What to do?

Why is it that I specifically took this job so that I could productively use my downtime to study and I have yet to really do that at all?  Yeah, I’m not sure what my deal is.  It just seems that if I start to read something I get a phone call in, or someone needs a pillow.  Pretty worthless.  So generally when we’re slow I just sit here, maybe waste time on-line - and I don’t mean looking up interesting facts or anything like that.  I mean basically just staring at the screen until I redirect the browser to another site to putz on for a bit.

Also, I’ve been having trouble trapping myself in an overly nihilistic viewpoint lately.  What the hell am I going to do for the rest of my life?  I would love to get to grad school, (or so I think) but my grades really won’t help me there.  Besides which, I’m just gonna die eventually anyhow…  My idealistic plan was to get published in philosophy so that “my legacy lives on,” pretty much a pipedream anyhow.  Not to mention my lack of any kind of scholarly credentials.   

I don’t really know if I want kids either, so it’s not like I’ll pass down anything in the biological sense either.  Why would anyone want to have kids in the kind of shithole the world is anyway? 

So really, where do I go from here?  To hell most likely, if Christianity holds any truth to it.

I’m going to try to actually make some progress on my paper against Intelligent Design “theory” tonight.  I had started the project earlier this semester but quickly realized that I bit off much more than I could chew, (in one term paper anyhow) as is my style.  The goal of the paper is to present the very best argument possible - not just a half-assed representation, easy to refute - and then tear it apart with my bare teeth.  I had planned to give a similar treatment of Darwinian Evolution, though I remain convinced that it would stand up to more critizisms (evolution is not totally without its critisizms).  I’m sure you can see why the subject matter is of a much wider scope than I can handle in a single semester term paper. 

Well, I guess I’m done now.

Bored at work, again.

Pretty much nothing to do here tonight.  This is kind of funny. 

Minor annoyances

Ok, I know that I do it too.  But it annoys me when people misuse terms, especially published professionals.  For example, a paradox is a self-contradictory statement.  It isn’t really, and shouldn’t be thought of as “an interesting or counter-intuitive problem.” 

A square circle is a paradox.  “I am a married bachelor.” is a paradox.  Basically, it needs to be a logical contradiction in some way with itself. 

Also, while I’m on the subject:  The principle of Occam’s Razor says “Don’t multiply entities beyond necessity,” that is, given equal explanatory power the simplest explanation will tend to be the correct one.  This doesn’t mean that the simplest explanation is the best, it means the explanation that gives us the most accurate information and is as simple as possible is probably the best.

I’ll give you another example.  What seems to be the better explanation of life on Earth, evolution with all its scientific theories or that God simply created everything because he saw it fit?  If you argue that both offer equal explanatory power *cough* than which one is the better choice according to Occam’s Razor?

Evolution.  Yes, even with all its theories and so forth.  You see, the notion of God multiplies metaphysical entities beyond necessity, we would have the earth and all of us here, and we would also have God and the supernatural-type realm.  This raises a whole new world of problems (literally). 

Anyhow, I’ve breached into another topic of discussion, so I’ll let this one be for now.

My first blog, my first posting.

What a momentous occasion, I’ve started a blog. Unfortunately, I don’t really have anything in particular to comment on. However, I thought it appropriate to start with something - this will have to do. I’m actually at work at the moment, I work the front desk at a hotel. This job is probably the most exciting position I’ve ever held, rarely do I get free time like this.

Now, let’s try some links: This amuses me. As does this.

Wow, that was exponentially more challenging than I thought it would be. I suppose it might be my Interwebs connection; regardless, I’ll need to work on my posting technique…