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opinions have been challenged. I had to defend what I believed.
I did some more reading. I discovered fractals and Strange
Attractors. I wrote an entry about the way I believe in God,
which is to say that I do not. Not, at least, in the God that
most people mean when they say God. I grant you that if the
universe was Caused, there might have been a Causer. But that
entity, or force, must by definition be outside space and time;
beyond all categories of thought, or non-thought; transcending
existence, or non-existence. What is the utility of arguing our
“beliefs” about it? What about the awesome possibility that
there was no Cause? What if everything…just happened?”   “The
truth hidden below the surface of the story is a hard one:
Nothing makes any sense. We do not get what we deserve. If we
are lucky, we get more. If we are unlucky, we get less. Bad
things happen to good people and good things happen to bad
people. That’s the system. All of our phi