Religion & Spirituality - 23 March 2007

2007-03-23 23:59:38 · 12 answers · asked by mickie1108 3

Is this an easy thing to accomplish? How is it done? IS it safe?

2007-03-23 23:56:36 · 9 answers · asked by cullentoons 2

2007-03-23 23:51:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

some friends of mine are scientologists but I can't understand well what is this religion about... please tell me more.
thanks

2007-03-23 23:48:51 · 6 answers · asked by bambam 3

2007-03-23 23:48:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-23 23:47:20 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-23 23:46:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was watching a commetary of the hitchikers guide. And douglas' colleage started talking about all the interesting view points ould hav eon religion and this is one.

The world is a tricky place I think that people are like puddles. We find are ourselves in a hole and go wow this must of been made especially for me. But the truth is we will come and go like everything else and will be dried up the next morning.

It's one you need to think about for a while to really get what he was saying I thought about it all this morning. I couldn't remember exactly what he said but that's mostly it. He obviously did it with more charisma and charm but I tried my best.

2007-03-23 23:42:53 · 2 answers · asked by Beaverscanttalk 4

What do You think?

2007-03-23 23:40:29 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-23 23:40:04 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-23 23:37:08 · 4 answers · asked by athma 1

Sufficient reason to beleif in God.


An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and .....
Prof: So you believe in God? Student: Absolutely, sir.
Prof: Is God good? Student: Sure.
Prof: Is God all-powerful? Student: Yes.
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm? (Student is silent.)
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again! , young fellow.
Is God good? Student: Yes.
Prof: Is Satan good? Student: No.
Prof: Where does Satan come from? Student: From...God...
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world? Student: Yes.
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything.
Correct? Student: Yes.
Prof: So who created evil? Student does not answer.
Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they? Student: Yes, sir.
Prof: So, who created them? Student has no answer.

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God? Student: No, sir.
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God? Student: No, sir.
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter? Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him? Student: Yes.

Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son? Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has. Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Prof: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as cold? Prof: Yes.

Student: No sir. There isn't.
(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat.
We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?
Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure.
Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully
understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.

Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class is in uproar.)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?
(The class breaks out into laughter.)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.
Student: That is it sir... The link between man & God is FAITH. That
is all that keeps things moving & alive

2007-03-23 23:36:42 · 18 answers · asked by Inquisitive 2

2007-03-23 23:34:04 · 9 answers · asked by athma 1

Planning permission has been applied for an eruv (symbolic Jewish zone) around our town. I understand the theory behind it - allowing members of the Jewish community to carry, transport and such on the Shabat within this boundary.
But I just don't understand what difference - in the eyes of their God - wires on poles will make. Enlighten me please!

2007-03-23 23:33:51 · 7 answers · asked by bumblecherry 5

2007-03-23 23:29:29 · 13 answers · asked by Mark G 1

2007-03-23 23:28:34 · 11 answers · asked by Christine 6

I believe that there is a heavenly realm, but do not believe that it is permanent. Does this make me an athiest?

2007-03-23 23:25:27 · 12 answers · asked by Lawrence M 2

Did Adam and Eve have a navel? Cus...they weren't born directly from God to have an umbilical cordon...right?

2007-03-23 23:20:15 · 15 answers · asked by kuka 2

2007-03-23 23:19:22 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

I got everythings from my jesus which I asked from jesus, what about you guys?

2007-03-23 23:16:30 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-23 23:12:35 · 2 answers · asked by SEE YOU LATER 2

2007-03-23 23:10:48 · 14 answers · asked by SEE YOU LATER 2

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2007-03-23 23:07:20 · 8 answers · asked by Ellie W 3

2007-03-23 23:07:02 · 11 answers · asked by SEE YOU LATER 2

2007-03-23 23:06:42 · 2 answers · asked by Ellie W 3

2007-03-23 23:05:51 · 8 answers · asked by SEE YOU LATER 2

2007-03-23 23:03:10 · 14 answers · asked by U-98 6

i mean. if jesus is the son of god for xtains, and muslims dont feel this way. how did he come about to be born? was it still a virgin birth?

2007-03-23 23:02:46 · 5 answers · asked by Kiah Kalillah 1

Just taking into account the over 300 prophecies in the Old Testament of a coming Messiah (Jesus) why do the nonbelievers continue to ignore the truth?

Jesus Christ fulfilled more than 300 prophecies in His life. Here's something that can help you appreciate the odds of this happening: If ONLY 8 of these 300 prophecies came true in any one person,it would be comparable to this:
Build a small fence around the state of Texas
fill it 2 feet deep in silver dollars
paint 1 of them red
mix it all up
then--starting at the Louisiana border,walk blindfolded as far into Texas as you want to go,
then lean over,still blindfolded,
and pick up the red silver dollar

And remember, these are the odds of just EIGHT of the +300 prophecies of Jesus coming true.
Satan surely has applied the blinders to many.

2007-03-23 23:02:04 · 9 answers · asked by Jeff C 4