ellauri066.html on line 892: In an e-mail exchange between Tegnell and the head of the Finnish public-health agency, on March 14th and 15th, Tegnell suggested that keeping the schools open could help the young and healthy develop immunity sooner. His Finnish colleagues noted that their models found that closing schools would decrease the mortality rate among the elderly by ten per cent. Tegnell responded, “Ten percent might be worth it?” WTF.
ellauri066.html on line 897: "I have conferred with high command in the U.S., Brazil and Kenya. I think it will be like a severe influenza rate, death toll on the order of 0.1%.” (A study by the Swedish public health-agency later found that the rate was at least six times higher in Stockholm.)
ellauri066.html on line 916: Confidence in the public-health agency had fallen from sixty-eight per cent in October, to fifty-two per cent in December.
ellauri106.html on line 65: Philip Roth was the younger of the 2 boys of Herman Roth (1901–1989) and his wife Bess, nee Finkel (1904–1981). Both parents were assimilated American Jews of the second generation of immigrants. The maternal grandparents came from the area around Kiev, the Yiddish-speaking paternal grandparents, Sender and Bertha Roth, from Koslow in Galicia. Sender Roth had trained as a rabbi in Galicia and worked in a hat factory in Newark. Herman Roth, the middle of seven children and the first child in the United States, first worked in a factory after eight years of schooling, then became an insurance agent selling door-to-door life insurance. By his retirement he made it to the district director of Metropolitan Life. Philip Roth's brother, Sanford (Sandy) Roth (1927–2009), who was four years older than him, studied art at the Pratt Institute, became vice-president of the advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather in Chicago and made a name for himself as a painter after his "early retirement".
ellauri106.html on line 80: In the early 2000s, Roth met the young assistant editor Lisa Halliday at his literary agency Andrew Wylie. A love affair developed from having lunch together, which culminated in a lifelong deep friendship. Halliday processed the love and friendship for Roth in the highly acclaimed autobiographical inspired novel Asymmetrie, which she completed in 2016. Roth, who read the manuscript, liked it.
ellauri184.html on line 42: Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) oli juutalainen vaikka normannimaisella salanimellä. Nachem ("Norman") Malech ("Kingsley") Mailer was born to a Jewish family in Long Branch, New Jersey on January 31, 1923. Carl Erik Carlsonia 3vk vanhempi, mutta kuoli 3v nuorempana. Sah nicht als Skelett aus, lyhkönen ja läski kolli. His father, Isaac Barnett Mailer, popularly known as "Barney", was an accountant born in South Africa, and his mother, Fanny (née Schneider), ran a housekeeping and nursing agency. Mailer's sister, Barbara, was born in 1927. Samanlaisia Schnizeleitä kuin Marxin veljexet, vaikka roomalaistuneita.
ellauri192.html on line 327: His poetry, said James Ragan, director of the USC graduate school’s professional writing program, “was at all times optimistic, reflecting a championing of the human self. I think that’s primarily why he was awarded the Nobel Prize, because he suggested a new liberated spirit in writing (behind the Iron Curtain) after the Stalin era. Although he was a Communist as a youth, he became disillusioned with the party in the late 1920s. Thereafter, he was in and out of party favor during the turbulent decades that followed in Czechoslovakia. The state-run news agency, in announcing his death Friday, described him as “a prominent Czech poet, national artist (and) winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Literature.”
ellauri198.html on line 790: The difference between Hegel and Kierkegaard is also a difference between Mallarmé and Browning, as it happens, and critically a difference between a deconstructive and an antithetical view of practical criticism. Kierkegaard's "repetition" is closer than its Hegelian rival (or the Nietzschean-Heideggerian descendant) to the mutually exploitative relationship between strong poets, a mutuality that affects the dead nearly as much as the living. Insofar as a poet authentically is and remains a poet, he must exclude and negate other poets. Yet he must begin by including and affirming a precursor poet or poets, for there no other way to become a poet. We can say then that a poet known as a poet only by a wholly contradictory including/excluding, negating/affirming which by the agency of psychic defenses manifests itself as an introjecting/projecting. "Repetition," better even than Nietzsche's Eternal Return of the Same, manifests itself through the rhetorical scheme of transumption, where the surrender of the present compensates for the contradictory movements of the psyche.
ellauri204.html on line 840: Today, at the New York University Woolworth building, filmmakers, NGO staff, foundation representatives and UN agency workers came together to discuss the problem of poverty porn and the potential power of social media to prevent it. The discussion was conducted privately (in accord with so-called Chatham House rules) in order to protect the identity of the participants and encourage a more honest conversation.
ellauri243.html on line 613: In 1951 he went into business forming an advertising agency, David J. Mahoney, Inc. The company managed advertising for eight companies, including Exzema, White Rock and Good Humor. Mahoney sold his agency in 1956 and became President of Good Humor, and became President of Canada Dry in 1966.
ellauri245.html on line 496: Typerää huuhaata USA:n MILNET:istä ja troijalaisista hevosista, silkkaa salaliittosälää. Mikä on POT? The Norwegian Police Security Service (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste (PST), Politiets tryggingsteneste (PTT)) is the police security agency of Norway. The agency was previously known as POT (Politiets overvåkningstjeneste or Police Surveillance Agency), the name change was decided by the Parliament of Norway on 2 June 2001. Täh eikö piipunrassi tiennyt että nimi oli vaihtunut? Potin perusti Tryggve Lie.
ellauri262.html on line 416: Sayers's longest employment was from 1922 to 1931 as a copywriter at an advertising agency.
ellauri264.html on line 442: From an early age, Pattis says he has felt a burning desire to know God personally. To that end, he spent time in Switzerland at the compound of an American Christian fundamentalist thinker named Francis Schaeffer and then inveigled himself in the graduate philosophy program of Columbia University, where he studied and taught for six years. At one point, he nearly joined the CIA, but that opportunity fizzled when the agency didn’t like his polygraph answers about homosexual experiences. “I said, ‘Well, I haven’t had any yet. I don’t know how I’m going to respond if you ask,’ ” he recalls. “I think they decided that was a little too much for them.”
ellauri269.html on line 350: Because it operates in support of Russian interests, receives military equipment from the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) and uses installations of MoD for training, Wagner Group is frequently considered a de facto unit of the MoD or Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU. It is widely speculated that the Wagner Group is used by the Russian government to allow for plausible deniability in certain conflicts, and to obscure from public the number of casualties and financial costs of Russia's foreign interventions. It has played a significant role in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, where, among other activities, it has been reportedly deployed to assassinate Ukrainian leaders, and has widely recruited prisoners and convicts for frontline combat. In December 2022, Pentagon's John Kirby claimed Wagner group has 50,000 fighters in Ukraine, including 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts. Others put the number of recruited prisoners at more like 20,000, with the overall number of PMCs present in Ukraine estimated at 20,000. After years of denying links to the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman with close links to Putin, admitted in September 2022 that he "founded" the paramilitary group. Now (Feb 2023) he is angry because he is not getting all the attention and financial support he wants. He says that the Kreml nomenclature are thereby guilty of high treason. *This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably, so I stop here.
ellauri336.html on line 638: Gene Collins has witnessed firsthand the flipside of the Permian’s economic boom. The 68-year-old, who runs an insurance agency and is on the board of a local economic development corporation, was born and raised in Odessa, a city which, with neighbouring Midland, is at the heart of the Permian. Heavy trucks are damaging road surfaces, traffic accidents have increased and housing rates have soared, he claimed.
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ellauri375.html on line 465: Human Agency: Many religious teachings emphasize human agency, meaning that individuals have the ability to make choices and influence the world around them. God's plan may involve allowing humans to exercise their free will, even if it leads to mistakes and wrongdoing. This allows for personal growth and moral development.
ellauri375.html on line 488: Not exactly. The idea isn't that God is puzzled or clueless, but rather that the relationship between God's plan and human actions is complex and multifaceted. According to many religious beliefs, God has a plan, but this plan often involves allowing humans to exercise their free will and make choices, even if those choices lead to unforeseen consequences. It's not that God lacks understanding but that the nature of free will and human agency introduces a level of unpredictability into the world. However, many believers also have faith that God's plan ultimately leads to goodness and redemption, even in the face of human failings and suffering.
ellauri383.html on line 244: The National News Agency of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Українське національне інформаційне агентство), or Ukrinform (Ukrainian: Укрінформ), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of Independence as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP). The first director of the agency was Dmytro Dontsov, when the agency name was The Ukrainian Telegraph Agency. Ukrinform is Ukraine's representative of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) and the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies (BSANNA).
ellauri386.html on line 432: When I got stranded on September 1st due to the bus system shutting down, the locals were very cold. I suppose you can’t expect people to flock to help you, but I and a few other people needed to travel only about 25 miles to get to where we needed to be. The car rental company (which seemed to only own one car) quadrupled the charge after they heard how desperate our situation was. A local refused to give us any advice or phone numbers to even call a taxi/rental agency until we paid them $350 so that they could go shopping in the next town over—then they unexpectedly joined our rental car and demanded they be driven back afterwards.
ellauri428.html on line 266: A narrative, de Bres reminds us, is a particular kind of diachronic representation of a series of events, which characteristically displays connections between them, focusing on their pertinence to exercises of agency, and aims to convey their significance to an audience (3). Narrativists about meaningfulness claim that narratives, or perhaps narrative structure, contributes (in part) to the meaningfulness of a life (and not just to sense of meaningfulness). But how, and why?
ellauri428.html on line 270: The competing view is recountism, according to which it is telling stories that contributes to meaning in life. According to version inspired by Connie Rosati’s (2013) work on narrative value, which de Bres labels agency-recountism, “Telling a story about one’s life that emphasizes one’s status as an autonomous agent contributes to the meaningfulness of that life, by virtue of increasing one’s sense of agency.” (7) De Bres rejects agency-recountism, however, because it allows for false stories to make one’s life more meaningful, and because increasing sense of agency more plausibly contributes to sense of meaningfulness rather than meaning itself.
ellauri432.html on line 210: Every federal agency in the U.S. is currently trying to figure out how to purge forbidden words from documents posted online, in a desperate attempt to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” from every facet of American life. And nowhere is that effort more bizarre than the National Science Foundation, which is currently combing through websites and research papers for a long list of words that include “female,” “disability,” and “LGBT,” among a host of others.
ellauri432.html on line 212: The review comes in response to a memo sent out Jan. 29 from the Office of Personnel Management, written by acting director Charles Ezell. Every agency has interpreted the memo a little differently, but at NSF they’ve compiled a list of words that need to be found which will initiate a review to see if it’s allowed.
ellauri448.html on line 508: Ignatius's coverage of the CIA has been criticized as being defensive and overly positive. Ignatius's criticised the Obama administration for investigating the CIA's role in the use of torture in interrogations during the Iraq War and gave charitable defense of the agency's motivations for outsourcing such activities to private contractors. Ignatius supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
ellauri468.html on line 447: Midwinter is using his agency and private army to start an uprising in Latvia, at the time a part of the USSR, to end Communism in the Eastern bloc and tip the balance of the Cold War in favour of the West. After discovering this and also the fact that a package Newbegin wants delivered from England to Finland contains virus-contaminated eggs, stolen from a British research institute, the protagonist treks from Finland through Riga, Leningrad, New York City, Texas and back to London. He infiltrates Midwinter's organization, braving unforgiving environments, violence and shifting loyalties, eventually to return to the Baltic to stop the virus from falling into the hands of the Soviets and the madman billionaire and protect British reputations in the process.
ellauri471.html on line 207: Jnr. worked as a CIA officer in Mexico City in the early 1950s, where he edited a book that was then used by the CIA for anti-communist propaganda. He also worked on political action and was a friend of E. Howard Hunt, who was his immediate superior at the time and later a Watergate burglar. Buckley quit the agency in 1952, as he found his calling in journalism. Eli Jnr sai varmastikin potkut suposta.
ellauri480.html on line 91: The tension between agency and predestination raises poignant questions about moral responsibility and the nature of existence. Through their actions, the characters highlight the delicate balance of influence between personal choice and cosmic design. Ultimately, the story suggests that while destiny may set the stage, it is free will that drives the performance. (WTF that may mean.)
ellauri488.html on line 550: 1) It substitutes for control. When characters can’t fix a situation (illness, war, disaster, moral conflict), writers need something else that keeps them moving emotionally. “Hope” becomes the placeholder for agency when agency is gone.
ellauri490.html on line 611: Watson: “Moral psychology matters — agency is about character and reactive attitudes; responsibility is a social‑psychological fact, not a metaphysical trophy.”
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Myth versus Truth: It shows how reality gets twisted by rumors, beliefs, and propaganda until nobody knows what is actually real. Cambridge University Press & Assessment Dept knows all about it. Further reading details are available at the Agency Balcells Profile. The Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells is a famous literary agency in Barcelona, Spain, founded by Carmen Balcells in 1956. It shaped modern Spanish and Latin American literature by representing legendary authors like Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.
ellauri501.html on line 617: 1. The Left-Wing BacklashMany Latin American intellectuals and leftist critics felt Llosa was using the historical tragedy to validate his own rightward political evolution.Erasure of the Poor: Critics accused him of stripping the Brazilian peasants of their legitimate socioeconomic agency. By framing their rebellion as a symptom of religious madness rather than a fight against starvation and landlord tyranny, he made the oppressed look like irrational fanatics.Anti-Revolutionary Propaganda: Leftist reviewers criticized the character of Galileo Gall as a cheap caricature. They argued Llosa constructed a "straw man" anarchist to mock contemporary Marxist revolutionaries and delegitimize 20th-century Latin American liberation movements.The "Objective" Illusion: Critics were highly uneasy with Llosa's implication that he was writing from a neutral vantage point of "common sense". They argued his claim of being "against all dogmas" was itself a deeply ideological, neoconservative defense of the capitalist status quo.
ellauri502.html on line 317: The Free-Will Problem: Unlike pets, which operate on instinct, a nonbeliever spouse exercises autonomous free will. Traditional theology maintains that God respects a person's explicit choice to reject the faith, meaning forcing them into heaven would override their agency. Think how mad she'd be if she was dragged from hell to heaven against her will!
ellauri507.html on line 105: The Second Resignation (The Social/Mental Death) is the realization that he is entirely isolated from the world of the living. He feels physical sensations (such as a mouse running over his face) but has zero agency to act. He is trapped completely inside his own consciousness.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 440: The abandonment by the fan sites follows that by the stars of the Harry Potter films, including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint, and Eddie Redmayne. Also, four authors quit Rowling’s literary agency after the company declined to issue a public statement supporting transgender rights. Fortunately and Death eaters have staunchly rallied to Rowling´s side. Dementoreita oli sillä ateistipirullakin joka kirjoitti His Dark Materials, annas olla, juu Philip Pullman. Siitä lisää fanzulle omistetussa albumissa 269.
xxx/ellauri136.html on line 663: Relating to the crowdfunding appeal on Ketto, Laxmi K, who works on climate action and was aware of prior allegations related to her fathers activities, initiated contact with Ketto requesting due diligence. Further concerns around the Ketto crowd funding drive was flagged by political activist Angellica Aribam, a day after Paojel Chaoba of The Frontier Manipur broke a story on 19 May on how the Ketto donation drive by the child activist could be a possible scheme to defraud people by her father. In an email written to Varun Sheth of Ketto, Angellica asked whether the Noble Citizen Foundation, the agency that was being handed the money collected from the donation drive had any credibility and if Ketto was certain there were no connections with the child’s father. However, she never received any response.
xxx/ellauri169.html on line 47: Psychologists usually attribute belief in conspiracy theories and finding a conspiracy where there is none to a number of psychopathological conditions such as paranoia, schizotypy, narcissism, and insecure attachment, or to a form of cognitive bias called "illusory pattern perception". However, the current scientific consensus holds that most conspiracy theorists are not pathological, precisely because their beliefs ultimately rely on cognitive tendencies that are neurologically hardwired in the human species and probably have deep evolutionary origins, including natural inclinations towards anxiety and agency detection. Agent detection is the inclination for animals, including humans, to presume the purposeful intervention of a sentient or intelligent agent in situations that may or may not involve one. Pieni vinous on vain luonnollista (see Fig.3).
xxx/ellauri215.html on line 374: This has been put into the UN charters, but more specifically to the Helsinki accords. It is about international law. It is about sovereignty and independence. Sovereignty and independence is what NATO is all about. It is about the agency of a country like Ukraine to decide its own destiny. It is not up to a greater power like Russia or NATO to take that decision for Ukraine. And I say this as a Swedish Finn, next to Russia in Westend, Esbo, which shares a 1,34 km border with the capital. A county that has had to compromise on its basic economic liberal values at different stages in history.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 549: “After his fake execution for a murder he didn’t commit, ex-cop Remo Williams is forced to work for America’s secret crime-fighting agency CURE, while being trained by the world’s greatest assassin, the aged, ageless, cranky, mercenary, mystical Chiun, Master of Sinanju.”
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 586: Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (/ˈdraɪsər, -zər/;[1] August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945), born from krauts, became an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
xxx/ellauri387.html on line 202: In 1973, Folket i Bild/Kulturfront, a left-wing magazine, published a series of articles written by Guillou and Peter Bratt, revealing a Swedish secret intelligence agency called Informationsbyrån ("The Information Bureau" or IB for short). The articles, based on information initially furnished by former IB employee Håkan Isacson, described the IB as a secret organization that gathered information on Swedish communists and others deemed to be "security risks". The organization operated outside of the framework of the defense and ordinary intelligence, and was invisible in terms of state budget allocations. The articles in Folket i Bild/Kulturfront accused the IB staff of being engaged in alleged murder, break-ins, wiretapping against foreign embassies in Sweden and spying abroad.
xxx/ellauri427.html on line 301: President Donald Trump has invited Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on February 4, 2025 to discuss peace in the region and methods to counter their “shared adversaries," reported news agency PTI. Born to secular Jewish parents, Netanyahu was raised in West Jerusalem and in the United States. He means "Yah/G-d has given". How tall is Netanyahu? 1.84 m? No ei, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahun huippu korkeus oli
xxx/ellauri465.html on line 58: Albert Zack Zuckerman (born 1931 New York, religion Judaism) is (was) a legendary American literary agent and founder of the eminent literary agency, Writers House. Zuckerman has been the agent and sometime book doctor for many bestselling authors, including Ken Follett (kursorisesti paasattu), Michael Lewis (n.h.¹), Olivia Goldsmith (n.h.²), Nora Roberts (paas.), and Stephen Hawking (paas.). Zuckerman has written both novels and television scripts and has taught playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. Ken "Pulp" Follett dedicated his pro-Israeli Büchlein Dreifach to Al. Through clear, direct and decisive instruction, literary agent Al Zuckerman covers the essential elements of the best-selling novel, showing aspiring authors how to put them to work in their writing. Meh. Outdated and not as helpful as I had hoped. 📚
xxx/ellauri472.html on line 301: Identity erosion, existential dispossession and isolation, covert mission. Internal fragmentation, desolation, individual agency, chaotic, duplicitous environment, rational planning paranoia and betrayal, vulnerability. Profound unrelenting duress without romanticizing frailty. Unwavering pursuit, assignment, stoic sense of duty, contractual obligation, fervent ideological conviction, former professor, justice, revolutionary zeal. Loyalty, resilient human connections, protective bonds, vulnerable Else, affection for Rose, mental strain and fear, ethical imperatives, empathy, materialistic, adversarial world. Psychological tension, trust, exploitation, causal realism, interpersonal reliance survival mechanism, further isolation. Morally, ambiguities, pragmatic choices, lethal violence, avenging, eliminating pursuers, self-preservation, mission continuity, redemptive narratives, ideological glorification. Banal violence, moral compromise, existential threat, acts of killing, sin and guilt, inevitable responses, systemic cruelty, sentimental absolution, causal consequences. Duty-bound aggression, duress, conventional morality, accountability, persistence, humanist endurance, humor, sarcasm, irony and despair. Sanalla sanoen kaikki tyynni joutavaa pahaa potaskaa.
xxx/ellauri472.html on line 347: Story of O: Chapter 2 (French: Histoire d'O: Chapitre 2) is a 1984 Franco-Spanish erotic drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Éric Rochat, serving as a sequel to the 1975 adaptation of Pauline Réage's novel Story of O (Chapter 1). The film, with a runtime of 108 minutes, stars Sandra Wey in the lead role as O, who evolves from a submissive figure into a dominatrix tasked with compromising a powerful industrialist and his family through seduction and manipulation. Released on August 8, 1984, it explores themes of dominance, power dynamics, and erotic intrigue in a narrative that continues the original story's exploration of BDSM elements, though it diverges by focusing on O's newfound agency.
xxx/ellauri485.html on line 450: Iran has attacked at least 19 vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, linking the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, since the start of the war. The more than six week blockage of the waterway has choked crude supplies to the rest of the world and tanked global markets. On Wednesday morning, Iran’s foreign minister said “safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces.” Iran and Oman will charge ships to pass through the strait during the ceasefire period, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency has said. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the US will be “helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz,” just hours after announcing a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran contingent on the “COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING” of the critical waterway.
xxx/ellauri485.html on line 453: Supporters of the Iraqi armed militias celebrated victory in Baghdad on Wednesday, waving flags of the resistance on their cars in Tahrir Square. US President Donald Trump said Iran’s uranium will be “perfectly taken care of” in an interview with AFP news agency Tuesday following the ceasefire. “There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social just after midnight. Samaan aikaan toisaalla Iranin turvallisuusneuvosto julistautui sodan voittajaxi. 8 kovaa ehtoa. Trump pillastui CNN:n ja BBC:n uutisoinnista. Truth Socialiin tuli taas paljon isoja kirjaimia.
xxx/ellauri491.html on line 377: Pocahontas stories have been used to justify settlement and assimilation narratives in Anglo‑American history; Brazilian epics engage nationhood, colonial critique, and literary aesthetics not much differently. Both the John Smith/Disney Pocahontas stories and José de Alencar’s Peri/Cecília (Peri e Cecília) frame cross‑racial romance as a focal drama that sexualizes and mediates contact between colonizers and Indigenous people. Romanticize the Indigenous partner (noble savage or idealized other) to make the relationship palatable to the settler audience. Serve population swapping and immigrant nation building with colonial narratives by resolving cultural tensions through intimate bonds rather than structural change. Sanitize power imbalances: consent, agency, and the colonial context are often glossed or romanticized.
xxx/ellauri491.html on line 617: Legal framework: FUNAI (the indigenous affairs agency) exists specifically for protection, health, and land issues. Multiple Supreme Court decisions have upheld or expanded demarcations.
xxx/ellauri495.html on line 158: It can feel “silly,” but most theologies that defend God’s omniscience also add a distinction: God can know outcomes and still choose a path that allows real moral agency and a meaningful relationship, rather than running a universe where wrongdoing can’t happen. Common ways this gets handled:     Omniscience = foreknowledge, not forced causation. God can know Adam/Eve will fall without making them fall in the moment the way a puppetmaster causes a move.     “Why allow it?” becomes a free-will / character-shaping issue. Many Christians argue God isn’t mainly trying to prevent every mistake; he’s working through a story where creatures make choices and where redemption is offered afterward. It is more fun that way, for him anyway.   Different “kinds” of sin. In a lot of Christian thought, Adam and Eve’s sin is treated as a human failure that can be met with mercy, while Satan’s rebellion is treated as a hardened, ongoing refusal—so “redeem him first” isn’t seen as parallel to “save humanity first.” One more point: if you assume “God could have prevented the mistake” implies “God must prevent all mistakes whenever prevention is possible,” then you’ll always land on your conclusion. Traditional theodicies reject that assumption and instead say that preventing the possibility of moral failure isn’t the goal—even for an omniscient God. If you want, tell me what you mean by “Satan made the same mistake” (did you mean initial rebellion due to pride? or the Eden temptation itself?) and I’ll tailor the answer more tightly to that exact claim.
xxx/ellauri495.html on line 170: I get why it sounds primitive if you reduce it to “God could stop it but didn’t.” In Aquinas-style theodicy, the point isn’t that God is helpless or that He’s doing trial-and-error; it’s closer to:     God doesn’t cause the creature’s wrong choice. He allows creaturely agency to produce real consequences.     Once an angel’s will makes its definitive turn away from God, there isn’t an “edit this moment” correction that preserves what Aquinas thinks makes the choice morally real (and, classically, that choice is not like a human who can genuinely change course later).     So “what could God do?” doesn’t mean “whack/bang/ouch” as if God is improvising; it means “why allow a universe where created wills can definitively commit themselves,” and classical theology says that’s the cost of genuine agency and a meaningful ordered cosmos—not a clumsy mechanic. If you tell me what exact Aquinas premise you’re relying on most (immutability of angelic choice, permission vs. causation, or something else), I can give the cleanest argument for why that premise implies “no redemption-first” without making God seem reactive.
xxx/ellauri495.html on line 174: Your reaction is coherent: if God can do anything, then why create beings who can definitively choose against him, and why not create “happy animals” instead. In Christian philosophy (including Aquinas-adjacent lines), the standard response is essentially: God isn’t choosing between “happiness with no freedom” and “chaos,” but between kinds of goods. A common version goes like this:     Freedom is a real good. Created persons can love, obey, worship, and genuinely choose. “No free choice” trades away not just the possibility of sin, but also the possibility of love and moral/covenant relationship.     Omnipotence doesn’t mean “make any set of values compatible.” The classic view is that there are realities like “created agency” and “definitive choices” that can’t both be preserved while also guaranteeing that no creature ever chooses wrongly.     The “circus” is not trial-and-error but a created order with intelligible consequences. God permits the misuse of freedom rather than coercing away misuse, because coercion would undermine the kind of relationship and moral order being created. That still leaves the emotional/ethical punch of your last line (“I’d rather have no freedom than sin-capable freedom”), and many people who find the metaphysics unpersuasive land there: freedom is too expensive. If you’re open to it, I can answer in the most direct way by taking your preference seriously: do you want the argument for why “no freedom” is worse than it sounds, or do you want the argument for why God’s omnipotence allows more than “could have prevented this one outcome” (i.e., a deeper take on the “why create at all” question)?
xxx/ellauri495.html on line 181: Got it: if you don’t grant a special “humans are the only real moral agents” status, then the usual theist move (“love/worship require human-like choice”) won’t land. One consistent reply you’ll run into is that theism isn’t claiming animals lack “friendship” or “tool use”; it’s claiming they lack the specific kind of agency/understanding that grounds moral responsibility (e.g., grasping God as God, willing against known truth, covenant/obligation in a way animals don’t). If you reject that as well, then the whole “free choice is worth it” defense starts to collapse—because you’re basically saying: if nonhuman life can have all the good things without the same trouble, why not build the universe that way?—which is exactly the objection you’re raising. If you want a sharper discussion: are you rejecting the idea that moral responsibility requires knowledge/intent (so animals could, in principle, be morally blameworthy), or are you rejecting the claim that God couldn’t have created every creature with the good features but without the “Satan/Adam” failure mode?

xxx/ellauri495.html on line 183: If you don’t care about praise/blame, then a lot of the classic free-will theodicy loses its main engine. A more direct way some people respond in that case is: the “point” of creation isn’t moral bookkeeping (praise/blame) but the existence of a kind of order where creatures can pursue goods, relate, and participate in meaning—and wrongdoing is part of the risk whenever you allow self-directed agency. If you reject that agency is worth the cost, then the remaining options are basically (i) God chooses a different order (no failures, but also less self-direction), or (ii) God’s reasons aren’t humanly intuitive. If you don’t mind, I’ll ask one question to aim the discussion: do you reject the value of self-directed agency itself, or do you reject God’s choice to allow suffering/failure given omnipotence?
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Fair. In plain terms, your objection is: If God is omnipotent, then God didn’t have to create a world where free choices predictably produce misery and rebellion. The usual “reason” offered for allowing it (“agency,” “meaning,” “relationship,” “goodness”) often isn’t a real explanation for why suffering is tolerated at all; it feels like re-labeling. If you want a cleaner way to put it, you can treat it as the problem of justification: not “can they define free will,” but “what is the morally sufficient reason to pick a setup where the downside (Eden/Satan, suffering, death) was always available?”
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