Religion & Spirituality - 9 July 2007

2007-07-09 07:51:52 · 42 answers · asked by Anonymous

Bobby boi wrote this to my last Q, but has conveniently left me no way to contact him.

"if you look anything like your avatar, save your breath...
I am NOT a theist and am looking toward making mulch of your brain, bring it on...

Source(s):

I am a Buddhist monk"

Please, boi, let's start an e-mail correspondence...

2007-07-09 07:51:49 · 7 answers · asked by vehement_chemical 3

I alway thought this was taken as a matter of faith. Now an engineer as attempted to 'prove' the physics of the Book of Abraham http://www.blazelabs.com/f-u-free.asp

However, a response from another scientist at
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2007/02/another_revolution_in_physics_1.php
refutes it. I had no idea this topic was ever discussed in scientific circles regarding the Unified Field Theory and an Egyptian Funerary Papyri.
Once again there are two sides to every argument, but in this case, I understand neither.

2007-07-09 07:51:10 · 8 answers · asked by Dances with Poultry 5

i am catholic and was babtised in the catholic in 2005 and since then i have noticed when other christians find out i am catholic they will make little comments such i am not a christian. example would be i was at a AA group and they open with prayer which went fine, afterwords a lady said well were all christians here, oh but your catholic. i have no understanding were she comes off saying i am not a christian when i believe in Jesus and God. i think many people are confused, catholic are christians. if anyone can shead some light on why this happens i would love to know why some people believe this.

2007-07-09 07:49:09 · 20 answers · asked by BABY GIRL 3

Okay, so it's said that bananas were intelligently designed by God. But how do you explain pineapple, potatoes, and onions, as well as many other foods?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XMwpxhCYo00

If this link does not work, search: "The atheists nightmare - God's magic banana factory" on YouTube.

2007-07-09 07:49:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do I win behind curtain #3? A new car? A cruise to Matzatlan? A dining room set? An RV? What?!

2007-07-09 07:48:28 · 9 answers · asked by Dr. G™ 5

Idon't care what religion you follow if your a descent human being I care for you I just pray for the evil of the world to cease not the people GOD LOVE & PEACE

2007-07-09 07:47:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

She says that sometimes she knows God is responsible, but she believes in more of a science theory of existance... The Big Bang Theory... How can I help prove to her that God created the universe? How can I help lead from that into Jesus dying for sins? We are both 15, and I haven't really tried this before. How can I help her?

2007-07-09 07:47:36 · 32 answers · asked by Kelly 4

About the biology of sex? When did the government take over the job? Why? Who told us that MOTHERS did not know how to teach their children about sex without a political bias?

2007-07-09 07:46:25 · 21 answers · asked by ? 7

Do any of you even bother with asking Jeeves when you don't get the right answer here? And what kind of name is Jeeves anyway? Why culdnt they have come up with Ask Neal or Bob or Fanny.... Why Jeeves...

2007-07-09 07:45:56 · 7 answers · asked by AlleycatJo 5

I've been told that being resuscitated is against religious beliefs, and therefore, many religious people are against them, and have DNR orders.

However, in research, I found that being of a chance to live, but dying anyhow, is a form of euthanasia, and is also considered a vague type of suicide.

But to many, suicide is against religion, as well.

So, you either sin by allowing yourself to be resuscitated, or you sin by taking part in a form of assissted suicide. Either way, you can't win.

Do you have any thoughts on this?

(I posted this question once before, but a typo and some bad wording made it unclear; I'm reposting it now, just explained a bit differently.)

2007-07-09 07:45:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

You Worry Me

By: American Airlines Pilot - Captain John Maniscalco

"You worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country. But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me. I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks.

On September 11, nineteen ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's mothers.

So I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage and hate and prejudice that has destroyed the soul of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational American, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist.

How do I differentiate between the true Arab-Muslim Americans and the Arab-Muslims in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities under the protection of OUR constitution, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter those very same good neighbors and children? The events of September 11th changed the answer. It is not my responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with ALL of it's religions, with ALL of it's different citizens, with all of it's faults. It is time for every Arab-Muslim in this country to determine it for me.

I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a right to know whether or not you love America. Do you pledge allegiance to it's flag? Do you proudly display in front of your house, or on your car? Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation, that He will protect and prosper it?

Or do you pray that Allah with destroy it in one of your "Jihads"? Are you thankful for the freedom that only this nation affords? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this country? Are you willing to preserve this freedom by paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love America? If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start letting ME know about it.

Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding the media at this time with hard facts on your faith, and what hard actions you are taking as a community and as a religion to protect the United States of America. Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the death of the innocent because I worry about who you regard as innocent. And no more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked attacks because I worry about what is unprovoked to you. I am not interested in any more sympathy...I am only interested in action. What will you do for America — our great country — at this time of crisis, at this time of war?

I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN flag in the streets. I want to hear you chanting "Allah Bless America". I want to see young Arab-Muslim men enlisting in the military. I want to see a commitment of money, time, and emotion to the victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole.

The FBI has a list of over 400 people they want to talk to regarding the WTC attack. Many of these people live and socialize in Muslim communities. You know them. You know where they are. Hand them over to us, now!

But I have seen little even approaching this sort of action. Instead I have seen an already closed and secretive community close even tighter. You have disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed security guards at your facilities. You have threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for protection from reprisals.

The very few Arab-Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were defensive and equivocating. They seemed more concerned with making sure that the United States prove who was responsible before taking action. They seemed more concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed towards them in the United States and abroad than they did with supporting our country and denouncing "leaders" like Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and Arafat. If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people then I want chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to back it up. What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good and pure and true when your "leaders" are teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance.

It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if large numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form of the religion. A form that has been demonstrated to us over and over again. A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence, death, and suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around the world. A form whose members defended Johnny Cochran and O. J. Simpson after the latter butchered his wife and murdered an innocent friend. A form whose members (some as young as five years old) are seen day after day, week in and week out, year after year, marching in the streets around the world, burning effigies of our presidents, burning the American flag, shooting weapons into the air. A form whose members convert from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms against the great United States of America, the country of their birth. A form whose rules are so twisted, that their traveling members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name of Islam.

Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because our women proudly show their faces in public rather than cover up like a shameful whore?

Do you and your fellow Muslims hate us because we drink wine with dinner, or celebrate Christmas? Do you and you fellow Muslims hate us because we have befriended Israel, the ONLY civilized democratic nation in the entire middle-east? And if you and your fellow Muslims hate us, then why in the world are you even here?

Are you here to take our money? Are you here to undermine our peace and stability? Are you here to destroy us? If so, I want you to leave. I want you to go back to your desert sandpit where women are treated like rats and dogs. I want you to take your religion, your friends, and your family back to your Islamic extremists, and STAY THERE!
We will NEVER give in to your influence, your retarded mentality, your twisted, violent, intolerant religion. We will NEVER allow the attacks of September 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that which is so precious to us: Our rights under the greatest constitution in the world.

I want to know where every Arab-Muslim in this country stands and I think it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to demand it. A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very constitution that is protecting you and your family. I am pleading with you to let me know. I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow American. But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance and it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand."

Until then ... you worry me.

2007-07-09 07:45:08 · 7 answers · asked by Amanda C 2

I was in 1993 against Yokozuna, brother. Literally, little dude.

I was getting ready to launch the 500lb giant into a bodyslam when his manager Mr. Fuji hired a photographer to throw a fireball into my face, brother. Next thing I know I've dropped my title and I needed help to the back, brother.

I think this is a lot like religion on certain people, brother.

2007-07-09 07:44:41 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-09 07:43:39 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

They keep coming to my door and the two women that come honestly give me the creeps. I don't understand the religion. Are they Christians? What bible do they use?

2007-07-09 07:42:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Aparently you ppl all think I'm closed minded and I don't blame you because I am very frank and used to being close minded, but to just get it out there in the open: I AM open mided. Now after read like tons of answers, I'm ready for some more. Can anyone give me some good books with good arguements (I need it to be more detailed, precise, and in depth) about evolution (written by an evolutionist) and also any titles of basic books that go over evolution and are not in depth?

2007-07-09 07:41:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-09 07:41:48 · 14 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7

When you talk to a theist about their religion how would you describe it? This is how I break it down:

"Hot knife through butter (AKA I've never heard of that before)" 40%
"Brick wall" 30%
"Complete confusion" 15%
"Interesting discussion" 10%
"Come along, children, this is a bad man" 5%

2007-07-09 07:41:34 · 15 answers · asked by vehement_chemical 3

Just wondering, how did y'all end up on this site? What caused you to start answering questions?

2007-07-09 07:38:35 · 23 answers · asked by Drake the Deist 2

there are about 7 million JW's..Don't you think that this is a very low number to claim that JW's are the only ones to survive Armagedon? ..There are million's and millions of Christains on this earth...7 million is a drop in the hat...You should not go around judging others as not having God's favor..

2007-07-09 07:37:46 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am sorry if I made you feel bad, I spent half my childhood in a morom church. My babysitter was mormon. and no I do nor understand why you would worship and pray to joseph smith. in that church there were pictures of him everywherem prayers to say to him and worshipp him. I went back and visted 5 years ago, with that same babysitter, and looked and fear gripped my heart. everything in me was telling me it was wrong and to leave. yes I told these guys I was not interested, they kept commng back. why didnt I call the church? because I never thought of it. they were kids, I do have heart and new they were trying to obey the church the best way they new how. they wasnt even 18 yet. you say you do this because you are worried about our salvation, but what about us worried about your's? you can cut us down and our beliefs but we cant do the same to you? I believe you are wrong and should worshipp the lord our God, not some kid who says he saw an angel and found some tablets.

2007-07-09 07:37:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

You knew that but were afraid the religious bigots would go after you and burn you at the stake.

2007-07-09 07:37:00 · 10 answers · asked by Do not delete. 1

In John 6:53-54, Jesus says:

"I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

Is this literally true?

2007-07-09 07:36:14 · 18 answers · asked by Billybww 4

Does anyone else know and hate Insomniac reincarnate, Insomniac_618 or Insomniac(aka god)?

2007-07-09 07:33:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-09 07:32:53 · 23 answers · asked by THE NEXT LEVEL 5

In response to many who have disagreed, I thought we might continue the discussion.

Dualistic perception is not the Truth; it is an illusion formed by mind and duality can and will be transcended, but to speak of experience as dualistic is to refer to this illusion. Experience, itself, is an illusion formed by mind out of Nothingness, and so mind has no unchanging reference for anything it perceives.

For example, if 'darkness' is never experienced, this doesn't mean that an individual will not be able to see objects by the light of the sun, but light will not be a concept that is held in mind. It will have no meaning because there is nothing to define it as a unique condition. Once darkness is experienced, then both conceptual polarities of light/dark arise in the mind together, each defining the other.

This is how ALL perception takes place because this is how mind forms it's perception, as free-floating, self defining pairs. The reality behind perception is irrelevant.

2007-07-09 07:30:24 · 6 answers · asked by philmeta11 3

2007-07-09 07:29:54 · 17 answers · asked by shinobikidx25 2

I have heard many christian speaks talk about being "Saved" and gaining eternal life. my question is:

1) What do you mean by being Saved?
2) What is eternal life?

2007-07-09 07:27:34 · 24 answers · asked by Neophyte 2

2007-07-09 07:26:26 · 10 answers · asked by iduard 2

I think Yahoo should give points for thumbs up and take away points for thumbs down. Sure people would still give wild answers but I think for the most part people would take the questions more serious and only answer the ones they knew.

2007-07-09 07:25:34 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous