Despite the triple odds you're offering for Eternal Bliss --- and the quadruple penalties for eternal damnation, I'd guess countless people would consider Pascal's pay scale more attractive than yours. Especially since yours could result in someone falling off a ladder.
(--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Cogno Scienti <cognoscienti@...> wrote:
>
> I have a better wager. I claim that if you spend your life serving ME, you
> will have TRIPLE paradise everlasting when you die. But if you don't you
> will QUADRUPLE burn in the fires of hell. So you see it's the world's
> biggest advantage play to spend your life serving ME. No harm no foul!
>
> To begin with, the light above my garage needs changing and it's really hard
> to reach.
>
> Cogno
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> jaywilly240
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> To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [vpFREE] Re: People That Live in Brick Houses Can Throw Stones
>
> Blaise Pascal, famous big time French math wizard (and inventor of the
> calculator)insisted that religion is basically the ultimate advantage play.
> Pascal theorized that because no one knows for sure if there's a God, or an
> afterlife, we humans are getting far better odds by living as if he/she does
> exist and will eventually judge us. When we cash in for the final time, if
> there is no God, no harm no foul --- we've eased the lives of those around
> us and decreased the world's asshole population significantly. If there is a
> God, living by his rules keeps us out of hell. Sacre bleu!
>
> the choir".
> >
> > 7. And finally, I know from personal experience how important and powerful
> beliefs can be, regardless of their veracity. It is the choice between being
> right, or being happy. I can only make that decision for myself. And I can
> not find it in my heart to begrudge someone for believing anything that
> makes them happy.
> >
> > Anyway...I hope that explains my attitude toward religious topics, and why
> I agree with vpFREE's policy of not talking about them.
> >
> > ~FK
