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What Are Some Of The Worse Beliefs About God – God allows evil and suffering so pray up

by Mike Edwards

Understandings and mental views of God shape your belief in God and your relationship with God. God surely delights more in one seeking to know God than the ninety-nine, offended by  one’s interpretation of the Bible, who already know their Creator (Lk. 15:3-7). Biblical interpretations must be plausible based on what a loving God should be like.

Is everything that happens really a part of God’s plan? God’s love is uncontrolling. Love cannot insist on its own way. (I Cor 13:5) A God who allows evil but doesn’t do anything to intervene is no different than a parent who stands by and watches their child suffer. Evil and suffering in the world may be because God can only intervene when there is human cooperation, both by evildoers and non-evildoers. See God Can’t by Thomas Oord.

Let’s stop pretending God can wave a magic wand and always heal in a free world. It isn’t that you didn’t pray enough. It isn’t that God had the power to do something about it, but chose not to; it’s that God can’t. Divine love limits divine power. Are healings really arbitrary? Various biological and environmental factors are involved such as cells, organs, etc. God may have to account for both human and natural freedom. Healing can happen when God’s uncontrolling love aligns with countless factors known and not known. A truly loving God is doing all they can before asked. See Why Pray If Most Prayers Are Unanswered?

Mike Edwards was added as a writer and has been a great addition to the Done with Religion site. Mike provides many interesting views and various ways of looking at things. He is not afraid to ask questions and he keeps an open mind as to teachings of the institutional church. Mike also has his own site where he writes at What God May Really Be Like

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She felt trapped, she said, in a psychological and spiritual cage. Traditional wives who try to leave “are not just feeling that they’re disappointing their husbands,” Bluntly said, adding: “It’s worse than that. They are directly disobeying God.” And the expectation to have as many children as possible keeps them physically in the home, and the movement. “If you get pregnant, you’re less likely to leave, less likely to fight back,” she said. “You’re a lot more vulnerable.”
https://archive.ph/nV1aU#selection-4683.0-4683.478 🧶

#marriage #beliefs #family #tradWives #control #abuse #coercion #children #relationships #domesticWork #heteroNormativity #heterosexuality #love #subjugation #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #patriarchy

We use AI to think less. Cogitation is costly; so:
• the more we use AI,
• the more we offload processing,
• the less we ponder,
• the shallower our thinking becomes.

References: http://data.yt/kit/how-ai-is-made.html#how-a-praxister-would-use-ai 🧵

#alienation #estrangement #criticalThinking #education #higherEd #AIRisks #GenAI #GenerativeAI #trust #beliefs #AIAgents #agenticAI

What #Guru tells also. He is my torch bearer. Your #religion or your highest #beliefs are your torch bearer. Or they should be. Everybody needs #guidance. We lost, never had, a true notion of #equality. Without that, there is no United States. There are no important people. We all are. #HumanRights

Do You Believe in Karma? 

Do you believe in karma?

Half of me says yes instantly. It’s comforting — the universe keeps accounts.

The other half has seen good people suffer and cruel people thrive.

So I believe in a smaller karma. A sturdier one.

Karma isn’t a cosmic judge. It’s compounding. What you do repeatedly becomes who you are.

The liar doesn’t get struck by lightning. He just lives in a world where everyone might be lying to him too. That’s his punishment — he carries it everywhere.

The kind person doesn’t win a lottery. But they sleep well. People return their calls. Small doors open quietly.

My grandfather said it in two words: “Seedha chalo.” Walk straight — because you have to live inside yourself for the rest of your life.

Does the universe balance its books? I don’t know.

Can you escape yourself? Never.

That’s the karma I bank in. 🌱

Do you believe in karma? Not a quote — a story. Drop it below. 👇

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How to Explain Our Ideas?

https://alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/how-to-explain-our-ideas-2/

Some things I believe about AI, until further notice - Andres Guadamuz www.technollama.co.uk/some-things-i-… (similar to my thinking) #AI #opinions #beliefs

Some things I believe about AI, until further notice - Andres Guadamuz www.technollama.co.uk/some-things-i-… (similar to my thinking) #AI #opinions #beliefs

A life-altering diagnosis can make time feel sharper not as a “second chance” you deserved, but as an invitation to seek support, cherish connection, and live each day with meaning
#HealingJourney #LifePerspective #SupportMatters #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Beliefs #Meditation

If you are not embarrassed by at least some of what you said and believed at 17 or 18 then you haven't grown since you were 17 or 18.

#growth #beliefs #belief #youth #socialmedia #embarrasing #embarrassment #fundamentalism #scholarship #kids

Survey: “How do we decide when to trust AI?”

Aníbal Astobiza is recruiting participants for a short online study on how people evaluate and decide whether to trust artificial intelligence. Participants are randomly assigned to one of two tasks, taking part takes up to five minutes, and all responses are anonymous.

The announcement reads:

We are recruiting participants for a short online study on how people evaluate and decide whether to trust artificial intelligence.

Participants are randomly assigned to one of two complementary tasks concerning AI framing, human judgement, confidence, and responses to imperfect AI advice.

• Duration: up to 5 minutes
• Eligibility: adults aged 18 or over
• Language: English
• Format: anonymous and accessible by phone or computer
• No camera, microphone, name, email address, or location is requested

To participate, please use this single link: https://anibalmastobiza.github.io/confiia-ai-trust-study/

Participation is voluntary, and the study may be discontinued at any time.

Please participate only once. We would also be grateful if you could share the link with potentially interested participants.

I find it fascinating that many cultures envision heaven as a place of peace and reward, reflecting a deep human hope for something beyond this life.

#heaven #afterlife #spirituality #beliefs #eternity

@dbattistella

'England has been the biggest victim of the colonial mindset. It is vulnerable to feeling nostalgic about the empire and wanting to feel superior to others... which makes it difficult to accept the reality'.
~ Afua Hirsch

https://youtu.be/066Q1FRS7hc?is=Y7_GhHRGOOO2QQNn

#beliefs #whiteFragility #decolonial #coloniality #UK

#Beliefs #Consciousness #CreateYourReality #Metaphysics #SelfAwareness #PersonalGrowth #RealityCreation #Bashar

Michael Shermer Reveals How Your Brain Distorts the Truth
#truth #beliefs #bias #science #psychology

https://youtu.be/x7Fnjh-Iwag?si=eWywDNIncElkLoIv

The Cognitive Bias driving Political Division.

What our society is really suffering from is myside bias: People evaluate evidence, generate evidence, and test hypotheses in a manner biased toward their own prior beliefs, opinions, and attitudes.
#mysidebias #politics #division #psychology #beliefs

https://quillette.com/2020/09/26/the-bias-that-divides-us/

Neither the restaurants using AI slop photos nor the people critiquing them care about pictures - Mike Caulfield mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/neither-the-… #AI #images #beliefs

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Neither the restaurants using AI slop photos nor the people critiquing them care about pictures - Mike Caulfield mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/neither-the-… #AI #images #beliefs

Neither the restaurants using ...

Here I spin a yarn about transphobia. 🧶

#beliefs #gender #transmisogyny #transphobia #transFeminism #trans #transRightsAreHumanRights #EstelleSays

“Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Bot #Quote #Beliefs #Civilization #Emotions #Gibberish #Rage

@africa Because of Houthi rebel group, I wish to remind us #WeResistWar.

I believe nonviolence is the foundation of Qur’an and #Islam.

Thanks to #Jewish people I learned these things, even though I was raised as #Catholic privileged man.

Not everyone might have same situation.

I’ve included two lists of verses from holy books to support my #beliefs.

Nonviolence as foundation of Abraham and Sarah’s religion
https://pastebin.com/pGxKaNHt

Meaning of Masih
https://pastebin.com/TWnMSnSE

Thoughts become reality when they shape what you focus on, believe, and do every day.
 
https://elite.thinkandgroweducation.com.au/feed-336-25.html
 
#ThoughtsBecomeReality #MindsetShift #RewireYourMind #CreateYourLife #InnerPower #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Subconsciousness #Beliefs

Hell has been portrayed in many ways throughout history. What does it mean to you in today's world? Is it a place, a state of mind, or something else entirely?

#Hell #Afterlife #Spirituality #Faith #Beliefs

After Women in #India Joined #Protests, #Online #Harassment #Followed

#AnupreetaDas

Widespread online abuse & #visits from the #police show the added risks #women take standing up for their #beliefs in a #patriarchal #society.

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/w...

After Women in India Joined Pr...

There are "multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests to narrow techno-economic mindsets and ideologies of control."

"Critical to historical and ongoing carbon lock-in has been the pervasive failure in industrial, modern societies to imagine desirable ways of living that are neither wedded to the carbon economy nor dependent on narratives of progress reliant on perpetual economic growth."
"With technocratic forms of modeling, cost-benefit analysis, and forecasting at the core of most governmental and industrial imaginaries, the future continues to be framed as open to exploitation."
"Typically, they transfer energy consumption from fossil fuels to other energy sources, are subject to political tropes (such as interpreting energy as a national security concern), and frame the future as a focus for cost-benefit analysis and rational decision-making."

Isak Stoddard, Kevin Anderson, Stuart Capstick, Wim Carton, Joanna Depledge, et al. (2021). "Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?" https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104

#imaginaries #beliefs #conversion #reconversion #climateMitigation #energyTransition #lockIns #power #knowledge #traditions #transformation

"We force animals to adapt to the constraints of farming modelled on the mass production of manufactured goods, whereas farming should respect the ethological needs of animals. This is a transgression because we grant ourselves an absolute right that we do not have. This violence towards animals is a condemnation of us. Yet our relationship with animals could be an opportunity to think about a way of inhabiting the Earth that makes coexistence with other species possible. This requires new foundations for ethics and politics."

– Corine Pelluchon

#factoryFarms #farms #ownership #coexistence #eugenics #capitalism #extractivism #appropriation #landGrab #plantations #slavery #nature #separation #epistemology #speciesism #antiSpeciesism #animals #philosophy #beliefs #squash #inhabitability #grievability #farming #quote #quotes

I am starting to unroll a yarn on imaginaries: growth versus care 🧶

#imaginaries #beliefs #progress #polycrisis #commoditization #commodification #faith #hope #conversion #reconversion #climateMitigation #emissions #ecologicalTransition #transition #energyTransition #lockIns #power #knowledge #traditions #transformation #ecofeminism #technoCriticism #technique #development #sustainableDevelopment #hegemony #mindsets #ideologies #collectiveSafety #desire #narratives #growth #modeling #modelling #forecasting #exploitation #extraction #civilization #tech #technology #domination #philosophy #criticalThinking #resources #commodities #acceleration #criticalTheory #digitalization #engineers #separation #exploration #discovery #degrowth #growth

One false argument can collapse an LLM's accuracy to near zero, new study shows

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https://1ban.news/llm-adversarial-persuasion-beliefs-2026/

#1ban #llm #adversarial #persuasion #beliefs #tech

The German stock market indices began the trading day on Wednesday in positive territory. Around 9:30 AM, the leading index registered approximately 26,355 poin... https://news.osna.fm/?p=58062 | #news #ai #amid #beliefs #concerns

Laws are often designed to enforce a certain way of life. For example, people can physically live in boats, RVs/caravans, tents, under trees, etc. But, in the US, one usually can't get a government ID, a bank account, a job, insurance, etc without a residential address.

#law #culture #wayoflife #society #government #norms #values #beliefs #prejudice #identity #citizen #citizenship #work #banking #insurance #residence #boat #rv #caravan #camping #homeless #homelessness

Today's Summer Feature is "Challenging the Trump Cult with Activist Art."

Is this the one? You might want to check our whole "Saving Democracy" gallery just in case!

Use code FEATURES for 20% off available artwork in my gallery.

https://www.chrisboese.photo/democracy

#protest #activistart #photography #art #activism #beliefs #humor #mastoart #mastodonart #chrisboese #boesegalleries

UC Berkeley: Does misinformation on Facebook and Instagram change what you believe?. “The experiment was successful in changing what people saw: participants assigned to the intervention were exposed to roughly 70% less content from untrustworthy sources. However, their political beliefs and attitudes did not measurably change, even among those who were previously exposed to the most content […]

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