Society & Culture - 23 September 2007

I am building my 1st Sukkah this year. I know there are to be 2.5 walls and the top is to be covered (sparsely enough to see stars) with sticks, leaves, organics.

But any experience you have to share (what materials, any insight) on sukkas would be really appreciated.

Blessings in HaShem

2007-09-23 20:15:49 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-23 20:12:36 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Yet dismiss the burning times when they burnt people alive?

Isn't this no better than when the Christians were prosecuted?

2007-09-23 20:11:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why does "saving" have anything to do with Jesus and religion? Could I have been born saved so I wouldn't have to worry about the Jesus part? I just want to live my life without sin and still go to "heaven".

2007-09-23 20:10:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Honeslty Im 26 and growing up i dont remember it this popular, just something i did as a young child, then me and my friends really didnt care too much as, as teens..

2007-09-23 20:08:43 · 5 answers · asked by Jetglam 1 in Halloween

2007-09-23 20:06:50 · 3 answers · asked by Jessica 1 in Halloween

I am having a ball on YA with my 'secret life'! - but I know that it is causing confusion for folk just 'tuning in' - to the point that some of them are getting quite cross - and with reason I guess.

Perhaps I should not take so much for granted in thinking that EVERYONE is IN ON IT - I would like to apologise but the people that I want to apologise to don't know what the hell I am talking about even now!

Also - thanks to everyone for taking part in the madness!

SLK - you are a naughtier girl than me!

Listen - if I suddenly disappear I guess I will have fallen foul (!) of somebody who has just had enough of the confusion - if not - who knows where this thing will take us!!

Is this whole episode a symptom of our senile decline!
It's good fun if it is!
All of you - YE ARE NAE WISE!!

2007-09-23 20:06:14 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

I have and continue to be amazed at His love and care.
Wish you all peace and joy.

2007-09-23 20:04:58 · 20 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Whatever happened in or around the hen hoouse over the weekend - and we will talk of it no more - has given Hetti and Girls a new lease of life!

All is well.

The Brave and HONOURABLE McTeal is proved himsel' ta be a man of his word and his post was never abandoned fer mare then the shortest time - yon George Bush calls them COMFORT BREAKS I ken - so there was never any danger to the chooks.

Whether or not you bonnie Aussie lass Jilly of the Jiggling Jugs Inn was ever in any danger is another thing! We can only pray that the lass can handle a man of the calibre of the Majestic McTealc!

Looking back into both their histories I see they are both hailing frame the same clan - Fergusson - so the same honourable blood runs in them - we will say no more - the Fergusson are known to be FIERCE - WILD FIERCE!

The hens are happy. the puppy is coming to terms with his loss, Mr; Eyedontnose is comfortable re-instated into the recovery position. I will get over it - in time!

2007-09-23 19:57:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

There's a person that I got to know. She's very smart and seemed ok. Until she said, do not bring God into any conversation. That's when she told me about her believes in "Chaos". She really belives in it so much that she has a tattoo of the star of chaos (black star with four arrows, pointing four ways). I really like her but, that's a little to strange. Should I be concern?

2007-09-23 19:57:48 · 14 answers · asked by rickrude 3 in Religion & Spirituality

You know the mean angry God of the old testament. If HE was a man, and said and did those things HE would find himself out of his weight class while I WHOOPED his silly ****. But he's gone and there's a new more warm and fuzzy God in the New Testament

2007-09-23 19:48:15 · 6 answers · asked by wakemovement 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-23 19:47:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If the Europeans had not stopped the incursion of Islam into Europe, what would our world be like today?

Would we have had an Italian Renaissance?

Would there be a Mosque were the Parthenon now stands? That has happened in Egypt where the Muslims took stones from ancient Egyptian monuments to build their Mosques...

What about the Pantheon or the Colosseum, would there be Mosques there as well?

What about all of the beautiful architecture, art, and music that came out of Europe, would we have that?

What about Shakespeare, would we have had that?

What about the United States?

AGAIN< THIS NOT TO BE OFFENSIVE, I AM WELL AWARE OF THE TERRIBLE ATROCITIES THAT OCCURRED DURING THE CRUSADES....

I AM IN NO WAY DOWNPLAYING THEM...

IN ANY WAR THERE ARE MANY ATROCITIES...

2007-09-23 19:46:19 · 15 answers · asked by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I have always wondered what exactly "Turn it all over to God".means .I guess it is pretty much self- explanitory, but I was obsessing over some minor problems and someone on yahoo answers told me to "turn it all over to God". I would LOVE to do that, but don't really know how. Everytime I have tried to do that in the past...I wind up obsessing again. So, someone please tell me how I release it all to Him. Thank you everyone.

2007-09-23 19:42:30 · 15 answers · asked by ShineOn 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I am a full-time mother and have so much spare time to study. I would like to know what other language I can study at home that can be profitable in the future.

2007-09-23 19:41:58 · 19 answers · asked by SAHM 1 in Languages

2007-09-23 19:38:47 · 3 answers · asked by latrice e 1 in Religion & Spirituality

My ONLY friend of 4 yrs. is bisexual. I'm heterosexual. Most guys don't like me, & people think I should never have kids because they think I'm too retarded & can't take good care of a kid. I'm a nice person, but my social interactions with people aren't that great. Since people feel like I shouldn't have kids & because she can't have kids because of fertility problems, she thinks we should become closer than friends & date, but I don't like that idea. It does seem like she's the only one who cares about me & we get along great. Sometimes she jokingly touches me or tries to kiss me, & I don't feel comfy with that. It seems like I'm so ugly I'll never find a boyfriend, & too many people played with my mind & hurt me. I always fantasize about my friend being a guy. & I tell her all the time how I wish she was a guy b/c she'd be the PERFECT MAN for me because of looks & personality. She probably wouldn't do this but I'm afraid that if I don't give in & date her, she'll dump my friendship.

2007-09-23 19:37:16 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-09-23 19:34:23 · 5 answers · asked by latrice e 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-23 19:32:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

did ya commune with the dead?
what type of spirit was it

2007-09-23 19:31:56 · 14 answers · asked by Yvonne 4 in Senior Citizens

How do you feel when (or if it has never happened to you - how would you feel) someone dislikes your answer so, as a way of censoring your opinion, they block you and, therefore, disallow you to view their question in the future.

I ask you in the religious section because I know religion is all about censorship, so I figure the religion section probably has a large number of religious types censoring people.

I was just censored by a Muslim (♫♡ﷲMuslimah), because I told her that her prophet Muhammad had sex with little kids (which he did).

Anyway, isn't this just another way for people to censor opinions that harm their precious view of the world?

2007-09-23 19:27:11 · 26 answers · asked by June 3 in Religion & Spirituality

You see people spouting on about adultery and homosexuality as they believe the bible says that they are abominations, but (from any view point) rape is far worse than both of these put together, why is rape not so bad in the bible?

If you are going to start an answer with "the bible says" please include references.

2007-09-23 19:26:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I see people here referring a lot to Atheist-agnostics and Theist-agnostics. The general consensuses seems to be that a person claiming to be an Agnostic has to be one or the other; either they don't believe we can know if a god exists or not, but generally believe one does, or they don't believe we can know if a god exists or not, but generally believes one doesn't.

But I'm really in the middle. I don't believe we can know if a god exists or not, and that's all I believe. Furthermore, I don't believe the existence of a god matters at all to us in our daily lives. We spend way too much time debating and searching and praying and proving, and not enough time living.

So what am I?

2007-09-23 19:18:12 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I do not believe in the existence of God. Thus, I believe the spirit that animates us during life ceases to exist at death. I wonder if we atheists suffer loss more because we do not believe in an afterlife and the possibility of seeing our kindred spirits again.

The knowledge that this life is all we have makes me want to be all the better a person and to treat others well because it is the only life they will have too. Mortality is a common denominator and should be all the more reason for people to treat others better.

It has been eleven years since I lost my younger brother. At the time I was agnostic and prayed and hoped fervently both before and after his death. Eleven years later, the memory of him has dimmed a great deal, and so has the heartache.

Ohhhh...how I want to believe in seeing him again, but nothing on earth has ever given me evidence to hope. How to we cope?

2007-09-23 19:17:52 · 15 answers · asked by http://www.wrightlawnv.com 4 in Religion & Spirituality

pop in random question and give thumbs up or down depending if ur following god or not

2007-09-23 19:17:14 · 3 answers · asked by K.L. 3 in Religion & Spirituality

i know that i am guilty of this. i read the answers of the fundies, and the christians, and the pagans, and of course, being an atheist, the atheists. i have tried to cross boundaries to try to get some kind of response from many folks here on r/s. and yet, here it is. agree with the response......maybe thumbs up. disagree.. thumbs down. If you know that person and they aren't too bad,, no thumbs either way,,,,,, but, if you know that person does not believe what you believe, thumbs down. and maybe a report sent. i think, i don't know, i could be wrong, that although atheists on r/s are my brethren, some, could at least read the questions that these turkeys are asking before they dis it, or read the answers that some of our fellow supposed atheists are giving before giving a thumbs up. last night, i received some rather distressful e-mail from a fundie named "sofia". i read her trash, and then thought of similar e-mails i had received on the atheist end of the spectrum.
THINK

2007-09-23 19:15:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

During the tribulation period. They will lay dead for 3 days for ALL to see. Who do you think they are ?

2007-09-23 19:13:08 · 13 answers · asked by Isabella 6 in Religion & Spirituality

It's blasphemy!

2007-09-23 19:11:58 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Do you regard the Ramayana and Mahabharata as literal history or as allegory?

2007-09-23 19:10:39 · 7 answers · asked by Jerusalem Delivered 3 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-09-23 19:08:40 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality