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"The free will response to theodicy is also bankrupt. Lewis says he can't imagine a world in which free beings don't go astray. And he's a fiction author! Therefore, I can only suppose that he didn't really try to imagine such a world but rather simply wrote it off. God could have made it much easier to believe in him. An omnipotent god would be aware, although Lewis wasn't, of behavioural nudging." — Jul 22, 2025 12:12AM
"The free will response to theodicy is also bankrupt. Lewis says he can't imagine a world in which free beings don't go astray. And he's a fiction author! Therefore, I can only suppose that he didn't really try to imagine such a world but rather simply wrote it off. God could have made it much easier to believe in him. An omnipotent god would be aware, although Lewis wasn't, of behavioural nudging." — Jul 22, 2025 12:12AM
“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― Vertigo
― Vertigo
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
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“Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.”
― Hero With a Thousand Faces
― Hero With a Thousand Faces
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
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