Yeah, Pascal's Wager has always bugged me. Part of it was it's an argument to adopt a belief system based on a reward you're gonna get and/or a punishment you'll avoid.
But there's a big logical flaw in it. It assumes that there are only two possibilities: 'There is no God', or 'There is the Christian God.' Pascal's Wager should be adopted to include all religions. In that case, you'd believe the religion with the best heaven and worst hell.
But then the religion with the best heaven might not be the one with the worst hell, so if you want to invest your soul conservatively you should believe the religion with the worst hell, so if you're wrong you won't go to the worst hell, just some other hell.
But if you want to invest your soul aggressively you should believe in the religion with the best heaven, even though if you believe wrongly you could end up in the worst hell.
Which religion has the best heaven? My beliefs don't really include one. I could upgrade.
Laura, I'm sorry about the doctor. It's just a bit more cruel that he was so close to retirement.
I hope you're able to take some time for yourself soon.
As an exempt employee, I get no OT, no matter how many hours or days I work. At the same time, I have no $$ deducted for long lunches or doctor's appointments, etc. The glorious life of a salaried employee.
Many companies give OT to non-exempt employees only for hours WORKED. It's to keep people from taking a sick day and then working a different day in order to get the time and a half. This also includes holidays.
Which religion has the best heaven?
Now I want to do some analysis with spreadsheets and come up with a Power Point presentation I can take to various religious thinkers.
"As you can see on this slide, religion X has some great heavenly benefits. See this bullet-pointed list? Can your religion offer anything to beat this?"
There are always assholes in every group. All you can hope is that there are enough non-assholes who are loud enough that people not in your group don't identify the whole group with the assholes. You know?
Problem is that the assholes are so damn loud.
Timelies all!
Some serious thunderstorms here.aa(that was courtesy of Mr. Grabby Hands)
I like Pascal's Triangle a lot more than his Wager, personally.
About to climb outside my comfort zone and go to an inaugural neighborhood wine gathering organized on nextdoor. I don't know these people! I don't think- I'm pretty sure some I may know on sight.
It's going to be monthly, different people hosting, byob, the whole concept to meet neighbors you might otherwise not. Gonna drive even though still in the hood, just because it is possibly the furthest reach from here in the hood and it will be dark and possibly stormy when it ends.
