Pascal's Wager Revised

Regardless of one's metaphysical believes, whether it be life eternal, reincarnation, or simply materialistic atheism, one should treat this life as though it is the only thing one has. Why? Because as far as you know, it is. Maybe there's an afterlife, maybe there isn't; but to forsake this life in hope of some reward in the next is not only a waste of time, it is entirely detrimental to yourself as well as all those around you.

Blaise Pascal put forth an argument in the seventeenth century, saying basically that belief in God and an afterlife is a kind of wager. Either you believe in God, or you don't. Either God exists, or he doesn't. If you believe in God and he doesn't exist, you've lost nothing; if on the other hand you don't believe in God and he does exist, you've lost everything. As for myself, I would put forth the exact opposite argument.

Either there is etenal life, or there isn't. If you put off this life, waiting for the next and it doesn't exist, you've lost the only thing you have. If, on the other hand, you get everything you can out of this life at the expense of the next, and there is an afterlife, then what exactly have you lost? Not a damned thing.


Quit waiting for God to save you, and save yourself.