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Tuesday, November 20th, 2001
Pascal's Wager Revisited
Tuesday, November 20th, 2001 01:25 amWhen selecting a belief in the metaphysical, consult the following table.
| Beneficial in this life | Neutral in this life | Harmful in this life | |
|---|---|---|---|
| True belief | Great! | Good | So-so |
| False belief | Great! | So-so | Terrible |
The choice should be clear. Select a religion, spiritual practice, or other way of life that is fun, playful, fulfilling, pleasing, socially aware, healthy, beneficial, and cool all around. The worst thing that could happen is that you'll have lots of fun and do some good for the world.
If, on the other hand, you choose a way of life which is harmful, negative, sickening, painful, and restrictive, the best you come out with is pain, suffering, and fear in this life, and something better in the next. But you risk an existance which is terrible from end to end.
Military Intelligence
Tuesday, November 20th, 2001 02:38 pm(From the AP) --The bounty offered for Osama bin Laden and his top aides, plus additional reward money from the CIA, should encourage "a large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves, looking for the bad folks," Rumsfeld said Monday.
How dumb does Rumsfeld think Afghans are? "There's a terrorist network with lots of weapons and no qualms about killing people. Please go look for them because we're scared of our trained, armed military doing so."
(From the UPI) --The radio messages are beamed out over Commando Solo, a specially fitted C-130 aircraft that jams local radio and television broadcasts and substitutes its own instead. The plane carries four people and is flown by the Pennsylvania National Guard's 193rd Special Operations Wing.Yet again, they hate us for the freedoms we deny. If Chile were to jam all U.S. TV and radio broadcast with the message "We have a $25 million reward if you hand over Henry Kissinger," would anyone be sympathetic to their cause? Especially if it interrupted Survivor? Or maybe all the Afghans are listening to the airdropped radio that only receives U.S. military broadcasts. Roight.
How dumb does Rumsfeld think Afghans are? "There's a terrorist network with lots of weapons and no qualms about killing people. Please go look for them because we're scared of our trained, armed military doing so."
(From the UPI) --The radio messages are beamed out over Commando Solo, a specially fitted C-130 aircraft that jams local radio and television broadcasts and substitutes its own instead. The plane carries four people and is flown by the Pennsylvania National Guard's 193rd Special Operations Wing.Yet again, they hate us for the freedoms we deny. If Chile were to jam all U.S. TV and radio broadcast with the message "We have a $25 million reward if you hand over Henry Kissinger," would anyone be sympathetic to their cause? Especially if it interrupted Survivor? Or maybe all the Afghans are listening to the airdropped radio that only receives U.S. military broadcasts. Roight.
