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The Problem with Pascal's Wager

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The Problem with Pascal's Wager
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RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager
May 10, 2018 at 11:44 pm
(May 10, 2018 at 9:08 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:
(May 10, 2018 at 6:11 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I'd love to see some xtian asshole come face to face with Odin after not dying with a weapon in his hand.

My hands ARE weapons baby, so I'm covered.

Not as far as Odin is concerned.
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RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager
May 10, 2018 at 11:47 pm
-and you cant fuck with odin, he;s a bit smarter than christer god.
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RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager
May 10, 2018 at 11:55 pm
Yeah, Christ boy lost track of where his creations had gone after making just two of them. Odin would slap his ass for breakfast.
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RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager
May 11, 2018 at 12:01 am
Guys got shit on lock.
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RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager
May 11, 2018 at 7:18 am
(May 10, 2018 at 8:08 pm)Khemikal Wrote:
(May 10, 2018 at 7:44 pm)Hammy Wrote: Belief can be both rational and irrational. I think you're thinking of faith.

For starters, belief is one of the requisites of knowledge. Some would say that knowledge = justified true belief.

I definitely do believe that 2+2=4. The alternative would be disbelieving it.

#limitations of the semantics of "belief".

-You don;t know that, or do you?  Do you know it and believe it?  Do you believe it but not know it? Wink

It would be easy for us to tangle over words here. I'd much rather look at the concepts behind the words. Would you say belief is the acceptance of possibilities based on incomplete facts, and once the facts are complete (justified), that is knowledge.
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RE: The Problem with Pascal's Wager
May 11, 2018 at 7:27 am
OP: It's not about caution, it's about fear. Kind of a shitty way to go thru life.
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