What’s captured my interest of late:
the notion of maximally great.
Some may find it odd
to talk thus of God,
but it’s part of an age-old debate.
Saint Anselm got off to a start;
got expanded upon by Descartes.
Then Kant came along,
convinced they were wrong;
the God proofs took a shot to the heart.
Anselm, you’ve heard of, I trust,
stated positively, being must.
’Twas Edwards, you see,
said non-being couldn’t be,
parrying Immanuel’s thrust.
Variants have surfaced since;
Plantinga is pretty intense:
discussions unfurled
into possible worlds,
and maximal excellence.
In the end, it all comes down to you;
possibility: a thing to work through.
With regard to reason,
one commits no treason
in accepting the premise as true.
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An interesting article on the subject can be found at:
https://peped.org/philosophicalinvestigations/article-plantinga-ontological-argument/
A lot of body shifts by an inch,
While vengeful killer teeth they clench:
A prosecutor is addressing The Bench,
Concerning dastardly murder of a wench
By a whisky-soaked German French
Whom he’s sure could also in Vodka drench!
Shovel handy they could dig The Quickest Trench
And from Prosecutor A Talkative life wrench,
His tongue-less corpse for A Disgracing Stench …
And maximally in the next one hour,
They shall all Waiters for Justice devour
Between The Adjudged Sweet and The Thought Sour
All the fine bakery with its flour,
Because read they can the legible unfairness
And God so kind, sharp of awareness.
Three distinct persons,
maximally great,
in community,
wanting for nothing,
creator of all
Self-existent,
necessary,
consubstantial,
ageless, timeless
Selecting,
redeeming,
indwelling
Yahweh
I AM
ONE
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I think I need to explore this form a lot more, but gotta start somewhere!
Life...
It is like a cassava
Full of potentials
Potentials are only realized by those that take their time to explore it maximally
It is like a roller coaster
Full of ups and downs
Shouts of joy and sadness
Moments of fun and fear
And sometimes can be on a stand-still
It is like women
Very difficult to understand
But sweet when finally understood
Very interesting if properly explored
Can really be delicate, brutish and nasty
If approached the wrong way
It is like the game of Need For Speed Most Wanted
Full of challenges
With many distractions on the way to the top
One minute it is interesting and fun
Next, it becomes hard to win
Leading to frustration
It is like a smartphone of limitless RAM and ROM
What you make of it is largely dependent on your knowledge of it
In all, life is perspective based
Never balanced
A to you is B to someone else
Live it to your best
Make the most of whatever perspective you have
The reason it is said that - Life no balance
Happy Learning
The eligible for a female partner
Between the highly placed and a gardener;
Thirty years a massively supported age,
As one still doesn’t seem a sage,
Who wants to a union solemnize
And the honorable fun and sex officially recognize.
Maximally forty five years for any male to stop being bloody single,
His voice, strength or money to start arranging a marriage jingle.
Often of few worries, a lot of liberties exercising
And to a lifestyle of softer morals compromising;
No fathered babies to be humoring with toys,
A decided diversion of attention to other joys…
No infant to on its behalf bulging envelopes release,
No reckless nor fastidious wife to scold with ease.
A time and again experimentation with women
Of a life largely swayed by bad omen:
What he ‘d been snatching from ***********,
With the promiscuous posing in careless photography
The same practices this married counterparts had dropped behind
In pursuit of the mature lifestyle of the Non blind.
Scapegoat Mutiny
The perspicuous statements by The Man, meant to flatter,
Were maximally inurbane. In hindsight could only alienate
The dozens of individuals who now gravitate to retaliate.
The Scapegoat Mutiny must succeed!
Woe to those who think it transitory,
bountiful malignant repercussions shall befall them!
Any actions to dissipate will fail!
Those are the claims of the mutineers.
The capricious results will be perceived as beneficial by some
And detrimental by others.
15 September 2016
Abstemious!
Be cooking.
Don’t eat from gastronomic hotels.
Insist jambalaya.
Kindly live maximally nutritious, opt pawpaw.
Quench.
Revitalize strength to undertake vital works XL,
Yields; zeal.
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