So it took awhile, but finally a lot of weight has been taken off my shoulders. I got out of traffic ticket, and I couldn't be happier about it. I feel like OJ Simpson! I just hope there's no pending civil trial ahead for me. The paralegal I hired costed more then the ticket, but hey he saved me hundreds in years to come of inflated insurance. So now, I can really enjoy my summer.
The last month has been crazy, with SCAA stuff, moving, pick up soccer, moving, cottaging, moving, and work. I'm unemployed again, (raw!) and I need money. So I think I'm gonna go get a nice even tan, and then head downtown and start selling my body. A fitting career choice I suppose, I was baptized on Jarvis street, so the nights spent on the streets might be a pilgramage of sorts. The new house is looking aright! I'm definitely feeling the idea of having my own little bachelor pad in the basement, it's gonna be a sweet setup. Adolescent plans of moving out right after university have changed to moving out maybe a year to a year and a half after graduation. All I need now is a plasma TV and a special lady to make the bachelor pad complete! Or, at least the plasma.
I'm loving the feeling of not having homework, and not having to read. I'm already kind of excited to get back to school in september, it's gonna be so much easier after this nice break. And to think I've been off school for less then a month. I've gotta plan out my next 2 years before I get back tho, now that I'm out of co-op and I've added a minor to my specialist, I don't think I have room for a single elective course.
So what's on my mind? Nothing. I am man, hear me belch! I definitely have to get back to some reading this summer and get me a little philosophical stimulation. I bought a collection of Dostoevsky's short stories, so that should hold me for awhile. But all of that will be after the move. Right now it's all about moving, soccer and fun, then after Euro 2004, I'll get back into the groove of academia and so forth.
A thought crossed my mind during the 2 days leading up to my court date. See my paralegal advised me not to come to the trial because it would hinder his capacity to defend me, so I didn't. So filled with emotion I started to think about how my fate was entirely out of my hands. So I started to think, how does one who denies the existence of God, or any necessary being explain that which we cannot control? As my fate was almost entirely to be decided by the actions of others (the cop, the judge, etc.) I would say that for the most part, the fate of every man can be decided by the actions of others. What then, is the fate of mankind as a whole to be decided by? Who holds that power? We could argue until we're blue in the face that the fate of mankind is determined only by mankind itself, and suggest that humans together share the responsibility of each others fate, and that man therefore creates his own destiny, at the very least collectively. But that's not very substantial. Tomorrow I could get eaten by a wild tiger, or a flaming asteroid could destroy us all, and all the power and might of the human will would have nothing to say about it. What then would explain such random acts other then some sort of ultimate Designer, like God? Or woudld acts liked these best be described as simply unexplainable?
That would mean that we have to accept unexplainable random acts as a brute fact. Why then should we need any explanation for the existence of a necessary being like God? Such a being, who transcends all notions, should surely not need an explanation, when a simple concept like randomness by definition transcends all explanations. Should we not then accept the existence of God as a brute fact?
All ontological arguments aside, there is a God, and he did me a pretty big solid when he got me out of that ticket! So ladies, make way for me and my love bus, i'm back on the streets!