DS: Is the practice of keeping dogs strictly for companions (ie modern day dog ownership) cruel?

PETA sure does get around. I'm looking at 3 of my dogs now. They look extremely distressed and opressed. Guess I should wake them up, tell them to get off the couch & set them free (before breakfast of course, because feeding them is cruel too)

Atheists: Can you help me with faith?

Sometimes I lack faith in God. Then I look at your unwavering faith in evolutionism and I am inspired, because surely if you can have faith in an unproven statistically implausible theory, I can have faith in God when all I really need to do is look around me for proof. It's just the sin nature raising its head and instilling Satanic doubt. So how do you maintain your admirable degree of faith?

Would it be weird to name your daughter this?

Would it be weird to name your daughter Sophia if your name is Leah? That's my cousin's name and my family thinks it's weird cause they rhyme. I think it's perfecty fine... what do you think?

How can my gf and I improve and vary our intimate time together?

It's not like we don't have a good time when we're kissing and all, but I feel like I want something more for us to do that's intimate, but less generic than just kissing, and isn't really sexual in nature. I mean we are fine with a little lack of clothing or acts that are a bit sexually expressive so to speak, but neither of us want sex at this point. We are only 17. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I really want to give her something new, if you know what I'm saying.

Baby girl names what do u think?

I love the names Annaleigha pronounced ( Ana~Leah) Marsala, Rosaleigha & Keillan pronounced (key~lan) what do u think?

What are your thoughts on these names?

I like most of them! I'd take out Sean and Marion from the girls. I'd use a different nickname for Sebastian and remove Bennett altogether.

Im curious about this, has anybody discovered the answer to this?

Ok so obviously god is not real. and neither is the soul or the afterlife or anything of that nature. Im curious is to what determines our species? For example: A lion, what makes it a lion, what does it have that we dont have? Could it have been human? Is it random? Or us, did we have to be humans or couldnt we be an animal or something? Does this make sense to you lol? Its hard to comprehend, they dont have any control over that do they?? Another question, how did life come to us? Like how did concious come into our bodies, like are we picked or something?