I can think of some good purposes in life.


First off, I'd like kids born without faces to have faces: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-girl-born-without-a-face-Treacher-Collins-Syndrome

Second off, I'd like to give "harlequin babies" a full lifespan and the qualities of human babies instead of looking like monsters: http://www.videosift.com/video/Harlequin-Ichthyosis-Extreme-Genetic-Disorder

Third off, I'd like kids born with mixed genders (partially formed male and female reproductive organs) to have only 1 gender. I'm not talking about a cosmetic band-aid, like cutting off their partially formed male reproductive organ and calling them a girl, I'm talking about genuinely 1 gender per baby.


I don't see how someone could make an argument for these conditions. (Best of all possible worlds, right?)

fake subtitles over bad acting over green screens -- this is the worst of all possible worlds. i'm going to kill myself now.

Well, it's a matter of regulations. So let's compare with F1: FINA speed swimmers are allowed to wear speedos/suits (carrosserie) but aren't allowed to add propulsion with finns (motors).
I think it would be interesting to also have speed swimming without suits (with speedos , so there would be even more possible world swimming records.

wow. remember when this conversation was about jesus and free will, rather than christianity (and religion overall) vs atheism?

coincidentally, i recently read an interesting philosophical point on this exact argument (the free will one):

"1. God is all powerful. anything possible is within his power.
2. God is all knowing.
3. God is perfectly good.
4. there is evil in the world.

traditionally theists have accepted these four claims, but many philosophers have argued that they are incompatible. if god is all powerful, he could have mad a world without evil. and since a world without evil is better than a world with evil, how could a perfectly benevolent god knowingly create a world in which there is evil?

one solution is to deny that god bears responsibility for the evil in the world. supporters of this view argue god created the world, but mankind created the evil. Mankind has free will, and the only way god could have prevented evil is by not giving us free will. but, the argument goes, a world in which we do not have free will would be even worse than the actual world. therefore, god made the best possible choice: he created mankind with free will, which led to there being evil.

of course, this theory does not resolve the problem of natural evil--hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis that cause death and suffering. god could have created a natural world with fewer disasters that kill innocent people. so why didnt he?

Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz responded to this question by famously claiming that this is the best of all possible worlds. admittedly, there are features of this world that are bad. for instance, the existence of deadly hurricanes. however, argued leibniz, a world without deadly hurricanes would be worse than this world. for instance, it would lack the elegant natural laws that govern the behavior of weather."

just needed to get that out and i read this whole thread to do it. im'o go to bed now.

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."
- Thomas Jefferson

"A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The priests of the different religious sects dread the advance of science as witches do the the approach of daylight, and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subdivision of the duperies on which they live."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason than of blindfolded fear."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father, in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter"
- Thomas Jefferson

"Lighthouses are more useful than churches"
- Benjamin Franklin

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason"
- Benjamin Franklin

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it"
- John Adams

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..."
- Treaty of Tripoli, 1796

"During the presidential campaign of 1880, the Christian Union made the startling admission that, of the nineteen men who, up to that time, had held the office of President of the United States, not one, with the Possible exception of Washington, had ever been a member of a Christian church.
- Remsburg (1906)