Suburban cowboy Sunday morning; sometimes you have to take a good hard look at your situation

Suburban cowboy Sunday morning; sometimes you have to take a good hard look at your situation

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edward w pritchard


Pascal's wager?.

Sometimes you have to take a good hard look at your situation.

Pascal the brilliant mathematician and feeling philosopher did.

Sometimes modern people have a tendency to think anyone who lived a long time ago like Pascal was stupid and their understanding irrelevant to modern times. Then by chance we read what someone like Pascal wrote on any subject and our eyes are opened.

Pascal's wager was his solution to the quandary we all face.

Should I or should I not ask for God's blessing?

It's very simple really. No need to go to the house of worship, No need for ancient dogma, no need to wear new clothes to get there.

George Harrison of the Beatles said "Chanting the names of the Lord will set you free."

You don't need to be friendly green to the environment, you don't need to worry over missing persons in Africa, you don't need to spend your life guilty.

Pascal's wager boiled down is THE Koan. Forget the intellectual bargaining of weighing the chance of something unreal existing. Pascal's Koan is what would happen if you just ask for God's blessing.

Joy and rapture. Walk and see free from sin.
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George Harrison lyrics from " Awaiting on You"

Blaise Pascal's wager from Pascal's "Pensees" section number 233