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I mean, if even this kind of contract is said to grant Free Will / Free Choice, then what could still possibly deny it?...

(of course, this is a Tree of Knowledge question)

"sky", "pink", "rapture", "evil", "suddenly"

That's what some people have answered at one of my previous Tree questions.

TEMPT?! Who, the Christian God?!

:D

If yes, ...then how did that free will thing function? I mean if he knew what they *will* do, how were they not bound by some kind of fate?

I come to you and tell you "you'll wake up tomorrow at precisely 11:32 AM". And I know what I'm talking about. Would that make you feel that you are free like a bird to choose your own path in life?...

Who needed it?

God couldn't have needed it. He was already omniscient.

The humans were not allowed to eat from eat.

The angels, perhaps? Though I seriously doubt it.

Or was it perhaps in the "endangered species!" area?

...disobeying God was wrong, since they had no notion of right and wrong?

You do have to be able to tell one from the other in order to understand the meaning of "command" and "obey".

And anyway, how can you punish somebody who didn't know that what they were doing was wrong when they did it. Especially since they *couldn't* have known it.

...you'll be able to get up on time tomorrow morning? I mean, I do seem to not hear my alarm clock at crucial moments, no matter what I do...

Ah wait, and a spiritual thing: how fast can you get out of the house once you've realised that you didn't wake up when you should have? (I mean from the "ah $hit $hit $hit!!!" moment until you're out)

...Would the punishment appear in the form of a sneering Believer telling us every 5 minutes "I TOLD YOU SO!!!!" ..?

:D

...and you find Him in Heaven listening avidly to various stories told by various humans, while exclaiming from time to time "No way!!" or "Come on, that couldn't have been Me!"?

...and all this, without me even having been born. So I wake up and, immediately, I find myself wronged by some ancestor, and then indebted to another one. Honestly, I wish they had asked me first...

...could you imagine changing it, at some point in the future? If yes, what would it be then?

(Me, I'm an agnostic, or an unhappy atheist :D.

I can imagine becoming a believer of some sort - most likely a Christian, but Buddhism or Shinto are also a possibility. Of course, I might just as well become a happy atheist :D)

(...or, instead of nothing, as you were expecting)

Would you sigh in resignation and get ready to go straight to hell (or hell-like place)?

Would it scare the living daylights out of you?

Would it surprise the living daylights out of you?

Would you just go to him and say "yo man, so what was this all bout?!"?

So, the situation is like this. I had this very, very dysfunctional mouse, and I had kept on forgetting (or being too lazy) to buy a new one for a long, loooong time. After the said long, loooong sufferance, today I have finally convinced myself that I DO NEED ANOTHER MOUSE (again, it's a device with buttons I'm talking about, not a living creature), and I got myself a new one. The thing is, what horrible revenge should I take for the misery caused by that old wicked mouse? Give me some distructive ideas, please.

("it wasn't the mouse's fault!" won't do. *It was* precisely the mouse's fault)

So, the situation is like this. I had this very, very dysfunctional mouse, and I had kept on forgetting (or being too lazy) to buy a new one for a long, loooong time. After the said long, loooong sufferance, today I have finally convinced myself that I DO NEED ANOTHER MOUSE (again, it's a device with buttons I'm talking about, not a living creature), and I got myself a new one. The thing is, what horrible revenge should I take for the misery caused by that old wicked mouse? Give me some distructive ideas, please.

("it wasn't the mouse's fault!" won't do. *It was* precisely the mouse's fault, and it deserves to be punished!!)

Please write a short western-style story involving "lonely / alone", "cigarette", "hot noon" (you can make it "high" too - kind regards to Gary Cooper) and, somehow unavoidable given the context, "whiskey-smelling breath".

Not necessarily more than (approx) 7-8-9 lines in the compose box.

Please, don't just build up a sentence / some sentences with those expressions, try to make it coherent, in the form of a story (or a fragment of a story). The best one will be the most melancholical or funny one. You can even make it western-style in a SF context - you can do lots of things, so let it flow.

(sigh - if I could only answer my own questions...)

involving "house", "North / Northern", "3 o'clock" (noon / evening, as thou wishest) and "sinister grin". Not more than (approx) 7-8-9 lines in the compose box.

...But don't just build up a sentence / some sentences with those expressions, please make it coherent, in the form of a story (or a fragment of a story). The best one will be the strangest one.

involving "house", "North / Northern", "3 o'clock" (noon / evening, as thou wishest) and "sinister grin". Not more than (approx) 7-8-9 lines in the compose box.

...But don't just build up a sentence / some sentences with those expressions, please make it coherent, in the form of a story (or a fragment of a story). The best one will be the strangest one.

write a very short story involving "white", "snow", "true" and "if and only if". Not more than (approx) 7-8-9 lines in the compose box.

But don't just build up a sentence with those expressions (certainly not because this were impossible :D , but because I want a story)