How do we pick and choose whose questions we will answer, how do we choose what religion to follow?

Question

Is it predistination you clicked on this question or free will. Are you addicted to the person who asks this question, and are we sharing the same circle of addiction reading one anothers questions and answers of about 20 to 40 people in the same circle? Is this a religious group even tho most of us don't believe in God? Does there need to be God for it to be a religion, or can we just be a spiritual group who looks to questions on yahoo answers that make us think and that is our act of spirituality?

How do we choose our friends? How do we choose who we love? How do we choose best answer when our questions are awesome and get 20 to 40 outstanding answers, do we just become 360 friends with those people and thank them for their contribution?

Why can't we pick more than one best answer, what if there are several?

Do we click on questions on yahoo answers and answer knowing our answer will be read, and with the knowledge we are not alone in this endeavor?

Answer 1

I guess we put our invisible "feelers" out and see if someone who captures our interest rubs us the right way or not, after we get to know them a little better. Yes, it is a comfort to know that we are not alone in our questioning of the higher power that so very many believe in while we do not. I don't do any 360 type activities. I only have my YA and email correspondence to offer. Anything more would be a problem for me in my personal life. Savvy?
How flattering for you to have so many YA concubines.

Answer 2

I can only answer for myself so here goes... I pick the question on a number of factors including what it is about, who is asking it & a lot of times how it is stated.

How do we choose which religion we will follow.. hopefully one will do what feels right to them and choose that path and not take one that is handed to them by someone else.

I had freewill to click on your question. I could have passed it by if I had chosen too. I don't answer every question asked.

I don't see friendship as an addiction. I see it as a show of respect and liking that I choose to go and answer a friend's questions. The fact that a lot of us don't believe in God is inconsequencial to the fact that we like each other for who we are which is why we prefer to answer each others questions.

I choose my friends by many standards too many to list but the main ones are trust, respect, a good sense of humor & a willingness to accept me for who I am without asking me to change. The same goes with whom we love but the feelings are much more deeply embedded.

If I have too many really good answers I find it hard picking just one... I then usually put it to a vote although that is not something I really care to do. I don't do this for 'best answers' I do it because I like the program but most of all I like the people I've met here. It's the people that make this worthwhile.

Answer 3

Why do predestination and free will have to be exclusive? Aren't we all addicted to something? A religious group typically adheres to an agreed set of beliefs. Have the 20 or 40 people in that same circle made such an agreement? There are many religious groups that don't believe in God, or have alternate definitions of God. Are Buddhist, or Hindu's less religious?

I can only speak for myself, but me, I choose my friends on the basis of reciprocity, and those who I love, as well. I choose answers that resonate with me, or that make me laugh. I have not yet made any 360 friends, so I have no frame of reference to answer your question.

Yahoo determines and set the rules on voting for answers. Any request to change these guidelines would be better directed to the staff at Yahoo.

Again, I can only speak for myself, and I choose questions and answers that intrigue me or entertain me.

Namaste'

Answer 4

"How do we pick and choose whose questions we will answer"
I pick them thus:
I attempt to discern that, if i answer any particular question, will a difference have been made? if no difference I may answer it for the increase in my own enjoyment!

"how do we choose what religion to follow?"
Isn't that answered by your next statement?

"Is it predistination you clicked on this question or free will."
That is a statement (a question with a period¿)

"Are you addicted to the person who asks this question, and are we sharing the same circle of addiction reading one anothers questions and answers of about 20 to 40 people in the same circle?"
Birds of a feather...

"this a religious group even tho most of us don't believe in God?"
is that so?


"...and that is our act of spirituality?"
I love to see people learn.

"How do we choose our friends?"
birds of feather....

"How do we choose who we love?"
birds of a feather...

"those people and thank them for their contribution?"
birds of a feather...


"Why can't we pick more than one best answer, what if there are several?"
I've wondered why yahoo doesn't let us rank the answers...
1 2 3 3 3 6 7 7 9 etc..., haven't you?

"we are not alone in this endeavor?"
ya, think?


OH,,,
was I predestined to click on spell check and you not?
or was that free will?
and then my spell checking click go into and unending loop¿
coincidence or fate?

oh well, onward - anothers question for anothers day.

Answer 5

That is a whole lot of questions, there buddy! Some of them are mine - but I will share, LOL. Like the one about choosing the best answer.

I dont agree with the predestination avenue, I just clicked on the main question, because it intersted me. But, I couldnt help wonder, if you were just making a statement or if you really want an answer to all of that.

I do agree that the questions are making us think and act on our own spirituality. And, isnt that the purpose of joining in with this group?

Answer 6

It could certainly be a spiritual group. I like that idea.

And for me personally, after about six-seven years of searching hard, I have settled on working between two religions partially and a spiritual practice. Mostly reading, talking to people, experimenting with various ideas, switching paradigms, and figuring out what I believed before settling on anything. And, due to the nature of my spiritual practice, though these two religions remain in some way my backbone, I continue to experiment with ideas and concepts and even gods (or lack thereof) from other religions.

Answer 7

It seems to me that people put a lot more thought into just about every other choice in their lives--from which car to buy to which question to answer--than they do when it comes to religion. Mostly, it is not a choice so much as a habit or family tradition. This always bothers me: how could there be a more important issue than the very meaning of life and what, if anything, happens after we die, and yet people put more thought into deciding which TV show to watch than they put into deciding which religious dogma they choose to follow.

Answer 8

You make me smile Jim! ;) I always try to answer your questions, and if I happen to miss some, I go back and answer them later. I suppose I am addicted to your questions and your eloquence, it's making me think before I type a little more. I wish I had some better questions to ask myself, but somehow I work best as an asker in the infamous polls and surveys category.

I click on questions that intrigue me, that's why I started clicking on yours :) I have also had the 'more than one best answer' dilemma, but I try to send messages to those I did not choose, if they are available.

I click on questions with full knowledge of the impact of my answers.

:)

Answer 9

I read each question. Most of the time I see the question isn't serious, and pass over it, but then a question will resonate with me is some way, and I feel compelled to try to answer it, for me it has become a sort of Ministry.

Answer 10

I pick questions I know I can answer.

I pick a religion that I know exists, because it gives me the answers that I seek

Just like a person will pick a best answer that answers thier question how they thought it should be answered whether it is right or not.