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Why do the main religions require followers to pray?

If their idol is so great, surely it would know the prayers thoughts and take that as devotion....... or is this praying business another tact to make the followers think they are doing something...

naomi24

Young earth Creationism

Does anyone here believe the earth was created by God around 6000 years ago?

oldnitro

Non believers

Those people on here who are non believers, if you were true believers previously, what caused you to reject the notion of God and religion

FranziPantz

What type of Scientist...

I'm writing a story in which a scientist finds her way to the realm of the dead. The realm is a place that exists "behind" our world, on another plane of existence. One accesses this place...

oldnitro

Does anyone think that it could be possible there might be an afterlife that has nothing to do with God or religion? because it has always seemed to me that if there is nothing then it has all been a...

ll_billym

Can religion tell us more than science?

What we believe doesn't in the end matter very much. What matters is how we live.... The last paragraph from the link below. A very well written article by the BBC that has not made my view even...

chakka35

Scanner fault discovered - remedy required.

Further to my scanner query below, I now realise that I used to scan for attaching to emails using ControlCentre, but ControlCentre is no longer there. How do I get it back? Thanks.

Dollie

what have we seen on the horizon tonight?

Four lights in a row across....HUGE, VERY POWERFUL lights - appeared to be perfectly round in shape, exactly the same brightness and equally spaced apart. Not in the sky...... but on the horizon I...

RATTER15

Following on from the >>God has been evicted from cosmology . . .<< thread.

OK, imagine this: It has been proven beyond any doubt with categoric proof that there is no Gods, anywhere or ever has been. even al the religious leaders worldwide have accepted this. What now? How...

wildwood

Wind power.

Following on from Flob's Q.... There appears to be resistance to wind mills due to noise and sight. So why do they have to be so big?? A standard half size one could be mass produced that would cut...

quizgirl

Box Brownie

During a recent clear out I came across my dad's old Box Brownie camera. Does any one know if I could get any film for it from anywhere at all? Has everyone gone digital, and is film now thought of as...

sarah-london

Spell candle?

I recently had a tarot reading & the lady I saw there thought it would be good for me to burn a 'soul mate' spell candle (which she gave free). Just wondering what I should expect & how long...

Cindylou41

The Clock!!!!

Very strange, but over the last 3 weeks or so, nearly every time I look at my computer, my desk phone, my mobile phone and the TV clock, it has shown double numbers i.e. 14:14 or 22:22 or 19:19. It's...

raghavv

Current Flow and electron flow direction

Dear Sir/Madam, Why is the current flow in any circuits or in general, indicated opposite to the direction of motion of electron even though the flow of electrons is the one responsible for the...

billandhiscat

Got to be British humour ?

Extract from the British Naval Records, (undated). Message received by an American vessel headed South West, "We would advise that you alter your course 15 deg westerly in order to avoid a...

Butterflies61

Were Adam and Eve merely fictional persons?

The Genesis account in the Bible tells us Adam was the first human creature and Eve, the first woman was his wife.

flobadob

Would you wish for heaven on earth?

With the chance of hell hereafter. Would you like to give up all of life's luxuries so as to enjoy the fruits of other lives?

Booldawg

are some people not suceptible to seeing ghosts?

I ask this because my in-laws house is (according to them) haunted by a small girl. LOL, I put this down to their love of whisky. Stayed there several times and been up and down the stair all hours of...

joko

religious zealots...why do they feel the need to try to convert?

if they are so convinced they are right, so smug that theyve got life sussed and are totally happy with that...why waste so much time an energy trying to convince other? especially when they are met...