[ExI] Dr Mardy quote of the week: his own
Anton Sherwood
bronto at pobox.com
Mon Jan 18 20:42:54 UTC 2021
On 2021-1-18 09:43, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat wrote:
> A god who punishes those who believe in said god?
> Pascal's Wager's consequences in action.
I am reminded somehow of a story, likely one of Larry Niven's "Draco
Tavern" stories. A human asks a member of an Elder Race what they
believe about the afterlife, and the alien says that once there was a
race that did deep study of the subject and then committed mass suicide;
because of that, "we discourage research into that field."
One human says, "That must mean there is a heaven and it's easy to get
into." Another replies, "Or there's a hell and it's worse the longer
you wait."
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