Anyone here into math?

[Guest [ch...]]

Interesting discussion but I don't consider the recent posts to be math.

 

Maybe someone should start a "Philosophy" thread?

[Guest [Kp...]]

Interesting discussion but I don't consider the recent posts to be math.

 

Maybe someone should start a "Philosophy" thread?

 

Good idea!

[Guest [Kp...]]

I am wondering if I am making a mistake not believing in God.

 

Why do you ask if it would be a mistake? Just wondering.

 

BlueRose, the reason I started doubting myself is because I realized there was no logical (or even mathematical, perhaps) reason to doubt the existence of God. As Estee states above, the argument is better known as Pascal's Wager :

 

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Pascal's Wager is an argument in philosophy presented by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–62).[1] It posits that humans bet with their lives that God either exists or does not.

 

Pascal argues that a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to believe in God. If God does not actually exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.), whereas they stand to receive infinite gains (as represented by eternity in Heaven) and avoid infinite losses (eternity in Hell).[2]

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Do you base your belief that God exists on Pascal's reasoning alone?

 

(Sorry I missed this post)

 

I answer it here