2nd April 2003, 10:07 AM
I don't really see any reason God should make it easy for us. It's not like we have a nation full of people ferverently praying and worshipping him. There's not some sort of almighty obligation to make life really easy for America, or any group of people, for that matter.
And SJ, if it helps to confuse things further, chew on this: If you don't pray, then you were predetermined to not pray. Thusly, you aren't cancelling anything out; it was already going to happen that way. There's no way of knowing what WOULD happen if you act one way or the other, you just have to pick.
Let's say a couple years back Darunia had never IMed me randomly to recruit me for the little "console war." Would I still end up at TC? Who knows, that's not how it happened. Even if the future is concrete, we can't see it, so it doesn't matter.
And SJ, if it helps to confuse things further, chew on this: If you don't pray, then you were predetermined to not pray. Thusly, you aren't cancelling anything out; it was already going to happen that way. There's no way of knowing what WOULD happen if you act one way or the other, you just have to pick.
Let's say a couple years back Darunia had never IMed me randomly to recruit me for the little "console war." Would I still end up at TC? Who knows, that's not how it happened. Even if the future is concrete, we can't see it, so it doesn't matter.