Society & Culture - 28 October 2007

to avoid giving out candy on Halloween?

2007-10-28 23:54:51 · 4 answers · asked by neohioguy1962 5 in Halloween

So why do people have to drag Satan into Halloween? Why should believe its all evil and sinister?
I found this site to be interesting thought I'd pass it along as a side note to those who might be interested:
http://www.neopagan.net/Halloween-Origins.html

2007-10-28 23:47:20 · 5 answers · asked by Lori M 4 in Halloween

Will webe all forced to eat dog and cat food food soon?None of the mainstream press coverage of record-high crude oil prices that I saw last week turned $92.22-a-barrel into a teachable moment. Instead of exhuming archival footage of gas station lines from the '70s, producers might have re-aired the more recent tape of former Harken Energy director George W. Bush strolling hand-in-hand through the Crawford bluebonnets with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.
How do explain this or even comprehend this?

2007-10-28 23:43:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

and each one is telling the other that they are goin to hell? how do you know your path is the right one?

2007-10-28 23:43:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-28 23:43:02 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

when it is going against what your taught or what you believe? Like for instance this website right here http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu7WFqyVHbQYAoYxXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE4dWM3aW40BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA0Y5NDFfNzgEbANXUzE-/SIG=12f0huepv/EXP=1193737477/**http%3a//www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/pourri.htm

before/during/after you read it, does make sense to you? As you see I am baptist, the article is about the catholic church system. So after reading it I believe it to be true. But for you catholics does it make it hard for you to read and believe it? Because there are some very good points in there, so what is your take?

2007-10-28 23:39:14 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The true LORD God made a covenant (promise) to Abraham (Genesis 17:8): “And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” In Genesis 17:19: “And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.”

Abraham could not believe what God said because he was a hundred years old and Sarah, 90. Not only were they “old and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women (menstruation)” (Genesis 18:11).

Did Sarah conceive and bear a son? Yes, indeed. Is it impossible to God to make an old, barren woman to conceive and give birth to a child? No.

2007-10-28 23:31:27 · 6 answers · asked by Peace Crusader 5 in Religion & Spirituality

These days it seems that all the original meanings of Christmas are becoming more paganized:

i.e

-Evergreen tree
-baubles
-'yule' log
-brewed beverages/mlled wines
-family gathering around light and warmth (Midwinter Solstice)
-The druidic hanging of boughs of ivy, mistletoe, etc
-Turkey feast (replaced the traditional boar's head once turkey was introduced from the Americas)


etc etc.

Don't Christians feel like all these new atheist and pagan additions steal the true meaning of Christmas?


As someone with more pagan/agnostic inclinations than Christian, I personally feel that Yuletide has been hijacked by both Christianity and commercialism, but as Christians, surely you must feel like all the above 'pagan' yuletide things are getting in the way of what you say that the Christmas period is about?

2007-10-28 23:30:52 · 18 answers · asked by Bajingo 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I work with the public on a daily basis and I've seen people wear a big cross on a chain around their neck, then they get pissed off and take the Lord's name in vein. Like "JESUS CHRIST!" in anger. I've also heard and read it every day on Yahoo answers OMG (Oh my God!). Isn't that taking the Lord's name in vein? If they want to display the Cross and are good Christians, I would think that they would want to abide by the 10 Commandments and one of them is "Thou shalt NOT take the Lord's name in vein". Would you be offended by that because they shouldn't be angry with God? Would you say they are hipocrits or would you say they are phony Christians, or would you just accept it and not say anything? I told one guy that it offended me and I'd prefer to hear the 4 letter F word than to take the Lord's name in vein and his reply was "Jesus F_ _ _ _ _ G Christ!". How would you respond to that if you were an avid Christian and it offended you? (I'm a blackjack dealer in a Casino)

2007-10-28 23:28:47 · 6 answers · asked by ? 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Give opinions and reasons for your answers please.

2007-10-28 23:25:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My mom was a Jew, and my dad was Catholic.

I was "christened" as a baby in the church of my father. It was called baptism, but how could it be, when I did not do it intentionally???

Then I gave my heart to Jesus in a protestant church and was "baptized' in ful knowledge of what I was doing!

I leave you wth a little story...

A little child in church for the first time watched as the ushers passed the offering plates.

When they neared the pew where he sat, the youngster piped up so that everyone could hear, "Don't pay for me, Daddy. I'm under five."

2007-10-28 23:23:56 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I asked ...and it wasn't given unto me,sought.....and didn't find it,knocked......... and no doors opened.

2007-10-28 23:23:02 · 13 answers · asked by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-28 23:21:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

it was inside the church and i was called to light the candle and then i sat back to my chair and in front of me is a mother holding her baby and the baby is staring at me..

2007-10-28 23:20:47 · 4 answers · asked by orange23 1 in Mythology & Folklore

All Negative Traits that are condemned by Quran , Bible and sacred Scriptures

are in fact necessary Weapons
for the Warriors , Emperorers , Leaders , Freedom fighters , Army Generals

art of Treachery is an ASSET
art of Arrogance is a DEFENCIVE -THREATENING WEAPON

art of AMBITION ....is open Challenge to the Highest Authority in rule

Art of Robbery is an ASSET ...in Concrete Jungle ....just as it is an asset for LIONS AND FOXES ...of forest

Treachery , cunningness , backstabbing , lying , cheating , RAPING , Looting , Attacking ..............All these are ASSETS OF WARRIORS

Rules , Scriptures , Spirituality , Religion , ethics , values , morals .....all these are for GOATS , COWS , DOGS , and CIVILIANS

Every evil is also a Necessary ASSET ....
WHAT DO U THINK OF WHAT I SAID ?

Iam speaking totally against what is written in any scripture
And by God ....if feel iam speaking the TRUTH

What do u think
drop me a line to give ur comments
Mark this as Best Q

2007-10-28 23:17:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

There is a phrase in the Quran and it goes ...

"Ashrafal-makh-luqaat" ... and it basically means that "man is the noblest of creations..."

I was discussing this with a friend the other day but couldn't find a good answer.

If we are the noblest of creations - does this mean that there is no other life on other planets?

Why would God give us such a HUGE universe if not to explore it? Should we just accept ourselves as the only ones?

I suppose you have to understand Muslim / Islamic teachings to answer this ... or maybe have our own opinions...

But I'd like to know what people's opinions are on the Universe and God.

Thanks!

2007-10-28 23:17:17 · 10 answers · asked by Zin 2 in Religion & Spirituality

according to the bible, abraham fathered ishmael first, then isaac. hagar, ishmael's mother, had some issues and fled from abraham with her son. isaac fathered jacob, whose name was later changed to israel. all the land '' from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates — all the Hittite country — to the Great Sea on the west" (joshua 1:4) was then promised to isaac and to his son jacob.

so if muslims believe they are the sons of ishmael, why is israel (the country) so important to islam? aren't the sons of ishmael out of the contract, so to speak?

2007-10-28 23:07:42 · 19 answers · asked by That Guy Drew 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-28 23:06:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

watched Coronation Street, right from the start? Are you still watching it?

2007-10-28 22:59:26 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

If you are a Muslim or a Buddhist do you go to hell?What do you think christians?

2007-10-28 22:58:44 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

By repeatedly poking her finger on my shoulder as she was tell me something (that I was supposed to answer the door, which is my duty but I was busy doing something else). What in your opinion is the best and most professional way to handle the situation and what should I say to her when I confron her today?

2007-10-28 22:49:44 · 17 answers · asked by Char 1 in Etiquette

silly me - i thought the clocks were supposed to change the last saturday in october - got up this a.m. (an hour early and on a sunday no less) and found out that they don't change until next weekend!!

2007-10-28 22:45:21 · 29 answers · asked by bassetfreak 5 in Senior Citizens

Okay so yesterday I wasn't feeling well at all and my boss wouldn't let me leave, so I was trying to call my mother to tell her I was feeling well and as I was talking to my mom she unpluged the phone and started yelling me. Also this guy was sick as well and she let him leave. This women is so nasty to the other teenage girls that work for her, but she is always nice to the boys. I don't understand why she hates me, I'm one of the nicest people you could meet. Should I quit?

2007-10-28 22:45:04 · 25 answers · asked by Aimee 3 in Etiquette

A. a Protestant
B. a Romancatholic
C. a Jew
D. a Muslim
E. an atheist
F. a Sotonist?

2007-10-28 22:39:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

when people sing "cumbiya my lord... cumbiya... cumbiya my lord.. cumbiyaaaaaa..."
what on earth does cumbiya mean?
:S

2007-10-28 22:36:15 · 4 answers · asked by smehdjgla 2 in Religion & Spirituality

But deep inside, I feel bad/sad to decline. I would think about it for days n spoil my mood. What can I do to stay sane in this world of madness.

2007-10-28 22:21:29 · 4 answers · asked by candie 4 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-10-28 22:21:03 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-28 22:15:45 · 8 answers · asked by joe 6 in Senior Citizens

The greatest gamble ever

2007-10-28 22:02:22 · 18 answers · asked by eddielo 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I pray to Him but I just can't feel him anymore! I really want to, I want to put everything in His hands and trust in Him, but I just can't feel his presense in me or around me. I pray wholeheartdly and as sincerely as i can manage but I just feel like there is no one around. When I was younger i took if for granted that I had God in me....now im older (and right now i REALLY need Him) it seems like im talking to myself. Please someone help me. Or point God on my direction!

2007-10-28 22:01:23 · 38 answers · asked by lovemedo 1 in Religion & Spirituality