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I believe in lots of things. I believe quantum physics and relativistics might one day be unified. I believe in the power of love. I believe whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and I believe in the fairies at the bottom of the garden. I believe in Bigfoot, in Elvis being alive, in UFOs and London buses found at the south pole.

I believe in Fate, and I believe in manifest free will, both at the same time. I believe in synchronicity and serendipity, in coincidence and causality. I believe in magic, I believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. I believe the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42.

In fact, I believe in just about anything that makes life a little richer, a little more interesting, and perhaps brings a touch of weirdness to the proceedings. Life isn't weird enough.

I do have a problem believing in God, mind. Actually, to paraphrase a thousand livejournals, it's not really God I object to, it's his fan club.

An omnipotent, all seing being who created everything? Fair enough. As ideas go, it's probably on a level of probability with the whole of creation being formed from a singularity of nothing expanding out of nowhere and nowhen (although, of course, while the universe just coming into being is pretty unlikely, no-one has counted the number of failed attempts).

I just blanch at the idea of spending an eternal afterlife with the type of people who sing his praises the loudest. It sounds like a rainy weekend in a guest house in Wales, surrounded by those semi-distant relatives most people have who frankly, you'd rather not spend a lot of time in close proximity to. And there's nothing on TV. Forever.

One of these days, God may appear to me as a burning bush and tell me exactly what I need to do with my life. If he does, I'll click my heels together and get on with it. Stopping only to get a full CATscan first, just in case it's the start of a brain tumour and not divine inspiration. Until then, I figure I'll follow my own personal sense of right and wrong, and be satisfied with that.

I get the feeling I'm still on their recruitment list, though.

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