Religion & Spirituality - 10 September 2007

what do they need exactly?

2007-09-10 08:50:37 · 20 answers · asked by slopoke6968 7

‘I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man’s place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.’ - Bertrand Russell.

2007-09-10 08:50:09 · 30 answers · asked by Ron 2

I mean, if he's just going to end up smiting someone, why allow them to be born in the first place?

2007-09-10 08:49:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 08:49:19 · 18 answers · asked by lindsey p 5

2007-09-10 08:47:36 · 4 answers · asked by Jed 7

2007-09-10 08:46:30 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 08:45:38 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it simply freedom from anxiety, stress, etc, or is it more than that? Have you experienced "peace which passeth all understanding"? What does it feel like?

Does spiritual peace stay with you all the time (when you are living by divine law), or do you feel it only when you do certain things? (And what are those things?)

Have there been times when you have felt an amazing sense of peace as a form of comfort when you were distressed?

I'm interested in understanding the experiences of all religious people in regards to spiritual peace.

I'm trying to fathom the fundamental principles behind gaining (and keeping) this feeling. Is it possible to feel it constantly?

2007-09-10 08:42:42 · 29 answers · asked by MumOf5 6

If you wished to, how would you go about it?

2007-09-10 08:37:40 · 17 answers · asked by Lin Li 4

Can a christian take the bible seriously, but not literally?

2007-09-10 08:33:56 · 21 answers · asked by 6th Finger 2

Genesis 1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heavens & the earth.

John1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made b Him...

So, these verses prove that the Mormons, the Jehovah witnesses & the Muslims have a different Jesus than the Jesus Christ of Nazareth of the Gospels.

2007-09-10 08:28:06 · 44 answers · asked by LottaLou 7

Just to let you know, I am an atheist. If we really DO have 'free will', then an omniscient god is logically excluded. The logical fallacy lies in the premise that if god is omniscient, all outcomes are already known to god... everything that you think, decide and do... and everything that you WILL think, decide, and do.

For an omniscient being, all of existence over all of time is laid out as a tapestry before him... past, present and future, down to the smallest detail of material, of thought and of deed, and all is constantly in his awareness. There is no past, present and future from that perspective... there is only an eternal 'now'.

If that is the case, since god already knows everything that will happen, then everything is already decided... and as we go along through life, we are merely doing what has already been seen by god. Since god knows and sees everything that will happen, NOTHING that we think or do can be contrary to what god already sees and knows. We might THINK we have free will... but since we are merely acting out what god already sees and knows, this can be no more than an ILLUSION of free will.

Put another way, if you come to a point of decision, you have no choice but to take the path that god already knows you will take... there is no other option. That works all the way down the path of cause-and-effect... and, along the way, it even casts doubt on the validity of the concept of cause and effect. I don't want to get into that, though... it makes my hair hurt.

So, imagine that since before time began, since before the universe was created, god has 'known' that you would come to a point of decision at some spatial and temporal coordinate, and that faced with the possible paths A and B, you would take path A.

Now, during the course of your life, you arrive at that spatial and temporal coordinate where this choice exists. You evaluate the potential outcomes, and you have it in your head that you have 'free will', and thus, you are free to choose between path A and path B. However, since god is 'omniscient', and god 'knows' that you will take path 'A', then path B IS NOT an option... it IS NOT a matter of choice... it is a 'NECESSITY'. OF NECESSITY, you WILL take path A. Not 'must'... not 'can'... WILL take path A. You DO NOT have a choice. Path B is NOT an option... it is not even a POSSIBILITY. The best that you can achieve is the ILLUSION that you are free to choose.

2007-09-10 08:25:46 · 35 answers · asked by Uliju 4

I started going to church and it has been about a month now, I asked my boyfriend to go to church with me and he doesn't want to go. He use to like church stuff and all but noe he doesn't want to go. I really want him to go with me but he refuses. Is this bad? What should I do?

2007-09-10 08:25:41 · 21 answers · asked by lizbeth 2

Can someone explain to me why there are black mormons when the religion has racist beliefs?

2007-09-10 08:25:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 08:20:18 · 17 answers · asked by Lin Li 4

I am a firm believer and I am just curios what would make some people not, I am not here to try and judge I just would like to know. Was it your upbringing, a bad life, and unanswered prayer, or something different??

2007-09-10 08:17:08 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is happened to me many times. I am beginning to see that there is a lesson here for me. The first lesson is that their problem is not about me. The second lesson is that I can't change anyone else, only myself and my reactions. The third lesson is that people who do this regularly are hurting and being triggered in some way and since I too know hurt and being triggered, I should try to be understanding (this one is very hard for me). And yet another lesson is to not allow those people to be abusive towards me and put up boundaries when I feel it is necessary. Have you discovered any other lessons from having this experience? Thanks for sharing.

2007-09-10 08:17:07 · 19 answers · asked by NONAME 5

I'm curious to see what people on both sides of the argument think of this example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

2007-09-10 08:16:48 · 15 answers · asked by QuestionGuy2004 3

2007-09-10 08:16:05 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean did God ever appear to Muhammad or did he only meet with the spirit? Can you please provide a quote if you know of one that would answer this?

Thank you.

2007-09-10 08:15:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 08:11:02 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am currently going through a separation and it has brought alot of pain and anguish to the forefront. I have given up alcohol and drugs because i want to feel this pain. And I am experiencing some really powerful and deep insights after these boughts of pain. I would like to and have the complete ability to spend hours in meditation and prayer, self reflection..and I hear the voices of my parents telling me that its not good to isolate myself and such. Well it's not like I am going off to the mountain tops of India. I dont have kids or anything. I am off work for a while. And I just want to go into the pain and really feel it and find out what i am made of. But I hear those voices saying i am running from the world. But am not. Anyone have an opinion? Thank you

2007-09-10 08:09:59 · 21 answers · asked by lightlytread 2

My question is: '"What do u think would happen if we combined all relgions in to just one singler belief'"?
Also my other question is: What relgion do u follow and explain why you choose that particular relgion e.g, was you brought up with that relgion and had no choice???

2007-09-10 08:08:36 · 31 answers · asked by Steelclaw 2

Or would you deny Allah?

2007-09-10 08:06:07 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

The role of Muhammad as the last prophet was to formalize and clarify the faith and purify it by removing ideas which were added in error, then does this mean that god originally made a mistake? And if it was the people that were mistaken then how do you know the people are not mistaken yet again? How can the Quran claim to be the truth when it obviously plagiarized the bible.

(BTW I'm not christian)

2007-09-10 08:05:08 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-10 08:03:18 · 14 answers · asked by Radiator 4

2007-09-10 08:02:36 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

why didn't god just send him to one of the billions of other planets in the universe? you know, one of the billions of places in the universe without life, where he would have nobody to tempt. why would god send satan to earth, where he could steer so many people away from worshipping god?

2007-09-10 07:59:40 · 15 answers · asked by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5

"Them" being with St. Peter and the Catholic Church.

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2007-09-10 07:55:58 · 24 answers · asked by wwhy 3

I'm just curious to see how many people are posting to R+S from work. And if so, don't you have anything better to do? I don't and no one wants to talk religion at work.

2007-09-10 07:55:27 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous