tekHedd – the blog

The “mysterious ways” argument negates everything the person using it has said. If it is impossible to understand god, then several things follow:

1) The speaker does not understand God, and should not be trying to represent him,
2) Nobody else understands God eithier,
3) therefore, the “holy scripture” is almost certainly wrong, inspired or not,
4) there is no way for us to know whether we are worshiping properly, so don’t bother.

A God who can not make himself understood is an irrelevant god.

Yes, this argument can only be a red herring, a way to bail out of a discussion when you have just been proven wrong and do not want to admit it. And yet, when you say it, you are saying that you are wrong. This makes it also a paradox; it negates every aspect of its own religion, including the credibility of the person who uses it.  How do you know God works in mysterious ways, if he works in mysterious ways? Obviously you don’t. You’re making it up.

And usually the loser then goes on to smugly assert that this means that he won the argument. Ah, ignorance is truly bliss, isn’t it?

(From random comment thread)

So I guess that video blog thing didn’t last long did it? As usual, when life gets interesting, you don’t bother telling anybody about it. Unless blogging is your entire reason for living, in which case your life never gets interesting, so why bother?

The real reason there have been no video updates is because I tore my ghetto greenscreen, which was in fact a bright green shower curtain. Hey it kind of worked. Chroma key just requires something flat and brightly colored. There’s nothing quite as lame as modern video blogs, where the background is the rear wall of some dude’s home office, or the ceiling in some kid’s bedroom–or let’s not forget the classic “side view of the gaming computer station.” Uh huh. My videos may suck but at least they’re in random locations.

Oh well. As soon as I can afford a can of green paint I’ll be back with more… really… really… boring videos. Hey why not?