Society & Culture - 20 November 2007

Mine is getting a family that truly loves me, what's yours?

2007-11-20 11:10:00 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Just a question. Please don't hate on me for posing it.

2007-11-20 11:09:33 · 72 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

alright well my mom wanted me to make a list of things i want for christ mas and i got the basics...clothes shoes ipod, video game thing, jewlerty, and makeup...any last minute suggestins befor ei give it to her? (Im a 13 yr old girl)...pretty normal and ordinary.

2007-11-20 11:08:58 · 3 answers · asked by DreamBig2012 2 in Christmas

A family friend got into a really bad car/truck accident, and survived without any injuries. The child's mother said that God saved him, but the little girl asked, "Didn't God make him get into the accident in the first place?"

This is the same kid who asks questions like "Why did Dodo birds ever exist if they were going to become extinct?" and "Why did people make Dodo birds extinct?" She was so upset about the Dodo birds being extinct.

2007-11-20 11:08:40 · 27 answers · asked by snowbird 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I am a male 14 years old. I have a PS3. I play baseball and hockey and i also ski. I snowmobile and I always want the cool new thing. I am prety wealthy as well. Whats a good present for me? I also like electronics

2007-11-20 11:08:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

ok so today at my school the person next to me kept on saying that he's Anti Buddism and he hates everyone with that religion , And i told him that That is very stereotypical and prejudice and he said that he didn;t care and he asked me if i was a buddist and i said no. and he countinues talkin crap then said that it was freedom of speech then i said well it does not considered freedom of speech if it is going to "offend" people

what do you think of this? what should i do he's so annoying!

2007-11-20 11:06:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-20 11:05:46 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I sometimes dream that I am in Muhammad’s presence, and that my heart is beating like thunder and that my knees are quaking and my stomach is churning. There is a peculiar sense of familiarity in the air.

I first thought that this was Satan, tempting me with lustful thoughts, so I followed the Prophet’s (PBUI) advice about bad dreams ( http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-APqgCAM1eqDGbnn99_Bb5c32jlLE ). But they persist, especially when I spend prolonged periods reading from the Qur’an. Is this dream from Allah, do you think, or from Satan?

And what does it mean?

Thank you so much, and love and peace and mercy in Allah.

2007-11-20 11:04:54 · 16 answers · asked by Daffy Imam 2 in Religion & Spirituality

...having friends out of your own race gives you a chance to accept people as they are and learn more about their culture. That people have friends only of their own race just because they refuse (or afraid) to step out of their zone of comfortability?

2007-11-20 11:04:07 · 5 answers · asked by Abiku 6 in Other - Society & Culture

...does this suggest that Christ is 'OK' with a man marrying more than one woman?

2007-11-20 11:03:43 · 11 answers · asked by ♂ Equibrilium ♀ 4 in Religion & Spirituality

...Turkey, Sausage Stuffing,rolls...so forth. Inexpensive, but really good is what i'm shooting for. I don't know anything about wine.

2007-11-20 10:59:52 · 21 answers · asked by lwysl8t 1 in Thanksgiving

2007-11-20 10:59:26 · 6 answers · asked by princesstinachan 1 in Royalty

2007-11-20 10:57:50 · 24 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Religion & Spirituality

I dont know what i believe in.. im not sure if i believe in god, i thought i did but sometimes i think i dont. i have no clue. i obviously dont go to church or anything .. i celebrate christmas and all the usual holidays. i've been to a few different churches as a guest with friends and cousins. so i have all my religions mixed up and i dont know what beliefs are which.
am i athiest? how would i reply to "What's your religion?"

2007-11-20 10:57:28 · 53 answers · asked by ......//;' 4 in Religion & Spirituality

How does it manifest in your life? How does your family react?
Does your faith help?

2007-11-20 10:57:21 · 19 answers · asked by Prof Fruitcake 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-20 10:56:21 · 21 answers · asked by ding-a-ling 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-20 10:56:07 · 5 answers · asked by tommiejbrothers 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

The Koran teaches the Muslims to stay to themselves and not mingle with the infidels, Jews and the Americans or anyone who is not Muslim. The Koran teaches that if an infideI continues to force you to befriend them you have a right to kill them. have seen children being taught hate and stating that we are pigs and should die. The Koran repeats over and over and over that god is a mercyful and all forgiving, haven't read much about loving though. I am not nearly through reading it so I can only comment on what I have read so far. How can a mercyful god teach a child to be so violent? Not being critical I just do not understand. I know the god of the old testament did some pretty cruel stuff, so I can't judge. Seems like they both were cut from the same cloth.

2007-11-20 10:55:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

when she get to the table she has a confused look on her face to much silver ware
a.do you teach her the proper way to use them
b.take them all away and you both use the basics
c.look at her with disgused

2007-11-20 10:53:41 · 4 answers · asked by saveitok 6 in Etiquette

I can't count the number of times I've heard people quote Ephesians 2:8

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God."

While I believe this is true doctrine, I also believe what James 2:20 says:

"But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead."

In other words, Christ alone has power to save. Nothing we do of ourselves can bring us salvation without the blood of Christ. But just confessing that Jesus is the Christ cannot be enough. We must show him we love and follow him by the things we do (keep the commandments, etc.).

Matthew also says:

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven"

That is what "works" are to me--doing the will of the Father. Why does so much of Christianity have a problem with the concept of works?

2007-11-20 10:53:01 · 18 answers · asked by bumpsetspike 3 in Religion & Spirituality

i got a step dad in july and i was 16 at the time, now 17, and i can't stand him, BUT....................... how do i surive thanksgiving with HIS whole family? there are going to be like 60 people. they all look alike and talk alot. help! i have no one my age there, i'm pregnant, do u think they will notice if i'm not there? how do i live through it?

2007-11-20 10:52:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Thanksgiving

what makes islam better than the other religions what are the qualities of islam

2007-11-20 10:52:19 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I remember some strange stuff from my childhood. Apparently they worked.

I was prone to sore throats. Mom would take some kind of cloth, fill it up with melted Vicks Vaporub and tie it around my neck. Dad would make hot water with lemon juice in it and make me drink it.

What are some of your best home remedies?

2007-11-20 10:52:07 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

thnks

2007-11-20 10:51:31 · 8 answers · asked by ஐSunset of the Sycamoreღ 3 in Religion & Spirituality

If so, how do we know that the ancient Egyptian and Sumarian accounts of the gods aren't true? They've been around a lot longer, and much of the bible comes directly from their accounts.

If you want proof, do the research yourself. I'm not a pastor. You don't pay me to think for you.

2007-11-20 10:50:19 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am a 34 yr old prof of math who is still a virgin. Yeah that pretty much sums it all up. Every day I go home to my lonely house.. i bought myself a house that was beyond my means and beyond my needs just because i have always wanted to live in a spacious house. Its getting close to thanksgiving and everyone seems to be preparing for a special time. I fee left out of life. And I hate myself on memorial day, labor day, luther king day and on july 4th. not to mention the end of the year. This year I want to live through thanksgiving, unlike previous years when i watched dvds (I do not watch news or tv shows withing a one day radius of holidays, to shut otu holiday content). This year I dont want to hate people who are happy, but i cant help myself. (PS: I am an atheist and therefore I know i'm not gay. )

2007-11-20 10:50:18 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Thanksgiving

I'm curious, but how many Christians commit incest? If God only created Adam and Eve, then the Flood with Noah and his family, then populating the planet, and repopulating the planet would require vast amounts of incest.

Theory: Inter-racial intercourse and marriage is a sin, god seperated us all to our own lands with our own languages because of the Tower of Babel, so by learning a foreign language, would one be sinning? And to raise a child of mixed background, to create unification of the races, even though God had us all cast our seperate ways, would that too count as a sin?

I'm just asking, I was reading through, and I tried to apply logic to the Bible, and these questions, which no one, I might add, has been able to answer to my satisfactory.

*****NOTE*****

I do report people... It's a passion I hold. Answer With Care.

2007-11-20 10:50:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Alot of Pastors seem to teach that self esteam is a sin. I remember one radio pastor who said, "Do you have to love yourself first before you can love other people? No, you don't."
It seems to be the additude with alot of born agains. They think little of themselves. The opposite of self esteam is depression and suicide.

2007-11-20 10:49:55 · 15 answers · asked by openupfresh 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Has the canon (i.e. the lists of the books of the Bible) been fixed for the Orthodox Church? Or are there multiple canons?

What are the books of the canon(s)?

How do the Orthodox know? Do they appeal to some pre-Schism council? A post-Schism council? Something else?

I have heard that the Slavonic Bible differs slightly from the Greek Orthodox Bible, but wish to have more information. I would prefer a person NOT merely copy and paste what Wikipedia has on the issue, because I am particularly interested in the Orthodox position on any councils which may have determined the canon (and Wikipedia lacks that - it merely gives an alleged list of the Greek Orthodox and Slavonic canons).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

2007-11-20 10:49:45 · 4 answers · asked by Sayid Abu Khamr al-MaseeHee 2 in Religion & Spirituality

for everyone in my street i want to put a little something for them this christmas because everyone deserves something at christmas so me and me mum have desided to do something for our street like a secret santa thing and leave a little something on each door step so some on will have something to wake up with,there are 20 houses on our street, for about 2 pound per family what do you suggest to get for them

2007-11-20 10:49:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas