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Pascal's Wager - Any Way to Live a Life

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crashfrog
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11-08-2007 12:15 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by iceage
11-07-2007 8:18 PM

The Rascal's Wager
This brings me to my question: is employing Pascal's Wager in your approach to life an authentic and intellectually honest way to live!?
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Not to mention - honest to God? Like, He's not going to notice that you're going through the motions of a faith you don't believe in just to hedge your bets?
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It's no surprise that Dinesh D'Loser fell for it, though. There's no argument he won't make in favor of theocracy.
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crashfrog
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11-10-2007 11:25 AM 		Reply to: Message 41 by Hyroglyphx
11-10-2007 10:33 AM

Re: Clarification of Pascals infamous Wager
God... I've got Him on the line
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That's so precious. Of course, the rest of us have reason to believe that you're just talking to yourself.
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11-10-2007 12:29 PM 		Reply to: Message 43 by Hyroglyphx
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Re: Clarification of Pascals infamous Wager
I know the difference between a monologue and a dialogue.
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I thought I did, too, until I realized I was talking to myself.
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crashfrog
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11-10-2007 7:23 PM 		Reply to: Message 49 by Jon
11-10-2007 7:13 PM

Re: God2 ≠ God
Nothing that is truly God shares its powers nor is subordinate to another entity. Logical circular thinking says as much.
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Fixed that for you.
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11-12-2007 7:01 PM 		Reply to: Message 53 by mike the wiz
11-12-2007 4:32 PM

Re: How I came to believe the stuff I do
Believers are tough. To doubt and disbelieve is to climb off the saddle when the mountain pass gets steep.
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Or, you could look at it as "climbing out of the barrel before it goes over the falls."
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