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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51477 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I'll leave it up to you to research and discuss. I know what it means. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30981 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
prisoner's dilemma |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
From Wikipedia: The Christian apologist Arnobius of Sicca (d. 330) stated an early version of the argument in his book Against the Pagans, arguing "is it not more rational, of two things uncertain and hanging in doubtful suspense, rather to believe that which carries with it some hopes, than that which brings none at all? Magnate Warren Buffett has written that climate change "bears a similarity to Pascal's Wager on the Existence of God. Pascal, it may be recalled, argued that if there were only a tiny probability that God truly existed, it made sense to behave as if He did because the rewards could be infinite whereas the lack of belief risked eternal misery. Likewise, if there is only a 1% chance the planet is heading toward a truly major disaster and delay means passing a point of no return, inaction now is foolhardy Geez O Flip. CC is da Last Thing I Thought would finish off the Reading. SUPERBet May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3804 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
I propose XMascal's Wager on the Existence of Santa Claus. If there is only a tiny probability that Santa Claus truly exists, it makes sense to behave as if He did because the rewards could be a bounty of Christmas presents, whereas the lack of belief risks the misery of nothing but coal in one's stocking. Yet people still refuse to believe! |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36613 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
And don't forget about the Easter Bunny. ;-) |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
And don't forget about the Easter Bunny. ;-) Whatever 'Belief' Brings LOVE; PEACE; and SPIRIT of JOY into Heart of BELIEVER. Is GOoD. REAL GOoD. SUPERReal May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19370 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Ah yes, the celebration of the pagan goddess Eostre – the goddess of spring and fertility, which takes place during the Spring Equinox. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36613 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I'm sure that Thor will make a thunderous comment here today. ;-) All Hail Thor!!! |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
From book: Michael -Brother of Jerry by Jack London But the steerage and its company meant more to Michael than the mere pack. It was heaven as well, where dwelt God. Man early invented God, often of stone, or clod, or fire, and placed him in trees and mountains and among the stars. This was because man observed that man passed and was lost out of the tribe, or family, or whatever name he gave to his group, which was, after all, the human pack. And man did not want to be lost out of the pack. So, of his imagination, he devised a new pack that would be eternal and with which he might for ever run. Fearing the dark, into which he observed all men passed, he built beyond the dark a fairer region, a happier hunting-ground, a jollier and robuster feasting-hall and wassailing-place, and called it variously "heaven." SUPERGOoD May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
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