Society & Culture - 10 October 2007

I'm making a donation as a birthday gift. Anyone know of good Georgia (USA) non-profits focused on land/nature preservation, outdoor recreation, or general public health access?

2007-10-10 02:36:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Community Service

Allotoyahs or Nicheren Buddhists, who convince people that they are going to be punished if they don't live a certain way and convert others to their religions.

2007-10-10 02:35:38 · 8 answers · asked by Laughing Libra 6 in Religion & Spirituality

i personally have no problem with Christians,but seriously i hate it when they try to convert me or my other non-Christian friends,cant they just gtfo,stfu?

2007-10-10 02:35:31 · 20 answers · asked by Ryan H 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Gurkha,
flying a swift and powerful vimana
hurled a single projectile
Charged with all the power of the Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame
As bright as the thousand suns
Rose in all its splendour...
a perpendicular explosion
with its billowing smoke clouds...
...the cloud of smoke
rising after its first explosion
formed into expanding round circles
like the opening of giant parasols...
..it was an unknown weapon,
An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
...The corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognizable.
The hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.
After a few hours
All foodstuffs were infected...
...to escape from this fire
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment

2007-10-10 02:32:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

Was it a feeling you got when you listened to a preacher or read the bible? Was it a thought you had that you were always taught to believe? That first time you had a new revelation about belief/God/spirituality, etc -- was it a feeling or a thought? If it was a feeling, did it continue unabated, or go away after a while or wax/wane or what?

(Pagans, atheists, wiccans, FSM believers etc. welcome to answer, of course.)

2007-10-10 02:29:58 · 28 answers · asked by Acorn 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm a Pagan but I believe no religion is 100% right or wrong depending on the person. I have studied christian religions but I will not follow them. I'm engaged to an open minded christian who some people call a hypocrite for being with a Pagan priestess.

I believe the christian god may exist but I think he's wrong (my view but as I said he maybe wrong to me but right to others) and too much of a power freak as well as self centered and I will not follow him. My husband to be has no problem with this.

I believe christains shouldn't judge me as I do not judge them, I don't like what they follow but I have christian friends who are open-minded.

So tell me, why do so many people attack me in day to day life and go nuts when they see my penticale? Wearing it is no worse than wearing a cross. Honest answers please, no bashing each other. I really want to understand why people think it is ok to treat me like s**t because I don't share their veiws.

2007-10-10 02:29:13 · 27 answers · asked by Victoria Sparda 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I was driving to the office this morning and noticed that a new Lutheran church is under construction, directly across the street from a huge Baptist church.

This got me thinking, what some religion-centric TV network creates a game show, a cross between American Gladiator and The 700 Club?

Contestants representing various schools of religious thought would be pit against others in mock combat. Crowds would roar like the Roman arenas of old as one religion battles the other for points and ca$h prizes. Special guests like the Pope, the Dalai Lama or others might appear to give their blessings or offer some seeds of philosophy to mellow the combative atmosphere.

Maybe spice things up by making it one general category of religions vs another, like Christians vs Jews, Muslims vs Unitarian Universalists.

The shows would always close with each group perhaps kneeling and giving their blessings to their Lord on high.

Plus each sect could earn money for their church.

Whatcha think?

2007-10-10 02:28:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-10 02:28:12 · 16 answers · asked by Seth W 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-10 02:27:04 · 9 answers · asked by Ajay S 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I was thinking of getting a tattoo in arabic but then thought about the ottoman turkish script which is a variation of arabic. Does anyone know how to write "creativity" or "creative" in ottoman turkish script? Or do you know of any websites or books that would help me? I found some websites that show the alphabet but I need to know how to put it together.

2007-10-10 02:26:45 · 3 answers · asked by lizzilucia 2 in Languages

Please help me. I need help from someone with knowledge on the subject.

2007-10-10 02:26:20 · 1 answers · asked by Saeticks 1 in Languages

if a couplpe was to go to a state where gay marrage was leagle and then return back to the state where it was illeagle would the marraige be leagle taking in to consideration the 4th article of the consituion??????

2007-10-10 02:26:11 · 9 answers · asked by jay j 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

and whats your religion and does that come into play? i have a friend whose parents are christians and they named all their kids after bible characters

2007-10-10 02:24:58 · 31 answers · asked by Smee 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Everytime I go into a Wal-Mart the greeters never say anything, unless you have a return or the alarm goes off.
I would think they should at least welcome you to the store.
Hince, the title "Greeter".
Does this bother anyone else, or has common courtesy gone forever?

2007-10-10 02:24:51 · 11 answers · asked by V's dad 1 in Etiquette

It's not because I have something against God, it's because Hell for me would be being surrounded by you Christians.

2007-10-10 02:24:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If catholics would just study in an unbiased way the true history of their church, wouldn't they see that it has not been a "holy" church, but an organization littered with immoral popes whose lust for power and influence new no bounds. They have controlled their "flock" with superstition and fear.

2007-10-10 02:23:04 · 19 answers · asked by YellowRoseO'Texas 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-10 02:22:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Atheists, Agnostics, and others, this is you chance to stop the war in this section, I have asked for only Bible Believers to answer this and have communicated nicely with several of you about not bashing each other, So let us all stop bashing each other and just answer what is asked OK ?
Bible believers do you thinkour God is a consuming fire.
and how might you explain this so He doesn't sound just mean ? As if you were explaining it to a child ...

2007-10-10 02:18:11 · 7 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5 in Religion & Spirituality

When I say God, I mean the God that is defined in the Bible. I am trying to understand exactly how it is that many of you know that God as explained in the Bible is real. When I read the Bible I read a lot of ideas as to what God is, but I can not grasp it as there is no way to observe his properties there is nothing to compare this God to. There is nothing that is specific to this God that could not be equally explained away with any other idea.

When I see my daughter I know she is real, not only can I observe properties of her existence but I know she is my daughter because of very specific objective evidence that shows tha she is definetely my child.

When I see my Bible, I know it is real.. But the ideas of God contained within have no such value.

So show me, what are the specific properties of your God that could not likewise be explained with almost any other idea to explain our existence.

2007-10-10 02:18:02 · 13 answers · asked by Green 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Whatever happened to the original tablets upon which the Ten Commandments were written? Do they still exist, and if so, where are they?

2007-10-10 02:17:39 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I understand this is a way to get people off of their backs for a usually disgusting act or way of life, but obviously they are acknowledging God. Do they realize what his judgement will be? I'd take all of the judgement of world before I'd want to challenge God's judgement, because it's forever.

2007-10-10 02:15:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I hate when people say the only proof of God I have is the bible. Don't tell me what I know. There are things that prove God's existence that an atheist would not understand. Why do people need physical evidence, doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of faith. Could it be that If your stuck in sin, your the weak one, but it takes a special strength to go against the worldly ways and stick to your faith? Like walking away from a fight doesn't make you weak, anyone can pick a fight but it takes strength to go against your emotions. It's the same thing.
Is it a coincidence that if I talk about Jesus, i get insulted?
In the Bible, Jesus said, as he was persecuted in body, we will be persecuted in his name. How do people use science against God if he created science in the first place? That's like if I give you a gun as a gift, and you shoot me with it. God could look at us as we look at ants, not important, but he doesn't. Everybody wants to be somebody but we forget, we're human.

2007-10-10 02:13:48 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

There seems to be a lot of fuss being raised over the incident in Louisiana where several black youths fought one white youth. Why is it that they were charged with attempted murder? Could it be that white people fear an imagined black tendency to fight as a group, that is, several black people against one white? There have certainly been images (real and scripted) of many blacks attacking one white. Are there images of the reverse? One magazine made the point that blacks are trying to make up for all the attacks they received at the hands of whites in the segregation days.
But is it even true that black people are more likely to "gang up" when they fight, be it against a white person or otherwise? Is this fair, or is there even such a thing as a "fair fight"? Do white people claim that blacks are too afraid to fight man to man?

2007-10-10 02:12:07 · 27 answers · asked by pomosimulacrum 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

How can I last longer during sex? I have had sex plenty of times, but my stamina isnt the best? Any help?

2007-10-10 02:12:04 · 9 answers · asked by lover_69 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I've heard a few Christians say that atheists could not have genuinely searched for God, because if they had, they would have found him.

Is it equally fair to say Christians have not honestly applied rational thought to their beliefs, otherwise they'd be an atheist?

2007-10-10 02:11:55 · 20 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Why do Catholics insist on calling me Protestant? How about we start calling them Protestant because they are not teaching the True Bible, instead Man-made doctrines?

2007-10-10 02:10:56 · 15 answers · asked by Rudy P 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-10 02:09:35 · 41 answers · asked by D.W 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Like to romania, or africa, to an orphanage or something? i quite fancy it but have no idea where to start!!

2007-10-10 02:09:27 · 7 answers · asked by girlie 4 in Community Service

what is your opinion about underage females getting abourtions.

2007-10-10 02:09:03 · 9 answers · asked by big_twan2 2 in Other - Society & Culture

Isn't it more selfish to bring more people into this world that's so unfair and violent?

2007-10-10 02:08:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture