Philosophy Final- God Exists

by **jiminski** on Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:37 am

Bertros Bertros wrote:
jiminski wrote:Through the security of modern existence your god has become yourself. This leaves you with the paradox of your bearing the responsibility of ultimate truth when you can not know it. In turn, to maintain stability of thought, you must use the notion that you understand everything by knowing nothing. This trick replaces an omniscient being to call on for comfort.

Each picks his own defence against the double edged gift of intelligence, the greater the intelligence the more the subtle the defence. None is greater than your own as the only truth is your truth, all other truths are but the defence of others.

defence

by **heavycola** on Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:35 pm

by **strike wolf** on Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:41 pm

I hate the Ontological argument with a passion. As far as I'm concerned it's one of the stupidest arguments ever conceived.

by **jiminski** on Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:12 pm

heavycola wrote::cry:

heh why the long face HC .. nothing to your liking?

by **heavycola** on Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:36 pm

jiminski wrote:
heavycola wrote::cry:

heh why the long face HC .. nothing to your liking?

no it is jim, it is, that's just it. i weep for humanity. Actually the little pixel face weeps for humanity, it's easy:

10 weep for humanity
20 goto 10
30 PRINT
>RUN

edit: maudlin bastard. Ignore.

by **gdeangel** on Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:42 pm

Ah, well, I realize this was just a dead thread that someone revived for kicks, but I wanted to share a chemistry final someone apparently wrote on the relevant subject:

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Student X:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.

With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct....leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a Divine Being which explains why last night, Teresa kept shouting, "Oh My God".