Hurrah! The power supply fell out of the back of my computer and my assignment so far (due Friday!) is gone. For some reason none of the backups appear to exist.
Oh well, never mind. I should be able to write 2000 words on "Evil - why does God let it happen?" by tomorrow evening.
In brighter news, we're going to leave the house at lunchtime and go to sit by the river. I'm slowly making a picnic for us. This picnic rucksack is great.
Please welcome my niece to her newest toy, the world. She is 24 hours and 56 minutes old right now. I don't know how her brother is reacting to her arrival.
I've managed 600 words plus quotes so far. Perhaps I should tell you what the question really was, given the response I got before: "Is the free-will defense a convincing solution to the problem of evil?" (and yes, I think it is, if you think that evil is a problem).
Query - does it bother any of the Jews reading my journal that I write God out in full? Would you be more comfortable if I wrote G-d? I'm not hugely religious either way, you see, but I've read the reasons why religious Jews never write the full name out in a public place.
Now I feel like I've done a bad thing by writing "Jews". I used to feel this way when I wrote "black people" and "Pakistanis". I'm not making a bigoted generalisation or being offensive, I'm asking a question so that I can not be offensive. Now stop feeling guilty, Ailbhe.
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