What can I say? Outcomes?
Never mind.
Flavour and embellish the rich stew of life as if you were another I T !
Marvels pile upon marvels,
The saints reveal that,
The Essences bewilder you,
Your throat wants freedom.
The new design argument old typewriter is now here...
Not forgetting the name of the officer that just arrested you for indecent exposure. But – THINGS. ALL THINGS.
That is why Facebook Mania became a Facebook Fast. That is why my blackberry has been so busy sending and receiving messages multiple times every hour. But pardon me while I fart.
Another way of expressing it is that accumulating things will make you very heavy. You need to be nimble, light on your feet, ready to pounce, ready to run. Ready to empty your mind in the face of the Noisy One. On the grand path to the Nameless One. PERFECT. (There is such a thing as “perfect” and I can prove it in three minutes.)
Here I am at one of the most famous facilities for operating on hernias in the world – the Shouldice Hospital which is located in the York Region of Ontario in Canada. Come here and put on the fancy blue hospital outfit. Get a shave from one of their expert nurses. They will shave the hair from your groin area all the way up to your navel. Then go down into the cold room with all the beds and allow the mind altering drugs to take effect as you wait for the experienced surgeon and his knife.
Don’t panic. They have done it thousands of times before. Yes, in a way you are a piece of meat on an assembly line; in a way the surgeons don’t care about you any more than they do the dried skin off the bottom of the heel of a remote relative. But, hell, they sure do seem to know what they are doing. And the food is better than the average hospital fare.
Some sayings and parables come to mind at this time – a time of morphine and middle-aged gentlemen (very few ladies). Please ignore errors to do with grammar or meaning.
In a world where constipation is the norm, even a small amount of flatulence is considered a victory.
I stink and that is a signal from the healing angels that I should get on with that sponge bath.
My parents were not religious and did not understand the laws of the Covenant. That is why I received a circumcision every eight days until I reached my Bar Mitzvah.
A man must master the art of dodging bullets. Nary a fool taketh a sponge bath in the hospital of his choosing than doth the wicked man cobble an unusual shoe.
Suppose a slush fund or an offshore account were offered ye. Would you not accept it with gratitude or would the offer become like a fish caught in the woolly hairnet of your moral quandaries?
There were many more but they were far less worth repeating than these.
Stir your ego in the warm wet mud
Shake your belly
Drop your jewelry in the mud
Shake your belly
Not in the traditional way mud mud mud
All over your belly
Not in the way your aunts and uncles expect mud mud
Hide your belly
Make a cake with your verbal mud mud mud
Move your belly
Bake something with your mind mud mud
Pat your belly
Why do I speak of this?
I am not very proud
The mud was in the brain
My voice a little loud
She hung up the phone
She muddy muddy muddy
She flavoured the bone
She muddy muddy muddy
We, here at Design Argument, have come to realize that the spiritual crisis we are undergoing will not end by simply producing better content for our blog posts. Nor will it be alleviated by improving our search engine ranking or even by increasing blog traffic to the point where Google Ads are actually useful. The time to act is now and that is why we have hired Rabbi Emmanuel Rabinovich as our spiritual guide and keyword adviser. What may come as a surprise to many of you is that we have also retained the services of Rose Rabbinovich (2 b’s).
Although the primary goal is to upgrade our spiritual quotient on the blog, we are proud of the business opportunities that this new synergy will grow and sprout, unveil and reveal, and release into the web 6.0 environment. We are also pleased that Rabinovich and Rabbinovich are both actual fictional characters that can be looked up on Wikipedia. This is a first for Design Argument. Although we have created many fictional characters from scratch, this is the first time that we are using pre-existing fictional characters.
The environmental benefits of recycling fictional characters are significant and we are doing our part to reduce, re-use, and recycle.
Rabinovich and Rabbinovich (2 b's)
Rabbi Rabinovich’s speech invoked The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as proof of Jewish global conspiracy and appeared in the well-respected early 1950s right-wing newsletter, Common Sense – A Newspaper Upholding Christianity and Patriotism.
The Rabbi Rabinovich speech is often distributed online with a cover letter by Rose Rabbinovich (two b’s – who has graciously offered to work with us on our reputation management crisis). Rosie states that the speech was found on her Rabbi’s favorite website, Radio Islam, which is a sweet twist.
So we give a hearty welcome to Rabbi Emmanuel Rabinovich and to Rose Rabbinovich (two b’s)! We look forward to the progressive changes that they will bring to our blog. We are pleased to use and transform a character created by vile human beings in a way that will bring joy, happiness and memories of fresh daisies to the eyes of our readers and the staff here at Design Argument.
Warm Regards,
Martyne Glodsten, CFO
Hope you enjoy this meditation and yoga video.
Watch for the addition of an exciting Design Argument outreach Rabbinical staff member coming very soon. This Rabbi will lead us into the great future that we are embarking upon. Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Rabbeinu Bachya, in his minor philosophical work “The Duties of the Heart” [10th century] misrepresents the argument for design in the following manner:
Do you not realize that if ink were poured out accidentally on a blank sheet of paper, it would be impossible that proper writing should result, legible lines that are written with a pen? Imagine a person bringing a sheet of handwriting that could only have been composed with a pen. He claims that ink spilled on the paper and these written characters had accidentally emerged. We would charge him to his face with falsehood, for we could feel certain that this result could not have happened without an intelligent person’s purpose.
Since this seems impossible in the case of letters whose formation is conventional, how can one assert that something far subtler in its design and which manifests in its fashioning a depth and complexity infinitely beyond our comprehension could have happened without the purpose, power, and wisdom of a wise and mighty designer? (“The Duties of the Heart,” The Gate of Oneness, Chapter 6)
According to the Aish HaTorah Propoganda Central Office, the two most common objections to this argument go as follows:
1. The argument is too simple. There seems to be a big jump from concluding that someone must have made rock formations in the desert to concluding that there is a Creator who must have made the universe.
2. What about evolution? Over a very long period of time everything could have come about as a random occurrence! With millions of years to play around with, isn’t it possible for some kind of order to emerge just by chance?
Oh Aishele, Aishele, Aishele! How you misrepresent things in order to convince people of the God Doll that you sell in your Aish Mall. From Ebon Musings (now get this into your head Aish and stop playing dumb!)
It is clear to see that natural selection, which is not chance but the opposite of chance, is what makes evolution work. If there were no selection, change in living things would follow a pattern called a “random walk” – sometimes the changes would be beneficial, sometimes not, and the population as a whole would wander back and forth across the fitness “landscape” but, on average, never get anywhere. That would be an example of random change, and it is absolutely correct to say that such a process could never produce all the intricate diversity and marvelous adaptations that living things possess.
Natural selection changes all that, by preferentially preserving the good variations and eliminating the bad ones. It is like a ratchet, allowing a population to move only in one direction – the direction of greater fitness. And the changes that natural selection favors are not random, but are determined by the characteristics of the environment. This is why, for example, both fish and aquatic mammals such as whales and dolphins have the same streamlined body shape – because this is the shape that is most efficient for moving through the water in which they live. This shape has evolved separately in the fish and cetacean lineages, in an example of an evolutionary phenomenon called convergence, precisely because it is the best shape for that environment regardless of what kind of creature has it. If evolution were random, we would not see this kind of predictable pattern.
Like all natural processes, evolution is guided by laws that do not change. If you throw a rock up in the air, its path is not governed by pure chance, but by the law of gravity. It cannot fly off randomly in any direction, but will travel in a parabolic arc and land at a predictable point. If you put a hot object next to a cold one, the transfer of heat is not governed by pure chance, but by the laws of thermodynamics. Heat cannot flow randomly in either direction; it will move consistently from the hotter object to the colder one. And if you set a population of randomly mutating organisms in an environment, their future is not drifting at the whim of chance, but is directed by the law of natural selection. Their evolution will not proceed in just any direction, but only in those that make them better adapted to their surroundings.
Now based on your false Aish HaTorah assumptions you can pretend to address these two objections that are coming from uneducated people.
The principle “design implies designer” applies across the board, whether the designer is a Bedouin nomad piling rocks in the desert or the Infinite Regression of all existence. The design from ignorance states that it is the same logical process. In fact, there is more reason to assume a designer in the latter case since the level of design is much higher. And there is more reason to assume that that designer also had a designer since it has already been stated that a more sophisticated being is required to design a pile of rocks, a watch or what not. Especially WHAT NOT!
Simplicity is not an inherent fault in an argument. Perhaps the reason why some people take issue with this application of logic is due to the accompanying consequences. The reason why some people take issue with this logic is due to the consequences. (Oh here we go with the false and intellectually insulting reasons given by Aish HaTorah as to why people don’t accept the design argument. Instead of listening to the logical responses to their argument they will counterattack with an appeal to morality or claim that people just don’t want the inconvenience of keeping kosher or not blending wool with linen. Watch to see if they use the phrase “cognitive dissonance” for that is always a nice “intellectual” insult!)
aish hatorah general meeting: “Since the Bedouin doesn’t make any moral demands on our life, there is no resistance to drawing the logical conclusion that someone designed that rock formation. But when the conclusion points to God,
When the interference of cognitive dissonance is removed, what is the objective standard of design that we need to see in order to conclude something was created? What we need is a control experiment that determines this threshold of design in a case that has no threatening consequences. “The Obvious Proof”, a book by Gershon Robinson and Mordechai Steinman, delivers a compelling presentation of the design argument, and describes such a control experiment involving millions of people concluding the necessity of a designer.”
I am tired of this. Aish HaTorah is a machine spewing out a party line. They think they have everything covered but they are intellectually dishonest and they themselves suffer from cognitive dissonance. You can’t argue with a machine. Garbage in, garbage out as they used to say.
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