Commentary

Who wants to be good?

SO THE INFAMOUS Joel Andem was caught last Wednesday, by the police acting on what yesterday's edition of the police publication in THE STAR On The Beat described as 'a result of months of intensive intelligence-led police/military operations'. Whatever else it was, it was not routine, since the wanted man had to be led away, since he was irritating the officers carrying him off with his singing.

Yes, singing.

Wanted for various heinous crimes, captured and he goes off singing. Granted, he is yet to be convicted of the same so perhaps he knows something I do not.

Well good work on the part of the security forces.

I wonder who or what betrayed him -- or combination of the two?

Talking about crime..

If there is a heaven, it must be as boring as hell. Who on earth wants to be good all the time? Who wants eternal bliss? Be honest, we were not made that way and we get bored extremely easily ­ unless you're rather unimaginative of course, in which case you are already in hell but have no idea that is the case.

Let's see, God is omnipotent, all-knowing, blah blah blah, so he must have known exactly what was going to happen right? At least, if you are thinking logically. Let's see, we have a nude Adam and Eve strolling around the Garden of Eden with the Tree of Life and the Tree of Good and Evil and they are told not to touch it.

If there is a better recipe to get someone to do something than to tell them not to do so without informing them of the possible consequences, I have yet to come across it. So Eve picks the fruit, which may have been sex or an actual apple, depending on who you talk to and she seduces Adam into partaking and bam! That's it. Time for fig leaves and exile.

Why? What was the point? God must have known what was going to happen, so why bother? Free will, I think, is the answer. It's along the lines of give a dog a length of rope and hang him. Or in this case, let him hang himself.

Free will is the name of the game, which is why I do not believe in destiny. Nothing is pre-ordained. We make our chances, we screw up, and then it is time for the great pie in the sky or the oven down below. Is it fair? In some ways no, but some rules really should be obeyed. Thou shall not kill ­ unless under extreme circumstances I tend to think ­ is one of them.

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