OK, try this. State your religion, your nationality, and then, as simply as..... read extra notes pls?

Question

As simply as possible, tell me something you believe to be true (anything at all), and then write as briefly as possible, something to convince me that it is true.

Give it a try. Long answers are cool too, its up to you.

cheers : )
J

Nice first answer, but you said nothing to convince me its true. The whole point is I want to see if people can actually argue a point, and so I'm making it easy by saying write about anything. Cheers

Sure, I am a stalker. Once I know your nationality, watch out. That is a really stupid comment. Just answer or don't.

Hmm. This is why I don't bother asking questions that involve any actual thinking. It seems people are either interested in 2 pointless points, being nasty, or are just incapable of writing a coherent and cogent argument.

Baby gurl.. It is a bad joke, go out tomorrow and call the guy next to you at the bus stop a stalker and see if you get a laugh.

If you want something funny, check out some of Eye of Sauron's stuff.

Thank you Rakshas (sorry if I spelled that wrong!). I appreciate your answer.

Answer 1

Christian. Italian & Lithuanian, American. I believe that not all Christians believe that gay people are going to hell. I believe this because I am a Christian, and a lesbian. The Bible does not condemn a loving relationship between two people of the same sex; rather, it condemns promiscuity. I have a lot more on that, but I won't bore you with it right now... ;0)

Answer 2

Hindu, India

Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines. - Mahatma Gandhi

Hindu India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with India....This is the India that patient scholarship is now opening up like a new intellectual continent to that Western mind which only yesterday thought civilization an exclusive Western thing. - Will Durant

Answer 3

You sound like a stalker to me! Shame on you. I am NOT religious, I am white, Something I believe to be true I will give you a list:
1.) I gave birth to my kids.
2.) I have kids.
3.) I am married.
4.) My grandmother's are deceased.
5.) I have 2 sisters, 5 bothers (3 are step)
6.) My mother raised me.
7.) My parents are divorced.
8.) I graduated.
9.) I have 4 dogs, and 2 birds.
10.) I hate bible thumpers.
11.) I was born in Ohio.
12.) My grandfather, great uncle, cousin, and some others in my family are or was when alive Ministers/ Priest.
13.) I used to smoke but recently quit.
14.) I have been in a several churches.
|15.) I shower daily.
16.) Shortly before my grandfather passed away he lost his eye sight.
17.) I am the youngest of all my siblings.
18.) My sister recently got engaged
19.) I work.
20.) Im honest.

I think you get the point so I can stop there. BTW the comment about a "stalker" was a joke. Learn to laugh a bit.

Answer 4

I'm Christian and American

You said long answers were cool, so here ya go.

I used to be Agnositic, I had several experiences that led me to Jesus Christ as my Savior. None of them were events that people would call life changing (No death or hospitalization or anything) They were smaller things.

I actually started going to a local church, before I was converted. I did not go to experience God or to become a Christian. I simply went to church because I thought it would be a good place to find business contacts and I was hoping to find a nice teenager to babysit my small children. I also thought it would be good for my small children to learn what religon was, so that they were not ignorant about it. (I certainly didn't expect them to beleive it.)

I thought the music was wierd, but the people were nice. Then I had some strange things happen outside of church. People began giving me testimonies about God. Several people. I even had one of my customers (not from church) that prayed over an unacceptable contract in front of me and it was accepted. I had other people telling me about their prayers. Strangers were telling me stories. One man told me a story of his healing. These were all people that came to me outside of church. Then I started praying about things. I prayed for faithfully in Jesus name and although there was no logical, reasonable way that the prayers could be answered, they were. One prayer about money actually came true when my company paid me incorrectly. It was a timely mistake that created an exact amount of money I needed by a particular date. Of course, I called my company right away to let them know about the error and they adjusted my next check. However, time was an issue in this particular case and my prayer prevailed.

It took me years, but when I finally accepted Jesus as my Savior I had an unbeleivable feeling in my chest that lasted for days. It was so strange, I couldn't even talk about it to anyone, not even my husband or best friend. There is nothing else that can describe it. It was a phyisical sensation of pressure and warmth. I have never heard anyone else say that they have felt this when they accepted Jesus.

When I became a Christian, my husband was shocked. In fact, I had to take him out to dinner and explain that I was really a beleiver. (He is not, yet). Everyone that knew me before is suprised.

Since the strange experiences I have done a lot of research on Creation Science and that has confirmed for me that the Bible is true. here are some resources.

Creation Science
www.answersingenesis.org
www.icr.org
www.creationworldview.org
www.creationists.org
www.drdino.com

Thanks for an opportunity to share.

Answer 5

Wicca
United States of America

I believe that people who have different religions can get along as long as they respect each other and don't try to aggressively manipulate each other into believing the same way. (Regular religious conversations with no insulting no included.)

My friends are mainly Christian, including Catholics and Methodists, and I've had Islamic friends as well, and we all got along just fine. Respect is the key.

Answer 6

I am a pagan, I am American.

What I believe to be true is that everyone believes something *different* to be true. All you need to do to convince yourself of that is to spend 15 minutes cruising around the religion and spirituality questions! : )

Answer 7

Religion: Submission to The GOD
Nationality: British

I believe in The God.

Nothing else adequately explains life. Lifeless matter can not come to life on its own.

Answer 8

I believe that Jesus taught the truth.
American.

Humans do not have an immortal soul.

Gen. 2:7: “Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.” (Notice that this does not say that man was given a soul but that he became a soul, a living person.)
1 Pet. 3:20: “In Noah’s days . . . a few people, that is, eight souls, were carried safely through the water.” (The Greek word here translated “souls” is psy·khai´, the plural form of psy·khe´.
Gen. 1:20, 21, 24, 25: “God went on to say: ‘Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls* . . . ’ And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. . . . And God went on to say: ‘Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds . . . ’ And God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind and the domestic animal according to its kind and every moving animal of the ground according to its kind.”
Lev. 24:17, 18: “In case a man strikes any soul [Hebrew, ne´phesh] of mankind fatally, he should be put to death without fail. And the fatal striker of the soul [Hebrew, ne´phesh] of a domestic animal should make compensation for it, soul for soul.” (Notice that the same Hebrew word for soul is applied to both mankind and animals.)
Ezek. 18:4: “Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul* that is sinning—it itself will die.”

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Answer 9

Am an HINDU and an INDIAN national.

I believe in in the ability of Humans to adapt and grow out of any given situation based upon their faith in oneself and their religion.

To support my statement I will quote two examples :

First being the 9/11 bombings in the U.S.
people there have overcome that trauma based on their belief in themselves in not bowing down or to be threatened by such incidents and to come out of it even stronger as a community and as individuals. religion also played a major part in this in giving people who believe inner strength and hope to grow out of the given situation.

My second example would be the floods in mumbai on july 26, 2005.... many were killed, stranded, & marooned. but did it affect us ....yes but in a positive sense in people coming closer as a community, religious institutions giving aid to people irrespective of their religion (universaal brotherhood being the base teaching of all religions). and barely 15 days after this was GANESHOTSAVA, the festival celebrating GANESHA, the elephant headed GOD, which was celebrated with no less fervour and zeal and that too not only by one religious community but by the society as a whole. extravagance was checked upon and funds diverted to teh needy and affected. All in all people grew out of the calamity stronger, closer, more humane.

hence my belief in Humans and their capability to survive and not bend down to any situation in life. and for me to have this faith my religion has played an important role in my life.

thanks

RAKSHAS

Answer 10

Atheist, Canadian

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Robert Kern