tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post107566430128826815..comments2023-11-29T01:47:52.439-07:00Comments on clarity2010: Existential AngstRelax Maxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-29546535241309512552012-09-14T05:39:22.806-06:002012-09-14T05:39:22.806-06:00After our Heavenly Father cleared all of the "...After our Heavenly Father cleared all of the "religious" muck out of the way, I have experienced a great deal of angst (full-blown anguish, actually) over how many would rather believe that He never meant for sin to enter into this world than that it was all part of the plan He set into motion long before He created it. For if it was possible for things to go so horribly wrong before, who is to say that it could not happen again? After all, wouldn't this mean that none of our eternities can be absolutely secure--regardless of how much faith one may have? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16349087080262856079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-56013391380127745642012-09-04T11:16:25.254-06:002012-09-04T11:16:25.254-06:00To clarify, to add clarity to my earlier statement...To clarify, to add clarity to my earlier statement. <br />If god made Adam and Eve, and gave them free will, then they have the god-given right to make their own decisions.<br />Now if we add to that your statement that god knew in advance what choice he would make, then it's implied that the choice was built into him by god. A hardwired decision-making process. Free will only an illusion.<br />As god is the creator of the garden of eden, the world, and all that exists, then god is the creator of all things bright and beautiful, but equally of all that is bad and evil.<br /><br />God being omnipotent, omniscient, and so on, then of course, Judas is doing god's will, as is Pontius Pilate and the bloke who hammered the nails.<br />And Adolf Hitler.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-20961256678970191322012-09-04T11:00:21.463-06:002012-09-04T11:00:21.463-06:00I disagree with those that think angst comes from ...I disagree with those that think angst comes from fear of having control of one's own actions or, if it is, that's one of the stupidest fears ever. Take frickin' responsibility, why don't you? What, can't you decide anything on your own?<br /><br />Of course, I've always thought Adam ate the fruit on his own and then looked for a scapegoat. <br /><br />In my opinion, despair is less hopelessness as it is helplessness, that feeling that you have no option, no choice, no power that allows you to do/preserve/save what matters to you. Whether that's the feeling while sitting at the side of your child's or parent's deathbed, the hard facts about whether you can make the house payment after your husband managed to beat back cancer (but not without untold debts). Or, as was in my case, the realization that nothing I did could stop my in-the-process-of-divorce husband from using my daughter as a pawn and attacking any friends who tried to help me through his law enforcement connections.<br /><br />I'd always been self-sufficient, confident that I could retrench/rethink and move on no matter what the calamity and was taught, rather painfully, that is not always so. It took more than half a decade to recover any of my self-confidence. Stephanie Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-90062336580365807402012-09-03T23:18:50.597-06:002012-09-03T23:18:50.597-06:00You're a poet. That's not madness. :)You're a poet. That's not madness. :)Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-83670090702346424092012-09-03T18:37:24.641-06:002012-09-03T18:37:24.641-06:00I believe we are all mad, but psychology shows us ...I believe we are all mad, but psychology shows us just a glimmer of insight into WHY.<br /><br />It doesn't begin to tap the complexity of my own madness, however.Dr. Cheryl Carvajalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323455180953109460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-91696852084406569892012-09-03T11:55:47.167-06:002012-09-03T11:55:47.167-06:00Illegal interference. S.C.A.P.E.G.O.A.T.Illegal interference. S.C.A.P.E.G.O.A.T.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-34082281926623062752012-09-03T11:53:29.922-06:002012-09-03T11:53:29.922-06:00Are you saying God was leaving it up to Judas whet...Are you saying God was leaving it up to Judas whether or not His entire plan of salvation would be sacked or used? I think not. It was preordained, not free will.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-10453125041266948272012-09-03T11:51:08.880-06:002012-09-03T11:51:08.880-06:00What if Judas had acted differently?What if Judas had acted differently?Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-5326177748120346052012-09-03T11:44:21.381-06:002012-09-03T11:44:21.381-06:00Some folks still think too much......Some folks still think too much......Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-6366981720754001022012-09-03T11:43:57.076-06:002012-09-03T11:43:57.076-06:00Nonsense both could have acted differently.
They d...Nonsense both could have acted differently.<br />They didn't.<br />Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-20074369840434750622012-09-03T10:55:06.950-06:002012-09-03T10:55:06.950-06:00Of course it was a set-up. Judas was framed too. B...Of course it was a set-up. Judas was framed too. But this is philosophy, and the moment you begin to question life, you are sick.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-251606225240776812012-09-03T10:53:17.658-06:002012-09-03T10:53:17.658-06:00Angst irks.Angst irks.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-20915919662355240212012-09-03T10:51:57.197-06:002012-09-03T10:51:57.197-06:00Hmmmm. Not nearly the deep thinking I've come ...Hmmmm. Not nearly the deep thinking I've come to expect from you. If I know what you are going to do because I can see the future, does that mean I have influenced your actions? Does it mean you did what I wanted you to do?Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-68936416156351700812012-09-03T10:48:15.559-06:002012-09-03T10:48:15.559-06:00And some hardly at all. :) In this case, though, y...And some hardly at all. :) In this case, though, you're right.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-78244650010312544362012-09-03T10:43:01.083-06:002012-09-03T10:43:01.083-06:00And of course, if god already knew Adam's choi...And of course, if god already knew Adam's choice before he made it, then Adam did not have free will, thus Adam and Eve were punished for doing what god willed them to do. <br />It's a fix, a set up, they were framed!<br /><br />As for Kierkegaard. What bollocks.soubriquethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151288534629885195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-26001168933956055642012-09-03T09:27:02.433-06:002012-09-03T09:27:02.433-06:00Too much philosophy makes men mad.Too much philosophy makes men mad.A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498413430541424627.post-86964446615329573332012-09-03T01:17:08.054-06:002012-09-03T01:17:08.054-06:00Some people think too much.Some people think too much.Adullamitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537659871829290071noreply@blogger.com