Graduation Decisions

I have decided that now having graduated from college and earned my BA, I am going to become a bum. That's right - a bum. Today I managed to sleep until 9:30 a.m., read a novel, checked all my e-mail accounts (about four times each I think), and prepared a fabulous lunch that I didn't have to pay for....

Who wants to worry about slaving away at a job, or feeling that sense of accomplishment when you know your life is headed somewhere? Who wants to continually look for opportunities and jobs not to pass you by so that you can experience all there is to life? Who wants to travel and see the world when you can just stay at home and read about it?

Yep. Mom and Dad will be happy. I'm going to become a bum after seventeen years of education...

My new address? Soon-to-be-bored-out-of-my-mind@looking-for-a-job.net

Write me. Please do.

The Ontological Argument for God

The ontological argument is used by many logicians and scholars to argue for the existence of a Supreme Being - in this case God. It goes as follows...

Premise 1: God is the being than which none greater can be conceived; one understands that God is perfect. [UGP]
Premise 2: If God is merely an idea in the mind, then He is not perfect; anything that can be conceived by man is not perfect. [MO then ~UGP] {I cannot symbolize "then" so I will type the word, and the "~" symbol means "not."}
Conclusion: Therefore, God does not exist only in the mind, He exists in the real world. [~MO]

Symbolized, the argument looks like this (although there is a more complicated version I will leave off for now):
1. UGP
2. MO then ~UGP
Conc. ~MO

Bertrand Russel, prominent theorist and atheist, once said that he could not see anything logically wrong with the ontological argument, but that it could not be valid because of the empirical evidence in the world around us (i.e. too many bad things existing in the world). Herein lies the difference between scholarship and faith, and it ultimately takes faith to believe in a Supreme Being greater than anything we can conceive.

Try thinking of something greater, even on a metaphysical plane, than God - you always compare it to something that materially exists.

Interesting, huh? But you still "gotta have faith, the faith, the faith, the faith... you gotta have faith!"