Society & Culture - 28 August 2007

3 days ago a praying mantis was on my car in which was parked in the middle of a huge parking lot as I was leaving work at 11pm. I took him to a small tree at the edge of the lot and left. THEN last night as I was leaving work again at 11pm the same praying mantis was back on my car, and wouldn't get off. I didn't want to drive with him on there and hurt him so I opened my lunch box and he walked inside on his own. I thought that was really weird. So I took him home and put him in my garden last night. Every year around the time of my dads death, I find a praying mantis that hangs around my back door or my car for at least a week... Is that good luck, do you think it is reincarnation? I find it funny because my dad had a thing for praying mantis, and he used to hold them and never once was bitten.

2007-08-28 06:57:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 06:52:23 · 58 answers · asked by yachadhoo 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I've been taking Japanese for 2 and a half years, its coming along very well for me and I can speak it fluently and write in two out of the three different writting styles. I wanted to take a side language, but something that's harder than Japanese. Dont say Chinese, Korean or Arabic I have no intrest learning those. Any suggestions? I don't care if the language is a 'dead language' either.

languages I have already learned- English, Latin, Hindi, Punjabi, Ordu, Italian, Japanese ( almost done)

2007-08-28 06:51:07 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2007-08-28 06:50:48 · 6 answers · asked by Armand P 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 06:49:04 · 10 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 06:48:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 06:48:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Were an ice cream flavor, which one would it be and why?

2007-08-28 06:47:39 · 5 answers · asked by Nea 5 in Religion & Spirituality

For three nights in a row about 2-2:30am I seen a shadowed figure of a man appear in my bed room each night as I awoke for no apparent reason the "shadow man" moved closer and closer to my bed...my sister was moving so the 3rd night was going to be my last night there because my parents got a divorce and they had sold the house, So I seen a Shadowed figure for 3 nights and then never stayed in the house again...One of my sisters says it was a demon my mom brought into our home because she was living so care free...could it be? My parents built the house it was only 6 years old. Or could it have been my biological father who had passed away 4 months prier? nothing like this has happened since.FREEKY

2007-08-28 06:46:40 · 12 answers · asked by Rebekah R 2 in Mythology & Folklore

They think just b/c we don't believe "exactly" like they do we're "going to hell". NOT 4 them to decide even if there IS such a thing.

2007-08-28 06:46:08 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

they're the ones claiming that there is an invisible man who lives in the sky, and is gonna send you to some magical all perfect paradise. Thats like me telling you that purple, talking dogs are having sex on planet pluto. And as soon as you tell me im lying an to prove it, im gonna say can you disaprove it. So back to my question, why do Christians ask us to disprove the existence of God if they're the ones claiming it, shouldnt they be RESPONSIBLE for providing us with evidence to support this? And if they ask us to dispove it, wouldnt that mean that they themselves cant prove what they believe?

2007-08-28 06:46:01 · 38 answers · asked by h20_theghost 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I am shocked and appalled by the way people obsess over the dead 'princess' Diana. Ten years dead, people still have not gotten over it.

Get a grip, sickos! She wasn't really even important, she never actually 'did' anything.

2007-08-28 06:42:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

All you have to do is research yourself on what I post.
Bees are disappearing
Food is being contaminated
Global warming- from the SUN and magnetic polar shift
Every destructive thing happening in the world can be found in the Bible if you open your mind and READ!

I am not the Yahoo Doomsday Prophet I am giving you hope that we have a Awesome GOD that no matter what challenges come our way we have the hope of GOD's divine word in the Bible, you can choose to dismiss it, but you at least have to admit these things are happening in our world.
Wonder how the Book of Revelation knew the French Prez was going to be speaking of a New World Order???

2007-08-28 06:42:10 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 06:41:04 · 34 answers · asked by thewordofgodisjesus 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 06:40:33 · 34 answers · asked by Muslim 1 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 06:39:45 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do you think your denomination has everything correct ?
Denominations are like political parties all they do is divide not bring us together like was the Gods intention. We are to be of one mindset working towards the goal of educating those who have not yet accepted Christ.
Most Denominations started out right but then people started to push their own agendas and got away from what God wants us to do.
The only reason we are still on this Earth after we accept Christ is to lead others to Him. If we are not doing that we should not even call ourselves Christians since that is what Jesus came to do "I have come to seek and save the lost." Christian means to be like Christ!!!
If the main focus of your denomination is not to seek the lost and lead them to Jesus then you are way off base and need to find one that focuses on the lost. Furthermore if you let anything come before Christ crusafied and risen again for the salvation of mankind you need to rearange your priorities.

2007-08-28 06:38:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Won't the Jehovah's Witnesses eventually realize it is insane to not recognize Christ is Jehovah/YHWH/Yah/Lord God/God Almighty/I AM of the Hebrews?

2007-08-28 06:38:39 · 9 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1 in Religion & Spirituality

do you leave them alone about it afterward, or do you think "I'll ask them again another time" and follow through?

I'm just wondering what your thoughts are about a person who declines your invitation.

2007-08-28 06:38:00 · 58 answers · asked by elfkin, attention whore 4 in Religion & Spirituality

The placebo effect has been well-documented. Patients who believe they are receiving cures may heal quicker than others who are untreated. People who are told what to expect often experience that sensation moreso than others who are not given advanced notice.

Why do you believe this occurs? ((and what is your religious affiliation))

2007-08-28 06:36:30 · 18 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Religion & Spirituality

What has led you to believe that there is no God, rather than saying, "I don't know if there is a God". Please don't answer "there is no evidence for Him", to that I say, "There's also no evidence against Him." Theists, like myself, if they truly believe in God, believe in God thruogh personal experience of God revealing Himself to them in different ways. So this is our evidence, though it is only personal and cannot be proven in a lab.

With that said I guess I've got two questions:

1. Can you offer any proof or evidence of the non-existence of God? Again, a lack of evidence is not evidence against his existence - maybe he's an asshole who just chooses not to reveal Himself.

2. If you cannot offer any evidence, then are most atheists really at the core of their beliefs agnostics?

and lastly, don't offer evidence against any religion, such as historical contradictions in The Quran, or the Bible, or The book of Mormon. I'm only talking about the existence of a Deity

2007-08-28 06:35:33 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

and how?

2007-08-28 06:34:38 · 16 answers · asked by wicky 1 in Religion & Spirituality

They ask for new species I give it to them. They ask for new Genus I give it to them. They just shift their position from "it can't be done" to "So What? Can they do this?"
Are they going to do this when we get around to new Families and Orders?

2007-08-28 06:32:33 · 24 answers · asked by capekicks 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Seriously! I'm a Pagan and I don't want anything more to do with demons than anyone else. And I know I'm not being deceived because as Tolkein put it "A servant of the Enemy would look fairer and feel fouler."

Does it matter what we believe, or does it matter how we act to our brothers and sisters of the world?

2007-08-28 06:30:51 · 15 answers · asked by Riverwind 3 in Religion & Spirituality

i was doing some diy with difficulty and i swore i heard my dead fathers voice as if he was wanting to help me if this is possible then how can i tune in and not be scared stiff?there are many unanswered questions over his death and i would like to communicate.

2007-08-28 06:29:12 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

Breeders have assumed that grapes were either completely self- fertilizing or were cross-pollinated by wind, so that in either case insects were considered of no value. The grape harvest will not be affected by the missing bee population.
CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And John Chapple, one of London's biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned
Bees and other insects play a minor role in olive pollination; wind moves most of the pollen from tree to tree. Most olive varieties are self-fertile, but increased production often results from cross pollination. And neither will the olive harvest be affected by CCD.

This is not prophetic???

2007-08-28 06:29:03 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 06:28:55 · 14 answers · asked by iluv2deal7 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 06:24:30 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-28 06:24:03 · 1 answers · asked by charlie 1 in Community Service

2007-08-28 06:20:19 · 7 answers · asked by Karen P 3 in Other - Holidays