{"id":4006,"date":"2010-01-07T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2010-01-07T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T07:25:00","slug":"open-letter-to-shah-rukh-khan-re-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/open-letter-to-shah-rukh-khan-re-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Shah Rukh Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Shah Rukh Khan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/iamsrk\/status\/7436300451\" title=\"SRK recycles Pascal's Wager\">A recent tweet<\/a> of yours recycles <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pascal%27s_Wager\" title=\"Pascal's Wager -- Wikipedia\">Pascal&#8217;s Wager<\/a> as a joke. I would urge you to read <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalwiki.com\/wiki\/Pascal%27s_Wager\" title=\"Pascal's Wager -- Rational Wiki\">this response<\/a> to it. And <a href=\"http:\/\/arc-t.org\/arc-tiquities\/debates-pascal.html\" title=\"Pascal's Wager -- arc-t\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might say in reply that hey, you pray, and consequently many good things have happened to you. But the causation is flawed. Your success is a combination of luck and hard work&#8212;as all success is. Other people also pray as much as you, and have achieved nowhere near your level of success. Indeed, poor people probably pray more than rich dudes. But if there is a god, she clearly doesn&#8217;t believe in bribery and ass-licking.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><i>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Twivani\/statuses\/7438835477\" title=\"Twivani tweets\">a tweet from @Twivani<\/a>. More open letters <a href=\"\/category\/Letters\/\" title=\"Open letters by Amit Varma\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Shah Rukh Khan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/iamsrk\/status\/7436300451\" title=\"SRK recycles Pascal's Wager\">A recent tweet<\/a> of yours recycles <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pascal%27s_Wager\" title=\"Pascal's Wager -- Wikipedia\">Pascal&#8217;s Wager<\/a> as a joke. I would urge you to read <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalwiki.com\/wiki\/Pascal%27s_Wager\" title=\"Pascal's Wager -- Rational Wiki\">this response<\/a> to it. And <a href=\"http:\/\/arc-t.org\/arc-tiquities\/debates-pascal.html\" title=\"Pascal's Wager -- arc-t\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You might say in reply that hey, you pray, and consequently many good things have happened to you. But the causation is flawed. Your success is a combination of luck and hard work&#8212;as all success is. Other people also pray as much as you, and have achieved nowhere near your level of success. Indeed, poor people probably pray more than rich dudes. But if there is a god, she clearly doesn&#8217;t believe in bribery and ass-licking.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><i>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Twivani\/statuses\/7438835477\" title=\"Twivani tweets\">a tweet from @Twivani<\/a>. More open letters <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/categories\/category\/Letters\/\" title=\"Open letters by Amit Varma\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,41],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dear Shah Rukh Khan - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/open-letter-to-shah-rukh-khan-re-belief\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dear Shah Rukh Khan - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Shah Rukh Khan A recent tweet of yours recycles Pascal&#8217;s Wager as a joke. 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