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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year ago

Pascal's Wager

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Pascal's Wager

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  • Boozilla
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    51•1 year ago

    Pastacal’s wager.

  • @[email protected]
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    5•1 year ago

    What if belief results in creation? Why would I want to believe in this Lovecraftian noodle-god, when the very act of belief might spawn this horror into our universe? Our only protection is disbelief.

  • @[email protected]
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    19•1 year ago

    R’amen.

  • @[email protected]
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    4•1 year ago

    What’s to gain?

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      1 year ago

      Being touched by his noodly appendage.

      • @[email protected]
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        10•1 year ago

        Ramen

        • @[email protected]
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          5•1 year ago

          And by the power of the sauce, the cheese, and the Holy meatballs.

          He who claims His finely powdered Romano cheese smells like feet, may he be stricken.

          He who splashes His the holiest of rosé sauce on a white tablecloth, may he be stricken.

          He who cuts His holy fettuccine instead of twirling them with a spoon, as the chosen have done, as their forefathers before them, may he be stricken.

          R’amen.

  • tubbadu
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    4•1 year ago

    The only FSM i know are Finite State Machines

  • The Assman
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    15•1 year ago

    PBUH (pasta be upon him)

  • @[email protected]
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    I prefffer to sacrifice a chicken to Cthulhu each dawn. Seems like the FSM will be far more tolerant if I get it wrong. By that logic, picking the Judeo-Christian god does kind of make sense.

    • MxM111
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      5•1 year ago

      That’s not enough though. You have to chose just right flavor of description of who exactly that god is, what exactly happen in the past, which religious text you have to follow and under which interpretation. Anything else, is blasphemy with the same punishment.

  • @[email protected]
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    1•1 year ago

    Thankfully my poor impulse control prevents me from living a fraudulent lifetime in exchange for some payoff.

  • @[email protected]
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    26•1 year ago

    Shit this applies to all of them, doesn’t it?

    • @[email protected]
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      8•1 year ago

      Yes. You would have to hedge your bets and believe in every possible god. I wonder however if you could apply customer service techniques to it. The god that complains the most gets the most belief

      • @[email protected]
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        5•1 year ago

        You’re not wrong lol, the logical extreme of Pascal’s wager leads you to worship the god who has the worst punishment for non-believers, so that you only end up with the second-worst punishment from some other god.

        • Marxism-Fennekinism
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          2•1 year ago

          So Christianity then?

          • @[email protected]
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            2•1 year ago

            Pretty much yes. Maybe that is why it is the historically most violent religion of humanity.

    • @[email protected]
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      14•1 year ago

      Which is whyPascal’ss wager is not that nstrong of a position.

  • @[email protected]
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    2•1 year ago

    Well, next time somebody invents a god, please make sure it’s somebody that will punish you if you believe in any god.

    • Marxism-Fennekinism
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      1•1 year ago

      The Church of the Socially Anxious God who Hates Attention

      • @[email protected]
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        Thinking about it again, such a church should have skepticism-affirming ceremonies where people repeat that there is no evidence for a god, and have a formal goal of “not appeasing the Socially Anxious God because it doesn’t exist”.

    • MxM111
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      7•1 year ago

      They are 99% there. It punishes for believing any god but one.

      • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️
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        1•1 year ago

        *worshipping, technically

        • MxM111
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          1•1 year ago

          Well, technically I should have said “monotheistic religions”.

  • MxM111
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    32•1 year ago

    Ramen!

    • @[email protected]
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      15•1 year ago

      By His noodly appendage.

  • SmokeyDope
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    1•1 year ago

    deleted by creator

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
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    15•1 year ago

    I don’t particrlarly care for spaghetti, so I’m in the Church of Bacon. The CoB not only recognizes FSM, but also his recognizes and respects his existence and his followers.

    Down with monotheism.

    • @[email protected]
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      3•1 year ago

      I feel like the Orthodox CFSM and COB members are just going to have a food fight now

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
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        3•1 year ago

        A delicious food fight.

    • @[email protected]
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      I love both, so I started the Church of Carbonara. Our church believes it was revealed by God that carbonara made with bacon is not an abomination.

    • @[email protected]
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      10•1 year ago

      That’s fine, because FSM doesn’t even require you to believe or follow their beliefs in order to associate with them.

  • Pharmacokinetics
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    10•1 year ago

    I have nothing to gain either.

    • @[email protected]
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      15•1 year ago

      But to be touched by his noodley appendage

      • @[email protected]
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        4•1 year ago

      • Pharmacokinetics
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        1•1 year ago

        To taste the archon sauce

  • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️
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    1•1 year ago

    I recently started believing in a man in the sky.

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