All over the place!
All I can think of is, "I love my dead gay son!"My baby Watson has asthma! Poor sweetie. We took the babies in for their annual checkup on Saturday, and then mentioned to the vet that Watson seems to have problems like he's trying to cough up a furball, but totally unproductive. Turns out that's what an asthma attack looks like for a cat. My poor
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Incidentally, we've also had very good success with the Greenies brand overall. The list of ingredients for their basic treats is better than many brands. While our cats have shunned other brands as simply "not food," they seem to really like these.
That's why the trick of feeding them empty Pill Pockets as decoy treats is working well, too!
Trace
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"Therefore, has God restricted eternal salvation/entrance into Heaven specifically in order to give meaning to free will?"
I believe, yes, yes He did. Otherwise, if we didn't have free will, the reward would be meaningless, because seriously, how hard is it to be a puppet? Not hard at all. Reward hasn't been EARNED.
Of course, I believe too that G-d judges us not on how we choose to worship, but on our inherent goodness, badness, and intentions.
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Sad on the second HP movie being an obvious part. We didn't go to see it when it came out, but of course Mark got the blu-ray for free from work. We couldn't watch the whole thing. I was like.. oh yah, this is the part of the book where they spend the whole fucking time being emo in the woods.
And just tonight I'd mentioned that we should go see the second. Mark mentions we probably should watch the first, to which I must have looked horrified. He said we can fast forward through a lot of it, but I'm all for reading a synopsis somewhere to see where it ends.
Anyways, green elf needs food badly. And by green elf I mean your godson. ;)
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Free will means you can choose to be a dink (boo! damn you), or you can choose to do what you can to make the world a better place (yay! go you).
Having only recently read the Little House books, I really enjoyed the young Laura Ingalls's 4th of July epiphany:
"This is what it means to be free. It means, you have to be good."
I think it's more about people giving meaning to free will, and about backing up good morals with "God is gonna SPANK you if you aren't good!!"
To me, it has more meaning if people just plain choose to be good for no other motivator than that it's the right thing to do. You know. Ideally.
Did find it interesting that, uh, apparently the economy tends to do best in countries where there is a widespread belief in hell, mind you.
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As for the makeup issue, I half agree with you. As in, I thought half of the make-up in question was great and the other half, not so much. I feel like I can't be any more specific than that unless I stick a big SPOILERS in the header.
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As for your questions: "If the Christian belief in God is correct, what do you think is the relationship between restrictions on salvation, and the existence of free will? Would free will have any real value if there were not consequences to it? Therefore, has God restricted eternal salvation/entrance into Heaven specifically in order to give meaning to free will? I believe that God gave us free will so that we can choose to love him, serve him. He wants us to be able to decide if we want to follow his rules, do the thing he wants us to do, even though he knows it's what is best for us. So, to quickly answer your first question, the relationship comes down to we get to choose to live a life that will bring us salvation, or to not do ( ... )
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Why does God restrict salvation at all? Why be stingy about it?
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