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It was determined - but partly, not fully. That's what I'm trying to get at. And this is not my assumption, but observation - though if my explanation...
August 31, 2019 at 13:51
I'm curious as to how one would go about denying the existence of something one is actively aware of. If it does not exist, where from and how does on...
August 31, 2019 at 12:56
Too much good is no good.
August 31, 2019 at 12:46
One might say the scales tip slightly in favor of God, due to the minuscule amount of awareness there is of God - necessary for the disccusion. To dis...
August 31, 2019 at 12:35
But you don't have to turn on the light; you can, but it isn't necessary. That your decision may and is influenced does not negate the freedom of the ...
August 31, 2019 at 12:19
There's plenty of gaseous lifeforms, provided you look up.
August 31, 2019 at 11:34
I don't see a problem with the model, moreso with its presentation. A lens can magnify or reduce the size of an object, so you can manipulate its rela...
August 31, 2019 at 11:30
In the sense that choices are autonomous, but not without consequence. It (free will) is free, not dictated, but not peeled off from the universe - so...
August 31, 2019 at 11:19
The amount of partitions does no matter, provided you take the inertia in to account - it still takes the same amount of time for Achilles to catch th...
August 31, 2019 at 10:48
Cue the line: Everything is physical.
August 30, 2019 at 21:48
The difference is presentation versus application; simulation versus stimulation.
August 30, 2019 at 18:17
Egyptian accounts are irrelevant in the context of Genesis. You fail. Go to an actual museum, instead of loitering around the forum.
August 30, 2019 at 17:50
Can it, weenie.
August 30, 2019 at 17:40
Irrelevant. A natural consequence of their blank state free will is that they could be deceived. No bias, no prejudice. Coin toss or not - a choice is...
August 30, 2019 at 17:37
They started from a blank state - meaning no bias, meaning they were truly free. Wrong. To make a free willed choice, one must merely choose. You can ...
August 30, 2019 at 17:03
The problem is - that denies free will. Remember, they're not puppets; so the choice is accepted, and paired with appropriate consequences.
August 30, 2019 at 07:27
And that's why you don't take candy from strangers.
August 29, 2019 at 15:18
What is a puppet responsible for?
August 29, 2019 at 14:57
Perhaps 2 Esdras 4 may help answer your question. For what is often interpreted as a question without need for an answer, is but a question of fitting...
August 29, 2019 at 11:04
But you won't, for the same reasons you won't have kids - you can't commit. Poor self-inflicted little martyr~
August 28, 2019 at 19:04
The argument is you equating risk with loss, while being blind to anything and everything potentially good. You sound just like I did five years ago -...
August 28, 2019 at 15:08
No, you wouldn't - because these kids can't do either. You're like a horse with blinders, completely oblivious to everything but your front. You say y...
August 28, 2019 at 13:05
Read the story again in the original Hebrew and then the Ugaritic texts. A whole tribunal elects to forge man, yet only one holds the secret 'breath o...
August 28, 2019 at 12:48
It's the Japanese Kanji for Shin. Which depending on the context can be used as either Mind or Truth.
August 28, 2019 at 12:28
Please do not lure me like this, as the two questions are incomparable. The theft of happiness that we're discussing is comparable to: Would you feed ...
August 27, 2019 at 20:10
You'd be wrong. The ingestion of the fruit is the severing of the divine symbiosis.
August 27, 2019 at 16:17
If I were to have 100 children each deformed worse and worse, yet each would live a happy life... It would be immoral of me to deny one of them their ...
August 27, 2019 at 15:50
You haven't caught the fish, yet you're already warming the pan Do you think the conflation posited justifies denying a happy person? Perhaps the pare...
August 27, 2019 at 07:26
And if that child grows up to not only enjoy its life but do the world a metamorphosmic good?
August 27, 2019 at 06:57
Excuses, excuses~
August 27, 2019 at 05:46
Fitting.
August 27, 2019 at 05:30
Then why are you saying potential human? Say potential being. But then... You'd have to change it to a potential something. Until you loop around~
August 27, 2019 at 05:23
So one imbalance ends another imbalance, and consequently produces yet another imbalance? What would you call this clockwork imbalancing?
August 27, 2019 at 05:18
So overdosing is actually a good thing, is it?
August 27, 2019 at 04:47
Think it over.
August 27, 2019 at 04:11
What about, say, ten thousand years ago?
August 27, 2019 at 04:04
To go is neither here nor there, The goal is for the hare who dares. Though perhaps tortoise or a shark Doses at the end, though stark.
August 27, 2019 at 03:43
As per the title.
August 26, 2019 at 18:40
@"Wittgenstein" Did ten pages worth of spite answer your query, or do you require more?
August 26, 2019 at 17:14
What a fraudulent world that must be, where no sun shines and no ants tread~
August 26, 2019 at 11:40
How more free must you be, Pinocchio, to yearn for more than the innocuous? Good night, sweet prince, may your rights rest with the other real boys~
August 26, 2019 at 10:20
You disregard your own principle of motion. Keep rotating.
August 26, 2019 at 07:21
Wife of 64 years - wife for 64 years.
August 26, 2019 at 06:04
One foot in front of the other, so the world goes round and round.
August 26, 2019 at 04:42
A human has imbibed Jesus. Like a glass imbibes water.
August 26, 2019 at 04:39
You are - from here. Who are you and where is here? A gamble.
August 25, 2019 at 19:47
The Baden needed, but not the Gooden deserved. :pray:
August 25, 2019 at 19:23
@"Baden" Feeling bored, Baden?
August 25, 2019 at 19:06
Maybe. Thank you, I will have fun with that.
August 25, 2019 at 16:55
Let it go, let it go-o~
August 25, 2019 at 16:53