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Okay, maybe you got molested or something when you were young. What part of "wager" do you not understand? You are an angry person FT. Frankly it is a waste of time. Whatever happened to you in your youth, let it go and go out and enjoy the weather the next time it is good in your...

That is because, people confuse money and wealth. A lot of people with money are very impoverished. Money is often accumulated, which means it is not circulated. Money is meant to move. The niggardly individual is bound to be wrought with worries. People who are rude are also usually...

I have spent a life of service. When I go to bed, I feel good. When I wake up, I feel better, cause I get to go out and do it again.:)

Wow Prof, you have your own Sybil now!:D :D It is just sad that this guy was once a star:(

Foundation-about 15 books in all-Issac Asimov.

Axioms by definition cannot be falsified. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Perhaps YOU should brush up on YOUR logic:D

Pascal maintains that we are incapable of knowing whether God exists or not, yet we must “wager” one way or the other. Reason cannot settle which way we should incline, but a consideration of the relevant outcomes supposedly can. Here is the first key passage: “God is, or He is not.”...

In decisions under uncertainty, nothing more is given — in particular, the agent does not assign subjective probabilities to the states of the world. Still, sometimes rationality dictates a unique decision nonetheless. Consider, for example, a case that will be particularly relevant here...

It is important to contrast Pascal's argument with various putative ‘proofs’ of the existence of God that had come before it. Anselm's ontological argument, Aquinas' ‘five ways’, Descartes' ontological and cosmological arguments, and so on, purport to give a priori demonstrations that...

:D :D :D at Freethinker, but, here you go! Pascal's Wager” is the name given to an argument due to Blaise Pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. The name is somewhat misleading, for in a single paragraph of his Pensées, Pascal apparently presents at least...

Consider it an axiom.

Same thing here. Had to leave the EE building to take an elective. It was tough because everything was SO subjective. No data points, no falsification, nothing. The first time I found a hole in a professors theory and I wrote a paper on it. He gave me a D without telling me why. I went to the...

Surf, the trouble is that as a legend on this board you seemed to be above all criticism. Then suddenly you abandoned TA. Then you decided there is no such thing as a trend. The fundamental flaw in your logic is that you ignore sentiment. Sentiment is directional. Dbphoenix, Jack, Spyder and...

Stu, I, for one concede your point. However, I choose Pascal's Wager. I believe in a God because it is the logical thing to do. If there is no God, I lost nothing. If there is, I gained everything. So, I will do right by my fellow man, I will claim Jesus( or whatever his hebrew name...

BTW, I am African-American( for lack of a better description), and I see this in our communities. Educational relativism. Not too long ago, a teacher would ask a student a question. If they knew the answer, on to the next level. If they did not know the answer, to the back of the line. When they...

Not the marketing peil. Its the math. We direct out students to the "ologies" In the ologies one can write papers that comply with the profs worldview and walk away with a degree. However, in the hard sciences, where 2+2=4, no matter who is on the podium, it gets more difficult. We...

Maybe, just maybe, managing OPM can be a bit stressful. They made their money and got out? Trends exist, there is no question. They exist fractally as well. Use a tool to define your trend on your chart, and then acquire the underlying trend of that trend, and you have the start of a system...

Don't know if this has been mentioned in your thread, but trading is not about price movement as much as it is about market sentiment. When you look a price you are looking at an end effect. Consider study in corollaries to price. The coin in the real market is not evenly weighted

The next republican president will also be from Illinois. His name is Aaron Schock. Few outside of Illinois have heard of him yet, I don't think, but he is a pub with classical liberal/libertarian leanings. If we can get someone in there with a true libertarian spirit, everything else will take...

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