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Breakfast for dinner? You bet! Sometimes there's nothing better than French toast -- any time of the day.
Square One's take on French toast is thin slices of brioche dipped in a rich, homemade crème anglaise, then grilled to fluffy, golden perfection. You almost don't need butter and maple syrup.
Thinking stuffed French toast? I loved this take — small, mascarpone-stuffed rounds, lightly scented with cinnamon and fried, then topped with a bright orange compote. And it's perfect for company; make the compote and assemble the "sandwiches" ahead of time, then fry shortly before serving. It takes a little over an hour to make, but boy is it worth it.
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Extra-crispy: The trick to this French toast is a combination of cornflakes and buttery palmiers, which add great crunch and rich flavor. With a topping of apples and a dusting of powdered sugar, it makes for a perfect start to the day. Now you can have a taste of the South right here in Southern California.
Or go the savory route. This take on the comfort food -- stuffed with bacon, Gruyère cheese and dandelion greens and pan-fried to ooey-gooey perfection -- works well any time of the day. And dinner is served in less than an hour.
We also include the classic for you purists.
And for more ideas, click through our easy dinner recipes gallery and check out our Dinner Tonight page, devoted to recipes that can be made in an hour or less. Looking for a particular type of recipe? Comment below or email me at email@example.com.
Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes, plus chilling time
Servings: 4
Note: Adapted from a recipe from Square One Dining. Whole-loaf brioche is available at Trader Joe's and Breadbar (pain de mie); it also can be ordered at Whole Foods. Clarified butter is available at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, well-stocked supermarkets and Indian grocery stores. You also can make it by heating a small amount of butter over low heat in a small saucepan; ladle out the clarified butter, straining out the floating solids, discarding the butterfat on the bottom of the pan.
1 1/2 cups heavy cream, divided
3/4 of a vanilla bean (split lengthwise)
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
Generous 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
10 egg yolks
1 tablespoon clarified butter
1 loaf brioche bread, sliced into 1/2 -inch thick slices
1. To make the crème anglaise, place 1 cup of the cream in a medium saucepan over low heat. Scrape the seeds of the vanilla bean pod into the cream, then drop in the pod too. Bring just to a simmer. Remove from the heat and allow to infuse for 30 minutes.
2. In a small bowl, combine the sugar and salt. In a medium bowl, whisk the yolks. Whisk half of the sugar-salt mixture into the cream, and whisk the other half into the egg yolks. Slowly pour the warm cream into the bowl with the egg yolks, whisking constantly until incorporated. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan and return the pan to low heat.
3. Cook the mixture, stirring constantly but not vigorously until the mixture thickens, making sure to prevent the mixture from curdling. When thickened, remove the mixture from the heat and strain through a fine mesh strainer into a medium bowl, discarding any solids and the vanilla pod. Whisk in the remaining one-half cup heavy cream, and whisk over an ice water bath to cool. Cool the crème anglaise in the refrigerator, preferably overnight for the flavors to develop.
4. To make the French toast, heat a sauté pan or griddle over medium heat until hot. Add enough of the clarified butter to thinly coat the surface of the pan. Dip the bread, one slice at a time, into the crème anglaise to coat on both sides, then remove, shaking off any excess batter.
5. Place the bread on the pan or griddle and grill 2 minutes per side, until golden brown on both sides. Remove and set aside in a warm place. To serve, place four slices on a warm plate and serve immediately with softened butter and maple syrup on the side.
Each serving: 928 calories; 15 grams protein; 66 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram fiber; 68 grams fat; 39 grams saturated fat; 779 mg. cholesterol; 292 mg. sodium.
Total time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Servings: 6 to 9
Note: Adapted from the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. This recipe requires a 2 1/2-inch round cookie cutter.
Orange compote
3 (10.5 ounce) cans mandarin oranges packed in juice
2 3/4 cups orange juice, divided, more as needed
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1. Drain the canned mandarin oranges, reserving the juice; you should have 1 1/2 cups reserved juice (if you are short, make up the difference with additional orange juice).
2. In a large, heavy-bottom saucepan, combine the canned oranges, reserved mandarin juice, 2 1/2 cups orange juice, ginger and sugar over high heat.
3. Bring the mixture to a strong simmer and cook, stirring frequently, until the compote is reduced to sauce consistency, about 40 minutes. As the compote reduces, the color will deepen to a rich apricot shade.
4. When the compote is almost reduced, in a small bowl combine the remaining one-fourth cup orange juice with the cornstarch, whisking to thoroughly combine and form a slurry.
5. Add the slurry into the reduced compote, stirring until the compote thickens, about 1 minute. Remove from heat. This makes about 1 1/2 cups compote. You might not use all of the compote for the remainder of the recipe; to store, cool the compote then cover and refrigerate until needed. The compote will keep for about a week, refrigerated. Gently warm in a saucepan before serving.
French toast and assembly
About 2 loaves white sandwich bread (you will need 36 slices, enough for 18 sandwiches)
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (about 10 ounces) mascarpone cheese
6 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
Canola oil for frying
Orange compote, warmed
1. Cut the bread: Use a 2 1/2-inch round cookie cutter to cut through the center of each slice to form a round. Spread 1 tablespoon mascarpone over each of half of the rounds, then cover with a remaining round of bread. Repeat, forming 18 sandwiches.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, cinnamon and sugar to form a batter.
3. Heat a large flat skillet over medium heat. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons canola oil to the pan (enough to form a thin film), heating until the oil is hot.
4. Dunk a sandwich quickly into the batter, coating on all sides. Place the sandwich in the skillet and fry until golden and crisp on both sides, about 1 minute per side.
5. Repeat with the remaining sandwiches until all are fried, holding the fried sandwiches in a warm place.
6. To serve, place 2 or 3 warm sandwiches on each plate, topping with a spoonful of compote. Serve immediately.
Each of 9 servings: 538 calories; 13 grams protein; 54 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams fiber; 31 grams fat; 15 grams saturated fat; 212 mg. cholesterol; 29 grams sugar; 425 mg. sodium.
45 minutes. Serves 4
Apple topping
3 Granny Smith apples, peeled and sliced
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup light brown sugar
2 tablespoons cold water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
In a medium saucepan, combine the apples, cinnamon, brown sugar and a pinch of salt over low heat. Cook, stirring until the apples are tender but not mushy, 8 to 10 minutes. While the apples are cooking, combine the water and cornstarch in a small bowl. Add the cornstarch mixture to the apples and increase the heat to high, stirring until the liquid bubbles and thickens. Remove from heat and hold in a warm place.
Crispy French toast
6 eggs
1 cup half and half
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 cups cornflakes
1 cup crumbled palmiers (you can substitute 1 extra cup cornflakes)
3 tablespoons powdered sugar, plus more for dusting
Oil for deep-frying
4 slices sourdough bread, cut into ¾-inch slices
Apple topping
1. In a medium bowl, beat together the eggs, half and half, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg to form the batter.
2. In a food processor, grind the cornflakes with the palmiers and powdered sugar to a coarse, sandy texture.
3. Heat the oil in a wide pot or deep fryer until it reaches 350 degrees.
4. While the oil is heating, start preparing the French toast: Dip the bread in the batter to soak, then press the soaked bread into the crust mixture on both sides to form a good coating. Place the bread in the fryer, careful not to crowd, and fry until the crust is golden-brown, about 2 minutes.
5. Drain the French toast on paper towels to remove any excess oil, then arrange on a plate and top with apples and a dusting of powdered sugar. Serve immediately.
Calories 823
Protein 21 grams
Carbohydrates 115 grams
Fiber 6 grams
Fat 32 grams
Saturated fat 10 grams
Cholesterol 318
Sugar 52 grams
Sodium 713 mg
Total time: 50 minutes
Servings: 2 to 4
Note: The sandwiches are great served alongside a light, tart salad or a bowl of soup.
4 slices bacon, cut crosswise into large (about 1 inch) pieces
4 tablespoons butter, divided
1 onion, halved lengthwise (with the grain) and sliced into very thin lengthwise strips
1/3 cup dry white wine
3 cups chopped dandelion greens, cut crosswise into large (2- to 3-inch) pieces
2 teaspoons wine vinegar, preferably sherry or Banyul's, more to taste
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
3 eggs
1 cup milk
3 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
8 (1/2-inch thick) slices sourdough bread
4 teaspoons whole-grain Dijon mustard, or as desired
1/2 pound thinly sliced Gruyère cheese
1. In a large skillet, fry the bacon over medium-high heat until crisp, about 10 minutes. Drain the bacon (discard or save the fat for another use) and set aside.
2. In a large, heavy-bottom saucepan, melt 2 tablespoons butter over medium-high heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring frequently, until they soften and start to brown, 12 to 15 minutes. Add the white wine and continue to stir, scraping any flavoring from the bottom of the pan.
3. When the wine is almost completely absorbed, stir in the greens and cook just until they start to wilt, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the vinegar, then taste, and season with one-fourth teaspoon salt and several grinds of black pepper. Stir in the bacon bits, then taste again and adjust the seasoning or vinegar if necessary.
4. In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs and milk, along with the Parmesan cheese. Whisk in a pinch of salt and several grinds of black pepper to season the eggwash. Place the eggwash in a large shallow baking dish or pie plate and set aside.
5. Soak the bread slices in the eggwash until just soaked on each side, about 2 minutes per side. Gently spread one-half teaspoon mustard over the one side of each of 4 slices. Onto the other 4 slices, divide the sliced Gruyère, then top with the onion and greens mixture. Then press the remaining slices of bread (mustard on the inside) onto layered cheese-onions-bacon to form a sandwich.
6. Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat until melted and hot.
7. Reduce the heat to low and pan-fry the sandwiches, 2 at a time, until crisp and golden and the bread is cooked through, about 5 minutes per side. Cover the skillet while each piece is frying to allow the toast to fully cook and the filling to heat and melt. Adjust the heat as needed to keep each stuffed toast from burning.
8. Serve each piece of stuffed toast immediately or hold the finished toast in a warm oven until all of the pieces are fried.
Each of 4 servings: 711 calories; 36 grams protein; 46 grams carbohydrates; 3 grams fiber; 41 grams fat; 22 grams saturated fat; 270 mg cholesterol; 7 grams sugar; 1,275 mg sodium.
Total time: 25 minutes
Servings: 4
3 eggs
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
6 (1-inch thick) slices bread, such as challah or brioche, somewhat stale
3 tablespoons butter or bacon fat, divided
Powdered sugar, as desired
Maple syrup, preferably grade B, as desired
1. In a medium bowl, beat the eggs. Whisk in the cream, then the vanilla, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Pour the batter into a wide, shallow baking dish.
2. Soak the bread slices on each side, about 2 minutes per side.
3. Heat a large, heavy-bottom skillet over medium heat until hot. Melt a tablespoon of butter in the hot pan, then add 2 slices of the bread. Reduce the heat and fry the slices gently on each side until the bread is crisp and golden-brown, and the inside of the bread is cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Cover the pan while cooking so the bread toasts evenly and thoroughly.
4. Remove the toast and hold on a baking sheet in a warm oven until all of the slices are toasted. Repeat with the remaining slices.
5. Slice each piece of toast in half and plate 3 half slices on each of 4 plates. Dust each with powdered sugar, if desired, and serve with warm maple syrup.
Each of 4 servings (analyzed without powdered sugar and maple syrup): 584 calories; 14 grams protein; 44 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams fiber; 40 grams fat; 22 grams saturated fat; 307 mg cholesterol; 3 grams sugar; 495 mg sodium.
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In August, I was notified I was one of three bloggers selected to be part of the BHG Live! event in NYC on October 21. I had submitted a 15-second audition as part of the BHG Live Better Network. The video took me three hours to shoot and edit, and I honestly never thought I stood a chance. The BHG Live Better Network features some MEGA huge bloggers that in my mind are pseudo celebrities, so to be selected was a life changing experience. It felt like a fairy tale, truly.
I was flown to NYC last week, and I had my hair and make-up done, got to meet Eddie Ross (OH MY GOSH), and most importantly, I was part of the BHG Live! event that was broadcast online. If you missed it, you can watch it here. The other talented and amazing bloggers chosen were Heidi from Honeybear Lane (yellow sweater below) and Kristyn (green blouse below) from Lil' Luna. They were absolutely lovely, and I was thrilled to get to spend time with such friendly bloggers. (Thanks to my friend Jackie for these wonderful screen caps!)
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The Ontological Argument as Proof of God
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The rudimentary version, as written by Anselm, essentially goes like this:
-P1- One can conceive of something which is "Most Great"
-P2- Existence is greater than non-existence
--Conclusion--> the "Most Great" thing which was conceived of Must be existent, as existent things are more great than non-existent things.
It has been around for quite some time, and has been controversial, and so attacked, since it's inception, but it still seems to be kicking through people's minds a bit.
My goal now is to show that it shouldn't have ever had any kick in the first place :)
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Now, although this argument has received much critical attention in it's history, and there have been several different kinds of objections to it, I believe that the most striking problem with using this argument to try to prove the existence of God has not been paid enough attention to.
For what is most immediately clear (with this formulation of the argument) is that it doesn't make what is intended to be it's reference to God clear enough to show that what's purportedly been proven is God, rather than something else.
Additionally this lack of clarity in regard to what it means to conceive of something "Most Great" undermines the merit of the argument he actually makes. In order for his argument to hold water he needs to show that "greatness" is an objective standard.
He needs to show that the conception of "something that is Most Great" does not differ from person to person, for, if it were to, then the argument would purportedly prove the existence of multiple different "Most Great" things, and would be nonsense.
Anselm suggests that we can conceive of something that is Most Great, but doesn't, within this argument, explain what "Most Great" means, beyond (his conclusion) that it must include existence, as he says (-P2-) that existent things are "greater" than non-existent ones.
So, the only characteristic his "Most Great" has, to this point, been suggested to have is existence.
"Greatness" has yet to be objectively defined, and why existence is necessarily characteristic of it (-P2-) has not been explained.
Given that only this one characteristic of "Most Great" has been suggested, it seems that by "Most Great" Anselm could have simply meant conceiving of something "Most Existent"
But then his argument would only prove that something which is "Most Existent" exists.
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So, in order for this argument to be legitimately used in an effort to prove the existence of God, and avoid being taken as either uselessly tautological, or being so vague as to turn to nonsense through purportedly proving multiple different "Most Great" things;
the term "Greatness" needs to be shown to be an objective standard,
and "Most Great" needs to be shown to be the equivalent of "God", which can only be done by explaining why the characteristics of God are (according to that necessary, objective, standard) "Most Great"
{the "characteristics of god", for the purposes of this debate, including Omniscience, Omnipotence and Omni-Benevolence}
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I do not believe that this argument can be satisfactorily supplemented in such a manner, and would love to debate it (or my above evaluation of it) with a willing opponent.
First let's take a look at what Anselm really presented as his ontological argument (OA):
"Hence, even the fool is convinced that something exists in the understanding, at least, than which nothing greater can be conceived. For, when he hears of this, he understands it. And whatever is understood, exists in the understanding. And assuredly that, than which nothing greater can be conceived, cannot exist in the understanding alone. For, suppose it exists in the understanding alone: then it can be conceived to exist in reality; which is greater. Therefore, if that, than which nothing greater can be conceived, exists in the understanding alone, the very being, than which nothing greater can be conceived, is one, than which a greater can be conceived. But obviously this is impossible. Hence, there is no doubt that there exists a being than which nothing greater can be conceived, and it exists both in the understanding and in reality." [1]
The Objections
If one carefully reads that they will see that much of Con's objections immediately fall flat and border on straw-manning Anselm, even.
For example: Con's P2 is attributing a position to Anselm that he never takes. He was not contrasting existence and non-existence and then saying that existence is greater than non-existence; he was contrasting existence-in-the-understanding (mental) with existence-in-reality (non-mental) and claiming that existence-in-reality is greater (is a great-making property) than the former.
Con's second point is that is one commonly raised against OAs - the problem of the "subjectivity" of the term "greatness" or of a great-making property - but it is entirely due to the ignorance of medieval metaphysics. Many problems modern audiences have with OAs are simply due to moderns' reading assumptions into the arguments that the original arguer would never have assumed and probably would have explicitly rejected.
The truth is, presupposing medieval metaphysics, there IS an objective way to measure varying degrees of greatness. It was quite common during the middle ages (the time during which Anselm lived) for philosophers and thinkers to place everything into a "great chain of being." [2] The higher up on the chain that one goes the more great-making properties something had. Great-making properties would be knowledge, power, goodness, love, rationality, existent-in-reality and so on and so forth. Under this understanding it's easy to see how a normal, adult human would objectively be considered greater than a blade of grass; a human has more great-making properties after all. Even further one could see how there are degrees of knowledge, power, goodness, love, existence (etc) and that would admit that there seems to a limit or an upper-bound on these great-making proper-making. One can see where this is leading, necessarily, God, by definition, would be the upper-bound of these degrees of great-making properties; he would be all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good, perfectly loving, existent-in-reality, etc.
Con says: "He needs to show that the conception of "something that is Most Great" does not differ from person to person, for, if it were to, then the argument would purportedly prove the existence of multiple different "Most Great" things, and would be nonsense."
But it should be evident by now that I need do no such thing. People differ on their conceptions of a lot of things - it doesn't follow that there is no objective truth of the matter. That'd be like me arguing that since there are different conceptions of the term "good" or "moral obligation" in ethics it follows that there is no objective truth of the matter.
Anselm's OA
So, I will use a much more fair, plausible and rigorous version of Anselm's OA proposed by Robert Maydole:
(1) The definite description "that than which it is not conceivable for something to be greater" is understood.
(2) "That than which it is not conceivable for something to be greater" refers to that than which it is not conceivable for something to be greater.
(3) The concept of whatever a definite description that is understood refers to has existence-in-the-understanding.
(4) It is conceivable that something is greater than anything that lacks a great-making property that it conceivably has.
(5) Existence-in-reality is a great making property.
(6) Anything the concept of which has existence-in-the-understanding conceivably has existence-in-reality.
(7) It is not conceivable that something is greater than that than which it is not conceivable for something to be greater.
(8) That than which it is not conceivable for something to be greater exists-in-reality. [3]
I conclude that as of right now Anselm's OA properly construed stands.
[1] http://wadsworth.com...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org...
[3] William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland, The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, pg 567
First I'd like to Thank PCP heartily for agreeing to extend the time I had available to post, and Apologize for taking advantage of that extended time to be a lazy bum and not post right away as I had said that I would. Conduct.. PCP! That said, I'm still fighting for Arguments ;)
This difference is in some ways an important one and will in fact require me to re-word one of my objections so as to properly address the argument which Anselm actually made. However my having misrepresented Anselm and having leveled objections upon that misrepresentation does not itself show my objections to "fall flat". For the objection that I made regarding the possible subjectivity of the label "Most Great" is not in any way reflective of the misunderstanding and stands just as well with the argument properly construed, and, with a little bit of re-wording, so as to use the proper terms, my other objection as to the argument being uselessly tautological will also be shown to stand.
If the reader will but review the first round they will see that the following, rewritten, objection is of the same nature as that which I made previously, the terminology is just replaced and accommodated for through further explanation.
Anselm suggests that we can conceive of something that is Most Great, but doesn't, within this argument, explain what "Most Great" means, beyond (his conclusion) that it must Exist in Reality, as he says that that which exists in reality is greater than that which exists only in the understanding.
Now that the housecleaning is out of the way, having cleaned up the mess I set up for myself, I will address PCP's response to my request for a fuller, meaningful, version of the argument.
Having shown the fundamental argument to, on it's own, fail at proving any substantial God figure, relying upon the unexplained, unsupported, assumption that "Greatness" in things entails Existence ("In Reality", as I corrected this round) in order to show only that some conceptual "Most Great" thing must not only be a conceptual thing, but Exist in Reality too.
I argued that even Given this unexplained assumption that this argument fails to prove any substantial "God" figure, remaining a simple, useless and uninteresting, tautology showing that that which must have existence in reality has existence in reality. What "Most Great" supposedly means was left almost entirely unexplained, and what it was claimed to mean was unsupported.
Now giving it one aspect, that of necessary existence in reality, I would be willing to grant without argument, and without support, as this is only a matter of definition; a matter of semantics; a matter of assigning the name "Most Great" to the idea of having existence in reality; a way of referring to that idea.
If only that one aspect is discussed in reference to the label "Most Great" then there's really nothing objectionable, or meaningful, being said. This is what I've claimed is the case with the fundamental Ontological Argument, as outlined.
It is only in assigning more than one aspect to the label "Most Great"; it is in claiming that there is some kind of necessary relation ("greatness") between different aspects of things (like Existence in Reality, Benevolence, and Ability perhaps) claiming that they are identifiably similar, such that the various aspects can all be shown to fall under one label, such as "Aspects of Greatness"; that the naming of things becomes important, and more than an issue of semantics.
It is only through providing a more substantive meaning to "Most Great" that the ontological argument can make claims to being more than mere tautology, or make claims to proving any substantive God figure.
Now, I had asked for an argument in support of a more substantive idea of what is "Most Great", I asked for an argument supplementing the fundamental ontological argument in such a way as to make it meaningful.
I hoped for an explanation of what "Greatness" means and an argument attempting to show that the purported attributes of God are all necessarily related to each other in that each exemplifies that objective "Greatness", such that any conceptual "Most Great" thing would necessarily have those attributes.
In response to my request for an argument supporting such a position, PopCulturePooka apparently declined, opting instead to "presuppos(e) medieval metaphysics", presuppose a manner of ranking the "greatness" of things.
He has opted to presuppose a system asserting what attributes are or are not "Great" rather than explain what "Greatness" supposedly means and explain how various things may be judged to necessarily be in keeping with or exemplify that "Greatness".
His dismissal of my request for an explanation of what "Greatness" means, and how various attributes can be judged to necessarily exemplify that characteristic is made most clear in the very first premise of his new formulation of the argument.
(1)The definite description "that than which it is not conceivable for something to be greater" is understood.
I have made it quite clear that what "Greatness" means has not been explained, and it is not clear that one thing may be judged as objectively, or necessarily, greater than another.
For, as I said in my first round if Greatness is dependant upon various subjective valuations then what "Great" means would be dependent on the context, dependant upon the valuations of the one calling it "great", which may be unique to the individual, perhaps even varying within that individual over time.
It has not been explained what "That than which it is not conceivable for something to be greater" is, and it is not understood.
So, as my argument was basically ignored I finish this round with the same words I summed up my initial argument with:
In order for this argument to be legitimately used in an effort to prove the existence of God, and avoid being taken as either uselessly tautological, or being so vague as to turn to nonsense through purportedly proving multiple different "Most Great" things;
The Objections
1) Con argues that either there is either no objective measure of greatness or that the measure of greatness is a matter of subjective opinion in conjunction with "greatness" not having an objective standard to which we could compare it to.
2) Con also argues that even if he were to grant that existence-in-reality is a great-making property this does nothing the argument does nothing to establish that the greatest conceivable being is God because it fails to establish all the properties that God is purported to have. He is asking why something "that than which it is not conceivable for something to be greater" is identical to God.
The Rebuttals
I'll take these points in succession:
1) I argued in my earlier round that Anselm assumed a medieval metaphysics and within that system there is the "great chain of being" where things could be ordered in accordance to the degree and volume of great making properties that they possessed.
As an aside, my noting that Anselm did assume these things should be fairly unexceptional. All philosophical arguments rely on assumptions and the question is whether their assumptions are justified/reasonable are not is often the question. Pointing that out does nothing to undermine my point - Con must show how Anselm's assumptions about the great chain of being are open to reasonable doubt or are false. To just say that it seems as if people have different conceptions of the term "greatness" misses he point. If there really is an objective standard of greatness (great chain of being) that fact that people have a different conception than Anselm's just means those people are wrong - it doesn't meant that there isn't a standard.
Anselm understood the predicate "greater than" to mean "objectively better or more worthy than". [1] What that means, in accordance with presupposition of medieval metaphysics, is that possessing properties like goodness, or knowledge, or power would be, objectively speaking, better than not possessing them. And even further, it would be even better for the things possessing these properties to have them to a greater degree than something else. I.E. More powerful, more knowledgeable, and more powerful. Anselm states this,
"Furthermore, if one considers the nature of things, one cannot help realizing that they are not all of equal value, but differ by degrees. For the nature of a horse is better than that of a tree, and that of a human more excellent than that of a horse . . . It is undeniable that some natures can be better than others. None the less reason argues that there is some nature that so overtops the others that it is inferior to none." [2]
Clearly he is referring to the greatest conceivable being which he took to be God.
Note: even some of us modern people usually have something like this in mind when we say a person is worth or better than a rock. When pressed to give a reason people will normally say because persons possess properties that rocks don't (capacity for emotion, reason, moral standing etc). This doesn't seem so outlandish. It's a hard pill for most people to swallow that there are really no objective facts that accord us more worth than a rock.
So, here I have given an objective standard to measure greatness - the great chain of being - and I have given a way to determine it. It seems Con's objection fails.
2) From the first round Con writes, "{the "characteristics of god", for the purposes of this debate, including Omniscience, Omnipotence and Omni-Benevolence}". I'll focus on these three characteristics for purposes of this rebuttal but it is undeniable more properties are usually described to God. If one takes a careful look at these properties and performs a conceptual analysis one can easily see that these concepts admit to a limit or a "maximal degree". Omniscience would be knowing all truths (the most truths); omnipotence would be having all power (the most power); omnibenevolence would be being all good (the most good). Anselm clearly viewed the properties of knowledge, power, and goodness to be great-making properties and he thought that they also admit to degrees which should be obvious. One can have more knowledge, more powers and abilities, and be more good than something else. Anselm also thought that it was clearly insane to say there were no limits on these properties. Indeed he said, "For if the difference of levels is infinite - so that there is no level so that an even higher level cannot be found - reason is brought to the conclusion that there is no limit to the multitude of these natures. But everyone thinks this is absurd..." [3] If this is true, and it seems to be, than necessarily, "that than which it is not conceivable for something to be greater" (the greatest conceivable being) would have these properties of omniscience, omnipotence and omnibenevolence (amongst other properties). It has already been established that these are great making properties so if one were to say the greatest conceivable being lacked some great making properties that would be nonsense. Now, take a look again what Con defines as the characteristics of God. So, by definition God would have to be the greatest conceivable being as God possess the same characteristics that the greatest conceivable being has. By Leibniz's' law of identity, any two things that posses all the same properties are identical. Therefore, God is the greatest conceivable being.
Anselms' OA emerges unscathed.
The Sources
[1] William Lane Craig and J.P. Moreland, The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, pg 567
[2] ibid
[3] http://books.google.com...,
Instead of explaining what is actually meant by the term greatness, and explaining why particular aspects of a thing (such as, in this case, consciousness, ability and power) fall under that title, Popculturepooka has decided to re-affirm his bare assumption of Medieval Metaphysics; his assumption that certain characteristicsare objectively of the same type such that they fall under the heading "Great"; and suggested that the burden to show that this may not be the case lies upon me, the doubter of Medieval Metaphysical conceptions/valuations.
My competing conception of what is most great will be based upon the understanding that when someone speaks of degrees of "Greatness" they are discussing degrees of breadth, that is they are referring to how much the given thing encompasses. As such, with a greater thing being more encompassing, the greatest conceivable thing would have to be that which is all encompassing.
Given this idea of greatness, it might be defensible to suggest that that "greatest conceivable thing" which encompasses all things must also be conceived to encompass existing things, but there is absolutely nothing within this idea of greatness that would support the idea that this "Greatest Thing" is, as an entity itself (as a whole), intelligent, able/powerful (as to "act" as an individual), or benevolent.
Given such a meaning for "Great" the ontological argument could do no more than prove the existence of "The Universe", and falls far short of proving God.
Now, there is no particular "objective" reason to affirm this meaning of "Great" over others. Although this is among the most common thing which is meant when someone calls a thing "Great" there are other, separate, ways in which the word great is often used.
Often "Great" is used as a personal, clearly subjective, valuation like in saying:
"Well though you may not like Joan's pumpkin pie.. I think it's Great!"
Now, with cases like this one the speaker doesn't mean it's objectively ranked in a particular spot of greatness in a Great Chain of Being, though they might pretend to, instead upon further questioning most people will admit that although they happen to enjoy the pie, that others may plausibly have a naturally different taste in pies, and that even if it would seem that most people would very much enjoy it, as we're all seemingly pretty similar, the valuation of "greatness" might still be subjective in that it might not be tasty to the pallet of a tiger.
Then there's this other use of the term "Great" which PCP discussed, that in which things are evaluated to be better or worse than other things. As with Anselm's example of a Horse being greater than a tree.
This kind of ranking, if left unexplained, can be taken to be one of those subjective uses of great to convey that something carries your personal approval, or taken as truly worthless as one cannot tell what is meant. Now if the person has explained to say that what they mean by "Greatness" is "intricacy of systems" then the statement about horses and trees is comprehensible, meaningful, and correct, as horses are more intricate than trees.
However, without any further explanation as to what is meant the statement can at best be understood as a subjective affirmation of approval, as was that regarding Joan's pie.
Now, given the complete lack of explanation as to what "greatness" means, and lack of explanation as to how the attributes of Benevolence, Ability, Existence, and Intelligence qualify to fall under the heading of "Greatness", it would seem that, as with the pie, calling these things "great" is seemingly either completely meaningless, or is an affirmation of personal/subjective approval.
If, as I've requested from the beginning, PCP can explain what it is meant by "greatness", and say how the supposed attributes of God all epitomize that characteristic (as opposed to their opposites, like Capriciousness), then he may have successfully made Anselm's argument meaningful (though I won't get an opportunity to respond to it). If not, then not.
Con asserts that I have never explained what greatness is and how it should be "measured" even though I did point to it my first round with explanation of what some great-making properties would be and in my second round I explicitly wrote: "Anselm understood the predicate 'greater than' to mean 'objectively better or more worthy than.'" Not to mention I gave several examples how and why something would be considered greater than something else and I even gave a modern day example of people implicitly assuming that there is some objective fact of the matter that makes humans greater than rocks and that precisely consists in properties that humans have that rocks don't have (knowledge, moral value, abilities, etc). Which I then related, repeatedly, with God as God would possess more knowledge, more moral value, and more abilities than mere humans.
I'm not sure how this isn't clear. Given my previous rounds and which properties we were focusing on (goodness, knowledge, power) "objectively better", which I explicitly said is what "greater than" means in this context, means to appromixate the ideals the best ore the closest. As I showed in my previous round very clearly Anselm thought there was a maximal degree (i.e. "the ideal") to which certain properties admitted an upper-bound to. So, obviously he thought there are such things as most knowledgeable, most powerful, most good, etc. This was never challenged. It's also clear he thought that the closer one got to the ideal the greater it was. Which shows why he thought a horse was greater than a tree as it possesses more of these properties to a greater degree than a tree does. I also showed why this has primafacie intuitive support with my example of modern day people and them comparing the greatness/worth of humans and rocks. As far as I can tell Con hasn't done anything to challenge this intuitive support except to point out there are other conceptions of greatness out there.
The closest thing that Con has to criticizing this notion of greatness is his alternate conception of what greatness means by conceiving in terms of degrees of encompassment or breadth. The truth is, it isn't readily clear to me that I couldn't use his conception "greatness" and still argue to much the same conclusion as Anselm's OA. For example: let's say that God is omniscient; I could argue that that means that God's knowledge covers all truths (i.e. it encompasses all truths). Omnipotence: Gods power is all encompassing or that this power spans the breadth of all abilities. Omnibenevolence: God's morality spans the breadth of all possible goods or that his nature encompasses all that is good. To be fair, Con may mean "encompass" as a sort of spatial or temporal term but even then I'm not sure his conception would support his case. For example, if one took another property that the God of classical classical theism is supposed to posses, omnipresence, then that would mean God is present in all places at all times. His presence is all-encompassing. So, looking at Con's counter-example it seems it actually lends support to my argument and not to Con's.
I think Con misses the point with his pie example. For one, I don't ever remember hearing included in any definition of God one of his properties of having to do with taste. So, in that respect, his counter-example isn't analogous to the properties that are in question here. The OA isn't arguing for "the tastiest being possible." It's arguing for an all-good, all-powerful, all-knowing being. In this, mirrors what I had stated in my first round when this kind of debate in certain ways mirrors ethics. It does no good against a moral objectivist or realist to point out that people consider different foods "good" and then from this innocuous fact triumphantly point out this must mean that there is no objective moral standard. What's precisely at issue there is the issue of whether "good" in that sense of good is the same as subjective as "good" in the sense giving to charity. The same thing is at play here: Con points out how people could consider pie great while others do not and that shows there is some issue with the notion of great - and the supposed subjectivity of it - presupposed in Anselm's OA. He's not answering the issue with a salient counterexample - he's just restating the problem being discussed and question-beggingly assuming his notion of greatness somehow defeats Anselm's OA! He never explains how it does. In other words, he's assuming Anselm's OA is false from the get-go. That is begging the question which is a logical fallacy.
At the end Con says that unless I can show that God characteristics exclude their opposites that only then will I have show Anselm's argument meaningful. All I can say is I admit to being thoroughly puzzled. This is a matter of simple logical implication. If God by definition is perfectly good then necessarily that would exclude him having bad characteristics. It makes no sense that God could have a "bad" characteristic like capriciousness if he is perfectly good! Furthermore, look at what I gave as a definition of "greater than" - one of part of that is more worthy. Who in their right mind thinks that a capricious being is worthy of worship?!
I conclude Con has not defeated Anselm's OA. Thanks for reading.
Good luck to you both, however!
Thanks for the debate, Matt.
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Drake: 'Saturday Night Live' Sketches & Performances - Watch Now!
Drake recreates the memories of his Bar Mitzvah during his opening monologue for Saturday Night Live on Saturday (January 18) in New York City.
The 27-year-old rapper was joined by Kenan Thompson as his uncle and brand new castmember Sasheer Zamata as his aunt.
"I'm black and jewish don't be so foolish," Drake rapped to both sides of his family. "I play ball like LeBron and I know what a W-2 is."
Drake later took the stage to sing some of his hits, including "Started From The Bottom," "Trophies," Hold On We're Going Home," and "From Time."
WHAT DID YOU THINK of Drake's SNL hosting job?
Drake Bar Mitzvah Monologue
Click inside to watch Drake's SNL skits and performances…
Drake – Saturday Night Live Cold Open
Drake – Before They Were Stars Skit
Drake – Resolution Revolution
Drake – Disney World Show
Drake – Poetry Teacher
Drake – Mornin' Miami
Drake – "Started From the Bottom" & "Trophies"
Drake – "Hold On We're Going Home" & "From Time"


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Spaceship Crashed is Live
The game is now launched for free on Steam! You can check it out here.
There is also a Discord room #spaceship-crashed for its discussion inside the Dragon Audit Discord.
'Spaceship Crashed' Beta + Win a Prize!
To help test Spaceship Crashed is running okay before launching, I will be doing a private beta test with a small number of players ahead of release.
If you'd like to help out and possibly win a prize in the process, check out our beta signup below:
Dragon Audit: First Look Trailer
Dragon Audit is my latest indie game project:
Dragon Audit is the #1 adventure game about dragons and auditing them! A battle accountant storms the castle to rescue a princess, but accidentally rescues an overly friendly dragoness instead. Now they're on a wild adventure to save his hometown from dark forces.
If you enjoyed my previous game jams Spaceship Crashed or The Implausible Zone, you'll like Dragon Audit as it brings similar gameplay and comedy but with a fully 3D environment.
You can check out the trailer now on the brand new Steam store page for the game.
CrateNET (Global Game Jam 2018)
This weekend, I made a 2 vs 2 multiplayer action game for Global Game Jam 2018.
Space colonists must mine for resources and transmit them to their friends across the chasm.
This game was made in 48 hours. You can download it here.
Inactive Character Wipe
In order to clean up old accounts so the server uses less memory (part of an upcoming server migration), I'll be wiping inactive characters soon. This mostly affects ancient accounts that were never used much.
Characters which meet ALL these criteria will be wiped (all below conditions must be met):
- Has not logged in for at least six months
- Owns less than 20 objects total (either in inventory or placed in world)
- Is level 1 or 2
- Has less than 1000 gold
- Does not own a safe or box (either in inventory or placed in world)
The wiped character's inventory will be deleted; any placed objects in world will be reassigned to a pooled character.
As most serious players built more than 20 objects, this primarily only affects the accounts which were created and quickly abandoned. However, if you're worried, simply do a quick login on the server(s) you wish to keep your character data on.
Update 3/13: The inactive character wipe is now complete. Between that and some other optimizations, server is now using way less ram and can reboot much more quickly than before. Looking good for upcoming server migration.
Last Wave Story (Global Game Jam 2017)
A point and click adventure game in a DOSpunk visual style.
Story: A group of youths discover a conspiracy in their town that has destroyed all waves. They take it upon themselves to restore waves to the city! But what is the true purpose of the conspiracy?
Runs about 25 minutes based on our playtester.
Warning: This story gets a bit dark. Intended for mature audiences.
Download / Play
- WebGL (recommend Firefox)
- Kongregate / Web (recommend Chrome)
- Windows v4 Download
- Original jam version 1 (for reference, not recommended)
General Notes
- This game was made in 48 hours (not including a few quick fixes after the jam).
- Intended for play on 720p or 1080p aspect ratio.
- You may post videos of this game to your youtube channel.
Release Notes
Post jam quick fixes:
- UI tidied up
- Intro screen animation added
- WebGL build created
- Fixed phantom Ardito bug
- Fixed bug where you could get the bank vault contents before opening it
v4 fixes: (2/28/17)
- Main music extended & misc sounds added
- Decreased seams on tiles everywhere (download version only)
- Fixed bug where you could get stuck in science facility if you entered without radio
- Fixed bug where you could teleport to beginning of game by using main door to science facility
- Ardito now comes out of a door, instead of from nowhere
- You can now try to give Tim his shoe back
Written and implemented by
Robby Zinchak
Blog: RobbyZinchak.com
Twitter: @RobbyZinchak
Audio by
Chris Hodel
Web: soundcloud.com/christopher-hodel
Andrew Pang
Twitter @pangtiece
Evan Witt
Site: wittynotes.com
Technology used
Adventure Creator
Fonts used
ASCII Bitmap Font by Creature
Code New Roman by Sam Radian
Special thanks
Pacific Science Center
Thank you for playing.
Bitmas 2016
I was planning to skip Bitmas this year, but setk's bitmas poem inspired me to do Last Minute Bitmas 2016!
All previously registered, non-muted accounts now have full Platscription benefits for the next holiday week (now through 1/2/2017). This includes daily plat, double gold and 9BitMMO access. Just type /platscription in-game (note - you may need to use standalone build for this as I didn't get around to adding steam/kongregate support for platscription).
Business Dog
This weekend I participated in a 48hour game jam. Each participant was randomly assigned a game idea. I received "Business Dogs...? F###, I don't know."
So I designed a game where you acquire knowledge so you CAN know, and in doing so eventually get hired to be a BUSINESS DOG. (If you know enough human business knowledge, people won't realize you're a dog!)
Sneak around and find business knowledge to win!
Release notes
- Compatible with WASD or X360 controller (you could also rebind Horizontal, Vertical, and Look Axis in input options during startup).
- On the part with the six rotating guards standing around pillars, sometimes they get out of sync and it can make things really difficult / impossible. Sorry.
- Designed for 720p/1080p. Not sure what'll happen on other aspect ratios
Playthrough Video
Robby Zinchak
(twitter: @RobbyZinchak)
SFX/Music/VO Recording
Jarryd Elias
(twitter: @JEliasMusic)
(web: JarrydEliasMusic.com)
VO Acting
Those two guys ^
Additional Contributions
Unity tips from Chad Jenkins
Impact Label font Michael Tension
Lazy Dog font by Paul Neave
Thanks for playing!
Megamap Updated
The megamap has been updated (be sure to clear your cache if you want to see the updates)
In what is probably the biggest change to the game economy since platinum was added in 2012, it's now possible to get massive amounts of plat as part of a new $9.99 per month subscription.
What are Platscriptions?
Platscription is a monthly subscription offer intended to A) help cover server costs, and b) to experiment what it would be like to monetize the game as a more affordable subscription business model than as a microtransaction business model.
With the new system, active subscribers can get access to all the platinum features in the game, including all construction & dungeon objects. The only things that would require the old plat packs are high plat clothing items and larger town expansions.
The new system should allow for plat stores to be restocked more easily, allow more players to build dungeons, as well as encourage more daily activity.
What does it include?
Subscribers receive:
- Access to 9BitMMO
Try out this 3D test viewer to see your 8BitMMO creations in glorious 3D (note - 9bitmmo has higher system requirements than 8bitmmo, see 9bitmmo.com).
- Up to 5 ~ 10 plat each day
Use the 'Grant Plat' button once per day to set your platinum currency to between 5 ~ 10 plat depending on your activity level and bonus chance.
- 2x gold boost
Earn twice as much gold in PvP and PvE, and the max gold per cycle limit is doubled as well.
How do I get it?
This system is currently only available to players of the standalone or web version of the game (through Stripe credit card payment), although if there is demand, I may expand to support Patreon and/or Steam.
Menu > Get Gold will show a new window for standalone/web players:
Choosing Learn More for Platscription will allow you to access the Platscription window, and if you're a subscriber, claim daily plat:
Chat shortcuts:
- /platscription - show platscription information popup window
- /grantplat - request daily allotment of plat (subscribers only)
Direct link to subscription web page
Misc shop updates
In the shop, the following additional pricing changes have been made:
- Mystery block 3750g -> 2500g
- Expand 250 block 5p -> 8p
- Public pad 12p -> 10p


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Merchant Services – Payment Processing
Merchant Services
Choosing a merchant account is not easy as there are a lot of sensitive moments you should pay attention to. Credit card processing became an indispensable part of online (as well as retail) business and choosing optimal solutions is vital for your business. First of all we advise you to study out how credit card processing works, then learn the difference between online and retail transaction processing. Paying attention to processing rates is also important as some companies may have hidden charges and fees.
Despite all cons credit card processing is a major tool of getting profit from your retail or ecommerce stores as it gives a chance to the impulse purchases, builds credibility (surveys show that displaying credit cards logos boosts trust rate) and allows you to get money instantly as with virtual terminals money are transferred to your account immediately and even checks are cleared in less time. Merchant accounts are easy to use, not very expensive, safe and convenient. It has the feature of recurrent payments allowing easy settlement and management of subscription-based transactions.


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Roaming the remote:
We are amused by those earnest, if overly loquacious folks who speak news-anchor, sometimes categorized as a foreign language, or at least overblown English. Channel 8's dawn newscast is briskly paced and manned by perky, pleasant chattering heads, but they keep tripping over the newscaster tendency toward unnecessary words.
Earlier this week, a story about police activity at El Capitan and Grand Teton was referred to within several minutes as a "police situation," a "SWAT situation" and a "barricade situation." Sounds like quite a situation, doesn't it? I'd recommend The Situation Drinking Game — one stiff belt for every mention — but you might not want to be crocked at 6 a.m., unless you're still buzzed from the night before. Fortunately, we were spared "emergency situation." But as George Carlin astutely points out in his comedy routines, police merely respond to an emergency: "We know it's a situation," Carlin tells us. "EVERYTHING is a situation."
Can we can the phrase "general area," as in "police are canvassing the general area"? "Area" will do fine, unless your neighbor, Mr. Area, is given a military commission. Also, no more breathless announcements that a "live crew" is on the way to the scene of a police/SWAT/barricade/emergency situation, OK? If they aren't there yet, they aren't live yet. At least they didn't tell us they were "live on tape."
A cautionary note to weathercasters: Please dispense with the phrase "the winds are calm." If the winds are calm … there's no wind.
Co-anchor Dave McCann, shilling for CBS prime time (hey, they're forced to, I know that), led into a promotion for Britney Spears returning to "How I Met Your Mother" by comparing her first two appearances to "Jaws" and "Jaws 2." Kidding, right? One of the greatest films in history and the singer who can't keep her privates private? "Jaws" and "Britney Spears" don't belong in the same sentence unless Bruce the Shark is snacking on a pop tart.
Note to the affable, whirlybird traffic reporter Ken Smith: In a report on the conditions at Centennial Center Drive and the Beltway, he told us traffic was "moving above the speed limit." I'm sure the police and highway patrols appreciate that. Us, not so much. Then he noted he was flying more than 100 miles per hour, adding, "If only people could drive that fast." I'm sure the police and highway patrols didn't appreciate that. Us, pretty much.
Seen or heard anything of interest on local TV or radio? If so, let us know. The remote is cocked and ready to fire.
MEDIA: Looking in on the locals
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CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO – Monica Mares, 36, and Caleb Peterson, 19, told the Daily Mail they want to raise awareness for Genetic Sexual Attraction relationships. Peterson and his biological mother face trial in September.
A mother and son whose forbidden love affair could land them each a lengthy jail sentence have declared they are 'madly in love' and nothing will tear them apart.
Monica Mares, 36, and her son Caleb Peterson, 19, face up to 18 months in prison if found guilty of incest at a trial later this year in New Mexico.
But the mother and son couple have vowed to fight for their right to have a sexual relationship and are appealing to the public to donate to their legal fund.
In an exclusive individual interviews with Daily Mail Online, they told how they are willing to risk everything to be together – and have decided to go public with their affair in a bid to raise awareness of Genetic Sexual Attraction (GSA) relationships.
GSA is defined as sexual attraction between close relatives, such as siblings or half-siblings, a parent and offspring, or first and second cousins, who first meet as adults.
Mares said: 'He is the love of my life and I don't want to lose him.My kids love him, my whole family does. Nothing can come between us not courts, or jail, nothing.
'I have to be with him. When I get out of prison I will move out of Clovis to a state that allows us to be together.'
Incest is a crime in all 50 states, but the specifics of the laws and punishment vary greatly from state to state.
Mother-of-nine Mares said she would even give up the right to see her other children if she was asked to choose between them and her lover.
The couple who currently live separately in Clovis, New Mexico – and are banned from having any contact with each other by the courts – first embarked on their love affair towards the end of last year.
Mares was just 16 when she gave birth to Peterson – whose pre-adoption name was Carlos – and he was adopted as a baby.
The 36-year-old, who didn't raise Peterson, saw him for the first time in 18 years last Christmas when she picked him up at his adoptive father's house in Texas and brought him to her home after the pair got in touch over Facebook.
The couple soon developed romantic feelings for each other and their relationship became sexual a few weeks later.
'The first time I met my son in person I was so happy and excited I gave him a big hug,' Mares said.'I went to go pick him up at his dad's house in Texas.
'He gave me a call and asked me to pick him up, I got butterflies in my stomach.
'I met him outside and I knew it was him when he came towards me. He was crying and he gave me a hug.
'It was almost love at first sight but first it was mother love. He gave me a mother hug.
'He came home in the truck and came to live with me and we were both happy as mother and son.'
Mares said that at first nothing happened but she then started getting these 'crazy' feelings.
She said it felt different because she didn't raise him as her child yet after all these years he came back to her.
'It felt like I met somebody new in my life and I fell in love with him,' she explained.
She continued: 'At first I told him, "I'm sorry I don't know how you are going to react to this. I'm your mom and you're my son, but I'm falling in love with you".
'And he said: "You know what I am too. I was scared to let you know". He was falling in love with his mom and I was falling in love with my son.
'We talked about it and we took off to the park. I said, "Would you ever date your mom?" And he said: "would you ever date your son?" And I said, "Honest truth yes I would".'
Mares says Peterson is the best thing that has happened to her in the past 19 years and wants to be with him for the rest of her life.
She understands that she risks losing all her children and going to state prison but they both want to fight it.
'Caleb is willing to go through the same thing. Whatever it takes to be together,' she said.
At first the couple lived happily together in Mares' mobile home with her two youngest children Uriah and Joseph – keeping their relationship a secret from the world.
Mares' youngest son even began calling Peterson 'dad'.
But police soon found out about the clandestine affair during a call over a row between the family and some neighbors.
The couple was charged with incest – a fourth-degree felony in New Mexico – following the February 25th incident.
They were arraigned and appeared jointly in court in April – but were held in custody for breaching their no-contact order.
They were released on $5,000 bond and now face a trial by jury in September.
Currently Mares is not allowed to see any of her children or have any contact at all with Peterson.Yet she maintains that is has all been worth it.
'It is every bit worth it,' she said. 'If they lock me up for love then they lock me up. There is no way anybody could pull us apart, and I really do love him.
'It hurts he is far away. It hurts really bad. I wish I could see him, talk to him, but I can't risk it.'
Peterson said he started falling love with his mom about a week after meeting her – but claims as he grew up with an adopted parents he never really saw Mares as his mother.
'I never had anyone cook me meals or give me anything,' he said. 'I never got anything my entire life and she went out of her way to make me happy and after about a week or so I started having feelings for her and I guess I fell in love.
'It went beyond a mother-son relationship I never really viewed her as my mom. In certain aspects I do but mostly I don't.
'I never thought I was crazy for having these feelings because I didn't see her as my mom, it was more like going to a club and meeting a random person. It didn't feel wrong, it felt normal.'
Peterson claims it was him who made the first move not his mom.
He recalls: 'We were hanging out just talking and I looked at her and she looked at me and I kissed her.
'It was a real kiss it had feelings behind it, there was a spark that ever since then it just stayed.
'Honestly I never thought we would get into trouble for our relationship. We were both consenting adults – when it comes down to it.
'She's adult I'm adult I can make my own decisions. I never thought it would blow up into something like this.'
Mares also said that it didn't feel strange or wrong when the couple began their sexual relationship – but admits that it probably wouldn't have happened if she had raised Peterson.
'The first time we were physical ended up holding hands and then we ended up kissing and the kissing led to other things,' she said. 'I felt comfortable with him and we fell even more deeply in love.
'If he had been with me all his life I don't think anything would have happened between us.'
As well as legal trouble, the couple has met opposition from friends, neighbors, family members and the wider community.
Mares has been attacked outside her home and subjected to death threats.
She said: 'I've been having a lot of trouble from the people in Clovis. They call me incest.
'They say I've got a hit on me in jail and two hits in state prison if they send me there.
'A hit means they are going to try and shank me, kill me. It's been kind of hard for me to go to stores and stuff.
'One incident happened at a nearby store there was a girl there I had trouble with before she ended up pulling knives out on us – it was me and my niece Tiffany.
'She said "I'm gonna kill you" and all kinds of stuff.
'I'm scared to go out so I stay home. They have my picture on the internet, they know my jail picture. I'm scared I'm worried.'
She said: 'The law states that if you are related as they are – mother and son – you cannot have any type of sexual intimate relationship. It's a fourth-degree felony. It's the law so our office is bound to uphold the law so we are pursuing it.'
Reeb said that in her 20-year career as a prosecutor she has only handled a few incest cases.
She added: 'This case is going to be difficult only in the sense that some people think that Caleb is a victim and not a defendant.
'I have not got any feedback from the community or from anybody else believing that Monica Mares, the mother, that anybody has any sympathy towards her whatsoever.
'Both have acknowledged they knew it was wrong, they are both consenting adults so they are considered co-defendants.
'It's only a fourth-degree felony so it's the lowest level of felony in New Mexico.'
She added that if the couple reunited after their sentences – and law enforcement found out – they would be held accountable.
For Peterson, he is willing to wait for his mom if she's jailed, and despite the risk of further prosecution he still sees a happy future for the unconventional couple.
'In two years time I can see us living together happily living our lives,' he said. 'True love can do anything.
'This whole case is about whether I have the right to love somebody and I sure as hell have the right to love Monica.
'You can't tell me who to love, who not to love.'
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Dividend policy is the decision for the firm to pay out earnings verses retaining and reinvesting them. Dividend decision has remained one of the tough challenges for financial economists. We are yet to understand completely the factors that influence dividend decision and the manner in which these factors interact.
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The level of market concentration in almost all segments just went EVEN higher.
Clearly: what we have is a de facto oligopoly made up of MS, HY, H and Toyota, East Asians, all. They could not have cornered the market any better, even if they'd conspired!
Tata Motors is looking doomed in the medium run, at least as a competitor that can make any money in mass market hatches and sedans in India, against 'the oligopoly', possibly not even in SUV-s and MUV-s, where Mahindra still, for now, has a strong, uniquely so, position.
Speaking of doomed, in ROI terms, calculated any which way: Chevy? Fiat (retail sales, not engines etc)? Ford? Nissan? VW+Skoda?
India as export base is the only possible reason for these firms to keep trying to survive in sales terms in india. And in the case of VW as also FCA: potentially profitable sales from Audi and Jeep, over the next several years. FCA's moves (ahem) will be especially interesting going forward, locally and globally ;-).
The East Asians have won, definitively, just as they have long done in ASEAN?
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- My baby girl Marina was Born! This is by far the biggest and brightest blessings of the year. Our third little bundle of joy came into our lives to fill us with so much love and joy. She's such a treat and all year has been fun to watch her grow, develop and see her little personality begin to flourish. I know this coming year will be even better with her "walking" milestone right around the corner we'll get to do more fun things with her.
- We got Rain. This is a big one for us since the drought of 2011 devastated some of our very old and beautiful trees in our ranch. What they had predicted to be another extreme dry year turned out with plenty of rain! This was a definite blessing as I couldn't bear to see more beautiful nature destroyed. So Mother Nature, keep the rain coming this year!!!!!!
- Family Vacationing. After having Marina, we were finally able to go out and about. My pregnancy had me where I couldn't travel due to my extreme lower back pain so this was nice to get back to. We visited both our families and they got to meet my little one. I am looking forward to doing a lot more traveling this coming year!
- Epic Family Party. Sophia's 10th birthday party in May turned out to be pretty awesome. This is memorable because almost all my family was here, minus my oldest sister. We haven't been together in a party like this since Sophia's 6th birthday party and my mom had a blast. This doesn't happen often but I am prayer for a repeat this year!
- Blessing of Health. My family had health this year and aside from some things happening here and there, we are still together and with our health and love each other very much. My mother and father are well and this to me is a wonderful blessing. My sisters and brother are happy as well as their families. We got to visit each other this year and had some very special times together. We are definitely looking forward to another year of family fun because no body can party like we can! :)
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To whom I have already made hurt
I'm very sorry if you feel like that. Yes, I admit that I'm a person with over expression if there is something unpleasant for me. I'm a "hard" person (I dunno the correct term to be used and to describe). I'm stubborn, headstrong etc, like you always say. Everything is hard in my life, supporting me become those kind of people. That's not the only reason, maybe you have already known that, me, basically, have those character since I was born. It couldn't be changed how hard I try. And you will not know how hard we deal with it.
But, you know what? I'll feel more hurt if I know there is someone getting hurt because of me, indeed, it's you. And that's true, unfortunately. I think you have already known me so well (it's not song of Sm*sh anymore), what I like and don't like, what make me feel bad mood or angry, what the best time to talk to me and what the time to be avoided to talk to me, so on, something like that.
I think you have already known that if I get my period, it will make me 10 times more sensitive than normal. That's true. And unfortunately, now is my time getting period. I prefer not to talk to anyone if I think I'm not in good mood for talking. Because I'm afraid if something not good happened during conversation. Actually, I don't really like to make conversation via Internet chatting because sometimes, it can make such of misunderstanding between two peoples. We don't know their face and gesture, we might be wrong in though.
But, I realize that we couldn't expect other people understand us overall. We are just still learning to understand each other, right?
Yes, I know that you always have good intention, especially to me. Moreover, I can say that you're my best friend here. As you said, you always maintain not to hurting me, you always care about me, you even sacrifice yourself for me, and many things you have done that I could not mention.
It's not really my mean to hurt you, blame you or in opposite with you... Not really...
But, pardon me for saying this, you and your good intention, sometime, unfortunately, it is not in right time (from my side, not yours).
Nobody is perfect, especially me. Sometimes we do mistakes to the other and in reverse.
Maybe, I'm just kind of person who can't easy to say "yes, i accept it instantly". I'm such of contender. So that if you feel and think that our conversation will be very bad and hurting you in the end, please initiate to stop it.
I just came back from hospital by the time you started talking to me. I hope you would ask about my disease, and I wanted to shared with you. But, another things happened...
I know both of us is very busy now. And it's not good to add burdens in our mind with the things like this.
Sometimes, we quarrel each other, but we are still best friend, right? Sometimes, we fight, but we could back supporting and strengthening each other, right? Sometimes, we dispute each other, but after that, we don't forget to share our laugh, happiness and sadness each other, right? Anyway, after everything went not so good, we could still laugh together, laughing for the stupid thing we do or laughing for stupid thing around us or so on.
I love you in my way. Maybe I'm kind of person who could not express my feel appropriately, including this feel. Sorry for not always hug you and so on. Sorry for not always listening you when you need someone to listen. Sorry for not making a talk with you at the morning. Hope it will be better at the next.
Once again, sorry for always making you hurt... :(
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After four years of business success, the place I've dubbed my "coffice" is closing, so its owner and founder, Pete Abashian, can pursue other interests.
So the question for other regulars at Aromas is: who all is going to show up on the last day, Saturday, 20 December, to say goodbye and good luck to staff and friends?
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A Trio of Great Looking Pre-Emmy Looks: Julie Bowen, Ginnifer Goodwin, Kiernan Shipka
Saturday night pre-Emmy parties brought out some pretty cocktail looks that show off Fall's eveningwear trends.
If you think the Emmy nominees and presenters only had the responsibility of pulling one look for the big night - think again. For the most part, they all also had Friday and Saturday night parties to attend - and some of them, teas and brunches as well.
You don't get to have clothes made for you for those pre events, though, so a good stylist resorts to the newest collections of dresses they can find.
In the case of Ginnifer Goodwin, who is truly a cutting edge fashion girl, her Jenny Packham sky blue crystal-coated sheath with black sleeves for the EW pre-Emmy party at Fig & Olive on Friday night was a total winner: It had a casual and a very dressed-up edge to it, and crystal embroidery and a two-tone colorblock look is right on trend. And, as her stylist Penny Lovell well knows, it all works very well with her pixie hair and big eyes.
Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka attended the pre-Emmy Academy Nominees party in a chic Oscar de la Renta violet and white watercolor splash dress - and guess what? It's from Oscar's childrenswear collection! Does he make anything in this collection that would fit a thin adult, we wonder? This young actress is always on trend and perfectly put together - and never trying to look older than her years.
Modern Family's Julie Bowen wore a crystal strapless Alberta Ferretti fall cocktail dress to the same party - super pretty, flattering and very appropriate.