There is still some problems I have, like why must it be for eternity, Because temporary prizes and punishments are not sufficient to create strong enough desire for the prize or fear of the punishment. You need to have the absolutely largest carrots and sticks if you want to control people. IMO th...

I think I've finally arrived at a little more of an answer to my dilemma. The problem was that I have become a little more of a Humanist than is compatible with Christianity in the sense that there is a way in which Humanism declares a kind of sovereignty of the individual. Individuals define themse...

Well, essentially any decision made has SOME impact, for example choosing between first going a morning stroll to the park or to the supermarket. You could perhaps meet someone new that you wouldn't have met and then experience everything that follows – at least that's the idea. Of course, to us. B...

Ok, I want to try to go at this from a different angle. The above is leading towards a discussion of book sized proportions. The whole idea of freedom is that there are many possibilities as to what is chosen. What if there is a decision between a number of equally-advantageous choices? Wouldn’t the...

Thanks for the replies, I'll try to use them to clarify what I'm saying and add to the story. So, the most logical explanation I have been able to come up with is something like this: God is infinite in power and complete in knowledge. He values all that is perfect, reforms all he can (limited by hi...

The game looks cool, I'll have to play that when I get a chance. As for my dilemma... oh what the heck, guess I knew someone would ask that, so some part of me must have wanted to talk about it. Let me copy past some stuff from my notes then. _____ Part 1: Compatibilism vs Determinism (with a little...

ALRIGHT, some good discussion! I think Yin and Yang represent contrast and opposites. You can't have one without the other. How do you know something is "good", if you have never seen what is "bad"? If everything is the same, there's no need to even have words to describe these t...

Any thoughts on the yen & yang style of good and evil? I never could get it. I always thought that the Good was something like life without flaw, or complete life, and so all evil was merely life incomplete and the misunderstandings and false conclusions that incompletion would bring.

It makes the event evil, not the laptop... unless it happens repeatedly and cannot be fixed.

It seems to me that it is evil by definition, not by some act of will. Doesn't matter if it "innocently" came to its conclusions based on the data it had to work with (junk in, junk out), it is still an evil conclusion. Hmm... so junk in, evil out in this case.