{"id":581,"date":"2002-09-18T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2002-09-18T19:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=581"},"modified":"2002-09-18T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2002-09-18T19:44:12","slug":"581","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>So Chad has just finished heavily dousing the inside of our door with lighter fluid.&nbsp; Ummm&#8230; so please be very careful with any flames in that general vicinity.&nbsp; I would prefer that my room not burn down, thank you.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So today has been pretty cool.&nbsp; I got a decent amount of sleep last night for once.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still fairly tired&#8230; but.. better then usual ;).&nbsp; And the great news of the moment is&#8230; no 8 a.m. class tomorrow!&nbsp; I am very pleased with that&#8230; granted, chapel is at 9&#8230; but that&#8217;s another hour my friend&#8230; and that makes all the difference.&nbsp; I am going to go and apply for a job here shortly&#8230; and then grab some food, since I am going to miss dinner here as a result of the job searching thing.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I just got out of systematic theology a moment ago&#8230; and today we were talking about natural revelation&#8230;&nbsp; ie, can you prove that God exists without the Bible.&nbsp; Now most of the natural proofs I was already quite familiar with&#8230; but there was one that I have never heard of before, and really has caused me to think&#8230; and I am interested in what you all might think of this or be able to think of.&nbsp; And that is this&#8230; it is called the Ontological Argument.&nbsp; It asks the question &#8220;Is there anything that you can think of with no relationship to reality?&#8221;.&nbsp; The fact that you can think of, and talk about, God is proof that God must exist in and of itself.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; So how about it&#8230; I&#8217;m really interested to see if anybody out there can THINK of something that has no relationship to reality.&nbsp; I have been trying for the last 45 minutes or so and have been able to come up with nothing.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>All for now.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;This ruined puzzle is beige with the pieces all face down <BR>So the placing goes slowly. <BR>The pictures of anything other than it&#8217;s meant to be. But the hours they creep, the patterns repeat. <BR>Don&#8217;t be concerned, you know I&#8217;ll be fine on my own. I never said &#8220;don&#8217;t go&#8221;. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;ve written a note, it&#8217;s pressed between pages <BR>that you&#8217;ve marked to find your way back. <BR>It says &#8220;Does he ever get the girl?&#8221; <BR>But what if the pages stay pressed, <BR>the chapters unfinished, <BR>the stories too dull to unfold? <BR>Does he ever get the girl?<br \/>\n<P>This basement&#8217;s a coffin I&#8217;m buried alive. <BR>I&#8217;ll die in here just to be safe. <BR>I&#8217;ll die in here just to be safe. <BR>&#8216;Cause you&#8217;re gone I get nothing <BR>and you&#8217;re off with barely a sigh. <BR>I never said &#8220;Good-bye&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>Does he ever get the girl?&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>-&#8220;This Ruined Puzzle,&#8221; by Dashboard Confessional<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Chad has just finished heavily dousing the inside of our door with lighter fluid.&nbsp; Ummm&#8230; so please be very careful with any flames in that general vicinity.&nbsp; I would prefer that my room not burn down, thank you. 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