From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/18/25 2:48 AM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
      
   > Just the fact that you think you CAN debunk it shows   
   > your misunderstanding of the REALITY of the fine-tuning   
   > of the universe.   
      
   When I was a kid -- and I was a weird kid -- I would   
   sometimes be taken aback, even overwhelmed by all the   
   things that had to happen THROUGHOUT HISTORY for us   
   (me and whomever was in vicinity) to be here.   
      
   And it's true.   
      
   You've heard of the Butterfly Effect, right?   
      
   THAT!   
      
   All the wars, all the tragedies... the pain and suffering...   
   the plagues... slavery... shipwrecks... fires... earthquakes...   
      
   Those all had to happen. Take all that evil, all that   
   agony and we're not here. We don't exist. We just changed   
   the entire course of human EVOLUTION never mind history.   
      
   So did God do all that just so the Steven could cure my ear,   
   my brother's pancreas but not send me a 340 Plymouth Duster?   
      
   It's easy to look at how things did turn out and convince   
   ourselves that they were supposed to be that way.   
      
   It's normal to think like that.   
      
   And, perhaps in a way that soothes our egos, we can imagine   
   a multiverse where everything does turn out every way it can   
   potentially be, and this is *Our* way!  This is *Our*   
   universe, the one meant for *Us*.   
      
   So pray for me to get that car!   
      
      
      
      
   NOTE:  Not overly picky. Would take any of the A-Platform   
   (A-Body) Chryslers of the era. And there's even more   
   desirable engines than the 340!  I just always had a thing   
   for the 340 because I had a 1974 Valiant with the 318, I   
   loved that rotted out hunk with nothing on the dashboard   
   working, and the only way I could have loved it more, or so   
   I thought, is if it had a 4bbl and then a few years later   
   I saw a 340 Duster for sale and...   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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