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Monday, November 28, 2005
3:07 PM

God sometimes you just don't come through
God sometimes you just don't come through
Do you need a woman to look after you
God sometimes you just don't come through

You make pretty daisies pretty daisies love
I gotta find what you're doing about things here
a few witches burning gets a little toasty here
I gotta find why you always go when the wind blows
tell me you're crazy maybe then I'll understand
you got your 9 iron in the back seat just in case
heard you've gone south well babe you love your new 4 wheel
I gotta find why you always go when the wind blows

[give not thy strength unto women
nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings]

Will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky fall
will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky

God sometimes you just don't come through
God sometimes you just don't come through
Do you need a woman to look after you
God sometimes you just don't come through

-God, Tori Amos

Saturday, November 26, 2005
10:27 PM

Wow..the past few days have been uber fun, lol. I also watched Emily Rose (like finally) with Hanif the other day. Unfortunately I was laughing most of the time, because Hanif was totally into the movie and was damn scared and was squriming away in his seat..lol..funny sia.

Friday and today were the most eventful. Went out with YiA, Keith, Gerard and Sean. LOL.. its been damn long since i caught up with these people. About time actually. They've been calling me out for ages and I finally responded. We've lots of plans for the month ahead.. crashing at YiA's place, going for buffets.. more DotA sessions. Can't wait!!!

Work tmr. Grr. Screws up all my plans! zzzzzz

Monday, November 21, 2005
6:44 PM

Ok. I'm fine now.

Sian. In-service tmr. Off day burnt.

Anyway I don't understand why these people have to be so sneaky about base intrusion exercises. Its like, yeah, you wanna test the alertness of sentries, but sending a fibreglass sampan at 3am in the morning? Its bad enough that a fibreglass sampan has only one all-round light. To make it worse, its hardly visible at night and the all-round light blends in perfectly with the background lights.

So, feeling extra on, I was sitting at the jettyhead at 3am, and I had to really squint to see the sampan that was moving erratically across the Gul Basin waters, and drifting suspiciously.

And then they sneaked off after we shined our searchlights at them. I highly doubt its a fishing sampan, I mean who fishes at 3am on a Monday morning, at Gul Basin, of all places?

Realistically speaking, Police Coast Guard bases are pretty safe, being located at the most ulu parts of the island. I highly doubt a terrorist would know the location of our base when 90% of the residents living in the vicinity of the base don't know its existence. lol.

Irritating sia these intrusion exercises.

Thursday, November 03, 2005
10:22 PM

Ysterday I went snooping around Borders by myself, while waiting for that ass Junlong who was over an hour late for our DotA session. Inevitably, I stumbled into a book I had to have- this time one by Bertrand Russell- Why I Am Not a Christian: a book of essays on religion. I enjoy reading Russell's books because he presents really cogent arguments about any issue he's writing on, and they can really broaden your perspective on those issues. Of course, being an atheist, his niche area of writing has always covered religion, more specifically, his firm stand that religions can do alot of harm.

Anyway, as I was reading his essays, I came across this really stellar counter-argument on the existence of God. The claim is that there would be no right or wrong if God did not exist. Russell argues that the issue at hand is not whether or not there is a difference between right and wrong, but more importantly, the point to note is that a theist does firmly believe that there is a difference. And this, therefore, raises a more important question- if there is indeed a difference between right and wrong, is this difference due to God's will? If it is due to God's will, then for God himself there must have been no difference between right and wrong (since he had to will the difference into existence). And if so, then it would be irrelevant to say that God is good.

Following this argument, if one is to say that God is good, like what theologians say, you would also have to agree that the meaning of right and wrong is independent of God's will, and that Right and Wrong existed before God (in order for God's actions to be good).

This indirectly implies that there must have been some superior deity who made the concept of right and wrong into being, and then instructed God on the actions that he must do, in order to be inherently good.

Ultimately, what we are now saying is that right and wrong could have existed without the presence of God-

which totally contradicts the initial argument that there can be no right or wrong if God did not exist-

and hence, logically, this casts doubt on the existence of God.

Interesting argument, no? I have been analysing this argument for quite some time, but I am unable to find any flaw in it.

P.S. do note that I am presenting an author's point of view not necessarily mine, and this is just food for thought.