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The Problem with Pascal's Wager

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The Problem with Pascal's Wager
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RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager
May 10, 2018 at 6:41 pm (This post was last modified: May 10, 2018 at 6:42 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(May 10, 2018 at 6:21 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Are you saying you could personally choose not to believe in God right now? Or are you saying that it’s more of a passive choice, but still ultimately your choice?

No. I am saying that to believe something is the result of freely undertaken inquiries and freely accepting their conclusions. How many times have you rechecked some math instead of just trusting that you got the correct answer the first time? At some point you choose whether or not to accept that the results of your calculations are true, i.e. you freely chose to believe they are true.
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The Problem with Pascal's Wager

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The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Rhondazvous - May 10, 2018 at 4:39 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Edwardo Piet - May 10, 2018 at 5:53 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Edwardo Piet - May 10, 2018 at 6:17 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Edwardo Piet - May 10, 2018 at 6:30 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Rhondazvous - May 10, 2018 at 7:17 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Edwardo Piet - May 10, 2018 at 7:21 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Magilla - May 10, 2018 at 10:50 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Edwardo Piet - May 10, 2018 at 6:51 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Tiberius - May 10, 2018 at 6:21 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Neo-Scholastic - May 10, 2018 at 6:41 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Edwardo Piet - May 10, 2018 at 6:43 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Rhondazvous - May 10, 2018 at 7:35 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Edwardo Piet - May 10, 2018 at 7:44 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Rhondazvous - May 10, 2018 at 6:28 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Minimalist - May 10, 2018 at 6:11 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Huggy Bear - May 10, 2018 at 9:08 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Jackie - May 10, 2018 at 9:16 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Minimalist - May 10, 2018 at 11:44 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by vorlon13 - May 10, 2018 at 6:12 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Minimalist - May 10, 2018 at 6:26 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by vorlon13 - May 10, 2018 at 6:51 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by RoadRunner79 - May 10, 2018 at 7:06 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Edwardo Piet - May 10, 2018 at 7:11 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Rhondazvous - May 10, 2018 at 8:06 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by vorlon13 - May 10, 2018 at 7:12 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Edwardo Piet - May 10, 2018 at 8:10 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Rhondazvous - May 11, 2018 at 7:18 am
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Edwardo Piet - May 10, 2018 at 9:02 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Jackie - May 10, 2018 at 8:55 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by robvalue - May 10, 2018 at 8:59 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Jackie - May 10, 2018 at 9:06 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by Huggy Bear - May 10, 2018 at 9:20 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by robvalue - May 10, 2018 at 11:04 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by robvalue - May 10, 2018 at 11:10 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by robvalue - May 10, 2018 at 11:55 pm
RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager - by brewer - May 11, 2018 at 7:27 am

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