Society & Culture - 23 October 2007

2007-10-23 07:07:25 · 24 answers · asked by Linz ♥ VT 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Or has everyone changed to emails? My handwriting is very hard to read and my typing is getting worse due to pain in my fingers. I like you folks but sometimes have to read and remain silent,, hope that is ok.

2007-10-23 07:06:53 · 31 answers · asked by ncgirl 6 in Senior Citizens

I have no animosity towards Catholics. I just have always wondered why their identity as a Catholic seems to take precedence over the fact that they are first-and-foremost a Christian. For example, I recently saw a web site that said "How to become a Catholic". Isn't becoming a Christian the more over-arching goal?

2007-10-23 07:06:35 · 19 answers · asked by OP-lo 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-23 07:06:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-23 07:05:17 · 11 answers · asked by kat_9008 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I mean if they were to go back to the basics of Christianity they would be Catholic wouldn't they?

2007-10-23 07:04:52 · 7 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Religion & Spirituality

Like hushpuppies it is a southern name or a rural country raised persons word for a tasty morsel.
I know from at least one answer that I'm not the only person raised on them.
Only my 2 oldest children grew up eating them.
I think too many people associate hoe cake with poverty.
I hope we can explain what it is and how to make them so our friends from around the world can make them and let us know what they think about them.

2007-10-23 07:04:21 · 18 answers · asked by Southern Comfort 6 in Senior Citizens

I was always told they were Jewish

- a Jew

2007-10-23 07:04:09 · 19 answers · asked by I'm an Atheist 3 in Religion & Spirituality

This is old news to those in the know but here is a recent article covering the widespread death caused by the Catholic belief that using condons is wrong.

This is a perfect example of how bad beliefs can cause horrible consequences. It is also a perfect example of how so so-called "moral beliefs" can actually be horribly immoral, causing extreme suffering rather than doing good.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071023/hl_nm/honduras_aids_dc

2007-10-23 07:02:31 · 9 answers · asked by DiRTy D 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Here are the 9 core beliefs of Satanism represents:

-Indulgence, not abstinence.
-Vital existence, not spiritual pipe dreams.
-Undefiled wisdom, not hypocritical self-deceit.
-Kindness to those deserving of it, not love wasted on ingrates.
-Vengeance, not turning the other cheek.
-Responsibility to the responsible, instead of concern for psychic vampires.
-Man as just another animal - the most vicious of all.
-Gratification of all ones desires.
-The best friend that the Christian Church has had as he has kept it in business for centuries.

Here are the sins under Satanism:
Stupidity
Pretentiousness
Solipsism
Self-deceit
Herd conformity
Lack of perspective
Forgetfulness of past orthodoxies
Counterproductive pride
Lack of aesthetics

At the very least, an interesting religion.

2007-10-23 07:02:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-23 07:02:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

How are the two different?

2007-10-23 07:01:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

anyone else getting sick of the "if man evolved from monkeys, why are there monkeys stil around" argument? i mean, this is so easy to explain....yet i see it repeatedly. if SUVs evolved from cars, why are there still cars around?

2007-10-23 07:00:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071023/hl_nm/honduras_aids_dc

Is it the Catholic Church?

Is it the population that takes their direction from people in "leadership"?

2007-10-23 07:00:09 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was reading the bible last night and one thing was nagging at me.. Where did all these other people come from when the world started with just Adam and Eve? After Cain and Able, Cain married and had a family. His brother (Seth I think it was) found a wife and they had a family.. where did all these new people come from? Also, how were people in the first book of the bible live for 600 years?

2007-10-23 07:00:04 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

are they both the same but with different names?

2007-10-23 06:59:59 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

Woud you e-mail me some recipes for christmas? Maybe share some thing's that you fix for the Holidays :-)
email,,,,,,,, browneyedonna@yahoo.com

2007-10-23 06:58:13 · 4 answers · asked by browneyedonna 3 in Thanksgiving

I am having problems learning to speak spanish. I know a few greetings, but to have conversations, or to read...any one have any suggestions?

2007-10-23 06:57:32 · 24 answers · asked by FarmerCec 7 in Languages

2007-10-23 06:56:32 · 8 answers · asked by kimchee_boi 3 in Languages

Everybody know he was an African. Is it just the Devil's foolery that leads so many astray?

2007-10-23 06:56:04 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I read alot about how people think Christanity is fake or over the top, I am in the middle really, so wondering if there are ex Christians out there, and if so what are your reason for no longer having faith in your religon?

2007-10-23 06:55:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I asked a previous question about calling Catholic Priests "Father". Many answers seemed to suggest that he was warning against the pharisees. While I understand that our Priests and Papacy can be traced back to Peter and the apostles, do not the recent scandals in our church prove that our Priests can also been imperfect humans that should not be looked upon as "fathers".

2007-10-23 06:55:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for playing of association football and other sports (facilities means land, buildings, equipment and organising sporting activities);


To provide and assist in providing faciliites for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of such persons who have the need for such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and within the object of improving their conditions of life; and

To advance the education of children and young people through such means as the trustees think fit in accordance with the law of the charity.

2007-10-23 06:54:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm a heterosexual christian, and I may be one of the few people like me who believe this, but I think gay marriage should be legalized. Why would God, or any God for that matter, condemn people for choosing to love the same sex? Love is pure. How could it be evil?

Do you think gay marriage should be legalized? If you're gay and religious, shouldn't you be able to get married under your faith?

2007-10-23 06:54:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

thank you

2007-10-23 06:53:47 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

i've seen his name in a book about magic but the author cautioned about reading crowley's work. what gives??

2007-10-23 06:53:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

as if they should all be lumped together? It seems to me that people of the Christian (or any other, for that matter) faith must, at least, be divided into two categories. The first, which I'll call them the "normals," use the bible and religious belief as a source of strength and inspiration as a opposed to the dogmatic truth. The normals have various degrees of religious faith, but respect others for their faith (or lack thereof), and strongly believe in separation of church and state. They believe in the importance of the here and now, rather than dwell on the after-life.

Compare this to the second group, which I'll call the "crazies." If you don't believe in what they do, you're condemned to an eternity of torment in hell. The bible is not only the spiritual truth, but the scientific one as well. Science itself is the "devil's tool" when it contradicts the bible, and they're far more concerned about the after-life than the here-and-now.

Accurate?

2007-10-23 06:52:51 · 6 answers · asked by Stephen L 6 in Religion & Spirituality

When I think of what many 13-16 year olds think they know about human biology it makes me cringe, for instance "you can't get pregnant if..."
u are on top
you're on your period
wait, if you're NOT on your period
he pulls out
you douche with coca-cola

How can some of you people who HAVE to know some 14 year olds, possibly think that they are capable of being parents? Or that they know everything there is to know about sex/pregnancy and willfully choose to ignore it? I'm talking in GENERAL. I'm sure many of you will say "Well MY daughter is 12 and knows EVERYTHING about pregnancy" great... I'm talking about generalities, the majority of 13-16 year old girls have many misconceptions about pregnancy.

Plus studies show us that teenagers simply have not developed an adult concept of consequences. This is partly why when YOU all did STUPID CRAP AS A KID!!! Now that you are older, would you skateboard off a roof? Or drive your truck into the surf?

2007-10-23 06:52:46 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Not "Good Morning"

2007-10-23 06:48:53 · 10 answers · asked by AngelStar 1 in Languages

was it a 3some. same sex or opposite sex???

2007-10-23 06:47:10 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender