Society & Culture - 20 November 2007

I've been invited to a dinner party for Thanksgiving and the hosts insist that they have everything they need (from the Turkey to the wine, flowers and desserts). Etiquette and my good heart says I should still bring something. But I don't know what to bring. Any ideas?

2007-11-20 03:33:59 · 13 answers · asked by Dittany 1 in Etiquette

My brother says he didn't want to work in the family business, did the lecture circuit instead, convinced the crowd but failed to convince the armed services.

Thank you Tom for helping me with my spelling.

2007-11-20 03:33:36 · 50 answers · asked by Robbie Williams 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Was God the original gangsta? I mean he didn't take no shyte from anyone. If talked smack about him he'd rub ya out or send some plagues or something... Recognize

2007-11-20 03:33:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

...with is table hockey, and I'm pretty sure that would be child abuse. Any better ideas?

2007-11-20 03:32:53 · 3 answers · asked by I'/\/\AZILLA2 3 in Religion & Spirituality

end of TV mega church ministries?

2007-11-20 03:32:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I just unblocked all of my blocked contacts, and for my trouble, got 4 questions and answers violated this morning. It seems to me, that some of you, consider having a question or answer removed, a spiritual mission.

Too sad, that I will have to re-block some you, just so I can answer questions in line with my conscience.

2007-11-20 03:31:03 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-20 03:30:24 · 12 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Religion & Spirituality

I love cooking and tired of the same old things on holidays. What do you and your family have on Thanksgiving and if its something uncommon could I have the recipe please?

2007-11-20 03:29:39 · 13 answers · asked by Denise 3 in Thanksgiving

Do you have faith or so much lack of that you have no fear, or are you afraid?

2007-11-20 03:29:17 · 45 answers · asked by Firefly 4 in Religion & Spirituality

1. Is there a difference between the baptism when Christ was there, and the baptism after Christ?
2. Why did Jesus get baptised?

2007-11-20 03:28:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Good or bad?

2007-11-20 03:26:59 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Thanksgiving

In the trinity doctrine, all are 3 co-eternal, co-equal, and of the same substance of the triune godhead right?

So why is it forgivable against Jesus?

2007-11-20 03:25:59 · 28 answers · asked by The Mad Padishah 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Or would it be the same as participating in the pagan traditions that now exist in Christianity? Who decides, if anyone, which pagan traditions are "good" and ok to follow for Christians and which are "bad"?

2007-11-20 03:25:32 · 14 answers · asked by Kiwi 5 in Religion & Spirituality

Attention all atheists. Please reanswer my question of what you think of the Gaia theory? Yahoo answers deleted the question.

2007-11-20 03:23:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

God had sent Jesus to forgive sins, but after his resurrection Jesus told the apostles, "‘As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained’" (John 20:21-23). This is the establishment of the Sacrament of Penance (Confession).

Christ told the apostles: "As the Father has sent me, even so I send you" (John 20:21). Just as the apostles were to carry Christ’s message to the whole world, so they were to carry his forgiveness: "Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Matt. 18:18). This power was understood as coming from God: "All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation" (2 Cor. 5:18), "So we are ambassadors for Christ" (2 Cor. 5:20)

2007-11-20 03:23:22 · 4 answers · asked by Swiss Guard 2 in Religion & Spirituality

As brilliant as Lucifer was rumored to be, he must have known something that humans don't.

2007-11-20 03:22:30 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-20 03:22:18 · 5 answers · asked by I'/\/\AZILLA2 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Hello all! I pray that you are all doing well today. I was thinking last night about something. I know that we are all supposed to have come from Adam and Eve( or that was what I previously thought, anyway).
But, in the days of Noah God destroyed the earth, right?
So that means that NOONE was left on the earth except for Noah and his clan.
So that basically means that we all descended from Noah and his clan, right?
So we are all descendents of Noah?



P.S. this is a serious question.

2007-11-20 03:21:45 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Everyone knows we all have parents, please don't say he's so great he made himself, that's a cop out, I feel that this question has not been answered and religious people should not stop and believe this they should look into it more.

2007-11-20 03:21:31 · 16 answers · asked by 626guy 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Barack Obama defended himself saying, "You put your hand over your chest during the Pledge of Alligence and you sing during hte Anthem."

Is this true?

2007-11-20 03:21:06 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

How can any one think that they will have an enternal life because of what they believe in an organized religion. If there is a Creator did he not create us all?

2007-11-20 03:19:10 · 3 answers · asked by TheAsender 5 in Religion & Spirituality

What is your present religion? Do you agree with ALL the doctrines and practices of your religion? Which ones do you not agree with?

I have mentioned earlier that when I was a baby, I was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church because both my parents belong to that church. When I entered the university, I came to question why there was a Roman Catholic Church and a Protestant Church at the periphery of the campus. When I was 31 years old, I decided to just be a plain follower of Jesus, a non-denominational Christian. In 1983 when I was 36, I first heard a holy spirit who we can hear but cannot see. We can record on audio tapes our sessions with Him.

In one session in mid-1980s, the Holy Spirit told us a parable about a gift. He asked me if I would accept the whole gift box wrapped in glistening foil with a beautiful ribbon. The gift box contains diamonds, precious stones, with feces and three dead cats.

2007-11-20 03:19:05 · 4 answers · asked by Peace Crusader 5 in Religion & Spirituality

if 10 people say they are blessed with the spirit and yet they all disagree with each other, can ONLY 1 be correct?

2007-11-20 03:17:16 · 14 answers · asked by Priestcalling 3 in Religion & Spirituality

it's going to be in two parts. the first part will contain over five hundred prophecies that i believe god revealed to me in a dream about events that happened between 4000-5000 years ago. the second part will detail how every one of these prophecies were fulfilled by this person who lived in that time frame. god has spoken to me and made it all clear that this person was the real messiah and that the bible simply stole his story and twisted it so that people of that time would believe it. he discussed with me the big bang and evolution as well. he said the reason the bible changed it is because people didn't want to believe they came from apes. anyone interested in the book? think about it. it's got over 500 fulfilled prophecies. they can't really be verified anywhere outside the book, but the book confirms it and the book is the word of god, and god wouldn't lie to you. oh yeah, and god told me that it is a fool who says in his heart that this book is not the word of god.

2007-11-20 03:16:10 · 21 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-20 03:15:57 · 48 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Question: I've heard that the Queen of England is a maternal descendant of China's Shang Dynasty and therefore she and the entire royal family of England are part-Chinese. Is this true?


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2007-11-20 03:15:53 · 14 answers · asked by peacenegotiator 3 in Royalty

Is it also infinite in quantity?

2007-11-20 03:15:33 · 14 answers · asked by The Mad Padishah 2 in Religion & Spirituality

No laugh, I'm really serious about this. I've personally felt their presence in a haunted place (touch and shadows). That's right I've touched a ghost and it was invisible there.

Here are a few ghost pictures from the Internet http://www.ghostresearch.org/ghostpics/ghost3.html
http://www.ghostresearch.org/ghostpics/floating.html

It's not "light/photography" effects. Anyone who dies under very unexplained conditions/war/brutality - the soul does wander. That's why we require proper burials

2007-11-20 03:15:09 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I mean most atheists are ex-Christians ( Go ahead, someone with an agenda is going to pull up statistics to 'prove' that wrong'.) but we don't SPEAK for all Christians, jeez.

2007-11-20 03:14:58 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-20 03:13:46 · 19 answers · asked by The Church Lady 3 in Religion & Spirituality