Ford Prefect: Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like guys, oh, but don’t eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting ‘Gotcha.’ It wouldn’t have made any difference if they hadn’t eaten it.

Arthur Dent: Why not?

Ford Prefect: Because if you’re dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won’t give up. They’ll get you in the end.

Interesting, thanks.

Addressed the first one on that other comment.

The second one just seems contradictory tbh, how can it be both?

The third one is interesting - but subjectively feeling like we have free will isn’t the same as objectively having it.

And if there was a god and he was allowing (in fact, causing) us to believe we had free will, when we actually didn’t, would just create the situation where god had misled us.

I think the best way out is that we do have free will, but god isn’t omniscient (if he exists at all).

It’s not a question of interfering or not though, it’s about foreknowledge.

Either god had foreknowledge of their choice, and therefore A&E couldn’t have made any other decision than they did, or they had genuine free will meaning he wasn’t omniscient.

But if god is omniscient, then he knows what they’re going to do. And if he already knows that, then do they really have free will? Or do they just think they do?

Don’t know about mainland Europe but, in the UK, generational names are definitely a thing. Stupid newspaper headlines about Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, are very common, unfortunately.

Agree about the idea of getting rid of them, judge people on what they do (the content of their character, if you will) rather than what age they are.

You could afford a bigger mug though.

Clamp!

CLAMP CLAMP CLAMP.

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 10, 12

If your SO thinks it’s a joke, then I think the very first thing you need to do is consider whether you’re 100% serious about it or not. And then you need to discuss it with them as a serious topic, so they know you’re not kidding. And then take it from there based on whatever they say, bearing in mind that they may be 100% against it.

Also agree with the comment about potentially having to move back closer to family in future, if health situations deteriorate.

None of which is to say don’t do it. But it’s a major life change, so lots to consider.

Your desire to unite over how to divide isn’t shared by everyone though, so we’re divided over whether to unite to divide 😁

That’s a great call, very similar:

Did anyone think racism was a solved problem?

Wow, I think you’re right, I hadn’t even thought of that. Probably saved his life. Blimey.

Amazing. There’s a single frame in which you can actually see the missile just above the road. He was incredibly lucky.