Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Visual Representations for Arguments

Argument from Religious Experience:
In this illustration a man is praying to God.  As we can see he is quite religious.  He truly believes he is having a divine connection.  He believes he is speaking with God himself.  Many spiritual people like this man have 'religious experiences' like this on a day to day basis.  Whether or not people actually speak with God, or Buddha, or who ever, nobody knows the truth except for that particular individual, and the god whom he or she is praying and conversing to.

Pascal's Wager:
Does God Exist? Does he not exist? Does he help us get through struggles? Does he have nothing to do with us getting past hardships?  No one has any definite answer to any of these questions which is what Pascal's Wager is all about.  Isn't the green question mark just beautiful for this topic?

The Argument from 'Degrees of Perfection':
Everything is labeled on a scale from lame to perfect.  That sounds a bit harsh, but it's entirely true.  Than, there are things that can't be ladled.  God, according to his followers, can not be labeled.  He is perfect.  He can not be more perfect.  Just like these block shapes.  They can not fit any more perfectly into their selected little holes.  

The Argument From Aesthetic Experience:
1.) Look at this kid.  He's a talented young violinist.
2.) Is his talent God given? Or did his talent just happen?
3.) Is this boy lucky, or was he given a great work ethic and desire to improve his violin skills?
According the Aesthetic Experience this young boy has all these attributes, and they were handed to him by God.

The Argument From Miracles:
This is in interesting photograph.  It may seem dark, but it really isn't.  Let's say this man's name is Steve.  Maybe Steve is a fluke of a person.  Maybe he's a drug addict.  Well, according to most people, flukes like Steve are going to need miracles in order to escape their miserable lives.  Maybe a miracle as ridiculous as a dolphin flying in the sky.  Who knows? The point is that miracles seem impossible, but they are actually plausible - not likely to happen, but that's all up to God - thus the power of miracles is right in God's hands.  Hopefully, people like Steve will find their flying dolphin, so they can get on the right path and live their life as good as can be.

The 'Design' Argument:
Our universe was designed by an intellectual.  This is a picture that illustrates God's mind.  As we can see a lot is going on in that brain.  This brain can hold infinite memories, facts, and everything else possible and imaginable.  God knows all, he has to know all, and that is how he was able to create the Earth's existence.

The Argument From Time and Contingency:
There is only one being.  Nothing else has to be, and furthermore in accordance to this article nothing is in being.  No one except for God, and this is a picture of God.  Needless to say, there has to be one who is existing otherwise there would literally be nothing.


The Argument From Change:
This is a photograph of people walking in a city, and as we can see they are in a hurry.  It's a visual representation of people having desires to change - change their current positions to go elsewhere which is why they are walking so quickly.  According to The Argument From Change nothing changes.  Desires may come along, like people wanting to move from one place to the other, but nothing actually changes itself. 

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