I tried to believe that there is a God, who created each of us in His own image and likeness, loves us very much, and keeps a close eye on things. I really tried to believe that, but I gotta tell you, the longer you live, the more you look around, the more you realize, something is fucked up. George Carlin
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That line, spoken by Gene Hackman in the movie “The Royal Tenenbaums,” is the perfect distillation of the existentialist philosophy. We live under rules and laws that do not make sense. The world is so irrational that it seems impossible to trust it. And yet, the human mind is not given to pure cynicism.

It is propped up by stories and rituals that will not let us give up hope. And so, we must keep trying to believe in order to keep going. The alternative is too painful to imagine.

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