Wednesday, May 7, 2008

In defense of porches.

There's nothing to defend. Porches rule.

But for the skeptics, I'll provide two short examples.

Example 1:
Had the Jr. high guys over last night for our weekly group. Talked about how Jesus is the gospel and how he wants to marry everybody. Also, Schrodinger's Cat, God's possible deterministic role in random chance, the Monty Hall problem, and we watched the We Didn't Start the Viral video, which isn't a rickroll, but features Rick Astley towards the end. Also, there were fig newtons.

Afterwards, one of the guys and I sat out on the porch waiting for his dad to come get him and talked more about certainty and the role of the observer in epistemology. The porch was awesome.

Example 1: PROVED

Example 2:
Sunday night after church, the guy's house held an after-after party for the spring formal they'd held Friday night. We grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, and Brett decided he was going to be "re-emergent" to be contradictory to Steve, who is post-emergent. We talked about how Christianity is changing, and about old churches we'd gone to and new churches we go to. I head nodded to a guy walking down the sidewalk and he nodded back. Austin cleaned a bunch, and then we played Twister in the dining room. The porch was awesome.

Example 2: PROVED

2 comments:

Adam said...

Since you are so soundly and convincingly defending porches, I think I should come up with some attack on porches that you can resoundingly crush with your arguments.

I will get back to you on this.

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry Tim but I must respectfully disagree with your position on porches. In the last 4 years I have fallen victim to the following list of porch-related incidents:
--Porch providing safe harbor for vicious colony of wasps.
--Back porch threatening to drift away from rest of house, possibly to begin rogue militant state in backyard.
--Front Porch providing safe harbor for what splatter pattern evidence can only suggest are a specie of birds whose defacating habits are immune to the effects of gravity.
--Countless toe-stubbing incidents, none of which the porch has apologized for. Hanging Plant Sanctions have also proved fruitless.
Maybe I just live in a bad neighborhood or something.