Society & Culture - 21 September 2007

2007-09-21 00:38:51 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

a freewill used only to fear god is not really a freewill..is it?

2007-09-21 00:37:50 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-21 00:37:24 · 23 answers · asked by ܧܨܐܘܛܧܙܒܘܘ 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Are there any statistics?

2007-09-21 00:32:19 · 14 answers · asked by shanet963 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Afterall surely having so many Atheists ready to communicate with you should ultimately help your own goals.

So seriously if you could just decide now wether you want the Atheists(Athiest Evilutionists to some) on this site, would you really remove them?

2007-09-21 00:31:46 · 36 answers · asked by Link strikes back 6 in Religion & Spirituality

My theory is that life force is a limited thing. All combined in a large pool (somewhere). And when a child is conceived, some of that force is taken from the pool and deposited in the child. Just a random smattering of force.
When a person dies, the life force leaves the body and reenters the pool, where it slowly blends in with all the force. Sort of like a bucket of paint, made up of many colours (each drop of colour representing a life force here). The new drop of colour doesn't blend in right away and if it is removed soon enough, it maintains its colour. If not, it blends with the other colours.
Now back to the life forces. A life force enters the pool and if it is removed, to give new life, before it blends, the new life will be a reincarnation of the previous life. If the life force remains in the pool long enough to blend with the other life forces, it loses the ability to be reincarnated and becomes just more life force material, with no recollection of the previous life

2007-09-21 00:30:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-21 00:30:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Lot's wife for looking back Gen.19:26, BT 1 1
Er who was "wicked in the sight of the Lord" Gen.38:7, BT 1 2
Onan for spilling his seed Gen.38:10, BT 1 3
For dancing naked around Aaron's golden calf Ex.32:27-28, 35, BT 3000 3003
Aaron's sons for offering strange fire before the Lord Lev.10:1-3, Num.3:4, 26:61, BT 2 3005
A blasphemer Lev.24:10-23, BT 1 3006
A man who picked up sticks on the Sabbath Num.15:32-36, BT 1 3007
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (and their families) Num.16:27, BT 12+ 3019+
Burned to death for offering incense Num.16:35, 26:10, BT 250 3269+
For complaining Num.16:49, BT 14,700 17,969+
For "committing whoredom with the daughters of Moab" Num.25:9, BT 24,000 41,969+
Midianite massacre (32,000 virgins were kept alive) Num.31:1-35, BT 90,000+ 131,969+
God tells Joshua to stoned to death Achan (and his family) for taking the accursed thing. Joshua 7:10-12, 24-26, BT 5+ 131,974+
etc total about 2,270,369+ satan killed about 10

2007-09-21 00:28:40 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

is that what Christianity and Christmas is all about?

2007-09-21 00:25:34 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Whats wrong with peace? Why glorify 6 thugs?

2007-09-21 00:24:09 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

What upsets you more?

The idea that a God sometimes chooses to punish people before they are born and allows that punishment to continue throughout their life.

Or

It is random chance, some people get unlucky and genetic variations do not always work out in peoples favour. It is a bad thing, but it was never intentional.

2007-09-21 00:23:15 · 13 answers · asked by Link strikes back 6 in Religion & Spirituality

let me extend the question.... why does a particular religion become popular in a given country???

2007-09-21 00:19:06 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What does it make someone to be a Christian? What is your understanding about the faith?
Many people have criticism's about the Christian faith but do you understand what a true Christian really is?

I am a Christian. I just want to get your own ideas.

2007-09-21 00:15:56 · 29 answers · asked by Smart_Guy 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I dont beleive in a GOD of any kind which also means I dont believe in any devil's either.

2007-09-21 00:14:08 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Colossians 3: 12-14
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye. And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

2007-09-21 00:12:13 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Sometimes I feel like having breakfast in my room instead of sitting down in a hotel restaurant/dining area when I travel only by myself. Is it okay if you go there and take the food to your room, suppose it is a breakfast buffet?

2007-09-21 00:10:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

I am a Christian I recently put up a question and got bashed. All I need is a little advice and they attack me! Why does this happen?

2007-09-21 00:08:59 · 20 answers · asked by littlemissmay 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Why has he not done in the first place, he is supposed to be all powerful in doing that?

Why this trial and error of creation is there? He certainly must have enough foresight and knowledge about whats going to be the outcome of his creation then why this exercize of creation and then another creation of perfect world?

2007-09-21 00:08:54 · 12 answers · asked by handful_01 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-21 00:06:43 · 5 answers · asked by brithvi 1 in Senior Citizens

...and have ceased to use the toilet. I'm in my mid-20's. At work it's no problem since I work in a saw-mill, and no one can hear them, or really smell them. The bathrooms there are disgusting, so it's nice not having to use their toilets. I wear overalls anyway, so no one can really see them. No, I don't have a medical need; I just wear them because they are MUCH more convenient, and very comfortable. There have been a number of studies recently, showing it's much healthier for your bowels and bladder to wear diapers and just go right when you have to, rather than holding it all day until you can get to a bathroom. Society tells us we have to use the toilet. I say, why should I have to? So, what's wrong with that?

2007-09-21 00:05:31 · 7 answers · asked by TheNightStalker 1 in Other - Society & Culture

We are seeing many star hotels and resorts, in which people are spending and wasting food etc in lavish manner: When there is millions are starving, whether this kind of luxury needed?

2007-09-21 00:02:42 · 9 answers · asked by ar.samy 6 in Other - Society & Culture

... and didn't have the knowledge of modern science, would you more or less likely be an Atheist?

2007-09-21 00:01:58 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

cancer
blindness
diabetes etc

2007-09-21 00:00:41 · 23 answers · asked by G.xi 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-21 00:00:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why should he be wasting his time monitering activities of killers, rapists, drug peddlers and users, child molesters? why should he create them in the first place?

2007-09-21 00:00:13 · 8 answers · asked by handful_01 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Slightly off-topic, I know, but with the death of Robert Jordan on Sunday, and of David Gemmel just over a year ago, I found myself pondering just how much authors of fiction have shaped my moral and ethical framework. I often refer to the commandment "Judge not, lest ye be judged" from the bible, for example, but really, my belief in not judging was really much more strongly informed by the often ambiguous characters David Gemmel created for his stories.

So the question (FINALLY!) is:

How has your own moral framework evolved? If religious, is it entirely determined by that, and if not, what then are the main influences? Literature? Philosophy? Tradition? Comic-Books?! And perhaps more importantly, do you accept or reject a moral framework as a whole, or do you tend to pick-and-choose what you believe?

2007-09-21 00:00:12 · 7 answers · asked by dead_elves 3 in Religion & Spirituality