Comments on: 36 Flavors and then Summa

By: On Anselm’s Proslogion and “Proofs” for God – The Blag Switch

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:06:01 +0000

[...] Commenter J points me to an excellent parody of Anselm’s argument by the inimitable Julian [...]

By: Chuchundra

Chuchundra — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:11:24 +0000

And you think that your meat space, monkey brain is better equipped to judge what is perfect than the Lord God Almighty?

Heh.

Even as a committed atheist, the argument seems week to me. We tend to think of God as a human being with enormous superpowers, either the capricious tyrant of the Old Testament or the loving redeemer of the new. But if God did exist he wouldn’t be like that at all.

His thought processes and his conception of perfection would be as incomprehensible to us as ours are to dung beetle. Go read the story of Job again.

By: southpaw

southpaw — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:43:02 +0000

Perhaps God arranged the world so that you could prove He doesn’t exist.

By: Julian Sanchez

Julian Sanchez — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:01:09 +0000

If I’m ever visiting the Whitney on a Sunday, I’ll stroll down.

By: y81

y81 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:40:05 +0000

“For every good thing that exists, I can imagine a still better version that does not exist. ”

You haven’t had one of my pumpkin pies, then. Nor probably ever will, unless you come to our church bake sale.

By: K.Chen

K.Chen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:41:05 +0000

Is it bad I immediately thought of platonic ideals?

By: Gregor S.

Gregor S. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:31:49 +0000

Haven’t you just become an Idealist?

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:59:37 +0000

Oh, then continue. He should be the same from either side.

By: Julian Sanchez

Julian Sanchez — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:23:42 +0000

Actually, bad pun in the title notwithstanding, it was St. Anslem, not Aquinas.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:56:47 +0000

You’re reversing Aquinas here, aren’t you? Always be careful reversing Italians. The other side is often worse.