Think of it like different email providers. There are a few big ones, and some people host their own, but they can all (usually) communicate with each other.
Ah, there it is, and that actually helps to answer the question. Assuming the Biblical God, canon states that God is love. So why would a perfect God, who is love, create a universe? It seems most likely to me that it would be so He can have an object of His love.
But what is love directed to something perfect and easy to love? That’s hardly a worthy effort. Might as well make something authentic. And since He isn’t just loving, but love itself, He might as well make it in such a way that He can carry out every aspect of love - love when they love you back, love when they turn away, love when they hate you, love when they don’t even think you exist, and so much more.
The universe must be filled with evil for half these situations to appear, but it’s not love to make someone evil. The solution? Free will. God made it so His creations were free to turn their backs on Him, but still, in love, He gave every warning against it, because separation from God is not only evil but death.
I also only pirate games I own, though for slightly different reasons. I don’t think you should pay for everything you get value from (I don’t [directly] pay people back for gifts, for example,) but I do think it’s theft to pirate a game you never bought. Plus, buying games is how you support the developers.
And of course, doing so is what keeps you awake and keeps the number getting smaller.
Some more sleeping tips:
Stay off your phone.
If you have to do something but don’t want to because you’re going to interrupt your sleep progress, just do it and don’t worry about it as long as you take less than 15 minutes.
Stay out of bed when you’re not trying to sleep. Condition yourself to associate your bed solely with sleep.
Keep your alarm clock across the room so you have to get up to snooze it. Disable voice snoozing. Then you won’t have to worry about sleeping through it.
Feels as awkward (lemmy.world)
The origin of starfleet combat training. (startrek.website)
We need to stop attempts to normalize grind/hustle lifestyle (literature.cafe)
Most people are killing their selves with third jobs to share apartments.
Headphones are a crutch (startrek.website)
we're still trying to figure out if they go to the same floor or not. (lemmy.eco.br)
The Circle of AI Life (lemmy.world)
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Utterly insane (lemmy.world)
"Millennial lingo" by Shen Comic (file.coffee)
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Crackers (lemmy.world)
Burgers (lemmy.world)
And thus my subtitle requirement was born (lemmy.world)
We can't all be perfect... (lemmy.ca)
Little ones (lemmy.world)
Reality check! (r.nf)
And it’s just downhill from here… 😅
"Who are my senators?", "What is a gyatt?", "How do you microwave ramen?" (startrek.website)
Continuous calculation (telegra.ph)
This is the way (i.imgur.com)
Billy The Kid (startrek.website)
When your aunt gets you The Star Trek Game for secret Santa (startrek.website)