Reverse Pascal's Wager (NZ variation)

Originally posted by @eladar
Because there are only two.

You can burn or you can be found righteous. This was the basis of Pascal's statement.

No it wasn’t.

Originally posted by @divegeester
It’s funny that you say this because this is exactly how I see you.

I do not deny the existence of God.

Originally posted by @divegeester
I am Lord Humongous, the Warrior of the wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla.
Give me what I want I will spare your puny life.

I never realised.
Will bitcoins be ok?

Originally posted by @vivify
Sounds like a nerdy sex position.

Take the "nerdy" out pal!

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
I never realised.
Will bitcoins be ok?

Nor did Fetchmybecker 😵

Originally posted by @divegeester
Nor did Fetchmybecker 😵

I did realize that you too have a vivid imagination. Must be in the genes. 😉

Originally posted by @dj2becker
I do not deny the existence of God.

Neither do a lot of us that you call atheists. We just happen to lack belief that any such exists.

Originally posted by @dj2becker
It might dawn upon you at some point in time that people who reject the existence of God become of 'god' of their own little universe. They may not be aware of it but it's quite obvious to those that are able to observe such things.

You have a potential point, but you couched it in garbage.

If there is a thing, lets say a rock, so there is a rock. It's in the trail, let's say, so you are walking down the trail and lo! there is a rock. You can stub your toe or step over it or find another trail to walk on, but the rock is real. I can feel it, I can show it to you, and you can stub your toe too.

But the God thing is only in your head. It's not on any trail, it is not actually in this world, you cannot show it to anyone and it is exactly as if it has no existence other than in your head.
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Originally posted by @divegeester
No it wasn’t.

Do you even know what Pascal said?

Originally posted by @eladar
Do you even know what Pascal said?

that the nth line shows the coefficients in the expansion of (a+b)^n

he said some other stuff too

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
that the nth line shows the coefficients in the expansion of (a+b)^n

he said some other stuff too

I meant as to the topic of this thread.

Originally posted by @eladar
Do you even know what Pascal said?

Yes, more than you it seems,

Originally posted by @divegeester
Yes, more than you it seems,

Your ignorance is obvious for all to see.

From wiki


Pascal's Wager is an argument in philosophy presented by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–62).[1] It posits that humans bet with their lives that God either exists or does not.

Pascal argues that a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to believe in God. If God does not actually exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.), whereas they stand to receive infinite gains (as represented by eternity in Heaven) and avoid infinite losses (eternity in Hell).[2]

Originally posted by @divegeester
Pascal’s wager was one of Grammy Bobby’s favourite turn-keys in religious debate. Like Pascal (in his thought experiment), he maintained that simply choosing to believe in god was something the intellectual mind could do, whereas in the reality of the Christian spiritual experience, “belief” is a outcome of faith and faith is given not switched on.

...[text shortened]... , for in doing so the proponent displays abject dismissal of the spiritual energy that is faith.

AFAIK, 0 theists have credited Pascal's Wager as the reason for their belief. It's always something they want other people to do.

Originally posted by @bigdoggproblem
AFAIK, 0 theists have credited Pascal's Wager as the reason for their belief. It's always something they want other people to do.

I couldn't care less about what you believe nor the reward you will recieve.