Religion & Spirituality - 4 February 2007

2007-02-04 04:08:39 · 14 answers · asked by audreylea1 1

I have a feeling that many answers will prove my point, but I'll do my best not to jump to conclusions.

Please keep this in mind, as a rationalist I am still unconvinced that the physical world exists. Cogito, ergo sum. I am only a thinking thing for certain.

2007-02-04 04:08:20 · 19 answers · asked by Theophile 2

When parents will have to pay a certain amount of tax EACH YEAR for each child they have?

Obviously this will be for population control.

2007-02-04 04:06:57 · 7 answers · asked by Antares 6

I have exalted sun and exalted saturn in my chart. For which planet should I wear the associated gem? as I cant wear both because saturn and sun are enemies.

2007-02-04 04:06:38 · 4 answers · asked by tajeshwar 1

Sam Harris in "The End of Faith" says it's because it is the only area of human discourse that is considered off limits to reason. Without subjecting this discourse to reason, no compromise is ever possible. That makes religion the only perpetually divisive idea on the planet. Add to that the notion that all believers live forever and that all non-believers burn in eternal hell, and you have an unbelievably volatile mix that threatens our very existence.

Harris says "It is imperative that we begin speaking plainly about the absurdity of most of our religious beliefs. I fear, however, that the time has not yet arrived. ... I pray that we may one day think clearly enough about these matters to render our children incapable of killing themselves over their books. If not our children, then I suspect it could well be too late for us, because while it has never been difficult to meet your maker, in fifty years it will simply be too easy to drag everyone else along to meet him with you."

2007-02-04 04:05:28 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean come on, if they don't believe, why are they here? Or are you searching still?

2007-02-04 04:05:12 · 21 answers · asked by azarus_again 4

With all the hell going on in some marriages why would you serve a god who didn't care about the well being of the abused wives?(or you fill in the blank about what could be going on in any marriage like that.)

2007-02-04 04:04:18 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Faith is not a cushion for me to fall back upon; it is my working energy.
-Helen Keller

Peace and Love

2007-02-04 04:03:39 · 4 answers · asked by digilook 2

According to the Bible we should "be fruitful and multiply". In a world that is far to overpopulated with human beings who are wrecking the planet that is very bad advice.

2007-02-04 04:01:17 · 12 answers · asked by chuck 3

So, I find myself in a fence. We're all dressed like Jews, and we're called Hebrews. The fence is reminiscent of a concentration camp. The ground is barren, like dry dirt. In the middle of the fenced land is a cement building, of which I'm uncertain who is inside. Somethings wrong. I can feel it. The man who owns this place is handsome, but I know he's pure evil. His name is Nathal (first name). I feel like he's fenced us in here to kill us, Holocaust- style. I'm not sure how to go about telling anyone what's up, because I feel certain that this will be the end. I tell my mom and a few other people who won't think I'm crazy, and/or will tell anyone who works for this man. I go to the edge of the fence that looks like freedom and Jesus appears next to me. I don't remember Him actually talking to me, but I feel like I know what He wants. He wants me to yell it. He wants me to tell everyone, whether anyone will believe me or not. I'm scared. I'm getting more scared. I go out among the fence population again, but am so stunned, I clam up and don't tell anyone I don't know or anyone 'I assume' won't believe me (i.e. anyone who'll think I'm crazy). I don't remember exactly how many people manage to escape, but there were few. I return to where there is thin cut in a corner area of the fence where not only Jesus is, but Matthew and Lot. They are letting escapees out of this corner to freedom. I kind of get in line to leave. I turn around, stricken with remorse. I turn back to leave, and the last person at the fence, which is Jesus, has gone through the fence. It's as if to say he got everyone He was going to get out. I'm left looking at Him walk away. He does NOT look back, as if to acknowledge I was even there to get through the fence. He walks on, leaving me alone, still inside the fence. When I turn around, someone has come upon me to kill me. That is my demise. End of dream.

Why me? No one else gets dreams like this. Why me? Am I just nuts? What is it?

2007-02-04 03:59:43 · 6 answers · asked by Arf 4

I'm agnostic. And well completley atheist when it comes to their idea of god and jesus and that despitful book.

Do they not realize that the threat of hell is not burdening to those that dont believe? As if IF IF they were right that most of us atheist would want to spend an eternity with such an....well a hole comes to mind first but..

i dont know bi-polar nutbag tyrant.

excuse me jesus guys, is their ANYTHING else that you can use?

2007-02-04 03:59:31 · 22 answers · asked by Sheriff of R&S 4

There is no report of Jesus giving a deliverance period eg 7 days yet His reported deliverances were permanent, some ministers advice deliverances on a continual basis, sometimes lasting more than a year, the idea being muted that one can never be completely free, how true is this?

2007-02-04 03:59:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

New Ageism embraces supernaturalism, but ascribes it to the creature, not the Creator (Romans 1:22-24). They flaunt the "I am God" concept as it naturally appeals to man's ego and thirst for power, an appeal as old as the Garden of Eden. Satan promised Eve: "YE SHALL BE AS GOD."

It is of of the goals of the New Age Movement to cause people to rebel against the true God of the Bible and to believe that they are deities. By Christian understanding, once Satan has the person in this heretical frame of mind, then the battle is won. The individual will then be called for greater service to the Prince of Darkness. And with a mind clouded and confused, he or she will comply. The individual will have become a member, knowingly or unknowingly, of the Satanic conspiracy.

Satan's primary tactic in opposing God is not to foster atheism but religion; not to prove there is no God but to be worshipped as God. "I have not come to found a new religion," "Lord Maitreya" says. "I have come to teach the art of Self-realization, the I AM"

The end for New Age is mentioned in the Jewish Torah in Isaiah 47
47:8 Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures, who dwell securely, who say in your heart, “I AM, and there is no one else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children”; but these two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day: The loss of children, and widowhood. They shall come upon you in their fullness because of the multitude of your sorceries, for the great abundance of your enchantments.

2007-02-04 03:54:59 · 10 answers · asked by defOf 4

mullets are sooooo old school and when i see on i want to cut it off but i guess it is all in what you want or like.... so why do people have mullets....

2007-02-04 03:53:30 · 11 answers · asked by lvn the rodeo... 1

2007-02-04 03:53:00 · 8 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

2007-02-04 03:51:41 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

He should love everyone.

2007-02-04 03:51:39 · 14 answers · asked by jeanie_in_a_beer_bottle 1

he needs a spork shoved up his tailpipe

2007-02-04 03:49:04 · 3 answers · asked by The Cashmere Sweater Retard 1

Music can be heard and with feeling recived. I know what sound is, and how it can be heard by a lot of humans and animals. But the question goes to spirituality, energy, mystical area. What is music in this terrain ?

2007-02-04 03:48:03 · 12 answers · asked by º 2

I've been away for a couple of months, and I come back, and its the same tones, trying to get an aggravated answer with inflammatory questions. Its like I never missed any of the plot.

Seriously, live and let live, let people hold their beliefs and try for a free exchange of ideas. Or is that too much to ask?

2007-02-04 03:46:49 · 28 answers · asked by guhralfromhell 4

thereof?

Gary: Isn't it ironic that there are so many Atheists that enjoy being on a Christian Forum thread.

What is more stupid, a person who worships a God they can't see or a person who is offended by a God they don't believe exists?"

2007-02-04 03:45:05 · 21 answers · asked by xians_are_evil777 2

I think I have had an ephifony of some very logical ideas.

2007-02-04 03:43:49 · 21 answers · asked by In my life it is access to God 1

This question obviously only applies to people in American timezones. :)

2007-02-04 03:40:53 · 19 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6

would you accept showing the Flintstones in science classrooms as a way to balance the teaching of evolution?

We could give equal time to the evolution lesson and the screening of Fred, Wilma and Dino.

2007-02-04 03:37:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you have any scientific research/facts to support you claim

2007-02-04 03:37:37 · 7 answers · asked by zloewez 1

2007-02-04 03:37:29 · 11 answers · asked by GODZILLA 3

Is it something to do with speaking words out loud , as Jesus also said "by your words you will be condemned or justified" and "out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks"

2007-02-04 03:33:57 · 9 answers · asked by Johnno 2

1. How did the world come about? Ummmm, I give up, God did it
Thinking is just too hard. It's easier to just say "God did it.

2. I'll just believe and play it safe to make sure I dont go to hell. Even though some of this God stuff makes no sense.

3. The unknown is scary. It's a relief to think that God is in control

4. I dont want to just die. I want to keep living so I'll just believe the afterlife exist

5. My minister says we're born bad. I guess I am. Now I really need Jesus.

6. My minister says i'm nothing without God. It must be true. I guess I'm nothing. That's why I love God

2007-02-04 03:31:58 · 21 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1

Check out this video:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4162315283354424113


Start at 4:20 and end at 5:50, Watch that minute and a half, Whatca think??

I want to go and stand out there with a sign like that

2007-02-04 03:30:54 · 4 answers · asked by www.infowars.com 1

2007-02-04 03:30:33 · 5 answers · asked by Unknown 1