en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/3557775 Comments by DabaJohnson http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/12/02/voices-from-the-classroom-88/#IDComment232907353 Affirmative action works. When these policies received government support, vast numbers of people of color, white women and men have gained access they would not otherwise have had. These gains have led to very real changes. Affirmative action programs have not eliminated racism, nor have they always been implemented without problems. However, there would be no struggle to roll back the gains achieved if affirmative action policies were ineffective. The implementation of affirmative action was America's first honest attempt at solving a problem, it had previously chosen to ignore. In a variety of areas, from the quality of health care to the rate of employment, blacks still remain far behind whites. Their representation in the more prestigious professions is still almost insignificant. Comparable imbalances exist for other racial and ethnic minorities as well as for women.The proponents of affirmative action point out that a lot of racial discrimination evidently exists in todayбпs American society. Therefore, affirmative action is necessary as a tool to reduce this discrimination. However, its opponents think that affirmative action is “a way of making up for past discrimination” because today racial prejudice rarely exists. Therefore, affirmative action is not necessary. Another point of conflict is that they have different definitions of discrimination. In the ideas of the proponents of affirmative action, the discrimination is basically racial discrimination, while the opponents of affirmative action define discrimination as unfairness against qualified majorities because of preferential treatment to unqualified minorities.Therefore, affirmative action should be a program to detect fairness in the employment and education system and at the same time give some benefits to the groups being prejudiced. For example, when the employers are hiring the employees, affirmative action should force the employers to list their requirements clearly and openly for all the employees. The qualified people should have absolute priority over the unqualified people. Affirmative action perpetuates biased practices instead of ending them. Most employers that have to hire minorities to fill some sort of quota are not concerned with the qualifications of applicants, but are merely filling a requirement in order to keep their own jobs. This, in turn, creates even more problems when the person doing the hiring is not the one to which the applicant will directly report. Affirmative action is an issue that affects all people in the United States. Its broad-reaching theory has allowed for many misunderstandings and misinterpretations throughout the past several decades. The emotions involved in the controversy over preference are powerful and often partisan. It is not my purpose to arouse these emotions or to persuade by means of them. Rather, I wish to inquire whether there are moral principles, commonly accepted, that are or should be decisive. American law on this subject is uncertain, even contradictory; however, the question here is not what the law but what morality requires. Mon, 5 Dec 2011 04:06:16 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/12/02/voices-from-the-classroom-88/#IDComment232907353 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-77/#IDComment228159405 . From what I saw here in the United States, child abuse is really quite serious and everybody is repulsed by it. If this happened to women, let’s say a women’s team in the university it would be different. The first prolific American serial killer who was a woman was Aileen Wuornos, yet she was still defended in some fringes of society as she killed men who she claimed raped her while she worked as a prostitute. But nonetheless, raping kids is wrong, period. When your an adult, you can be straight, gay, bi, or whatever your heart desires and it won't- or at least shouldn't- bother anyone. All pedophilia is an unacceptable disgusting and not societle. I would hope that if you change the players in this scandal to women, that they would voice this issue much sooner than the present ones did. I think that men and women both wouldn’t be as emotionally confused if it were women. I think the women will be equally as liable. Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:07:04 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-77/#IDComment228159405 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-77/#IDComment228159314 The fact that it was little boys adds a layer of homosexuality which our current society has no idea how to handle. Let's face it whenever a topic of homosexuality is brought up the ball is always dropped. These men are not men in their twenties in the new age of open mindedness. Instead the men of our administration are from a time that has no idea how to even talk about the topic of homosexuality. It was not suspicious for a man to be around a lot of boys and playing with them (a.k.a catholic priest). Which brings me to my next question so why was it okay now? Given the information we have today. The infamous case with Mary Kay Letourneau having consensual sex with her thirteen-year-old student was looked upon quite differently than the contemporary incident regarding Jerry Sandusky and the molestation of same-sex minors. Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:06:43 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-77/#IDComment228159314 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-77/#IDComment228159193 If the scandal involved women I think it would be a way different case. Even though women and children are the prize of our country its more likely for women to lie rather than children. In the past years women have been proven for lying on men saying that they were abused or raped. When one thinks of pedophilia, the abuser is usually viewed as a man. So, if it were a woman, the story would be rare, thus causing more media attention, but I do not think that the woman, who would be like Sandusky, would be treated as harshly because of her gender. If we would have found out that he was abusing women instead of the boys he was supposedly trying to help, he would still have been indicted and would be facing charges with the police but I don’t think that the fallout would have been the same. Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:06:18 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/15/voices-from-the-classroom-77/#IDComment228159193 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/10/voices-from-the-classroom-73/#IDComment221522185 I have noticed that in our society it is very rare we will win. Especially when you are a political figurehead, very popular individual or institution, or any type of hierarchy. I believe in the phrase when your right your still wrong, when your wrong your wrong, and when you have no opinion you are definitely wrong. In the case of Penn State and the devastating week we have been having, no matter what our emotions are and however we handled them we were still labeled the wrong doers. I feel like no matter what we do we will not be able to escape the fact that people will always portray us in the negative. This is something the media and outsiders who don’t thoroughly support this university have zero understanding of. They all believe the anger is for the wrong reasons, they all believe the frustration is for the wrong reason, and lastly they do not realize that as a whole us as students strongly and deeply feel for these victims and families who have had to deal with this. Penn State has always had the name recognition as a very prestigious school, which strived on pride and integrity, and a school that always did the right thing, before this Penn State was only 1 of 3 schools without a violation. I feel like our institution will always be mentioned with an asterisk because of some horrible excuse of a man, and then subsequently people in the institution that acted like cowards.The media is putting the negative focus on Paterno instead of Sandusky and thereby putting a terrible image on Penn State. It seems to some people like the Penn State name is ruined which is a tragedy. After reading what people outside the Penn State community have been posting on Facebook, Twitter, opinion articles, the TV and other open outlets I see that everyone is quick to judge and create connections that may not relate to each other. A lot of those who comment on the actions of Penn State students the past few days have commented in regard to us supporting an individual or ignoring others. Although the media is portraying the situation to our digression, the events on Wednesday night did not help our cause. The sad thing is that this was only the doing of a couple of idiots. Everyone else was watching to see what was happening and not participating. In addition, I’ve heard rumors of companies canceling internship offers. This also baffles me. Most of us were 9 or 10 years old when this happened. I didn’t know who Jerry Sandusky was, I didn’t know that I would be going to Penn State. What people don’t understand is Joe Paterno is the face of Penn State and Penn State is the face of the east cost. Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:54:21 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/10/voices-from-the-classroom-73/#IDComment221522185 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/01/voices-from-the-classroom-59/#IDComment217842386 Me personally I don’t like when people around me speak in different languages. I feel like it is very inconsiderate on the people’s behalf. I always feel like I am being targeted that’s a major flaw of mine but it is what it is. That being my flaw makes me very conscious of my surroundings im quick to react to a person I feel as though is targeting me or trying to look down upon me. If people are speaking another language around me I automatically think that they are speaking about me, and it irritates me the most when that happens. I know 9 out of 10 times they are not speaking about me and I feel like a complete idiot after im done having my idiotic attitude. I feel as though a lot of it has to do where you grew up to. In my neighborhood it was only blacks and we all felt the same way. The funny thing about this situation is that my parents are both from Africa and they both are very in tuned with their culture and both speak their native language. Every time they speak I know they are speaking negative about me well at least I feel that way. I feel like if I took time to learn my own family’s language I would care more about other languages in general. It really is best to develop and embrace a language when you are younger so you can learn from parents and direct face to face communication. Taking a language class now, the assimilation of the material can become ten times more difficult. I have been in concert lines, elavators, and other places and there were people all around me speaking other languages. I had never thought anything of it until one time when my father, who is not a racist person, said to me when people got out of the elevator, “Why don’t they just speak English? That is one of my biggest pet peeves. They understand and know we don’t know what they are saying and I know maybe they don’t want us in there business but at the same time, them talking like that can cause many problems. I feel like 85 % of the people that speak other languages amongst each other are highly well spoken in English. Obviously, learning to speak the native language of a particular country would be ideal, but that is not something that occurs overnight. I feel that it is less noticeable if I were to be with a group of friends and people around me were talking a different language. I feel like I should be more understanding to other people languages. Sun, 6 Nov 2011 21:45:30 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/11/01/voices-from-the-classroom-59/#IDComment217842386 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/20/voices-from-the-classroom-47/#IDComment211075368 I think if our world was centered on black supremacist it would definitely be different. There would be a lot of positives and negatives in the world. I honestly think it would be completely opposite than what it is now. First of all Barack Obama would not be the first black President of the U.S, but I think there would not have yet been a white president. The thing with black people is that we have a lot of hate between ourselves and towards others. I do believe jealously is a trait that every human has but black people show it way more, we chose not to hide our emotions so when we feel a certain a way we choose to show it . I think we would be better off money wise because black people are more reserved with their money so we won’t spend the money on dumb things like a war. I also believe that we wouldn’t participate in as many wars as we did because black people don’t believe in putting themselves in other peoples problems unless someone comes and hurt America we wont involve our selves in war. We would have a lot of resources black people always find a way to maintain and obtain things when they really need them, and we have a way of getting things when we want them The law would be different slightly I think most of the law will stay the same with some key differences. I feel like jails would be highly packed with white people but black people would equally be in jails to. Black people don’t discriminate when it comes to crime we equally discriminate against all criminals no matter their skin color. I think we would have less poor people in the united states because black people have a greater sympathy for people around them no matter what skin color you are, we always try to give out the helping hand because that’s just a trait we have yes we do have a lot of hate within us but at the same extent we are very care giving and we love to help people in need. I think the world over all would not like America because we would be so cocky and non confrontational because we don’t get in their problem. I don’t think slavery would of ever existed if blacks ruled the world I think there would definently be different classes but I don’t think they would have slaves. Overall if the blacks were the center of supremacy think we would honestly be better off, yea we would have our ups and downs but realistically overall it would generally be better for us. Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:29:59 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/20/voices-from-the-classroom-47/#IDComment211075368 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/13/voices-from-the-classroom-45/#IDComment208536576 Does my race effect how I view the world? I do believe that race plays a major role on my perception of the world. Growing up African American was an tough task that gradually got easier. First of all let me give you my perception on the world. I feel like African Americans have no one to blame but us. I feel like everyone goes through trials and periods were each race and ethnicity have gone through certain obstacles that they had to overcome. Slavery should have never happened nor should have segregation. But guess what these event happened, we have passed those event now we should use those events to make us stronger. Im not one to dwell on the past and I have that Black people like to complain a lot, and point the finger at everything and everyone but ourselves. We don’t use eachother as resources nor do we stick together as we should. A team will never win if there’s hate between them. Everyday I turn on the news I always hear how a another black individual has been murdered, arrested, or involved in some other crime. That’s why we have such negativity towards us from other races and ethnicity. Dark complexion already has a negative correlation with it, but its up to us to live pass the stereotypes, I know its just something’s that wont change, but knowing that shouldn’t stop us from attempting us to still try to change how we are viewed by the world. I figured that for society to work there has to be a good guy and bad guy. Blacks are the bad guys and we don’t help our image because we fall right into the stereotype. I also feel like the media plays a major role in blacks being identified as the bad guys in our society. We are represented by music, and movies. The movies and music we so enjoy reflect us all In negative ways they promote sex, drugs, and violence. The news is just like the music and movies but actually factually, the news show us black in negativity dealing with sex drugs and violence. But us as blacks give them the leeway to categorize us. If we start making positive decisions as a collective unit and stop hating on each other we will gradually grow. That’s my basic vision, we were put in a hard predicament in the past but this doe not meant that we cant prevail. I do feel like race makes me view the world different, I feel like us being people of color were put in predicaments that were expected not to get out of which causes so much hate between us and so much tensions to white people. Where I feel as though if we stick together like the blacks did regarding civil rights we will make changes for the better. Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:43:46 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/13/voices-from-the-classroom-45/#IDComment208536576 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/02/voices-from-the-classroom-28/#IDComment204929375 If my roommate were to tell me he were gay on the first day of school I would be very disappointed and would probably consider moving out. See if it were my roommate in particular it would be a little different. I have known my roommate for over 5 years now and we have built a brotherly relationship. If he were to tell me he were gay I would be a little disappointed because my whole life I dreamed of going to college my roommate and I being practically brothers and having sex with all the girls on campus. We would be known as the take down team, and him and I would have competitions on who get the most girls. Him coming out to me telling me he was gay would really crush all my dreams of the brotherly things we could have done. I would also be there for him because of the relationship we had, like I said we have known each other for 5 years, a certain change in sexually preference would not make me treat him any different. I would have to ask him question regarding comfort I wouldn’t want to do anything that would make him uncomfortable and at the same time I would ask him not to flaunt his gayness around the room that would make me feel really weird. I would not ever get dressed while he was in the room just from the fair if he were to be looking at me. I am very protective of my roommate because I look at him like a brother so I don’t let nobody bully him, so that will not change because he was gay I would still fight for him if I had to. I would also feel ashamed just because I know people will think that im gay just because I have a gay roommate especially if I fight for him, People never will think maybe im just supporting him because he is my roommate , it will automatically have to be because he is gay which means im gay. I wouldn’t treat my current roommate any different because nothing can break our bond no matter what. If I were to be put into another predicament were I didn’t know the guy then it would be different, I wouldn’t be as comfortable because I don’t know the guy I don’t know what his motives are I don’t know what he is use to doing so I would not be able to figure it out. Im not disrespectful so I would not be mean or call him out but at the same time I would be able to live with him it would just be too much to do. If it were after I got to know him then It would be a little different but I still think I would move out, but stay his friend. Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:02:39 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/10/02/voices-from-the-classroom-28/#IDComment204929375 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/27/voices-from-the-classroom-22/#IDComment201908519 I feel like race plays a major role on our overall outlook on criminals. I feel like race and poverty is the main two factors that play into how society views criminals. According to society the poorest people are mainly the criminals and according to sociology people who identify as blacks and Hispanics are the poorest people in our economy. I think the more you present yourself plays a major role in how people identify criminals. I have many experiences when the wrong race or economic class was accused of being a criminal or taking place in a criminal act. In my city of Philadelphia the cops come and harass my friends and me all the time just because of our appearance. We would wear baggy close and sag our jeans to the point were our underwear would be easily visible. There were many crimes that took place in our neighborhood, a lot of robbery’s, burglary, drug transactions and murders. It was funny how the people in our neighborhood and the police thought my friends and I always had something to do with it. “It has to be them 74th street boys” was the answer to everything. The funny thing is we had nothing to do with any of the crime that took place at the neighborhood. It was actually the white kids from 82nd that were doing all the crimes they would come on our end of the tracks and take charge. The difference is anywhere from 78th on up was labeled the suburbs of southwest Philadelphia. My friends and I were harassed for two years straight while the white kids kept doing the crime and this was because of our race, appearance, and our poverty. One night the white kids tried to rob a undercover cop around my neighborhood and they wind up killing him, after that the cops caught them and found out that they were the people who been committing all the crimes in our neighborhood for the past couple of years. The neighborhood was in shocked all the police and civilians were thinking it was a mistake it had to have been us at least one of the times. The funny thing is that these people were people that identified as black and they still believed us the black people did the crime. I don’t think its mostly white people that think we are criminals I think everyone stereotypes us as criminals because that’s how some of us present ourselves. My friends and I have noticed if we dress more socially acceptable meaning tighter fitting close with a belt to cover than we wont have any issues. Well we were wrong we still get harassed by the police but it actually declined a great bit. So I can say race does play a major role in how people are classified as criminals but its not from one particular group we are criminals to everyone even our own people. Sat, 1 Oct 2011 22:23:51 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/27/voices-from-the-classroom-22/#IDComment201908519 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/20/everyone-respond-to-this/#IDComment197837848 Wow its so amazing seeing how the people of Haiti strive, and wont take no for an answer. Haiti was a very poor country but after the vicious earthquake the country became even poorer. It so amazing seeing people try to make the best out of a bad situation, its even more remarkable when the situation turns out worst but their still positive and moving forward. Before I talk about how I can help out with the operations in Haiti I would like to state something. Us Americans are very disappointing, we sit back and complain when things don’t go our way, we give up so easily on things, and we also expect everything to appear on our front steps we rarely put the effort to go out and get it. Haiti is a country that has been receiving problem after problem after problem, not to say they are also one of the poorest countries in the world. Haiti has the right to complain as much as they want but they don’t, America our crybaby was has to stop. Just to think when Katrina hit our country there was no struggle, we rounded up the whole country in support to New Orleans which is not a problem since we are one nation under god, but we have the financial means for that were as though Haiti does not. So for us Americans I ask that we cherish what we have and strive to make more of it, instead of letting it make us lazy. Now back to the Haiti videos, I found two of them very uplifting. The video of Clorene Blaise, and Euclid were the two videos that particularly stuck out to me because I myself design and make clothing. To see how Clorene is using all the money she has to pay for material, and she is making only a little bit of profit is devastating were as all I have to do is go to certain whole sale stores and collect a bulk of clothing for cheap, where I can make a massive profit. Another thing that really struck me was the fact that she said she was not looking for a handout she was only looking for help, which could be as simple as a contact. I feel like we could help Clorene in many ways, the most efficient way to help her is linking her up with a person in America who wouldn’t mind supplying Clorene with the product, as we help her make me money she will help us, the more her company grows the more our wholesale business grow. I also admire the lady Euclid, she is a clothing designer from Haiti who has a very sharp artistic hand. Looking at her garments they were so beautiful, and realistic and she hand painted them by hand. I think her business would do way better if she could speak English, that could be a big problem with tourist and others because I know she would have no problems selling them they are very attractive items. Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:32:05 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/20/everyone-respond-to-this/#IDComment197837848 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/13/voices-from-the-classroom-7/#IDComment194037458 The word “NIGGER” is the most controversial word in the world today. This is the word that was once used to identify the African American slave by its master or any white person back in the day. The word color was too nice of a word for the blacks to have, blacks were treated like thrash so they should be addressed as thrash. When one is used to being called something for over sometime they almost adapt to it, it gets to the point were it becomes normal everyday life. To clarify things black people don’t use the word Nigger, they use the word Nigga, which actually has a positive meaning, compared to Nigger. Before I get into the different meanings Nigga could have I want to give a few examples. Females of all colors how come when men call you bitches it is a big debate and so disrespectful, but you women call each other bitches all day long. Is it because that is the term that men use to degrade females, or is it the fact that we are just men so that’s why we shouldn’t be aloud to say it. I think it leans more to us being men and having that dominant power, we approach things so powerful that if we say certain things women take them the wrong way just because. It is the same thing with white people and the word Nigger, it just gives a negative vibe especially because we know that the word did so much damage to our ancestors. Black people don’t use the word nigger either, like I said previously we use the word nigga, the two have a big difference. The word nigga is the more urban style of the word “Nigger” blacks were so used to being called nigger that they had no choice but to call themselves that, but blacks had to much prode to let the white man win another battle so instead they chose to call each other Nigga’s which was like a bonding between the slaves and blacks around the country. In the black community you rarely hear the word nigga being thrown around in a negative way, the word nigga is mostly used to describe a brother hood “that’s my nigga”, or identify a black individual “where that nigga at”. So it is because of the pain and suffering white people put blacks through by calling them niggers that’s why it is disrespectful for white people to say it now in present day. Now my opinion in all honesty is I don’t mind if I have a white friend that says nigga, because like I said previously the word nigga symbolizes brother, if you are white and you have been like a brother to me go head knock yourself out say nigga as much as you want around me. I think once whites take the time to evaluate the difference between the two terms they will understand more why/ how they should or shouldn’t say the “N” word. Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:36:16 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/13/voices-from-the-classroom-7/#IDComment194037458 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/01/how-do-you-feel-about-interracial-dating/#IDComment191650609 I can date anyone with any type of race and ethnicity. The color of the girl never really affected me it was always the features that got me. I am from Philadelphia and I am from a predominantly black neighborhood. Every school I attended from elementary through high school I could count the people who identified themselves as Whites, Asians, Hispanics and Latino’s. At an younger age my perspective on interracial dating was very different than it is now. When I was a elementary school student late 90’s it was really weird for a the black kids to be in relationships with white kids or another race other than theirs. I remember in fourth grade I had a white girlfriend and my friends around the neighborhood would laugh at me and say things like “Daba girlfriend is white, or Daba is the 8th dwarf and his girlfriend is snow white”. As the years went by it became more and more common with blacks and other ethnicities other than whites. More and more blacks were marrying people who identified as Hispanics, Asian, and Latino (Latinas). Were as though it was still awkward to see people who identified as blacks and people who identified as whites in a relationship. When I got to high school there was 360-degree change, having a white girl, as a girlfriend was an achievement. My friends and I would have long talks about girls and we all would talk about how we wanted white girls. To us having a white girl was like obtaining a million dollars especially a nice looking white girl with money. I believe it all happened because of time as the years passed the more and more we were exposed to white people. If I were to bring a white girl home from school my friends will idolize me like I am some sort of king, my parents on the other hand would have a different outlook on things. My parents are from Africa and they both came over here at the age of 18. When my father came he was alone attending college. He told me stories of how his best friend met this white girl freshman year in college and they went to the white girls room and left after three hours the next morning the cops were at his college dorm door and arrested his friend because the white girl claimed that she was raped by his friend, and he was in jail for 5 years. Since then my father has grown to forgive white girls but he never forgot. He doesn’t mind me working or befriending a white girl but that’s it I couldn’t have a real relationship with them, he would accept it but not support it. That’s the difference I see with Blacks and Whites, black people don’t encourage the interracial dating because of past experiences, its rarely because of racist beliefs, were as though white people don’t encourage interracial dating because of racist beliefs and how they feel as though dating a black is belittling yourself. I personally don’t care I would date any girl as long as she is beautiful. Fri, 9 Sep 2011 21:41:48 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/09/01/how-do-you-feel-about-interracial-dating/#IDComment191650609 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/08/30/why-your-religion/#IDComment189172822 I believe in religion because I believe that there has to be an explanation greater than science why things happen how they do. I was born into the religion of Islam, and been practicing my religion since a child. From experience there are just some things science can’t explain. The big bang theory is the “supposed” scientific reasoning for the universe coming together after a sudden burst. It seems like people fail to think what caused this big bang it had to be a higher being that’s capable of it. Also religion speaks into the future of society which science fails to do. I am a Muslim and I can only speak on what the Quran (Islamic Book) says. The Quran was brought to the Prophet Mohamed (who is identified as the last prophet), and this Quran is the same Quran others and I have in our households. The Quran has only one version opposed to the Bible, which has the Old Testament, and the New Testament, which gives two outlooks on the religion of Christianity. The Prophet Mohamed is also the last Prophet for a reason, after the religion of Islam was introduced to the world Allah (God) stopped issuing religions and Prophet because Islam is known as the last religion, and it is known that the best is saved for last. Islam also the religion is the most straight forward every Muslim around the world follow the same guidelines, which are the 5 pillars of Islam. There are so many different forms of Christianity, some believe that Jesus is God, some believe that Jesus is the Son of God, some people believe how we believe that Jesus is a Prophet of God, and some people believe in the pope. That’s four different beliefs when us Muslims believe in Allah and his Messenger (Prophet Mohamed) that’s it. I also believe in reward and consequence. Why else would there be reward and consequence in the world if there were no reward and consequence when you die. If there were such a thing as reincarnation why be scared of death or live life with any regrets. Everything and everyone Must Die like everything and everyone must be created science cannot predict someone’s life span, it has to be a higher being that determines when you enter this world and how you will exist this world. The Quran explains how mankind (humans) were created from the earth (ground) and to the ground we shall return. Even though this is what I have been raised to believe I have been doing research on my religion and other religions and I came to find out that my religion is the most straight forward religion. Fri, 2 Sep 2011 23:26:27 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2011/08/30/why-your-religion/#IDComment189172822