2007-06-17 05:19:46 · 14 answers · asked by WWTSD? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pascal's Banana Wager:
If you decide to believe that the banana was created for humans due to its shape, and you are wrong, you can still enjoy the banana.
If you decide to believe that the banana was created for humans due to its shape, and you are right, you can still enjoy the banana and god will give you all the bananas you can eat for eternity.
If you decide to believe that the banana was not created for humans due to its shape, and you are right, you can still enjoy the banana.
If you decide to believe that the banana was not created for humans due to its shape, and you are wrong, you can still enjoy the banana, but not after you die.
Since we all like bananas, wouldn't it be safer to believe?
2007-06-17 05:29:25 · answer #1 · answered by seattlefan74 5 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Well Pascal’s Wager is in itself so patently absurd that it is unworthy of the great mind who authored it. In fact, I surmise that Pascal was a genuine skeptic, who, after his own analysis on the probability of God’s existence, offered this shabby argument in order to assuage overzealous religious clerics who would persecute him if he honestly expressed his opinion on the subject matter.
I am not sure what you are referring to when you mention the “banana thing”. All I can say is that Pascal’s Wager can be equally applied to anything, and be utilized to justify any absurd belief. Let’s use your banana to illustrate this.
We can neither prove nor disprove the existence of a floating invisible omnipotent and omniscient banana on the edge of our universe. However, it is a safe bet that it is more prudent to believe in this divine banana than disbelieve it. For if we die and disbelieve in the existence of this transcendental fruit, it could result in an eternity spent in perdition. However, if we believe in this holy banana, and it in fact does not exist, then we have not lost anything.
2007-06-17 17:55:38 · answer #2 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pascal's Banana? That just sounds unwholesome.
2007-06-17 12:34:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
what if God created the banana to fit perfectly into the hand of an ape
Heaven will be like 'Planet of the Apes'
2007-06-17 15:33:56 · answer #4 · answered by ! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a mental picture of a AFLAAC with the head of footprints in the sand eating a banana......
:D
2007-06-17 15:50:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a bannana fits so perfectly in your hand and is curved perfectly to be approached to the mouth (try not to think dirty here), then why take the chance of eating anything else?
2007-06-17 12:25:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Ok here's mine:
What if you're wrong? What if we came from monkeys who ate bananas because atheists are in R&S? now, THAT's a nightmare!
2007-06-17 12:25:11 · answer #7 · answered by Kallan 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Have another nut.
OK - If you just try to believe that a banana was made by God to fit perfectly in your hand, then ... oh, never mind, I just can't do it. See you in hell.
2007-06-17 12:22:29 · answer #8 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in the banana and there is no banana what do you lose?
2007-06-17 13:19:11 · answer #9 · answered by Mariah 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Further to mypublicident's answer: Would this explain why everybody is getting so FAT? -- it's because they've accepted Cavendish's Wager?
2007-06-17 12:32:55 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋