Tag: God
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Betting
Pascal’s wager from his Pensées, §233 (isn’t it wonderful we can just link to the raw unfettered text?) is that you should bet for the infinite upside and believe in God. Pascal states, 1) “According to reason, you can do neither the one thing nor the other” and 2) “Yes; but you must wager. It…
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God the mother
I’m becoming more firmly of the belief that Mother Nature is the closest rational approximation of God. Mother Nature isn’t the Earth alone, the rules of mama nature apply throughout the universe. So if Mother Nature is God, God is a woman. Only that which has the power to create life could be anything close…
Ian's Philosophy 