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Maybe it's sulferine

I am a dark mysterious thing!

I think I can handle it. 😄

Expansion with that intention, certainly.

I suspect the hidden meaning is that guys apparently cheat on people who are fundamentally no different to the person they're cheating on.

The implication being that guys cheat for the sake of it, rather than because there's a difference in the person they're with.

For clarity, I'm not saying I believe any of that. I think it sounds like utter nonsense. No doubt it's true for some people, but I think applying it to a wider group isn't very reasonable.

I'm suddenly both curious and terrified to go and check if there's any rule 42 of Squid Daddy.

It's interesting to consider the definition of real in that sense then, because many experiences do not have an objective cause, or at least not one that directly correlates to the subjective experience.

God, evil, ghosts, happiness. They're real In the sense that we can experience them, however, the shared understanding largely comes from an internal place, a necessary agreement of experience with the concepts of its objects.

Sorry, I'll clarify!

I mean that atheists engage in the meaning making process you describe, so they have clear ideas of evil to help them with that.

Whilst divinity is largely the preserve of the theists, in their myriad variety, evil is a moral concept invented and defined by all individuals and groups, whether Consciously or unconsciously.

Is this what Thomas Aquinas was talking about when he was discussing dancing on the head of a pin? 😁

So, Is there a C?

Like, if A (god set this in motion with foreknowledge) is true then B (god did so with intention to arrive at the anticipated outcomes) is not also true?

Is there another answer? God set All this in motion knowing what would happen, and yet the outcome was not his intention? 🤪

I don't think that's true, if you see what I said I was explaining it as a conditional statement, rather than a belief.

Certainly, that was the Gnostics viewpoint. It has as much merit as any other

No, I'm totally not a believer in a deity or anything like that. Given the quantity (and quality) of internet discussions around the topic I can understand how you might have gotten to that idea.

Personally I'm more interested in how humans arrive at their different ideas of evil, whilst holding very firm to their particular views, a process which is much like how people invented their gods only it also happens amongst the athiests.

Edit. Wanted to add that people don't build massive monuments to teapots or build cultural identities around them, so far as I know, so I think you've raised a false equivalence there.