Re: virus: Pascal's wager
Marie Foster (mfos@ieway.com)
Thu, 09 Oct 1997 08:58:08 -0700
chardin wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 16:55:14 -0600
> > To: virus@lucifer.com
> > From: David McFadzean <david@lucifer.com>
> > Subject: virus: Pascal's wager
> > Reply-to: virus@lucifer.com
>
> > At 05:08 PM 10/8/97 CST+6CDT, chardin wrote:
> >
> > >Little smiley faces [:)] don't carry much weight with these folks,
> > >huh? We take our philosophy seriously I see.
> >
> > They do, but they only apply to the sentence preceding the smiley.
> >
> > >Is your reasoning:
> > >There are many mutually exclusive and contradictory
> > >religions out there; therefore, they must all be false?
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > >I have no desire to end up in the hell of a false religion, therefore
> > >I will deny that any hell exist?
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > If Pascal's Wager is valid and I claim to be God, you should worship
> > me for the same reasons. If I am God you have much to gain, but if
> > I'm not, you have little to lose. See?
> >
>
> I do see, but you have to give me credible reasons for being who you
> say you are. Christ asked the question and still asks: "Who do you
> say I am? I think we can say he was either who he claimed to be:
> God in the flesh, or 2) a madman 3) a liar and a charlatan. I am
> not offended by anyone who chooses any of the three.
> > --
> > David McFadzean david@lucifer.com
> > Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/
> > Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/
> >
The only way that Christ (or Buddha) was different than you is that he
recognized and accepted his true nature.