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Evil

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Anonymous page 147.

Seems dualistic.

When I first began thinking about the problem of evil and the nature of God in 1997 at Trinity Western University, back in my Christian education days, I had this idea that God being infinite and eternal was also considered omnibenevolent.

This being the case if God was dualistic, God would also be infinite and omnimalavolent and therefore God would be a contradictory being and could not exist. As well, if God did exist dualistically, if even possible, any life God would create being something good should be instantly destroyed by God's equally very evil infinite nature. I still agree with this today.

Therefore, I do not think the quotation is true. Rather in our reality whether in a Biblical or Deistic one, and I hold to the Biblical one, an infinite God created finite beings that commit evil.

God

This only denied to God: the power to undo the past. Agathon page 192.

Biblically as God is infinite, omnipotent and sovereign he would not need to undo the past as it occurred according to his plans although admittedly much of it may have been in regard to finite creation in fallen reality, permissible will over perfect will that would have taken place in a perfect reality.

However with humanity there are many regrets.

My former pastor now sixty years old states that when you reach sixty years old you realize that you have many more regrets than when you were forty years old and so on.

The idea is to be to prayerfully wise with an open-mind in order to avoid regrets.

Reason

It's common for men to give pretend Reasons instead of one real one. Benjamin Franklin page 381.

Like the National Hockey League favouring Seattle over Quebec City for the relocation of the Phoenix franchise if Glendale council does not arrive at a new agreement with the new potential ownership group.

Questionable philosophical reasoning:

Seattle has never had an NHL franchise in the nearly one-hundred year history of the League.

According to a recent New York times article statistically based on web searches Seattle has 5% avid hockey fans compared to 6% in Phoenix and with a slightly larger population in the Seattle area, there are still more avid hockey fans in Phoenix. And yet, Seattle is assumed to be the better hockey market by many in the media and on the web. Phoenix, with the team in Glendale has a difficult arena deal.

New York Times

Seattle has an old outdated Key Arena which can be updated somewhat, but it was never built for hockey, but for basketball. The Seattle Supersonics left for Oklahoma because for one, the arena was outdated. The arena seats 11, 000 for hockey.

The Tacoma Dome is another local arena but is not a major league NHL style arena but could work as a temporary facility.

With no National Basketball Association club arriving anytime soon as the move of the Sacramento Kings to Seattle was blocked by the NBA recently, Seattle with the NBA as the lead tenant over the NHL in any arena has no actual NHL style arena being built.

In other words, there are plans but no arena being built likely until an NBA team is found first.

The assumption is made by many in the media and on the web that Seattle's proximity to Vancouver makes it a natural hockey market, but the New York Times article, although it grants Seattle a team because Greater Vancouver is not likely to get a second one, and just cultural common sense make this questionable. As someone from Greater Vancouver it would seem that football, basketball and baseball would all be before hockey in the Seattle area, and in Greater Vancouver hockey is the main sport.

Therefore, the cultures are vastly different.

All of a sudden this last week on Hockey Night in Canada it is leaked by the League that there are two potential owners for the Seattle NHL team and that would be where Phoenix would move if Glendale does not cooperate.

Meanwhile in Quebec City, according to the New York Times article, 48% of the persons are avid hockey fans with a much smaller population than Seattle or Phoenix with roughly twice the fan base of either area.

The city is fixing up the old arena, the Colisee to temporarily house an NHL team if relocated and is building a new state of the art, NHL style arena for 400 million.

The team to be owned by Canadian media giant Quebecor.

The League chooses Seattle, not officially but according to media leaks.

Supposedly because, it would not interfere with Western Conference realignment.

Reasonable, but in the larger picture, that could be fixed regardless of where the team was relocated.

Columbus for example could stay in the Western Conference, although probably not what the franchise wants.

Or the Conferences could just have odd numbers if Quebec was in the East.

Supposedly the League wants to at a later date collect a larger expansion fee from Quebec City.

Very questionable.

The League owns the Phoenix franchise. It could simply charge that fee now with any relocation.

The game will grow more by placing a club in a non-traditional hockey market.

Very questionable.

The New York Times academic, statistical article and other posts I have read, and my own philosophical deductions reason that the best potential markets for growth ironically are Southern Ontario, Montreal and Vancouver. Now admittedly, Montreal and Vancouver do not have other new NHL style arenas, but Southern Ontario does have a new one being build in Markham and Hamilton has shown as interest in having theirs updated but the League always resists a move there.

It is also very questionable that any existing team is the three per capita most lucrative hockey markets in Canada would be negatively financially impacted by a competitor that very likely would never become as lucrative, as in being as large of a business/franchise.

It is reasonable to deduce that more new fans will be found in areas where there is more media coverage and culture related to newer teams. That would be in traditional markets where the team is the most popular sport or close to it.

My conclusion is the League favours a move to Seattle over Quebec City because most of the teams and owners are American and they do not want another team moving to a 'foreign' country, that is Canada at this point. The last team to move was Atlanta to Winnipeg in 2011. They do want two franchise shifts in a row to a 'foreign' country. This regardless of the facts that the team would make more money in Quebec City than Seattle very likely, and even more in Hamilton certainly and perhaps eventually Markham certainly. Southern Ontario having a much larger population and fan base than anywhere in Canada. The most lucrative market in the world.

This is blatant anti-Canada.

I am not being anti-American at all here. The New York Islanders are moving from Long Island to Brooklyn in a few years and in my mind Brooklyn in an excellent new market, within an existing Greater New York market.

If this was Brooklyn versus Quebec City, I think it would be a toss up.

Related recent philosophical post from my other slightly more academic blog

Very funny, today during the 'Stunley Cup Finals' a story came out that the New Jersey Devils could not make an interest payment on their debt.

Now there are rumours that the team could move. Personally, I think that the three time Stanley Cup Champions are in a reasonably good market as the second or third team in Metropolitan New York. I would think Brooklyn will eventually be better being closer to Manhattan...

Someone 'loves', Mr. Bettman and the League to release the story right at the showcase of the League while the Phoenix debacle is already occurring.

Fatastic timing.

I wonder if it is someone from the United States or Canada that may agree with my views?

Hmmm....

Hell

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Karl Marx page 215.

With all the false philosophies in the world, including Communism and Marxist-Socialism, I certainly agree.

Proverbs 9:10 English Standard Version

10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Reading

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. The Book of Common Prayer page 378.

Fully agree, and ask for the guidance of God and related action.

Douglas, Auriel and Strumpf, Michael (1998) Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations, Macmillian, New York, USA.

Me, writing this post in progress on June 17, 2013.