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>causes a massive scandal among all for dying gracefully as an atheist

>>25351934
Epicurus believed in gods and that they were physical

>>25351948
nah it was a joke. he was basically memeing

>>25351952
No. It was actually very important to his ethical ideal that humans could become godlike.

Dying as an atheist is one of the most irrational things I can think of. You have one last chance to make up with existence and hope your entire banal life will be forgiven, faced with the ridiculous fact that your life was wasted (no matter what projects you undertake), and then, you deny the only chance you have at redemption. Pure mental illness.

>>25352079
The Wager doesn't work.

why the fuck is he wearing a shower cap? does he have a perm of something?

>>25351925
>one of the most religious extreme countries in the Anglosphere created
>British atheist dies a month later
Whose writing this shit

>>25351925
>Is denouced as a bad guy for saying not-nice things about nons centuries later
Nothing personal, kiddo

>>25351925
And for being a racist slaver

>>25351925
>Despite having noble ancestry, Hume had no source of income and no learned profession by age 25. As was common at his time, he became a merchant's assistant,
Life was so easy back then

>>25352085
It works if you're sincere which is why priests ask for repentance on deathbed.

>>25352085
Reminds me of the story about Voltaire.

When he was dying a priest came along and did the usual stuff.

Priest: "Do you renounce Satan?"
V.: "This is no time to be making new enemies."

Something like that anyway.

>>25352079
>the most rational thing to do with your life is worship a magic kike

>>25352105
It doesn't work because choosing Christianity isn't the only option with an infinite positive utility, and there are scenarios where Christianity has an infinite negative utility.

>>25352148
Well done jidf.

>>25351948
How does that work, exactly? Being bound to natural forces while holding total dominance over them at the same exact time? How can Zeus be the prime mover if he's bound to time?

All this proves is that Epicurean metaphysics were way behind Plato and Aristotle's.

>>25351925
not only did this egg head wear a stupid hat, he saw fit to be painted in said stupid hat.

>>25352087
>>25352193
It was actually cutting edge fashion at the time

>>25352079
unironically this, humean Impressions are literally just like some christian shit, you aren't above metaphysics bro, say the fucking prayer

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>True to form, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell concurred with these judgments [of Adam Smith's Letter to Strahan]. Johnson simply refused to believe that Hume died as Smith and Boswell claimed he did. When Boswell remarked that “the thought of annihilation gave Hume no pain,” Johnson retorted: “It was not so, Sir. He had a vanity in being thought easy.” Turning Hume’s own argument regarding miracles against him, Johnson continued: “It is more probable that he should assume an appearance of ease, than that so very improbable a thing should be, as a man not afraid of going … into an unknown state, and not being uneasy at leaving all he knew. And you are to consider, that upon his own principle of annihilation he had no motive to speak the truth.”
>Boswell, we have seen, did believe that
Hume remained a skeptic even in the face of death, and this disturbed him to no end. Accordingly, he considered the Letter to Strahan a piece of “daring effrontery” and an example of the “poisonous productions with which this age is infested,” and he beseeched Johnson to “step forth” and “knock Hume’s and Smith’s heads together, and make vain and ostentatious infidelity exceedingly ridiculous. Would it not,” he pleaded, “be worth your while to crush such noxious weeds in the moral garden?”
>Boswell remarks elsewhere that when he read the Letter’s concluding sentence, “delivered by my old Professor of Moral Philosophy, I could not help exclaiming with the Psalmist, ‘Surely I have now more understanding than my teachers!’”

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>>25351925
>"There is no religion in England. If anyone mentions religion, people begin to laugh" - Montesquieu 1731

No he didn't

>>25352386
Well if a frog said it

>>25352386
Did these guys only hang out with their Enlightenment buddies in salons? Like I get that irreligion was finally becoming a thing in Europe, but the vast majority of 18th century Europeans would have been some kind of Christian.

>>25352518
Religion is not the same as faith in God. I assume Montesquieu uses the term to refer to the organized social body as having weight in society more than the personal beliefs of each person, the personal faith that Protestants like so much.

>>25351925
Not sure that the case

>>25352079
Not everyone choices his believe by arbitrary force,
>>25352103
He has studied at a university and was considered a well-educated man. For man in this graceful situation, it has been common.
If you would have a degree from the MIT, some doors would open for you, too.
>>25352285
Johnson's argument is good. Indeed, it seems unlikely that someone doesn't face fear death, since it is a natural impulse, perfectly explainable by natural selection.
Perhaps, he was in such agony and pain...

>>25352830
>Smith later claimed that “a single, and as, I thought a very harmless Sheet of paper, which I happened to Write concerning the death of our late friend Mr Hume, brought upon me ten times more abuse than the very violent attack I had made upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain.”

>>25351925
>died of chronic diarrhea
>died gracefully
He also had chronic diarrhea of the pen. His ideas on causality and habit is nonsense.

>>25352518
>Did these guys only hang out with their Enlightenment buddies in salons?
Somewhat yes. They also (as all people do) had a vested and unconscious interest in bending their memory towards the world they wished to bring into existence.

>>25352085
worked for von neumann because he was actually smart

>>25352079
why can't christians understand that there are some people who really actually don't believe in God

>>25352518
Elites have always been completely out of fucking touch with the country

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>>25352105
Which priest, anon?

>>25354159
This autistic chart is a mess and doesn't reflect Pascal's thinking in the slightest. "Pascal Wagerism" is not a belief, not a proof, and not an argument, it's just an intuition which propels one into searching religious illumination. Pascal would have never claimed his philosohy was original and not already implicit in Catholicism. Mounier once wrote that, the two inventors of existentialism, Pascal and Kierkegaard, would have denied their thinking was any more original than just Christianity pushed to its finals conclusions.

>>25354381
This autistic rant is a mess and does not relfect upon that there a minimal chance that any creed you dedicate yourself to will save your afterlife.

>>25354381
All you need to consider is "Maybe God rewards people for being honest, so if a person disbelieves in him, but is honest in his disbelief, he is rewarded by God anyway. And if this is the case, then dishonestly proclaiming belief on the wager would actually disqualify the person from being rewarded".

>>25352079
I always liked Voltaire's response when he was on his deathbed and was urged to renounce Satan: "Now is not the time to be making enemies"

>>25354159
you just know that chart was made by a filthy atheist because it tried to say an atheist isn't definitely burning in Hell according to catholic belief

>>25352193
>Hume was the first atheist fedorafag
...& he was a fat gamer too...
lmao

>>25355453
>i don't wanna make enemies rn
>better make an enemy of God though lol

i wonder if that saying of his was truly said by him considering he was in a deep opium delirium on his deathbed

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>>25351925
>utterly humiliates hume and "natural religion", dies, then visits his beloved wife from beyond the grave
Has there ever been a more brvtal literary mogging?

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>>25352079

It's structured how it is to make you think in that exact way.

>>25352079
It's not mental illness, if you don't believe and you just try to convince yourself you believe as part of a potential experiment then you're still not a REAL BELIEVER

Christians know atheism is correct, that's why pascal's wager implicitly privileges it by positioning it as one of the only two possibilities it considers.

>>25351925
>gracefully
His last words were
>Oh no... something is wrong. Something is very wrong. I am burning. I am burning!

>>25355630
>unfalsifiable

prove/disprove presupposes the invariance and intelligibility of reality...and the reliability of your reasoning faculty to apprehend it.
even claiming it's "impossible" to investigate relies upon an evaluation of metareasoning.
you can't escape metaphysics.
once you accept this, you can't escape theology

>>25355645
christians consistently make up these kinds of last words for so many atheists that die, its somewhat psychotic