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So, people of blog land, here I am in Auckland again. I had a really nasty realisation on the plane up here. I left home at 8:45 this morning to go to the airport, in order to travel to Auckland for work, and I’ll be getting home tomorrow about lunch time and this felt perfectly normal! My life could, from a certain life, be characterised by the desire for leaving my family behind for a couple of days to be a realy unusual and unsettling thing, but here I am doing it as if it’s a normal run-of-the mill thing to do. And that is not something that gives me happy fuzzy feelings.
But then I got here and got into my hire car, and the whole travel-as-unsettling thingcame back, so that’s all right. The car looks like the only reason you couldn’t fly with it in hand luggage is the lack of a convenient carry handle. Not only that, but its manual. Now, those of you who drive mostly in your own cars may not realise this, but practically all hire cars are automatic, and there is a very good reason for this. If you do not treat a manual car in just the right way when starting off, it will bite you, and this way is different for every single car. I suspect that for this particular car its different everytime you press the accelerator. Meh.
You know the annoying thing about blogs, and writing in general? I type much slower than I think, so by the time I finish the bit that I’m typing I’ve forgotten what I was going to type about next.
On to a slightly more serious thought. I was reading a book called The Salmon of Doubt, which is a buch of stuff by Douglas Adams collected posthumously on the plane. Some of it is so funny I was justs about crying, but that’s not what I want to talk about. Apparently he was a convinced athiest, by which he means that he saw no place for mere wishywashy belief in his atheism. There is a bit in Salmon from an interview with American Athiest magazine about this, which I read with a little bit of discomfort, since I’m a devout Christian. And then when I got off the plane some time later, a thought struck me. I think I’ve had this thought before, but this time I’m actually writing it down…
The thought is this; I think that athiests (or at least the ones I’ve had any contact with), seem to make an enourmous and horrible logical error in their arguments. They seem to ‘believe’ that anything that cannot be comprehended and understood by us, that is humanity is necessarily false and untrue. I can’t be bothered to look up what Adams said about it, but he basically said that he went from being a Christitan to and athiest because he realised that the logical arguments for religion were nowhere near as strict as those for, say, gravity. My answer to this is that this is the most astonishingly arrogant viewpoint I’ve come across in a while (I don’t exactly go looking for arrogant viewpoints, so there may have been others that I just missed). Out of the logically unprovable view that God exists, and the logically unprovable view that God doesn’t exist because I, personally, can’t explain him, which is more defensible, really?
And on that note, I’m going to play Tomb Raider Legend, which rocks. And then work on graphics for live TV, which non-rocks.
But then I got here and got into my hire car, and the whole travel-as-unsettling thingcame back, so that’s all right. The car looks like the only reason you couldn’t fly with it in hand luggage is the lack of a convenient carry handle. Not only that, but its manual. Now, those of you who drive mostly in your own cars may not realise this, but practically all hire cars are automatic, and there is a very good reason for this. If you do not treat a manual car in just the right way when starting off, it will bite you, and this way is different for every single car. I suspect that for this particular car its different everytime you press the accelerator. Meh.
You know the annoying thing about blogs, and writing in general? I type much slower than I think, so by the time I finish the bit that I’m typing I’ve forgotten what I was going to type about next.
On to a slightly more serious thought. I was reading a book called The Salmon of Doubt, which is a buch of stuff by Douglas Adams collected posthumously on the plane. Some of it is so funny I was justs about crying, but that’s not what I want to talk about. Apparently he was a convinced athiest, by which he means that he saw no place for mere wishywashy belief in his atheism. There is a bit in Salmon from an interview with American Athiest magazine about this, which I read with a little bit of discomfort, since I’m a devout Christian. And then when I got off the plane some time later, a thought struck me. I think I’ve had this thought before, but this time I’m actually writing it down…
The thought is this; I think that athiests (or at least the ones I’ve had any contact with), seem to make an enourmous and horrible logical error in their arguments. They seem to ‘believe’ that anything that cannot be comprehended and understood by us, that is humanity is necessarily false and untrue. I can’t be bothered to look up what Adams said about it, but he basically said that he went from being a Christitan to and athiest because he realised that the logical arguments for religion were nowhere near as strict as those for, say, gravity. My answer to this is that this is the most astonishingly arrogant viewpoint I’ve come across in a while (I don’t exactly go looking for arrogant viewpoints, so there may have been others that I just missed). Out of the logically unprovable view that God exists, and the logically unprovable view that God doesn’t exist because I, personally, can’t explain him, which is more defensible, really?
And on that note, I’m going to play Tomb Raider Legend, which rocks. And then work on graphics for live TV, which non-rocks.