Society & Culture - 29 July 2007

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2007-07-29 07:10:20 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Yeah yeah, I get the guy on the oatmeal box. But REALLY, what do they beleive, what are their principles?

2007-07-29 07:10:16 · 2 answers · asked by mkt 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-29 07:09:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What's so special & different abt them

2007-07-29 07:09:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

what does having a plate of salt under your bed mean. I am staying at some relatives, and they haven't been speaking to me. This morning I was cleaning out and found a plate full of salt under the bed. What is up with that?

2007-07-29 07:07:28 · 16 answers · asked by yummy 1 in Mythology & Folklore

I have the belief and faith that an Ouija is like any other amplifier of an operants own abilities for divination, just as pendulums, water bowls, cyystal balls, meditation, and Tarot cards. There are no invasions by ghosts spirits or anyhing evil unless the operant causes such on purpose.

I also believe this ongoing Christian rant on the use of OuiJa is because the Christian operants want "scary" things to happen because they've been trained that any kind of Magick must bring evil. The board just amplifies their ability to call forth their own darkness and if spirits are about greet those spirits with fear and hatred. Though, by their own words and their Bible, spirits go only to heaven and hell they do not "haunt the living" nor are spirits intrinsically evil.
I do not believe now or have I ever believed in Satan, Devils, or Demons. There is no reason I should fear them coming through a Board. I do believe a certain amount of people & religions need fear and evil in their lives

2007-07-29 07:07:25 · 8 answers · asked by Terry 7 in Mythology & Folklore

I have the belief and faith that an Ouija is like any other amplifier of an operants own abilities for divination, just as pendulums, water bowls, cyystal balls, meditation, and Tarot cards. There are no invasions by ghosts spirits or anyhing evil unless the operant causes such on purpose.

I also believe this ongoing Christian rant on the use of OuiJa is because the Christian operants want "scary" things to happen because they've been trained that any kind of Magick must bring evil. The board just amplifies their ability to call forth their own darkness and if spirits are about greet those spirits with fear and hatred. Though, by their own words and their Bible, spirits go only to heaven and hell they do not "haunt the living" nor are spirits intrinsically evil.
I do not believe now or have I ever believed in Satan, Devils, or Demons. There is no reason I should fear them coming through a Board. I do believe a certain amount of people & religions need fear and evil in their lives

2007-07-29 07:06:45 · 10 answers · asked by Terry 7 in Religion & Spirituality

If so, why? Didn't He create it in the first place?

2007-07-29 07:05:36 · 23 answers · asked by ccrider 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Ex. St. Basilica, St. Peter's, Rosslyn Chapel..
can you get married in any of them, too?

2007-07-29 07:05:10 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why not play the game of questioning?

We, Atheists love to question things and to explore, they love polemics beacause from polemics arise the essence of multiple perspective thought. And we don´t understand the believers stubborness in refusing to play the game. It irks us because in our world: that´s a sign of stupidity.

2007-07-29 07:04:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-29 07:04:23 · 5 answers · asked by geethu j 1 in Royalty

Many religious traditions have accounts of visions. Do you think that these were interpreted in the context of the culture of the time? How reliable were the prophets when they talked about what a vision meant?
Do you think a vision is an occurrence that human beings will better understand in the next few hundred years?

2007-07-29 07:02:06 · 3 answers · asked by Pascha 7 in Mythology & Folklore

Please help me. I am Christian and I like Marilyn Manson. But I am afraid that he would kill me or something if he found out I was Christian. I have read a page that he pees on pictures of Jesus, burns Holy Bibles in public, encourages kids to commit suicide, and kill their own parents, supports the Columbine High School Massacre and was glad that the two girls who were Christian died that day. He burns crosses like the K.K.K., and done a concert right in front of Columbine honoring the two killers. And also that he is a bisexual devil-worshiping monster. And I am 11 years old. I listen to heavy metal and German industrial and have an interest with Nazism. Am I a freak? Am I not a Christian if I listen to Manson? Please help me... I am so confused.

2007-07-29 07:01:16 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

who has the best word in the world?

2007-07-29 07:00:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-07-29 06:59:02 · 7 answers · asked by sharad s 2 in Mythology & Folklore

Or the FACT, that Atheism is a form of religion?

2007-07-29 06:57:48 · 28 answers · asked by Christanti 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Wouldnt u love to c the look on the faces of those really hardcore religious ppl who have lived according to the bible their whole lives? That would be priceless

2007-07-29 06:56:37 · 15 answers · asked by Jayyyz 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Coming from a christians beilief.

2007-07-29 06:56:28 · 8 answers · asked by dadewk 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-29 06:55:58 · 18 answers · asked by Mithrianity 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I was just curious...do churches distribute a periodic report detaling how they use tithes/contributions? For example, do church members get a quarterly spreadsheet showing that $200 was used to repair the PA system, and so on?

2007-07-29 06:54:33 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

When I went to school, 45 years ago, we were taught that the universe had no beginning. That's what all the scientists believed. That is what was stated in the text books. That is what passed all the scientific peer review boards.

When I went to Church, I was told that the scientific community was wrong. I was shown in the Bible where it said the Earth did have a beginning. Scientist ridiculed Genesis as being a fairy tale because they had scientific proof the Earth had no beginning

Then in 1965, at Bell Labs, scientist came up with evidence that the Earth did have a beginning, confirming what the Bible was saying for thousands of years.

I'm wondering, is there any atheists out there who would admit, at least on this one point, that prior to 1965, the scientific community was wrong, and the Bible was right?

It took a few thousand years, and much research, by science finally confirmed the Bible account: Yes, there was a beginning.

2007-07-29 06:53:17 · 20 answers · asked by theo48 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i havent been arrested for violations yet today!????
that must be where they are, what do you think?

2007-07-29 06:52:48 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

It's for a documentary i'm making. Please no "would like like porc, beer? etc" dumb questions.

2007-07-29 06:52:47 · 6 answers · asked by halcyone 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-29 06:49:46 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why get mad when we point out the innacuracies or nonsense in the religious books?
Most of us are trying to understand why you can't see the horrors and the lies in religious books,we're not here to mock you or criticize you.
So why the anger and the rage directed towards atheist and others who don't agree with you?

2007-07-29 06:46:50 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-29 06:40:12 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I've always wondered how many atheists convert and believe in God at the last minute on their deathbed, when the nothingness they espouse is looming before them all too closely. How many people think that Paschal's Wager starts to look pretty good to them in the last moments of life?

2007-07-29 06:39:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Matthew 27:3-5
When Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, "I have sinned in betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself." And throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself.

Acts 1:18
Now this man [Judas] bought a field with the reward of his wickedness; and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.

Matthew said that Judas committed suicide by hanging himself while Luke said Judas fell off a precipice. Note also that Matthew said Judas gave the money back to the chief priests while Luke said that Judas used the money to buy a plot of land.

Which is it? Did Judas throw the money down in the temple, or buy land with it?

2007-07-29 06:36:19 · 24 answers · asked by kimmyisahotbabe 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-29 06:36:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What does the word `immerse` mean? Would you explain to me???

Thank Brod and sister!
God Bless You.

2007-07-29 06:35:53 · 9 answers · asked by roberth m 5 in Religion & Spirituality