Yes, you read that right.
No, I'm not kidding.
Like most everything else I make up as I go along, I have logical reasoning to back it up.
If you havent noticed, i tend to follow my own path.
I live in a world all my own, but I'm well known here.
You've been to church, right?
Did you go of your own free will?
Maybe grandma liked to make you go, but god certainly didnt, yes?
When you got there, did god make you put money in the plate?
Did he force you to sing in the choir?
No, of course not.
God doesnt force people to do things.
He gives us free will to test our characters.
So, if you are being forced to do things, like contribute money you dont want to give, or follow a bunch of rules you dont agree with, and it isnt team god doing that, who could it be?
Hmmm,...???
Could it be,....satan!!??
Cops are satan.
They force you to do things you dont want to do.
Pick a side, eh?
God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. How can the police not be a part of God?
Did the last domino fall of it's own free will? Or was it pushed by a force it does not understand and cannot see?
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Right, the bad part.
Call them,...a cancerous cyst on the bowels of god?
Im kinda dense, though amusing enough, youll have to flesh out that domino analogy if you want me to respond.
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@freebornangel I think you are anything but dense.
With the domino analogy I'm using it to bring up the idea that we are all part of a bigger "thing" and we get pushed and pulled in different directions by various forces. Cause and effect. Most of which we don't "see". Be they hunger, the desire for love, advertising, ideology, government and their enforcement arm etc. This coupled with our own inner life experiences which guide how we respond. If I've never been robbed or robbed anyone I'm not likely to be thinking about that much. If I've been robbed many times that will affect me - eg I will probably double check that everything is locked and have a good security system. Or I might not. So where my parents raised me even impacts me (was it a safe place or not etc).
All of who we are is the result of all that has happened to us to this point. And all that is happening "to" us has a cause of its own.
It is in this way that in my view the idea of free will is a "human level" idea but when viewed from the perspective of God there is no free will.
An ant may look like it is moving randomly, zig zagging its way around. But as far as we know from science it is following a trail. A set of stimulii. Put sugar in the corner of the room and ants will appear there. From the ant's perspective there is free will but from our perspective as a human - the ants are going to the sugar.
Put a pretty woman in front of a hetero man. He might feel intimidated by her, attracted to her. He might want to talk to her. Maybe not, if he's had bad experiences in the past. How much of that is free will?
The way I see it, even though we might say it is his free will if he talks to her. But beneath that he's got to overcome a lot of emotions, he's got a history to contend with, he's got modern western society telling him women don't want to be talked to. His body is aching to talk to her etc etc.
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Oh, ok.
Yes, there are larger than us forces at work, the best we can hope for is the best we can do with the info and time available to us.
Isnt that why we are here?
To demonstrate our characters?
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Makes sense to me.
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That’s funny! Like the graphics.
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Startpage wouldnt give it to me, i had to use duckduckgo, and even hen the french site balked at letting me download it, it took a dozen attempts.
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"given free will..." Oh the fear of taking responsibility for our 'own' actions...I wish there were 'more' people with 'true' courage in this world.
'Asset forfeiture' after being pulled over by some 'Barney Fife' and his boys on the road through some 'Beavis Butthead' town for the pockets of the local yokel 'connected' Should be one of the tickets to Hell...I hope it is.
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Oh yeah, forcing people to comply is a weigh station on the highway to hell.
We just need folks to push back a little, and that has started.
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Ergo grandma was the devil.
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Pretty much,...
I know that is tough on her, but logical consistency doesnt lie, if your premise is sound.
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This statement is false.
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Im listening,...
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If it's false, then it's true. If it isn't false, then it's true.
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