Society & Culture - 28 August 2007

Inquiring and inebriated minds want to know

2007-08-28 08:40:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I always tell my brothers that 1 million dollar will do the trick. Now they're not so motivated anymore.

2007-08-28 08:39:32 · 28 answers · asked by ? 6 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-08-28 08:37:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-08-28 08:36:15 · 9 answers · asked by Ambika k 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

If your an Atheist and some one says 'bless you' after you sneeze, what do you do?

2007-08-28 08:35:52 · 18 answers · asked by ♥Blue Angel♥ 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Saturday is the 7th day of the week on the calendar. The calendar has not been changed. It must be the sabbath.

2007-08-28 08:35:31 · 20 answers · asked by nª†hªn 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 08:35:00 · 23 answers · asked by lindsey p 5 in Religion & Spirituality

12God will bless you, if you don't give up when your faith is being tested. He will reward you with a glorious life, [b] just as he rewards everyone who loves him. 13Don't blame God when you are tempted! God cannot be tempted by evil, and he doesn't use evil to tempt others. 14We are tempted by our own desires that drag us off and trap us. 15Our desires make us sin, and when sin is finished with us, it leaves us dead.

Now, Where does Satan come in?

2007-08-28 08:32:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If an all powerful Diety were revealed to you, wouldn't you be so humbled by the sheer enormity of it? You'd be speechless! Your own smallness and ignorance would become so glaringly evident. You would feel so grateful just to have found it and feel so much joy, so much overwhelming awe, that in of itself would be its own reward.

Coastal researchers and oceanographers spend a lifetime on a beach and still never fully grasp it. People who lived for generations on the calm coasts of South East Asia were surprised by a tsunami. I imagine God, is infinitely more vast, unpredictable and complex than a beach. I would think, you could spend a LIFETIME of spiritual soul searching and developing your relationship with God and still not even scratch the tip of of the iceberg. Yet some in R&S who claim to have found God speak like they already defined God entirely and can now predict God’s every mood, action and opinion about everyone and everything.

What inspires such arrogance?

2007-08-28 08:32:10 · 23 answers · asked by pixie_pagan 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Also, LESS THAN 50% of those displaced were African American.

Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to ask some questions:

1) People in New Orleans lost their homes and can't rebuild because they did not have insurance. Who's fault is that? Why were so many home owners without insurance? Isn't that irresponsible? Why should I pay for that with my taxes? And you just EXPECT the government to build and just GIVE you a new home?

2) People in New Orleans lost their apartments because the buildings were destroyed and they didn't have renters insurance. Why is that the tax payers fault? Is it MY job to support you because of your irresponsibility? And you just expect to be GIVEN a new apartment after they rebuild? How do you figure that?

Seems to me that all those displaced by Katrina were pretty much asking for it. And now you just expect me to pay taxes and just bail you out? I think not.

Thoughts?

2007-08-28 08:32:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Or that the faithful get their own private planets after death? What are the core beliefs of Mormonism/LDS?

2007-08-28 08:26:31 · 27 answers · asked by amancalledj 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 08:26:26 · 39 answers · asked by Stu Pedasso 1 in Religion & Spirituality

My name is spelled "Leslie" and I always introduce myself as "Less-lee" with an "s" sound. Most first names have only one pronunciation, but mine has two. Practically everyone I work with uses the one I dislike and do not identify with.

2007-08-28 08:25:52 · 10 answers · asked by robt c 1 in Etiquette

I am AMAZED at the diversity of answers. Think about it....the answers ran the spectrum from Catholicism to Paganism.

The religion I am thinking of is, of course, Voodoo. Funny how similar to other religions, huh?

Isn't this one more reason that we should all be opening our minds and exploring the other beliefs that are out there? With so much the same, why do people see Voodooists or Pagans or Wiccans as so different? I would take a gander and say FEAR.

2007-08-28 08:25:13 · 10 answers · asked by nottashygirl 6 in Religion & Spirituality

someone is cured of a disease, god cured them
someone gets rescued, god saved them
someone was located in a forest or mountain, god located them

what about the people who werent religious who were cured of a disease? Or the ones who arent religious who were rescued, or found, located? What about the religious who were prayed for and DID die of a disease, or werent rescued or found? Why are things completely unrelated attributed to god? Especially when people who dont "know god" experience the exact same things as those who do? Why would one be attributed to god, and one not? One patient was cured by god, one was cured by science and medicine? If the religious person had never been to a doctor, would they still have been cured, because if god is the one who saved them, then there should have been no need for medicine or science to begin with.

2007-08-28 08:25:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 08:24:56 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

That is how true Christians see "conversion" They aren't trying to "convert" anyone I guess that is a side product or what not, but we actually see it more as saving your spiritual life from hell which we do believe exists. That being said their are a lot of fake, hypocritical Christians and they will face God and be judged just like they judge other with their self-righteous attitudes because they repel more people from Christ than they actually "save"

2007-08-28 08:21:57 · 1 answers · asked by Stu Pedasso 1 in Religion & Spirituality

God does not even know how he came to be, isnt that why god took energy and made matter, then God created humans in Gods own image. In my opinion God is trying to figure out where HE came from by creating earth and Humans to see if humans evolve into WHAT HE IS? What is your thoughts on this theory. Do you believe? Truelly?

2007-08-28 08:21:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 08:21:06 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The story goes: A man goes into a barbershop to get his hair cut and beard trimmed. They start talking about many things and the customer says "Do you belive in God?" The man says "No I don't believe in him. If he existed there wouldn't be so much pain and suffering in the world." The customer was hurt and didn't say anything for a while. Then a man is outside with long dirty unkept hair walked by and sat outside. The customer saw him and said " You know I don't belive that barbers exists" The barber said "What? Are you crazy? W?hat are you talking about I just did your hair!" The man says "I don't believ ethat they do. if they did there wouldn't be people like that man outside in the streets with unkept hair." The barber said. "Thats stupid, the problem is that people like that don't come to me."
"Thats just it" the customer said. "God exists too the problem is that people don't come to him or look for him. Thats why there is so much pain suffering in the world."

2007-08-28 08:19:40 · 27 answers · asked by That Person 3 in Religion & Spirituality

They have children, teens, women's, juniors, petites, large but nothing that says mature women have style. If you wear some of what is in the stores people think seniors are going through their second childhood. Where is our shift to mature clothing styles?

2007-08-28 08:18:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

the bible says, "when you pray to your father in heaven, go NOT ,to the synogogues and priests, where the hyppocrites go, but when you pray, go hide in a closet and close the door, and pray where no one can see you,.!!"

2007-08-28 08:17:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Nothing terrible, just havin' a little fun?

Y'all are so cool - most of you can hang. That's awesome, and I think it's a blessing!

2007-08-28 08:17:15 · 15 answers · asked by Marvelissa VT 6 in Religion & Spirituality

In John 6, Jesus said, "‘I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’" (John 6:51–52).

Jesus again repeated his words, but with even greater emphasis, and introduced the statement about drinking his blood: "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him" (John 6:53–56).

2007-08-28 08:14:58 · 19 answers · asked by Bruce 7 in Religion & Spirituality

did god create dinosaurs and is there any mention of them or anything before man in the bible etc?

2007-08-28 08:14:45 · 25 answers · asked by Equal Animal 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 08:14:39 · 33 answers · asked by Equinoxical ™ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Since the beggining of time, people have believed in a superior Being or beings (spirits, gods ect.) Why don't ateists believe?

2007-08-28 08:13:41 · 14 answers · asked by Adriaan K 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Or you'd recommend.
I'd recommend, "The Heavenly Man " by Paul Hattaway. What about you?

2007-08-28 08:13:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Followers believe in a central powerful figure or God.
An altar is used to practice worship.
Prayer is encouraged.
There is a hierachy of saints - each serving their own purpose.
This religion is practiced internationally.
Candles and incense are used during worship.
Holy water and oils are also used.

2007-08-28 08:13:21 · 10 answers · asked by nottashygirl 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 08:09:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality