X, I concede that I said that probability is more scientific than likelihood. You're right. It is a small point.
I agree that an unexamined life is not worth living. I try to be my own devil's advocate. Anybody exactly following everything that was taught to them by their parents is living their parent's life, not their own. I have rejected the Catholicism of my parents, but still carry their other influences. I have discussed my Atheism with my mother, and she is very understanding. We get into no arguments over the issue. She only cares that I am an honest and caring person, which I try to be. She still unfailingly drags herself to church every Sunday and Holy Day, and that's just fine with me, except that I know that she is in a lot of pain, and I don't like to see her suffer walking to the church a block away. She gets comfort in feeling that the pain is penance for her sins. I can't imagine what kind of sins an 83 year old woman is committing. I'm sure she is praying for me.
My dad drilled into me countless times "early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." I go to bed around 2:30 A.M. nearly every day, and get up around 10, unless I have an important reason to get up earlier, which I rarely have. I am fairly healthy, not that stupid, and I am doing fine financially. Oh well, sorry pa.
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