Ask Me Anything

One of the rea­sons I have been incon­sis­tent with blog­ging in the past was that I would just run out of things to talk about. In hopes that you will not let me run out of mate­r­ial, I’ve started a Form­Spring account. Feel free to ask me any­thing! The goal is to write a post at least once every other day, and I’ll answer ques­tions on days I don’t have a post already in mind.

The first ques­tion comes from Form­Spring itself:

If you could ask God one ques­tion what would it be?”

I’m def­i­nitely not a monothe­ist (from Penny Arcade), so if I were to dis­cover that there was a sen­tient and omnipo­tent cre­ator being, I would prob­a­bly be a smart-​ass like T-​Rex (from Dinosaur Comics). But sup­pos­ing that I did meet this cre­ator and keep the pres­ence of mind to ask a seri­ous question…

The first ques­tion that comes to mind is, “Why do bad things hap­pen to us?” But I’m reminded of the but­ter­fly para­ble, and it makes sense. We must be chal­lenged to grow great. So next, I would think to ask, “Why allow evil when nature already chal­lenges us?” But then I think of the ques­tion of free choice and pre­des­tiny. If we can no noth­ing but good, then we have no free choice and with­out free choice, is “good” actu­ally “good” ? If you value growth and free choice, I guess I answered my own ques­tion. Hmm… does that make me God?

Just kid­ding! But really, I have no idea what I would ask. Most likely, “Why?” They never said I could only ask once, right? :)

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  1. Where do babies come from? What is your favorite color? What is the answer to the ulti­mate ques­tion of life, the uni­verse, and every­thing? Who is the mom from HIMYM? Do you still have GIR and where is it now?

  2. Thanks for the ques­tions, I’ve queued them all up. :)

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