ellauri022.html on line 495: • Discuss the choices the main characters make, whether their reactions are based on facts or fears,

ellauri067.html on line 505: ...the women in the class were furious at the books by men. My choices were quite ordinary—Kerouac, Ellison, Roth, Bellow, and Pynchon... “This Set of Holes, Pleasantly Framed”: Pynchon the Competent Pornographer.
ellauri069.html on line 479: Imagine a story that combines Ulysses, Catch-22, The Canterbury tales, Under the Volcano, On the Road and many others. First, there is a huge cast of characters and most times, it is unclear who’s speaking and to whom. A second challenge is getting into the context of the book. The novel demands a vast knowledge of history, geography, music, literature, science, mathematics and occult. Apart from this the book also explicitly deals with profanity, racism, violence, pedophilia, coprophilia and seemingly infinite number of sex scenes. That being said, Pynchon doesn’t throw them arbitrarily and each one of them have a purpose. The main plot itself is set at the end of World War 2 and Europe is in chaos. As new countries and alliances are being formed, so too are new perspectives within the characters. Mental state being broken down, people making poor choices and actions being justified and helps us see how people tend to live destructively. As if there complexities weren’t enough, Pynchon includes a “postmodern” aspect of the book that leaves the first-time reader confused. Pynchon’s voice is seen through this aspect and a sense of paranoia creeps throughout the book and everything is questioned.
ellauri073.html on line 262: Foley is disheveled, sweaty, obese, clumsy and unstylish. He exhibits poor social skills, frequently loses his temper, often disparages and insults his audience, and wallows in cynicism and self-pity about his own poor life choices, to which he often makes reference. Foley's trademark line is warning his audience that they could end up like himself: "35 years old, eating a steady diet of government cheese, thrice divorced, and living in a van down by the river!" In most sketches, whenever a member of his audience mentions a personal accomplishment, Foley responds with mockery: "Well, la-dee-frickin-da!", "Whoop-dee-frickin-doo!", or a similarly dismissive remark. The usual outfit of choice for Foley is a too-small blue-and-white plaid sport coat, a too-big white dress shirt, a solid green necktie, black horn-rimmed glasses, ill-fitting khakis which he is continually pulling up, a wristwatch, penny loafers, and slicked-down blond hair. In a prison sketch, he dons blue jeans and a denim shirt with the inmate number "3307" while retaining his watch, glasses and a crucifix necklace (he also mentions a "homemade tattoo of a van down by the river"). While working as a mall Santa in another sketch, he wears a stereotypical Santa outfit, complete with black snow boots.
ellauri080.html on line 365: Self-directedness can be seen as the executive branch of a person’s system of mental self-government. People who are self-directed recognize that their attitudes, behaviors, and problems reflect their own choices. They tend to accept responsibility for their attitudes and behavior and they impress others as reliable and trustworthy persons. As a result, a person’s Self-directedness is an important indicator of reality testing, maturity, and vulnerability to mood disturbance....
ellauri093.html on line 286: Self neglect includes behaviour such as poor hygiene, excessive quacking and compulsive hoarding. Older people have the right to make their own lifestyle choices, even if those choices put them at risk of harm. Scrooge McDuck has a license for his money bin, though it exposes him to the Beagle Boys.
ellauri096.html on line 55: Michael Scriven (1964) tried to refute predictive determinism (the thesis that all events are foreseeable), by conjuring two players, “Predictor” who has all the data, laws, and calculating capacity needed to predict the choices of others. Scriven goes on to imagine, “Avoider”, whose dominant motivation is to avoid prediction. Therefore, Predictor must conceal his prediction. The catch is that Avoider has access to the same data, laws, and calculating capacity as Predictor. Thus Avoider can duplicate Predictor’s reasoning. Consequently, the optimal predictor cannot predict Avoider. Let the teacher be Avoider and the student be Predictor. Avoider must win. Therefore, it is possible to give a surprise test. This sounds silly. The Predictor can predict that the Avoider double guesses her. Both can fiture out that this will go on and on, until time runs out, and they still just sit on their asses doing nothing. Thing is, you must remember that the players are part of the game, not outside of it as idealists would have it.
ellauri096.html on line 163: Epistemic paradoxes affect decision theory because rational choices are based on beliefs and desires. If the agent cannot form a rational belief, it is difficult to interpret his behavior as a choice. The purpose of attributing beliefs and desires is to set up practical syllogisms that make sense of actions as means to ends. Subtracting rationality from the agent makes framework useless. Given this commitment to charitable interpretation, there is no possibility of your rationally choosing an option that you believe to be inferior. So if you choose, you cannot really believe you were operating as an anti-expert, that is, someone whose opinions on a topic are reliably wrong (Egan and Elga 2005).
ellauri097.html on line 802: Robert Frost, often regarded as a folksy farmer-poet, was also a more profound, even terrifying, creator. His poem "The Road Not Taken" reveals his delight in multiple meanings, his ambivalence, and his penchant for misleading his readers. He denied that the poem proclaimed his striving for the unconventional and asserted that it was meant to tease his friend Edward Thomas for his compulsive indecisiveness. This essay also notes the unconscious meanings of the poem, including Frost's reactions to losing his close friend, his own indecisiveness, his conflict between heterosexual and homosexual object choices, his need for a "secret sharer," and his attachments. J Glenn. Psychoanal Study Child. 2001.
ellauri100.html on line 387: Persons who choose the impersonal basis of choice are called the thinking types by Jung. Persons who choose the personal basis are called the feeling types…. The more extreme feeling types are a bit put off by rule-governed choice, regarding the act of being impersonal as almost inhuman. The more dedicated thinking types, on the other hand, sometimes look upon the emotion-laden decisions and choices as muddle-headed.
ellauri100.html on line 565: It should be noted that my slightly positive score probably was influenced by the order in which choices were presented to me. Initially, pleasant concepts were associated with photos of European-Americans. I became used to that association, and so found that it affected my reaction time when I was faced with pairings of pleasant concepts and photos of African-Americans. The bottom line: My slight preference for European-Americans probably is an artifact of test design.
ellauri119.html on line 652: There are two main reasons I continue to study her ideas. First, everytime I’ve investigated a claim she has made, it turned out to be correct. Second, philosophy is the science that teaches man how live his life and make choices. No other philosophy does this.
ellauri143.html on line 86: Its author is praised for his innate nature of selecting the best virtues found in the known literature, like Juan Valdez the choicest coffee beans, and presenting them in a language that is common and acceptable to all (Tamil). The term Tirukkuṟaḷ is a compound word made of two individual terms, tiru and kuṟaḷ. The term tiru has as many as 19 different meanings but it means sacred. Kuṟaḷ means something like "short, concise, and abridged." Vizi näähän on Markku Envall-luokan aforismeja, Vaakku-Turmiola linjan törähdyxiä.
ellauri150.html on line 699: So the Pope is telling us that it's really that simple. There is an intimate relationship between freedom and sin. If you want to be free, don't sin. When the Church teaches us not to sin, it is also teaching us how to be free. That's *real* freedom. Don't worry, you still have lots of other choices open to you that don't involve sin. You haven't given anything up, in fact you have opened up new possibilities now that you have freed yourself from sin. (Pst! before you get carried away with this, read the fine print below on gay and premarital sex.)
ellauri155.html on line 719: The incompatibilist maintains that if our willings and choices are themselves determined by antecedent causes then we could never choose otherwise than we do. Given the antecedent causal conditions, we must always act as we do. We cannot, therefore, be held responsible for our conduct since, on this account, we have no “genuine alternatives” or “open possibilities” available to us. Incompatibilists, as already noted, do not accept that Hume’s notion of “hypothetical liberty”, as presented in the Enquiry, can deal with this objection. It is true, of course, that hypothetical liberty leaves room for the truth of conditionals that suggest that we could have acted otherwise if we had chosen to do so. However, it still remains the case, the incompatibilist argues, that the agent could not have chosen otherwise given the actual circumstances. Responsibility, they claim, requires categorical freedom to choose otherwise in the same circumstances. Hypothetical freedom alone will not suffice. One way of expressing this point in more general terms is that the incompatibilist holds that for responsibility we need more than freedom of action, we also need freedom of will – understood as a power to choose between open alternatives. Failing this, the agent has no ultimate control over her conduct.
ellauri159.html on line 1035: You may become blocked if the assignment isn’t well defined. You want to limit your choices early and write toward a specific goal. Try picturing a specific person who exemplifies your audience, and write for that person.
ellauri182.html on line 43: At times in the story, Mikage thinks about fat and freedom fries while searching for meaning. Despite believing in premonitions, she does not believe in fate, but in the individual freedom of “constantly making choices.” I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. Hoo hoo jaa jaa. Keskittyisit bansku vaan tekemään niitä kylmiä paloja. Maaginen realismi on syvältä.
ellauri182.html on line 133: Toward the climax of the story, when Mikage is climbing a hotel balcony in a daring moment of “utter desperation,” she contemplates the concept of free will. Up to this point in the story, Mikage has tended to believe in fate and in premonitions, which are beliefs that other powers are making decisions for her. She has also stated that “we have so little choice,” and that “we live like the lowliest worms.” Undergoing an existential change, Mikage finally admits to herself and the reader that human beings are ultimately free because “we’re constantly making choices. With the breaths we take every day, with the expression in our eyes, with the daily actions we do over and over, we decide.” She states that even when people think that they are being acted upon by outside forces, they are in reality choosing their situations and actions, sometimes subconsciously.
ellauri192.html on line 263: THE trouble, of course, is that the actual record of choices made by the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature has been capricious and, in too many cases, insulting to critical intelligence. Given the fact that no literary ranking can be either proved or falsified objectively; given the inevitable time lag of taste and renown behind the radical, private advance of genius; errors, oversight, delays in recognition until they guys were dead were unavoidable from the outset. But even when every allowance is made, the record of ''the bounty of Sweden'' (Yeats's candid phrase when he received the Nobel in 1923) is a poor one.
ellauri192.html on line 273: There are great, canonic names on the Nobel list, choices on which common sense and passionate alertness concur. I have mentioned Yeats. We find Anatole France, Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, T. S. Eliot, Pasternak, Faulkner, Hemingway, Seferis, Montale, Beckett and Solzhenitsyn (the last, I would guess, a titan among men even more, perhaps, than among writers; what I mean by this is he was tall but not much of a novelist). But place the two lists next to each other, and the cardinal truth springs to view: during these past 83 years, the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature has scored more misses than hits. With eminent exceptions, it is the uncrowned who are sovereign.
ellauri197.html on line 293: ‘How Happy I Was If I Could Forget’ is a two-stanza work where the narrator takes the reader through a series of confusing verb tenses and language choices to represent the overall lack of clarity she has for the memory that she wishes she “could forget.” The cyclical state of the stanzas’ disorganization, additionally, reflects that the narrator feels trapped in her confused loop from the memory, and the reader could finish ‘How Happy I Was If I Could Forget’ without knowing what the troubling memory is. This is yet another method of revealing the narrator’s confusion over the memory. Just as she does not know how to treat the memory, the reader does not know solid details about the memory. From start to finish then, this is a work that is structured perfectly to share and represent the narrator’s confusion.
ellauri206.html on line 109: “Our personal information is being exploited to control or manipulate us, change our behaviours, violate our human rights, and undermine democratic institutions. Our choices are taken away from us without us even knowing it”, he said. The most efficient propaganda machine ever, mainlining western capitalist g***th values straight into tiny monkey brains.
ellauri213.html on line 311: The Sun ceased publishing topless Page 3 images in its Republic of Ireland edition in 2013, in its UK editions in 2015, and on its Page3.com website in 2017. The Daily Star also ceased publishing images of topless glamour models in 2019. However, these decisions were not necessarily a direct result of the No More Page 3 campaign. The then official photographer for Page 3, Alison Webster, also criticised the campaign, saying "people should be able to make their own choices". Prime Minister David Cameron replied, "I think on this one I think it is probably better to leave it to the consumer."
ellauri214.html on line 88: The Harry Potter series didn’t become a global phenomenon just because it was an exciting adventure, but because there was a real heart to it, characters who had both strengths and weaknesses, who struggled with their choices, much like Batman or Superman. Not so this time. Instead, “The Casual Vacancy” is a generally well-written book whose central theme is responsibility for those less fortunate, all the time imbued with ever-present British themes of class and notions of propriety.
ellauri240.html on line 278: Linguists have all discovered apparent confirmation of the theory that Middleton wrote much of the play. It contains numerous words, phrases, and punctuation choices that are characteristic of his work but rare in Shakespeare.
ellauri244.html on line 441: Hi, I'm Faye Bryant! I help people who have endured trauma–whether of their own making, such as addiction and poor choices, or pushed upon them through abuse–recognize they have worth and purpose, determine their God-designed purpose, then live confidently, with focus toward that purpose to live the life God designed them for.
ellauri269.html on line 283: Now it is time to create your character! There are three primary choices that you need to make: Faction, Race, and Class. These are important because they dictate how you will interact with the game and with other players. Faction and Race can be changed for a price, but Class is a permanent decision. The only way to change Class is to create a new character. (This is actually factually wrong: in real life, you can change Faction for free and Class for a price, but there is no way to change Race!)
ellauri332.html on line 452: There's consequently very little that actually works here, and one can't help but marvel at Wenders' consistently wrong-headed directorial choices (that he's essentially disowned the film in the years since its release doesn't come as much of a surprise).
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.
ellauri375.html on line 494: You're correct. According to the concept of omniscience (God's all-knowing nature), God would indeed know all possible outcomes, including the messiness and challenges that arise from human choices.
ellauri375.html on line 496: From a theological perspective, God's omniscience doesn't negate human free will. Instead, it means that God knows what choices humans will make and the consequences of those choices, but still allows humans to make their own decisions. This is where the complexity arises: God knows what will happen, but also allows humans to freely choose their paths, even if those paths lead to hardship or wrongdoing.
ellauri375.html on line 570: Freedom and Autonomy: Transhumanists advocate for individual autonomy and freedom to make choices about one's own body and mind, including the use of technology to modify or enhance oneself.
ellauri378.html on line 127: Billionaires have choices, opportunities, and strong relationships — all three of which make them happy. All thanx to loads of money.
ellauri448.html on line 65: Many Jewish thinkers have explored the issue of free will throughout history, offering various perspectives and interpretations.  Judaism asserts that humans are given the power to make choices, and these choices have consequences.  This belief in free will is sometimes seen as a challenge to the idea that God has foreknowledge and controls all events.  Jewish thought explores how to reconcile free will with the idea of divine providence, where God is believed to oversee and direct the world. 
ellauri469.html on line 85: Aggressive FF marketing via television, mobile devices, and social media promotes liking of FF, but not specifically healthier FF choices. Subgroups of American adults WHO have the highest percentage of total energy intake from FF include young adults (16%), non-Hispanic blacks (15%), and obese individuals (13%). Young non-Hispanic blacks have the greatest intake from FF, contributing 21% of their total energy intake. Just imagine then OBESE young non-hispanic blacks!
ellauri471.html on line 152: After writing for conservative magazines, he returned to Germany in 1972, where he was a controversial columnist for Axel Springer's Die Welt am Sonntag and published the magazine Die Zeitbühne. He died in 1978 in Salzburg. Schlamm is remembered for having coined the saying, "The trouble with socialism is socialists. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists." The very principle of Western civilization is the tenet that man is entirely responsible for the intellectual choices he has made in an exercise of his free willy. Eli oma vika pikku sika. Tää on samaa läpimätää jenkkischeissea kuin Dark Windsin ykköskauden loppujaxo jossa jäyhät navahot yhtäkkiä suoltavat tuutin täydeltä sentimentaalista jenkkiplödää läpättäen kuin Iines Ankan nokka. Se on takuulla Robert Redfordin lisä Hillermanin kässäriin.
ellauri477.html on line 326: Albert O. Hirschman was an apostate Jew ex-commie from Germany who could never really shed the red spots after exiting to the US though by God he tried. Recent empirical studies have challenged the validity of his Hiding Hand principle. Bent Flyvbjerg and Cass Sunstein coined the term "Malevolent Hiding Hand" to describe situations where costs and difficulties are underestimated, but no saving creativity emerges, leading to project failure. Summarizing several criticisms of Albert's book Exit, Voice and Loyalty, Dowding writes that some scholars have argued that exit and voice can be used in unison (not solely as alternatives), that Hirschman does not pay attention to the ways collective action shapes exit and voice choices, and that loyalty can also lead to silence rather than exit and voice.
ellauri480.html on line 89: The narrative of "Good Omens" delves into profound philosophical inquiries that challenge conventional understandings of morality and existence. Through its intricate characters and clever plot, the story invites readers to grapple with the complexities of moral ambiguities, the tension between free will and destiny, and the multifaceted nature of good and evil. These themes serve as a foundation for a deeper exploration of the human condition and the choices that define it.
ellauri480.html on line 93: The characters, such as Aziraphale and Crowley, embody the complexities (check!) of morality, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy. Their interactions suggest that moral choices are influenced by situational factors rather than fixed ideologies. Additionally, the narrative raises questions about the inherent nature of good and evil, suggesting that both exist in a spectrum rather than in absolutes. God is sort of good and Satan kinda bad and vice versa.
ellauri480.html on line 287: Lewis often grappled with ethical dilemmas and the nature of good and evil. This is particularly evident in "The Chronicles of Narnia," where characters face moral choices that reflect Lewis´s own philosophical inquiries. His conversion to Christianity deeply influenced the narratives of grace and redemption throughout his works.
ellauri480.html on line 353: Personal Agency: Both systems empower individuals to make choices, with Christianity promoting personal moral responsibility and capitalism emphasizing choices in the marketplace.
ellauri480.html on line 427: The absence of free will would render obsolete the rules that supposedly govern society, therefore Boethius is, overall, in favor of the concept of free will. Humans and orcs must exercise free will when they use reason to make choices. Without free will, divine rewards and punishments would be extra unfair.
ellauri490.html on line 510: Policy and design choices (reskilling, safety nets, profit‑sharing, worker inclusion) determine whether displacement causes widespread harm or broad benefit. If you want, I can list concrete policies or company practices to make AI’s economic impact fairer.
ellauri499.html on line 232: If the sources are polemical, then they tell us less about “who deserved moral praise” and more about who won the right to define the moral narrative. In that framework, it becomes very plausible that figures like Ahab/Omri (as later memory portrays them) and “most of the state” could have experienced their worship choices as completely normal, even virtuous—while the Yahweh-reform faction experienced the rival cult as illegitimate or dangerous. So when the texts call one side “bad,” that might reflect moral disagreement, not objective evaluation.
ellauri502.html on line 315: The Traditional Theological Counter-Argument - A Shift in Perspective: Most historical theologians (like Thomas Aquinas or Augustine) argued that heavenly joy is not dependent on earthly attachments or satisfying every human preference. Alignment with Divine Justice: Traditional teaching suggests that in heaven, human perception is so perfectly aligned with God's justice that the absence of a loved one does not cause sorrow. Instead, souls accept the ultimate reality of moral choices without grief. Actuslly you'll be passing glad that your wife gets what was coming to her.
xxx/ellauri104.html on line 142: Impulsive choices and behaviors that may result in risky behavior, such as gambling, shopping sprees, or engaging in unprotected sex with multiple partners.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 892: The novel challenges readers to consider how they think, including monitoring their reactions, judgments, and choices. Daniel Kahnemann is a sleazy customer whose antics have been taken under the lupe elsewhere.
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 637: Make your choices. Choose a path. Be determined. Commit. But, once you have, let the chips fall where they may. You’ll know when to take a different fork in the road. Zig when you ought to zag, hit a tree like Goofy, that´s the chicken way, trial and error. There´s gotta be a hole in this fence.
xxx/ellauri124.html on line 567: In case you're somehow 15 years behind, emoji are taking over the world. But although there is an obvious benefit to having such a large arsenal of emoji with which to freely share your life with the rest of the world, the choices you have can become overwhelming. For example, what do all the cat emoji mean? Why do we need so many of them? What the heck am I supposed to use them all for? Well, if you're feeling overwhelmed, have no fear — I'm here to help you.
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Kyle Baggett says: Shit it took me five mins to figure out how to reply and I accidentally down voted you in the process so sorry about that. You have an interesting mind. Here are my choices:
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 216: He writes children's stories. She designs spaces. A diagnosis of cancer hits the pimply slavonic lady. He leaves everything (what?) to be with her. More time goes by than expected and she still alive. In a story this should be a gift. In real life, however, many couples go into crisis because cancer lasts longer than expected. Not knowing how much time remains to wait can be an even stronger sentence than death itself. You could be making new bad choices, instead you are faced with a sacrifice that is sustainable only for a limited time. It seems absurd. This story is about a love that is forced to wonder how long it can last. Not very long, which is fortunate for a short film. Titulokuvassa on jotain ällöjä sieniä.
xxx/ellauri199.html on line 992: Lynn Cowell is an author and speaker with Proverbs 31 Ministries, whose passion is helping moms become wise women who raise wiser daughters. For the past 10 years, Lynn has taught women and teens to discover the radical love of Jesus and build an inner confidence that leads to smart choices. Her ministry and His Revolutionary Love book have helped hundreds of teen girls and their moms discover that only Jesus has big enough a spotted dick to fill the love gap in their "hearts". Read less.
xxx/ellauri218.html on line 158: Most episodes revolve around Ralph's poor choices in absurd dilemmas which frequently show his judgmental attitude in a comedic tone. The show occasionally features more serious issues such as women's rights and social status.
xxx/ellauri224.html on line 185: Ellis favoured feminism from a eugenic perspective, feeling that the enhanced social, economic, and sexual choices that feminism provided for women would result in women choosing partners who were more eugenically sound. In his view, intelligent women would not choose, nor be forced to marry and procreate with feeble-minded men.
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 301: Each volume of Anals of the Western Shore also describes the coming of age of its protagonists, and features explorations of being enslaved to one´s own power. The process of growing up is depicted as seeing beyond narrow choices the protagonists are presented with by society. In Gifts, Orrec and Gry realize that the powers their people possess can be used in two ways: for control and dominion, or for healing and nurturing. Which will it be? This recognition allows them to take a third choice, viz. make like a tree and leave. This wrestling with choice has been compared to the choices the characters are forced to make in Le Guin´s short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas". Similarly, Ged helps Tenar in The Tombs of Atuan to value herself and to find choices that she did not see, leading her to leave the Tombs with him. But remember, Le Guin never left Portland where her wimpy husband could barely hold a teaching job.
xxx/ellauri228.html on line 446: The year was 1945. Prostitution in America is a respectable business. The sisters weren’t talented and weren’t educated or good looking, but they certainly were not lacking in entrepreneurship. With few available choices, the Venezuela’s set up their business. "Rancho El Ángel" was a bordello featuring as the main dish, you guessed it, the four sisters. An attached bar serving hot mineral oil with ball bearings in it was added to increase the allure.
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 576: In 1969, Bukowski accepted an offer from Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin and quit his post office job to dedicate himself to full-time writing. He was then 49 years old. As he explained in a letter at the time, "I have one of two choices – stay in the post office and go crazy ... or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I have decided to starve. Hah, he made a lot of bucks! By the late 1970s, Bukowski's income was sufficient to give up his lucrative live readings.
xxx/ellauri268.html on line 249: "Exactly," said Dumbledore, beaming once more. "Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Are you pro-life or pro-choice? It's your life, if that's your choice.
xxx/ellauri427.html on line 178: Suddenly, Martha will stop bemoaning the fact that her sister is lazy and shiftless, and doesn't have a job and pay her way, and get somebody to clean her apartment, which she can't afford if she wants to eat, too, and make better choices about the men in her life...and realize her sister is SEVENTEEN!
xxx/ellauri438.html on line 144: As interpreted by the important Chicago school of economics, faith in human rationality is closely linked to an ideology in which it is unnecessary and even immoral to protect people against their choices. Rational people should be free, and they should be responsible for taking care of themselves. Milton Friedman, the leading figure in that school, expressed this view in the title of one of his popular books: Free to Choose. Another fucking Jew. Älä estä mitään mikä ei vahingoita jotain muuta. No vittu yxityinen omistus eli rahan kahmiminen izelle vahingoittaa muita, joille jää käteen vastaavasti vähemmän. Koko liberaali deviisi on päin persettä, eli Nussbaumska haista sinä paska!
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 789: Limited Consumer Choices: There is a perception that consumer choices in
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/ellauri473.html on line 267: Leibniz argues that some evil is necessary for the greater good, contributing to the overall harmony of the universe. Leibniz emphasizes that humans cannot fully comprehend the reasons behind God's choices. What may seem like unnecessary suffering could lead to greater goods that are beyond human understanding. Leibniz seeks to reconcile faith with reason, suggesting that philosophical truths should not contradict theological beliefs. He maintains that God’s actions, while sometimes inscrutable, are ultimately just and good. Sama paskaa lappaa Voltairekin, vaikka on deterministi: kaikki paha on hyvisten testausta, pahisten rangaistusta, kunnollisten palkkiota tai muuten hyvin etukäteen suunniteltua.


xxx/ellauri482.html on line 125: Hall Cainen 'Kristitty' käsittelee hengellisiä teemoja romaanitaiteen keinoin ja kuuluu Valitut romaanit -sarjaan. Hieman kulumaa kansissa, pienoista nuhruisuutta, selkämyksessä hieman vinoutta. Sometimes I come across someone like Hall Caine, and I cannot see why anyone would have read this trash in the first place. This is a very long, very over-written, very tiresome book. The two main characters declare their love and commitment to each other and then change their minds almost immediately many times during the course of the narrative. They make foolish and impulsive choices and are in general not sympathetic or believable. The characters are not well-drawn and the plot goes around in circles. Nice to read a tale which has Christian commitment as a centerpiece. Avoid. Aiheesta lisää albumissa 493.
xxx/ellauri491.html on line 280: point: the differences are doctrinal and existential, not merely legal or procedural. They affect what people believe about God/spirits, where religious authority comes from, how moral responsibility is assigned, what counts as salvation or healing, how communities are organized, and what (if anything) life-after-death means. Those shape believers' daily dietary choices, rituals, and identities — far beyond legal or administrative distinctions.
xxx/ellauri491.html on line 505: Support for policies some critics say hurt the middle class arises from a mix of ideological commitments (limited government, free markets, laissez faire capitalism), economic theories (supply-side growth, fiscal prudence, pure entitlement), strategic political choices (screw the poor), differing priorities about targeting vs universality (let charity crumbs trickle down from the privileged instead of social justice), and contested evidence about long-term vs short-term effects (hunger is a good motivator for lazy laid-off occupational sodomists to become solo entrepreneurs with pizza boxes on their backs). Otherwise reasonable people (right wing democrats) can disagree because they weigh these factors differently and use different empirical models.
xxx/ellauri493.html on line 674:     Moral choices: He must decide whether to use the information to retaliate or to hide it.

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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 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)?
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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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