Pascal's Wager backfires. Edited with a REALLY COOL PIC

[A HERETIC I AM]

Last edited Sat Nov 16, 2013, 08:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Edit;

So this isn't really related, but I thought you guys might enjoy it. I thought it was cool so I made it my new desktop wallpaper




Here is the URL minus the "g" at the end of .jpg. Click the link, add the G back on the end in the new tab/browser address bar and you'll find the original is huge and very high resolution.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/image_archive/2013/24/hires.jp

[Arugula Latte]

1. Sod off!

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. LOL....yup.

[frogmarch]

3. :-D

Excellent!

[RosettaStoned77]

4. Haaaaa!

[uriel1972]

6. don't like the last word of the last panel...

Otherwise it works

[RosettaStoned77]

7. true

but the idea that god is a pig makes it funny.

political correctness is not a big priority of mine. tho I am not out to intentionally offend, it happens.

[uriel1972]

8. Each to their own I suppose...nt

[Heddi]

16. At least that poster has been banned

I hate it when trolls infest our den

[defacto7]

5. Hilarious answer..... n/t

[progressoid]

9. Love QI

And David Mitchell's rants.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Pascal's Wager is morally and logically bankrupt.

I know the point of this was a joke, and it is hilarious, especially something about that guy's accent/body language, but that aside...

Pascal's Wager isn't a 0:Infinity risk wager. Oh no. You don't get to just go to heaven, per these various faiths, if you just believe. That's not all that you have to invest in your wager. The cost is much higher. To accept the wager, you have to modify how you live, while alive, a great deal. Things you aren't allowed to do. Things you aren't supposed to tolerate. Dogma baggage you must live by, until you die.

So the wager has enormous up front investment, against that infinitesimal chance of something, anything, beyond death.

Your wager must account for picking the right rules, by the right sect, of the right faith, fulfilling those rules, AND the god must exist on the other side of death for you to win the wager.

It's ridiculous.

[Iggo]

11. But the whole things collapses on this simple fact:

ONE CANNOT CHOOSE TO BELIEVE.

[temporary311]

12. Yeah you can

Though I suppose in places where the choice is "believe our religion or be killed as an apostate," there really isn't much choice at all.

[Iggo]

13. You and I have different understandings of the concept of belief, then.

[AtheistCrusader]

15. Humans are capable of self-deception.

[Fumesucker]

14. GMTA

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