Do you necessarily have to believe something? Is there something wrong with just being honest with yourself and with others about what you actually know about the world? or the presence of an after world?
The ground. I'm trying to make arrangements so that my corpse is buried directly in the ground (no coffin). Die a part of the earth, and hey, wouldn't it be nice to somehow get fossilized. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
Fvk ya!
I don't believe God intervenes, which makes things like prayer and other symbolic guestures useless. The more I learn, the more my views tend to look like Deists...but I don't know where to go to get accurate research on where that really is.
General belief in the existence. I wouldn't know where to begin to base an argument for speculation in a particular religion.
This....regardless of my religious affiliation. Burial in a cement box interrupts the circle of life....haven't these people ever seen the Lion King?
My point was essentially that only in dogmatic religion has it been identified that god requires belief; I think to say that there is a potential for a "pay-out" by being religious is a bad assumption, just as bad as assuming that a god who exists (a la the Deist view) will punish non-believers rather than reward inquisitive thought.
I think you are over-simplifying the case for the hedger. The hedger is using the Christian premise that belief is key to the payoff. I could very well be wrong in my underlying assumption in that God is apathetic to why someone believes, just that he does. There are logical steps to the bet hedger based on that premise. While it is not scientific inquiry, there is reasoning behind the belief. With that said, I readily admit the first step to belief requires some irrationality.
Sig worthy for sure
