21 April 2005
pascal's wager
have resigned myself to the current state of template ugliness. Perhaps undercurrent will send some help, as his blog always seems to look very pretty, grovel grovel. How can I get a picture in the title, for example? Is it even possible?
Anyway, it all began because I was trying to take up the suggest of a nice reader who recommended I replace the backwards-n with an aleph (more appropriately suggesting infinity). Obviously I couldn't just have done that, as that would have made sense and been quite pretty, and now you see the results of my misguided tinkering. Hopefully when I learn a bit more about what goes where in the template I can do such things....apologies to all non-interested-in-blog-details readers I may still have left....
So, Pascal's wager with the kids today: they perked up a little when I said it was a little game they could play - the stake: your life, your one life! Like a theological scratchcard for the terminally listless. So were they convinced that betting on God was worth the Sundays in church, the bended knees, the clean living in return for the (potential) promise of eternal bliss? Were they hell. 'But I like doing what I want', said one Billie Piper wannabe (the early one, not the Dr Who incarnation) from the back. 'Sure you do,' I replied. 'But what if your wager paid off?' 'But miss, I like all these earthly pleasures. Can I go to the loo?' and so on.....
