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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Aquinas' Advice for Intellectual Agnosticism

So I'm reading this book ''Being and Goodness: The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology," edited by Scott MacDonald to try and find a topic to write on for my metaphysics paper, which I need to get done by the end of the summer, before I start in the Comparative Religion program at WMU. While reading the introductory section, I ran across this statement, which I thought was very interesting, considering how agnostic and interfaith I seem to be when it comes to committing myself to one religious faith over another. So I guess this is for all the people in the world, like me, who are confused about the diversity of religious claims to exclusivist truth. Enjoy!

'Aquinas holds that in some cases, including those relevant to faith, the evidence for a given proposition entertained by the intellect is insufficient to move the intellect to assent. In cases of this sort (though, as he acknowledges, not in cases in which there is sufficient evident to move the intellect to assent) there is room for the will to move the intellect on the basis of its being drawn by the goodness of the object entertained.'
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

My Entire Romantic Existence in One Paragraph

So I was watching 'High Fidelity' with John and Joan Cusack and near the end of the movie he said this paragraph and I think it pretty much sums up all the romantic relationships that I've ever had.

'I can see now I never really committed to [insert former girlfriends name here]...I always had one foot out the door and that prevented me from doing a lot of things [that I shoulda done if I was really 'in' the relationship like I shoulda been]...I guess it made more sense to commit to nothing...keep my options open...and that's suicide by tiny, tiny increments.'

i hear lauren hill and the fugees in my head right now, i'm killing myself softly, aren't I?
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