So Chad has just finished heavily dousing the inside of our door with lighter fluid. Ummm… so please be very careful with any flames in that general vicinity. I would prefer that my room not burn down, thank you.
So today has been pretty cool. I got a decent amount of sleep last night for once. I’m still fairly tired… but.. better then usual ;). And the great news of the moment is… no 8 a.m. class tomorrow! I am very pleased with that… granted, chapel is at 9… but that’s another hour my friend… and that makes all the difference. I am going to go and apply for a job here shortly… and then grab some food, since I am going to miss dinner here as a result of the job searching thing.
I just got out of systematic theology a moment ago… and today we were talking about natural revelation… ie, can you prove that God exists without the Bible. Now most of the natural proofs I was already quite familiar with… but there was one that I have never heard of before, and really has caused me to think… and I am interested in what you all might think of this or be able to think of. And that is this… it is called the Ontological Argument. It asks the question “Is there anything that you can think of with no relationship to reality?”. The fact that you can think of, and talk about, God is proof that God must exist in and of itself. Now, this in no way proves that the Christian God is indeed the true God, it simply proves that there MUST BE a God of some kind. So how about it… I’m really interested to see if anybody out there can THINK of something that has no relationship to reality. I have been trying for the last 45 minutes or so and have been able to come up with nothing.
All for now.
“This ruined puzzle is beige with the pieces all face down
So the placing goes slowly.
The pictures of anything other than it’s meant to be. But the hours they creep, the patterns repeat.
Don’t be concerned, you know I’ll be fine on my own. I never said “don’t go”.
I’ve written a note, it’s pressed between pages
that you’ve marked to find your way back.
It says “Does he ever get the girl?”
But what if the pages stay pressed,
the chapters unfinished,
the stories too dull to unfold?
Does he ever get the girl?
This basement’s a coffin I’m buried alive.
I’ll die in here just to be safe.
I’ll die in here just to be safe.
‘Cause you’re gone I get nothing
and you’re off with barely a sigh.
I never said “Good-bye”
Does he ever get the girl?”
-“This Ruined Puzzle,” by Dashboard Confessional
dude…why did he pour lighter fluid on your door!?
“So Chad has just finished heavily dousing the inside of our door with lighter fluid. Ummm… so please be very careful with any flames in that general vicinity. I would prefer that my room not burn down, thank you.”
lmao
Ah, the Ontological Argument. Never heard of it called that before, but yeah, I’ve if it. C. S. Lewis brought it up in one of his books…Mere Christianity, or the Problem of Pain, or one of those, I forget. But he put it like this: if everyone was blind, would we have any idea about light and darkness? Would we have words for them? I think not. I think God has given us creativity…but maybe not creativity beyond His bounds and the existence He created. This also kind of applies to Plato’s allegory of the cave. Herein, Plato asks what if you were tied to a chair in a cave your entire life, and in such a way that the only thing you could see was a cave wall; and on that cave wall was projected the shadows of icons ( carvings or dolls or whatever of like trees, people and other various objects ) being held in front of a fire; what would our reality consist of? How could we fathom that those shadows actually meant something else, something more true? Then what would happen if one was let free? How would he perceive the fire, and those carvings, and how would he handle reality as he knew it crashing down? And then to be let out of the cave to see the sun and the things that the carvings were of? And then…how would the one that was let free go back and tell others of what he saw? How could he convince others to leave everything they’ve known as true and follow him? Ah yes, I like the allegory of the cave. I should read it sometime, instead of just trying to remember things from 9th grade English class
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just the thought of your question hurts my brain. that, and trying to figure out why you’d ALLOW your doorway to be doused with lighter fluid.
Ummmm… Whoa. That’s a good question. So if everything has a realationship with reality… How does that discribe me? *tee hee tee hee*
Blindside rox.
y did he douse ur door with lighter fluid?
“Is there anything that you can think of with no relationship to reality?”. ben and sarah
oh yeah.. in case of flames.. under this box im typing in right now it says.. and i quote “Be nice! Members have the right to delete flames.”