Let's then summarize:
It was never part of the argument to provide specific evidence for the afterlife; in fact, Pascal's wager explicitly depends on this evidence being inconclusive.
My claim is that if there is an afterlife, then it is in general something like what I have described, and it stands up to objections, unlike Valhalla or the Greek underworld. The many unknowns here I acknowledge but insist on those parts of my idea that I cleared up.
If then afterlife exists, then attaining it would usually entail explicitly aiming at it and thus, extending belief to it in active life when building one's soul, just as an engineer extends belief to physics when building a bridge.
Little is lost if it turns out there is no afterlife and you aim for it; much is gained if there is and you aim for it; much is lost if there is and you fail to aim at it (thereby continuously being reincarnated to try -- and fail -- again and again or whatever).
Hence, the rationality of wagering on eternal life and the concept of God that flows from it, as I outlined earlier in the thread.
(April 10, 2015 at 10:23 pm)Sionnach Wrote: So you are basically stating that you believe in something beyond yet you cannot provide any evidence for such, yet we should all believe the same as you just because.
It was never part of the argument to provide specific evidence for the afterlife; in fact, Pascal's wager explicitly depends on this evidence being inconclusive.
My claim is that if there is an afterlife, then it is in general something like what I have described, and it stands up to objections, unlike Valhalla or the Greek underworld. The many unknowns here I acknowledge but insist on those parts of my idea that I cleared up.
If then afterlife exists, then attaining it would usually entail explicitly aiming at it and thus, extending belief to it in active life when building one's soul, just as an engineer extends belief to physics when building a bridge.
Little is lost if it turns out there is no afterlife and you aim for it; much is gained if there is and you aim for it; much is lost if there is and you fail to aim at it (thereby continuously being reincarnated to try -- and fail -- again and again or whatever).
Hence, the rationality of wagering on eternal life and the concept of God that flows from it, as I outlined earlier in the thread.
