| Episode 29: The Wager |
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| Written by Juniper |
| Friday, 18 March 2011 06:23 |
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This episode is rated PG-13 for some sexual content and swearing
Opening and Rants, Raves & Reviews This segment we are joined by Lis of Tigerlily Cottage. We kick things off with a beer sampling, including local beers and ancient style Scottish beers, and then discuss the magickal correspondences of beer. The incense is Dragon’s Blood. Then we dive into a discussion on some films and TV show we have been watching. We talk briefly about which books we are reading. To wrap up Lis pulls a couple cards for us. http://www.mcauslan.com/en/ourbeers/sta_stout.htm
http://www.williamsbrosbrew.com/historicales.php
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1442449/
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=intogreatsilence
http://www.garbagewarrior.com/
Bardic We listen to “However it Rolls” by ClassiCaL featuring Skylar. http://www.reverbnation.com/sadguru#!/bininin
Standing Stone Bren discusses Pascal’s Wager; this is one of the texts that Bren teaches in his classes. It is used or referenced a lot in philosophical and theological discourse, so it’s a good one to know. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
Bardic We hear from Ottawa band Sad Guru; we chose the song “Wake Up” http://www.reverbnation.com/sadguru
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sad-Guru/171647076217004
Garden Gate Juniper talks about one of her favourite topics, Hedgerows and Hedgewitchery!
The background music is “Spring” by Lena Selyanina http://soundcloud.com/lena-selyanina
Closing A few final words from Brendan Check out a new podcast: Pagan Pathfinders: http://paganpathfinders.webs.com/
Bren’s big book contest; win $100 towards the event of your choice! Details here: http://www.brendanmyers.net/blog/2011/01/new-contest-for-loneliness-and-revelation/
Also Bren has offered to donate half his book royalties to Pagan Community building projects. Details here: http://wildhunt.org/blog/2011/03/guest-post-fundraising-and-building-community.html
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Comments
I enjoyed your podcast piece on Pascal’s Wager. I hear it frequently from conservative Christians and it annoys me to no end – it is intellectually dishonest and spiritually offensive.
It is intellectually dishonest because it assumes there are two and only two possibilities – the Christian afterlife or nothingness. In fact there are many possibilities for what comes after death. Or as I occasionally remind an evangelical friend, “if the Muslims are right we’re both going to hell.”
And it is spiritually offensive because it assumes that what God, the Infinite, the All, wants is our blind and insincere obedience. If “God” exists as a distinct being (something I think is unlikely) I cannot imagine she is that petty.
Pascal’s Wager was best answered 900 years before his birth by the Sufi mystic Rabi’a al-Adawiya, who said “I want to pour water into hell and set fire to paradise so that these two veils disappear and no one worships God out of fear of hell or in hope of paradise but just for the sake of his own eternal beauty.”
Thanks for the podcast. You and Juniper do an awesome job with them!
John Beckett
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