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hey im jasmine
ive got blue and black hair now
when ive got air in my lungs
and a skateboard in my hand... im happy
i love to skate
and i collect skateboards as well (73 so far)
im an artist...i paint, sew, draw, create ect
as well as that i also make dolls, jewellery, clothes, shoes, bags, hats and just about everything else
I love Piercings! I have got 36 of them
no tatts yet though = no money either
i love riding skateboards from the 1970's
i like spandex pants!
I play guitar and drums
I can juggle, and do lots of other stuff
Im pretty old fashioned and old-school
I love horror, I sleep in a car bed
i like to wear stupid looking hats
i always wear the same jeans
and I definantly don’t take life too seriously
i love ZOMBIES! :D
and i love romance in almost all its forms
I don’t believe in any religion
i dont respect any of it either
...words dont hurt me
I do what i love, and dress how i feel
I pretty much live in a world of my own...
and were all mad here :]
i know a lot about a lot of different things,
so im just hear to give you all advice :]
committedchristian's Advice
Dear caffienetripp, I don't think that God changed from vengeful to loving so much as our understanding of God changed. Jesus showed us, in ways we could understand, what God is like, and he used "God is love." (Which responds to your last line abo...
Dear texashistbuff, Many scripture scholars say this accuracy is a cue that the book of Daniel was not written under the Babylonians, but under the Greeks. Indeed, if you look carefully, you can see where the symbols tell historical events, and wher...
I agree with callynth about having to 'think up" a good reason to explain your behavior. Another clue: if you are tempted to hide the behavior from others, like parents or church ministers, than you really need to consider if it is good. And, to res...
Dear shaine, The way we Catholics see the Bible as holy is that each book has, as it were, two authors. There are the human authors, who used their God-given gifts to write in their own words of what they learned about God, and there is the Spirit w...
The difference between the Christian (Catholic) resurrection and reincarnation is that the resurrected body is still the same person inside. The disciples may not have immediately recognized the risen Christ, but once they did recognize him they were u...
The difference between the Christian (Catholic) resurrection and reincarnation is that the resurrected body is still the same person inside. The disciples may not have immediately recognized the risen Christ, but once they did recognize him they were u...
I hesitate to enter this discussion, because of the level of discourse. However, I still want to make some points. Dear ihategod666, Jesus was more than a carpenter. If he was "just a carpenter," why did those closest to him, his disciples (except...
Dear fau, Yes, suicide is a sin. It is usually the sin of despair, of being unable to have hope in God, in a better future. It is a rejection of life as the gift of God, of looking to God to work things out. And, as redhotchic pointed out, it removes ...
Dear luvbunny14, Doubts are not the opposite of faith. Doubts come when our faith is challenged, but if we embrace more deeply what God is telling us--and what our church, our faith community, tells us--then our faith has a chance to grow. It may also...
Dear captainassassin, The greatest evidence for the truth of our faith is Christianity itself. If God were not behind it, it would have no reason to last a few years beyond it's founder's ignominious death, as Gameliel (Acts 5:34-39). If it were a f...
Dear captainassassin, Naturally, I am talking about the God I know and believe in: the Christian, Catholic Trinity of love.
Dear shaine, Yes, these contradictions are a nuisance. However, unless you take the Bible literally, they are not impossible to deal with. Take two (or more) eyewitnesses to a crime. Their sworn testimony will rarely agree completely. There are diff...
As my nom de plume indicates, I too am a committed Christian, and a Catholic. (Which is a combination not everybody believes possible.) And I believe there are many others out there, but many do not have the confidence in their faith or their knowledge...
I agree that the problem is not religion, but people. As an old saying goes, if every boat you get into makes you seasick, it's not the boat's fault. . . . In other words, people will and do find things to fight over, whether it's religion . . . or sk...
Dear alex3839, C.S.Lewis has an interesting take on hell. I believe it is developed most in his _The Great Divorce_. He describes hell as, ultimately, the persistant rejection of God and everything God can do for you. Such a soul condemns itself to ...
As Catholics, we avoid the circularity of the Word of God is true because God says so/God exists because the Word says so argument this way: We, as a community, remember our experience of God. We continue to experience God daily. The story of that e...
Dear elinthial, I hope you are still here, at least on occassion. Please don't give up on God. God is not an ugly god at all, at least not the one I believe in. God is a god who loves us, who does not give us up for lost even when we strayed and ...
Dear 123nmd, This is an old accusation against the Catholic Church. There may be some truth in it, in that we follow the Letter of James, which stresses that faith alone, apart from works (by which he means some evidence of your intention and conve...
Dear captainassassin, the problem with this assertion is that in undercuts its own meaning. You obviously intend it to be true. But if there is no truth, then neither can it be true, nor can you believe anything to be true, and so all discourse becomes...
Christianity, historically speaking, is male dominated, as were and are almost every culture, institution, and people. That is the reality we must struggle with and deal with. However, it need not be. If we take the Gospel seriously, we will have a cha...
I do not believe that God uses people that way. God loves us, and wants to see us become the best we can. God will not use us for an example, just as Jesus consistently refused to heal anybody just as a test to prove he was God. Jesus only healed when ...
Dear dlong66, No, we do not believe that "Hail, Mary's" will get you forgiveness. Forgiveness only comes through God's grace. We may pray the angelic salutation (see Luke 1:28, 42) to ask Mary to help us, to resist sin, perhaps to come to repentence...
Dear hjk78, God does keep giving chances, as long as there is hope for us to take him up. Peter asked Jesus how often to forgive his brother, seven times (i.e, perfectly)? Jesus answered, "Not seven times, but seventy seven times." (Matt 18:21-22) J...
This is one case where the Bible does not directly answer our questions, because the questions and situations we face are new. But, the principles still apply. First, avoid temptations and the opportunity to fall into sin. If you have ever visited t...
Dear Horses and Jesus7, The point of confirmation is the faith, and your commitment to it, and even more God's commitment to you, and the confirmation of what he began in you at baptism. Unfortunately, for better or worse, it also means that we have...
This question reminds me of that old joke. A man offers a woman a million dollars if she would sleep with him. She considers it and accepts. He then offers her ten dollars for the same thing, and she gets all huffy, and shoots back, "What do you think ...
Dear ravireuben, It is true that we have a male image, the Father, for the first person of the trinity, but that does not mean God is male. We also use female images for God: in the parable of the lost coin (Luke 15: 8-10), the image for God is the...
Can you get to heaven without dying? Not on your own efforts. True, God took at least two people to heaven directly (Enoch, Gen 5:23 and Elijah, 2 Kg 2:11) and possibly Mary, if you accept the Catholic doctrine of the Assumption. However, that is not ...
Many Bibles are very similar. That is, as long as they are translations rather than paraphrases. I find the New Revised Standard Version, the New Jerusalem, the New American Bible, among others to be good. The major differences are in the footnotes. ...
Dear Jacob, A few random points about prayer. 1. The desire to pray is itself a form of prayer. When we cannot pray, we do our best, and trust that God will accept our desire and intention and give us what we need. 2. It helps to use familiar ...
Dear bananagirl92, Most of these answers say something of what I would tell you: Satan presses hardest when you are turning away from evil to good, that God will and does support you in temptation, even when it seems he is nowhere near, that you rea...
Dear prkswllflwr, This argument that religion is a crutch for those afraid to face reality is an old one. It depends on the assumption that, in fact, God does not exist, but is a creation of human minds who fear to face reality unaided by a greater ...
I'll take this from the other side. I presume ravireuben is speaking of Qoheleth or Ecclesiastes when he says all is worthless. Well, in that book, I found only two minor positive points: companionship (as in 4:10-12) and enjoying the moment (5:17-19)....
Just another thought. It came up how the Catholic and Protestant Bibles differ. The Catholics (and Orthodox) have about seven more books and parts of books in the Old Testament than the Protestants (and Jews). Sometimes these are included as "Aprocryph...
In Latin, Saturday is still called "Sabbath" (I forget the exact spelling). We interpret the third (some number it the fourth) commandment to keep one day each week as holy, a day with God, kept apart from unnecessary business and other distractions. H...
Dear monicacharlene, Just an aside about _The Da Vinci Code_: that book is about as far from historical as anything I have ever read. From the first page, including that page of "Historical Facts" or whatever its title is, it is full of lies, or (at...
Dear funadvice, I beg to differ. Confirmation is more than "just a physical symbol of your beliefs." It is an encounter among you, the Church, and God. In Confirmation, the Holy Spirit is sent on the person being confirmed to strengthen his or her s...
gabi, I think the first step in being a Christian is to encounter Jesus Christ and want to change your life. One way to do this is to believe in God. Good so far. Now, what are you going to do about it? If you truely believe that God wants to save u...
Dear angel4u, Not so. Catholics are encouraged to go directly to Jesus. We still believe, as Moses said some 3.75 thousand years ago, "Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets!" (Numbers 11:29) It is not God's will or the Church's teachin...
Dear hollycandycane, I respectfully beg to differ. While the Catholic Church does have extensive doctrinal development, they look back to the Scriptures, cherish them, read them at every liturgy and sacrament. They are the truest guide to all we do....
useless_toy, While I believe the Bible authors were inspired, I find it hard to hold that God told them, word by word, what to say. If so, why are there errors of fact in the Bible? In Mark 2:26, Jesus tells a story of David "when Abiathar was High...
This is a tough question to answer. First, I think that the Bible teaches correctly what G-d wanted it to teach, how human beings are saved and restored to a right relationship with G-d and themselves and the rest of creation. To do this, G-d inter...
As I read it, Cain gave grudgingly, with hatred and anger in his heart, as shown by his response: when G-d accepted Abel and his gife, Cain killed him. Abel, on the other hand, gave freely and in love, from the best of his produce. If you had a birt...
The Bible is not of one word about marriage and divorce. True, in the Old Testament, marriage allows polygamy and divorce, by the man, but in the New Testament, Jesus "updates" this and returns to what G-d really intended: marriage is permanent to deat...
As a Catholic, we believe that confirmation is important for two reasons. First, it is our own personal affirmation of the commitment that was made for us when we were baptized, typically as an infant. We could not ask to enter the Church for ourselves...
I read the _Celestine Prophecy_, and I found the earlier principles more or less true, but there was a progression: each principle was less true, fit my experience less well as I went along. About the fifth or sixth principle, I was beginning to ask ho...
Jesus is a given name, for example among Hispanics. If you had more than one Jesus in a group, wouldn't they be Jesuses? Compare to, say, Peters or Johns or Maxes. But, as far as your own name goes, you get to do what you want. Just don't expect others...
Earthquakes happen, scientists believe, through the shifting of continental plates. The surface of the Earth consists of a dozen or so major plates, like most of North America, or Africa plus nearby ocean bottoms. These plates float on the mantle like ...
I don't think you are ready for a baby. A baby is permanent. A baby needs, deserves, a mother and a father, who are committed to each other, who are able to support the child's need as he or she grows up. A baby deserves to be loved for the gift of the...
Whatever version you use, make sure it is a translation, not a paraphrase. I like the Revised New Standard Version for study: it is quite scholarly and has nice notes. It also is relatively ecumenical: Anglican and Lutheran origins, but approved (for s...