Religion & Spirituality - 29 December 2007

i watched a movie about that and i saw people survive with their boats

2007-12-29 04:20:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know someone with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder) who will not quit smoking, and is therefore constantly ill with bronchitis and pneumonia.

I know of a person with severe arthritis in her legs, who is so crippled by her disease that only surgery will help. Her arthritis would be cured by surgery, completely gone, and she would have a normal life. Yet she refuses.

I find it exceedingly difficult to continue being sympathetic and compassionate to these people, (and others like them) and I find I am distancing myself from them. I may even be a little bitter, because their refusal to help themselves is affecting everyone around them negatively, yet they don't see it.

How do you continue to deal with people who just drag you down with them?

2007-12-29 04:19:59 · 24 answers · asked by iamnoone 7

Do Atheist holidays exist? I would like to invite my family to celebrate something that I believe, just as I attend Christmas, Easter, christenings, etc with them. What are some Atheist celebrations you participate in?

2007-12-29 04:19:01 · 11 answers · asked by Snarf 3

I think that I will seek to simplify my life this year and to spend more time in prayer, reading, and service. What about you?
Peace Be With You,
Debra

2007-12-29 04:18:52 · 14 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

Is going direct a good way? No links, no preachers, no BS.

2007-12-29 04:18:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-29 04:17:06 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please play along, I've been thinking about this for quite some time.

Just imagine that everyone suddenly doesn't believe in God.
(Kind ones, ignorant ones, selfish ones etc.)

Do you believe that there will be a moral degradation without the fear of God? Or do you believe things are going to be better?
Please share your thoughts!


Oh and I've just been told (again) that I'm actually an Agnostic, not Atheist.
http://www.blogthings.com/areyouanatheistagnosticorabelieverquiz/outcome.php

2007-12-29 04:11:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or, are you blindly accepting what someone told you?

Revelation, or revealed religion, is defined in Webster's New World Dictionary as: "God's disclosure to man of Himself." This should read, "God's alleged disclosure to man of himself." For unless God reveals to each of us individually that a particular religion is truly His disclosure to us of Himself, then, by believing that religion, we are not taking His word for it, but we are instead putting our belief in the person or institution telling us it is so. This is what we are doing when we believe in any revealed religion, and that's all Christianity is. It's a revealed religion like many others such as Islam and Judaism.

2007-12-29 04:10:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

If Jesus is the son of GOD, doesn't that mean that the FATHER is GOD.

When Jesus was praying to the FATHER, he was praying to GOD.

The trinity was never known to the Jews, so ONLY the FATHER is GOD.

2007-12-29 04:09:52 · 11 answers · asked by Ash'ari Maturidi 5

1. Be a good person
2. Believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins
3. There is no heaven and hell because there is no God
4. Other

2007-12-29 04:07:45 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-29 04:04:19 · 23 answers · asked by MoPleasure4U 4

2007-12-29 04:01:59 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Pick one, please:

Which is more likely, A or B?

A) I think I'm here because of the process of evolution through natural selection.

B) I think I'm here because Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.

2007-12-29 04:00:13 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man." - Thomas Paine

2007-12-29 03:58:30 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

So... you're driving down a lonely road one evening, scanning through the local radio stations for something to keep you awake. To your surprise, your "seek" button finds a station identified as "KHEL 66.6FM -- The #1 radio station in Hell and the surrounding nether-regions."

What's on the top ten list?

2007-12-29 03:55:15 · 25 answers · asked by marbledog 6

2007-12-29 03:54:51 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you really, reaaallly, do believe in Agape love, then why isn't that love enough? Why do you need the bloody sacrifice and mythology? It seems to me that if Christianity DID believe in the perfect and limitless love, then a perfectly loving sovereign creator could simply extend that love to be received and relationship entered into on its own merit without any "help" from any kind of formula or system of pre-requisite sacrifice...that sounds like human love to me.

2007-12-29 03:54:16 · 21 answers · asked by Mr. Mandala 3

2007-12-29 03:53:31 · 11 answers · asked by Tom C 1

What do people mean when they make this claim? Bad in what way?

2007-12-29 03:53:23 · 28 answers · asked by Eleventy 6

Please, only Jehovah's Witness' answers.

The Watchtower tells you that Jerusalem fell to Babylon in 607 BCE. This began the start of the Gentile Times, and therefore produces the date - through some argument - of 1914 as the end of the Gentile Times.

However, all archaeological evidence and over 10,000 identified Cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia (found in the 1950s) all put the date of the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon in 587 BCE, a full 20 years later. In fact, no scholar today would ever put the date of 607 BCE on the fall of Jerusalem when it is so certain that it could not have been this date.

Is it not true that C.T.Russell initially forgot to consider that there is no year number "0" and the 1914 date originally started with the year of the fall as 606 BCE? Only when C.T.Russell's mistake was realized, they "adjusted" the date of the fall to 607 BCE.

Why has the Watchtower gone to such great lengths to squash the understanding that the 607 BCE date is proven inaccurate?

2007-12-29 03:52:00 · 6 answers · asked by Chris B 3

Or did the pope just butt in?

2007-12-29 03:51:42 · 12 answers · asked by Tom C 1

killing for the name of God.back to the middle ages,leaders and soldiers force other people to follow their religion.they even kill them just to follow

2007-12-29 03:50:25 · 11 answers · asked by thelighthouseartist_0 1

Perhaps He answered "No" or "Wait". In looking back over my life I can honestly say in retrospect that He knew best. Those things I did not receive would have been a hindrance and those things He sent I would not choose have been blessings.
Peace Be With You,
Debra

2007-12-29 03:48:51 · 19 answers · asked by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7

2007-12-29 03:48:38 · 32 answers · asked by KrishanRam(Jitendra k) 3

I would like to know how Buddhists view other religions, specifically how tolerant they are of them. I would also like a clearer view of their view on war and their involvement in wars. If anyone could help me with this, that would be great. If there are any sites out there that can answers these questions besides Buddhanet.net, I would like to know about them as well.

2007-12-29 03:44:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

If so were did the people in the land of Nod come from?

2007-12-29 03:43:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

One that you experienced? Like King Herod who went out & murdered all the boys 2yrs & younger 2000yrs ago.

2007-12-29 03:40:12 · 10 answers · asked by LottaLou 7

2007-12-29 03:39:36 · 15 answers · asked by Tom C 1

Either love for God or another person? And how did that realization affect you?

2007-12-29 03:38:45 · 10 answers · asked by ? 6

When you are alone what is the difference between praying silently and out loud?

2007-12-29 03:38:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous