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Reverse Pascals Wager
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RE: Reverse Pascals Wager
(August 21, 2010 at 4:14 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Well surely Heaven and Hell has to be subjective otherwise they are pointless as concepts.

A masochist enjoys pain (maybe not absolute torture though... but pain at least), so pain for him/her is pleasure. Hence why pleasure is subjective. And so is Heaven and Hell then.

If we are to define Heaven as "Eternal Bliss" and Hell as "Eternal torture", then since pleasure and pain are subjective, since emotions themselves are subjective, of course it's relative to the person somewhat.
So I agree with your analysis of your own argument. It runs contrary to my understanding of the concept of heaven and hell which seem to be destinations with objective proerties to me. Having said that I guess we can both agree theconcepts are vaccuous and are wildly open to any interpretation you care to put on them.
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Reverse Pascals Wager - by Captain Scarlet - August 20, 2010 at 2:27 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Tiberius - August 20, 2010 at 2:45 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Captain Scarlet - August 20, 2010 at 3:19 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Entropist - August 20, 2010 at 2:59 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Welsh cake - August 20, 2010 at 3:07 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Minimalist - August 20, 2010 at 3:13 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by DeistPaladin - August 20, 2010 at 3:26 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Godschild - August 21, 2010 at 12:54 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Zen Badger - August 21, 2010 at 10:51 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by DeistPaladin - August 23, 2010 at 10:11 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Godschild - August 23, 2010 at 8:44 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by DeistPaladin - August 23, 2010 at 9:27 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by RachelSkates - August 23, 2010 at 10:36 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Godschild - August 24, 2010 at 1:42 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by DeistPaladin - August 24, 2010 at 9:42 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Entropist - August 24, 2010 at 11:06 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by DeistPaladin - August 24, 2010 at 11:22 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Entropist - August 20, 2010 at 3:43 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Cego_Colher - August 20, 2010 at 4:03 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Paul the Human - August 20, 2010 at 4:10 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Minimalist - August 21, 2010 at 3:45 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Edwardo Piet - August 21, 2010 at 3:47 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Captain Scarlet - August 21, 2010 at 4:10 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by downbeatplumb - August 21, 2010 at 8:53 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Cego_Colher - August 21, 2010 at 10:04 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by fr0d0 - August 21, 2010 at 10:31 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Minimalist - August 21, 2010 at 5:54 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Tiberius - August 21, 2010 at 10:06 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Edwardo Piet - August 21, 2010 at 4:14 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Captain Scarlet - August 21, 2010 at 4:30 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Edwardo Piet - August 21, 2010 at 4:36 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Captain Scarlet - August 21, 2010 at 4:37 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Godschild - August 21, 2010 at 5:26 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Captain Scarlet - August 21, 2010 at 5:40 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Godschild - August 22, 2010 at 1:10 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Entropist - August 22, 2010 at 1:22 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by leo-rcc - August 22, 2010 at 5:55 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Captain Scarlet - August 22, 2010 at 6:38 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Minimalist - August 22, 2010 at 2:16 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Godschild - August 22, 2010 at 4:26 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Captain Scarlet - August 22, 2010 at 6:30 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Godschild - August 22, 2010 at 10:43 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Captain Scarlet - August 23, 2010 at 12:44 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Godschild - August 23, 2010 at 11:28 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by DeistPaladin - August 24, 2010 at 12:47 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by downbeatplumb - August 24, 2010 at 3:17 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by downbeatplumb - August 23, 2010 at 2:13 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by leo-rcc - August 23, 2010 at 11:06 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by annatar - August 21, 2010 at 9:05 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by fr0d0 - August 21, 2010 at 9:51 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Minimalist - August 21, 2010 at 9:57 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Minimalist - August 22, 2010 at 1:22 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Edwardo Piet - August 22, 2010 at 12:55 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Tiberius - August 22, 2010 at 7:04 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Edwardo Piet - August 22, 2010 at 5:30 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Entropist - August 22, 2010 at 6:14 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Tiberius - August 22, 2010 at 5:37 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Minimalist - August 22, 2010 at 8:28 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Cego_Colher - August 23, 2010 at 7:06 am
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Godschild - August 23, 2010 at 6:31 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Minimalist - August 23, 2010 at 7:26 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Minimalist - August 23, 2010 at 9:03 pm
RE: Reverse Pascals Wager - by Captain Scarlet - August 24, 2010 at 9:00 am

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