Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Paul Zimmerman Message-ID: <1149@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 20:52:22 EDT Article-I.D.: sphinx.1149 Posted: Fri Sep 27 20:52:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 07:09:18 EDT References: <749@cybvax0.UUCP> Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center Lines: 22 [The Damager-Line-Eater ate this, but created another one to drive us crazy] From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz), Message-ID: <749@cybvax0.UUCP>: >Free will in a fixed game, where you can't win, can't break even, and can't >leave the game is no bargain. The damager god set up the game, for the >purpose of watching us suffer. He could have set up the game some other >way; but for his own cruel and inscrutable purposes he has determined that >no matter what our decisions, we shall inevitably suffer. But in his initial posting, Paul stated that the damager-god's claims to have created anything were a sham, that the earth and humans (AND the god itself) evolved in accordance with natural forces. So why should we credit/blame the damager-god for setting up the game so we can't win, can't break even and can't quit? -- --JB (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth) "What if the after-effect of the terrible bomb is unusual beyond belief? Wouldn't you rather the whole population had listened to somebody like the old Indian chief?" (The Roches)