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pascal does not claim to know anything about the afterlife as such---because human beings cant know anything at all about an infinite god, the probabilities are worked out at the level of premises--if there is a god, and if it follows that there is an afterlife, etc., then..... ths idea is that faith is a leap into the unknown. the problem for pascal in trying to parse it along probablility lines comes in the part right after the wager is outlined (same pensee)---that the wager says nothing about faith--that's why you have to act like you believe and eventually acting like you believe will make you stupid, like an animal (his terms--look it up), so you will forget that you didnt believe.
pascal is fairly ruthless logically. no mistakes that i have found. its why i like him.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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