Society & Culture - 30 December 2007

About 5 years ago, due to personal reasons, my life completely fell apart. I lost the majority of my friends, my self-confidence, and my self-respect as a result. I struggle with anger, depression, anxiety, and mood swings. I used to self-mutilate a lot to relieve stress, but I have trained myself away from doing that so I do not do that anymore. But, I was bad enough it was to that point. I have been on medicine and I have been to counseling - neither really helped much. I spend alot of my time alone, questioning if God is real and if He is real, how allowed my life to fall to pieces and how He can ignore my prayers for things to get better. I seem to be stuck in a cycle of bad thinking that I cannot seem to get out of.

I don't want to be like that anymore. I want to learn to let go of the past, make new friends, and learn to go with the flow and let good things happen to me. I want to rekindle my relationship with God. Any advice for making 2008 the best year ever??

2007-12-30 05:32:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

When you pray, is it the Name you call your God that determines who hears your prayers, or is it what is in your heart and your understanding of that God? So what is more important, the Name, or what we understand to be the character of our God?

This question is a follow up to my two concurrent questions;
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071230102020AAcxEx6&r=w
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071230102330AAsOpyL&r=w

2007-12-30 05:30:59 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

When does forgiveness become permission to re-offend? When does demanding accountability for someone's actions become unforgiveness?

2007-12-30 05:30:58 · 6 answers · asked by ? 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Please write your denomination or nondenomination.

After Jesus gave up the Ghost, the veil of the temple rent from top to bottom. And there was earthquakes & rocks broke & the graves were opened & many bodies of the Saints (OT) who slept arose. They came out of their graves after His resurrection & wento into the Holy City & appeared to many.

I first ask Mormons because they think they have to baptize for the dead (those who were never water baptized), including the OT Saints to save them.

2007-12-30 05:29:04 · 10 answers · asked by LottaLou 7 in Religion & Spirituality

If not then how come my newborn neice was just put down as Hispanic?

2007-12-30 05:28:56 · 27 answers · asked by ☮♥$ 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Jeremy Clarkson has attacked christianity in an article in The Times:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article3107633.ece

Should this foolish man meddle in spiritual matters that he could never possibly comprehend?

2007-12-30 05:27:55 · 48 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-30 05:27:07 · 10 answers · asked by LEMUR is fruit perfection? 1 in Religion & Spirituality

if the Christ was born on the 25th of December, why wasnt it reguared as the first day of the new year?not 6 days after His birth?

2007-12-30 05:27:06 · 7 answers · asked by raya kalashnikov 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Why is it that the latin vulgate bibles, differ much in Genesis, about the seed of the woman that crushes the head of the serpent. Every other bible identifies this as a man (Jesus)
but not so the catholic bible, compare:

Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible

I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

Genesis 3:15 (King James Version)

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel

Genesis 3:15 (New International Version)

And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

Genesis 3:15 (New American Standard Bible)

And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel."

2007-12-30 05:25:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-30 05:25:25 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

you first must be celebate that I know. But do you need to attend university first to get a degree in theology before entering the seminary. What letters would you have after your name for example Rt Rev Mgr David Gemmel VG, MTh. What do those intitials stand for?
Please no rude answers thank you.

2007-12-30 05:24:12 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Shrinks ask this question all the time and most say I never really thought about it? sad, as we use to dream and have visions and full fill them ? Is this a thing of the Past?

2007-12-30 05:23:36 · 12 answers · asked by Gypsy Gal 6 in Religion & Spirituality

Trust me, I have nothing against emos in general, but is it all an act when they frown and say "You don't understand"? I want them to try and make me understand when they say this. I think it's all an act, just like chavs when they walk in town looking as though they have stones in their trainers to try and look cool, when really they just look disabled (sorry if offended) Most emos put their heads down and scurry away when I question them. Some will even say that I'm just looking for attention, but when I remind them that they are the ones dressing for a public reaction and attention, they shut up. All talk no action. I enjoy listening to what most emos listen to e.g. Heavy and Death Metal, but I don't run around dressed like Maralin Manson. It's just a fashion isn't it? nothing more. If the type of emo who slits their wrists, dresses in all black and is reading this thinking "but you don't understand", well make me understand please.

2007-12-30 05:23:32 · 6 answers · asked by Axehole 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

When someone like Mother Theresa or Desmond Tutu pray to Jesus, are they really praying to the same Jesus as someone like Pat Robertson or Fred Phelps? Or is it two entirely different entities who answer those prayers? -- one a being of Love, the other a being of Hate?

2007-12-30 05:23:30 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I left Christianity a year ago (meaning that I don't believe in your Jesus and Holy Spirit) but I still believe in God.

In your eyes, who is this God that I believe in? Is he your God too? I'm just curious about what you think.

2007-12-30 05:22:52 · 13 answers · asked by Celeritas 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I know it's been asked before, but there are new ppl joining everyday, so they aint answered the question yet, have they?

So dont bother telling me it's been asked. I KNOW!

Mine is the 28th February

2007-12-30 05:21:19 · 69 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

Okay so I have a question.
I am a Catholic, and in the Christian religion we believe
that Jesus Christ is the messiah. However, I also know that
Judaism teaches that Jesus was only a prophet, and that the messiah has not yet come.

I know that Hinduism doesn't even recognize
Jesus at all, and neither does Islam.

So what I'm asking is, how can we all be right?
If Judaism were correct, that would mean Christianity is incorrect. And if Christianity were correct, that would mean Judaism is incorrect. I just can't bring myself to think that other religions are "wrong". I have just been taught that they are different. But ONE OF US has to be wrong! We cannot all be factually correct!

How can we explain this?

2007-12-30 05:20:50 · 23 answers · asked by allisonnnn :] 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Could it be that Gandhi, a Hindu, and Mother Theresa, a Catholic, were worshiping the same God of love and compassion?

Could it be that Fred Phelps, a Christian, and Osama Bin Laden, a Muslim, are worshiping the same God of hate and intolerance?

2007-12-30 05:20:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-30 05:19:45 · 12 answers · asked by golfer7 5 in Etiquette

2007-12-30 05:19:19 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I've got all these books on my bookshelf that I want to clear out. I'm not sure what to do with them. Throw them out?

2007-12-30 05:18:39 · 21 answers · asked by Gracie 3 in Etiquette

2007-12-30 05:16:46 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

What about the Episcopals, don't they have ritual mass like Catholics? Why do they still have rituals?

2007-12-30 05:13:09 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-30 05:12:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-30 05:12:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Christians, kuffaar and that you will imitate their bad deeds?

As per Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah, who said this is according to "The Qur'aan, Sunnah and ijmaa (scholarly consensus)", Al-Tirmidhi, Imaam Ibn Abd al-Barr.

Have a nice day.

2007-12-30 05:11:45 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-30 05:11:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Is this why Christians say it is ok to kill and torture because Jesus also said when you are wronged to turn the other cheek, so he will forgive them all their sins?

2007-12-30 05:07:59 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

What can we learn from the many names/titles given to our understandings of God?
This list is NOT exclusive....but is food for thought.
Or is this just too confusing?

El
ElOHIM
El SHADDAI
ADONAI
ALLAH
JEHOVAH
JEHOVAH-JIREH
JEHOVAH-ROPHE
JEHOVAH-NISSI
JEHOVAH-M'KADDESH
JEHOVAH-SHALOM
SHEPHERD
JUDGE
JEHOVAH ELOHIM
HOLY SPIRIT
JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU
JEHOVAH-ROHI
JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH
JEHOVAH-SABAOTH
EL ELYON
ABHIR
BRANCH
KADOSH
SHAPHAT
EL ROI
KANNA
PALET
YESHA (Jesus)
GAOL
MELEKH
FATHER
KURIOS
I AM
WORD: (logos)
YHVH

2007-12-30 05:06:35 · 4 answers · asked by AS 2 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-12-30 05:04:41 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality