Society & Culture - 2 August 2007

I don't think mocking nor name-calling would convince those whose beliefs differ from you. doing so also just questions the validity of our beliefs. If what you believe is true then no matter what anyone says against it will not change it.

2007-08-02 17:21:27 · 16 answers · asked by mack-mack 3 in Religion & Spirituality

if so thenn why did God make it where we will have ever lasting life in a giant hot tub (fiery lake)?

2007-08-02 17:19:21 · 10 answers · asked by Bobby 3 in Religion & Spirituality

do you like you will know your child(ren) in heaven?

2007-08-02 17:17:57 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-02 17:14:35 · 13 answers · asked by Chelsie A 1 in Mythology & Folklore

"I'm not the maternal type and I never wanted children". WHat would prompt a mother to say this? It's just a puzzling thing I am trying to work out.

I know this isn't an R&S question but I generally get intelligent and helpful answers from you guys.

Thanks

2007-08-02 17:11:45 · 22 answers · asked by . 6 in Religion & Spirituality

This is just confusing the hell out of me. I have literally read 10 posts in just the last 30 minutes in which non-Americans claim to know exactly what Americans are like and exactly what we do, and exactly what we think. I am even speaking of non-Americans who have never visited America! It is ridiculous. I'm pretty shocked by it, actually.

I would never presume to know what people from other nationalities think and feel. I would never presume to know what they hold dear to them. I would never presume to know their values. It is a shame that so many people like to "rag" on Americans for really, no good reason at all. It's just stereotypes. I don't buy into stereotypes. It's ignorant to do so... and I'm not ignorant, contrary to what most people seem to think on this forum (since I'm an American). :-(

2007-08-02 17:09:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Alright, so it happens all the time. At school, work, the mall, even stupid places like...idk, Wal*Mart. I'll walk in and people look at me oddly. Girls just give me this weird blank stare and Guys look like they wanna fight me. I'm not odd looking, i'm clean, and i'm well built. So freakin weird though...whys it happen? What are all of you thinking? And i'm not just paranoid, its really happening

2007-08-02 17:07:40 · 10 answers · asked by Chaos Theory 3 in Etiquette

Since Baptists (Not to be confusen with Anabaptists) were Not part of the Protestant Reformation, are they considered "Protestants"?
If they are, why?

2007-08-02 17:06:56 · 12 answers · asked by RG 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-02 17:06:23 · 2 answers · asked by lilpixie133 1 in Etiquette

Why?

2007-08-02 17:04:56 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Points to whoever gives me the correct Thelemic (no not the simplified, all in one Wiccan version!) response and if more that one correct answer then I will give the points to whoever can give me their understanding of the implications of response...

2007-08-02 16:59:02 · 11 answers · asked by Tirant 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Why would any normal person think a perfect God would need blood offerings to make everything fine.....its just so sick....don't you think?
eg....the blood of christ....and before him ...alot of blood offerings god found pleasing.....????hello wakeup and think for yourselves what a perfect god or parent would be like!

2007-08-02 16:56:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"When the sea turned into honey, the poor man lost his spoon"

What is your interpretation?

2007-08-02 16:55:22 · 7 answers · asked by Caimunion 2 in Mythology & Folklore

10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

2007-08-02 16:54:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Has anyone ever had a supernatural experience? Or thought they had one, or just seen something very scary that you couldn't explain?

2007-08-02 16:52:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

open to God's ways by having a loving personal relationship with Jesus is like a breath of fresh air.which includes loving people,not judging others,and just leave people alone and live your life by example of how Jesus lived.Is not that the greatest testimony one can give?

2007-08-02 16:52:00 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm 17 years old (18 Tuesday) and I work in a restaurant. There's a older woman in her 60's or so who has the same title as me but she is always yelling at me and criticising what I do and now she has got the supervisor to yell at me all the time too.
Is there a law or something against this? because I honestly don't do anything wrong and they yell at me in front of customers aswell.

I hate working there so much but I can't quit until I have another job.

2007-08-02 16:51:39 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-08-02 16:50:35 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-08-02 16:49:02 · 4 answers · asked by jesuslopez5001@sbcglobal.net 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Recently I read about a death of a boy who is one year ahead of my at school. I began to cry as I looked at his myspace, which is stell kept, and it's weird because he went to my school and everything. I never, ever knew him, but here I am, still crying for him. He was fifteen, I think. And it got me thinking.

Lately I've been questioning my religious beliefs. I'm a Catholic and have always believed in Heaven, but my biggest fear is that when I die, nothing will happen. I want Heaven to be true, and I want to have my conscience live on after I die, but with all of the science anazlyzing the creation of our earth instead of God doing it, and with all of the other religious beliefs, I don't know. I'm afraid that when I die, that will be the end of it. I don't know how to reassure myself, because really what I want is proof that it exists, but I just don't know.

Does anyone know how to align religious beliefs that are being reluctantly doubted?

2007-08-02 16:46:51 · 23 answers · asked by remotelyxuncontrolled 1 in Religion & Spirituality

i care what lauguage you tell me i. i wanna know how you say " I want you" in different languages and how to say "your my daddy".

thank you. just say it in any lauguage, dont forget to me what language it is =]

2007-08-02 16:46:17 · 20 answers · asked by bebebabe 2 in Languages

Can we please just drop the "Christians hate gays" line of comments?

Case in point: http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Apa2b2ybxvdOW7nWgiOsXBfAFQx.?qid=20070802202308AAlwr3W

I know most are trolls, but why feed them? I'm rather tired of it. It's NOT true. They only promote more hatred and intolerance.

And to you self proclaimed open minded and tolerant "Christians", "Muslims", "Jews", Atheists, Agnostics, and any others who really have something against gays, please just stop it. We're all tired. It's done, finished, kaput!

:D

2007-08-02 16:46:05 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What does the Catholic Church think about people donating their organs after death?

2007-08-02 16:45:11 · 10 answers · asked by DL4evr 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-02 16:44:47 · 7 answers · asked by Coco 2 in Mythology & Folklore

The ego of self can be the deliverer of either the sweetness of the sensabilities of self; the strength of the character of self and the smartness of the powers of the personality of self; OR it can be used by the self for flaunting the powers and abilities of self together with the knowledge and energies of self and the confidence and courage of self.

How can we learn to stop using our ego from displaying all that which the self knows and uses as his powers and abilities; and instead allowit to deliver all that our inner self possess.

Who is the ultimate driver of the self; the ego of the self which is capable of driving the self to perform actions of the mind of self; or that self which is capable of driving the ego of the self to wisely use and deliver the sweetness of the sensabilities of self; the strength of the character of self and the smartness of the powers of the personality of self;for enabling and empowering the self first to perform actions of the mind.

2007-08-02 16:44:42 · 2 answers · asked by ts@greenpastures 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I am Mormon and when u r fourteen (and older) u can go to activities us 12 year olds can't go too? It seems like they get other privliges too?

2007-08-02 16:43:43 · 13 answers · asked by Never Been Kissed 1 in Religion & Spirituality

people think alot off stuf?? ..what do youthink?

2007-08-02 16:42:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why do people send chain emails saying things like if you love God send this to 10 people in 10 minutes. Emailing spam doesn't justify your religion or love for God. It really annoys me. Like I just recieved an email about prayer and it ended do you have time to send this. these emails just make you feel guilty for not praying in your free time or forgeting to bless your food but it doesn't determine your religious level or love for God. I don't understand what powers people to write these things and then tell you if you don't send it your not christian. Does anyone else feel the same way/

2007-08-02 16:41:39 · 14 answers · asked by K 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I have been reading posts here and there just for fun, as I'm a little bored on a muggy Thursday night in Atlanta, GA. I happened to stumble upon some posts that I found quite interesting.

Someone had posed the question "Do British men like American girls?" I was surprised at the answers! So many people seemed to answer the poor girl with (uncalled for) animosity. Many stereotyped Americans to be loud, obnoxious, greedy, fat... all kinds of insulting stereotypes. I was actually a little offended and surprised.

Why are Americans stereotyped in this way? And even if we happen to speak in a louder tone etc., isn't this just a cultural difference? Something that is accepted here? Just because it is not common to speak at higher volume in other countries doesn't mean that it's "obnoxious", right? Just a cultural difference?

I think there are probably obnoxious people in all countries, outgoing or shy people in all countries, and people to admire or avoid in all countries!

2007-08-02 16:41:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

1. Godzilla and monster island is real.
2. Present (boring) one.
3. Men in Black
4. Star trek

Why?

2007-08-02 16:39:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore