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David H
Started writing at 17. After changing styles several times I now try to boil an experience down to the essence so that if the word I appears in my poem the readers think themselves. I have travled widely in the US having been in 40 of the lower 48 states. aside from playing literati on Yahoo my biggest amount of time at leisure is spent creating quizzes puzzles and other word games.
Christians - if you could only say one word to people to share your faith what would it be?
Mine is Repent.
17 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoPassages or prayers in bible for drug addiction treatment. Serious answers only.?
Enrolled in a drug rehab for addiction to pain meds and Valium.
30 day blackout -just me and the bible with counseling (NA) daily.
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoWhat is the furthest you have traveled for a show or concert?
As an art history student I went to Boston for an Art Show. ( I am from the suburbs of Philly in Pennsylvania).
5 AnswersPolls & Surveys7 years agowhat is the largest age difference that you have had a relationship with, I am not counting hookups?
Just out of high school I dated a girl who was 25, I thought she was a teen. It was over a month before I found out her age.
3 AnswersSingles & Dating7 years agoJohn 1:1,2 in the Beginning there was the word and the word was with god and the word was god (KJV) What about the Holy spirit ?
There is no mention of "in the beginning" should we take this to mean that the Holy spirit came about only after the sacrifice of Jesus? I am a bit confused about this.
15 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoAre those who are transsexual (Having gender reassignment surgery) and have relations with members of their birth gender Gay or straight?
I personally can see arguments for both sides of the issue .What do you folks feel?
10 AnswersLesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender7 years ago2nd Samuel I:26 Wonderful was thy love to me, passing the love of women what was the original Greek translation of love?
I have the feeling that the correct form is philos but I would rather back it up with actual scholarship than "a feeling"
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoRichard Dawkins vs theists who will finally give in?
When God told the Jews it is a Mitzvot (good Deed) to question, I can picture him telling Christ "But that Richard Dawkins,oy is he going to give me trouble."
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoPoem needs an update, any ideas?
The Broker
He walks chest out, slicing through humanity
like a ship through fog.
"Power walker" some say. He ignores them
or just doesn't hear, too busy working the market like a
Tom Smothers yo-yo.
Miles above him
computer terminal blue becomes copy paper white
transforming rapidly to US.Mint green, black.
Rain, wind-whipped, falls harder than the Nekai Average.
Stung by icy pellets, he clutches his umbrella
A sword.
He does not turtle into his overcoat;
will not rub his tender cheek,
refuses to acknowledge any power
greater than his.
1 AnswerPoetry7 years agoBible colleges v secular schools. Is the fact that it is aligned with a church make it worth extra $?
In Ohio for example is a highly respected place of higher learning known as Wittenburg University. Is that to say that you couldn't get the same level of education at say University of Cincinnati?
5 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoWith Noah on the big screen,what religious figure would you next want to see a film about?
For me I would love to see a film about the life of Simon whom Jesus called Peter.
14 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agocan one recind an appeal?
After taking the quiz given by the answers board I found that I was "chatting" without realizing it I had already appealed and don't feel like losing another 10 points.
4 AnswersYahoo Answers7 years agoFor religious folks- a travel q. What shrine or monument of a religious nature would you recommend a visit to (in the U.S.) ty.?
I have been to the This is the Place Monument Outside of SLC already.
I know of the Christ of the Ozarks and the Grotto of the Redemption in Arkansas and Iowa respectively and am looking forward to visiting both of them.
2 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoIf your faith has healed you is repeated several times in the bible, why are people so down on Christian Science?
Just wondering.
4 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoWho is Billy G? re: yesterday's Q "can you pray away the gay" Fireball Mentioned a Biily G I have never heard of him?
Can anyone give a link to things that he has written?
Thanks folks.
4 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoHot topic lately: Can one "Pray Away the Gay"?
I say you are gay or straight just like you are blonde or brunette. It is part of the DNA.
What is your take, folks? Please include biblical references for your arguements if possible.
14 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoExcluding marriages, births of children etc. what is the happiest you remember being . Roughly how old were you?
My happiest memory is also one of my earliest recalling a brilliant sunny day on my grandfather's farm. I had gotten into the vegetable garden, and I was laying on my back looking at the sky through the tomato plants ( which are dark green on the underside of the leaves).
7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agochurch that has a divorcee I am friends with vs one where everyone is coupled off?
If both are bible believing churches, is there anything wrong with attending the church with the divorcee (1 kid and he seems to be not an incredible amount of baggage) in hopes of developing a fuller Christian (read celibate) relationship. I want to get to know her better but there seems to be a connection.
3 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agoIf "this above all else to thine own self be true" can it be incorporated into Christian Life?
It comes from Polonius' Advice to Laertes in Hamlet and is one of my favorite lines in the play.
"This above all else, to thine own self be true and it follows as night the day that thou canst not be false to any other man"
Can one be true both to oneself and the Lord at the same time?
4 AnswersReligion & Spirituality7 years agopoetry contest entry advice?
I have two poems to choose from. The first entitled "For an Artist Battling Depression" is frankly geared toward an academic audience.
The other poem is a simple poem about my niece at makes people laugh when I do it at readings.
Which would you reccommend?
3 AnswersPoetry7 years ago