(October 17, 2014 at 6:29 pm)professor Wrote: Stimbo, if we all knew the consequences of our decisions ahead of time,
wouldn't that short circuit our free choices now?
That doesn't even remotely address what I said. My point, which I'm getting tired of having to keep explaining, is that you are threatening dire consequences for behaviour against your gods before you've even established that there are any gods in the first place. First demonstrate that there is a monster under the bed before telling us what it will do to us.
That has nothing to do with free will, but since you brought it up: doesn't the 'knowledge' you want us to buy concerning your gods also short-circuit our free choices now?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
