Pope Francis. The second coming of Al Gore?

[fromderinside]

Geez. How can one have free will if some architect is messing up things all the time in our interests? I'm stopping here or we'll be thrown to the wolves in the Philosophy forums.

Directly answering your question the, second law of thermodynamics.

He gave you the free will to jump off a building. But having the free will to jump off a building does not mean he gave you the ability to fly away like a bird after doing so. He could give you that ability, but it's not a function of giving you free will. The results of you exercising your free will are still impacted by his fingers being on the controls over the laws of physics and natural phenomena.

Think about it. I choose as a big guy who can to exerisse my power to bring down earth's pollution by choosing to reduce carbon emissions just as as God tweaks the properties of carbon to reverse its combinationatory behavior,and worse, he tells us he's going to do this through his priestly minions. Seems like my free will is trumped by God's ability to fuck things up as He sees. Not a very realistic giving of free will is it?

 

[dismal]

Seems like my free will is trumped by God's ability to fuck things up as He sees.

It is. As previously mentioned, your power of free will allows you to jump off a building. Your power of free will does not allow you to fly away like a bird. After you jump off a building the way god has set the dials for the universe will generally result in you getting fucked up. Doesn't have to be that way. God could choose to reset the universe to let you fly away like a bird. But he apparently prefers you to get fucked up. Or, perhaps he's allowing you to migrate to a higher plane of consciousness in a fashion that appears to the unenlightened people left on earth as getting really fucked up.

But the Pope can get god on the Bat phone and ask god to change the setting or get him to reserve some seats on the higher plane for us. But I may be confusing my superheroes.

 

[Kharakov]

He has mysterious ways which can only be understood by wearing funny hats.

Thus I suggested someone should ask the Pope why God doesn't just tweak the temperature a bit. And fix the earthquakes in Nepal while he's at it.

God, quick, wave your magic perfect stick and solve all the problems! Wheewwww.. that was a close one.

 

[Kharakov]

I choose as a big guy who can to exerisse my power to bring down earth's pollution by choosing to reduce carbon emissions just as as God tweaks the properties of carbon to reverse its combinationatory behavior,and worse, he tells us he's going to do this through his priestly minions.

Yeah, what about all the other behaviors of carbon that we're used to? If they alter a tiny bit too, it'll throw everything into chaos.

Or, perhaps he's allowing you to migrate to a higher plane of consciousness in a fashion that appears to the unenlightened people left on earth as getting really fucked up.

What, drug overdose?

 

[angelo]

I love the title of this thread. Al Gore and the pope have about the same amount of credibility, zilch!