The Bet
Can you choose to believe something because the odds are good?
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The Bet
Someone tells you: live as if God is real. If you're right, you gain everything forever. If you're wrong, you lost some Sunday mornings and a few pleasures. Live as if there's nothing, and the upside is small, the downside is infinite. The maths says believe.
Can you choose to believe something because the odds are good?
Then ask
- Would a God worth having be fooled by a bet?
- Have you ever made yourself believe something because life was easier that way?
- What would you give up now for a payoff you'll never see evidence of?
The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.