Assignment all gone

[ailbhe]

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.

Comments

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

Yay for getting rid of assignment! Mine will be gone next week! Wooooooo!

[megabitch.livejournal.com]

"Evil - why does God let it happen?"

PMS.

HTH.

HAND.

:)

[ailbhe]

If I write PMS 2000 times I think I might fail a little bit.

Perhaps I can send two essays for this assignment.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that was a bit of a strange question.

I mean, why does G-d let rhubarb exist?

Like, why would G-d NOT want evil to exist? G-d created evil. Evil is important.

It's such a weird question. I mean, if there wasn't evil, there wouldn't be free will -- that seems frickin' obvious to me. If you, as a human, don't have the capacity to do evil, then you don't have free will. "Free will" means that your set of actions is FREE, not restricted to a subset of the possible actions. And if you don't have the desire to do evil, well, then you'll never do anything. I think I've posted the whole "if not for the yetzer ha-ra" thing. . .

The question seems to encompass a fundamental misunderstanding of the scale and scope of G-d. It seems selfish, self-centered, assuming that our COMFORT is a great good of creation.

It's not, of course. It's nice, for us, to be comfortable, but our desidre for comfort is simply one thing that we have that causes us to strive for important things.

Further: that very desire for comfort that leads people to assume that the desire for comfort is a Great Good, and that, therefore, there is a REASON that G-d MIGHT have a problem with evil -- that very desire IS the yetzer ha-ra! So it's the yetzer ha-ra which makes people question the yetzer ha-ra!

Because the desire to QUESTION (as opposed to the desire to learn) comes from the yetzer ha-ra, and the desire to question is a fundamental component of free will!

I don't know if I COULD write 2000 words on "why G-d lets evil exist." It's just too OBVIOUS.

[cheshyre]

And you've now got a surefire hook, too.

Why did Gd allow the first paper to vanish without a trace? Because it gives an opportunity to write something so much better...

[artela.livejournal.com]

:-)

The tutor might appreciate the humour (as long as you mark it as not the real assignment).

As for the answer to the question... how on earth do you fill out "so that we can appreciate the good things" into 2000 words?

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

gemoon runs a conference every year on the subject of evil in an academic sense