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I'm surprised that nobody's quoted Marx yet. Or Nietzche, for that matter.
I do have an observation to make, as well : sportswidow (unintentionally, I assume) reversed an old maxim by saying "what comes around goes around" instead of the commonly accepted "what goes around comes around". I kind of like it; the idea that you give what you get, rather than you get what you give. Of course, I've always figured one leads to the other, so it makes no difference to me.
If you want to know my personal beliefs, I am a strong agnostic, which means I hold central to all of my beliefs and decisions that not only do we not know what's ultimately out there, we cannot know. The knowledge you seek is impossible to find. This leaves one with two options; one may posit that in the absence of knowledge, faith takes over (and therefore believe) or one may, as I have done, conclude that the ultimate answer will present itself in due course once I've left this mortal realm, accept that the understanding of it is beyond my limited reach at the moment and move on with my life accordingly. Do I believe in God? No, not as such. I do believe that there is a strong possibility of some form of divine creator, be he God or Zeus or one of the African deities known only to some small Amazonian tribe. What form such a being would take and indeed if such a being ultimately exists is not for me to decide.
I don't begrudge those who believe their faith; please don't begrudge me my lack of it, whatever that may net me in the end.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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