The kind of God I believe in is the one that allows for free will - good AND bad. So yeah. What she said. ;-)
It is probably 'scary shit' for people to think of having that own power over their lives, but when we don't think that, look at the crap that occurs. How many people can one count who were led astray by someone else's ideas of how or what to do?
Though I don't know about ghosts so much, never having experienced what might have been a real one.
I can appreciate a very well-voiced, well-conducted gospel choir (which I do, immensely), without having to believe in the stuff they're singing about
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I don't know if we consciously choose our own destinies. Case in point, my friend, Ben, is in the hospital right now with diverto___ (can't spell it). The doctors are telling him it's because he eats too much red meat and not enough fiber. Last night, he found out he has a tumor. So, I suppose you could say that he chose his fate by eating the wrong diet. Unfortunately, that's the average American diat. So, did Ben CHOOSE to be lying in a hospital bed, looking at major surgery and possibly death? His neice came in with his little nephew, and he cried when they left. I don't think Ben would have chosen that for himself. But his diet, along with household stresses, seems to have contributed to his illness greatly
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Diverticulitis. And if they told him to stop eating red meat, and he didn't, then yeah, what happened next is largely his fault. He might have been *predisposed* to have a tumor, but if he knew not to eat red meat, and ate it anyway, that's on him.
I had the same discussion thread going in the customers_suck forum. There's a guy who's a regular poster there, who works in a liquor store. He talked about a customer of his who's an alcoholic. He got jumped on for "not being sensitive" and "making fun of a person who couldn't help themselves". Like I said there, while I don't disagree there's a genetic predisposition towards alcoholism, if your grandfather was an alcoholic and your father was an alcoholic, you should know better than to take that first drink. Why would you want to "tempt fate"?
This guy didn't know his family's predispositions to illness because he was adopted at birth. And this is the first time he's been to the hospital. So it's not like he'd been told by a doctor not to eat red meat but did anyway
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It is probably 'scary shit' for people to think of having that own power over their lives, but when we don't think that, look at the crap that occurs. How many people can one count who were led astray by someone else's ideas of how or what to do?
Though I don't know about ghosts so much, never having experienced what might have been a real one.
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I had the same discussion thread going in the customers_suck forum. There's a guy who's a regular poster there, who works in a liquor store. He talked about a customer of his who's an alcoholic. He got jumped on for "not being sensitive" and "making fun of a person who couldn't help themselves". Like I said there, while I don't disagree there's a genetic predisposition towards alcoholism, if your grandfather was an alcoholic and your father was an alcoholic, you should know better than to take that first drink. Why would you want to "tempt fate"?
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