Society & Culture - 25 September 2007

Note: I am a novice tarot reader.
I was counting my deck when I realized I was one card short and once the cards were sorted I realized it was the high priestess card. I looked all over and recounted my deck NUMBEROUS times but to no avail.
Then weeks later during a reading (I made a makeshift high preistess card out of an extra blank card) when the original one appeared as I put it down.
It wasn't stuck to another card (In recounting my deck earlier I had rubbed each card in hopes that it was stuck) it was was there.
What should I think about that. What does it mean.

Thanks for the (future) answers from anyone with insight on this.

2007-09-25 20:13:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I havent done this but i just get really pissed of when they get offended for something that doesnt even mean anything about them.

NO OFFENSE TO ANYONE I JUST HATE THERE REACTIONS I THINK THEY JUST WANT TO BE THOUGHT OF AS BLACK

2007-09-25 20:11:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Why don't Christians do any of those things? Have you ever thought about that? I've seen some Atheists say that the Bible's the reason they became Atheist.



If you look at this site: http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/


You can see a lot of sick verses, and passages in the Bible. So why don't Christians do any of those things?


Yeah, I know you can claim "they're picking and choosing" but who goes through such a "disgusting and evil" book, and picks and chooses for as long as the Bible's been around?


And yes, I also know you can say "Some people need religion/ crutches" and some are in denial/ too stubborn/ being deliberately obtuse.


It just seems weird to me that when you enter a church, you're not thinking "these people are sick" and I don't think too many people can say they know a Christian who does all that stuff.

2007-09-25 20:04:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"Christianity...[has become] the most perverted system that ever shone on man....Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus." --- Thomas Jefferson

“The son-ship of Jesus Christ is the greatest fiction of human history.” (Lord Bishop of Canterbury Commission, the Spiritual Head of England, 1910.)

“The son-ship of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, the blood sacrifice of the lamb of God, atonement are not the teachings of Jesus. These are all inventions of Saint Paul who never really met Jesus.” (Hastings Rashdall, The Theory of Good and Evil)

"Initially there were 34 gospels that were compiled by word of mouth. Four were chosen for unclear reasons and 30 were left behind [burned]. (Encyclopedia Britannica)

“There is strong reason to believe that St. Paul fabricated the belief system of Christianity from Zoroastrian mythology. In order to hide Paul’s plaigerism… Christians burned the library of Alexandria in 390 A.D. Books in that library kept Mithra’s original story of what Pauline Doctrine is an almost exact copy. (George Sarton , Introduction to History of Sciences) ,

Although Nontrinitarian beliefs continued to multiply, and among some people (such as the Lombards in the West) it was dominant for hundreds of years afterward, the Trinitarians gained the immense power of the Roman Empire. Nontrinitarians typically argue that the primitive beliefs of the Christianity were systematically suppressed (often to the point of death), and that the historical record, perhaps also including the Scriptures of the New Testament, was altered as a consequence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism

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2007-09-25 20:03:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I looked it up but still do not really understand?

2007-09-25 20:03:13 · 3 answers · asked by toothbrushx2 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I keep reading people write pbuh after Jesus or Allah's name.

What is the significance of it? What is it that people try to convey?

The definition of word upon is:
On;
used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.

a. So is Peace On or Over God (Jesus, Allah, others)?
Why not "Peace in God"?

b. Can the term God interchanged with Peace?

Or is it an abbreviated version of some other meaning?

Grammatically speaking it didn't make much sense to me, do you think the same?

Curious...

2007-09-25 20:03:11 · 7 answers · asked by TrueBlueAqua 2 in Religion & Spirituality

do nothing to prevent them.

2007-09-25 20:01:46 · 20 answers · asked by thematofylaks 2 in Religion & Spirituality

How come I can't jump as high as I want? Or does god Limit my free will? And if it is limited....is it really free will?

2007-09-25 20:00:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

"Happy the man who shall seize and smash your little ones against the rock!" (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)


Deanna Laney bashed in her childrens brains with a rock as ordered by GOD.

TYLER, Texas - A jury on Saturday began deliberating whether a homemaker was insane when she used rocks to bludgeon two of her sons to death and severely injure a third after receiving what she claimed were orders from God.

He recounted Joshua's killing: "He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid."

Defense attorney began her argument by asking the jury why a DEEPLY RELIGIOUS woman would kill two of her children and maim another without so much as a tear.

Laney, who home-schooled her children in the tiny town of New Chapel Hill, 100 miles southeast of Dallas, was convinced she was divinely CHOSEN by God to kill her children last Mother's Day weekend.


http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=53918


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2007-09-25 19:58:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 19:57:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

i'm well my parents are mormon and i'm not and i kind of and open to new religions i don't really belive in god because well what has he done for me and someone i know is bubbist probaly spelt that wrong or scientology cause i know two people that are those and i havn't looked into them because well i don't know where to go to look for stuff like that and i'm just into finding a new religion so if you can help me find where to see the different religions and like what there beliefs are and if you can help that would be great or just tell me what your religion is and what your religion is about

2007-09-25 19:56:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 19:54:52 · 30 answers · asked by Somewhere in Time 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Matthew 8
8:28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
8:29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
8:30 And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
8:31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
8:32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.


POOR LITTLE PIGGIES!!! What did the piggies do to Jesus, to deserve to be drowned in the ocean???? ...but ok - further in the text, the villagers didn't like Jesus much after this stunt of his, and asked him to leave.

2007-09-25 19:54:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I mean Muhammed didn't even perform any miracles and Jesus healed the sick and the blind, he fed thousands of people with a loaf of bread and some tiny fishes, he walked on water, he rose people to life from the dead, he himself came back from the dead.

Tell me what is on Muhammed's resume that I should trust him over Jesus?

If you're going to tell me the bible is corrupted and Muhammed actually tells the truth about what Jesus taught think again - New Testament was written within a generation of Jesus's death. We have first-hand accounts from the Apostles regarding what Jesus said and taught. Muhammed didn't recite the Qur'an until about 600 years after Jesus's ministry on earth. How would he know what Jesus actually taught?

If you're going to tell me God spoke to Muhammed, prove it!

2007-09-25 19:53:10 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Most people that believe or have faith, both want to as well as need to.
Religion and faith of this magnitude allow people to except complex and not well understood areas of being.
When addressing religion from an objective stand point. Many logical questions arise. Those who are more subjective about religion spend a majority of there time convincing themselves to have faith against logic.
"Religion is the opiate of the people."
Carl Marx
Religion is used to control both those who chooses not to use rational thought and well as those who are hoodwinked into it.
If you believe and you are also willing to accept the truth and the fact that your concept maybe wrong than please watch this video. I would also suggest studying other religions. Your belief surely cannot be right simply because you know not of others perspectives and beliefs.

2007-09-25 19:52:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Aren't Alcohol related death much higher than Tobacco related deaths?

2007-09-25 19:51:51 · 6 answers · asked by Moe Hawk 2 in Other - Society & Culture

This is the sofa where she kissed me.

or

This is the sofa on which she kissed me.

2007-09-25 19:51:22 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

Alcohol related deaths are higher than Cigarette Smoking

2007-09-25 19:50:56 · 10 answers · asked by Moe Hawk 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 19:49:22 · 16 answers · asked by Inou 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Luk 14:26 If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.


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Philip Badowski breaks chainsaw while cutting up the bodies of his Christian Missionary Parents


CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Dec 11, 2004 — A college student who admitted he fatally shot his parents in their bedroom and broke a chain saw cutting up their bodies told investigators: "GOD told me to."

He said the killings were "spur of the moment" after his parents scolded him when they returned from a weeklong missionary trip to Haiti.

http://www.bluelineradio.com/godsaid.html


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2007-09-25 19:49:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 19:45:58 · 12 answers · asked by Inou 3 in Religion & Spirituality

recently scanning questions on here, i gotta ask this. some questions are cool, get stars while others are insulting, or some are LMAO, Q'S, or racist or biased or just very good and tht provoking. so did anyone ever thing that even though some of the reponses you may get for questions-- some people are sheltered, just don't know, or know any better.or are just bored, are being blatantly rude and mean, or their parents raised them to be like that or raised by wolves or raised themselves, or racist because of raised values by others? we all are here to help understand, support or just get our frustrations out..rather than smashing up the neighborhood or acting like uncontrollable bastards. we come her for a daily fix. i am guilty of some things too so i am at some fault. any one else agree or not?

2007-09-25 19:44:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Have you ever read the Holy Koran? My last question was, atheist have you ever read the bible. Many people responded by saying, it is the reason why I became an atheist. I find this to be a rather interesting, as Im sure most people have not read the Koran. How many atheist have study hinduism or scientology? My point is that using the Bible to justify your disbelief in God is ridiculous.

A fairy tale books blatant contradictions is not the reason I do not believe in God.
The concept of such a being suffices!

2007-09-25 19:41:52 · 18 answers · asked by Future 5 in Religion & Spirituality

"...A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet," (Joseph Smith, HC, vol. 6:408-409).

2007-09-25 19:41:10 · 5 answers · asked by wassupmang 5 in Religion & Spirituality

In Matthew it says:
5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

So sorry guys again - I'm really confused. With these words - didn't Jesus in fact support the laws in the old testament?

2007-09-25 19:40:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 19:39:12 · 8 answers · asked by ♥ 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I've read many questions where enquirers have asked how Islam can be a peaceful religion when the quran is so violent and encourages so much revenge and punishment. But mostly all the answers from Muslims repeat the same thing.

"Islam IS a religion of peace and love. We are not all terrorists."

Well, the main question was, why is the quran filled with violence and visciousness? Why does it call for jihads and killings if Islam is a peaceful, tolerant religion?

Even the Christians have an excuse for the violence in their so-called holy book! They say, "That nasty stuff is in the old testament. We follow the new testament and ours is a peaceful, loving religion!"

Why have Muslims not been able to think up a suitable (though equally bogus) excuse like that?

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2007-09-25 19:35:57 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Would you hang around a hotel and scream at all the unwed couples?

2007-09-25 19:33:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-25 19:32:18 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-09-25 19:29:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality