Comments on: The light against reason http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:09:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Danny the Admin http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm/comment-page-1#comment-112332 Danny the Admin Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:23:52 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm#comment-112332 No, just a Jewish isolationist No, just a Jewish isolationist

]]> By: J. E. Mitzvah http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm/comment-page-1#comment-112324 J. E. Mitzvah Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:02:18 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm#comment-112324 Danny the Admin is ANTI GENTILE!!! Danny the Admin is ANTI GENTILE!!!

]]> By: Danny the Admin http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm/comment-page-1#comment-98816 Danny the Admin Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:02:10 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm#comment-98816 The Pasquale's wager is not a replacement for faith but a good reason to embrace faith. Sure, you have to choose the most plausible religion of all. When you stand a good chance to be punished for disbelief, you better be careful about your beliefs. Taking the wager presupposes a degree of belief. A hardcore atheist won't take the wager. The Pasquale’s wager is not a replacement for faith but a good reason to embrace faith. Sure, you have to choose the most plausible religion of all. When you stand a good chance to be punished for disbelief, you better be careful about your beliefs.
Taking the wager presupposes a degree of belief. A hardcore atheist won’t take the wager.

]]> By: Ray Bright http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm/comment-page-1#comment-98804 Ray Bright Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:14:59 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm#comment-98804 What a bunch of horse crap, that Pasquale’s wager.! If you only "believe" in "God" because of such selfish calculations, that means that you don't believe at all and only pretend. Do you think you can fool God??? Additionally the same "logic" could be used for believing in any other Mr. God. As they all promise to punish you for not believing in them: you should believe in as many god's as possible. At the same time, some of them will additionally punish you for believing in othre gods besids them. So perhaps you could fool your God, and pretend that you don't believe in others. This should be possible, since you already fooled him once pretending to believe while in fact you were only doing the Pasquale’s wager. WAKE UP! This is all nonsense unworthy of an intelligent man! If you believe so be it, I am prepared to accetp you with your beliefs and support your right to believe in any Mr. God you like. Just please spare me from your "proofs" and "good reasons"... What a bunch of horse crap, that Pasquale’s wager.!

If you only “believe” in “God” because of such selfish calculations, that means that you don’t believe at all and only pretend. Do you think you can fool God???
Additionally the same “logic” could be used for believing in any other Mr. God. As they all promise to punish you for not believing in them: you should believe in as many god’s as possible. At the same time, some of them will additionally punish you for believing in othre gods besids them. So perhaps you could fool your God, and pretend that you don’t believe in others. This should be possible, since you already fooled him once pretending to believe while in fact you were only doing the Pasquale’s wager.
WAKE UP! This is all nonsense unworthy of an intelligent man!
If you believe so be it, I am prepared to accetp you with your beliefs and support your right to believe in any Mr. God you like. Just please spare me from your “proofs” and “good reasons”…

]]> By: Danny the Admin http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm/comment-page-1#comment-98366 Danny the Admin Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:09:10 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm#comment-98366 Pasquale's wager. Political expediency: it's much easier to say that the land is ours and the Arabs must be out because God has told us so. Realization that all non-religious definitions of Jewishness are flawed, and all non-religious definitions of chosen-ness are disgustingly racist. Then I've studied the Torah and found it very believable. I studied the Talmud and found it for the most part very reasonable. So here I'm, with moderate beard and in kipa. Pasquale’s wager.
Political expediency: it’s much easier to say that the land is ours and the Arabs must be out because God has told us so.
Realization that all non-religious definitions of Jewishness are flawed, and all non-religious definitions of chosen-ness are disgustingly racist.
Then I’ve studied the Torah and found it very believable. I studied the Talmud and found it for the most part very reasonable.
So here I’m, with moderate beard and in kipa.

]]> By: Analytics http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm/comment-page-1#comment-98294 Analytics Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:00:26 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm#comment-98294 YOU??? YOU was atheist. What a surprise. And you surely know not only Kant but also Hegel ( who is pro-theistic ) and the others. What make a man like you to believer? YOU??? YOU was atheist. What a surprise. And you surely know not only Kant but also Hegel ( who is pro-theistic ) and the others.
What make a man like you to believer?

]]> By: Danny the Admin http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm/comment-page-1#comment-98291 Danny the Admin Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:41:00 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm#comment-98291 Sure, don't accept a rabbi to tell you that. Good Jews accept not rabbis, but the Yoke of Heaven. Buy the first volume of Rabbi Kahane's The Jewish Idea, it's available on Amazon. The second volume is not available: if you like the first, drop me a note, I will have it zeroxed for you. Whom to love, whom to hate, whom to marry - it's not up to rabbis, it's in the Torah. But no problem, really. I, too, was an atheist, as many of my friends who are now religious. I would love to talk to you in five or ten years. Sure, don’t accept a rabbi to tell you that. Good Jews accept not rabbis, but the Yoke of Heaven. Buy the first volume of Rabbi Kahane’s The Jewish Idea, it’s available on Amazon. The second volume is not available: if you like the first, drop me a note, I will have it zeroxed for you.
Whom to love, whom to hate, whom to marry – it’s not up to rabbis, it’s in the Torah. But no problem, really. I, too, was an atheist, as many of my friends who are now religious. I would love to talk to you in five or ten years.

]]> By: Analytics http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm/comment-page-1#comment-98289 Analytics Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:27:50 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm#comment-98289 But I don´t want that some rabbi dictates me whom I should hate and whom love. I think with my own head, and I think that: 1. I am not in the position to end a 3000 year old tradition, just because I am attracted by some german girls, 2. That SOME religion make sense. But 3. When I look at the Bible, I see a poetic, beautiful book but, sorry, full of contradiction and ( God may forgive me if I am wrong ) naive stories. The character of god is that of a typical mid-east despot. Neurotical, Narcistic, Cruell ( brutal to the extent ), despotic. I don´t want to believe in this kind of god. I can´t. I realy can´t. Why should God kill a Baby for the father sins. Why should God punish Mirijam but spare Aaron. But I don´t want that some rabbi dictates me whom I should hate and whom love. I think with my own head, and I think that: 1. I am not in the position to end a 3000 year old tradition, just because I am attracted by some german girls, 2. That SOME religion make sense. But 3. When I look at the Bible, I see a poetic, beautiful book but, sorry, full of contradiction and ( God may forgive me if I am wrong ) naive stories. The character of god is that of a typical mid-east despot. Neurotical, Narcistic, Cruell ( brutal to the extent ), despotic. I don´t want to believe in this kind of god. I can´t. I realy can´t. Why should God kill a Baby for the father sins. Why should God punish Mirijam but spare Aaron.

]]> By: Danny the Admin http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm/comment-page-1#comment-98286 Danny the Admin Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:55:00 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm#comment-98286 A logical agnostic should be deeply religious. If you don't know whether God exists, and know that you cannot prove either way - and you know that the potential punishment is huge - then you slide into the Pasquale's wager. A logical agnostic should be deeply religious. If you don’t know whether God exists, and know that you cannot prove either way – and you know that the potential punishment is huge – then you slide into the Pasquale’s wager.

]]> By: Analytics http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm/comment-page-1#comment-98270 Analytics Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:44:39 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/the-light-against-reason.htm#comment-98270 And Danny, BTW, I am an agnostic NOT an atheist. Atheism is baseless, read Kant ( which you already done ). And Danny, BTW, I am an agnostic NOT an atheist. Atheism is baseless, read Kant ( which you already done ).

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