What do you feel weighs heavier: animal rights or religious rituals/customs?

1 Answer

Answer :

answer:I’ll consider animal rights when animals present them to me. I’ll consider rituals/customs when those that perform them can empirically demonstrate the benefit out “weighs” the cost.

Related questions

Description : What do you know about the religious condemnation of homosexuality?

Last Answer : Ridiculous!

Description : What are Jews views on the after life and how does it affect the way they live?

Last Answer : My understanding is that Jews don’t believe in the afterlife. I hope I am wrong.

Description : Do you have any suggestions for how to research my Jewish ancestry?

Last Answer : Just a shot in the dark, but maybe ask this question of a local rabbi? There might be some insight that they could come up with to help you. There was a lot of searching for any living relatives going on after the Holocaust, there may be devices in place to trace.

Description : How do I interpret a letter I received?

Last Answer : Welcome to Fluther. Was it typed or handwritten? Do you know anyone who lives in Denver?

Description : What exactly is Purim?

Last Answer : It is from the Book of Esther, which remembers the Biblical reference to the plot to exterminate the Jews. www.jewfaq.org/holiday9.htm will give you an incredible amount of information about it ... a good reference point. It is also quite informative when relating parallels to the Nuremberg trials.

Description : Any suggestions for my 18th anniversary?

Last Answer : answer:Ideas: *an ipod with 18 meaningful songs-Can be engraved for the event *Kindle with 18 meaningful books on it. (This can be personalized) As for the Chai symbol itself, there are some nice menorahs ... gifty guy options with the symbol (no nice watch--but in NYC maybe you'd have better luck)

Description : In New York, how do you celebrate 1 day at the end of Succot?

Last Answer : Which New York as there are many?

Description : Jews: Whatcha doin for Pesach? Non-Jews: Want to learn about Passover?

Last Answer : This year I may throw caution to the winds, and hide the Apfikomen.

Description : Fellow Christians have you ever been to your elder brothers Messianic Jews worship places?

Last Answer : Messianic Jew is an oxymoron.

Description : What does it mean to be a "Jew"?

Last Answer : Going to the movies on Christmas?

Description : How many bar mitzvahs are there in the USA every year?

Last Answer : AskMoses.com?

Description : How did mah jong become popular with Jewish women?

Last Answer : …That’s nice….

Description : Can you be 1/2 Jewish?

Last Answer : Actually, Jewish-ness is passed from the mother. i’m being serious here. also, these days, “being Jewish” is more a socio-cultural thing than a religious thing for many Jewish people. didn’t want to drop a hard J there.

Description : Who is celebrating the Blessing Of The Sun?

Last Answer : Here’s a link

Description : Does anyone know any Christians who keep kosher?

Last Answer : Christians believe that Christ fulfilled the law of Moses. So, while Christ himself never ate ham people celebrating Christmas and Easter often do… I’m sure there are still non-Jewish people who follow the guideline, hell when I eat hot dogs I do too, but it isn’t for religious reasons.

Description : Jewish view on rosaries, totems?

Last Answer : I’m not Jewish but i have a friend who is Seventh Day Adventist. They view jewelry and charms as false idols. I’ve never understood the connection. Are you worshipping these items? No? Then how does that violate the rules that are dictated in the ten commandments?

Description : How will you observe yom kippur?

Last Answer : Yummm, smoked herring…

Description : One litre of cold air weighs heavier than the dry air (1 Litre) because of the (a) Increased number of collisions between the molecules (b) Increased number of molecules at low temperature (c) Greater energy of molecules at high temperature (d) Lower energy of molecules at high temperature

Last Answer : Ans:(b)

Description : Do you have any sweet rituals or jokes with any of your adult children still?

Last Answer : When I go to a movie with my daughter, if we there is a preview for something we’d like to see, we sort-of high five and wiggle our fingers. We’ve done this since she was 5. :-)

Description : Does anyone include their unborn kids in holiday rituals?

Last Answer : answer:I can't remember if we did or not? We would certainly have bought some presents for our baby on the way. I think I would have put and bean' or whatever on the Christmas cards too. I think ... fate. Which is sort of silly, but there would be a part of me that would be concerned about that.

Description : When you were a child, did you have any favourite family rituals?

Last Answer : answer:Every Thanksgiving at my grandparents, we would all gather in the basement after the meal and have dessert. We'd set up their slide projector and all look at old family photos while eating ... looking for more daily family rituals/parenting stuff. I guess I have my grandmother on my mind.

Description : Do you have any rituals that you do once you get home from a trip?

Last Answer : Call Mom. I’m almost 50, but it’s important to her to know that I’ve arrived safely home from a trip.

Description : What strange traditions or rituals of any culture have you ever seen or heard?

Last Answer : A religion out of the middle east that consumes the flesh and blood of its leader every time it meets. The cannibalism is their highest sacrament.

Description : What manhood/womanhood induction rituals do the modern, western societies utilize?

Last Answer : answer:Not really. We have milestones like getting your license, but it hardly ushers you into the world of adulthood. College has easily become prolonged high school for many, increasing the delayed adolesence so many have ... sure if I'm an adult (or if I want to be, by this society's standards).

Description : Rational religion' stressing allegorical meanings + 'emotional science' inventing rituals - What is the potential of such an approach?

Last Answer : I am disturbed by having this be an either/or kind of situation - there is no reason to align science with the status of religion because it would lead to a different kind of fundamentalism and as ... but we don't have to screw around with the institution of science in order to encourage that.

Description : What rituals do you follow during the holidays, or what have you ritualized?

Last Answer : answer:Other than making a few traditional' family recipes I am on the other side of years of huge family/child raising must do's for the holiday season. Oh, and taking Xmas pics of the pets! ... daughter and her boyfriend over for a gift exchange & hangout. Simplicty is where it's at these days!

Description : What do you think about the importance of rituals for children?

Last Answer : I know structure is necessary in children’s life and rituals are all about structure – so, I don’t see a problem with rituals for children..just depends on what they’re about. Mostly, the rituals my kids are aware of are birthdays, deaths, protests and weddings.

Description : Sleeping rituals?

Last Answer : i deff. crash as soon as i hit the pillow. i like to keep a “sleeping log” as i put it, a journal of when i go to sleep, if i wake up in the night , my dreams and when i wake. it’s interesting to look back on.

Description : Fluther Parents. Will you share your bedtime rituals?

Last Answer : I read them a story or have them read me a story. Then I act like I'm gonna kiss them on the cheek and pretend to miss and say Oh no, I missed .. then on the third try I kiss em on the ... before bed and they ask for me to do that every night now.. It does not, however, work on my wife.. XD

Description : Do you have any odd rituals you perform with inanimate objects?

Last Answer : I have a Dwight Shrute bobble head whose head I bobble on occasion…just to make him feel like he has purpose in this world….. @asm Yeah Dwight’s the bomb! I have never answered a response from above, it just doesn’t feel right. It’s as if I know what you’re going to say and I respond to that…

Description : Special teeth cleaning tools and rituals?

Last Answer : I have an Oral-B rechargeable toothbrush, it is fucking amazing.

Description : What Daily (Spiritual or Meaningful) Rituals do You Particpate In?

Last Answer : Having coffee with my husband every morning calling my mom every morning emailing my daughter every morning when I do not see her calling my son every day (very briefly, promise) Having a solitary cup of tea with a book

Description : Do you have any eating rituals associated with a particular food?

Last Answer : I don’t have any eating rituals, but I do have an eating disorder. I am genetically wired to be incapable of completing a meal without leaving a remnant of it on my clothing.

Description : What are your “rituals” when watching your favorite tv show/ movie?

Last Answer : eat ice cream:))

Description : Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda, Explanation of the sacrificial rituals

Last Answer : Find the incorrect pair from set B' and write the correct ones: Set A' Set B' ( ... Rules of reciting mantras (d) Atharvaveda Rules of grammar

Description : Why did Hadrian ban somw Jewish rituals?

Last Answer : Feel Free to Answer

Description : Which religion features a strict social caste system and teaches that people must perform certain rituals to be reincarnated in a higher form?

Last Answer : Answer this question…Hinduism

Description : A bisj such as the one shown here was used for Rituals by a people who live in?

Last Answer : New Guinea

Description : What are some examples of Jewish rituals?

Last Answer : Washing the dead before burial. Circumcising baby boys on the 8th day after birth. Lighting candles at the start of the Sabbath. The bride circling the groom 7 times at the start of a wedding. On ... bread, removing two smallish balls of dough and tossing them into the back of the oven to burn.

Description : Buddhism lingered on in Swat where it developed into the tantric or Mahayana form, incorporated elaborate rituals and theurgy and did not finally die out there until the: A. 13th century B. 14th century C. 16th century D. 17th century

Last Answer : ANSWER: C

Description : The portion of Vedas that deals with rituals is known as _________. A. Mantras B. Brahmanas C. Aranyakas D. Upanishads

Last Answer : A. Mantras

Description : The Constitution of India guarantees the Fundamental Right to Freedom of Religion to all its citizens. Which among the following is not true for this Rights? (1) It gives freedom of conscience and ... , morality and health (4) The State cannot make any law which abrogates this Right for citizens

Last Answer : (4) The State cannot make any law which abrogates this Right for citizens Explanation: The state can make laws which abrogate the right in case there is a threat to public order, morality and health.

Description : Will you tell me how you feel about the animal rights group PETA and why?

Last Answer : As a vegetarian and person who doesn’t wear animal products (is there a name for that?) I want so much to like PETA. But I can’t. Ideas like “Clo-fu” make me repulsed by them and feel like they don’t really have an idea of what can help their cause.

Description : Is ice heavier or lighter than liquid water?

Last Answer : I would think it would weigh the same? A scientific mind, I have not. Good question though. Makes me think.

Description : Which has higher density/is heavier - matcha liquid or milk?

Last Answer : I would say Milk !

Description : Alternative methods to control pitch in heavier-than-air craft?

Last Answer : Maybe thrust vectoring / manoeuvering thrusters? And canards.

Description : Knitters: If I used a heavier weighted yarn, do I need to adjust me needle size to keep the work the same size?

Last Answer : It will knit up somewhat larger, because the large yarn will sort of expand. But it will also knit up a lot tighter, and probably not have the same sort of drape and hang that the pattern writer intended. You could always make a little swatch to measure and see… ;)

Description : What's better: lots of reps with low weights, or fewer reps with heavier weights?

Last Answer : If you want to work on strength, that is, the ability of a muscle to apply force once, it's definitely better to do higher weight, low reps, and high sets. T-nation has some good information about ... although there are tons of ads and various BS that you have to sift through to find the good stuff.

Description : Why do American cars sound 'heavier' then European cars?

Last Answer : Because Americans love muscle cars. Didn’t you see the movie American Graffitti? :-)

Description : Why cant good looking men, like pretty women that are on the heavier side?

Last Answer : Because really good looking guys pay a lot of attention to how they look. It's only reasonable for them to expect their partners to pay attention to how they look, too. Just as, I am a geek. I expect my ... going out clubbing. It's not a match. I say this as not a good looking guy by any means