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“And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?”
“Is evil a force that swims in human blood, struggling to find its way into the heart, or is it an external possibility wanting to be formed?”
In spite of his wholehearted embrace of the church, he still felt no holier—and maybe less—than any drunk on the street might.
“Do you like riddles? Here’s a riddle to jog your mind: What falls but never breaks? What breaks but never falls?”
Some madman who called himself Slater just called my cell phone and threatened to blow up my car.
Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.
That Slater had been in Kevin’s house was no longer open to question. What else did Slater know?
Lmao. He’s your other personality, Kevin. He’s everywhere!!…
The two of you can put your stinking heads together and figure it out.”
Isn’t it like 2005? Just look it up, dude.
Many people of both genders had difficulty accepting both beauty and excellence from the same person.
Slater obviously knew his facts, but how would he have knowledge of Bob’s dog?
Because he’s you! Lol
The boy was licking Sam’s window in slow circles.
hawt
“You think you’re in love with this little tramp? Huh? You’re too stupid and too young to know what love is. And so is she. I’m going to teach her love, baby, and I don’t need a squat like you messing with our little romance.”
Yikes.
“We have three minutes, three calls, three rules, a riddle with three parts, three months. You think our guy likes threes?”
He’s black and you’re white. He’s made his first move and you’ve made yours.
Um, white always moves first bro...
He didn’t remember opening the fridge,
Multiple personalities!!
You don’t think I’ve seen a grown man cry before? I could tell you some stories. There’s nothing quite like watching a three-hundred-pound, heavily tattooed gorilla sob uncontrollably for an hour.
“The evil that lies in all of us,” the professor said. “Not blatant hypocrisy, but deception. Not even realizing that the sin we regularly commit is sin at all. Going about life honestly believing that we are pure when all along we are riddled with sin.”
What’s especially damaging in both cases is that neither the man who harbors anger nor the woman who gossips seriously considers the evil of their own actions. Their sins remain hidden. This is the true cancer in the church.”
“Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception. ‘The good that I would, that I do not do and that which I would not, that I do.’ Welcome to the church in America.”
Saint Paul drew a distinction between some sins and others. Although he did place gossip in the most vile category.”
Yeah, but Paul was a snowflake, so...
“That to hate a man is the same as killing him. Perhaps the gossipers are murderers after all.”
Nope. This is one of the worst of Jesus's teachings. I hate it so much. There are degrees of right and wrong. Big time. Any reasonable person accepts this.
Considering his childhood, Multiple Personality Disorder may not be out of the question—
Bwahahaha!!
I’m gonna put a slug in your filthy heart, you lying sack of maggot meat? What was that?
I know he said it wasn’t you, but I’m not sure what that means.”
Sam
Man is primarily a spiritual being.”
No.
If Good and Evil could talk to each other, what would they say?
If Good and Evil could talk to each other, what would they say?
Decker’s exploration of morality and the nature of men. Notice that the good personality has God and the evil personality does not, yet they’re the same man. This is his (shitty) argument for man’s needing God to be moral.
“Either way, even if both voiceprints match Kevin’s, we won’t know if both really are his until we rule out the use of a seismic tuner.
Wtf? That’s backwards
Most humans are truly murderers,
WHO LOVES WHAT HE SEES, but hates what he loves?” Dr. Francis said. “Every man, every woman, every child beyond the age of accountability.”
The dilemma goes back to Eve and the apple in the garden. Sin.”
the single greatest ally of evil is darkness. That is my point. I don’t care what faith you have or what you say you believe, whether you go to church every Sunday or pray to God five times a day. If you keep the evil nature hidden, like most do, it thrives.”
“The struggle between good and evil, embodied in a man who is role-playing both good and evil and yet is still himself as well. Kevin Parson.”
“If Sam is Kevin, then she has to be told! He has to be told! He can’t deal with this on his own. No one can deal with evil on their own!”
The good, the bad, and the poor soul struggling between them.
“but how is it that you, supposedly a ‘regenerated’ man, devoted servant of God, still struggle with evil?” “Because I am a creature of free will,”
Lol. I love how with Christians the answer is always free will…
“She was right. We are all powerless to deal with Slater on our own.”
Back to this absurd main theme that we need God to be moral. Ick!
