Pascal's Wager (the new version)

[Mister Agenda]

Hi all,

Let's start with a new old topic
Pascal's Wager

Hi yourself. Looking forward to understanding what new spin you're putting on old Pascal's Wager.

I"ll put the statement which I'm trying to prove first

Atheism is a very weak position to take, (Anything is better than nothing)

Good form, a welcome change from people who try to be mysterious about where they're going with their arguments.

P(G) is the probability of God existence (which is >0 unless you can prove that God doesn't exist)

Sure. Of course you can assign a similar term to any proposition that can't be proved false, like Alpha Centauri gives off undetectable emanations that nevertheless suppress your chances of enlightenment by 4%, which can be resistied by wearing a tinfoil hat when Alpha Centauri is visible from your part of earth. I'm not the first to point this out, I've read down-thread a bit.

V the value of your life
P(V) the probability of your death

Again, thanks to reading down-thread, I see you mean that you're referring to the probability of one's death in the immediate future. I don't agree that the value of one's life is inversely proportional to how much of it is left. Surely the value of a person's life must be considered in its entirety?

P(G)/(P(V)xV) will go to infinity as your life is coming to an end
But as you don't know when are you going to die, you should embrace a religion NOW!

Hm. That means the probability of the tinfoil hat thing being true gets greater the closer I am to dying, and approaches certainty when I'm dead. That doesn't make sense, does it? How much longer I have to live can't have an effect on the probability of the numerator in your equation.