IDEAS & NOTES.

Contextualize everything as a compliment.

“Not compromise,” said Vail. “Negotiate. In a compromise everybody loses. In a negotiation, everybody wins.”

An idea without a hook is just a topic. Topics are cheap.

So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.