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God is a crude answer, a piece of indelicacy against us thinkers- fundamentally even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
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Very well put. There are those to whom life's most basic questions are frightening, and for them there is comfort in believing in the supernatural. Then there are those of us to whom the questions are a challenge, those of us who accept death as a natural end to living, life as a happy accident and every day as a unique event to be enjoyed as much as possible. We have no need to blame a supernatural devil for the things we perceive as bad, nor do we thank a supernatural being for those things we see as good. And we do not assign those things we do not yet understand the title of miracles. Humans are among the newest specie of animal on this planet. To think that we alone can define the rules for everything that happens here is both egotistic and foolish. Perhaps after we've been around as long as the dinosaurs were, we'll have a few more answers. But for me, the answer will never be "god".