Society & Culture - 13 August 2007

On sravana-purnima Raksha-bandhan is celebrated traditionally in many regions of North India.
And what are places where a appearance of Lord Baladev (Balaram, Balabhadr) is celebrated???

2007-08-13 00:43:57 · 5 answers · asked by Govrisha 2 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-08-13 00:38:11 · 3 answers · asked by jobees 6 in People with Disabilities

On sravana-purnima Raksha-bandhan is celebrated traditionally in many places of North India.
And what are places where a appearance of Lord Balaram (Baladev, Balabhadr) is celebrated???

2007-08-13 00:37:10 · 2 answers · asked by Govrisha 2 in Religion & Spirituality

How can you all be so sure that us Atheists will go to this fictional Hell you keep talking about? What would you do if it was you lot that goes to Hell for saying that to us?
In a way you don't really realise that YOU are performing Spells and you don't know it. HA HA HA.
Everytime you sya or think stuff on people it is classed as a spell. Even your pathetic God says not to do this.
You may all have just dammened your souls to this fictional place.

2007-08-13 00:37:06 · 12 answers · asked by Jason S 2 in Religion & Spirituality

A man with a hammar went into a beauty salon and beat four old women for pocket change. I am a cynic and nothing surprises me usually, but I just can't believe someone could sink that low as to beat up four old ladies with a hammar for pocket change. It just baffles me. They caught the person and now I am wondering what his punishment will be. What about you?

2007-08-13 00:34:52 · 17 answers · asked by Lynnemarie 6 in Religion & Spirituality

first let me begin by saying that i am a woman who rejected islam about 25 years ago and now an atheist, and i am not an apologist for any religion or spiritual movement ok

However i need to get this question in perspective

Each time i question the shamelss paedophile actions of the islamic prophet Mohommed muslims and their apologists hit back that Mary was 13 when she fell pregnent with jesus. I have not found even 1 verse in the bible that says so. It only says Mary was a young lady when she had jesus

Anyway i am not worried about mary , joseph or even god.

i am a thinker who compares the 2 religions islam and christianity ok

Mohommed was the founder of islam and he was a paedophile
jesus was the founder of christianity and he lived a saintly life

I judge a tree by its main root, and the islamic main root Mohommed commited paedophilia

now why cover this act up fellows?

xmuslim / free thinker

2007-08-13 00:33:19 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-13 00:32:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Recently bought an old oscillating fan. It puts out so much more cool air than the new ones that are smaller or bigger. This I assume is because the companies have to make fans safer and the cages don't allow for air flow.
I have never known of anyone who got a finger, hand etc injured in a fan. Do you? Was it an old one or a new one?

2007-08-13 00:31:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

Now becasue I do talk a lot I was kicked out of the course of talking too much. I was asking a lot of questions that night becasue I wanted to learn. The next day I had this pastor from that church knock on my front door telling me not to go back as he said I was disrupting the class. I was just asking a lot of questions and I was new to christianity and was happy. But htey kicked me out. Then I went to finish to course at my mothers church and they kicked me out for swearing. Not out of anger but in conversation. I was so new to the faith I was still in my bad habbits of swearing. I still do now but have cut back on over half. What do you think of this chrisitans? Do you thikn they were hypocrites?

2007-08-13 00:31:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

where, when, how?
in home preschool institute?
school?
news?

was negative atitude or positive?

2007-08-13 00:29:33 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The wedding at Cana where Jesus performed His first recorded miracle, i.e. the making of wine from water, was reported in the gospel of John only. This is in John 2:1-12.

Mary, the mother of Jesus, Jesus Himself and His disciples were present. Why was the mother of Jesus present? Was she a guest or related to the person wed? Why was she concerned that there was no more wine? If you were a guest, would you do what she did?

Why is this wedding recorded in John only? Is it because the author of the gospel of John knew the event first hand?

2007-08-13 00:23:33 · 6 answers · asked by Peace Crusader 5 in Religion & Spirituality

When I was 8 yrs. old, my soccer team had a banquet, and about 20 of us were playing hide and seek at twilight. We all saw something. I'm generally pretty skeptical, but we all saw something, and it stuck with me. The Air Force said it was a weather balloon (one with lots of colored lights, I guess).

2007-08-13 00:22:41 · 14 answers · asked by albob3000 2 in Mythology & Folklore

and he will distroy the whole planet with a water disaster including your parents and reast of your neighbours?

which girls in planet earth you will grant that oppertunity.. me. Pamila Anderson, Beyonce and Shakeera... I know that's three. I'll build a secret wooden hut under the elephant cage in case if I have chance to get one more aborad.

2007-08-13 00:21:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This iranian middle-eastern girl at my gym who i have had problems with(bordering on racial differences,i'm asian-american)so perhaps there were ways we were very harsh towards eachother.But anyway i only had 1 real good conversation with her which was 2 months ago where i pretty much restrained my temper,was polite respectful the whole bit...After that she ignored me for a bit untill about a couple weeks later where she has tried to get my attention,pass my way etc....look at me,gaze at me etc...but i didn't oblige much because of past differemces that were still burning me up.Why would she continue toi act this way?(we both live in losangeles by the way which is also why i'm not too trusting of her.)

2007-08-13 00:20:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

You cannot truly understand another's religion unless you have lived a liftime living their faith and following their path?

2007-08-13 00:15:04 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

and why did you chose it?

2007-08-13 00:14:26 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why can't God lie or sin?

God can do whatever he wants....I mean who is going to question him? If God wants to rob some lady and have sex with her in the alley in China town, then kills her....who is to say "God...you did bad!"?

No one that's who. God can lie if He wants, He can steal if He wants, murder, cheat, fornicate...no one can challenge Him. I mean look what happened the last time that happened(talking about Lucifer being thrown from Heaven incase you didn't know).

God can lie and sin, but He chooses not to so He can set a good example for us. agree/disagree?

2007-08-13 00:13:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-13 00:12:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Well in Islam we know who Gabriel is and what place he does have in our Muslims harts, we know him very well.

However he does have anther name!!! The other name is (soled power).

And why do we have him in our hart like that? because he delivered to the prophet of all humanity Muhammad peace is upon him, the beast book that could come to earth from the highest source.

And I want to know if in Judaism and Christianity are they the same as Islam in this manner witch is how does he look like as a body wais? and what did he do to each one of them?

I will tell you what I know about him:
Imagine
If he stands in front of you!!!!!!!!!!! he will cover the sun light from you because all angels are high like from earth to the sky, and he does have 600 wings and each wing cover the sun light to earth. would that be the same as you are? peace to all of you that are a good Christine and good Jewish. and so much love to all Muslims

2007-08-13 00:09:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I know it's something of a joke, but there seem to be some people for whom this a genuine argument rather than a cue to toss back alcoholic beverages.

Could someone who holds this view please explain it?

2007-08-13 00:09:01 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-13 00:08:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

go through all this material and then....

http://www.amazingfacts.org/items/storacle_lessons.asp - click on watch/listen

then: http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sedin.org/pics/n.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.sedin.org/mol_museum.html&h=270&w=360&sz=25&hl=en&start=7&um=1&tbnid=oWoHYtFrkv3mnM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbacterial%2Bflagellum%2Bcomponents%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

http://www.hopevideo.com/Pricelist_for_David_A.htm

http://www.hopevideo.com/media_with_Lyle%20Albrecht.htm

try to find an agrument that GOD doesnt exist..

many blessings xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

2007-08-13 00:08:08 · 33 answers · asked by Est passé de velours ♥Rose♥ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

because of da ben dan being suspended?

2007-08-13 00:05:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

and in the church, how did you (I am assuming you did) get over it? I am assuming too that possibly for a time that you ceased fellowship.

How did you forgive, forget and move on? I am just unable to forgot or forgive the religous bastards who screwed me, all in the name of Jesus, all the way from the average church goer to the senior pastor.

So I would dearly like to know someones success story of how they overcame the offence of other Christians. And I mean, genuinely overcome, not clenched teeth and growling, brooding and simmering underneath a veneer of respectability.

2007-08-13 00:03:56 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

~*Christians how do you feel about all of the people who were tried convicted and put to death for witch craft and were innocent? Like Rebecca Nurse?

How does your god justify this?
Why did he not come to their aid?

2007-08-13 00:03:36 · 23 answers · asked by *~Ariel Brigalow Moondust~* 6 in Religion & Spirituality

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If it can come, in WHAT FORM or in WHAT SHAPE?
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2007-08-13 00:03:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Where did that APPLE come from? Is this a Macintosh prophesy? What gives?

2007-08-13 00:02:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Like his predecessor, Governor Perry is a devout Christian, highlighting one key factor in Texas' enthusiasm for the death penalty that many outsiders find puzzling -- the support it gets from conservative evangelical churches.

This is in line with their emphasis on individuals taking responsibility for their own salvation, and they also find justification in scripture.

"A lot of evangelical Protestants not only believe that capital punishment is permissible but that it is demanded by God. And they see sanction for that in the Old Testament especially," said Matthew Wilson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070812/lf_nm/texas_executions_dc

2007-08-13 00:02:34 · 5 answers · asked by Holy Cow! 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I live in a local neighbourhood that has come up with a university that would like empower the community in terms of agribusiness and community development.
Both individual and groups willing to give us a hand are all welcome.
The institution is in Kisumu City, Kenya.
All interested parties can use my email for any further inquiry.
All forms of contribution will do.

2007-08-13 00:02:18 · 1 answers · asked by charlie_pride 1 in Community Service