Pascal’s Ruin

[ via Rebecca Blood ] I recommend this brilliant, LOL satire of Pascal’s famous wager:

But as large as his bankroll grew, it only took three weeks to throw it all away. Looking for bigger scores, he started playing a modified Martingale in combination with the Argument From Design. In one terrible streak, Blaise lost everything: His money, his home, his family’s secret recipe for pomme frites. It was a teleological disaster.

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