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If it is really true that you cannot resist them, then you are not sinning of your own free will and hence (at least according to me) not sinning at all.

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Raymond Smullyan (May 25, 1919 – February 6, 2017) was an American philosopher, mathematician, logician and a magician.

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Birth Name: Raymond Merrill Smullyan

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