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I don't think it matters, the argument is not about what's right or wrong in the logical sense of those terms, it is a valuation which can be either a...

the anticipated payout is greater than and more comforting than nothing.

The GOP out thought the DEMs plus the DEMs screwed themselves by rigging the results of their primary against Bernie. I think Bernie would have appeal...

The wager doesn't make much sense unless you expect to get something out of it. It's a decision to believe or not to believe and you assign it a value...

Note (which I alluded to earlier) when Christ gets crucified his conversation with the two thieves crucified on either side of him. Luke 23:32-43 So y...

The expectation that by believing in God one might be saved, obtain eternal bliss versus the expectation of nothingness.

Suppose you were agnostic. Pew Research indicates 4% of the US population considers itself agnostic, which is lot of people based on 320m. You believe...

I didn't say that you did, it obviously means something to those who believe in God and those who believe in a Good God believe in salvation through t...

Obviously not to those who believe in god.

Yes, I read the Wikipedia article and other accounts. The Hospital Chaplin confirmed his conversion and as I pointed out in one of my posts he did an ...

God refers to what ever you believe is god is, for many god is the creator, but what ever you sincerely believe god is. Yep 100% cavacava

The problem with zoos has to do with how some of them intentionally or unintentionally mistreat animals, there are good zoos and real sucky zoos. As o...

Do you think that the existence or non-existence of god can be proved? If the answer is no then whether you believe in god or not is a belief which ca...

Maybe you can provide a reference, I thought he was out of town throughout this period.

From Wikipedia: According to Plato in his Phaedo there were several people. This dialogue is one recollection of what happened, according to dialogue ...

Algebra is hypothetical until it is applied.

Let me think about it, I think offhand that it these are not hypothesis, but wagers, as in a bet, in which they obtain the assignment of certain value...

You and at the same time refer to Socrates. Yet at Socrates' on his deathbed, was in a rational frame of mind. Whether he feared death, I think might ...

.[reply="Jeremiah;39999" This sentence defeats itself.

Reuters today Sounds good to me. Why not let the party vote online for candidates...it would level the playing field somewhat. It might get more peopl...

Yea, it's ideological propaganda in my opinion.

Ok, but how do you read someone like Plato and not get involved in that fallacy. Plato works are each separate they stand on their own, yet in many wa...

Ok, but wouldn't you say that some interpretations are better than others. More informed, able to demonstrate more solidarity with the text. Hermeneut...

The idea of training the body to move based on concepts such as: sounds intriguing. I have been doing very basic Qiqong for around 30 years. It's a fo...

Yea, I went to Catholic grammar school, high school and college, then a predominantly Jewish graduate school, which was like shock therapy, changed me...

. No that does not sound right. The worst outcome with A1 is oblivion, no god, no eternal bliss, no nothing. The only outcome from A2 is oblivion, ete...

Well isn't life a lot like that, we believe certain things and we act accordingly. We don't always know the "reality" of our beliefs, but we do assign...

This argument is a wager, it assumes certain possibilities have a certain utility. If you think that by believing in God you may compromise your etern...

Yes, and imagine if you are an agnostic.

One of the premises of his argument is that and I don't see how your objection meets this premise.

Not sure I understand your problem. Here is what Wallace Stevens had to say about Pascal's Wager from his 1923 book Harmonium:

I think it comes down to our own mortality, our impossible lust for a life that cannot continue, our inability to confront the void headon, as at leas...

Here is what I asked darthbarracuda: I think it's a valid argument.

I don't interpret the prodigal son parable that way. What do you think the father would have said if his son demanded his help, and say the reinstatem...

Ok, I've got it. But don't you think the earnest belief in God's Goodness, carries greater utility in it than a belief in oblivion. As far as the prod...

Not sure I follow this. The "outcomes of each alternative action" is death. Only A1's death come with a hope. The prodigal son is celebrated upon his ...

The decision process is there, I think, maybe not quite as Pascal posed it, but something with force enough to enable them to change their life held b...

I don't know, but Christ did forgive the theif.

SEP Maybe you can point out irrational part of this.

Merriam-Webster — has announced that its word of the year for 2016 is “surreal.” https://youtu.be/wuSDfVRGI54

There is no 'assurance" at stake, I wager what I choose to believe, which can be right or wrong, true or false. If I am right whoopee, if I am wrong I...

Thanks, it sounds like you have already made your choice.

Sorry it's late for me, but I think you may you have the miss application of the word "loose" with the word "lose" tks.

Ok, couple of things. You have to make a decision, evidence is lacking it always has been lacking, but clearly you have considered the choice: if ther...

Which has the most probability, which is pragmatically the best? Which do you believe in?

Well but remember you are on your deathbed, so perhaps even if you have convinced yourself in the past that you don't believe in god, as Wallace Steve...

If the world is the way it is for no particular reason(s), even if the world is absolutely contingent, it still is the way it is and we still talk the...

Well I thought whatever is, is and by virtue of this claim we describe it. Do you think some names are descriptive, they carry along their own history...

A creative act must be creative about something, similar to how a craftsman produces something functional, beautiful and perhaps even different from w...

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