Religion & Spirituality - 17 October 2006

What is the nature of happiness to you?
Where does it come from, in relation to you?
If happiness is a form, then it can be maintained. What of it?

2006-10-17 09:10:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-17 09:10:13 · 5 answers · asked by JoeDraco 4

2006-10-17 09:08:28 · 11 answers · asked by charmaine f 5

Go to google put in jail webcam and go to the second site

2006-10-17 09:06:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im a Middle Eastern muslim and actually i do have many non-muslim friends 9western and eastern) whom they like me very much. Id like to know why is it like in the west a lot of people have too much hatred for Islam? Share your ideas..Enlighten me.. and What do you think the solution for this problem is? I mean whom do you blame? Muslims or westerners? or both? What should be done?

2006-10-17 09:06:19 · 29 answers · asked by Moh'd K 2

If indeed Noah's flood was worldwide, then God's word is null and void. Carefull reading of Pslams 104:1-9, details a event that happened long before Noah's flood. The subject is "creation"...verse 5 "Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever."..Verse 6 "Thou coveredth it,[the earth], with the deep, [water] as with a garment: the WATERS stood above the mountains. ...verse 7 ""At thy rebuke they [waters] fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away". verse 8..""they go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou has founded for them". verse 9.."Thou hast set a bound that they, [waters], may not pass over, that they turn NOT AGAIN TO COVER THE EARTH".
Now, we read that the waters in the flood of Noah, [genesis 8:3]; "And the waters returned from the earth continually; and after the end of 150 days the waters were abated". That's 5 months!! in Pslams the waters abated IMMEDIATLY.
Was Noah's flood wordwide?

2006-10-17 09:06:03 · 20 answers · asked by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7

2006-10-17 09:02:28 · 1 answers · asked by michael b 5

Muslim teaching assistant wants to work in Britain but how can a child build a trusting relationship with her when she has her face completly covered by a veil? Ms azmi is living in Britain and, while she has every right to her religious beliefs, she is not living in a Muslim country. It seems abundantly clear she is disrespectful to us.
When we visit or go and live in other countries, we are taought to respect there way of life and there beliefs. Understandably they would be upset if visitors didnt do this. So why is it that we are being made to feel uncomfortable for speaking out and wanting our way of life and beliefs respected? If a Muslim wants to come and live in Britain i have no objection to it but what i do not appreciate is having there rights rammed down my throat.
If a muslim country had an influx of Christain foreigners, would they allow churches to be built and permit there laws to be changed to accommodate them? I think not. So why should we?
Dnegel2006@hotmail.com

2006-10-17 08:59:34 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not to mention the most difficult to treat, since its victims are firmly convinced of the truth of their beliefs.

2006-10-17 08:59:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I wanted to test the credibility of the church and its interpreters. I just made up a bunch of jibberish and the interpreter said that I was saying all kinds things. He tried to read me EXACTLY like fake psychic would. It is discusting that you christians allow such brainwashing in your holy place.

2006-10-17 08:58:10 · 10 answers · asked by Jimmy S 1

2006-10-17 08:57:43 · 19 answers · asked by . 5

The key steps of life:

Comet, or primordial soup, or clay=?
Organic Goo=Miller experiment has been discounted as wrong
RNA replicator occurs=how did this happen?
Cell occurs=very complex step, how?
Many new single celled organisms
Mitochondria and chloroplast join cell=how?
Multicellular organisms
Many many multicellular organisms
Vertebrate occurs=how and why?
Lungfish occurs=how?
Land Lungfish
Various obscure animals occur
Mammals occur=how?
Primates occur=how?
Ancestor of monkeys and apes occurs=how?
Ancestral apes occur=how?
Ancestral humans occur=how?
Human occur=how?

This is a progession of increasing complexity and information. If there is a natural force capable of all this, it should be very pervasive and apparent. Natural selection is known to be able to possibly explain a very small fraction of this process.

It takes great faith to believe that someday, maybe there will be a natural explanation.

Maybe, faith in a creator makes more sense.

2006-10-17 08:57:35 · 6 answers · asked by Cogito Sum 4

Have the reg. posters of Religion and Spirtuality thought about not signing back on to Yahoo Answers? If so, why? and why did you come back?

2006-10-17 08:56:42 · 20 answers · asked by 2ndchhapteracts 5

Don´t call me a racist or something, because King Abdullah´s mother is "white" born in Great Britain.

Source: Nostradamus Books

2006-10-17 08:56:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

...before/after tower of Babel? Can someone give me a rundown of the chronology of the Bible?

2006-10-17 08:54:59 · 25 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5

I am wondering why I never hear any atheists attacking Islam, or Buddhism, or whatever else but everyone seems to have this hatred for Christianity? My theory is that you know that the God of the bible is the one true God in your hearts, but you choose to rebel against Him.
If my theory is incorrect, what is your reason?

2006-10-17 08:54:34 · 37 answers · asked by Daddy of 5 4

whos thoughts are just so bizarre and perverted and gross. He is an evil man. All my life i told myself i would never become him, and now today i choose the wrong path, and I AM MY DAD. I know you will say that's not possible, but i have become this person that does not deserve life, that does evil and is not good for the planet. i dont want to just kill myself because i dont know how that would affect everyone else who has been supportive to me through out my years. But I think that It would be selfish to live just as another person taking up more of the earths resources and giving nothing good back to the planet. MY dad does bullshit charity work, which is just to make money for himself. So I know i dont want to do volunteer work to 'appear' to be an angel or a good person. I want to do what is right and not commit evil, to people , to the earth, and mess up anything else. please give advice.

2006-10-17 08:53:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

During the middle ages virtually no medical research was done by Christians, why? because studying the human body was considered a form of "questioning god" so for nearly 1000 years all medical advancements where done by Muslims and Jews.
Is history going to repeat itself?

2006-10-17 08:51:50 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

So, I Don't want to get anyones undies all in a twist. However, I'm wondering do any real questions get an answer in Religion and spirituality or is it just a place for boring debates we've all heard before?

2006-10-17 08:51:22 · 25 answers · asked by Stacey 2

From the beginning of creation when we used to be atoms, we have taken birth millions of times since then, with the intention of producing superior than us, we went on changing our form. This human form is an latest stage of atomic developments. There are few stages, some have developed beyond their material existence to attain sukshma (minute) body, even remaining in the universe.
Right from when human being has developed the thinking power, he has started getting the feelings of sorrows in a more way. When searched for its reason, he found that life is the all cause of miseries. For that reason, for the prevention of it, he started torturing himself and came to the conclusion that, ‘salvation’ i.e. the great destruction existence of own only can save him from the wheels of life and death resulting in eradication of his own miseries. And, he will come back to his original form, from which the creation was crated. Jainis acknowledge that- the human being suffers from all types of miseries in this world. There is no happiness in the life of human being. The total life is full of desire, expectations and miseries, and those can never be satisfied. Therefore, there is a regular stream unhappiness in human life. Buddhists have also this type of opinions. Birth, old age, diseases, death, sorrows, ill coincidences, separation of loved ones, non – attainment of desired substances; are the miseries. No creature in this world is free from grief. There are several causes for miseries and sufferings. Desire for enjoying materialistic things, adultery, desire for rebirth, satisfying ego of own etc. are the important of them. With the possession of appearance, smell mental arrangements and thinking power, man get trapped with pride, affection, anger, alteration, disturbances and dissatisfaction. Therefore, one should destroy those mirages and avoid the miseries produced by them.
TIPS FOR PREVENTING MISERIES :-
It is easy to discard miseries after knowing the cause of them. Illiteracy, lack of intelligence and desires are the causes of miseries, sufferings and the restriction of birth – death can be avoided by man. For this lord Buddha has suggested that of the eight ways, 1. Right vision, 2. Right commitment, 3. Right speech, 4. Right duty, 5. Right occupation, 6. Right exercise, 7. Right memories (mind that, this world is destructible), 8. Right Samadhi (concentration of mind should be on the destination) Here, samyak means truth. Further it is also stated that, for functioning of this ‘Eight bodied path’, observation of ten amendments is a must. 1. Non – violence, 2. Truthfulness, 3. Acting restraint from stealing, 4. Abdication of properties and its collections, 5. Adaptation of celibacy, 6. Abdication of dance and songs, 7. Taking food in proper time, 8. Abdication of soft mattresses, 7. Abdication of KAMINI KANCHAN. 10. Abdication of immoral deeds from the mind and body.
The meaning is to lead a life of good conduct and a moral one. Regarding prevention of miseries and salvation Mahavir gives the option as “From desires and mirages subjective to domestic life, the kind of deeds the man does, his soul gets trapped in those deeds. Not only this birth, but also the deeds of previous birth puts the load on the soul. Due to those deeds only, a creature undergoes repeated birth and death.
When man don’t perceive any result of the deeds in the present birth, and with virtuous deeds destroys the result of deeds of the previous birth, he gets relieved from the wheel of birth and death. The main problem of life, is the domestic life. Therefore, by giving up domestic life, becoming a beggar ignoring all senses, and with deep penance, one can achieve the wisdom of truths, so that there will be no any rebirth of him in this world of miseries. The end comes for ever. The duties carried out by a domestic person should not be carried out, i.e. going in an opposite direction. So that, the ‘plant of life’ is destroyed in such a manner that it should not get germinated again after getting destroyed. Its existence should get merged with other element. It is like destroying a bamboo plant to avoid a flute.
The theme is, this creation didn’t suit the man. He can’t cope up with the hurdles of life. In spite of all the attempts, he is sad. Selfish people are unable to listen to the pains of heart and to the call of soul to each other. That is why man wants to turn back from this journey of life. In crores of years, what ever development he has achieved, he is unable to tie that up with his life. And out of frustration, he decides that he should achieve salvation. He is tired, ripe and got defeated by the life. He doesn’t see the ray of hope from even far – off. No body is here to understand his pain. Scientist talk about the destruction of the material world by atomic bomb and the high spirited are thinking of destroying their own souls by atomic bomb or by hard ‘UPASNA’. Every one has one ambition – the great destruction of his own existence. Is this a salvation ?
Getting the purest form of soul, and then getting merged with the prime soul (ISHWAR) is called salvation; where the chance of getting a new life comes to an end. The purest form of soul is achieved after the soul get released form ‘Sanskar’ (Explained before). The ‘Brahman’ and the ‘Sanskar’ are combined with the soul in a manner how the oxygen and hydrogen an found in water. As hydrogen (H2) + Oxygen (O2) = Water, like that Brahman + Sanskar + Desire (Manas) + Pran = Jivatma (life soul). Brahman is super energy. If it is separated from others, or total of them is converted into Brahman, then every substance can achieve its actual capabilities.
Energy is the cause of all substances found in this universe and the prime energy is the cause of energy. The meaning is – prime energy is the cause of every cause.
As per the sages of India, get it drilled what ever can be drilled and burn it down which ever can be burnt, then you will remain with the left over-which is the purest form. That is the ‘Brahman’ of ‘Veda’. KEIVALYA of Mahavir, Salvation of Buddha, absolution of ‘KAPIL and KANNAD’. The word salvation is a synonym of the great destruction of self existence. The meaning of salvation is to extinguish the flame by blowing out the lamp. You blew out the flame extinguishing it, but you are not asking where the flame gone. This is what salvation is. As according to Buddha- what ever is seen as a flame is the oxygen, is your mental body (Pran). The liberation of life soul from desire and arrogance, is the stage of absolution or salvation.
The flame gets extinguished by blowing the lamp off, it remains in the air in the form of the odor of fuel and as a smoke. The smoke can be re-burnt further, and the remaining part after this, is the purest form of it. For it, atomic fire is required to be ignited in the soul. With its fierce blaze, the soul being heated up and being separated from ‘Sanskar’ will come out of the boundary of birth-death.
Salvation is achieved by the above process, and by achieving divine knowledge also in which Sanskar is brought into an end. The ‘minute one’ loses its existence to combine with the great one, but it doesn’t turn into a great one- because the existence of it is too negligible in comparison to that ‘great one’. We can tell only this much that ‘Brahman’ got merged with the prime ‘Brahma’. Now don’t ask where the ‘Prime Brahma’ is situated. The prime Brahma is spread in the world of all inert and conscious soul, like an witness. The ‘space’ inside every atom is that one only, which is its body in a salvation stage and of yours as well. To become Buddha, to become Mahavir, to become a sage, you have to become a king first, to enjoy all the luxuries, so that you get fed off with life. The life will seem to be worthless, and utmost pleasure will be felt from ‘self torture’. The path of ‘Buddha’ and the path of Mahavir is applicable to those persons who have gone through all the luxuries of life. A little expectation in the life will never let you succeed in that. For that reason, before wishing for salvation it is necessary to get bored with life first. The persons bored with life are suitable for choosing the path of Buddha and Mahavir.

2006-10-17 08:51:22 · 9 answers · asked by ibkhandel 2

2006-10-17 08:49:41 · 11 answers · asked by David W 1

I'm not asking the obvious question, about non Christ like acting people. I'm asking about Christian groups labeling other religions as non Christian since they have different beliefs about Christ or his teachings.

2006-10-17 08:49:14 · 17 answers · asked by ChunderHog 1

Please do not just cut and paste stuff from the internet.
You can source articles etc to support your opinion.
Ten points for the best explained answer.

2006-10-17 08:49:13 · 23 answers · asked by jason12211 3

2006-10-17 08:48:18 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have nothing against christains but it seams like all the ones around me are really nosy about my religious beliefs and wont leave me alone about not being christain......so im wondering if all christains are like this or am i just in an area of nosy ones?

2006-10-17 08:46:45 · 25 answers · asked by allen=[\m/] 2

2006-10-17 08:46:39 · 13 answers · asked by BOB D 1

2006-10-17 08:43:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I saw this comment on someone's profile, and I don't think it's right to say something like this. It borders on discrimination, but above all, it just seems unfair. I mean, I have atheist pals, and I'd never make a statement that "the world would be better without athiesm." The same goes for different religions, other than my own. It's the differences of peoples beliefs and opinions that makes the diversity of our cultures so rich. To those who would hang the historical misdeeds of religious people over their heads, they are also over-looking the wealth of giving, compasion and sharing done by these same religions (when things like storm disasters occur, it's generally "religious" people first on the scene to offer help, a fact largely ignored by the media. But that's another subject.)

I respect other people, either athiests or people of faith, and I don't think it's right to make statements like, "the world would be better without...(blah)". Thoughts?

2006-10-17 08:41:02 · 15 answers · asked by Rob 5

Are we not judging an entire religion based on a select few that were extreme enough to make the news? Also: how many of you have actually read the Qur'an or talked to a Muslim who follows it to the letter instead of listening to the (false) preachings of others? How would you like it if an influential group did the same to Christianity - just basing their judgements on the followers of, say, the KKK?

2006-10-17 08:38:47 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here's why I think Catholics like to portray Jesus as dead on the cross:

Pilate "found no fault" with Jesus and was going to release him.

To get Jesus crucified, the High Priest of Israel said "We have no king but Caesar".

Because the priest had the authority to bestow the office of "king", the office did actaully change hands.

Pilate (the authorized representative of Rome) then transfered the title to Jesus.

Because this is the accusation for which he was crucified, if He wasn't guilty of the charge, he wouldn't have been put to death.

OK, Jesus died. If Jesus rose from the dead, the living Jesus retains the Title "The King of the Jews".

If Jesus remained dead, the Title reverts back to Caesar who had been given the office of "King of the Jews" by the High Priest.

Since the Roman Empire morphed into the Roman Catholic church, their only claim to their authority derives from Jesus staying dead following the crucifiction.

The resurrection nullifies it.

2006-10-17 08:38:08 · 11 answers · asked by s2scrm 5