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#1: Because he can, because he believes there is value to society in getting intellingent believers to not believe in religion, and because he is only willing to give so many poker insights for free in other forums when he would rather you pay for them in his next book.

#2: To Have And Have Not, because that is the ultimate philosophical question for him.

#3: 1 mil+. Although that might sound impressive, expensive girlfriends and getting Matt out of continual trouble as a teenager drained much of that with the result he still has to grind it out on the seat of this leather ass.

#4: His main objection to Pascal's wager is probably that it posits an infinite reward that could only be finitely appreciated by humans since they are finite creatures themselves.

#5: carmen e. is too smart to take take those 2 as her only choices and would insist on the addition of one or more chippendales to the game.

#6: Because ID is psuedo-scientific bunk put out by creationists who can't reconcile their selectively-literal interpretations of scripture with scientific fact.

#7: He plays micro-limits on PS under the screen name "MalmuthIsaPutz".