Game and Movie Reviews!

Okay, lets feast our eyes on the movies first. I was finally able to see Ben Stein's Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed. I've been anticipating this movie since I knew of it's existence. It just happened to co-inside with my philosophy paper, I thought- What are the chances!? It deals directly with the oppression of free inquiry in science because it goes against the "consensus". I knew what it was about, but I was still blown away. Anyone seeking intellectual freedom needs to see this movie. Most times if you go with high expectations it either disappoints or is what you thought it would be. Expelled blew past all that. It was the best, informative and entertaining documentary I've seen, and it's very poignant.



Okay, I caved. I got a good couple of hundred dollars from overtime and splurged. I got Wii Play to get a 4th and last controller. (I'm a social gamer) and the Coup De Grace was Mario Cart Wii.

I LOVE IT. The beginning levels may be a bit bland but it's perfect to cut your teeth on. The way to win is to master drifting, the drift boost and using ANY kind of jump to boost you. Learn on the easy levels because latter on it becomes madness! Madness I tell you! The Levels look like happy suicide, mixed with "are you kidding me?" to spare. Stirr in a host of crazy items and you get death rockets in the insane world of Mushroom Kingdom.

Trying to get used to the newest rendition of the"Rainbow Road" was hilarious. Hovering over the planet Earth, with minimal rails on the sides, doing insane curves, loops, and half pipes I ended up incinerating from reentry over Antarctica, Siberia, Europe, and several other spots. Hint... on the figure 8 double half pipe GO RIGHT first. Many of the new levels are just gorgeous and fun to drive. Moon View Highway is exhilarating with oncoming traffic. Once you enter the toll area you can get continuous boosts if you drive the right path and you'll start to hear the sirens of cops who won't catch up. *chuckle* You think in a loop they could catch you but no...

There are a bunch off classic levels from all the previous Mario Carts for die hard fans. Though they're nostalgic I think I like the crazy of the new stuff.

The WiFi play is great. NO LAG AT ALL. It is tough competition, fun, and you can pick up at any time. If my friends don't want to come out to play, I can roll with bro's in Japan, England, and all over. I tried the online play this morning, once, and had my butt handed to me on a pre-used soggy paper plate. My resolve is hardened. I will be a contender!

Light at the End of the Tunnel

The End is NEAR! No, the apocalyptic type, though were not that far off.... I'm saying of philosophy class! My paper is done and proof read and rearranged, (thanks Ki) polished and looking good. TODAY is the final. *gasp* and then it's over. I wonder if my teacher will choke on my paper or just dismantle it without response for his own pleasure. *meh*

The glorious gem of research and argument is showing how evolution should be kept as a hypothesis being worked on because of all the scientific criticisms and gaps. This is an important first part because the rest shows how we are being force fed something incomplete as fact that also represses free inquiry and the pursuit of viable options. Scientists supporting intelligent design conform to the rules of science. I'm talking about scientists who do legitimate research who conclude that only an intelligent designer could have produced this out come.

Pushing evolution as complete fact rejects other options and allows a hostile atmosphere against anyone who questions it. Science is stiff arming people into "consensus". When was truth established by democracy instead of facts and evidence? Although the paper deals with evolution the idea is seen in things like global warming, which causes all sorts of idiocracy.

Take ethanol. It takes gasoline to produce, does nearly nothing to reduce price, takes away space for food crops, etc. By the way several countries are facing starvation, any connection? I think so. Making the world green should be done though innovation not legislation.

Any hoot, there is probably a movie review and game review above this, or that's the plan... enjoy!

Monday

Is it sad to say it's nice to be back at work?

The Case for Free Will.

Okay, so I was stirring the pot hopping for more reactions on the previous post of You Have NO Free Will. For those who did post gratitude flows your way. By the time I posted the argument I had already discovered it's weakness.

There is a doubling up of definitions and the point of view is from looking back and not being in the moment. The definition says "Sufficient Reason=There is enough reason (or cause) to guarantee the out come of a decision." Saying sufficient is guaranteed is a fallacy and doubles the definition. Ask anyone, what's the difference between sufficient and guaranteed? Sufficient is enough of, it meets minimum requirement for, it fulfills the need. Guaranteed is absolute, definite, couldn't be another way. One says you have room for more the other does not. You cannot substitute one as the other.

This means at the moment of decision if you have sufficient cause to chose one way, you can have sufficient cause to go several ways and it does not guarantee anything. It is your own choice preconditioned or not. You can go against the environment and conditioning. Choice abounds in every moment. We may have patterns and habits but anyone can see those can be broken or remade. Life lays gloriously open to us in a field of options.

The other problem of the argument is it views certainty from a future point due to hindsight. It was saying you had to make that decision be cause you made that decision which makes it a circular argument.

In the end you have sufficient reason for several choices and it's up to you. The boy from the hood can buck the trend, find a new path and get away from the ghetto. There are living stellar examples out there. Congratulations you are a free agent able to act in any way you choose. You are also free to receive the consequences of those actions.

Why?

Why is it called Cellular phones if they're not biological?

Im IT!

Thanks KI!

1. 10 years ago: Fourteen, Freshmen, Figuring out life. This was the time where I started making a big progression to who I am now. Before this year I was shy and nerdy. After I was Outgoing and nerdy.

2. 5 things on my to-do list today: It's at home.... Lemme see If I remember. i)Get a bunch of rechargeable batteries for the Wii. ii)Finish transferring E*trade money to company 401(k). iii) Pack up stuff for Zaio. iv)Call ACS to see if I need to do a summer semester to delay student loan. v)Finnish my edit of Philosophy paper and submit first draft.

3. Snacks I enjoy:Nuts-I'm a cannibal- and sugary things i.e. cookies, brownies etc.

4. What I would do if I were suddenly made a billionaire:No debt, invest in real estate, start or buy businesses to have perpetual money generation, set up education funds for kids, build Heather and I's dream house with her killer kitchen and my mini laboratory. I'd also have a landing strip for my powered parachute, get a teaching degree and have fun molding the minds of impressionable vic- students.

5. 5 places I have lived:i)Avenues of Salt Lake City. ii)Cedar City Utah. ii)All over San Diego CA. iii) Just south of the Avenues. iv)Heathers Grandmothers to help her out. v)Back to the Avenues again.

6. 5 jobs that I have had: i)Flower Delivery ii)Discover Card iii)Self Employed iv)Zaio v)Morgan Stanley

7. 5 Random Things people don't know about me: What don't people know about me? I'd love to go to space as soon as the tickets are cheep enough. I think having an air mattress camping is cheating (yet I have one). People don't know that I don't know what they don't know about me. I nearly drank a gallon of milk in one night. I climbed Half Dome in Yosemite one and a half times. The second time the top was closed.

8. People I tag: Mitt Romney, Einstein, oo oo! GOD!, Mr. Ask a Ninja, and ducks... yes ducks.

You have NO Free Will.

Okay, So I just feel dirty posting this but this was a serious argument for no free will.

So, Philosophy is fun....

Here's the definitions, then I'll give the argument, and lastly examples.

Sufficient Reason=There is enough reason (or cause) to guarantee the out come of a decision.

P1) If every human decision has sufficient reason there is no way we could have done otherwise and are not morally accountable because it couldn't have gone another way.

P2) If there is a decision done without s.r. then it is pure chance and also makes it so you are not morally accountable because it was chance.

P3) Either P1 or P2 is always the case.
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C1) Therefore you are not morally accountable (or have no free will)

Okay, now to take it out of Philosophy jargon/setup and put it into examples. When you make a choice you have sufficient reason for doing so; i.e. Why do you go to work? - Money, support, bad stuff happens if I don't etc. So you went to work and you really couldn't have done otherwise. I'll blow off work and hit the slopes! Ha! that shows you!
Not really... See, you chose to hit the slopes because you had enough of work and were trying to prove a point so that is your sufficient reason which caused you to take that path which couldn't have been done another way. Each time you play out a decision you have the reasons from beforehand and it guarantees the outcome.

So what if you really don't care or the input is equal? It's chance! Again you can't be responsible for chance and even choosing to let chance decide was a decision from sufficient reason where you couldn't have done otherwise. For example- Do I wear a red or blue shirt? I have an in-law family function or my family function, which do I go to? If they're equal you can only do chance. If you hate your family or the in-laws you are guaranteed a decision.

You might argue- "Yeah but even if my reasons are set up before I do something I made those reasons! So that's my choice!" Well... are your views on the world that made those reasons affected by the environment? your Friends? what you were told as a kid? Really, everything is presented to you, and you have sufficient reason to either accept or reject those ideals from the input that you weren't responsible for as a kid.

Think about it- the kid in the slums- what's his truth? what's his reality? His life view built up as a kid was that dealing drugs and being a gangster is how you survive- that's life. Period. Can you hold him responsible?

How do you like not having Free Will? or responsibility?