My Life and Times Part XII

Twelfth grade began and my tenure at ASFA was almost over. I had elected to take a wonderful, exuberant, outstanding, brilliant, radiant, high-spirited, magnificent, and astounding course in Philosophy (let’s hope flattery will get me somewhere), taught by an equally qualified professor by the name of Brad Hill. (Really at this point I think it’s getting a little overwhelming, so I’ll stop the mild adulation.) It challenged me to begin thinking more and more about an abundance of allegories and actualities, in which I began to philosophize more and more. After being taught the intricacies of Descartes, I became surer of my stance on life, and was able to recognize myself as a rational Atheist. I began writing philosophical proofs and treatise as they came to my mind, and thankfully the teacher accepted them for responses to the philosophical proofs and treatise we were reading for the class. One of the ones I am more proud of is one in which, based on Thomas Aquinas’s idea of a primary cause, using modern proof of his theory and a revised definition for God, proved God’s existence much the same way Aquinas did (albeit without a good definition for god or the scientific evidence to prove this). Later in the class, I discovered Immanuel Kant, who argued that no one could ever really know God or the future. After many long hours of though, I did finally come to a conclusion that resolved my viewpoints with his (he was important, I couldn’t let an important philosopher get the better of me now, could I?). I simply disagreed with him. I believe that we can know that there will be a future in that we know that there is time, and it progresses. There is a past; therefore there must be a future. However, Kant and I are in agreement in that we cannot know what the future holds.