Blaise Pascal, perhaps most renowned for a mathematical concept called Pascal’s Triangle, also wrote a short essay on a very serious topic: does God exist? In order to solve this eternal question, he devised an intellectual formula--a schema--to find an answer to this large question. This schema is an intellectual outline to consider the possible answers to that question and … [Read more...] about The Wager: Revisited
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This started as a piece about student loans, aged as an art-history expose, and ends, predictably, with supplication. I am currently 75,000 dollars deep in a hole called student loans. A bit like Hades, with compounding interest playing the role of Sisyphus, full of defeat. Where to go? Is there an escape? That $75,000 hole was offered to me as an 18 year-old. Stupid and … [Read more...] about Lifeworld