you know first impressions can end up being right. do your co-workers think your gay because you're friends with him? if not, then try him as a roommate.

of course we have free will. watch the news, we all have free will. suicide is part of free will. what keeps us from acting out in certain ways, is the fear that society places on us (jail time for robberies, if caught; retaliation from others who oppose and so on) but that all falls under consequences which don't apply to free will. i follow a simple motto (do what ye will, harm none). it's a wiccan motto--i think but doesn't mean i'm a bad christian for following that belief.

that's why i like you funches. we don't know and will probably never know. again, all i have is faith. the bible was written by man (with man's views and prejudices) so i don't study it and i don't necessarily accept it as the final word of g-d. i just believe without having to see because i associate g-d with hope. just as i believe that there is a g-d, i believe there is a trickster causing us to lose faith, question g-d's existence and so on. i would hope that g-d would not ask me to kill anyone but i pray that if someone comes at me, he'll give me the strength to kill them first. of course, g-d would have an army of angels. he's a leader who must assure the protection his people but i've never seen an angel and i've never seen one slay anything or anyone so i can't really speak on that

i don't agree, there's nothing about consequences in free will. it about free choice "the ability or discretion to choose". consequences don't apply since they come after. if you're gonna choose to do bad things, bad things will happen to you (the law of karma; ever action has an equal reaction rule) which makes good sense to me.