Society & Culture - 24 August 2007

Can't you feel His love? Why do you trust yourself or other men for your eternal destiny?

Jeremiah 9:23-24
King James Version

23Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

2007-08-24 14:10:00 · 10 answers · asked by Mikey 3 in Religion & Spirituality

What are your coworkers like? Is your boss chill, or chilly? Is your job still fun?

2007-08-24 14:09:56 · 5 answers · asked by Dinosaur 3 in Other - Society & Culture

you guess what colour it is.

2007-08-24 14:09:43 · 32 answers · asked by ? 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-24 14:09:28 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

is there a specific kind of ring you have to get?
or anything else specific like that?

i know i sound kind of dumb, but i would just like to know.

2007-08-24 14:08:28 · 10 answers · asked by hellotorret 1 in Religion & Spirituality

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
~ Marcus Aurelius

Why or why not?

2007-08-24 14:05:56 · 26 answers · asked by DarkIntellect 1 in Religion & Spirituality

What do you think Wiccans and or Witches do when they have ritual?

2007-08-24 14:04:20 · 17 answers · asked by Epona Willow 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I like the King James Version. I used to only want the NIV since it was void of thee's and thou's, but now I prefer the King James because, though I know some of it was lost in translation, I believe it's the closest to unadulterated as we have.

Don't get me wrong. I like some other versions. I like the NIV and the Amplified. They have good thoughts and when I'm stuck on a Scripture in the KJV, I can go to another version to help. Even though I know the KJV may still be a bit lost in translation, I just want the closest to the original thought as I can get.

2007-08-24 14:03:35 · 22 answers · asked by insidious_22 2 in Religion & Spirituality

the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.

2007-08-24 14:01:38 · 8 answers · asked by Squirrel friend of LEMUR 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-24 14:00:28 · 7 answers · asked by ernie g 1 in Yom Kippur

That's what happened to me today. I went to the mental health clinic today, & the nurse INTENTIONALLY said something to piss me off, & when I got mad & walked out of her office, she called the crisis team. When I told her boss what happened, she gave a fake apology, just to prevent from losing her job, but I know her negative opinion about me being psycho still stands.

2007-08-24 13:54:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

"Don't let the sun go down on me" is considered a great love song about a broken relationship, but do the words secretly refer to something else?

Here are some of the lyrics - see what you think:

I can't light no more of your darkness
(I can't teach mankind anymore)

All my pictures seem to fade to black and white
(My eyes are fading, I'm dying)

I'm growing tired and time stands still before me
(I feel I have no more time left)

Frozen here on the ladder of my life
(nailed to the cross)

Too late to save myself from falling
(personally feels he failed his mission from God at time of crucifixion)

I took a chance and changed your way of life
(preaching to mankind a different way to live)

But you misread my meaning when I met you
(mankind misinterpreted my words)

Closed the door and left me blinded by the light
(I'm blinded by truth of humanity and its weaknesses)

Don't let the sun go down on me
(don't forget my existence and my teaching)

2007-08-24 13:53:50 · 9 answers · asked by Wait a Minute 4 in Religion & Spirituality

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-K9NVEq41cavh1Ep_6gY-?cq=1

2007-08-24 13:52:50 · 13 answers · asked by djm749 6 in Religion & Spirituality

it that the serpent could speak in Eve's language when the serpent did not have human vocal cords?

2007-08-24 13:51:55 · 8 answers · asked by JiveMan 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I thought as I got older I would be cutting the zzzzeds all the time but I find I need less sleep now but still have the same amount of energy.And food! I dont eat any less as I had been told I would ,which is good as I love my food and eat very healthily. I never take cat naps go to bed at about 2/3 am and get up about 8am exept if I have to work in the hospital and then it is 6 15am whats your experience

2007-08-24 13:51:21 · 31 answers · asked by Yoda 4 in Senior Citizens

In Islam.. Abortions is allowed only under medical conditions and such. If there is a risk to the mother, than it is permissable, otherwise it's a sin of course.

But ive been talking to a lot of Christians lately, and they say it should be made completely illegal.

1) What if someone has a medical condition, and needs to abort the baby?

2) Out of the 20 people I spoke to, 9 of them said 9/11 is punishment from God, on a nation that takes abortions extremely lightly. And a Church Official (not sure of his name), on the CNN documentry said that, people in 9/11 "deserved what they got"?

I am not trying to be rude or disrespectful, thought I would get an over all concensus on everyones thoughts and opinions.

Peace&Love

2007-08-24 13:51:12 · 17 answers · asked by ۩MoonLit Muslima۩ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

If so, what role do you fantasize?

2007-08-24 13:49:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

what exactly happens at a cremation?

2007-08-24 13:48:14 · 16 answers · asked by lindylou 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-24 13:47:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

any websites or answers plz tell me thanks

2007-08-24 13:47:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

Asking a question, not stating an opinion one way or another.

2007-08-24 13:47:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

(unrighteous) on the left hand. Goats consigned to the everlasting fire prepared for Devil & his angles. Everlasting, in this instance from Greek aionios. Mat 25:46 Jesus spoke in one sentence of aionios punishment and of life aionios. The assumption that punishment will last the same time period as life cannot be reconciled with Rev.2:11,20:6 &14, and 21:8. Those cast into fire suffer death. Second death. Eternal punishment, not punishing. Gen.19:24 Sodom & Gomorrah utterly consumed by fire. Jude vs7 describes aionios fire. S&G not burning today.

The eternal aspect of the aionios fire is its everlasting effect, NOT how long it burns. Sorry for the abrv. and lack of grammar. Lack of space. Whatchthink???

2007-08-24 13:47:16 · 8 answers · asked by Grendel's Father 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-24 13:42:38 · 3 answers · asked by ♥ x0o ♥ o0x ♥ 2 in Languages

I know that it's a good thing... but I become really anxious while i'm praying, sort of nervous actually.. because I don't even feel worthy to stand in front of Allah. It's sounds weird, I become very afraid. Sometimes in sujood I don't want to lift my head up because I feel so shameful for things I have done.

I was praying Salat in College, and there were a lot of my non-Muslim friends there-- They really thought I was depressed or something lol because this happens no matter where I am.

It's begining to kind of scare me lets say...

2007-08-24 13:41:54 · 20 answers · asked by ۩MoonLit Muslima۩ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

the kind you have to dress up for.......boys are invited too......for little cakes and kisses under the table.........i had many growing up!

2007-08-24 13:40:52 · 8 answers · asked by ask me a 3 in Etiquette

A Christian, who spent all that time in church and wound up in the lake of fire anyway?

Or an atheist, who didn't think the place even existed?

2007-08-24 13:35:53 · 33 answers · asked by Martin Evilmind 4 in Religion & Spirituality

ok so mine and my moms relative phished and hacked on to her email accounts! one on yahoo and another one, and he is only a small time hacker, we know everything about him and such, he did this twice and on her yahoo account he wiped out everything! but today as my mom was looking through it cause she got it back from him yesterday, she looked at her contacts list and he was the only person on it! my mom has deleted the yahoo account and the other on ethat he hacked in to, but we wondered if he can somehow still get on my mom computer or by her deleting the account is he gone for good? or could he stil be on her pc? and also on her contacts was one more thing, a code that said Q34

2007-08-24 13:34:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/16/miami.preacher/index.html

if you don't want to click that, here is what it says:
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The minister has the number 666 tattooed on his arm.

But Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda is not your typical minister. De Jesus, or "Daddy" as his thousands of followers call him, does not merely pray to God: He says he is God.

"The spirit that is in me is the same spirit that was in Jesus of Nazareth," de Jesus says.

De Jesus' claims of divinity have angered Christian leaders, who say he is a fake. Religious experts say he may be something much more dangerous, a cult leader who really believes he is God. (Watch followers get 666 tattoos for their leader )

"He's in their heads, he's inside the heads of those people," says Prof. Daniel Alvarez, a religion expert at Florida International University who has debated some of de Jesus' followers.

"De Jesus speaks with a kind of conviction that makes me consider him more like David Koresh or Jim Jones."

Is de Jesus really a cult leader like David Koresh, who died with more than 70 of his Branch Davidian followers in a fiery end to a standoff with federal authorities, or Jim Jones, the founder of the Peoples Temple who committed mass suicide with 900 followers in 1978?

Prophets 'spoke to me'
De Jesus and his believers say their church -- "Creciendo en Gracia," Spanish for "Growing in grace" -- is misunderstood. Followers of the movement say they have proof that their minister is divine and that their church will one day soon be a major faith in the world.

But even de Jesus concedes that he is an unlikely leader of a church that claims thousands of members in more than 30 countries.

De Jesus, 61, grew up poor in Puerto Rico. He says he served stints in prison there for petty theft and says he was a heroin addict.

De Jesus says he learned he was Jesus reincarnate when he was visited in a dream by angels.

"The prophets, they spoke about me. It took me time to learn that, but I am what they were expecting, what they have been expecting for 2,000 years," de Jesus says.

The church that he began building 20 years ago in Miami resembles no other:


Followers have protested Christian churches in Miami and Latin America, disrupting services and smashing crosses and statues of Jesus.


De Jesus preaches there is no devil and no sin. His followers, he says, literally can do no wrong in God's eyes.


The church calls itself the "Government of God on Earth" and uses a seal similar to the United States.

Doing God's work with a Lexus and Rolex
If Creciendo en Gracia is an atypical religious group, de Jesus also does not fit the mold of the average church leader. De Jesus flouts traditional vows of poverty.

He says he has a church-paid salary of $136,000 but lives more lavishly than that. During an interview, he showed off a diamond-encrusted Rolex to a CNN crew and said he has three just like them. He travels in armored Lexuses and BMWs, he says, for his safety. All are gifts from his devoted followers.

And what about the tattoo of 666 on his arm?

Although it's a number usually associated with Satan, not the son of God, de Jesus says that 666 and the Antichrist are, like him, misunderstood.

The Antichrist is not the devil, de Jesus tells his congregation; he's the being who replaces Jesus on Earth.

"Antichrist is the best person in the world," he says. "Antichrist means don't put your eyes on Jesus because Jesus of Nazareth wasn't a Christian. Antichrist means do not put your eyes on Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Put it on Jesus after the cross."

And de Jesus says that means him.

So far, de Jesus says that his flock hasn't been scared off by his claims of being the Antichrist. In a show of the sway he holds over the group, 30 members of his congregation Tuesday went to a tattoo parlor to have 666 also permanently etched onto their skin.

He may wield influence over them, but his followers say don't expect them to go the way of people who believed in David Koresh and Jim Jones. Just by finding de Jesus, they say, they have achieved their purpose.

"If somebody tells us drink some Kool-Aid and we'll go to heaven, that's not true. We are already in heavenly places," follower Martita Roca told CNN after having 666 tattooed onto her ankle.

2007-08-24 13:34:04 · 31 answers · asked by †↓ѕіѕтея•матуІdа↓† 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I quit drinking alcohol a few weeks ago, but still would like to go to bars for the social scene (since I'm single). Without going off my diet (lost 15 lbs while not drinking alcohol), how is the best way for someone to spend time at a bar and not come off as being cheap nor a prude?

2007-08-24 13:32:53 · 6 answers · asked by freewainwright 2 in Other - Society & Culture

lets say this year on 25/12/07 it s 2007 years since the birth of christ . Ok how soes that figure if before the romans there were only 10 months (now 12 julius (july) augustus(august) so surely its not the true age of jesus?? Forgive me if im wrong?

2007-08-24 13:32:53 · 15 answers · asked by GARRY G 1 in Religion & Spirituality