However, Pascal wanted even more than this. To Pascal the best bet was to believe in God as that gave you the greatest chance for perpetual happiness. It is the ultimate gamble with your life and with your soul. Thanks to Pascal, this is – short and sweet – a coin flip, a gamble: Yes or no? God or no God. Thus it is best to believe in God than not to believe in God. However, if you do not believe in God and He does exist then death is going to be a horrid experience as you find out that not only were you wrong but…well, you can guess the rest.

If He doesn’t exist and you believe in Him then you have given up some worldly pleasures to discover nothing as death ceases your full existence. You bet your life and soul (if you have one) that either God exists or doesn’t exist.

He was also quite religious, often driven by science and theology to discover the ultimate truths of existence, and he created what has become known as Pascal’s Wager, a notion that to this very day contains persuasive power, if not overall theocratic authority, being thus: His name was Blaise Pascal and he was one of the most famous and astute mathematicians and scientific geniuses of the 1600s. What follows are some examples of roulette’s possible origins and how players have played the wheel in an attempt to beat it Where did the roulette wheel and ultimately the famous casino game of roulette originate? Perhaps in several places and from some or many people and cultures.

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