Society & Culture - 13 November 2007

When is it a good time to put up the christmas tree and decorate!!?!

10 points best anwser thanks!

2007-11-13 06:15:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

...it if it means our salvation?

2007-11-13 06:15:50 · 20 answers · asked by jamestheprophet 6 in Religion & Spirituality

and like to offend those that follow Jesus? Why is there a double standard?

2007-11-13 06:14:21 · 27 answers · asked by Josh L 2 in Religion & Spirituality

It is about 1 month and 12 days to Christmas and it is about that time to really think.
I am 14 and I still believe in Santa Claus.
It is common knowledge that there was a Saint Nicholas back in the day. but do you think there is a santa claus??
don't forget that
1.if there is a god who's to say there is no santa

2007-11-13 06:13:52 · 12 answers · asked by andyroo628 2 in Mythology & Folklore

and whats the fastest growing religion?

2007-11-13 06:13:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

There is only One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. The Roman Catholic Church. There ar NO legitimate arguments against the Mother Church. The Apostolic succession is unquestionable and the teachings are the same today as they were 2000 years ago. Why after 1500 years did man decide to question the teachings of the one true church? Christ said that he established one Church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it. To say that his true Church is in error is calling Christ a liar. Pope Benedict is the true successor of the Apostle Peter and the true Vicar of Christ. Sorry Protestants but you are dead wrong.

2007-11-13 06:12:27 · 39 answers · asked by TheoMDiv 4 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-13 06:12:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I've heard that people who sees ghosts are said to have 'weak' spirits.. not in a bad way, but a kind of a sensitive soul? while people who don't or haven't seen any while the next person to him can, have stronger spirits? all in all, how come some people see them whilst others cant?

2007-11-13 06:11:14 · 11 answers · asked by AdventureLine 1 in Religion & Spirituality

We are living in the days of faith and I am wondering if you have personally experienced this in a real way like prayed for somebody to get healed and it happened? Prayed for somebody on their death bed and they recovered? Seen mentally ill people get their right mind back? Layed hands on someone and it happened.. fasted.. just asked in a simple manner.. tell me your story.

2007-11-13 06:10:15 · 32 answers · asked by freeofbulimia 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I think Atheist________________

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I think Christians________________

2007-11-13 06:09:43 · 28 answers · asked by Not of This World Returns 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-13 06:08:08 · 7 answers · asked by <3 my nut brown maiden 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-13 06:06:46 · 29 answers · asked by Camjam\ 1 in Other - Holidays

With this thought in mind, what do you think God intended: for women to stay at home and take care of their children, or to go galavanting about in a man's suit making business deals?

2007-11-13 06:06:01 · 59 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Kind of like an all-you-can-sin buffet, right?

2007-11-13 06:05:56 · 32 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-13 06:05:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-13 06:04:57 · 7 answers · asked by killah priest 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Eternal damnation (religion) means neverending torture and suffering.

Eternal oblivion (atheism) means completely ceasing to exist. no body. no soul. absolutely nothing.

2007-11-13 06:04:48 · 10 answers · asked by Captain Galactic 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-13 06:03:53 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

2007-11-13 06:03:24 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Does that mean God advocates incest since they likely would have been siblings? Or were there other people living in the area around the time of creation so Adam and Eve weren't the first humans?

2007-11-13 06:02:51 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

that they are within their rights to threaten nuclear war on countries suspected of developing nuclear weapons.

2007-11-13 06:02:35 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

The Catholics say that sex is only supposed to be between two married people to give birth to children and nothing else. Also only if they love each other. Since being infertile, the risk of having kids is not there and if you love really love each other then can you have sex?

2007-11-13 06:00:46 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Onko? ONKOOOO?

2007-11-13 06:00:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

some people say bad things about god the almighty and propergand against the best which they are not aware of

2007-11-13 05:59:30 · 7 answers · asked by Abbas 4 in Religion & Spirituality

When Orthodox people have no opportunity to attend Orthodox divine services, especially in non-Orthodox countries, then the Church allows and encourages individuals and groups of Orthodox to read the service books privately, for the preservation of their faith. Such readings have long been customary in monastic establishments, hospitals, schools, on shipboard and, in recent times, by Orthodox in the USSR and in the diaspora. Reading prayer books or service books may, at least to some extent, replace church services.
Besides preserving our Orthodox faith, reading services is beneficial because:
1. It teaches us, even in non-Orthodox lands, to remember and honor Orthodox feasts and saints' days.
2. It acquaints us with the order of church services and with the profound content of our service books.
3. It safeguards us from the danger of sectarian and heterodox influence
4. It helps parents and teachers raise their children and young adults in the spirit of Orthodoxy.
5. It unites dispersed Orthodox people in our faith and love for the Orthodox Church.

Orthodox Divine Services
The daily ecclesiastical office consists of a cycle of services that covers the entire 24-hour period. Since the church day begins with the evening, the order of daily services is: 1) Vespers, 2) Small Compline, 3) Midnight Office, 4) Matins, 5) First Hour, 6) Third and Sixth Hours, 7) the Liturgy and 8) Ninth Hour. Orthodox laymen may read or chant some portion of all of these, except the Divine Liturgy, which is replaced by the Typica.
In addition, it is permissible to read canons and akathists, either separately or as part of another service.
A canon is a collection of hymns in nine odes that honors the Savior, the Mother of God, a saint, a holy day. or a spiritual theme.
An akathist is a song of praise in twelve parts that glorifies the Savior, the Mother of God, a saint.... An akathist may be read or sung, or read with the refrains sung.

How Laymen Read Service Books
The reading of service books should be conducted according to the following rules:
1. All [reader's] services are to begin with the exclamation: "Through the prayers of our holy fathers, O Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us. Amen.
2. All the priest's prayers and exclamations are omitted.
3. In place of the Great and Augmented Ectenias and the Ectenia of Supplication, "Lord, have mercy" is said twelve times; in place of the Small Ectenia, three times.
4. The Gospel is not intoned, but read in an ordinary voice.
Note: Every Orthodox Christian is obliged to read the Gospel privately, according to the ecclesiastical lectionary found in church calendars.
5. All other hymns, psalms and prayers are read or sung as when a priest serves.
6. The Typica (in place of the liturgy) may be read as indicated in Appendix 1.

The Order of Services on Feast Days
Since laymen are often involved with work and may not have time to read services in the ordinary week days, we shall give directions only for the festal services.
On weekdays, the daily morning and evening prayers could be combined with Small Compline and Midnight Office, as desired.
On feast days, it is important to devote more time to God and to observe the feast with the appropriate reading and hymns. On the eve of the feast one may read Vespers, Matins and the First Hour, in the place of the All-Night Vigil. In the morning, one may read the Midnight Office, the Third and Sixth Hours, if desired, and the Typica. The evening of the feast, one should read the Small Compline with the proper canon or akathist of the feast.
The order and content of the services depend on the free time available and on the service books at hand. Here are more detailed instructions for three kinds of feasts: 1) Sundays, 2) the Twelve Great Feasts and other holidays of the Lord and of the Mother of God, 3) saints' days, our name-saints or ones we especially venerate.1) Sundays On Saturday evenings we read Vespers, including the stichera and troparia according to the tone indicated in the calendar. In the morning (or on the eve), we read Matins and the First Hour. At Matins we may read the Resurrection canon for the appropriate tone, or, if not available, the Canon to Our Sweetest Lord Jesus (in the prayers of preparation for Holy Communion) may be substituted. 'Me stichera for the aposticha, the troparia and the theotokia are according to the tone of the Sunday.
If Vespers and Matins are unavailable, then on Saturday night one may read Small Compline with the Canon and Akathist to our Sweetest Lord Jesus.
On Sunday morning we should read: the Midnight Office for Sunday, with the morning prayers and the Typica (the order for Typica is given in Appendix I).
Finally, on Sunday evening. we may read Small Compline with a canon to the Mother of God (either to one of her wonder-working icons or any other available).2) Feasts of the Lord and of the Theotokos On these feasts, including all of the Twelve Great Feasts, it is customary to read the proper service from the Festal Menaion. Vespers and Matins according to the Vigil are read, while the stichera, troparia, etc., come from the Festal Menaion. The canon of Matins is to the Lord or to the Theotokos, depending on the feast.
If the Festal Menaion is unavailable, then one may read Vespers (or perhaps Small Compline) with the canon or corresponding akathist, and one may take the stichera from the General Menaion, using the "General Service for the Feasts of the Lord" or "of the Mother of God."
In the morning: the Third and Sixth Hours and the Typica, with the troparia and kontakia of the feast sung in the proper places.
In the evening: Small Compline with the Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ, or the Supplicatory Canon to the Most Holy Theotokos (Paraclesis).3) Saints' days If there is a service to the saint in the Festal Menaion, then Vespers, Matins and the First Hour are read as usual, with the stichera, troparia, etc., from the Menaion. If there is no service to the saint, then we read from the General Menaion, taking the stichera, etc., from the general service to the class of saint being commemorated: i.e., to a hierarch, to a monastic, to a martyr, etc. At the polyeleos or perhaps at the end of the service, we chant the megalynarion to the saint (see Appendix II). In the appropriate places we insert the name of the saint being commemorated.
If neither the Horologion nor the Menaion is available, then we may read Small Compline with the canon or akathist to the saint, if available. (A church dedicated to that saint might allow us to copy the proper canon or akathist, so that we might read it on a nameday or other feast days.)
In the morning, we read the Midnight Office, the Hours and the Typica, with the troparia and kontakia to the saint at the Hours, and the kontakia of the temple, and of the saint or the day of the week, at the Typica.
In the evening, we read the canon to the saint; but if there is none, then the canon for Saturday to all the saints.

The Order of the Typica
Beginning: Psalm 102, "Bless the Lord, O my soul..."
Glory to the Father...
Psalm 145, "Praise the Lord, O my soul..."
Both now and ever...
"O Only-begotten Son and Word of God...
The Beatitudes.
Glory... Both now...
The Symbol of Faith (the Creed, I believe...'), and the prayer: "Remit, pardon, forgive, O God, our offences, both voluntary and involuntary, in deed and word, in knowledge and in ignorance, by night and by day, in mind and thought; forgive us all things, since -Thou art good and the Lover of mankind.
The Lord's Prayer.
The kontakion of the feast or of the day of the week.
Glory... Both now... And ending with the prayer: "O protection of Christians that cannot be put to shame, O mediation unto the Creator unfailing, disdain not the suppliant voices of sinners; but be thou quick, O good one, to help us who in faith cry unto thee: Hasten to intercession and speed thou to make supplication, thou who dost ever protect, O Theotokos, them that honor thee."
During Great Lent, in place of this prayer, we end thus:
Lord, have mercy. 40 times. Glory... Both now... More honorable than the Cherubim... And the prayer, "O Lord and Master of my life...," with 16 prostrations.

Megalynaria to Various Saints.
To an Apostle: We magnify thee (pl., you), O Apostle(s) of Christ, N. (or NN.), and we honor thy (your) pains and labors, with which thou hast (you have) labored in proclaiming the Gospel of Christ.
To a Hierarch: We magnify thee (you), O holy Hierarch(s), Father(s) N. (or NN.), and we honor thy (your) holy memory, for thou dost (you do) pray for us to Christ our God.
To a Monastic Saint: We glorify thee (you), O holy Father(s) N. (NN.), and we honor thy (your) holy memory, instructor(s) of monks and converser(s) with angels.
To a Martyr: We magnify thee (you), O holy (Great-)Martyr(s) N. (NN.), and we honor thy (your) precious sufferings, which thou didst (you did) endure for Christ.
The megalynaria, of the Twelve Great Feasts and other holy days are found in the Festal Menaion.

2007-11-13 05:59:14 · 14 answers · asked by Jacob Dahlen 3 in Religion & Spirituality

But it seemed like he got the short end of the stick. I meant SOMEONE had to betray God. Why did it have to be Judas?
I am sure he was a nice enough guy

2007-11-13 05:58:53 · 14 answers · asked by AwesomeJoeKnows 3 in Religion & Spirituality

But WHY did he die for our sins?
Because to me, and others, it seems like he didnt have much of a choice. He was "God" so therefore he HAD to die for our sins didnt he?
So he would have the upper hand over Satan>?

2007-11-13 05:57:43 · 18 answers · asked by AwesomeJoeKnows 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you throw all your worries out the door when it comes to family and Holidays? Or is it the opposite?

2007-11-13 05:57:21 · 14 answers · asked by Kirkylee 3 in Thanksgiving

What about 1000 times their distance? What about 1 million miles apart? What if you also changed their size so that they were the size of people? Would that arrangement of 1 trillion giant neurons each 1 million miles from the nearest neighbor be conscious?

2007-11-13 05:55:31 · 15 answers · asked by Meat Bot 3 in Religion & Spirituality

i heard that they have difficulty of being nice to people who are different.

2007-11-13 05:54:24 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in People with Disabilities