Point of No Return
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
ok i know my blog has lotsa glitches and misalignments and stuffs, but i'm just plain lazy to amend them. woohoo typical singaporean here; ask the government help me fix. ok i'm not that type.
talking about singaporeans, i hate those stupid ah mas that take trains. rush rush rush for seats. c'mon, we pay the damn fare too. don't give excuses like i pay money to take train so i must sit. its really lame. and don't bug for seats. you don't deserve them if you behave in these manners. i think i'd only give my seat up to an old woman if she didn't show any sign of wanting to take my seat. they can just wait patiently, someone will get u real soon and offer their seat to them. waiting 5 secs won't kill you or make you older than you already are.
oh yes, Broader Perspective rocks. its reasoning is just superb, astounding. here's an article i think everyone should read.
PASCAL'S WAGER
In the 2007 TIME magazine debate about Science vs. Religion between Dr Francis Collins and Richard Dawkins, Collins concluded his arguments with Pascal's Wager. French philosopher and mathematician Blaise's ruminations on certainty led him to conclude that reason was untrustworthy and God was infinitely incomprehensible. Hence, faith in God came down essentially to a gamble for we were equally uncertain about whether God existed or did not exist. Based on his pioneering work on probability theory and the concept of infinity, Pascal's conclusion was that this was a gamble everybody was forced to take by default and since the potential gain was infinite life, it would be unwise according to probability theory to bet against the existence of God and potentially lose everything.
- Broader Perspective, Famous Illustrations in Science by Nadja Mah
this is what i think everyone should read. believe in God, guys. you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.