tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033865397341905972.post5106098501835791698..comments2024-03-26T09:35:47.151+00:00Comments on No PC Views: Thanks For The LegacyNo PChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17824446252611654550noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033865397341905972.post-9485612309759296092014-01-20T21:06:59.008+00:002014-01-20T21:06:59.008+00:00Ah well, its kinda like how many Angels can dance ...Ah well, its kinda like how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin ..... depends on what kind of Angels are doing the dancing. After all, as Pascal might have said, you have to have faith in the God you are praying too.No PChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824446252611654550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033865397341905972.post-44156288169500420052014-01-20T19:32:17.230+00:002014-01-20T19:32:17.230+00:00Pascal's wager is fundementally flawed :
1. It...Pascal's wager is fundementally flawed :<br />1. It assumes the Christian God and not any other of the possible gods that can be imagined, therefore ;<br />2. You might do as your chosen god bids you all of your life, foregoing many things and basically wasting the only life that you'll ever have only to find out that the <i>actual</i> God doesn't approve and off you go to Hell or wherever.<br />3. Even if the <i>actual</i> God turns out to be the one you've been worshipping, his gospel is so vague and hermeneutic that you may easily have been doing the wrong thing anyway - see 2.<br />4. It precludes an intelligent and understanding god who may reward an atheist for rightly concluding that gods don't exist after considering the available evidence.<br />5. It precludes an intelligent and understanding god who may disapprove of blind obedience to an improbable entity in the absence of any real proof.Vroomfondelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15502448843409791872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033865397341905972.post-36025494060007571742014-01-18T00:05:33.268+00:002014-01-18T00:05:33.268+00:00Thanks for that .... I suspect that we all are sus...Thanks for that .... I suspect that we all are susceptible to "Waiting for Godot" as we get older .... I may be like the French Philosopher Pascal:.<br /><br />1.If you believe in God and God does exist, you will be rewarded with eternal life in heaven: thus an infinite gain. <br />2.If you do not believe in God and God does exist, you will be condemned to remain in hell forever: thus an infinite loss. <br />3.If you believe in God and God does not exist, you will not be rewarded: thus a finite loss. <br />4.If you do not believe in God and God does not exist, you will not be rewarded, but you have lived your own life: thus a finite gain. <br /><br />I suspect, that we all think along those lines at least once .... usually after watching "Its a wonderful life" LOLNo PChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17824446252611654550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5033865397341905972.post-32617864256848771562014-01-16T08:39:49.580+00:002014-01-16T08:39:49.580+00:00There was a story on the news that Kalshnikov was...There was a story on the news that Kalshnikov was a late convert to the Orthodox religion (having first gone into a church at the age of 91 and was later baptised), and that he later wrote to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church before he died, expressing fears he was 'morally responsible' and that he was suffering "spiritual pain" over the many deaths it caused and for the people it killed. He had always denied any responsibility before his conversion, saying that it was the fault of the policies of groups or other countries that acquired it.<br /><br />I guess even he was surprised at how succesful the weapon was, and how many it had probably killed .... possibly waiting for him at St Peters gate.<br /><br />Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25709371Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com