Religion & Spirituality - 21 February 2007

2007-02-21 13:11:56 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you don't know what plato's analogy of the cave is you shouldn't be reading this.
Anyway, if we only see this world, and can't sense the other, then don't we begin to doubt? That doubt turns into disbelief. We cannot see air, but we can feel it, this is why we believe it exists. A single sense. But now, if I say I feel the presense of God, then I would be laughed at. Why? Because they cannot sense it. I would be declared insane. So that would mean that the perceptions of many would determine reality. If that were true, then that would mean that the perceptions determine who is sane, and insane, and that reality is not fixed. It is more of an opinion. Many Atheists act as if Science has all the answers but yet many scientists once believed that flight was impossible. One hundred years ago I could have quoted the best scientists in the world that dinosaurs were cold-blooded, slow moving creatures.
Evolution is still only a theory, and has not been proven.

2007-02-21 13:10:55 · 15 answers · asked by Greg 4

im naturally pessimistic, and ive learned that with pessimism, youre never dissapointed. it doesnt effect what happens, and you will either feel correct, or delighted that you were wrong.

think of it this way, would you rather wake up thinking it friday, but as it turns out, its thursday

or

wake up thinking its thursday, and its actually friday?

and you wake thinking its thursday, and it is thursday, what have you lost?

2007-02-21 13:10:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

WET PANTS
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> > Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There is
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> > a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a
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> > sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the
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> > front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is
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> > going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how
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> > this has happened. It's never happened before, and he
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> > knows that when the boys find out he will never hear
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> > the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never
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> > speak to him again as long as he lives.
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> > The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts
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> > his head down and prays this prayer, "Dear God, this
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> > is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from
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> > now I'm dead meat."
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> > He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher
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> > with a look in her eyes that says he has been
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> > discovered.
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> > As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate
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> > named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled
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> > with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and
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> > inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap.
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> > The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is
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> > saying to himself, "Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!"
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> > Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of
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> > ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The
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> > teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts
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> > to put on while his pants dry out. All the other
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> > children are on their hands and knees cleaning up
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> > around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as
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> > life would have it, the ridicule that should have been
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> > his has been transferred to someone else - Susie.
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> > She tries to help, but they tell her to get out.
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> > You've done enough, you klutz!"
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> > Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting
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> > for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers,
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> > "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Susie whispers
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> > back, "I wet my pants once too."
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> > May God help us see the opportunities that are always
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> > around us to do good.
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> > Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a
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> > Christian any more than standing in your garage makes
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> > you a car.
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> > Each and everyone one of us are going through tough times
right
> > now,
> > but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that only
He
can.
> > Keep
> > the
> > faith.

2007-02-21 13:08:18 · 18 answers · asked by fiesty 2

well?

2007-02-21 13:07:46 · 40 answers · asked by paTROLLer 2

I have to give a sermon in our ministry class... limited to 5 min... any honest suggestions on topics?

Please don;t offer anything really generic like "revelation" While a GREAT topic.. hardly one that can even be scratched in 5 min...

Thanks!

2007-02-21 13:07:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

-Sting (from the band The Police)

What are your thoughts on this quote?

2007-02-21 13:06:46 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Even if you don't get ashes do you still have to give something up for lent?Just wondering..

2007-02-21 13:06:45 · 5 answers · asked by Marstar824 1

This one looked either like a ghost or a real person because it looked alive.

Was a distrubing thing to see.

And I can remote view fairly well most of the time so I know I wasnt imagining this.

2007-02-21 13:04:51 · 9 answers · asked by Antares 6

Just curious on the christian's view of MLM... thanks!

2007-02-21 13:04:27 · 12 answers · asked by Josephine 2

Hey everyone in the past when i was young i did alot of bad things that i promis my self i never did and i never did it again!! REALLY BAD THINGS SORRY cant say,,, anyhow i like to know will god accept me? NO i never killed anyone things like that... Also a few peopel say that clubbing is really bad and god wont accept me. i love to dance i liike to go clubbing once in a while will god accept me? they say i wont. what do i need to do to be in god hands? and what should i not do?

2007-02-21 13:04:00 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

After all if we are to believe that this God fed Jews in the desert for fourty years why can't this God feed starving children?

Is this God prejudice?

Or is it that it's only children and anyone that has read the bible knows God love to kill little children!

2007-02-21 13:01:07 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

God's sexist. He created women as "helpers to men."

In the Ten Commandments, you'll find that he refers to your neighbors wife as "belonging to your neighbor", implying that they are objects.

If you look through the bible, you'll find sexism.

Doesn't that seem more like the Israelites, who had a male-dominated society, than some all-knowing perfect being?

Honestly, God is no more credible than Egyptian mythology.

Obviously, the Israelites made this stuff up to have an organized society.

Just like the Hindus tried to make everyone accept their place by saying if you didn't you would have bad karma.

The Israelites must have made all this up to have a docile society.


So my questions are:
1. Do you WANT to be "helpers" to men?

2. Do you WANT to worship this sexist, if existant, God?

3. What makes Israel's folklore more credible than any other ancient civilizations? No one today believes in Greek or Egyptian mythology.

2007-02-21 13:00:20 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

All sorts of organic molecules exist in space - in meteorites, in comets, in intersellar gas and dust:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1897186.stm

The universe is clearly conducive to self-organisation and complexity, so it really shouldn't come as a surprise that this process led to the phenomenon of self-replication, evolution, and us. Why do some people continue to reject this idea?

2007-02-21 13:00:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

1 Peter 1:14
As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

2007-02-21 12:57:11 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

1 Peter 3:10-12

10For,
"Whoever would love life
and see good days
must keep his tongue from evil
and his lips from deceitful speech.
11He must turn from evil and do good;
he must seek peace and pursue it.
12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

2007-02-21 12:56:06 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've only met about 5 Christians on this forum that have had any real care or compassion about other religions/ irreligious people...

And at least 60% of them can't even spell "atheist" right...

So far more than 30 Christians that I've seen so far have stated in some question or another that they "can't wait to see what atheists will face after death" or that they "can't wait to see [them] burn in hell" or that "atheists have no morals because they don't believe in anything."

*Sorry to the few "Christ-like" Christians out there...

2007-02-21 12:55:11 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

2 Peter 1:4
...he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

2007-02-21 12:54:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

A Catholic I know recently pointed out that the Bible didn't exist for the first 300 years of Christianity. This got me thinking, and now I'm somewhat confused about the whole concept of Sola Scripturain the first place. I mean, What did the eraly Christians do?! Anyways... I guess I would be put at ease if I could find some passages that 'prove' SS.

Thanks!

2007-02-21 12:54:35 · 10 answers · asked by Zindo 1

I was iceskating w/ my BF and friends and while I was skating, I felt a big poop comming. I tried to skate to the bathroom but they wouldn't let me out because I had rentals on and they said I had to take em' off on the ice so I wouldn't ruin the skates. As I was taking em' off, it fell out. It plopped onto the ice, everyone started laughing. As I started to cry, diarea came out of my butt and it was all over the ice. They called my mom to pick me and and bring me new clothes.

2007-02-21 12:53:49 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

killing innocent civlians with bombs ?

2007-02-21 12:53:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Today was ash wed.
Where do the ashes come from?

2007-02-21 12:53:01 · 6 answers · asked by Thrills 5

That in this section, atheists tend to back themselves up more? Theists tend to say things like "What do we have to lose? But if God really exists, you're going to hell" and "why don't atheists believe".

Atheists actually support themselves. They give facts, proof, they make points.

I'm just saying...You theists are destroying your reputation by not giving us data...

2007-02-21 12:52:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Muslims believe this and i believe some other religions do as well. We also believe that they lived long.

Well now we know those species that are big such as a whale or human (intelligence helps too) as compared to a fly or mouse live long. At least it makes scientific sense, the bigger you are the longer you live. So if humans were very tall then at least it makes sense that they did live very long?

2007-02-21 12:52:30 · 6 answers · asked by A fan 4

2007-02-21 12:50:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-21 12:48:41 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am in search of anyone, ANYONE, who can provide a clear and definitive summation of these two concepts beyond their linguistic contradiction to one another. In essence, are these two absolutes (and if so--what and why) OR are they merely relative ideals to contrast with one another?

2007-02-21 12:48:26 · 13 answers · asked by (G)ods (O)f (P)lutocracy 2

I have not been to a catholic church since.

2007-02-21 12:47:41 · 26 answers · asked by sugar_n_spice 5

its the end of the first day did you make it

2007-02-21 12:47:14 · 4 answers · asked by steve 4

Please cite your sources. Thanks in advance :)

2007-02-21 12:46:30 · 6 answers · asked by 2 days after my B day :) 2