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» redback - '20 questions'?

"I guess my point is that we only have choices from what is made available to us."

This silly bugger read your post as if you weren't getting a fair dinkum response outside Laurie's page. Hence the repeated 'sorry'!

The above quote of yours is not a statement in a vacuum I guess is the first point I'd make in response having read countless posts by you. Having made the point about 'choice' whatever you mean by that term, it goes no deeper than burgers and pizza"??? OK...we can now play with "limited choice" 'made available to us' but I've lost the sense of it in context with what I thought was the purpose of your post.

We can't go to the planet Dag because there is no planet?
We can't go the planet Dag because Dag is not allowing us that option?
We can't go to the planet Dag because we have no insight nor skill base to get us there? Etc Etc
(Please replace "Dag" with any other concept to make the purpose of your post clearer to me)

It is manifestly obvious to me that if I walk into a store that only sells apples AND I have enough money with me at the time...I either buy apples...or not. The store could offer a free apple/s, I could rob the place etc etc. Earlier, I could choose not to walk into the store or even leave home. And Laurie, we can play similar examples with the overlapping choices involved in pizza and burgers alone or bring in others.

I can't connect the dots to 'Jesus' whatever you mean by that term nor to the term "choose". Yes, there have been mention made of Jesus in my life as well as Islam etc as per my first post. Forget all the falderow of doctrine, etc.. has to limit my responses on the why of life in that context.

I really thought my posts sought more.

"Why do people on welfare keep making the wrong choices?"

Do they really? I certainly did not state that...nowhere near it so you simply replace my opinion with conflicting questions. What is meant by "wrong"? Do people on and off welfare always make the "right" or best choices in their lives for every important and unimportant decision they have to make or want to make...or don't make? And once we get that answer, take it back to the purpose of the post...and give me feedback.

Is there such a thing as the power of positive thinking or is it all like as Hagee-based, scam based? And if it truly exists, is it not an inner power under our control etc etc. Do our choices even if 'limited' whatever that term means, exceed our physical and etc capacity to accept anyway?

If it was all simply about asking why we should or shouldn't accept "Jesus as our personal saviour" twas surely convoluted. BUT at the moment, totally happy to not understand the point you are making. As you note in my apologetic 2nd post, you'll really have to get the answers you say you seek, from other posters.

-- posted by redback