You have to go to school so you can be taken seriously as a "researcher." (Ahem.) Actually I think the MS is worth it; it opens up more possibilities
so you can be more than just a code monkey for the rest of your life.
It's an extremely arrogant argument because it displaces the burden of proof. If you think I stole your jacket, it's incumbent upon you to
prove that I stole, not upon me to prove I didn't. Put another way, it's essentially insisting that you prove their argument, which is an
imposition at best. As for faith, I don't consider self-delusion a virtue.
No, although if you switched to wine, you would at least be drinking the flavonoids and getting the heart benefits.
Tell me about it. :P Fortunately I'm taking a vacation at the end of May.
--Why do I have to do school? Do I really need a master's degree? Do I really care if I can program a pre-forked HTTP server in C?
while lindsay's answer is technically correct, my answer is that you "have to go" because you feel that you must go, and you feel that you must go as a result of societal pressures, including but not limited to status/prestige and financial stability. but the reality of the situation is, you have to go because you've been going for almost two years, and you're SO close to being done and then it won't matter anymore. you'll never have to go to school again. (until you convince yourself again that you do need to). ;)
--... The author said that why did the burden of proof have to lie on the theists; shouldn't the atheists have to prove that there was no god?I was going to say the same thing that obsequity said about the burden of proof. this also makes me think of Occam's Razor - where, all things being equal, the simplest explanation is the "best" explanation. i'm sure atheists use this one all the
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so you can be more than just a code monkey for the rest of your life.
prove that I stole, not upon me to prove I didn't. Put another way, it's essentially insisting that you prove their argument, which is an
imposition at best. As for faith, I don't consider self-delusion a virtue.
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while lindsay's answer is technically correct, my answer is that you "have to go" because you feel that you must go, and you feel that you must go as a result of societal pressures, including but not limited to status/prestige and financial stability. but the reality of the situation is, you have to go because you've been going for almost two years, and you're SO close to being done and then it won't matter anymore. you'll never have to go to school again. (until you convince yourself again that you do need to). ;)
--... The author said that why did the burden of proof have to lie on the theists; shouldn't the atheists have to prove that there was no god?I was going to say the same thing that obsequity said about the burden of proof. this also makes me think of Occam's Razor - where, all things being equal, the simplest explanation is the "best" explanation. i'm sure atheists use this one all the ( ... )
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