Society & Culture - 17 September 2007

2007-09-17 09:54:50 · 21 answers · asked by Liz 2 in Religion & Spirituality

There is this guy at church that when passes by my starts yelling at the next person within earshot of me. It's happened at least 3X. Then there's another occasion I was looking at some pictures, and he comes up and says what am I looking at then goes away before I could answer. Another occasion is when I was talking to another friend, and then he comes down almost crashing into me and this guy trying to disrupt our conversation. What gives? Why is he doing this to me?
He's not a kid either, so what do you think?

2007-09-17 09:54:07 · 11 answers · asked by DREENA 2 in Religion & Spirituality

would you date interracially?

2007-09-17 09:54:04 · 17 answers · asked by So Confused 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

The basic is; Romans do not kill Roman emperors. Octavian was the hier to the Roman empire from Julius. He got it. Jesus and Augustus were the same man. Luke 23;26-35 tells how Simon was crucified in the place of Jesus. Judas did not have to identify Jesus it would have been obvious who Jesus/Octavian was because being in the family of caesar he was an albino. Rev. 1:14. You can argue that until you are blue in the face."Blue in the face" is symbolic of being dead.
Jesus/Octavian was a Roman. Julius had the plan to sacrifice his adopted son to god to apease god for the death of Abel. That is what was going on. The concept, though maybe well meaning, failed because Octavian was not born without intercourse as Abel had been so he Octavian was not an equal sacrifice. All of this aside the question is; what can be done at this point? I don't like popping your bubble. But is for your own good. Unless you know your position you will go on dieing.

2007-09-17 09:52:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

A duck walks into a bar at lunchtime and asks for a pint of beer, he drinks it and goes out.
The following day he is back, and orders a pint again.
The barman says to him "we don't get many ducks in here, what's on?"
The duck says "I am working on the building site over the road, I will be here for a week or so".
After the duck has left, the barman phones a friend who owns a circus, and tells him about this beer drinking, talking duck.
The following day, when the duck comes in, the barman says "I spoke to a friend who owns a circus yesterday, he has a job in the circus for you, you can start when you like, name your own wages".
The duck looks puzzled and says " a circus? thats one of those big tents made of canvas isn't it ?"
The barman says "yes, that's it".
The duck replies " I don't get it, why would he need a plasterer ?"

2007-09-17 09:51:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

i also don't know why its important to read bible stories. im trying to be a christian, but im having a difficult time understanding these concepts.

2007-09-17 09:50:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Here are a few highlights from this version. "God made everything. God gets angry and destroys everything. God curses people. God loves people again. Then, God kills everybody again."
Now, I was thinking this version was just a little short on details, but is that close enough?

2007-09-17 09:49:22 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-17 09:48:26 · 5 answers · asked by J priincess 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I asked a question completely unrelated to the subject and received an answer that included this statement:

"...people who defile their bodies from head to toe with tattoos and "body piercing armor" are definitely a Sign of the Times."

Where did that come from?

2007-09-17 09:47:47 · 20 answers · asked by Christy ☪☮e✡is✝ 5 in Religion & Spirituality

or is that a different church all together? If so than do you as a member condone polygamy?
If you became a member later in life were you aware that this activity was going on?

The reason I asked is, My best friend converted to that religion in "95" and I asked him about polygamy existing in his church and his reply was that they don't do that anymore. I would ask him, but he died in an accident in 2000.

2007-09-17 09:45:55 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

People changed the bible which isn't right. Also if there is no fallen angels wouldn't their be no Devil ( Satan).?

2007-09-17 09:45:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-17 09:43:57 · 2 answers · asked by karen r 1 in Religion & Spirituality

what do you think we can do as Christians to bring God glory?

i'm not talking about striving to please God, i am talking about what do you think it is that we do that pleases God the most and brings him the most glory?

2007-09-17 09:42:58 · 12 answers · asked by smileygirl 1 in Religion & Spirituality

A friend that I've known a few years-- not a close friend, but not an acquaintance either-- is marrying another not close friend not acquaintance (I met them separately) and I'm spending about $500 to get to the wedding.

Am I expected to spend a large amount on the wedding present? How much would you suggest?

2007-09-17 09:41:40 · 9 answers · asked by Starving Student 2 in Etiquette

Means what are you thinking about looking at her, what your first thought that pops up in your mind? feel free to elaborate

2007-09-17 09:41:39 · 22 answers · asked by alfa 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I know this question has been answered before, but I feel the answers to be below par, and uninformative.

As an atheist, have you ever experienced the presence of a ghost or spirt?

My best friend that I have known since we were kids has had numerous experiences where she has seen ghosts, and even been in a ghost's "body" as he was murdered. She has seen these types of thigs since she was 5 years of age, (not all so violent).

One specific instance was she was at a sleep over at her friends house. She saw a man cut up and bleeding on her friend's balcony. When she told her friend, her freind had told her that her neighbor had died when he fell into a wood chipper.

My mother has also seen an instance of a ghost at the hospital that she works at. My mom had faited while at work and a nurse, dressed in all white came to her aid. Also in this hospital, numerous patients have seen a nurse of a similar description.

I personally haven't seen a ghost, but I believe in them.

2007-09-17 09:40:24 · 36 answers · asked by Mrs. Bear 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-17 09:39:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"Stand back! I don't know how big this thing gets"

2007-09-17 09:39:38 · 36 answers · asked by snorky998 3 in Mythology & Folklore

I believe in a motivating principle in the Universe, that some may choose to call 'God'. I just have been wrestling with a question that no one seems to be able to answer for me.
If in the beginning (before the world was created) nothing existed for God to be conscious of, then how could He have counted himself as conscious? If there is nothing to be conscious of, then isn't concisouness rendered unconcious?
Let me explain: If there is nothing to hear, see, smell, taste, or touch, then there is nothing to be conscious of. If there is nothing to be conscious of, then consciousness is impossible. Therefore, God would have been UNCONSCIOUS because of a lack of things to be CONSCIOUS of.
This means that there must have been something that existed BEFORE God, which is GREATER than God, which stimulated Him into the act of creating. If this is so, then what was BEFORE God? And what was before THAT?

2007-09-17 09:38:16 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

living in your street, how would you deal with this information.

2007-09-17 09:36:02 · 27 answers · asked by louise d 6 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Is God proud of the way you act?
Have you judged others?
Have you had the gaul to decide FOR GOD who is or isn't going to hell?
Have you envied the things that others have?
Do you hate rather than love your enemies?
Have you loved your neighbors as yourself?
What have you done for the needy?
How have you loved and helped ALL of God's children?
Have you comitted adultery by divorcing and then getting married AGAIN? How will you walk away from THAT sin?

Do you think that you can simply ask forgiveness for all these things and get to see GOD?

The end is coming and NONE of you are ready. How have you followed the Commandments of Jesus Christ?

2007-09-17 09:35:20 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The Roman emperors created the myth of Jesus based on the life of Augustus Octavian Caesar. They were tired of creating gods that died. So they created Jesus in "spirit-memory" of Augustus so they would have a perpetual logo to market their power to the world with. Their marketing concepts have been copied by world corportation for generations. That is why the corporations all have their private logo to market.

2007-09-17 09:35:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

... that there should be a separation of church and state.

I'm not asking if there *is* one; I'm asking if you believe there should be one.

Feel free to elaborate.

2007-09-17 09:33:36 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i hear all these songs saying gypsy this gypsy that

heart of a gypsy queen
can't run away with the gypsy women
hear of a gypsy and the soul of a stone.. one look in her eyes and i was in right over my head


what the hell is everyone referring to?

and if it's some stereotype.. why the heck is it aloud

it's like gypsies are the only race left that people can bash and get away with it

whats going on

am i totally off
what is it?

2007-09-17 09:33:29 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Check the answerer who called it "defiling"...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ar0Q5oXpJjC4IDSJuudy.2_d7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20070917132526AABYVak

2007-09-17 09:33:14 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How long do they have to stay in jail ??

2007-09-17 09:32:40 · 4 answers · asked by 3rd Imam 1 in Religion & Spirituality

REV 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,

8:10 The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.

8:11 The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

8:12 The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.

8:13 I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe for those who dwell on the earth, because of the other voices of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!"

2007-09-17 09:32:30 · 6 answers · asked by Ophiuchus 3 in Religion & Spirituality

- that all moral people will have a place in the afterlife, whatever their religion?

I know Judaism teaches this; which other faiths also have this view? I'm aware that Christianity teaches that only those who recognise Jesus will avoid hell. The stance of other religions? Thanks for your help.

2007-09-17 09:31:53 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Severely disabled people sometimes struggle to find a parking place which I think is unfair them due to inconsiderate drivers. What are your views regarding this?

2007-09-17 09:31:36 · 48 answers · asked by Tango 7 in People with Disabilities

But I am called to preach and they believe the same as I do and were the first to get me in church, but now they hate going to any church cuz some people in our old one hurt them, the people in my church love them very much and pray for them everyday.
I cant drive yet, so when I do this all will be settled, if I cant make it every thursday and Sunday, how can I keep up my spirit until then?

2007-09-17 09:30:59 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality