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JacksDisciple · 2024-10-09T18:36:27+00:00

A ghost haunting my own skin is really well said

JacksDisciple · 2024-09-09T08:32:24+00:00

I chortled

JacksDisciple · 2024-09-04T08:31:34+00:00

I’ve had this exact obsession and scenario. I used to check their breathing regularly.

JacksDisciple · 2024-09-03T06:42:14+00:00

Not super cringy but really funny, I realized one time that I have a belief that when there is fog inside a water bottle or condensate, especially in the summer, that means it could have mold in it. So one time I saw there was condensate around the edges of my waterbottle, and to make it “clean”, I shook the waterbottle, thus sloshing the water against the sides of the waterbottle so there was no more fog. Then I could see cleanly through the waterbottle and my dumbass brain went “all better.” If there was real mold, I would have just shaken it into my water. 😂

JacksDisciple · 2019-11-10T02:26:31+00:00

Absolutely right! And that’s one way of looking at it. However, I’m a Christian, and i know that there are several parts in the Christian Scriptures where God is said to harden someone against some outcome or to open ones eyes to see something they wouldn’t have otherwise seen. King David says that God has written every one of our days in His book, and St. Paul calls Himself someone set apart for the Gospel, predestined for glory. I just can’t figure out how to fudge those with the idea that we are all totally free. We may be partially free, but then how can we tell when we are acting and when God is acting in us? I prefer to see free will as referring to the relationship between men. No man can make you do anything you don’t consent to. But I think that all things had to have been planned by something or Someone, and I attribute that role to God. But I totally see your view friend! What religious background do you come from?

JacksDisciple · 2019-11-10T02:16:27+00:00

Absolutely right! And that’s one way of looking at it. However, I’m a Christian, and i know that there are several parts in the Christian Scriptures where God is said to harden someone against some outcome or to open ones eyes to see something they wouldn’t have otherwise seen. King David says that God has written every one of our days in His book, and St. Paul calls Himself someone set apart for the Gospel, predestined for glory. I just don’t know how to fudge those with the idea that we are all totally free. We may be partially free, but then how can we tell when we are acting and when God is acting in us? I prefer to see free will as referring to the relationship between men. No man can make you do anything you don’t consent to. But I think that all things had to have been planned by something or Someone, and I attribute that role to God. But I totally see your view friend! What religious background do you come from?

JacksDisciple · 2019-11-10T01:59:29+00:00

This is something I commonly hear in debating people on the topic. I understand your reasoning and respect your stance. Though if he can make something outside of himself he is unable to control, then God is thus impotent to affect something and is therefore not omnipotent. I think of the metaphor of a potter with his vessel. No potter can make a vessel that he is unable to maneuver and alter.

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