Society & Culture - 7 October 2007

Why didnt I know better than to ask a sincere mormon question on here????

Brain fart I guess

preparing myself for once again being told how wrong and evil and cultish mormons are...........

2007-10-07 08:20:35 · 7 answers · asked by cadisneygirl 7 in Religion & Spirituality

She is the only right and true savior. So you all need to convert and become Wiccans! So burn your bibles today! They are false books. Your God and Jesus are not the true deities only my Goddess can save you! Know that now and be saved!

Annoying aint it? Of course its not true but do you see how silly it sounds? Epsecially if your not Wiccan.

Now think about it for a minute. And you will see how it feels to hear that your God is not the true. Kind of ticks you off dont it?

Why can't you respect my beliefs?

2007-10-07 08:17:36 · 39 answers · asked by aviana_snowwolfe 3 in Religion & Spirituality

War doesn't really happen. It's only in our mind. War doesn't really exist It's a figment of Man's imagination.
Man's murder of one another is only a dream. A nightmare. Unreal.
Man is loving. Love put there by God. A God of Peace. A god of reason.
One day Man will wake up, and death will be gone forever.
Death doesn't really happen. It's a dream. A vicious vision;
punishment for our doubts of one another.
Written by the Spirit of Abel, Ruler of the World.

2007-10-07 08:17:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am 13 1/2 and i feel really sad like all of the time. I am partially emo, not like hard core, but enough to be considered emo. And i am overweight, in the process of losing a little bit of weight. im not too much overweight though.

it seems like most of my life i am just a sad person. In school, since i go to a private school, their arent many kids in it, so there arent many different kind of people. All the girls in the school are preps except for me, so while finding somewhere to sit at lunch, i sit at a random table every day because i dont fit in. i dont have many friends. i used to have three close friends, then the turned on me and treated me like sh**. No one really likes me in school, except i have a few guy friends

and in my family life, well no one seems to like me. My cousin really close to my age likes my older sisters and their boyfriends more than me, and the rest of my family bassically ignores me.

why do i feel so sad?

2007-10-07 08:17:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

do some real good with their wealth and turn their beautiful buildings into afforable homes????

2007-10-07 08:17:09 · 21 answers · asked by **sammyantha** 1 in Religion & Spirituality

What's the most illogical thought you've ever had?

2007-10-07 08:16:47 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous 1 in Religion & Spirituality

This girl on my bus says, 'ghost are real, I saw one.' Are they?

2007-10-07 08:15:22 · 11 answers · asked by catie d 2 in Mythology & Folklore

My sister can never seem to understand why I choose to be agnostic. We both grew up very Catholic, Sunday school, communion, confirmation, the whole bit. Now she is born again, goes to a Baptist church several times a week and is very devout. I respect her decision, and am very proud of her commitment to it. However, when I'm back home she batters me with the I'm going to hell, and you need to find god, aka the Christian god. I understand it's part of her religion to try and sway people to their side,(which I believe is close minded, self-rightous, and plain wrong), but she needs to leave things as they are, and respect my choice as I respect hers. And no, I'm am not a bitter Atheist, or an undecided Agnostic. I choose to be Agnostic as not to be so arrogant as to think I know everything, and remain objective. I'm looking for honest, un-bias opinions from both the religious, and non religious. Please, no bickering about faiths, or lack there of. It justs wastes time. Thanks

2007-10-07 08:14:56 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

stress?
what else?

2007-10-07 08:11:20 · 12 answers · asked by Ash 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Looking back, it's hard to believe that we've lived this long...

As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

Our baby cribs were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We often chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day.

We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really hurt!

We played with toy guns, cowboys and Indians,army, cops robbers, and used our fingers to simulate guns when the toy ones or the BB gun was not available.

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, but we were never overweight; we were always outside playing.

Some students weren't as smart as others or didn't work hard so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. That generation produced some of the greatest risk-takers and problem solvers.

We had the freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pool, the term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE... and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors.

I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

Every year, someone taught the whole school a lesson by running in the halls with leather soles on linoleum tile and hitting the wet spot. How much better off would we be today if we only knew we could have sued the school system.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and the pledge (amazing we aren't all brain dead from that), and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention for about the next two weeks.

Schools didn't offer 14 year olds an abortion or condoms (we wouldn't have known what either was anyway) but they did give us a couple of baby aspirin and cough syrup if we started getting the sniffles. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I just can't recall how bored we were without Computers, PlayStation, Nintendo, or Cable TV. I must be repressing that memory as I try to rationalize through the denial of the dangers could have befallen us as we trekked off each day about a mile down the road to some guy's vacant 20, built forts out of branches and pieces of plywood, made trails, and fought over who got to be the Lone Ranger. What was that property owner thinking, letting us play on that lot? He should have been locked up for not putting up a fence around the property, complete with a self-closing gate and an infrared intruder alarm.

Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played king of the hill on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites and when we got hurt, mom pulled out the 48 cent bottle of mercurochrome and then we got butt-whooped. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics and then mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got butt-whooped there too... and then we got butt-whooped again when we got home.

Mom invited the door to door salesman inside for coffee.

Our music had to be left inside when we went out to play and I am sure that I nearly exhausted my imagination a couple of times when we went on two week vacations. I should probably sue the folks now for the danger they put us in when we all slept in campgrounds in the family tent.

Summers were spent behind the push lawnmower and I didn't even know lawn mowers came with motors until I was 13 and we got one without an automatic blade-stop or an auto-drive.

How sick were my parents? Of course my parents weren't the only psychos. I recall a neighbor coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop just before he fell off. Little did his mom know that she could have owned our house. Instead she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes?

We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac! How did we ever survive?????

2007-10-07 08:09:33 · 18 answers · asked by sage seeker 7 in Senior Citizens

2007-10-07 08:09:26 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

As compared with venerating the cross, that is?

2007-10-07 08:09:23 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Many people, if randomly aproched and asked what their faith/belife is, will say "I don't have one." But how can that be? i mean, think about it. to have a belife is to think about something and think that its true/right. so they have to have a faith/belife, right? and do u think they r only bluffing? also what do u think about faith in evry day life? do u think other faiths r better than others, or that all faiths r just to pushy. i want u to please tell me ur full thoughts on these matters. Thankx!

2007-10-07 08:08:40 · 11 answers · asked by elfa_ivy 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-07 08:07:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-07 08:05:25 · 11 answers · asked by gainesjrh 1 in Other - Holidays

Secular and/or spiritual answers welcome. Personally I think that Israel should return all illegaly occupied settlements in the West Bank back to Palestine. Why? The answer is simple. Under international law it is illegal to build settlements in an occupied territory. Being an atheist, this makes this dispute clean cut and dry. No ifs ands or buts, the secular law trumphs all dogmatic beliefs. Many Israelis (not all) believe that the land is rightfully theirs, given to them by God - as written in the Torah. It is only when the seperation between church and state is blurred, that we have problems like the ones fueling in the Middle East today.

2007-10-07 08:04:12 · 14 answers · asked by Future 5 in Religion & Spirituality

is this world coming to a end cause of all the hate and etc.........Help the only true firend i have is jesus but is that enough...Help

2007-10-07 08:03:21 · 23 answers · asked by Alanta 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I asked a question for those that might want to know what mormons believe telling them that its a good day to find out since it is our general conference. There were a couple of sincere answerers. Most of them were just people there to tell me how wrong I was and how wrong my church was. What is the purpose of being so mean and spiteful over just a sincere regular question or offering of information?

Does it make people feel better to go out of there way to condemn others?

2007-10-07 08:00:06 · 24 answers · asked by cadisneygirl 7 in Religion & Spirituality

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For instance, most would say that killing in self-defense is justifiable.
…but does this mean that ALL killing should be legalized?
Self-defense killing accounts for less than 5% of all killing in America.

Many would say that abortion in the case of incest, rape, or medical emergency is justifiable.
…but does this mean that ALL abortion should be legal?
Abortion after incest, rape, or medical emergency accounts for less than 5% of all abortions in America.

Should ALL killing be legalized then?

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3700 abortions are performed every DAY in the U.S.
That is over 1.3 million every year.
95% of these are done purely as a means of birth control
Less than 5% are due to rape, incest, fetal abnormalities, or maternal health problems

That means 3500 abortions are done every DAY in the U.S. that the MAJORITY of Americans think should be illegal.

These are appalling FACTS.

http://www.abortiontv.com/Misc/AbortionStatistics.htm
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2007-10-07 07:59:25 · 8 answers · asked by yachadhoo 6 in Religion & Spirituality

God granted him his request and blessed him how ?

2007-10-07 07:58:26 · 15 answers · asked by Isabella 6 in Religion & Spirituality

can you help me identify and evaluate How did the world changed because of the interaction between the Native Americans and Europeans?

2007-10-07 07:58:01 · 4 answers · asked by ajelh_ka22roxx 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-07 07:57:27 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In good times, few people are faithful to God and turn to him.

In bad times, almost everyone turns to God.

How?

2007-10-07 07:57:24 · 13 answers · asked by Jack K 2 in Religion & Spirituality

He says that if you trust to much in your own power of reason, you are putting yourself before God. So intellectuals are inherently unchristian.

What do you think?

2007-10-07 07:57:14 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Throughout the bible it told of the miracles that Jesus performed. But were they really miracles? The bible mentions witchcraft in several places. Why? Was it really miracles that Jesus was performing or was it magic aka Witchcraft? Was Jesus a Witch? A Wizard? A practitioner of the Magickal Arts? Did they sugar coat what he did with the term miracles? So not to scare the people?

2007-10-07 07:56:42 · 25 answers · asked by aviana_snowwolfe 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I was having an on line argument with a black guy who was insisting one drop of black made you all black. Being non American I find this bizzare, as I know a quarter black girl with fair hair and green eyes (a friend's niece).

Doesn't this distort the census, making it seem like there are more black Americans than there are? Can you put down 'white' on forms if your parents are mixed? How far back does your black ancestor have to be before you are not black?

Doesn't it discriminte against the non black parent, in effect completely denying one side of the individuals ancestry. Do people claim to be black to take advantage of affirmative action?

2007-10-07 07:53:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Seems Like THere Getting More Frequent To...

2007-10-07 07:52:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Thanks for answering all my other questions. I was healed miracleously in January by Jesus. My JW friend said that they believe that healing is of satan. Also, Jesus told his disciples that they had the authority to heal and cast out demons. What do you say? God Bless You all that answer and have a great day!

2007-10-07 07:51:59 · 14 answers · asked by godlovesjacob 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Read some of these Christians' answers. They refuse to say an Atheist is right no matter what
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ata7D_vf5sRfr5oDYiCvN.Dsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071007114332AAv8QLo

2007-10-07 07:51:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

No best answer will be picked cause its all opinion ^_^

2007-10-07 07:50:43 · 13 answers · asked by Llama 2 in Etiquette