When I read that, it decided me on the phone. I was almost completely certain my FP4 replacement would be the FP6, but the USB downgrade makes it a no-go for me.

Too bad, because I love the easy repairability.

Why though? Why not just give yourself up, and prevent your friends from getting guiltridden in the process?

Sounds like a bad friend to me.

I was joking, though. There are actually people who wear sandwich boards with religious messages on them, specifically to fulfil the call to proselytise.

They often stand near shops.

I almost respect people who really try to talk to me more for actually fulfilling the spirit of it, rather than the letter.

It’s a bit like being told to go out into the world and tell everyone about your religion, and you do it by taping a cardboard sheet to your front and back with “Jesus is Lord” written on it.

It also says that Jesus says that none of the old testament laws are abolished.

Did he really, or did he get betrayed and then captured?

The beginning, in some cases.

Stage engineer: Fly system.

Not that weird, considering they already had that in the original movie. Frog DNA.

That argument lands you in the “we can’t know which religion is true” category, because if we can’t know the plans of god, we also can’t know which god is real.

So, while it absolves the believer from having to answer the problem of evil, it simultaneously robs them of any certainty about the truth of their religion.

But only if they think about it.

It’s also very often used as an argument against rehabilitation in prisons:

If free will exists, then crime is a choice. If you choose crime, you are a bad person, and punishment is the only way forward.

If you commit the crime again, it’s because the punishment didn’t work, and/or because the person is simply bad, so a longer punishment is needed, and infinitum.

It’s also used to justify the death penalty, which would not make any sense in a deterministic universe.