Right, Liz, space/time is infinite…so anything can be AND it can be at the same time.
Ah, you think you have Free Will with caps, but you only have free will with lower case. And that works just fine to allow you to make the choices that seem correct to you.
But…who cares?! In the long and expanded scheme of things, it doesn’t make any difference. 
Christians In Name Only CINOs Pelosi, Biden, etc. – I am reluctant to say whose faith means what to them. Ever since the mid-60s and 70s, we’ve seen this notion of “cafeteria Catholics” who pick and choose which details of dogma they accept and which they reject. It now can be seen that this practice is exercised even by those who identify as evangelicals, as well as more mainline Protestants. Christianity Today did a survey and article about it last September. That said, my own definition of what constitutes the core epic that any real Christian should be expected to believe in order to be a “real Christian” begins in a real Garden of Eden, with the fall of Adam and Eve through their disobedience and the penalty of Original Sin visited upon them and all of their descendants; then the necessity of a Redeemer Christ – as Son of the Father in a Triune God – to make possible the forgiveness of sins, and through faith in that Redeemer the avoidance of eternal damnation. But even these details are not universally accepted among those identifying as Christians. So when a liberal or leftist democrat professes a Christian faith, I grant a benefit of the doubt unless there are frank signs of insincerity.
What? That’s a very obscure comment, Jeanne!
I know you are talking there to Liz. But we all can read it. And wonder.
Should there be a “not” somewhere in your first sentence?
What’s the significance of caps versus lower case?
What “doesn’t make any difference” to what?
I am permanently astonished that sane, adult, educated people have believed the absurdities of Christian theology at all - and for so long!
And its ludicrous stories.
(Of course every religion, every mysticism is absurd, but it was Christianity that entranced the European mind and “in the splendor of the lilies … was borne across the sea” by Europeans.)
I’m not so much astonished as disgusted. Not astonished because I’ve learned that we are a tribal (or social) animal with evolved tribal cultures including languages, religions, folkways and livelihoods, etc., and so some kind of community belief pattern is natural, by human nature. What I find repulsive is that especially in America, the religious mindset has fixated on such a ridiculous and sometimes outright insane and cultish Christianity (e.g., governor Stitt’s Assembly of God Pentacostalism). It’s especially destructive to human prospects because of the political imbalance between the religious right and less religious left (even as the radical left invents new forms of cultish insanity). But I’m preaching to the choir here.
And I enjoyed your sermon, Zerothruster!
Thanks. I may add that sermon to my next edition of The Gathas. Would you be willing to write the Foreword? 
Yes, if you are willing to risk it.
What’s the Gathas?
The Gathas are the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism - the religion founded by Zarathustra. But for the new edition, I’ve decided to translate the title as Zerothruster’s Gotchas.
Haha! Well that should be interesting!
Do you mean about space/time being infinite? It is infinite.
Caps are reserved for the “really big” Free Will, while lower case is for the run-of-the-mill “free will.” Sorry, it seemed obvious to me. You know, “God gave Free Will”, but we exercise free will without its help all the time.
In the long run, it doesn’t make any difference if we actually were gifted Free Will by a deity or have free will to make choices about what we have offered to us in our history. Does it?
And it makes no difference whether we think we have free will or not. We will act the same way, no doubt.
You wrote, “so anything can be AND it can be at the same time.” Didn’t you mean “it can be and can not be at the same time”? Or what “can be at the same time” as what?
I still don’t understand what you mean by capitalized Free Will and lower case free will. I know you don’t believe that “God” gave anything.
Yes, we have to act as if we have free will, so we have free will.
Okay, that was way back, Jillian, sorry I did not answer your questions thoroughly.
If time/space is infinite (and I think it is) then anything can be, because we have no possibility of knowing that it is not…and, it can be present anywhere and anywhen at the same time/space that we may observe that it is.
“Free Will” I use to designate the believer’s demand that it comes from God or some other creator deity. Small letter “free will” I use to designate the notion that humans think they have free will. Whether we have free will or think we have free will is much the same notion that gives us a sense of control over our lives. To my mind, the difference is so subtle that it doesn’t really matter.
I reason that I think I have free will, but actually I do not. Or that I may have free will within the parameters of what my history (from the beginning of time) allows me to have. And this makes me feel that I can choose.
Thank you for the clarifications, Jeanne.
Well, I am glad you are clear…cuz I am as confused as heck!
I didn’t say I was clear. I only said you clarified your statements.
You took the trouble to clarify them, and I thank you for that.
Whether your clarifications make your statements convincing is a different question.
I understood that, Jillian. I was just joking with you. 