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Look at terrorism, mass destruction, etc. as the result of decisions made by the creation. God doesn't control the decisions of any individual, whether it's the average man or someone who is pushing to cause terror. That's one of the principles of this life being a test. It wouldn't be a proper test if the creator set his creation on earth and then directly managed the decision-making of that creation. We all have a moment of birth and a moment of death, and all the time in between is for us to make the decisions we feel are right. People who live lives full of doing wrong and causing harm will face the proper consequences, and people who fall victim harmful acts and endure hardships will be judged fairly as well. So it isn't that God is turning away from anyone. It's completely the opposite. God is at everyone's side and knows what is best for everyone, whether the better days lie in this life or in the next (or both). The test of this life may very well include being wronged by another individual or group, or it may just be a test directly from God (for example, the passing of a loved one). Either way, every part of the test is significant toward the afterlife.

lmao @ the last one

that picture is the perfect representation of how the knicks season will be

Chooses to ignore? Would that mean He also chooses to ignore disease, corruption, and hostility? This life isn't meant to be perfection or anything close to it. The significance of this life is that it's a path into the next one. Struggles, no matter how severe they are, are part of life, whether they are affecting you, me, or an individual fighting for their life against unjust rule. If I told you that any being who handles the struggles in their lives in the right manner would be assisting themselves in earning a perfect life in the hereafter, where would you see the imperfection in the creator? Relative to the endless afterlife, the length of this life is nothing. So it's not that the creator is choosing to ignore anything. The whole idea is that just about everything in everyone's life is nothing more than a test for the hereafter. If you're going to call into question why occurrences like genocide, famine, and wars occur, then shouldn't you also call into question why, just off the top of my head, some school kid's lunch money got stolen or why an employee has to take a paycut? What exactly is the defining line for what should and should not occur in the world? I'm curious as to what degree of perfection you would expect in this life with the presence of a creator.

Sometimes I wonder if Shaliq posts just to get his post count up.

I agree with Yugo. The depth of the 08 class is pretty insane. Basically all those guys are contributing NBA players...and most are very vital to their team's success. If Beasley had turned out to be a superstar, as well as Mayo, I think the draft would be looked at as one of the greatest...but because those guys aren't superstars or even all-stars, the draft is looked at differently.

No, humans wouldn't have free will, because if God (or a god) was intervening that much, there would be no struggle...and there's no point of free will. A man, diving off a 10-story building, would be saved...and that is just one example of his free will being ripped away. Extrasolar planets aren't perfect for life, though...and out of the 750 or so we've found outside of the solar system (I'm sure the number has grown a bit more), we have only found exoplanets that are similar to the others in our solar system...not necessarily Earth, and when we do find something close, it's only because it shares a similar property. Us humans all have similar body temperatures, but we aren't the same. My green eyes are like my cousin's, but she's a female with blonde hair. Words like "theoretically" and "probably" are also words that scientists want to avoid at all costs, whether they want to admit it or not. If a scientist were to acknowledge an unknown form of life outside of the Earth, he would really have to acknowledge the possibility of a higher power...and, in that case, a god. Theories are based on assumed facts, but we all know that assumed facts have been manipulated and changing for years in the field of science. I can never compare a comic book, or a fairy tale, to religion. We know exactly where Batman came from, who created him, and when. Nobody has a clue who has written about the first god, or who claims to have seen one, etc...and Batman was created with everyone's knowledge that he was a fictional character. Far different. What if someone really did see a higher power building pyramids that are so massive and well-constructed, it's impossible to imagine it being done by your average human? There are far too many unexplained events that science will never fully dig into. Things just don't happen, not with this kind of design, not this complex. We have billions of people, hundreds of testimonies, and still no answers to how this all started, if there's life on other planets, if there's another Earth with humans, if we can create life out of nothing, etc. It all goes back to this: if I was God, and I wrote my story and handed it to multiple people to translate (or I created a story by walking the Earth during that time)...you could go thousands of years into the future and see that the story shares the same ideas (ex. a higher power). But, it was manipulated and altered to fit the understanding of that particular culture, creating multiple religions and, thus, making some believe that this is all a hoax. A hoax...that some genius actually sat down at a table, thousands of years ago, and wrote what is the greatest collection of books on Earth...and that "story" (whether it's fact or fictional) actually persuaded nearly an entire planet to believe in something that most had never seen before (again, if this was created by a typical human). It's just very hard to imagine that.

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Maybe because this creator is patient and wiling to see how mankind evolves. Maybe it opts to see what happens instead of interfering with its species.

Typical New York retards. "Durrr, you should have stayed here. Durrr, we made you. Durr, we loved you here" "Oh, you totally suck even though we're mad that you left and wanted you to stay". Typical New Yorkers.

That totally wasn't his opinion. You just took it the WAY opposite way buddy.

Yes, there is life after death. How can you speak for said 'creator?'

at driving maybe thats about it

That was a good album.

Alex Grey's got some sick skills: http://i.imgur.com/4eXhz.png

MLSE's biggest problem isn't that their cheap, its that they care more about making money than winning games. Anyways, not amnestying Jose is the right thing to do (better off just cutting him outright, why amnesty an expiring when there are no FA's?). We are going to have a ton of cap next summer, even with Derozan getting a new contract (probably). Then if you consider that we could amnesty Kleiza, well there's another 4.6M off the books, or even Amir's 7M or whatever it is. We could have somewhere around 20M+ in cap room. A guy like Josh Smith is a guy who could maybe fit here (him at the 3 is interesting, considering Bargnani is our power forward, and Terrence Ross might be our 2 by then), or maybe Taj Gibson, Paul Millsap, etc... all depends on what we are doing with Bargnani (who am I kidding, he isn't going anywhere). There was nowhere to put Mayo or Brook right now. Brooks is way worse than Lowry and wouldn't want to be a backup, and there is nowhere to put Mayo either. He is maybe marginally better than Derozan, who we are clearly committed to, and we just drafted another shooting guard. Also, Jose could legitimately be a 6th man of the year candidate (well not really, but still) if he shuts up and buys into his role as the backup point guard. I'm sure him and Lowry will see some time in the backcourt together, and Casey seems to like him, so his minutes probably won't be too too bad. Jose's best years were when he was sharing the point guard position with TJ Ford, and his best year ever (his 2nd year) he averaged his best per 36 numbers of his career as the backup point guard (15 and 9, averaging 9 and 5 in just 21 minutes.

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