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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Humanophile" data-source="post: 137472" data-attributes="member: 1049">On free will and human suffering:  I'm liking the debate, but whether or not it exists, there's nothing we can do about it.  I don't believe in free will (my reasons take a while to build to that ironclad logic level, so I'll leave them be for now), but whether people who do bad are meant to be that way, are put there to test us, or chose to do so, the fact of the matter is that they exist.  Maybe god wants to test us, maybe it's just a sadist, maybe it doesn't exist (can we get some confirmation from sources close to the big guy?), that doesn't mean that should lay down and die.  Or maybe that means that we're not meant to lay down and die.  Writing's a lot easier when you do buy into free will, that I will say.Now, questions for god;When do you plan on another revision of the bible?  I mean, I understand you've put it through plenty way back in the day, but all your publishers were provincial fanatics, and I think an edition for the more cosmopolitan reader would be a huge hit.  And when you do decide to publish, can I be the publisher? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Second, can you do anything about the attitude of some of your worshippers?  I mean, most of them are nice people, but you really have to change your street team.  I know if I ran a band, and someone on my street harassed and harangued people for not liking us, I'd fire that person in a second, and I'd hate for the allmighty to have poorer representation than a music group.Third, can you tell me when you're planning on winding this whole project down?  And do you have any other projects going on in the meantime?  (Off the record, was your son just vacationing here last time?  Are you sending visions and miracles to some especially virtous blob of protoplasm so he can do whatever your equivalent of "roughing it" is?)  I want to know when I should go out by, rack up my bills, and when I can not worry about the hangover the next morning.And most importantly, since you're all knowing and all seeing, what big changes can we expect when 4E comes out? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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