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Comment author: wedrifid 22 March 2012 04:12:20PM 6 points [-]

Pretty much every religion promises something after this life. Of course, these religions are probably false, but how probably? I think there must be at least a 2% chance that one of the religions is true.

If you actually believe then it would seem that the smart choice would be to dedicate all your attention to determining which religion has the greatest chance of being true (modified by how much you weight the consequences each religion provides.)

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Comment author: wedrifid 22 March 2012 06:46:37PM * 6 points [-]

Trying to think about how a religion could be "true" is hurting my brain.

Well, if some chick actually got knocked up without getting laid and her kid raised some folks from the dead, transmogrified booze at parties then resurrected himself from death after getting executed then it'd start looking like one religion might be true.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 22 March 2012 10:02:20PM 1 point [-]

You know, I always wondered about the semantics of "virgin Mary". 'Cuz according to Jews rape doesn't count, right? And a bunch of Roman soldiers were there around that time. And metaphysically speaking there's nothing stopping the "Holy Spirit" taking the form of a Roman soldier...

Water into wine isn't hard if you have a potent cannabis tincture. The resurrection, though... that seems hard to do without real magick.

Comment author: gwern 23 March 2012 01:20:09AM 0 points [-]

Are you thinking of the old Jewish slander about a centurion knocking up Mary?

Comment author: TimS 22 March 2012 05:10:48PM 0 points [-]

Not my downvote, but did you mean to assert geocentrism (sun round earth) rather than heliocentrism (earth round sun)?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 23 March 2012 02:57:32AM 1 point [-]

Next thing you're going to claim that centrifugal force and the Coriolis effect don't exist.

Comment author: TimS 23 March 2012 01:16:13PM * 0 points [-]

No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 22 March 2012 05:11:21PM 0 points [-]

Yes.

Comment author: pedanterrific 22 March 2012 05:44:23PM 7 points [-]

I suspect you would get a lot fewer downvotes if the options were [thumbs up], [thumbs down], and [???].

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