we know now that in the early year 20th
century this world being watched closely
by intelligences
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dad we got a problem of course we do
there's a woman down there being
brutally assaulted Geoffrey there's
always someone being assaulted or raped
or murdered there's always someone
suffering from a disease or dying an
accident this stuff is nothing new
Geoffrey couldn't you oh I don't know do
something about it simple
I want my creation to be free Geoffrey
the truth freedom of choice means having
the ability to choose to do evil things
and diseases and accidents they may seem
bad sure but through these tribulations
and hardships people can become stronger
you can't appreciate the good without
knowing the bad I never gives people
more than they can handle
you never give people more than they can
handle that's not really the case for
everyone who has ever died is it look
I'm not being absolute here I'm not
asking you to get rid of every evil in
every hardship but a little child who
dies of cancer will never be stronger
because of his tribulation he will die
because of it it's pointless it's not
pointless it's a part of my plan plan I
thought you were all about free will and
just what the hell is your plan you the
wisest being in existence can't figure
out how to carry out your plan without
requiring the deaths of innocent
children and I'm not even asking you to
put a stop to all evil but why do you
allow evil that seems so pointless like
what's happening to that woman and her
son what good will come of that you
could stop it effortlessly you are
omnipresent which means you're in their
presence watching it happen God Almighty
Himself is just standing there watching
it why won't you do something I told you
Geoffrey
will you don't want to interfere with a
murderer's freedom well yeah so what
you're saying is that you care more
about the murderers freedom to murder
and the rapists freedom to rape then you
care about the lives of their victims
well it doesn't sound as good when you
put it like that but but yeah guess
you're right what do you think Superman
would do if he were here do you think
he'd just stand here and watch like you
do every day Superman is supposed to be
good you are supposed to be good
Superman isn't concerned about
interfering with free will
like you never interfere with free will
but you never performed a freaking
miracle let me ask you something if you
performed a miracle right now and
stopped that rapist how many people's
free will would be effecting well the
rapists free will would be affected so
one I guess one person is free will
would be affected if you stopped him
what would anyone's free will be
affected if you did nothing
Oh doesn't it look like that woman is
being assaulted against her will well
yeah I suppose so whether you choose to
help or not at least one person's free
will is going to be affected right hmm
so you're taking the side of the rapist
and the murderer your inaction is action
you're protecting the murderers free
will over that of their victims in the
enso are not taking the murderers side
because they're gonna burn in hell
forever and ever so after a trillion
years these guys are still going to be
burning in agony because of this yep
well that unweight the woman will that
unmerge her son well no well the torture
of her rapist make her feel better about
being raped and what will Bernie forever
and ever teach them well it'll teach
them not to rape or murder that's for
sure and what good will that do anyone
as long as they're burning forever
perhaps the situation is more nuanced
than you bad
you burn what if you stop them or set
actions into motion that would stop them
and help them realize that what they
would have done is wrong turn their zeal
for evil into zeal for good maybe they
could then be the ones to prevent future
murders and rapes instead of youth
would be a cool plan from a benevolent
god but as you'd have it a woman would
be raped a boy murdered and two men
mercilessly tortured forever and ever
but I told you Jeffrey I have strict
wings
I shall not interfere okay that sure as
hell didn't stop you in the old days
before video cameras existed you were
parting the Red Sea ordering people to
do all kinds of [ __ ] turning people into
pillars of salt I mean Jesus was walking
on frickin water and curing leprosy just
to prove he was the son of God which if
you think about it doesn't actually
prove jack [ __ ] I sure we get it already
Jeffrey the point is you didn't really
give a [ __ ] about people's free will
that then digit well okay you see after
Jesus came I don't give me that after
Jesus yet people are constantly
attributing miracles to you when a train
derailed killing 158 people but that one
little boy was pulled out of the rubble
by a firefighter instead of giving him
the credit everyone gave you the credit
calling him a miracle baby and
forgetting that 158 other people had
just died where were their miracles Oh
actually Jeffrey that was a miracle I
did that one to keep up my image no
every cloud has to have its silver
lining and when Pastor Henry said in his
sermon that God helped him find his car
keys yep that was me that was a miracle
what what it gives to his Mercedes
supposed to just find themselves and
when two year old Benny Smith died of
cancer I work in mysterious ways what
about when Tom Anderson survived being
shot in the head by a mugger oh I saved
him that was a miracle and when Nicole
Jones didn't survive being shot in the
head by a mother oh I won't interfere
with free will
okay stop right there you didn't just
spot the problem you don't see anything
wrong with your consistency here hmm
wait a minute
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no justly I think you want finally yeah
let pastor Henry find his own damn car
keys
it wasn't believed the Christian message
you have to believe this but those 100
thousand years people were born died
usually many of them in childbirth
either the mother or the child at life
expectancy perhaps 20 years 25 you're
died of microorganisms they didn't know
existed Genesis doesn't mention them
because the people who write Genesis
don't know there are microorganisms
earthquakes would have been terrifying
tsunamis volcanoes mysterious events war
famine superimposed on this you can all
fill out this picture for yourselves I'm
sure that was our life but tens of
thousands of years on and I went maybe a
gradual upward curve of a thought we
seem to have made some progress very
painfully and with infinite suffering
and labor and with our solidarity
subtract now here's what you have to
believe you have to believe that heaven
watched that for 98 thousand years and
after 98 thousand years decided two
thousand it may be trying to intervene
and the best way of doing that would be
to have a filthy human sacrifice in a
very remote part of Palestine and the
news of this has still not penetrated to
the rest of the world and I don't think
will be believed when it does and isn't
believed by me and can't be believed by
thinking person thank you
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you