RE: Time to decide what's worse ->
February 4, 2018 at 8:28 pm
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2018 at 8:31 pm by Mr.Obvious.)
What's worse?
1) You believe in a god all your life but when you die it's nothing,no afterlife , no punishment for your sins or reward for your good deeds... It's just blank.
2) You don't believe in a god but when you die, you realize you should have because he's real. And your life without believing in him is therefore counted as a sin, making it so that you have to deal with the punishment.
3) You believe in a god all your life but when you die you find out that rather than him wanting to believe in him, his one requirement to getting into heaven was you NOT believing in him. And finding out that's why he didn't leave any evidence of his involvement behind in the first place.
Serious, pool, without anything substantial to back up scenario 2, scenario 3 is EXACTLY as likely.
Pascal's wager gives you no advantage. Because not only does it assume the one God you 'could' believe in, is the right one. It makes the assumption that we can understand the inner mechanisations and reasonings of a being that hypothetically has infinitely more knowledge and wisdom than us and looks at the world (an time and space) from a fundamentally different position.
Pascal's wager is mental masturbation; nothing more.
Go tug somewhere else.
1) You believe in a god all your life but when you die it's nothing,no afterlife , no punishment for your sins or reward for your good deeds... It's just blank.
2) You don't believe in a god but when you die, you realize you should have because he's real. And your life without believing in him is therefore counted as a sin, making it so that you have to deal with the punishment.
3) You believe in a god all your life but when you die you find out that rather than him wanting to believe in him, his one requirement to getting into heaven was you NOT believing in him. And finding out that's why he didn't leave any evidence of his involvement behind in the first place.
Serious, pool, without anything substantial to back up scenario 2, scenario 3 is EXACTLY as likely.
Pascal's wager gives you no advantage. Because not only does it assume the one God you 'could' believe in, is the right one. It makes the assumption that we can understand the inner mechanisations and reasonings of a being that hypothetically has infinitely more knowledge and wisdom than us and looks at the world (an time and space) from a fundamentally different position.
Pascal's wager is mental masturbation; nothing more.
Go tug somewhere else.
"If we go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, suggesting 69.
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- Your mum, last night, suggesting 69.
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