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Dr. Korcz said that he would look over papers i turned in for his class to see which is the best to turn in as proof of my philosophical abilities.

i have a feeling it will be the theory of knowledge class..

Man i’ve never been in this kind of situation before.
I’m not broke but damn near it.
I’m bored but i have an insanely large amount of work i can accomplish.
I can’t really focus to get any of the work done, but i worry incessively about it due to the large amount of un-occupied time on my hands.

I skipped jazz today so i could come home and work on my metaphysics paper which i want to finish by this weekend, not to mention i wanted a day off from it.

why rush my paper? because putting it off is just going to bite me in the ass.

so i guess that is it.. back to reading

We celebrated it when she came down here, but today is special all the same.

I brought Mary to the airport in Lafayette. It was bad. She got there late.. the only people on duty there had to stop playing desk clerk for Northwest and play ground crew to get the plane off the ground.. it was quite sad. several people were late and were not allowed through security with their bags because they couldn’t check in and they couldn’t check in because the desk clerks were playing ground crew positions.. all the while the plane wasn’t even boarding…

did i mention my computer won’t turn on? yeah that sucks…

also lost my cell phone… not an astoundingly surprising detail due to the person i am and the fact that housekeeping chased us out of the B and B without allowing me the ability to check the room one last time for my cell phone…

i hate housekeeping for a great many reasons…

Mary won’t be able to contact me directly to tell me she made it safe because i don’t have a cell phone anymore.. sucks…

i’m tired… goodnight

So, last night after the philosophy club Mary and I listen to some pretty great bands and then i fall asleep. During the night Mary gets on my computer and logs it off and falls asleep. I wake up… the computer is dead. Nothing. It comes on posts to the bios but doesn’t power the graphics card.

I shit/piss/moan/cry. I ask why she turned off the computer, and of course i didn’t make it clear that the computer should never be turned off.

I don’t know whats wrong now. We think it is the power supply but i just don’t have enough money to sink to into it. Or at least i don’t have enough money to sink into it and also have the ability to get a new computer after i find out it is much worse then a powersupply problem.

In the end it isn’t Mary’s fault. This computer was going to do this one day.

Today has been a bad day over-all. I have recieved less the admirable results from Dr. Berkeley about my Nietzsche paper. That was the paper i was going to use for my CUNY application. So i have to fix it. I knew i would have to fix it but now it makes me wonder if it is worth fixing.

I also found out that i have a bill hanging over my head that was previously believed non-existent. Wish it would go back to that property.

Question: Can I pay it off, finish the CUNY app, and also fix my computer without going bankrupt?

Answer: I am opptimistic but i also believe it will destroy whatever money i had set aside to fix my Car. So minus the computer.. what are we left with? I’m in need of money bad. I could rob a bank. That would be nice.

So last night i went to the philosophy discussion on, “What creationists wants.” and in short i think it was a very pleasant activity to spend time completing.

Her argument was, interestingly put, similar to Trey’s argument on his blog. Conceptually speaking, she argued, Creationism does not need to compete with Evolution. She said that Creationists answer the question “Why” and Evolutionists answer the question “How”. Then she went on to say that the Creationists argument that Evolution shouldn’t be included in biology text books because Creationist cannot are absurd such that biology is a science and creationism is a religion.

SO. She poses a thought-question to everyone at the meeting, but mostly to the creationists.

Invision a world where religious authority leads the realm’s moral decisions, and all practical decisions are made using religious moral understanding. (i.e. stem cell research would be immoral and banned) Then she said that evolution and naturalist interpretations of science would also be accepted.

Is there something wrong with this kind of world to a creationist?

I don’t know but i see serious difficulties arising from the scientific community. Why does the religious community get to dictate the moral decisions? What makes their appeals to a Godhead more morally sound then our appeals to logica and rationality. (our meaning ethical)

Her whole argument reeks of Stephen Jay Gould’s theory of NOMA. The belief that morality has no place in the scientific realm of understanding. It is absurd to make that claim. Just like it is absurd to make the claim that science cannot tell what is beyond the horizon, or in the depths of space. BTW his theory is in a book called the Rocks of Ages. He suggests Science is the language of how and Religion is the language of Why.

NOMA is Non-Overlapping Magesteria. The belief is that the two areas of explanation do not overlap in any fashion that their descriptions are segregated about the same object.

I asked her if her “thought-experiment” was supposed to be seriously considered by the scientific community. She said that she didn’t see why the scientific community would object. I claimed that there were an abundance of reasons the scientific community would deny NOMA and more so her argument itself. I said how about the crusades? This got a nice little chuckle out of a lot of people in the room, even her. She then remarked that secular goverment hasn’t really done well in history itself. I bawked but then launched into the following sequence of statements ignoring the comment about secular government.

Both NOMA and Dr. Figdor’s (visiting professor from Rutger’s university) ideas tend to destroy the foundations of Ethical Theory. If science can’t appeal to Ethics for their moral trends we will be reverting back to the dark ages in terms of moral treatment. Everyone would have to live their life afraid of going to hell, and then produce the moral choices they feel will keep them out of hell.

These beliefs also have huge ramefications on the scientific front. If someone makes moral decisions about life based on the existence of god, then wouldn’t that mean that scientific progression will be relegated to what we can percieve as not religious. Remember the stars and space were considered Heavens and under the domain of God. Had religion been in power, would we have launched a spaceship? Landed on the moon? Sent the hubble satelitte into space?

Of course not, what if god got angry and destroyed us for infringing on his land. I’m kidding of course.

Mary lands in Lafayette tonight at 1:15… and it is raining outside… that sucks.. no umbrella…

they need to create a service that will warn about rain… hmmm OHHH right they did and then they innundated that service with information i’d rather not cloud my mind with like what bleach is better for removing pet stains…

Yesterday was insane. I went from class to class to work to obligation to class to class… it was insane as mentioned previously.

i need to work on schoolwork now.. but did i mention Mary is in our timezone/region/state/zipcode/areacode/parish/city? it is a good day.

The concert. Man i’m in an amazingly good mood for not getting much sleep.

In short Modest Mouse is a Lyrically based band.. Wherever the lyrics are found music is usually accompanied it… and when no lyrics are had the music vanishes also…

I did learn one interesting factoid. Their unique sound comes from the immersion of various instruments into play at different times.. there are an insane amount of different instruments in their album an they are all played by one man. The problem is that like my brother pointed out, the guy kept having to leave the band because their old albums were apparently boring. All of their old songs were insanely boring. Three guitars two drummers…. blah….

Their new songs were given such life with the new instruments (cello {or stand up base}, [as was pointed out has no h whatsoever due to it’s italian origins] violin, some kind of instrument you play off of your lap with strings, and a mysterious box with an instrument inside could have been a tiny piano or something else.. no clue.) that when they brought out the old songs they looked like a garage band. In fact the whole concert was enacted like a bar-room band. They did that encore shit which i’m against completely since Wilco denied it’s existence. We are all not idiots.. play the f-ing show.

As for the driving to houston and back, It was an absolute pleasure. It was also nice of Amanda to let us use her car. I would have had problems driving back by myself i realize. I would have done it but it would have been hard.

And with that, c’est la vie.

-edited for french snafu-

Best quote to end a movie with?

after very little thought i say this is definitly one of the best endings..
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