Live A Good Life – Marcus Aurelius
Here’s a more logical view of Pascal’s Wager that I can actually agree with:
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.” – Marcus Aurelius
The other problem I always see with Pascal’s Wager is the assumption that there is only one right choice for deity belief and you would be able to make that right choice when you follow Pascal’s Wager. I’d add to the line of “if there are gods, but unjust” and say that we’re all screwed anyway in that case and you couldn’t really hope to know how to do right for such gods.
December 6th, 2010 at 1:01 am
I would say that the problem is assuming that you can be good enough. I mean if the God is a just God then how could you be good enough to be accepted by them. What if that God had to make a way for you to be able to reach them? Because of our wickedness we need help? This is when knowing which God to believe in would be important. If you are just doing it on your own what kind of hope is that? I think that i would want to be more certain in what i’m living for because is for not living for something then what are you doing? I think there is a God but i think that there may only be one way not many. If that’s the case then this system presented is flawed. I’m a Christian and you can check out my God but i would look into this thing instead of just shotgunning it in the dark.