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Pascal’s Chocolate

The other day I was search­ing for a choco­late bar I had hid­den in the fridge (I was past the point of look­ing; appar­ently I had hid­den it very well) when Blaise Pas­cal came to mind (I won­der how many peo­ple had great thoughts in and around food–not that I think this is any­thing approach­ing a great thought). I’m fairly cer­tain that most peo­ple know who Blaise Pas­cal is because of his wager (aptly named ‘Pascal’s Wager’). I won’t recall it here because that’s not really what I’m inter­ested in, though what I am inter­ested in comes from the same work (Pen­sées). What inter­ests me is a thought Pas­cal had related to what is known as the ‘divine hid­den­ness’ of God (if God exists, why does He seem so… absent?).

Pascal’s thought comes from the 430^th pen­sées (which, redun­dantly, means ‘thought’):

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