Society & Culture - 8 August 2007

Is it true that those with the heavenly hope are a select few (144,000) and have already been sealed (Revelation chapter 7). No more than this amount is selected.
The rest (great crowd) have the earthly hope.

"already been sealed".
According to the Watchtower Organization, did this happpen in 1935?

2007-08-08 16:48:58 · 6 answers · asked by RG 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-08 16:47:55 · 12 answers · asked by Eartha Q 6 in Religion & Spirituality

References please!

Thanks!

2007-08-08 16:44:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Any thoughts on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CreationMuseum15.png

Why do people believe this?

2007-08-08 16:43:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-08 16:43:00 · 4 answers · asked by Maheswari 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Whys it SO bad and malicious to call a black person "black" because thats what they are. Or if u call them "the oh so horrible N word" when i hear them call each other that ALL the time!!!! People call white people "white" and "cracker" and "hoes" all the time and we dont do anything but black people take advantage of their race i think. they even say words like that in their rap songs!!!! im not racist its just something ive noticed and im not trying to offend anyone i actually have a few friends of different races than me. all african americans as well i would like to hear your opinions....nice ones please.....

2007-08-08 16:40:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

It is my personal belief that there is a god and our lives are being judged based on actions. If the good outweighs the bad then you will find peace in the afterlife, but why are we here? I just feel like we were granted time to be free and do as we please by a greater being. Our actions are our own and yet controlled because we fear what we do not know for certain, and the gray area is death.
Religion feels forced at times does it not? It is the key to filling in that gray area of death, but they all have a major flaw. Everyone says their's is right and everyone else's is wrong...but...how is that fair? How could it be that one group of people gets to be right and live happily ever after, and the rest burn in hell? That's not right... it can't be right. People get so worked up about who's right and wrong.. We fight over meaningless things. We think too much of the future and can't see what lies in front of us...

It is my personal belief that the meaning of life is... to live.

2007-08-08 16:39:21 · 33 answers · asked by mandan200x 2 in Religion & Spirituality

The teaching of Futurism has been widely accepted by Protestant churches. This happened around the 1800-1900's- How is it that these Protestant churches have forgotten why the martyrs for Jesus Christ died ? Why have they forgotten at WHOSE hand the martyrs died??

2007-08-08 16:39:09 · 7 answers · asked by darkness breeds 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-08 16:38:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-08 16:36:34 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Old testament - gays witchs observer's of times and so on

All to be killed - The bible advocates murder

The New testament -

Everyone is inferior to Jesus and anyone who doesn't agree has "no opinion" - hate fear control permeate the New testament Jesus condones slavery - The idea of owning a person - all Jesus had to say was be nice to your slave and slaves do a good job -

The New testament calls "other relgions" lies and uses hatful messages to convey it's point of supremacy at the expense of anyone who disagree's

How is this not hate litrature and why isn't it being banned - so as not to pollute our children into thinking crime is ok ?

2007-08-08 16:35:36 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

A monotheistic religion is one with only one god, such as Islam. If Jesus is the son of god, then that makes him a god too. A religion can't have two gods and still be monotheistic. This means Christianity is a polytheistic religion, doesn't it?

2007-08-08 16:34:42 · 34 answers · asked by Iceshocker123 1 in Religion & Spirituality

....the date:
December 21, 2012?

What are your thoughts on it?

:3

2007-08-08 16:33:52 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

and you were one of the few remaining mormons, would you continue to practice mormonism?

2007-08-08 16:30:48 · 14 answers · asked by Al Shaitan 4 in Religion & Spirituality

they waste so much of their energies in an attempt to dinigrate the faith of Christians?

2007-08-08 16:30:13 · 33 answers · asked by interficio_pravus 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I am just wondering what has turned you so much againist the idea of God.

2007-08-08 16:29:21 · 44 answers · asked by Shawn G 2 in Religion & Spirituality

"It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable — and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before"
- Osho -

2007-08-08 16:27:54 · 8 answers · asked by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Why was the media so quick to pin it on Muslims instead of looking at facts right away? When it was found that it had been an American white man, not even an apology was issued to those who had been attacked. What do you make of this?

"On April 19, 1995, the deadliest terrorist attack ever in the United States transformed Oklahoma City into the center of the media universe. Reporters from all over the world swarmed to cover the bombing of the city's federal building, where 167 people died.

But unknown to most people at the time was the tragedy that happened next. At least 220 attacks were committed against Muslims and Arab-Americans after the FBI said that three Middle Eastern men were the prime suspects in the bombing.

There was a rush to point the finger in the four days before authorities charged former U.S. Army serviceman Timothy McVeigh in the bombing, and many Americans were blaming Muslims."

http://www.islamfortoday.com/stereotypes.htm

2007-08-08 16:27:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My dear Christians,

Take a look around.
This is a beautiful world with many fascinating things.
But have you ever seen Santa?
Any unicorns running in the wilds?
Dragons breathing fire?
Do you see any flying monkeys?
The thing is, those stuff only exist in fairy tails and in your
own imagination.
As a rational humanbeing, how can you seriously believe in oceans splitting apart, sticks turning into snakes, God, and many more.....
Open your eyes folks, this is the reality you are living in!
Not a fairytale where you will end up happily ever after in some fairyland with some cheesy God!
I just don't get it how the most intelligent animal on earth could be so delusional!
Seriously, open your mind and realize what you are!
There are no miracles or magic going on...
There is no way I could convince you...you will have to convince yourself.
Be wise and realize how funny and pathetic you people are.
Come on! Jesus will ascend from heaven with a shiny robe!
Wake up ding dong

2007-08-08 16:27:27 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-08 16:26:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Traits and Symptoms I have:

I think I am disgusting
I'm a loner
I hate getting close to people
I annoy other people
I can't really think of a time where I was really excited well at least during the past 1 1/2 years
I don't really hang out with friends
I am ugly
I love to listen to music, paint, and do anything else artistic, yet I just don't feel like doing it. And when I push myself to do these things it still doesn't work
I can be quiet
I hate when people automatically assume I am stupid
Since I don't have many friends I talk to myself and act like I am different people talking to me :(
I went to counseling, took prozac but I hate those things so i quit cause it doesn't help
I don't know.
i'm tired.

2007-08-08 16:20:55 · 8 answers · asked by Introverted Mind 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Pagan/Wiccans If there was no after life. Would you still believe in your faith?

As an Athirst, I haven't recalled an after life which has been described to me by a Wiccan as a place to reflect on your previous life. So is this just a fairy tale or is it just I am not receptive of this notion so I am somehow blocking any possibility of my previous encounters?

2007-08-08 16:20:51 · 9 answers · asked by Doug B 3 in Religion & Spirituality

We are discussing so many things about religions. Are main topic in my school are the Jehovah Witness. They are a religion that has been threw a lot from Nazi Germany to the U.S Supreme courts and other countries high courts because of their rights to practice their religion. They have actually shaped America’s law, medical, and technology systems and take no credit what so ever for what they done. Their the only non political Christian organization and don’t participate in military service because of their beliefs. I didn’t know much about this religion, and I thought that they were a sect but after learning so much about them, I have a very different point of view towards them now. So why all the hate against them? Their actually a very unique group in all of the worlds society.

2007-08-08 16:20:45 · 19 answers · asked by Bryan 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-08 16:19:58 · 11 answers · asked by Melanie 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Can I make him materialize? He's always slamming the doors, I think he's mad at me.

2007-08-08 16:19:50 · 11 answers · asked by SHARON 4 in Mythology & Folklore

...if that person goes to hell anyway?

2007-08-08 16:19:18 · 15 answers · asked by ccrider 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-08 16:18:07 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

King james version , old testament , new testament

2007-08-08 16:17:15 · 27 answers · asked by butterflyqueen 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Just because they may not believe the same things?

2007-08-08 16:16:21 · 16 answers · asked by Al Shaitan 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Hello, working on a project and I need to find some basic Druid info. Beliefs and activities. Long story short I need to educate a cop on Druids and Wiccans. Got the Wicca covered.

2007-08-08 16:15:28 · 6 answers · asked by Lil'witch 3 in Religion & Spirituality