Open University Assignment

[ailbhe]

I'm currently doing a little of this. I've reached the stage of having 1081 words, of which 123 are the title, the bibliography, and a quote that I daren't count for fear it's just padding. I am about to embark on stage 5: blatantly editing in verbosity. I'm talking about God, so for starters I've replaced every incidence of "omnipotent" with "both omnipotent and omniscient". That gained me 9 words. Hmm.

I'll get there, I have no doubt. I added about 200 words in ten minutes when I printed it out and went into the garden to have a cigarette and an iced drink.

I wonder if I can add a paragraph about how the problem only arises if you believe in God, and you shouldn't do that because - something. Hm.

Doubt it. It's beyond the scope of the essay, disproving the deity.

Oh, in case you're wondering why I have so much time to do housework and write journal entries, the deadline is tomorrow.

Comments

[redbird]

Disproving the deity is beyond the scope etc. But you could probably get a couple of hundred words out of the idea that the problem only arises if you assume that god is not only omnipotent but omnibenevolent, and furthermore that her/his benevolence is directed primarily toward humans.

(I now digress to point out Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light series, in which the gods, aka the Powers Above, are colonial minds comprising huge numbers of extremophile bacteria, and whose main interests have little to do with any multicelled lifeform.)