Society & Culture - 16 November 2007

2007-11-16 07:00:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

After my last question" Does this makes sense?" A lot of you judged me for seeing your beliefs in my perception. Does this make me a bad person? I would give you the shirt off my back and a lot of religious people would think I were Christian just from my actions. So to all you who jugded me, you will witness, you reap what you sow right here on R&S.

2007-11-16 07:00:22 · 26 answers · asked by Gyspy Soul 5 in Religion & Spirituality

should I say to him?

It is blantanly not fair that he is getting away with simply napkins ... then another co-worker followed his lead and put down "plastic-wear" ... at least that's a little more expensive...


...and I overheard the cheapskate telling co-workers he was going to steal the napkins from the cafetaria.

Anyone have any good ideas what I could say to him?

2007-11-16 06:59:47 · 40 answers · asked by Reserved 6 in Etiquette

I was brought up to plant the garden by the astrological signs in the farmer's almanac; waxing and waning moon, etc. Nobody had a problem with this, although some believed it was effective and some didn't. People with nature-based spiritual beliefs, are you familiar with this? People who want to mock/condemn, go bother somebody else, this question's not for you.

2007-11-16 06:59:22 · 10 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

"Proof" is like statistics. In statistics you can skew the results and include or exclude a variety of parameters to show that both ends of a spectrum are completely and totally right given the same data.
Those who demand "proof" that a thing is true are like the statisticians who spin data in a certain way to try to convience us that up is down, the sky is really the inside of a blue whale and that we're all really in some vat of goo and none of this exists anyway.

2007-11-16 06:58:28 · 18 answers · asked by Tonya in TX - Duck 6 in Religion & Spirituality

God never really said HOW he created the moon, so how about this :

The pregnancy of Coatlicue, the maternal Earth deity, made her other children embarrassed, including her oldest daughter, Coyolxauhqui. As she swept the temple, a few hummingbird feathers fell into her bosom. Coatlicue’s fetus, Huitzilopochtli, sprang from her womb in full war armor and killed Coyolxauhqui, along with her 400 brothers and sisters. He cut off her limbs, then tossed her head into the sky where it became the moon, so that his mother would be comforted in seeing her daughter in the sky every night.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyolxauhqui

2007-11-16 06:57:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-16 06:56:48 · 4 answers · asked by kixandlexus 2 in Christmas

Not gay myself, im also not arab or muslim, but rather Assyrian and Christian from Iraq.

I wonder what the views of gay, Bi and Lesbians are about the treatment of Gays in muslim countries...not so long ago two teenage boys were hanged in public in Iran for being gay.
This sort of thing also goes on in Saudi, Afghanistan, Algeria, Pakistan etc. Gays are villified and persecuted, tortured imprisoned and often killed.

However, homosexual activity is EXTREMELY prevelant in Islamic societies.

Arab, North African, Iranian, Afghan, Turkish, Kurdish and Pakistanis are very well known for it.

There are male brothels in Turkey, the mid east and North Africa, many Afghan guerilla leaders have teenage male concubines (source: The Times), being from Iraq i know full well Arab and Kurdish men have a prediliction for teenage boys!

Im not pro or anti gay, live and let live...its the hypocrisy that gets me!

2007-11-16 06:56:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Options: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

If there were no other religions in the world to choose from, only these three, and you absolutely HAD to choose- which one seems most reasonable?

2007-11-16 06:55:49 · 45 answers · asked by mrr86 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-16 06:55:01 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

what is the religion for believing that all religions are true, or is there such a thing?

2007-11-16 06:55:01 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Why would atheists spend so much time and energy talking about God, if they don't believe that God exists in the first place?

2007-11-16 06:54:38 · 23 answers · asked by April 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Your opinion please :)

2007-11-16 06:53:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If you don't you need to be evangalized. Jesus wants you to have abundant ........vibrant, adventurous joy filled lives.
Let him Revive you before you try to talk about him to others! Nobody wants sour grapes served to them on a cold religious platter! Halleluiah glory to GOD!

2007-11-16 06:53:20 · 21 answers · asked by sisterzeal 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Well, do they? Since it's taboo for a Christian to have sexual relations before marriage, wouldn't that really turn you on if you had the opportunity to deflower a virgin Christian (consensually of course). I know some of you Atheists would do it.

2007-11-16 06:52:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

That many times the people from church can be stuffy, impossible to talk to ......will not laugh, too serious and all that? And you feel like you have to hide things and pretend to be perfect and not be yourself? Is this just me or have you experience this too? I love Jesus but I find it's rare to find a JOY FILLED Christian. I think that is sad. I challenge anyone who is being "religious" and boring in your Christian walk to be the first one to shake things up, break things up ......whatever you have to do to have a vibrant joy filled life in Christ the one who loves you.

2007-11-16 06:51:54 · 27 answers · asked by sisterzeal 5 in Religion & Spirituality

When you're only supposed to worship God? Why?

2007-11-16 06:51:26 · 8 answers · asked by Kurt 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Was this song really song to "EL Rey David" King David or is it just made up?

2007-11-16 06:50:54 · 5 answers · asked by ? 2 in Religion & Spirituality

wernt they all jews and split when jesus came along. ---- and since jews dont believe in hell will there be room for them in christian hell

2007-11-16 06:50:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

In terms of holy water, which water do most theologians prefer to sprinkle on people to make them well?

Jordan River Water (Israel)

Salt Lake Water (Utah)

Please include complete chemical analysis and spectrometer results.

2007-11-16 06:49:21 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

seriously, it always seems to be the big topic. christians constantly asking why atheists celebrate something they dont believe in...

what is the purpose of these absurd questions? especially when its obvious they havent done research on the history/origin of their beloved hollidays.

does it really bug christians that atheists get a day off to spend with their families?

2007-11-16 06:48:43 · 30 answers · asked by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6 in Religion & Spirituality

i remember my lessons teaching that the mob did take a woman who died that night from the Multiple rapes!
Some teach that Hospitality of the Host was to protect the strangers, i.e. (angels) from the mob at all cost.
but it is clear that the MOB wanted Sexual gratification from the new men and so Lot offered his daughters instead. but it seems they rejected this offer and because they tried to break down the door the angels caused them to be blind.
either way, the cities of the valley were destroyed.

2007-11-16 06:48:14 · 17 answers · asked by Priestcalling 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Every time I drink coffee I start acting jittery, nervous and paranoid sometimes even wanting to throw up. But I thought that I was just naturally that way or something or that I hadn't eaten enough (low blood sugar). Well recently I decided not to drink coffee for a week and to my suprise I was happy as a clam and didn't act like a weirdo. I also noticed if I drank coffee on an empty stomach I had chest pains and shortness of breath for some strange reason. So anyway if you are feeling any of these bizarre issues maybe you should cut back on the coffee because I feel better and it might help you too.

2007-11-16 06:47:51 · 11 answers · asked by BananaPancakes 2 in Etiquette

2007-11-16 06:47:50 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I hear so many people claim that their favorite holy book of "truth" is the inspired word of a god and that makes it true more than any other book that claims to be the inspired word of a god, and that fallacy alone is enough for me to not take such a holy book of "truth" as anything more than propaganda. But the real problem that I have with books and believers that make such claims is that many of the believers of such books will claim that the other holy books are "man-made" and therefore false, while theirs is "inspired by god" and therefore true.

Are these people not aware that if something is "inspired" by something, that means that whatever it was is created by man, and is therefore man-made? People are inspired by all kinds of stuff, from ocean sunsets to the words of a good coach, that does not mean that the ocean sunset painted the painting or the coach played the game, all it means is that someone found inspiration in what they experienced and acted on it.

2007-11-16 06:47:21 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is anorexia the order of the day?

2007-11-16 06:47:01 · 8 answers · asked by Razor 5 in Other - Society & Culture

OFCOURSE THEY CAN!!!

But my REAL question is, what do you think of the christians here who stands up for atheists (which of course they can do for themselves), who jokes with the atheists ONLY (I do too as my history will show but NOT to the point of EXCLUSIVITY) and who never asks them meaningful questions that doesn't involve humor ....some atheists here are on my contact lists b/c although some can be arrogant (just like some christians) others are quite endearing... Lord Vader, My Prophet of Lettuce, Murazor, Skalikitty just to name a few.... I don't find them ALL endearing and I don't care who knows it which is why I don't walk on eggshells with them and am not afraid of thumbs down or of being ostracized. It's okay not to like ALL of them you know. I wonder what atheists think about that christian who doesn't stand up for christians, questions ONLY christians in a demeaning way but never atheists.

2007-11-16 06:46:52 · 23 answers · asked by Hope 4 in Religion & Spirituality

How do I approach the throne of Jesus Christ ?

2007-11-16 06:45:47 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

1 You researched all/most/lots of the different type of beliefs in the world.

2 You researched all/most/lots of only a FEW of the beliefs in the world

3 You researched all/most/lots within a category (like Christianity, Islam, Non-religions, etc).

4 You were told by your family, friends, church what to believe and went with that.

Please state your religious belief please.
Thank you,

2007-11-16 06:44:18 · 26 answers · asked by barchanon 3 in Religion & Spirituality

How does everyone feel about Old Tail? You know, the kind that you date, or that you just let date you.

2007-11-16 06:43:57 · 4 answers · asked by Cedric Like Toothpick 2 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender