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Originally Posted by greybeard
My flag is nailed to the mast.
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Sail on then. Sail on.
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If your right then life continues on for you as usual.
If your wrong and there is a God--- what then?
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This sounds like Pascal's wager. A loosing proposition and a logical fallacy.
I'm not so sure I understand what you think a God is nor do I have any idea in my head as to what such a thing would be. Therefore how could I even guess at the answer and why would I care to? As I have brought up before, it is a resource problem. The human brain is trapped in a tiny sliver of space/time. We cannot peer out beyond into where such beings might dwell in either our perception or imagination. The gods we imagine are the products of the human mind full of our attributes (idealized) and our foibles as well.
If there is a "God" that judges us upon death and condemns us to eternal punishment or reward or ascension or reincarnation (a form of hell) then I would hope he'd cut me some slack seeing the total lack of an ability to perceive its wants, needs, and desires. Also, I would hope he stands well back from me at our meeting as I will undoubtedly take a swing at him/she/it for the utter ruination, suffering, and pain he has systematically ignored in my life and the lives of those I have loved. So be it.