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Revisting Pascal’s wager

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

"If the dead rise not, the apparent meaninglessness of material existence is authentic and incorrigible, and our ignorance about the proper shaping of our ends is, not temporary and contingent, but final and necessary."

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