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Pascal's Wager Revisited
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited
(April 11, 2015 at 8:26 pm)robvalue Wrote: So... you are comparing fairy tales to see which one is more "realistic"? I'm afraid you've abandoned that tool long ago after the huge number of assumptions necessary to believe in any kind of afterlife at all.

Here's what I did: I described a part of the general structure of a plausible afterlife. The Valhalla afterlife fails to fit into it, while the Christian afterlife does fit into it; as a result, the latter is judged (again if there is an afterlife at all) reasonable, while the former, not reasonable.
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Pascal's Wager Revisited - by datc - April 7, 2015 at 2:34 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by FatAndFaithless - April 7, 2015 at 2:38 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Surgenator - April 7, 2015 at 2:39 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Confused Ape - April 7, 2015 at 2:39 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Brian37 - April 7, 2015 at 2:41 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by FreeTony - April 7, 2015 at 2:43 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by TheRealJoeFish - April 7, 2015 at 2:45 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Mudhammam - April 7, 2015 at 2:56 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Esquilax - April 7, 2015 at 2:56 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Norman Humann - April 7, 2015 at 2:57 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Exian - April 7, 2015 at 3:03 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Pizza - April 7, 2015 at 3:06 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Brian37 - April 7, 2015 at 3:07 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Iroscato - April 7, 2015 at 3:12 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Brian37 - April 7, 2015 at 3:19 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Minimalist - April 7, 2015 at 3:30 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Iroscato - April 7, 2015 at 3:34 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Fidel_Castronaut - April 7, 2015 at 4:08 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Brian37 - April 7, 2015 at 4:12 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by robvalue - April 7, 2015 at 4:15 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Pyrrho - April 7, 2015 at 4:25 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by datc - April 7, 2015 at 4:22 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by TheRealJoeFish - April 7, 2015 at 4:31 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by abaris - April 7, 2015 at 5:05 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by datc - April 9, 2015 at 9:03 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Esquilax - April 9, 2015 at 9:12 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by datc - April 9, 2015 at 9:23 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Silver - April 9, 2015 at 9:25 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Iroscato - April 9, 2015 at 9:30 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by datc - April 9, 2015 at 9:37 pm
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RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Simon Moon - April 9, 2015 at 3:16 pm
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RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Exian - April 7, 2015 at 4:31 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by robvalue - April 7, 2015 at 4:32 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Faith No More - April 7, 2015 at 4:40 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Ravenshire - April 7, 2015 at 4:51 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by robvalue - April 7, 2015 at 4:57 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Iroscato - April 7, 2015 at 5:01 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Iroscato - April 9, 2015 at 3:29 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Minimalist - April 9, 2015 at 3:36 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - April 9, 2015 at 6:50 pm
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RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Silver - April 9, 2015 at 9:35 pm
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RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Cato - April 10, 2015 at 5:47 am
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RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Minimalist - April 10, 2015 at 1:54 am
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RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by robvalue - April 10, 2015 at 2:24 am
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RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by datc - April 10, 2015 at 2:13 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Cyberman - April 10, 2015 at 2:27 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by robvalue - April 10, 2015 at 2:54 pm
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RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by Cyberman - April 12, 2015 at 8:12 pm
RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by robvalue - April 13, 2015 at 12:28 am
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RE: Pascal's Wager Revisited - by robvalue - April 13, 2015 at 1:21 pm
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