This sums it up perfectly,
as to how, if there is a creator God (which there isn’t),
he is surely not perfect in compassion and wisdom.
to give free will to his imperfect creation,

who also lacks perfect compassion and wisdom,
who thus make a mess of so many things.
And that things remain imperfect proves he is not omnipotent either,
because he doesn’t remove his mistake of giving free will and right it all.

And no one wanted free will from him,
while he forced it upon his creation with his free will.
So much for free will being free.
To save all the trouble, he ought to had removed his own free will in the first place.

What you find interest in
is what others
find interesting about you.

- Stonepeace

As such, to know whether someone is interesting to you, ‘What are your interests?’ is perhaps a much more relevant question than ‘What is your line of work?’, unless the person’s line of work is aligned to your interests. It is also interesting to ask, ‘Is your work also your interest?’ If the person is already retired, chose not to work, or is unable to work, ‘What are your interests?’ is even more relevant.

In the movie ‘Tree of Life’, a family is run by a authoritarian father. They are depicted to be not particularly special – American middle-class, attends church…  But the father is so strict and hard in his punishments that his children begin to fear him. A son even hated him to the extent of contemplating to kill him. With the film’s deliberate ambiguous backdrop hints of the possible existence of a heavenly creator father, the human father seems to parallel the inexplicable harshness of the other father’s merciless ‘tough love’, that inflicts pain and misery, that is often perceived to be unreasonable.

The human father later experienced ‘injustice’ at work, despite his hard work. It could not be explained even with belief in a heavenly creator father. That somehow led him to realise his failure as a father, and his asking of his son for forgiveness. He had almost literally passed down the ‘sins of the (“heavenly”) father’ to his son, who could have pass them down to his future children, the next generation. Self-justified projection of one’s ego through a perceived transcendental ego is frightening indeed. In reality, as there is no heavenly creator father, there will never be any apology for the harsh realities of life. As history shows, there has never been a single one.

Related Article:
God’s Impossible Burden of Proof
http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/10/gods-impossible-burden-of-proof

Sometimes, others think you give textbook answers to their questions,
when you did answer from the heart,
when they are already the best answers.

Sometimes, answers from the heart sound like textbook answers
because the listeners never took them to heart enough,
to realise they are really from the heart!

An email exchange:

X: Hi, Sales have been chasing for the media kits since last year. Can we have the final go-ahead on the design sent last week?
A: We are all aware that the media kits are a priority and we appreciate your help. However, the tone of your email below is inappropriate and not supportive of a team atmosphere. Please consider your tone when sending an email and, perhaps, consider a telephone call in its place.

S to X later: Your email ‘tone’ was okay. You started with a ‘Hi’ anyway. Looks like A was in a bad mood? It’s A’s tone that is not right! She read her own tone into your words! Tell you what – call her – and read from your exact email in a polite tone. ‘Hi, this was my intended tone: ‘Hi, Sales have been chasing for the media kits since last year. Can we have the final go-ahead on the design sent last week?’ Or don’t bother. Just add a smiley and resend to ‘show’ the intended tone! :-] What a waste of time – skirted the original email’s question too!

Advice to a reader, who lost money unfairly in a deposit:

If you feel that the time wasted and unhappiness caused is not worth the $200 lost, just let it go instead of pursuing it further endlessly, especially if you feel you have done reasonably enough already to right this wrong. It’s truly karmic then.

If you can’t accept the loss, be prepared to suffer more, paying ‘interest’ for indefinite time. Is it worth it? There’s no need to imagine losing money in similar ways in future – just be more careful.

To be unapologetic for one’s evil done makes one more evil.
To be ungrateful for others’ goodness done makes one less good.

- Stonepeace

Another instance on the importance
of acknowledging one’s misgivings
and acknowledging others’ gifts (of kindness).

From your perspective:

Stranger walks in lift.
No eye contact or words.
Just presses a button.

From stranger’s perspective:

Stranger in lift.
No eye contact or words.
Just press that button.

Bad faith is:

Knowing someone, something or some issue exists,
but pretends not to know, while pretending not to be pretending.
Who has bad faith towards who?

Complicate your thinking
Complicate your spoken words
Complicate your written words
Complicate your silence’s meaning

Complicate your actions
Complicate your walking, standing, sitting and lying down
Complicate your dressing
Complicate your eating

Complicate your home
Complicate your travelling
Complicate your work
Complicate your hobbies

Complicate your ageing
Complicate your sicknesses
Complicate your dying
Complicate your rebirths

Repeat the above, by making others’ lives complicated similarly.

Think the most convoluted ways possible,
believe in improbable theories,
clutter yourself with imaginary worries.

Say the most useless stuff possible,
spread many unprovable rumours,
confuse others with unfounded fears.

Do the most meaningless things possible,
live with near or total nonsense,
waste life with crazed tension.

Why be displeased at others,
when you karmically
conditioned yourself to be displeased?

- Stonepeace

Why ignore others’ mistakes,
when you might be
the only one aware of them,
the best one to awaken them?

- Stonepeace

If one only looks for things done wrong,
all the things done right does not seem to matter.

If one only looks for things done right,
all the things done wrong does not seem matter.

Let us see each matter as it is,
as how each really matters.

- Stonepeace

(About the picture, if how you see yourself is inaccurate, it is delusion!)

A: ‘True friends are the ones who have nice things to say behind your back.’ What do you think?
S: True friends are also the ones who tell us nasty yet true things about us, to us, in front of us, for our good.
E: Even if in a harsh tone…

V: A pity the lo-hei (捞’余’生) begins tomorrow.
S: 菩提心。。。 发啊！ (Putixin… HUAT ah!)

R: 真不愧是我们的老师， 连这您也想得出来！
新年期间我知道要怎样给别人祝愿了! 除了发财还要发菩提心!
S: 真正无量的财富来自不退转的菩提心! 发啊! 新年快乐! 阿弥陀佛.

It is not enough to merely struggle to live,
or we would live merely to struggle.
Our struggles should be for higher purposes,
which lead to the ultimate goal of True Happiness of one and all.

- Stonepeace

B: Many years ago, I once asked a Buddhist friend, what is the purpose of life?
He answered that it is to get out of life.
the last part above made what he said more complete.

S: A friend used to say something similar, that because life is meaningless,
the only meaningful thing to do is to get out of life.
But this is only the 自了汉 (self-liberation) ideal. The above is the 菩提心 (Bodhicitta: help liberate all) ideal.