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hayley left the state this morning. had to get up at 6 to go to the airport. was asleep about midnight, after the colbert report, so it wasn't too bad.
been wanting to write an essay about agnosticism and atheism, but just can't stand reading the various "proof of god" websites thismorning. there's arrogance and inanity all around--even from my side of things, i'll admit--and i'm just not in the mood. did find a nifty little quote about agnostics though, then lost it when i did a copy and paste and can't seem to figure out which site in the firefox history had it (clicked each one and can't find it again, which is odd). it was something like--and i wish i could get the wording right as i saw it--"how can you be sure you know enough to decide you can't know everything?"
busy of late in my spare moments building a few lego things, using the new batman sets. built an elaborate batcave:
and now arkham asylum:
and after watching murder in the first the previous weekend, we went on a whim to san francisco this last weekend, got around to chinatown, fisherman's wharf, pier 39, lombard street, ate at a chinese restaurant in chinatown, at hard rock cafe, at ghiardelli square, but alcatraz boat tickets were sold out. had a good time, did a lot of walking (just left the car at the hotel and walked everywhere) and a bit of swimming (in the hotel pool, not the bay).
by the by, that urge to write about agnostics came from a guy on pbs friday night in the hotel in san francisco, talking about politics and the mideast and whatnot, then asked about his agnosticism, he proceeds to ask why the universe is so complicated, why this and why that... and that bugs me to no end, when folks claim they don't believe in a creator then presume to ask "why?"
see, if you think the "how" of it is complex, fine, i'll grant you that; i will never know everything, but i allow for the possibility that everything can be known, even if it takes a lot of time and a lot of research. but, throwing out that "why" question assumes a reason, a purpose, and if you're going to bother with that, i say pick a diety already, be it allah, jhwh or even cthulhu. at least, then, we've got a debate