation.

What about others here? What did you sacrifice when you lost your faith in Christianity?

2007-07-23 06:16:58 · 26 answers · asked by GreenEyedLilo 7 in Religion & Spirituality

You can be serious or have fun with it.

2007-07-23 06:16:05 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I know generally it is near Muldrow, Oklahoma. I am looking for it so I can mark it on Google Earth.

2007-07-23 06:15:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

how can a guy make his waist slimmer without exercise i mean like how to make a belt or something of the kind

2007-07-23 06:15:25 · 6 answers · asked by tg m 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

were African-Americans denied the priesthood until 1980? This would have denied them eternal life in the best heaven (celestial kingdon) and all the blessings that entails. Why were they punished for their ancestoers actions instead of for their own sins? Did the 2nd article of faith apply to only white mormons?

2007-07-23 06:15:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-23 06:15:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why sarcasm always? They can't prove their point, WITHOUT insulting, and making fun of other Religions?

2007-07-23 06:13:40 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-23 06:13:17 · 7 answers · asked by jim d 1 in Religion & Spirituality

The Bible says:

" The fool has said in his heart, there is no God". ---------Psalms 14:1.

"And Jesus told his doubting disciple, " Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed".
----John 20:29

'Acquaint thyself now with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee."
-----Job 22:21

People who do not believe in God are usually those who will not believe in Him. Unbelievers choose not to believe in God. The problem lies not in the mind but in the will. Those willing to know God will find him- and will find the evidence for his existence satisfying and abundant. The atheist or agnostic, by closing his eyes to the very real evidence of God's existence, is playing a game of life he cannot win.

The Bible describes atheists and agnostics as "without Christ...aliens...strangers... having no hope, and without God in the world". Ephesians 2:12.

2007-07-23 06:11:44 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

A bit of a random question.

I am a transsexual and still early in my life but I love tights so much. I especially love black opaque tights but often also wear patterned tights.

I am realistic when I am full time that I will often wear trousers or in the summer bear legs etc but I just love the feel of soft tights on my shaved legs.

I know it is usually men that have a fascination with specific elements but I was just wondering if any girls out there (both those lucky enough to be born female and others that have had to change nature's mistake) that have any real fascinations with certain clothes

2007-07-23 06:11:17 · 11 answers · asked by Laura 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

What does it mean...He died for 'our sins'..? If you mean the sins of the romans, the jews, the disciples that fail to 'recognize' him, then maybe i can see a point. But, YOUR sins...you ...as ..i NOW? what do you mean by this...are you saying you were there? Are you saying that...uh oh...that you were reincarnated? Could someone please explain this to me?

2007-07-23 06:11:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

not melodramatic!something uplifting!

2007-07-23 06:10:47 · 32 answers · asked by raz21 1 in Etiquette