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If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then i am probably not a believer. but if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that i do believe in.
-Vaclav Havel
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Vaclav Havel
If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then i am probably not a believer. but if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that i do believe in.
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