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Pascal's wager
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RE: Pascal's wager
July 23, 2012 at 11:03 am
WOOHOO I AM! 8D
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RE: Pascal's wager
July 23, 2012 at 11:13 am
What do you do in a meaningless universe?
You can commit suicide because your life is meaningless, but that is Absurd as it is a further meaningless act. You could pretend there is some meaning, god logic etc, but that is to switch off your mind, an absurd act of intellectual suicide, or you can try and find some meaning within yourself and party on dude.
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RE: Pascal's wager
July 23, 2012 at 11:19 am
Damn fucking right.
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RE: Pascal's wager
July 23, 2012 at 11:51 am
A light hearted look at the absurdity of Pascal's wager:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqJpZOljjG8
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RE: Pascal's wager
July 23, 2012 at 12:09 pm
(July 23, 2012 at 7:32 am)GodlessGirl Wrote: I am an atheist and I am very confident all religions are false. However Pascal's wager kind of gets to me because the idea of hell is so horrifying.

It isn't. I laugh in the face of hell because it's made up and I ain't going there.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.

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RE: Pascal's wager
July 23, 2012 at 12:11 pm



I've got a better wager. Let's all wager on whose sock puppet GodlessGirl is.


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RE: Pascal's wager
July 23, 2012 at 4:21 pm
On the flip side, you'll have deprived yourself of a lot of life's amazing flavors over a silly book that isn't real.
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RE: Pascal's wager
July 23, 2012 at 4:29 pm
(July 23, 2012 at 7:32 am)GodlessGirl Wrote: I am an atheist and I am very confident all religions are false. However Pascal's wager kind of gets to me because the idea of hell is so horrifying. If I did choose to worship God, yes most likely I would be wasting my time but I could be avoiding an ETERNITY in hell. Since we are talking about ETERNITY doesn't that side win?

I especially love the inherent stupidity of the jesus freaks who insist that their"god" is all-knowing but is still stupid enough to be fooled by someone saying "I'll believe...just in case."
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RE: Pascal's wager
July 23, 2012 at 4:30 pm
Some problems I have with pascal's wager:

1) No religion accepts fake belief, so you cannot fake belief in a God.
2) There is different religions, so why appease one and not the other?
3) A True God would want you to be honest to yourself, so if you honestly don't believe in God, he would want you to remain honest with that.
4) Hell and God don't go together, if there is God, he is Merciful, if he is Merciful, then there is no hell. Simple as that.
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RE: Pascal's wager
July 23, 2012 at 4:33 pm
(July 23, 2012 at 12:11 pm)apophenia Wrote:


I've got a better wager. Let's all wager on whose sock puppet GodlessGirl is.



A question that has gone trough my mind as well, then I figured I hadn't a damn to give about it.
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