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" The first defense of theism that I will consider is the cosmological argument. It states that everything that exists is caused to exist by something else. For example, mountains are caused b y shifting tectonic plates, and fire is caused by the combination of heat, fuel, and air. So what caused the universe to exist? Supporters of the cosmological argument say that since we cannot conceive of an infinite series of cause and effect stretching back for eternity, there must have been a first cause. According to them, this first cause is God. If this argument seems persuasive at first, give it a closer look. First there is a glaring contradiction: if everything that exists has a cause, then what caused God? If we have so much trouble imagining an infinite chain of cause and effect, how can we imagine a being that’s existed infinitely long? Some theists would reply that God doesn’t need a cause; that he is self-caused. But how can this be? In order for God to have caused himself, God would already have had to exist. And if God was somehow self-caused, then why couldn’t the universe be self-caused as well? The last weakness I will discuss in this “proof” is that it assumes too much. Even if there is a first cause, there is absolutely no reason to believe that it is an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good deity or even a conscious being."
This is misleading, and therefore wrong. The cosmological theory for one isn't just about religion. For two it isn't stated that everything that exists is caused to exist by something else, the main point of this paragraph, instead what it says is that any entity requires a cause if and only if it has a beginning, and the theory is to discover the first cause, the entity that always was and never had a beginning itself and so does NOT require a cause. This is a theory on what the first cause was not whether or not a first cause existed.
A better counterargument to the cosmological theory is that the argument is asking what caused the first cause, the first cause being what created the universe and everything we know including time, but since there was no time and a cause and effect question relies on time the question becomes nonsensical.
"The second argument that I would like to test is the ontological argument. It states that God is a perfect being, and in being perfect he must lack no attributes or properties. Therefore, God must exist, because if he didn’t, he would be lacking the attribute of existence. In short, because we have the idea of God as a perfect being, he must exist. To understand one of the flaws in this argument, consider this short dialog. Jim walks up to Bill and says, “I’d like you to meet my friend Bob.” Bill looks around, sees nobody but the two of them, and says, “Sure, where is he?” Jim assures his friend that Bob is right next to them, but can’t be seen. When asked how he can be sure that Bob exists, Jim replies, “I imagined him a few minutes ago. I thought of a perfect guy named Bob, so he must exist. If he didn’t exist, he wouldn’t be perfect.”
The story of Jim, Bill and Bob cant be applied to the ontological argument. Bob is an imagined person and therefore has, by definition, limits. The ontological argument can only be applied to that which is limitless and could concievably be all perfection. God, to be God, must have every greatness that a perfect person need not have. An ontological arguement can only be applied to one great being, so unless Bob is god this can't work. Besides Bob is invisible and so is imperfect in that he isn't visible.
" One position that has recently had much support is the argument from design. It claims that the world is much too complex and orderly not to have been created by some divine architect. They point to intricate cycles of migration, to delicate balances of predator and prey, and to the overwhelmingly minute details that make up a living organism. A popular analogy which is often used to explain this argument is that of the watch and the watch-maker. It says that if a person were to find a watch on a deserted island they would logically assume that some person had made that watch, and not that the watch had simply fallen together at random. This analogy, however, is not entirely accurate because a living organism is not a watch. A watch can only be made by a watch-maker. A human being, on the other hand, is born of its parents, not “made” by a human-maker. In addition to this, the complexity of our world can be explained by a much better supported theory. Evolution can easily account for all the fantastic workings of our planet without invoking some magical creator. Outside our own planet, the big bang theory has much more evidence in its favor than “Let there be light.”
I assume this argument being refered to is the teleological argument. The author states that because an organism is not a watch then the argument as a whole doesn't make sense. Well the argument isn't trying to prove that a human being is anything other than a human being, especially not a watch. What the argument is stateing is that the complexity of a human being must have been created by something as a watch is created by something. God being a metaphorical watchmaker. Next the author argues that because people are born from parents, not created, then there is no watchmaker. The problem is that the teleological argument is not talking about people now but of the first people and the first creation. This argument does not fight against darwinism, instead it merely tries to prove that dawinism was not a series of random mutations, instead it was an order of intelligent design. the arguemtn being that because people are so complex and orderly they couldn't be created by such random mutations.
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10:58am 03/10/2008 |
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Had to pay 110$ for a new tire, and then went to work for 7 hours and spilled hot nasty ass grease onto myself. Took less than an hour to teach myself to drive stick-shift. Carla gave me some banana nut bread for my birthday. Today is a new day and I'm going to go visit Karmi tonight. I love her.
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04:58pm 11/03/2008 |
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so i hate when people complain about grammar and spelling in a text message or online and then say how easy it is and how retarded the whole world is but them for not understanding some simple rule that they believe they know much more about than you, especially when, in most cases, the people making errors A)know that they made an error but don't care to fix it (me) B)are writing speedily and don't care to make a difference between your and you're because they know the message isn't changing C)do it because of some limitation such as text messages can only be so many characters long D)scrolling for a ' in a phone is a bitch or E) people type like they speak, you don't speak with commas and apostrophes.
there wasn't really a reason i wanted to say this but it is annoying when people complain about essentially nothing. i mean if i was "hey whats up?" everyone knows its a conjunction and needs a comma but they know what i said and they know how to respond. there is no pause between hey and whats if you were to say it out loud and so no significant facet of this conversation is lost.
find something else to bitch about such as the fact that no one seems to stop to try and save the earth anymore.
on to this weekend.
it sucked at first because i thought karmi wasn't coming and it had been a perfect weekend for her to come. fri sat and sunday were all free for me the weather was nice we would've been alone together and i really missed her. but then she wasn't coming down! well that sucked so i didn't do anything saturday because i didn't even have a car :X. but w/e.only w/e cuz she came down sunday after visiting friends in columbia and we went ahead and had an amazing day together. man i love her. anyways it was made in a dismal day the next morning because i thought she was going home but she didn't! so we went ahead and had another wonderful day together on monday. mood:  chipper music: kryptonite |
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10:50pm 04/03/2008 |
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so walking for 1hr45min to a place you hate is a sucky feeling and when you have to do it at 7am in the drizzle it becomes down right cruel. on the upside i know what im doing for karmis birthday, not that its looming over but its still nice that i dont have to decide this later. 1. Two names you go by 1) sean 2) hippy
2. Three things you are wearing right now. 1) boxers 2) uhmm i got nothing else 3) can you count my peircings maybe?
You must answer every question TRUTHFULLY.
2. Have you ever been given a rose? no.
3. What is your all-time favorite romance movie? cyrano de bergerac
4. Have you ever been in love? yes
5. Do you believe that everyone has a soul-mate? im not sure i believe in souls so let me decide that one first
6. What's your current problem? school
7. Have you ever had your heart broken? yea but wasnt as bad as i thought
8. Your thoughts of online or long distance relationships? online for me = crazy psycho distance = love of my life
10. Are you a retard? no, but my friends in general are so i guess once again i need new best friends.
11.How many kids do you want to have? 2.3
12.what is your favorite color/ blue
13. Do you believe you truly only love once? i believe ive only truly loved once and luckily still do.
14. Have you ever found it hard to tell someone you like them? uhmm it was odd circumstances
16. At what age did you start noticing the opposite sex? 7ish i guess
17. What song do you want played at your funeral? lucy in the sky with diamonds
18. Do you like anyone? yes.
19. Does that person know? yes.
20.Does that person like u back? man it would suck if they didn't
21. Would you do anything to get that person? yep. man that wasnt a very in depth quiz. w/e mood:  tired music: ace of spades |
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04:10pm 03/03/2008 |
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so this weekend was fun, ithad its bad moments but w/e. im glad i got to see karmi. im just gonna throw this one out there although i believe certain parties named will get pissed. i so drank vanessa under the table :P the party coulda been better but w/e it was fun and seeing drew almost throw a fan off his second stroy was pretty gr8.
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08:35pm 26/02/2008 |
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so im bored waiting for karmi to call me, i dont have really anything intresting to write about. theres a party this weekend im hopeing karmi comes down. star is ridiculously cute. but her breath smells soooo bad. i really want another jone soda but sadley im out. uhmm i have work tomro but it is a halfday at least. i may go get another piercing done im not sure yet. i dunno i told AJ i would but i think i work we will see. i need to stop getting them cuz im broke. but w/e i want them done. there was more i was going to say but i need to go do college shit
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09:48pm 25/02/2008 |
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i want you to die in a fire because i hate you so much, you will never amount to anything because your a failure at life and you've just been voted as suckiest person alive. seeing your face makes me want to vomit.
i said that to my bestfriend and man was it good. im sure he desered it tho at some point or another.
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08:42pm 25/02/2008 |
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im just gonna post some of the best books ever that i've read. and books that i want to buy. this is really for my sole amusment kinda like a tracking list lol. ill add author names later. this list does not include; poems, short stories, letters, how-to, or bibliographies unless i really wanted to add them. most likely im going to make a new post for poems and another for movies.
| Books i've read | Books i want to read | Reading | | brave new world | the koran | alas, babylon | | tuesdays with morrie | rest of dragon lance series | dealing with dragons | | 1984 | | promise me | | we | | death of che guevara | | harry potter series | | slaughterhouse-five | | dragon lance series | | sabriel | | kite runner | | | | grapes of wrath | | | | eragon series | | | | things fall apart | | | | all quiet on the western front | | | | catch-22 | | | | in my own words | | | | wicked | | | | a streetcar named desire | | | | medea | | | | adventures of tom sawyer | | | | adventures of huckleberry finn | | | | prince and the pauper | | | | pudd'nhead wilson | | | | a connecticut yankee and king arthur's court | | | | jason bourne series | | | | october country | | | | saga of recluse series | | | | narnia series | | | | ghattis tales series | | | | black house | | | | colorado kid | | | | cyrano de bergerac | | | | le petite prince | | | | godless | | | | elfquest series | | | | davinci code | | | | deltora quest series | | | | stuart little | | | | myron bolitar series | | | | carrie | | | | desperation | | | | dreamcatcher | | | | cell | | | | firestarter | | | | green mile | | | | it | | | | pet sematary | | | | salems lot | | | | shining | | | | talisman | | | | slaughterhouse-five | | | | death of che guevara | | | | farenheit 451 | | | | lord of the flies | | | | don quixote | | | | romeo & juliet | | | | othello | | | | merchant of venice | | | | midsummers night dream | | | | tempest | | | | king john | | | | julius ceasar | | | | macbeth | | | | hamlet | | | | king lear | | | | anne frank | | | | goose bumbs series | | | | sherlock holmes | | | | encyclopedia series | | | | alice in wonderland | | | | mein kampf | | | | the bible | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
so ill finish this later lawl
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03:53pm 18/02/2008 |
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onigirixaddict (3:51:17 PM): you're def the bad influence in this relationship vt geez (3:52:00 PM): lol i knew thst going in and imok ith it onigirixaddict (3:52:37 PM): ?? onigirixaddict (3:52:47 PM): even i can't translate that vt geez (3:52:55 PM): i knew i was the bad influence going into this relationship and im ok with it
this about sums me up i like to think. the obvious being im a bad influence. not so obvious is im lazy apparently this includes in typing out sentances. im in love with the most wonderful girl in the world. communicating my ideas is not a priority usually if you dont understand itdoesnt matter to me. the backspace doesnt exist. dont pretend it does noone likes it when you lie to yourself.
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1. Have you had sex in the past week? no which saddens me because it means i didnt see karmi 2. Have you kissed someone in the last 2 weeks? yes
3. Are you single or taken? taken
5. What is the last thing that you drank? dr pepper outa the bottle to piss off wendy
6. Who's the last person you think about at night? sean
7. Elvis or James Dean? james dean hands down.
8. Who is one person you can't stand from high school? all off them subtracting the people i like.
9. What grade did you make in Algebra? algebra I -A; algebra II - F and then a C lawl.
10. Do you like someone right now? as friends? uhmm yea i really do in fact like my friends as friends. what do you think im some kind of pathetic loner who sits by himself eating bag lunches? oh you mean like as in attracted to! then yes.
13. What are you doing right now? typing this seems a pretty obvious answer but ill go on a limb and assume you ment you wanted some other event that preceded me typing this or is going to happen the moment i finish typing this. in that case i can't tell you because the thing i would tell you would be read by the one person who can't know what it is im doing because it has to do with that all important big buisness holiday developed by hall mark.
14. Do you think lesbians are hot? i think if karmi was making out with another karmi and they wanted me to join in that id probaly have to say yes
15. Have you ever "experimented" with the same sex? i teabagged blakes head
17. Favorite non alcoholic drink? mr pibb/mountain dew. or those blue smurf things. oh or the chocolate things i got at cordavis that one time. dude those were good.
18. If you could have one wish, what would it be? that everyone got what they deserved.<-- thats a pretty good one. honestly at this moment i jsut wish karmi was here.
20. Do you know what tofu is? a waste. i mean y not jsut make a regular hamburger instead of a tofu one? your not fooling anyone we all know it doesnt taste the same.
21. Have you ever eaten it? a tofu hotdog once. i advise against
24. Do you know who plays at least a small part in every Adam Sandler movie? rob schneider.
25. Do you want to go back to high school? if by do you want to go back you mean do you want to quit then yes.
26. Who do you have a sercet crush on? this question seems silly. if it were a secret i wouldnt say and if it wasnt then i wouldnt have anything to say. i do have a crush on someone and i think i will have a crush on them for the rest of my life.
28. Do you or have you ever read Cosmo? yes. i blame karmi
29. Have you ever watched the Britney Spears movie crossroads? she made a movie?
30. Do you listen to Lindsay Lohan? whenever i forget that i hate her with a fiery passion of a thousand burning suns
31. Your favorite color? blue
32. Paul Walker or Ryan Phillippe? i think paul walker was in the movie into the blue so i guess him
33. Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera? wtf kinda leading biased question is this? how bout do you like oompa loompas or short orange men with green hair that work in chocolate factories, choose wisely.
34. Smurfs or Carebears? smurfs
35. Favorite ex? uhmm lol that would seem to defeat the point of making them an ex would it not? i guess brandy because i never really got close to her to begin with?
36. Do you want platinum or gold for your wedding band? dude it better be made out of diamonds. not that i want diamonds on it i want the actual band to be diamond.
37. How many people kissed you today? star cuz shes adorable and i dont feel any less masculine for saying that because she is that effing adorable
38. Do you shave your back? i barely shave my face.
39. Have you ever flashed someone? i mooned people before.
40. Who are your best friends? karmitastic, terret, scooter
41. How many children do you want to have? since ill be doing none of the actual "having" i want 9.
42. What are you doing tomorrow night? work.
43. What scares you? not very much.
44. What makes you happy? karmi, art, sailing, friends, pets, making karmi happy, being done with h/w. i dunno im pretty easy to make happy i think im pretty much happy in general.
1) Are you currently in a serious relationship? yes and will be forever
2) What was your dream growing up? to not be picked on because i was in a wheelchair.
3) What talent do you wish you had? i guess being able to correctly guess lottery numbers would come in handy
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be? ill let you decide, surprise me.
5) Favorite vegetable? all of the veggie-taes were pretty hxc
6) What was the last book you read? 1984 again but last "new" book was godless
7) What zodiac sign are you? libra
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where. lip piercing. microdermals! my wrist
9) Worst Habit? procrastination. <-- more so than karmi whose answer i just left here.
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride? well i guess this applies to karmi who i stole the test from, altho i cant imagine a situation where you were walking down the street alone and you were here. if it applies to people reading this i cant very well assume id give you a ride i mean for all i know you're ugly, and im only saying what everyone is thinking in that noone picks up ugly people. its jsut a fact of life im sorry i didn't make the rules.
11) What is your favorite sport? sailing
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude? optomistic
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me? well i assume this again means karmi so i would probaly [The following material has been deleted by our moderators for the cause of being (to explicit). Please accept our apologies and continue using Livejournal. ~Livejournal Staff] if it ment the readers then i would prob hit the button to call for help because i dont know you.
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you? picture your leg going at a 90degree angle from your knee to the side. that never happened to me but boy would that suck.
15) Tell me one weird fact about you. i enjoy making gay sexual jokes with my friends.
16) Do you have any pets? three dogs; maggie may, dakota, and star. i used to have so many more i miss them so much.
17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly? well assuming this is karmi is prob [The following material has been deleted by our moderators for the cause of being (to explicit). Please accept our apologies and continue using Livejournal. ~Livejournal Staff]
18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!) well seeing as i was like 7 and i can barely remember to take out the trash every week...
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary? if it was the clown from IT scary if not then not cute. specificity please.
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be? having some unnatural colored eyes would be pretty cool i guess
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience? lol, well i wouldnt be your conscience.
22) What color eyes do you have? goldish brown
23) Ever been arrested? no but close
24) Bottle or can soda? either or im prob just thirsty and i really dont care
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it? buy karmi a car
27) What's your favorite place to hang at? on rooftops
28) Do you believe in ghosts? no
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time? lounge. i sure do love a good session of doing nothing
30) Do you swear a lot? not really
31) Biggest pet peeve? being hung up on
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself? depends on the situation
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance? what? thats totaly two different questions! how could you group that together! what if my answer was no to one and yes to the other id be sending people mixed signals! thats like saying "do you like Ex/the happy place?" well i dont want my brain to be full of holes but i do enjoy being happy... well bakc to the point im prob a hopeless romantic so yes.
35) Do you believe in God? no
36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? no i just wanted to fill it out so i could save it to notepad on my desktop. mood:  chipper music: lucy in the sky with diamons |
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