• Ask Old-Wizard: May 21st, 2008

  

  Written by Zeromage 1 Comment
  Last Updated:: May 21, 2008

  Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve been able to get to your questions, but as some of you know, I’ve been pretty busy with work. Hopefully things will be slowly down now, and I should be able to answer some more later in the week.

  The Great White Ninja asks, What’s your favorite color in Magic: The Gathering?

  Blue. No green! AHHHHHHHHHH!!

  Another Magic: The Gathering question from The Great White Ninja, What’s your favorite non-basic land?

  I would say Taiga’s because the name is cool.

  Chris asks, You guys put the Wii at number 3 on your “Top 10 Gaming Consoles of All Time” list. Yet the Xbox 360 (which isn’t on the list at all) has outsold the Wii. How do you explain this?

  Like the Dreamcast, the Wii is too revolutionary to sell really big right away. But I think people should come around because unlike the Dreamcast, it’s not gay.

  Justin asks, Just read the “Top 5 Girls From the Wonder Years” article that you guys released a while back. Why is Kevin’s mom on the list, instead of his sister?

  His sister is too much of a hippy.

  Piper has a Lost question. It’s seems everyone has forgotten about the four-toed statue on the Island. Do you have any theories as to who made it and why?

  Maybe it was some sort of eccentric Polynesian Picasso at work that cut his own toe off for the love of a woman and then did a self sculpture.

  Alfagreyus asks, Without taking into account the issue of establishing a stone by God, which he won’t be able to pick up, how do you think, may be something in this world, what can God never see?

  In all honesty this sentence makes no sense. Do you speak enough English? Probably not, its okay, English is a difficult language. Now in response to your almost question; The paradox of whether God can create a stone so heavy that even he himself can’t lift it is an old and common question that most atheists like to jump too. The question basically breaks down to whether or not omnipotence is truly possible and is not self-contradictory. Rene Descartes argues that God is absolutely omnipotent despite the problems? What problems you ask? Well, you non-English speaking S.O.B., the very contradiction which you posed. One possible solution to the problem was proposed by J.L. Cowan using a simple logical argument;

  1. Either God can create a stone which He cannot lift, or He cannot create a stone which He cannot lift.

  2. If God can create a stone which He cannot lift, then He is not omnipotent (since He cannot lift the stone in question).

  3. If God cannot create a stone which He cannot lift, then He is not omnipotent (since He cannot create the stone in question).

  4. Therefore God is not omnipotent.

  Well I’m sick of doing your religious/metaphysical research. For further reading I suggest Bertrand Russell, Immanuel Kant, or David Hume.

1 Comment

1. #1 A. Johnson says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 12:22 am

   Dreamcast wasn’t gay, but you however are flaming! =)