You'd Better Be Right...
I saw a license plate frame today that I thought was amusing, regardless of your outlook:
If you're living as if there is no God...
you'd better be right!
Blog Tag: Humor
Posted 4/16/2005 02:01:00 PM
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On 4/17/2005 10:06 AM, 
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On 4/17/2005 10:37 AM, 
dkgoodman said...
On 5/27/2005 11:42 AM, said...
On 5/31/2005 12:23 AM, Melissa said...
On 5/31/2005 8:16 AM, dkgoodman said...
On 5/31/2005 11:21 AM, Melissa said...
On 5/31/2005 1:41 PM, dkgoodman said...
7 Comments:
It's amusing, but also scary and annoying. It sounds too much like a threat to me. Not that I have anything to worry about, I lead a pure and wholesome life. ;)
I'm far from pure, but I'm not evil, either. I expect everything to be over for me when I die, so I'm not afraid of the hereafter.
In retrospect, maybe that quote isn't amusing for all outlooks. :)
Blaise Pascal, a brilliant 17th century mathematician, said:
You may choose not to believe in God or an afterlife and if it turns out you are correct, you haven't lost anything, but you haven't gained anything either. On the other hand, if it turns out you are wrong, you have lost everything. Therefore, it is only reasonable and rational to hold to a belief in a God.
Anonymous, the problem I have is that I can control my actions, but not my thoughts and feelings. I can behave like there is a God, and I really do try, but I don't know how to make myself believe or feel that there is a God. I'm not saying that there is no God, because I really don't know, but how do I convince myself that there is one? I have not figured out how to fool myself into believing what to me is not believable.
The problem with Pascal's argument is that it can be applied to anything for which we have no evidence.
What if space aliens are planning to destroy us for not painting ourselves green? What if Zeus will chain us to a rock if we don't worship the gods of Mt. Olympus? What if we'll lose our loved ones for not using a dandruff shampoo?
I'm not going to change my life to suit the suppositions of others. Show me proof of an afterlife, and I'll think about it.
This post just keeps getting less and less humorous with time. Perhaps it's time for a new blog tag. :)
By the way, Dave, How did you know that there was new activity in the archives?
Blogger is supposed to send me an email whenever a comment is added. Lately I seem to get them maybe 60% of the time. You just lucked out. :)
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