Society & Culture - 18 November 2007

what good is meditation how does it help u

2007-11-18 17:48:01 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

personally i understand from the word of God why this is, but i want to know why people from other faiths and my own foolishly rip into eachother over belief. i am a professing Christian, and i do not believe in the persecution of anyone's personal belief. but if i were to say trust in the Lord or face condemnation, people will take it as closed-minded ingnorance, when i truly and sincerely said it out of concern for someone who may face eternal misery. how can some so-called followers of Christ take delight in an athiest being condemned? or how can some athiests reject the love that is extended to them through God's servants? how can a muslim call me an infidel or a heathen, when the true christian's motives are driven by the very love that God has shown to us by killing His son, that we may be purchased out of the hands of the evil one. what other faith is like this?

2007-11-18 17:47:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-18 17:46:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What is the church's view on capital punishment? Society's view? Your personal opinions? Alternatives to it?

2007-11-18 17:44:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

to be honest im closeted...and feel bad...cause i think is wrong...what do you think

2007-11-18 17:44:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

or why do you think most people believe or not believe in GOD ???

2007-11-18 17:44:09 · 25 answers · asked by burlingtony 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Do you even think about it when you do it?

Does it matter to you if there's litter on the ground?

Why don't you care about other people?

As for it being biodegradable, well, ultimately everything is. But until it biodegrades, it's a piece of litter lying there.

2007-11-18 17:43:53 · 16 answers · asked by Joy_Brigade 3 in Etiquette

...amount of energy come into existence? And why do people say "conserve" energy when it supposedly can't be conserved but only changed? And is overpopulation really a problem additional matter is not actually being created but is only changing?

2007-11-18 17:39:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I would agree with this definition given by one of the most respected evolutionary biologists Douglas J. Futuyma in Evolutionary Biology, Sinauer Associates 1986 -
"In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual. The ontogeny of an individual is not considered evolution; individual organisms do not evolve. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next. Biological evolution may be slight or substantial; it embraces everything from slight changes in the proportion of different alleles within a population (such as those determining blood types) to the successive alterations that led from the earliest protoorganism to snails, bees, giraffes, and dandelions."

2007-11-18 17:38:36 · 21 answers · asked by Thor 3 in Religion & Spirituality

If butch lesbians love women then why do they dress, cut their hair and act like men? Surely if you are a lesbian you should love everything about women. So why do butch lesbians like everything about men except the male brain? Also all sex toys used by lesbians are dildos? But apparently they dont like penis? So why are they using a fake one to pleasure each other?

Same situation with gay men who are extremely girly and go for girly gay boys.....they claim not to like women but they date males that are girly?

2007-11-18 17:38:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I regularly give my time and money to organisations that help those in need. I am kind to animals and children. I am usually kind to those around me. I respect my parents. I am constantly reminding myself the good in all people and things, and I consistently attempt to foster a sense of love for all mankind in my heart. I seek out god in daily life, and make every attempt to get closer to Divinity. I avoid hypocrisy like the plague.

I, however, am not Christian. Broadly, I am a pantheist, specifically an eclectic pagan. yeah, I believe in Jesus, but I also believe in the other gods, and I think that the Buddha had quite a few brilliant ideas. I use ceremonial magick. I believe in reincarnation. I have gone on numerous vision quests. I can't actually bring myself to believe that there is only one right system of belief.

So, do you think I'm going to go to hell when I die just cos I don't believe that Jesus was the messiah, and where in the Bible does he actually say that?

2007-11-18 17:33:47 · 55 answers · asked by FriezaKicksAss 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I am a Christian. Why? Because I don't want to go to hell and I most importantly I want to go to heaven ^^

I did experience a few miracles and therefore got very confident that God is helping me.

However, I am a very skeptical person. I don't delude or fool myself nor do I easily get convinced.

I one day started to doubt the miracles for being mere coincidences. "What if I did not pray? Would I still have recieved the same results?"

That is why i tried not to pray and ask God for help for a while.

Guess what? Miracles still happened!

That is why I understand the truth that praying never had any role in the miracles or fortunes in life.

God answering prayers just that He says no or yes has no difference from not praying or praying.

Never in my life have I gotten any sign or proof that God exists.
Not even one! Ambigious miracles are already disproven as explained.

I want to go to heaven but I just seem to sway away from Christianity now.

2007-11-18 17:33:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-18 17:32:00 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

the amount of half ar.se christians who don't know what they're talking about on the rise?

2007-11-18 17:30:16 · 21 answers · asked by crazy_one 4 in Religion & Spirituality

a logical explanation doesn't that neccesarily put them or anyone who thinks in this way in denial of spiritual acts of God even if they were personal witnessess to God performing such acts?

2007-11-18 17:28:06 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

convert to their religion?

I heard the rumor that Islam is the fastest growing religion. Do you think these minority groups would be happy to have Muslims to join to their religion? All of them believe Jesus is Messiah?

2007-11-18 17:28:05 · 10 answers · asked by Cassandra 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I went on a Paltalk Christian chat room, the people in there were very ignorant. They fully on said to me that I have to be born-again to get to heaven and all, they said I'm going to hell for not being one. I don't want to be one, no really.

I'm a Non-Denominational Christian. Don't get me wrong, I believe in Jesus, I read the bible etc and etc. But I will NEVER become a born-again Christian, though I don't even know what it is (some form of Protestantism?).

So Christians, does that mean I'm going to hell for not joining your "group" or not being born-again?

2007-11-18 17:25:07 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What is an example of a good letter inquiring about a volunteer position with a company? What types of things should I include? I am thinking about volunteering at a nursing home, animal shelter, or crisis pregnancy center.

2007-11-18 17:25:04 · 4 answers · asked by Sammermammer 1 in Community Service

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-06-22-abuse-usat_x.htm
Most researchers agree more women than men are seriously hurt in partner violence. Some
estimates of violence to women:
On average, three women a day are murdered in the USA by husbands or boyfriends.
31% of U.S. women report
being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend.
30% of Americans know a woman who was physically abused by her husband or boyfriend in the past year.

http://www.ndcaws.org/harassment/laws.asp
In Fiscal Year 2002, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received 14,396 charges of sexual harassment. Almost 15% of those charges were files by males.
In a survey of 9,000 clerical and professional women, 92% of the respondents had experienced overt physical harassment, sexual remarks and leering, with the majority regarding this behavior as a serious problem at work. (Kathleen McKinney, Sexual Coercion)
Two out of three women surveyed in the military said they ha

2007-11-18 17:21:28 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-18 17:20:46 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Please help me settle this debate with my girlfriend.

2007-11-18 17:18:56 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

Do you think women are just really dumb or they seem dumb to men because their way of thinking differs from men? Is it that they don't think logically but think creatively or is it that they just make their decisions based on their assumptions? When a woman and man have an argument, man's view is to say sorry and realize the mistake but the woman wants to dig in deeper and bring out the things that had nothing to do with the argument in the first place. Why is that? Do women have some hidden agenda? Are they trying to prove something? or is it man who's doing something wrong?

2007-11-18 17:18:38 · 8 answers · asked by K Yo 5 in Other - Society & Culture

Aren't stories in the Quran taken from the Bible since the Quran was written after the Bible?

No disrespectful answers, please. :)

2007-11-18 17:18:25 · 20 answers · asked by aseptic technique 5 in Religion & Spirituality

No one knows the origin of life and creation definitively. We all believe what we believe, and that's okay.
But why is the opposition to the possiblity if divine creation so hostile? Why do some, despite not knowing how earth, life and the universe were created, scoff so fiercely at divine intervention and direction in the origin of life and existence? Is God a more absurd answer than pure luck and happen-stance?
I really don't mind opposition and debate, but I read so many "idiot" comments on here aimed at Christians, it really makes me wonder....

2007-11-18 17:16:36 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

usually alone for me

2007-11-18 17:16:03 · 8 answers · asked by NIFman 5 in Christmas

2007-11-18 17:14:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-18 17:13:39 · 15 answers · asked by KrishanRam(Jitendra k) 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-18 17:13:23 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What was the Issue? Was He Unworthy or What..Please Explain...

2007-11-18 17:13:00 · 6 answers · asked by conundrum 7 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-18 17:12:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups