REL 2001 Lecture : William James Notes
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If you choose to believe in god you have to live it out and have a willingness and this makes it a live choice. The muslims believe in the modi, and this is not something that people care about. Can"t just believe for the sake of reward is like loving a women for her money. And the other option is dead because it doesn"t exist and it is something that comes to the end of the world. Says that pascal didn"t do this do develop his own faith, and the different trust in the. What has been proven to be true isn"t believed or agreed upon. We must know the truth and we want to avoid error different rituals. We want to know for sure what is true and not. He looks at himself as a complete empiricist (open to what is going to happen next)
