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Regarding your link: http://www.neopagan.net/AT_Laws.html http://www.neopagan.net/AT_Laws.html If magick were real, the person behind that MySpace-worthy webs

• kjkjadksj 1y ago
  Pascals wager suggest it is in your interest to believe in the supernatural
  • the_sleaze_ 1y ago
    Pascals wager involves God and the consequence of an eternity spent in either heaven or hell, not magick.
    • kjkjadksj 1y ago
      It can be applied to magic too. He used it for god but it is a logical framework.
    • krapp 1y ago
      Belief in god(s) is belief in magic(k) is belief in the supernatural. It's all the same set.
  • andsoitis 1y ago
    Pascal’s Wager assumes an afterlife isn’t it? There is only evidence that this is our only life; no reincarnation or some spiritual realm that persists our identity/ego/soul/consciousness/memory.
    • kjkjadksj 1y ago
      Pascal was describing belief in god but I was mainly getting at the logical framework. Absence of evidence is not evidence for absence.
      • andsoitis 1y ago
        > Absence of evidence is not evidence for absence. which do you believe is the right default position to have: a) nothing, unless something is proven, OR b) something, unless nothing is proven it seems to me that (a) is the more prudent stance and hence much more likely to be correct.
        • kjkjadksj 1y ago
          People believe life is out there in the universe based on no evidence and this is a commonly held stance.