Alphus and Omegus wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 9:28 am
It seems that in addition to his apparent ignorance of secular ancient thought, Peterson never realized that
Pascal's wager isn't a particularly good argument. Almost everything he posts of this nature seems to be yet another formulation of an argument that was debunked hundreds of years ago.
Speaking of which, the latest comment from a commenter:
Kenneth Gourdin
As I said once in another forum and have repeated often (both here and elsewhere) [paraphrasing], If you do not believe in deity or are unsure if one exists but are an honest, caring, decent, upright, moral individual who believes in loving others, in doing unto others as you would have then do unto you, and in making life as good as you can make it for your loved ones and for those around you before (from your perspective) "succumbing to the void," more power to you.
Furthermore, If I find out, when I die, that I was just a sucker, that all of the home teaching, ministering, helping, and service I attempted to do, all of my efforts to love my neighbor and my fellow men and women (who I thought were my brothers and sisters), all of my efforts to make their lives better, all were for naught, I would be completely okay with that. Even if all of the aforementioned efforts were to turn out to be futile, it would be better than if I had lied, cheated, taken advantage of others, and so on, ad infinitum and ad nauseam.
Why do they always default to that?
That’s what’s in their heads and hearts?
That’s what they think of non-cultists?
That’s what they’d
do if they weren’t a cultist? Seriously, what a weird argument:
“I’d be a total piece of crap if I didn’t submit myself to this cult, and if I wasted my life in this cult doing cult things and find out it was all a waste of time, oh well!”
Bro. There are so many more genuine ways you can be a good person doing good things without attending soul crushing faux business meetings, wasting people’s time sharing doctrinal pablum, playing make believe healing games, and forking over 10% to a hundreds of billions dollars corporation masquerading as a church. Trust me, Pascal’s Wager is NOT your friend under this scenario.
- Doc
Hugh Nibley claimed he bumped into Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Gertrude Stein, and the Grand Duke Vladimir Romanoff. Dishonesty is baked into Mormonism.