Society & Culture - 25 September 2007

I work at a apartment property, and I saw this in an apartment recently. The man is of the Catholic faith, and I was just curious as to what that meant? PLEASE HELP!

2007-09-25 10:52:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 10:52:15 · 14 answers · asked by X 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Realizing full well that it is a natural law and process you can no more invoke or preclude. Realizing also that if you were able to invoke it, your role or the role of the people involved would come into play in a way you might not be able to control?
For instance, you might not be able to protect a beloved friend if their role in a certain situation were much more negative than you believed. Or if trouble (karmic payback) were to befall someone who deserved it, then might others in their family suffer? So, unless someone is bothering you a lot, isn't it better to ignore them (like brushing off a fly), rather than allowing yourself to get all worked up - creating a much bigger stress for yourself? Is it possible you didn't really unserstand the situation to begin with?
I am often thinking about this with respect to my husband's ex-wife, who caused a lot of damage to many of us.

2007-09-25 10:51:21 · 9 answers · asked by Zelda Hunter 7 in Religion & Spirituality

my mom told me that monsters dont exist. was she lieing?

2007-09-25 10:50:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 10:49:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

When Church's of Christendom pass out COLLECTION PLATES 4 Donations aren't they in "essence" MAKING God BEG? ?

HEVENly EYES I would like to draw your attention to the Very large 4 feet high by 2 foot square boxes .. watched very carefully by brothers ..Present around every entrance or thoroughfare in the stadiums During the JW convention .. .

and those would be for .....??????

you sir are a hypocrite.. and clearly a fool

2007-09-25 10:49:27 · 14 answers · asked by Wondering Faith 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 10:49:26 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Europe is voting on banning any scientific evidence that supports creationism from the public schools. This reminds me of Hitler buring books the Nazi Party didn't agree with.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/sc_nm/europe_creationism_dc

Shouldn’t the schools let the evidence speak and not censor things simply because it could have religious implications? Why the need censor this evidence? What ever happened to the free flow of information?

2007-09-25 10:49:17 · 29 answers · asked by mikearion 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Or is it just too late
eg:
Why has this government changed the face of this country forever,what gave these clowns the right to do this.?
or
Did you know that England have qualified for the world cup?
more times than Scotland, and won it numerous more times than scotland, and that all Scotch footballers secretly want to be English so they can play for England and be English ;)

2007-09-25 10:47:54 · 10 answers · asked by rmikecollins2 2 in Other - Society & Culture

im not so sure yet and was wondering wht u ppl r gonna be...also if anybody has any ideas plz give..=^-^=

2007-09-25 10:47:24 · 5 answers · asked by Crazy_Wanderer 3 in Halloween

I have no desire to do that to your beliefs or non beliefs.
Some of you call us foolish and ignorant but it is
apparent you find us believers so fascinating and
irresistable because you keep looking at the Bible.
Have a good one!

2007-09-25 10:46:45 · 22 answers · asked by I'm A Blue Collar Man 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Well I know that chances of the world ending are pretty low, but the mythology and predictions surrounding this date are extremely high. I wanted to know what you though about this.

2007-09-25 10:45:12 · 22 answers · asked by Math☻Nerd 4 in Mythology & Folklore

Europe's main human rights body will vote next week on a resolution opposing the teaching of creationist and intelligent design views in school science classes.

2007-09-25 10:44:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have to write a morality play for my english class with 3 other people in h.s.....

i need some good suggestions

2007-09-25 10:44:13 · 10 answers · asked by Koko Butta Kream 4 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-09-25 10:43:51 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Here's mine: Just because I used all the soccerballs from the playing field by my apartment to construct a giant organic molecule using the PVC pipe from the goal posts as the bonds, and displayed it in the middle of the soccer field as artwork..doesn't make me a nerd!

(it just makes me highly creative)

2007-09-25 10:43:35 · 33 answers · asked by I_color_outside_the_lines 4 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I would love to study alchemy and see what kind of things I can find out.

2007-09-25 10:42:55 · 8 answers · asked by brandon m 1 in Mythology & Folklore

can anyone tell me what it is called

2007-09-25 10:42:52 · 10 answers · asked by Gabby B 1 in Other - Society & Culture

What convinced you? When you sat down and examined the scriptures and thought through the tenets of Christianity, what made you say "Yes, this makes sense. This is a belief system I can follow"? If you had to back up your faith, what would you list as your "proofs."

Feel free to adapt this question to other faiths.

2007-09-25 10:42:48 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 10:42:31 · 3 answers · asked by KJ 1 in Languages

Is it okay to give to a Christian Outreach program instead?


Any biblical references?

2007-09-25 10:42:20 · 10 answers · asked by ShaneWayne 2 in Religion & Spirituality

My bff just revealed to me that she get's off watching gay guys and that the only type of guys she can see herself dating is gay guys or guys that seem to be gay...i don't know what to think or what to tell her, help me please!!

2007-09-25 10:40:41 · 10 answers · asked by Sunny 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I prefer tap water. It doesn't have that "old church" smell.

2007-09-25 10:39:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why do you think there are so few women in the bible?

2007-09-25 10:39:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm just curious. Did something happen when you were younger that made you not turn away from God? Is it the lack of hypocrisy you see in believers? I just want to know what happened.

2007-09-25 10:38:59 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 10:38:11 · 11 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 10:38:07 · 6 answers · asked by skypower 2 in Religion & Spirituality

are teenagers[like 14 years old] allowed to choose their own religion?
Like, my parents are Catholic, and they want me to make my conformation. But I dont want to be Catholic, and I dont want to lie to an entire church.

Are there any laws saying that I can choose my own religion, even if my parents are agianst it?

2007-09-25 10:36:58 · 10 answers · asked by manduhh 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Everybody seems to think that it's good to donate organs. They even go on about "the gift of life". But what about the flip side of it all?

Here's a scenario for you:

One bloke gets killed and his heart is whipped out and whipped in to the chest of a train driver. Some time later said heart packs up while the fella is driving the train - it crashes and loads of passengers are killed.

Now, if the train driver had died at his allotted time instead of staying on with his replacement heart he would never have been driving the train. And all those people would have gone home to their loved ones in one piece instead of in body bags.

So should we be playing around with life and death as we do, or should we think again and accept that since death is a natural part of living we should leave well enough alone?

2007-09-25 10:36:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

With all of the people that have killed their kids, grandkids, step kids, wives, husbands, etc. over the last few years that claim that either god told them to do it, the devil made them do it, the children were possessed, etc., shouldn't more and more people of faith speak out and teach against such actions? Shouldn't there be services dedicated to letting people know that such ideas are more likely signs of mental sickness, and are not good excuses to commit murder?

Here are a few examples of what I'm speaking of, for those who demand proof that christians do these types of things:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/12/slain.children/
http://www.courttv.com/trials/laney/040104_ctv.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6561617/
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_59715.asp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1586978,00.html

There are plenty more examples, but what I want to know is: What is the clergy's responsibility in preventing these things from happening?

2007-09-25 10:36:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality