{"id":178587,"date":"2025-01-31T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178587"},"modified":"2025-01-31T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:24:12","slug":"january-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/01\/31\/january-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"January  Addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>But wait there&#8217;s more.  Almost the end of January now and the days are getting a little longer too. Thats nice. Its light till nearly 6 and today was a sunny day. I am fighting the winter malaise a little bit though.  <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just Do As I Say, Not What I Do<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2021975609&#038;color=%238c8cc8&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/just-do-as-i-say-not-what-i-do\" title=\"Just Do as I Say Not What I Do\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Just Do as I Say Not What I Do<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>13.7 billion years is the most recent calculated age of the universe but the carbon atoms in our bodies are mere youngsters at 6-7 billion years old. I feel like one of those robots in a 1950s sci-fi film muttering does not compute as sparks flew and my circuits burned out when I read that.<br>But there are many people that don&#8217;t believe it and today dear reader I found out I knew one of them. Somebody with a college education. I can&#8217;t really get my head around that. <br>6000 year old earth. Nope I don&#8217;t think so.<br><br><strong>Pascal&#8217;s wager<\/strong>\u00a0is a philosophical argument advanced by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blaise_Pascal\">Blaise Pascal<\/a>\u00a0(1623\u20131662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pascal%27s_wager#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0This argument posits that individuals essentially engage in a life-defining\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gamble\">gamble<\/a>\u00a0regarding the belief in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Existence_of_God\">existence of God<\/a>. Pascal contends that a rational person should adopt a lifestyle consistent with the existence of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/God\">God<\/a>\u00a0and actively strive to believe in God. The reasoning behind this stance lies in the potential outcomes: if God does not exist, the individual incurs only finite losses, potentially sacrificing certain pleasures and luxuries. However, if God does indeed exist, they stand to gain immeasurably, as represented for example by an eternity in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heaven\">Heaven<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abrahamic_religion\">Abrahamic tradition<\/a>, while simultaneously avoiding boundless losses associated with an eternity in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hell\">Hell<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mind how you go \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" data-attachment-id=\"178629\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/01\/31\/january-addendum\/unsubtle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unsubtle.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FinePix A303&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1009865801&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"unsubtle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unsubtle.jpg?fit=604%2C453&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unsubtle-1024x768.jpg?resize=604%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unsubtle.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unsubtle.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unsubtle.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unsubtle.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unsubtle.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unsubtle.jpg?w=1208 1208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unsubtle.jpg?w=1812 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But wait there&#8217;s more. Almost the end of January now and the days are getting a little longer too. Thats nice. Its light till nearly 6 and today was a sunny day. I am fighting the winter malaise a little bit though. Just Do As I Say, Not What I Do Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/01\/31\/january-addendum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">January  Addendum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-musings","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250130_190507-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1826&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Ksr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1193,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2012\/01\/19\/elephant-shelf-at-blues-at-the-farm-january-2012\/","url_meta":{"origin":178587,"position":0},"title":"Elephant Shelf at Blues at The Farm January 2012 doing a couple of very well known tunes.","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Elephant Shelf at Blues at The Farm January 2012 doing a couple of very well known tunes.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elephant Shelf&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elephant Shelf","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/elephant-shelf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":67756,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/01\/27\/why-mark-27-january-holocaust-memorial-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":178587,"position":1},"title":"WHY MARK 27 JANUARY HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY?","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. 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