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Old 12-15-2005, 07:09 AM
Piers Piers is offline
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Default Re: More or less pleasurable?


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and he is compassionate in the same manner that humans are compassionate...


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You can of course make this assumption if you want, but do you really think it will lead to any insightful results?

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If it would be more pleasurable to observe earth in a state of paradise, and all the above statements are true, then...


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Are you sure that instead of “he is compassionate in the same manner that humans are compassionate...” you don’t instead mean, “he is compassionate in the same manner that I mistakenly believe I am”

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...either God isn't omnipotent, or there's some reason that things are the way they are, rather than being in a state of paradise.

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“there's some reason that things are the way they are” <– My money’s on this option.
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