While reading through that article, I came across the line, "What's better than a 555 LED blinking circuit? A 555 LED blinking circuit that you can eat!" As I was thinking about this, I managed to come up with the following hypothetical converstation:
Reader: "What's better than a 555 LED blinking circuit? A 555 LED blinking circuit that you can eat!" Is this the beginning of an ontological proof?
Author: No.
Reader: Why not?
Author: Because you can't HAVE your 555 LED blinking circuit and eat it too. A 555 LED blinking circuit that exists is obviously better than one that doesn't, and once you eat the circuit it doesn't exist anymore, so an edible one one can't be better than an inedible one because it doesn't last as long.
Reader: But what if you could have your 555 LED blinking circuit AND eat it too?
Author: Then you'd need to invent a new logic gate and/or thruth table. How do you propose to do that?
Reader: Well, I'd just give my edible 555 LED blinking circuit to Jesus. He could use it to feed a multitude, and still have one left over. Thus, I could HAVE my 555 LED blinking circuit AND eat it too!
Author: When you said ontological argument, you really weren't kidding were you?? God: the best thing since edible 555 LED blinking circuits.
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