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I decided that I must live my life on my terms
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Re: I decided that I must live my life on my terms
#222be aware of that "my terms": be sure it is really "your" and you do not fell in somebody's else "terms": I mean, it is so easy to think you are doing what "you" want while you are just obeying :)
So, I would at the same time invest a log on how you choose: and I would add a "simplify" everywhere!
Re: I decided that I must live my life on my terms
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Such an insipid argument. If we entertain the idea of a Creator and try to make logical sense of the world I think we'd find pretty quickly that it isn't as simple as "make suffering impossible". What does that mean? What are the constraints? A few solutions in no particular order: Don't create the world in the first place, attractive only to nihilists. Make cruelty on the part of humans impossible, easy to do withou…
I'll entertain your idea that god can't / shouldn't stop humans being cruel because of free will blah blah. Ok, god was powerful enough to create the world, why did they feel the need to also create mosquitos? or cancer? Why do they use their power to make a Hollywood actor win an oscar (oh they didn't? That's not what the actor claims. Who knows their god better?) but not use it to stop a young child being hit by a…
Imagine you have a child. You give that child a toy and you give them instructions to be careful with it and to play well. The child is careless and stubborn and misbehaved and breaks the toy.
Are you a bad parent for giving that child a toy?
God gave us His creation in a pretty nice state and we managed to corrupt it through sin, which is by definition, removing Him from His place, and going our own way instead of His.
Mosquitoes are annoying and diseases exist and bad things happen because we broke Creation. Not in the sense that we are being punished for it, but rather because we're not using it properly.