Religion & Spirituality - 12 June 2007

Ok,so me and my friend live very close to an Eckankar Temple. and i respect what they do because its THEIR OWN CHOICE and my friend claims that she is a 'strong christian' but she keeps on insulting them but saying that they are like some creepy pagan anti-christ freaks that worship some man and that they chant "hu" and kidnap and rape 12 yr old girls ..personally i think thats all bullshit and i serverely insults me when she talks s.hit about them..and i mean i used to be pagan but now i dont have a religion and its like she thinks im a complete freak for not believing in some guy that never even existed and im sorry but i think christianity is a stupid lie..i dont mean to insult any one im actually just kindof venting too

2007-06-12 16:50:30 · 4 answers · asked by fortified chimp livers 2

i had a crush on this man for 7 months which i was depressing over and i still like him, and my mom knows, but she says i need help, and so does every1 else..is there something wrong with me.

2007-06-12 16:50:15 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

You know, those embryos which are created through in vitro fertilization and then suspended in embryonic cryopreservation indefinitely only to be rendered unnecessary after the woman conceives naturally or with another in vitro embryo?

What do you think happens when they're no longer needed? They're disposed of, that's what. Is anyone concerned about this? I mean, all those folks who cause such an uproar over embryonic stem cell research must be positively OUTRAGED about this, right?

Any thoughts on this?

2007-06-12 16:50:02 · 24 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7

2007-06-12 16:49:32 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

stem cell reaserch is not your thing ,I realize this! but I would like to know when your child becomes very ill(cancer) , and stem cells are the cure for your child , will you chose that , which you have opposed all this time or let natural selection(in your case God) take care of what is most precious to you??????

please be nice!

2007-06-12 16:49:02 · 27 answers · asked by slaveof12gods 5

negative impact on Disney?

2007-06-12 16:48:57 · 15 answers · asked by TRACER ™ 6

2007-06-12 16:44:59 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Do you think, or believe that there will be "spiritual" sex or something similar to it in the afterlife?

2007-06-12 16:42:00 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why don't more atheists and theists on Yahoo R/S share their BELIEFS rather than attacking others? Reading through the questions this section would probably be more appropriately labeled Hate Mongering. I would love to hear more about peoples beliefs and how they personally practice them but this whole section is filled with hate. Why all the mudslinging?

2007-06-12 16:40:59 · 23 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5

What is your contention regarding Embryonic Stem Cell research. Keep in mind that:

-Blastocytes, the undifferentiated embryonic cells that scientists would conduct research upon, aren't technically living beings (that's analogous to a seed being tantamount to a fully developed angiosperm).

-the Bush administration has denied public funding for ESCR, but doesn't altogether prohibit it.

-Methods have been devised to study stem cells without a) harming said embryo, or b) using embryos that had already died (atributed to natural causes, of course).

2007-06-12 16:39:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 16:39:08 · 49 answers · asked by MrsOcultyThomas 6

This is a serious question! I know there is a verse that you read when cleansing the soul or preforming an exorcism, anyone know what it is? THANKS!

2007-06-12 16:39:03 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

i always wanted to know.

When a young girl talks with them, does it bring back times when he was a teenager or 20?

2007-06-12 16:37:30 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

In music that is edited they still say damn. It is also not censored on TV. Beyonce, who says that she is Christian says it, and she doens't censor it in her music. I'm Christian and I also hear some other Christians saying damn...sometimes. Would saying it be considered cussing?

2007-06-12 16:37:11 · 29 answers · asked by Dimples 3

I just posted a totally legitmate question, and yet one of you got all teary eyed when they read it cos, oh guess what? I was right. cos if i wasn't right they wouldn't have deleted it.

But here it is and hopefully you guys won't shiit yourselves again...

All i ever hear is

"WHY ARE CHRISTIANS ALL THE SAME, IF ONE IS SOMETHING THEN THEY ALL ARE THERES NO CHANCE THAT ANY ARE DIFFERENT FROM ANOTHER CAUSE THEY'RE ALL THE SAME, AND I'M GONNA KEEP MAKING DISCRIMINATING REMARKS TOWARDS ALL OF THEM BASED ON NO REAL STATISTICAL FACTS AND JUST STRICTLY MY OWN BIASED OPINIONS, WHEN INSTEAD IT WAS JUST ONE IN PARTICULAR THAT MIGHT HAVE MADE A COMMENT THAT I DIDN'T TOTALLY AGREE WITH WHICH MAKES THEM WRONG COS I'M ALWAYS RIGHT COS I'M AN ATHIEST,

HAHAHAHLOLOLAOMOLROMF!!!!!!!!!

I THINK I'M SO SMORT COS I'M AN ATHIEST AND I MUST BE RUIGHT. I'M ALSO AN IGNORANT PRICK AND A HUGE DOUCHBAG TOO."

well... they may as well say that.

and yur always insulting us so dont cry.

2007-06-12 16:37:01 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

True Australian Ghost Story

This story happened a while ago in Brisbane, and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's true. John Bradford, a Sydney University student, was on the side of the road hitch hiking on a very dark night and in the midst of a storm. The night was rolling on and no car went by.

The storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stopped. John, desperate for shelter and without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door, just to realize there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn't on! The car started moving slowly. John looked at the road and saw a curve approaching. Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life.

Then, just before he hit the curve, a hand appeared through the window and turned the wheel. John, paralysed with terror, watched how the hand appeared every time they came to a curve. John saw the lights of a pub down the road so, gathering strength, jumped out of the car and ran to it. Wet and out of breath, he rushed inside and asked for two shots of tequila.

He then started telling everybody about the horrible experience he went through. A silence enveloped everybody when they realized he was crying and....wasn't drunk.

About 15 minutes later, two guys walked into the same pub. They were also wet and out of breath. Looking around and seeing John Bradford sobbing at the bar, one said to the other, "Look, Bruce.. there's the bloody idiot that got in the car while we were pushing it."

2007-06-12 16:36:33 · 5 answers · asked by autumnleaves 3

I am a christian,, recently actually. my parents are pastors but i was neevr intothe whole God thing until about two weeks ago. anyways my boyfriend, joey, his parents are also pastors, and he isnt a christian. how can I be a good influence on him without goin back to my old habits? and another fact is we both live in zimbabwe, but we are 6 hours apart. so i have to be good at being a good influence on the phone more then anything. so please if you have any tips I would greatly appreciate.
if this is necessary I am 17 he is 21

2007-06-12 16:36:21 · 22 answers · asked by tandita 2

i pray a lot and it just seems like when i pray for others, good things seem to happen to them but when i pray for myself, nothing good comes of it. am i doing something wrong or just being selfish?

2007-06-12 16:35:32 · 16 answers · asked by elmo198221us 1

Please don't delete my question!?

2007-06-12 16:35:05 · 15 answers · asked by socmum16 ♪ 5

Or just one?

2007-06-12 16:34:31 · 14 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5

At what point does a theist start to cross the line between debate and evangelism?

2007-06-12 16:34:14 · 8 answers · asked by robbob 5

When Muslim men die and pass to Islamic Paradise (Heaven), they expect to enter a utopian dimension where wine, milk and honey flows, fruit-trees flourish and rivers gush forth with the purist water.

Here, they plan to be greeted by 72 young virgins of "perpetual freshness" (houris) who will lead them into palaces loaded with luxurious thrones surrounded by gold, silver and jewel plated furnishings.- a holy place where believers reclined on jeweled couches surrounded by the finest silks can experience unlimited erotic sexual pleasures.

Islamic scholar Yusuf Ali described the virgins as "the companionship of Beauty and Grace - one of the highest pleasures of life. In the higher life it takes a higher form...The pronoun in Arabic is in the feminine gender. It is made clear that these maidens for heavenly society will be of special creation,-of virginal purity, grace, and beauty, inspiring and inspired by love, with the question of time and age eliminated."

The virgins, according to another Islamic commentator are "creations of God, intelligent yet soulless and created to serve the believer who goes to Paradise. They are created for the purpose of serving the believer, and as such, they don't exactly have free will. They are described as pure, beautiful, dark eyed, lustrous, virgin, and more perfect than any human on earth. Imagine the woman of your dreams."

Quranic commentator Al-Suyuti (died 1505 ) explained more graphically that Muslim men in Paradise experience non-ending arousals and that ever time they have sex with one of the angelic maidens, they find her body reconstituted as "virgin."

"The sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint," Al-Suyuti explained. " Each chosen one [Muslim] will marry seventy houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all (will be appetizing)."

Islam's Prophet Muhammad was heard saying about Islamic Heaven: 'The smallest reward for the people of paradise is an abode where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyyah [a Damascus suburb] to Sana'a [Yemen]."

To assure Muslim men that they will be able to fully enjoy their heavenly rewards, Muhammad said, "A man in paradise shall be given virility equal to that of one hundred men."

2007-06-12 16:33:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why does God give me so much suffering even when I repented and try to follow him as a Christian. I have NO friends, and the friends I thought I had were befriending me merelly to use me for his/her advantage? I feel like absolute crap and want to die because that always happens to me. No one is actually a friend for who I am, not my talents. Why do some people like me suffer so much in the social realm while so many others are beloved by friends?

2007-06-12 16:32:37 · 18 answers · asked by Luke J 1

Is there anything put away that if found might tell a storied secret? Do you have anything in your computer that might reveal things about you that want kept private?

2007-06-12 16:32:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 16:32:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

For Christians - I have heard some of you say....if someone has never discovered God then they go somewhere besides hell. What is this place?

For Atheist - Do you think this is the only life we get a chance at?

2007-06-12 16:30:23 · 35 answers · asked by JimBob from 'Bama 2

2007-06-12 16:29:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

word of god? Why or why not?

If you don't consider the apocrypha part of the "true canon," why not? The bible as we know it was compiled by on sect of Catholic Christians 1600 years ago, so is there any reason to think they were infallible?

And we now know that many of the books of the NT were not written by the authors they were presumed to have been written by...many of the epistles were known to be later forgeries, yet those books are still part of the accepted bible.

Please no snotty replies, I'm trying to understand your thinking.

2007-06-12 16:27:47 · 10 answers · asked by Mom 4

Fundies have assumed for years that all Atheists get along and get together to bash people who aren't like them. I just proved with this question they're wrong...http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiwfuwBFeCVwAsibQpexdU3d7BR.?qid=20070612200840AA16xQW Did you see all of the atheists responding negatively to that lmao you'd think I insulted them personally or something but anyway I don't get along with a lot of Atheists as well as people in general and I have 0 friends in real life so I can't be arrogant after saying all that now can I. Sorry but I love ranting sometimes.

2007-06-12 16:22:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-12 16:20:54 · 11 answers · asked by trinity 5