Re: What if it's True?

This is completly off topic so this will be my only and final post to this list.

 'IT', you see, is The Bible.  Consider that if it is NOT true but you follow
it's teachings anyway, you will have lead a worthy and honorable life.  Your
family and friends will know you as a good person, trustworthy, faithfull etc. 
You die and your existance is over.  Conversly if 'IT' IS true and you DO NOT
follow it's principles and teachings then you will still die but then you go to
hell.

  The question is meant to make you think, and at least a few of you have!

  I believe that Pascal would evaluate the risk and decide that assuming 'IT' is
true could at worst have no negatives.

  - Larry

Joel Fritz wrote:
> 
> See Bell's "Men of Mathematics" for a highly opinionated view of Pascal's
> philosophical side.
> 
> I always thought the principle of the wager was that any risk where the
> worst possible outcome is completely harmless or no worse than not taking
> the risk isn't a risk.  Whether it applied to the particular situation
> Pascal considered is probably a topic for a different forum. <g>
> 
> >
> > Then again, what if it isn't true?
> >
> > Ever hear of Pascal's wager?

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