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Pascal's Wager?
- Thread starter Deidre
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They couldn't see it in terms of absolute...
Christians are always seeking something to be. It always IS.
I believe he knew. It is difficult to picture an intelligent man such as Pascal proposing the Wager seriously.
It must have been a joke.
McBell
Unbound
Did they not have sarcasm back then?
i, and j, both have a "tittle". Hehe
Or just a straight joke without any room for sarcasm. It is certainly the logical assumption to make IMO.
It is not like the Wager could ever be made to work, and it stretches imagination to attempt to see Pascal as unable to realize that.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Act as if you have faith and faith you shall have.
old scripture quote
Thief
Rogue Theologian
hahaha I was wondering if you'd chime in.
No, that's ok...only because now, I actually think I understand Pascal.Even though his wager isn't practical.
Wager is an act that should include some consider to the odds.
It's not just you and God.
There are 7+billion copies of a learning device doing just that....learning.
With each breath you become more than you were a moment ago.....and to what end?
No one survives the last breath?
Billions of possible spirit.....and all fail to dust?
I think the odds are GREAT, that a few of us go on.
A supreme being would be fooled by my amateur acting? I don't think so.
Besides, it's possible that a god who makes it's presence undetectable would be offended by humans who made the mistake of having faith in the unknowable. So there are more options to wager upon than Pascal proffered, leaving no safe refuge. So where does that leave us? Go where your mind leads you, & worry not.
especially if everything is already "known"....oh, the irony!
He started his wager with "God either is, or is not - reason cannot decide between the two alternatives." This doesn't sound to me like the words of someone who considered God's existence an absolute truth.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Take a look around you.
No evidence of a Greater life?
and you wager that all having lived here....cannot live on?
No life after death?
Not a chance?
Not one in billions?
I wager.....some will continue.
If everything's already known, that would eliminate free will. Having no choice in our choices, we shouldn't worry.....except for those who are predestined to worry.
But there "isn't" an " isn't": isn't is nothing, and there is no "no thing".