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To love.

Charity towards others. Pretty simple.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

We aren't meant to be on Earth. It's complete luck that conditions suitable for life persisted on a planet for enough time (hundreds of millions of years) to develop complex multi cellular organisms. At any point some extra-terrestrial event could occur wiping us all off this puny rock.

Enjoy yourself while you can. On a more serious note, go make some deals

 
"MonkeySeeMonkeyDo23" We aren't meant to be on Earth. It's complete luck that conditions suitable for life persisted on a planet for enough time (hundreds of millions of years) to develop complex multi cellular organisms. At any point some extra-terrestrial event could occur wiping us all off this puny rock.

Enjoy yourself while you can. On a more serious note, go make some deals

Yeah, some "extraterrestrial event" could have wiped us out, but it didn't (thanks in part to Jupiter's gravitational pull). Too many right things happened. The belief that anything could happen, given enough time, is ridiculous. Design cannot be produced by chance, no matter how much time it's given. GIGO is a truism, even beyond professional services.

 

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