Society & Culture - 26 September 2007

2007-09-26 00:31:00 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

2007-09-26 00:29:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I find it odd...
Most of the christians I have known in person, with a few very noteworthy exceptions... aren't anything like as extreme as the population here.
They do believe in God and that Jesus is the son of god and all that..... but they don't go in for all that hell stuff.... and they certainly do NOT take all that Revelations nonsense about the second coming of christ and the anti-christ etc as literal (most I've asked seem fairly agnostic to the matter of armageddon full stop).
I'd even go so far as to say I find quite a number of them reasonable.... and didn't even know they were christians at all until they either told me or mentioned that they found my attacking christianity in front of them objectionable....


So do any such people even exist on R&S..... or is this board just full of extremists? Are the mild-mannered ones just going unseen because their voices aren't quite so loud?

2007-09-26 00:28:18 · 19 answers · asked by Lucid Interrogator 5 in Religion & Spirituality

If you follow the progression Jesus was the main dude and was supposed to remain the main dude. His followers only job was teach others.

Years after his death you see the start of a hierarchy forming and you start to see leadership positions etc. I think Jesus didn't want that.

It's kind of like when Israel demanded a king rather than be led by Yahweh directly.

So in essence, the church would rather have their leaders and such rather than everyone being equally led by Yahweh.

Funny how this happened whenever Jesus was not physically around.

2007-09-26 00:25:56 · 7 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 in Religion & Spirituality

im sorry, I mean the "eucharist".

2007-09-26 00:23:17 · 9 answers · asked by ReliableLogic 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I recieved a gift bag from the mother of a student I just started tutoring. What would be a good return gift or thank you card? I am definatly getting her a card, but would a gift also be appropiate and if so what?

For the card, what should I include? I want to thank her for the gift and that I look forward to working with her and her son, should I add anything else?

2007-09-26 00:20:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

What would be the best way to tell people to turn the volume down on their MP3s or whatever they are listening? while traveling on the bus, tube, train etc...

This morning on the bus to work, a young girl probably 18-19 had her speaker phone on loud to listen to her tunes, while the bus was full, no one dared to tell her (not even me) although everyone was giving her dirty looks, she couldn't even care less.
I moved further in and there was another woman, listening to some other tunes with her ear pieces but the music was so loud that all you can hear is beats and hissing, which is mostly irritating...
And then another stupid cow sat next to me, with the same loud music leaking from her earphones...

Please advise if it is rude to ask people to turn their noise down, or am I being a moaning cow myself?

2007-09-26 00:18:56 · 21 answers · asked by black_dahlia 5 in Etiquette

Jesus' described baptism as being born again of water and the Holy Spirit (John 3). But Christians who interpret being born again as making a decision to accept Jesus as one's personal savior (a concept not found in the gospels) reject infant baptism. If we can't decide to be born the first time, why does personal decision become a crucial factor in the second birth?

2007-09-26 00:14:12 · 22 answers · asked by Bruce 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Am I being too critical? Probably. But so what?

Am I guilty of this? Yep you bet. I want to change...

At this point I think Christianity will be the minority in the near future. Better start cleaning house now while it is still easy to do so.

2007-09-26 00:12:43 · 9 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 in Religion & Spirituality

The lack of any evidence is not an evidence that he is not real, it's just an evidence we haven't discovered anything yet

America existed even before it was discovered, right? :-)

2007-09-26 00:12:12 · 31 answers · asked by larissa 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-26 00:11:01 · 11 answers · asked by gone 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-26 00:07:42 · 6 answers · asked by dorodchi 1 in Languages

Sad isn't it?

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070925/29448_Study%3A_Christianity_No_Longer_Looks_Like_Jesus.htm

2007-09-26 00:06:54 · 11 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-09-26 00:04:03 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

it's extremely hot and surely they must be very thirsty, not like the UK for example.

2007-09-26 00:03:49 · 10 answers · asked by Goldfish" 1 in Religion & Spirituality