BLAISE PASCAL
“I feel it possible I
might never have existed”
-Blaise Pascal
This merely means that there is basically a one in a million chance that someone is chosen to exist on this Earth. Something that I can relate this to is performing. They pick one person in the entire world to play a certain role in a movie or play. The odds are the same with us existing.
Blaise Pascal was a child prodigy. He wrote his first book, Essai pour les coniques,
when he was 16 and published it in 1640, a year
later. Six years later, when his father was in intensive care after a serious
accident with a religious group called the Jansenists,
who were a group of fidiestic skeptics, meaning they believed
that reason only came from first principles, which came from natural feelings. Pascal
felt that we cannot use reason to decide whether or not God is true, either he
does or he doesn’t. He ultimately felt that, since believing in God leads to a
potential unending life in heaven, then there was no
harm in believing in God.
I definitely agree with him. We all have our doubts about God, but we can never know for sure. I like how he stated that there was no harm in believing in God because it cant lead to eternal happiness. This is similar to how I feel. I feel like I can never know for sure whether or not God exists, but I cannot get through a day without believing in him and I feel that I know he does exist, but maybe not in the way that everyone thinks he does. He is not a physical being, he is a spiritual one, which is something that you or I can never fully understand. I always feel like there is something good around me helping me through everything, and without my belief in God I truly believe that I would have nothing.