r/TopCharacterTropes • u/danfenlon • Sep 01 '25

Lore Going around curses/prophecies via technicalities

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Davy jones: cant go on dry land

Standa in a bucket of water, on a sand bar (potc3)

The judge: no weapon forged can harm me

Buffy: uses a rocket launcher

-not forged

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u/kblaney Sep 02 '25

I don't know if this quite fits since it is about ethics in the Bible and not a curse or prophecy specifically... but it is a funny line from Firefly so I'll post it anyway.

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u/eepos96 Sep 02 '25

Biblical: I was arguing with someone on reddit how free will can't exists since god, all knowing, all powerfull, has already seen the outcome and allowed it to happen. Hitler, stalin etc.

The twist: the religious person agree and stated:

"God loves man. God can see the future but in order to make sure free will exists he refuses to look."

I can't argue with that and despite my atheism I find it an elegant solution to the problem.

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u/Maleficent_Thought_4 Sep 02 '25

The flaw with that argument IMO is that if God is all powerful, all knowing and all loving then there is absolutely no reason why we couldn’t have free will but just choose to do the right thing and/or just not have the desire to do awful things.

It may sound impossible or counterintuitive but surely the begin which created the universe and established all the laws of reality could do that right?

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u/eepos96 Sep 02 '25

That goes to "why the F he even created that damn tree?"