Through What Sorcery, Made He The World.

I simply want to elaborate, slightly, on Ockham's Razor. I think it is important to recognize that an argument is cut/denied by Ockham's razor if 1.) it does not adequately address something, that is to say, if upon 'solving' the problem, more questions are raised, and 2.) There are many assumptions that have to be agreed upon for it to be true. I wanted to bring this up because I was once engaging in debate (if one chooses to call it so) with a fellow Christian. We were discussing the formation/creation of the world and I was informed that every science-related theory was cut off by Ockham's razor on the basis that 'God made it' is, in fact the simplest answer. I tried to inform them that such an answer raises questions like 'who made God?' and 'how did he make it?' they informed me that 'he has always existed' was the simplest answer. I told them that even if I were to agree, they cannot deny that the answer is not the most simple if it does not adequately explain something/answer a question.

S.C.T.M. -- Semi-Condensed Textual Me

Hello, my name is Brandon Gerard Gaudet, or at least that's what people call me as a result of my parents having named me so (anyhow, I'll have another post about this later). I am a freshman at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, abbreviated MCLA, which I like to call Muh-klah. I am majoring in philosophy - and I have found myself among only a few others doing the same. All this information here and information similar to it, such as the location from which I hail and my age, are completely unimportant. I don't know why precisely, however, I apparently felt especially inclined to include what I did while leaving out the rest.

 I am a vegetarian primarily for biological and ethical reasons, though environmental reasons are also important to me (additionally, there are micro and macroeconomic reasons that can contribute towards vegetarianism, though I do not particularly care about those). I am an agnostic or something of that sort, in that I recognize that we cannot 'know' that a deity does not exist with any more certainty than we can 'know' that one does. Practically speaking, I live as though no deity exists but from time to time I enjoy reading various religious text, namely the bible (my favourite part is Leviticus 26:14-46 (alternately Deuteronomy 28:15-68), READ IT!!!). I have an apparently innate pacificism (different from pacifism), which I find pretty cool.

My taste in music is fairly expansive Some of the artists that I listen to are - Ben Folds, The Beatles, Nightwish, Rise Against, Beethoven, Koji Kondo (composer of Legend of Zelda music) and other video game music composers. Wow, this is incredibly convenient. Look at this here; by pure coincidence, the perfect segue. This is a true miracle to behold. I was just type-typing away, and lo, my post happened to mention Legend of Zelda - what an amazing happenstance. I happen to have a minor obsession with The Legend of Zelda. This explains why I chose the names and URLs for my 3 blogs. The URLs are the names of the Golden Goddesses from Zelda, the first letters of various things associated with those goddesses, and philoso-(name of the element (and thereby color) associated with them). The blog titles are the aforementioned associations.

That's me :-) in a semi-condensed textual form.