Society & Culture - 25 December 2007

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2007-12-25 17:13:15 · 1 answers · asked by TAMMY M 1 in Christmas

I am Christian.
In most cases, your parents raised you to be whatever religion you are, or aren't. You are raised to believe in God and whatever your certain religion says. You are strong in your beliefs, because it is what you have known your entire life. You know your religion is the "legitimate" one.
But what about the other people...
I will use Budhists for example.
They were born, raised to believe in reincarnation and everything. They believe in THAT as strongly as I believe in what MY Bible says. If we all believe what we were raised to believe, how can we know for sure what is the truth. I have my reasons in believing what I do, from what I have seen personally... but haven't the budhists also... this is really hard for me to explain and get to my point, but basically... if you were raised to believe one thing, what makes it the truth, and it isn't really fair for you to have faith in God your entire life and go to hell because you didn't know which was the truth...

2007-12-25 17:09:18 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

A psychiatrist visited a California mental institution and asked a patient, "How did you get here? What was the nature of your illness?" He got the following reply.

"Well, it all started when I got married and I guess I should never have done it. I married a widow with a grown daughter who then became my stepdaughter.

My dad came to visit us, fell in love with my lovely stepdaughter, then married her. And so my stepdaughter was now my stepmother. Soon, my wife had a son who was, of course, my daddy's brother-in-law since he is the half-brother of my stepdaughter, who is now, of course, my daddy's wife.

So, as I told you, when my stepdaughter married my daddy, she was at once my stepmother! Now, since my new son is brother to my stepmother, he also became my uncle. As you know, my wife is my step-grandmother since she is my stepmother's mother. Don't forget that my stepmother is my stepdaughter. Remember, too, that I am my wife's grandson.

But hold on just a few minutes more. You see, since I'm married to my step-grandmother, I am not only the wife's grandson and her hubby, but I am also my own grandfather. Now can you understand how I got put in this place?"

After staring blanky with a dizzy look on his face, the psychiatrist replied: "Move over!"

2007-12-25 17:08:33 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

2007-12-25 17:08:08 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

this is just a survey

2007-12-25 17:07:27 · 5 answers · asked by c'', 1 in Christmas

Question: Does faith stifle free inquiry?

2007-12-25 17:06:06 · 20 answers · asked by the-chick 2 in Religion & Spirituality

I'm a junior football player. I play offensive line, so I'm kinda big, but I lift in the offseason, so it's not all fat. My leg strength is considered above average and I'm probably Top 10 in the school when it comes to leg strength. But my bench is considered average. So I have a killer lower body (so I'm told) but an average upper body (what girls notice more).

She's a sophomore cheerleader, and a good friend of my good friend's girlfriend. I've never seen her at school before, but my good friend was talking about her being single (the team tries to get me a gf now and then). I saw her pic on Facebook (apparently we're friends) and I was blown away.

But as I said, I've never seen her before at school. I don't know any of her classes or where her locker is or anything like that.

So how should I try to get to know her? In person? On Facebook? How? What do I say?

I only have one chance for a good first impression, so I NEED to make it memorable.

2007-12-25 17:05:04 · 5 answers · asked by DaClint 5 in Etiquette

that spiritually happy feeling on my other question was a sign of me being blessed! :)

2007-12-25 17:04:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

I want an honest answer on I could have a realationship with God.

I hate going to church I find it boring
and I really believe that God walked the earth and acutally had sex with Mary.
That Jesus was a philosopher and wasn't incredibly devine.

Is there a religion for me or am I hopeless?

2007-12-25 17:04:33 · 39 answers · asked by EJGKEHG0133 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-25 17:04:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

People might say the religion of Islam is unpopular but I have noticed their are a lot of people that feel the need to put Scientology down. There are numerous websites dedicated to "exposing" the religion and its (famous) followers.
Why is this so?

2007-12-25 17:00:49 · 24 answers · asked by Purple 2 in Religion & Spirituality

You can only bring records, reel to reel or eight track music? I'll have a few cases of wine. If you do not drink wine what will you bring to drink?

2007-12-25 16:59:42 · 10 answers · asked by abuelamah 6 in Senior Citizens

2007-12-25 16:58:05 · 4 answers · asked by piecezmaya 1 in Mythology & Folklore

2007-12-25 16:57:57 · 2 answers · asked by Bill W 【ツ】 6 in Christmas

Just wondering how many actually celebrated Christmas in some way and are offended by someone saying Merry Christmas?

2007-12-25 16:56:40 · 20 answers · asked by Theophilus 4 in Religion & Spirituality

Even bone fossils of dinosaurs that lived millions of millions of years before has been found today. But strangely enough, not a single bone fossil of a bible character who lived for hundreds of years have been found when they supposedly only lived a few thousand years ago! Isn't that a little too absurd? If there really were humans who had a life span of several hundred years, at least one of their remains must've been found by now. There is no human bone found that have supposedly lived for hundreds of years. If dinosaur bones have been found, why haven't any of the bible characters bones been found? And why haven't any tombs of those characters been found?

Christians, doesn't this cleary point the fact that all bible characters were fictional?

2007-12-25 16:55:30 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I said get my son Hot Wheels for Christmas. Who knew Hot Wheels make obnoxious noises nowadays, and have no off-switch?

I said don't get my kids lots of toys, they have too many already. We can't even walk over the piles of toys now - and all of them make NOISE! And all of them come in the sadistic packaging-from-hell.

I said don't get them anything big. So I've spent all evening putting together a Big Wheel - "*some* assembly required."

I wanted to wish all of you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc. But apparently that's "chatting".

*sigh* Hope your holidays were great :-)

2007-12-25 16:55:19 · 18 answers · asked by Orpheus Rising 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I wonder how many people look at other answers b4 answering? how many people actually take the time to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to them all? wondering because I do and if we all did yahoo could be a nicer place to ask a ? and really get heartfelt answers .just a suggestion not a reqirement

2007-12-25 16:54:24 · 7 answers · asked by Psychologist In The House 6 in Other - Society & Culture

Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays) and a prosperous New Year.

2007-12-25 16:54:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-25 16:53:59 · 3 answers · asked by Thomas E 7 in Senior Citizens

Some Christians tell me they don't need to do old testament requirements anymore because Jesus put a stop to them. Which makes sense, meaning many of the old laws no longer apply.

But then Christians also tell me Jesus didn't override the old law, Jesus merely completed or fulfilled it. But if that's the case, why do Christians do so many practices which under 'old' law are a sin? Eg:

-allowing menstruating women in a public place of worship
-eating meat with some blood remaining
-eating pork,
-non-circumcision,
-making statues and images of heaven, hell and God himself
-planting different crops in the same field
-not observing the sabbath correctly (Moses revealed the proper way through the Talmud from my understanding, so only orthodox Jews have kept the rule like not being allowed to light a fire, tie a knot or write anything)

If they weren't to apply eternally, why were they made in the first place? If they're meant to be followed, why do all churches breach them?

2007-12-25 16:53:56 · 8 answers · asked by grassfell 3 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-25 16:53:40 · 9 answers · asked by Allen 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-25 16:52:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-25 16:51:33 · 38 answers · asked by What do ya know? 2 in Christmas

In the Bible, Adam and Eve are the first 2 humans who were created by God in Genesis 2. They had 2 children, Cain and Abel. Cain killed Abel, then he took a wife and gave birth to Enoch.

Where did his wife come from? According to the Bible, there were only 3 humans on Earth at that time and they were Cain and his parents.

2007-12-25 16:46:59 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Nothing says sinful quite like a ripe Mango.

2007-12-25 16:45:59 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

My college has a diverse campus ministry, though most of the ministers dont so anything. I checked them out and they have a female rabbi. I thought jews and catholics shared that and rabbis couldnt be females. I met her once and she isn't observant at all (she was at the ministry meeting and it was a lunch and she was eatting beef with cheese)

How does that work exactly? I get the being a reformist part (which makes me giggle) but are they THAT reformist now?

2007-12-25 16:43:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

wishes them a Merry Christmas?
I'm not Christian and at my job we were told to wish everyone Happy Holidays! I don't get it. I mean I understand we're trying to be all secular and all but really why would it bother anyone to be "merry" ?

2007-12-25 16:41:53 · 45 answers · asked by Purple 2 in Religion & Spirituality

In order to forgive, God decided that he had to kill himself. Imagine if you ate your sister's cookie when she told you not to. And she'd say, "I will forgive you, but let me kill myself first!"

Back to my original question, is God considered a Sadist for inflicting pain on himself? And/or is he a masochist for willingly being tortured?

2007-12-25 16:41:39 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-25 16:39:02 · 58 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality