My metaphysics class just now was quite interesting. What got the ball rolling was our discussion of the ontological argument for God's existence (among others), and how current writers, including my all-time favorite philosopher, Alvin Plantinga, have revived it with modal logic. They also made it circular, but I digress.

During our discussion, I became so sick of hearing about Plantinga (we're discussing his notion of transworld depravity and his free will theodicy in philosophy of religion, too), I started to sketch a picture of Mike Tyson's gorilla-like fist flying straight for Plantinga's withered old face.¹ In the midst of my artistic reverie, I burst out laughing. Not little chuckles, either; conspicuous levels of laughter that soon caused others, including the professor, to begin chortling along with me. The thought of that miserable old fool getting wailed on by Iron Mike just filled me with glee. Tee hee!

Well, that put me in a mighty good mood, so I was sitting there with a huge smirk on my face for the rest of class. My professor kept asking me what was up, and whether I was "ready to pounce" on the argument we were discussing at the moment (the moral argument for God's existence). I replied with "I'm just a happy camper!" (154,000 points for whoever gets the reference) I still am, by the way. Tee hee! I also rebutted the argument by pointing out that evolution is likely to give rise to morality due to the increase in total utility through cooperation, but again, I digress.

Somehow, this branched off into a discussion about sex. Evidently, my poor professor was educated by Jesuits for 8 years, and he claims to be completely incapable of conceiving of sex without guilt. As in, he can't imagine a sex act that doesn't involve guilt somehow, because the bloodsucking Jesuits taught him that even sexual thoughts are sinful. It's objectively wrong, they say. Cripes, that must be awful; I'll take my humanistic moral noncognitivism and guilt-free sex over their "complete metaphysics" any day of the week, thankyouverymuch. Tee hee!

_{1: My loathing for Plantinga increased 5,000-fold when, while reading about the problem of evil, I learned that he also doesn't feel that theism needs to account for the existence of what we call "evil." Theism is "properly basic," and that's all there is to it. Hidieinafireplzkthxbai~}