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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9528931" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Well, the point is to allow creativity, which requires the freedom to choose. Good and Evil choices still exist.If you reduce the universe to merely being a choice between those two, sure. The One's messengers do not claim that that is what it is. Frankly I'm not sure how you got the idea that it would be literally all of reality has only one choice that ever matters? The One's messengers (They almost never contact anyone directly) are going for something like a certain quote from Thus Spake Zarathustra, which I learned from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: "Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks—those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest." Now, this isn't a perfect fit because the One does want believers. But They only want believers who do so willingly, fully retaining their ability to choose how and when and where to do what they wish to do. Anything less would defeat the purpose; They (rather, Their messengers) claim They can create whatever They want, so if they wanted perfect automaton droids who never thought anything They didn't put there, They could! But the One (allegedly) did not do that because They want freely thinking beings, who enrich existence through their exercise of free choice, even though that means some of them will choose to do evil things.</blockquote>

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