Society & Culture - 16 December 2007

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2007-12-16 11:18:35 · 12 answers · asked by Orita 3 in Religion & Spirituality

We know the answer is 42. But what does that mean?

2007-12-16 11:16:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

We have different time zones, we think of Jesus' return in our time zone. But what about those who are hours, even a day ahead of us? Will we have to wait till its our turn? If we are behind other countries in hours & even a day, do they go first before we do? Just how is this specific day & time going to work out when we have different time zones as only God knows when Jesus will return.

2007-12-16 11:16:49 · 6 answers · asked by ZORRO 3 in Religion & Spirituality

look for the listing on your states Chirstian tv channels: in WV. Charles Stanley comes onchannel 70 at 8:00 pm. his topic today is Who is Jesus. he really knows the BIBLE well and he teaches right from GODS word the Holy Bible.if you are just a new born chirstian,or non believer or you have been a christian for some time. you can learn from charles Stanley. I caught this same program thismorning and he explains the Bible well. GOD would want you to watch.

2007-12-16 11:16:35 · 17 answers · asked by country boy 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Even though I haven't been a practicing witch for about six years, and even though I renounced witchcraft about that long ago?

I'm just wondering if anyone else has this.

They don't have to be wearing a pentacle or anything like that, I just sense it. They also sometimes sense it about me, too. Is that weird?

2007-12-16 11:15:57 · 13 answers · asked by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 in Religion & Spirituality

we all hear about them. when you reach a certain age.. you can quit work.. get SS.. etc etc.. buy really does it make it better.. SS is only fraction of what you make when you were working..and yea medicare pays for medical expenes.. but when i do the math..it don't add up.. i know some places give a senoir discount.. but that could be any where from a quarter to a dollar. if you could go back and do one thing..that would make your life easier today.. what would it have been?

2007-12-16 11:15:19 · 15 answers · asked by vis 7 in Senior Citizens

2007-12-16 11:13:31 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If a person turns there life over to God Almighty what happens to them after death? If a person does not choose to believe in God Almighty and Jesus, without repenting, what happens to them after death?

2007-12-16 11:08:49 · 20 answers · asked by Sister Queen 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-16 11:07:48 · 16 answers · asked by daria 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I've decided that the risk of hell is too great, and I don't want to be an atheist anymore. But here's the problem: most Christians on here tell me if I don't accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior, I will go to hell. The Muslims say if I don't become a Muslim, I will go to hell.

So who's right?

2007-12-16 11:07:18 · 32 answers · asked by jacob decibel 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I am interested in why a person embraces atheism. What made you embrace atheism?

2007-12-16 11:03:41 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

what made you stop believing in him?

2007-12-16 11:01:51 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

im agnostic

2007-12-16 11:01:01 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-16 11:00:15 · 12 answers · asked by Jethro 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-16 10:56:24 · 27 answers · asked by Mezmarelda 6 in Religion & Spirituality

According to Vivekananda, "true joy and happiness cannot come about as long as there is desire, but arises from the contemplative witness-like study of objects".

If there were no desire, why would one bother doing anything (including contemplating)? And if you do nothing, you would have no purpose and surely on the contrary be unhappy. Clearly I am misunderstanding...can anyone explain?

2007-12-16 10:55:59 · 20 answers · asked by okei 4 in Religion & Spirituality

who here is raising their grandchildren.. and why?? one person i know that is doing that .. was because the mother was a junkie.. is it hard on you.. how old is the child or children..

2007-12-16 10:53:18 · 14 answers · asked by vis 7 in Senior Citizens

For members of the LDS Church, if Jesus is our Lord and Saviour what did Jesus save man from?

2007-12-16 10:52:21 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-16 10:51:41 · 11 answers · asked by jade r 1 in Languages

Catholic Christians hear this opinion that we are saved by faith alone and we recoil at the thought of faith alone regardless of the fact that the Scriptures condemns such heresy. We see the Bible teaching that both faith and works come from God's grace and that neither come from our own efforts. Surely we have free will and can refuse this grace that can only be the work of God and not of our initiating efforts. We are simply responding to God's call with faith and works, which I believe St. James was illustrating in his writing, saying that faith without works is dead since they all come from the same source, God's grace.

2007-12-16 10:51:24 · 20 answers · asked by cristoiglesia 7 in Religion & Spirituality

If so, what do you think about? What do you think it will be like?

If not, why?

2007-12-16 10:48:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This may sound so unrelated and so unexpected for me to bring up. But for all of you, when you dream, do you not ever dream the most outragous things which you would never believe in in real life, yet in your dream it appears fairly logical. Is this maybe the fact that you're not bound to earth-like things e.g time, gravity etc because of the fact that your body is at a state of rest.

So let me relate this to the afterlife. We can only undertand things in relation to the world we have been raised in. we grew up and live in a world with certain entities eg time, and when we hear of the afterlife, much of these boundaries do not exist, so to relate what we know and understand to something which we have never experienced is just illogical.

Anyone welcome to argue or agree, just don't be racist about it.

2007-12-16 10:47:46 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

and where does it say in the new testement? I really am looking for it in the old but I would like to see it in the new testement...if it says it?

2007-12-16 10:47:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-16 10:46:42 · 35 answers · asked by Astro 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I try to be a good person. I volunteer to tutor disadvantaged kids. I try to treat my neighbors with respect. I stay politically active and engaged. I'm not expecting a gold star or anything, and I've certainly made mistakes, but I like to think I've made a few positive contribution to the world.

But I'm an atheist. I realize that according to most of you I'm going to hell, because I don't believe Jesus Christ is my personal savior. I can live with you thinking that. But does that also mean the good works I've done are somehow invalidated?

Is it impossible for an atheist (or a Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu) to do anything good by definition? I get that sense from you guys sometimes that you think that.

2007-12-16 10:45:14 · 25 answers · asked by jacob decibel 3 in Religion & Spirituality

If you were outside and some person that you didn't know just walked up to you and offered you candy, would you take it?

2007-12-16 10:44:25 · 8 answers · asked by nolan_manning 1 in Other - Society & Culture

I finally got to see the Nutcracker last night, something I've been looking forward to for years. At the end of the performance, as the dancers were taking there bows, there was a loud obnoxious girl screaming her support with loud "woo-woo"s for one of the dancers. It happened enough to make everyone's head turn to see who was being so obnoxious. I was seriously contemplating saying something to her afterwards about having some class at such an event, alas, she escaped over the balcony or something. Would you say something if pointed looks were ignored?

2007-12-16 10:44:07 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

2007-12-16 10:43:14 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

I am not a member of the Nation of Islam, the group that Min. Farrakhan is the national representative of, and I am not a member of any organized religion. He, I think, is not only a religious figure but a social figure as well. What is your opinion of him? If you are unfamiliar with him, here is a link to an article by him at the FinalCall.com News website:

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1980.shtml

2007-12-16 10:42:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was raised catholic and I know nothing about what Jewish people believe in. Do they believe in Jesus? How are Jews and Christians different?

2007-12-16 10:40:35 · 14 answers · asked by melz330 1 in Religion & Spirituality