didn't I say that. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:32 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: > > Isn't that sort of a much more eloquently worded restatement of what I > said?? :) > > Live good, and belief or not, a just God will take care of you...if he > exists. > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> I prefer the Emperor Marcus Aurelius' rejoinder to Pascal's Wager >> (amazing guy that Aurelius took on Pascal 1000 years before Pascal's >> birth, and won). >> Aurelius in between conquering parts of Germany and beating up on the >> Persians managed to write a brilliant book on Philosophy in it he >> said: >> >> "Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will >> not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the >> virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you >> should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will >> be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the >> memories of your loved ones." >> -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations >> >> To me that's a damned sight better than Pascal's implied blackmail. >> >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> To their defense, they are playing Pascal's wager on your behalf. If >> God >> >> exists and you don't believe you get eternity in hell . If they are >> wrong, >> >> well, you're worm food. Not saying it's the right approach, but giving >> you >> >> the reasoning. >> >> >> > >> > I'm betting something a little different >> > >> > That if there IS a God, and he created us, yet never gave us any real >> > evidence of himself apart from life itself.....i'm betting that he won't >> > send me to hell simply for using the limited talents he gave me and >> > arriving at the logical conclusion to which they led me. >> > >> > Not saying it's the right approach, but giving you my reasoning :) >> > >> > >> > >> >> > >
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