We had a discussion in class today about the existence of god, and the question of why god doesn't stop evil things from happening.
I (being the one who doesn't believe in any deity) argued that an all-loving, all powerful god would be a paradoxal douchebag to not help innocent children from being tortured and molested, even though he/she has given us free will.
The answer to this was that "What separates us from animals is that they only act on instinct, while we have the gift of free will", followed by a gigantic wave of applause, as well as the teacher telling us class was over, leaving me as the loser of the debate.
And I didn't get to tell them how weak that argument was, how there was absolutely no fact to back that statement up (the person who said it used the Quran as a source of information), and it has been irritating me all day.
And to make the whole day worse, I downloaded Can's "Tago Mago" (great album, by the way), only to find that one of the song files were corrupt, and that I have to pay for the whole album again just to be able to download that ONE song.
I will try to contact iTunes and so on, but OH GOD, it's not pleasant.
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