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So last night I'm bored out of my mind at home. I just spent the whole day looking for jobs around town. I must have turned in 50 applications. I swear if I have to write down my work history again I will shoot myself. I should just attach a resumé to all the apps so I don't have to. Well enough of that. Anyways so my buddy Casey calls me up and we decided to grab some food and catch a flick. Speaking of flicks I am going to re-open my movie review website. I will be posting new reviews as I see movies. Anyways we met up at the Stapley Bucks and moseyed on over to the "Mac Shack" as Casey so affectionatly calls it. I had some of the best Chicken Canneloni I have ever put in my mouth. It was wonderful. Anywho what was interesting about dinner was our convo. We discussed mostly politics. Now, Casey and I are both hard-core conservatives. Hannity and Limbaugh are probably our favorite political commentators. Our conversation drifted to the up and coming election. I have talked to a good many liberals and they all say the same thing. I don't care for John Kerry, but I HATE BUSH SO MUCH!!!!! Well I say to Mr. Liberal-Who-Hates-Bush-But-Doesn't-Like-Kerry-Either, VOTE FOR NADER!!! People will say that Nader stands no chance at winning, but I disagree. If everyone who belived in Nader's platform got out there and voted I think Nader would be fighting for the top spot. The problem with people who like Nader is they are all too busy saving whales and hugging trees to take 20mins on one day every four years to vote for the President of America. I say to you tree hugging liberal, "Nuke a gay whale for Jesus!" Anywho, I encourage all of you who don't like Kerry but hate Bush to vote for Nader, because a vote for Nader is still a vote against Bush.
So after dinner we headed over to the theater to see Anchorman, which is quite funny if you ask me, but on a whim decided to see the 12:01 showing of I-Robot instead. I have to say that I-Robot was a pleasant suprise. I went into the movie expecting a really crappy movie with crappy special effects and crappy acting. But I was wrong, good plot, great special effects, and the acting wasn't bad either. So read my review on it at MovieCenter and then go see it. So suddenly we had hours to kill so I called up my friend Tom Christie and the three of use chilled at Stapley bucks and In-n-Out until the movie. Good conversations. I enjoyed it alot. The thing that intrigued me most about I-Robot was the discourse about the will. How are decisions made? Could a Robot make good decisions? THis discourse brings me to my next subject, John Edwards.
I am reading a book by Edwards called Freedom of the Will, which is probably the most complicated book I have every read. I have been reading it for a few days, so far I think I'm on page 12. For those of you who do not know John Edwards, he was a puritan preacher around the time of the Great Awakening. He is argueably one of the greatest philisophical thinkers of all time. His work has convicted and encouraged sinners to a saving faith in Christ. I just learned of another person who just last night was driven to the cross by Edwards work. Anyways in his book Edwards takes then preface to apologize to everyone who is offended by the usage of the word Calvinist and Arminian. He states that he uses these words to save space in his lengthy disertation. The first actual section in the book in a definition of terms like, "the will" "desire" and "voltion." He defines exactly what he means by these words. I will not discuss his defs because you should read the book. Anyway the conclusion he reaches is the the will and desire are bound to each other. Therefore the will is most definetly not free. It is not bound to our nature, but to our desire, which is bound to our desire. The will chooses what ever it desires most. Therefore, sinners only choose sin etc. etc. I am looking forward to reading the rest of the book and keeping you all updated with my gleanings.
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