(May 11, 2014 at 1:12 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: This was an idiotic wager when Pascal uttered it, and it is an idiotic wager now. Hell, Marcus Aurelius solved this one 15 centuries before Pascal was even a gleam in the milkman's eye.
Boru
My understanding of it is that Pascal was trolling when he came up with this. He'd most likely have had it published in whatever passed for Private Eye or The Onion in his day. That one-watts find it even the slightest compelling only makes the satire funnier.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
