Pragmatic Faith That Few Care About
April 19, 2026 Reading time: 8 minutes
Script to the video: Pragmatic Belief in God That Few Care About.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), one of the most influential thinkers in the development of modern mathematics, proposed a pragmatic, almost mathematical argument in favor of belief in God. He reasoned that since human intellect cannot conclusively prove or disprove God’s existence, the most rational course is to “wager” on God. If God exists, the gain is infinite — that is eternal life; if not, the loss does not exist.
This was not intended as a scientific proof. Pascal’s argument was not aimed at convincing hardened skeptics, but at guiding those who remain undecided. For him, belief was not merely an abstract idea about the existence of the divine — it was a necessary, unavoidable choice that every logically-thinking person must make over the course of their life.
Ego, God and the Habit of Thought
March 26, 2026 Reading time: 8 minutes
We like to believe that we understand this world, this life — yet how much do we truly know? From birth to death, we fill the time with worries, intentions and with hopes to uncover the path that was meant for us. When you were young, you were told to build a career, to climb the ladder. The focus was always on reaching higher, never on questioning whether the summit was even worth reaching. Decades slip by, work piles up, a pension awaits—yet all that remains is the quiet contemplation of a wall, and the unsettling question: What, in the end, has it all meant?
But what if the greatest quest is not the search for success, but the search for meaning? What is this life really about?