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[Pyrotex]

Oh, you mean theological fatalism like this:

The Paradox of God and the Fruit Bowl
By Nelson Thompson
October, 2003

True Believer wrote:
I walk up to a fruit bowl, and there is one apple and one banana left.
I choose the apple.
God already knew that I would choose the apple.
But did God force me to choose the apple?
Was it really predetermined that I would choose the apple?
Or did God merely have knowledge of what the outcome of the
Appliance of my free will to this certain situation would be?

I respond:
You walk up to a fruit bowl.
God already knows that you will choose the apple.

But you have free will and you choose the banana.

This REALLY pisses off God.
He smites you with a massive heart attack,
And you die with a big bite of un-chewed banana
Lodged half way down your esophagus.
He rips your soul from your stiffening corpse
And flings it with contempt
Into the flaming pits of Hell’s deepest abyss.

Then God looks around a little shame-faced and says,
"Er...ah...I always knew this would happen.
Really. I've known it ever since the Creation.
This happened exactly according to my Eternal Plan!
And anybody who says otherwise is SMUCKING TOAST!!!"

The angels and demons look at each other nervously.
They say, "That's right God! You da Man! You da Man!"

And so it goes.