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I don't really know what I believe in... For now, I believe that I'll have another beer!

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Ultra wrote: Einstein said,"If you can't explain your idea to an eight year old then you don't know what you are talking about."

Nope. Einstein didn't say that.

ZSpider

i believe in treating people better than i expect to be treated. i believe that i am alone in this world and that my friends and family are all that i will ever have that will help stave off that sense of loneliness. i believe that i am owed nothing but that i owe everything. i believe that i am just a small, indiscernable part of a much larger, much more gradiose picture. i believe that i have tried to have faith in a christian god and other god but i have never felt its touch or influence, its draw, but that i also cannot discount other people's belief in it and that my belief in a god will probably change throughout my lifetime. i believe that, if there is a god, that it has infinite forgiveness and infinite love, that it is everything around us and within us, that it is the good and bad, the beautiful and the ugly. i believe there is no Truth, no good, no bad, but that we use these ideas to define the world we experience because we have a narrow perspective and a great need for organization. i believe that everyday i fail to embody enough of the values i believe in and that tomorrow i have to try harder, give more. i believe that struggle and perserverence through adversity is to be chiefly honored. i believe that love should be treated like fire rather than water: water is scarce, pollutable, and finite; fire purifies, transforms, and is infinite, that it can be given to again and again and it will never run out until i'm completely used up. i believe that giving is greater than receiving, that giving should be done without any desire to receive anything in return. i believe that i am unworthy of everything given to me and that, because of this, i must return it ten fold. i believe that everyone is equal in how they should be treated and that each has an incredible story to tell if you just listen. i believe people are inherently good and that, for the most part, they want other people to be happy and live a full life but that their actions don't always end up displaying this desire. i believe that language is a cage, an imperfect medium that tries to bridge a gap between people, that it's extremely difficult if not impossible to completely explain a feeling, idea, or event, and that this miscommunication and misunderstanding leads to much of the pain and hurt in the world. i believe that it is the nature of all things is to be transient. i believe that selflessness is unattainable but should still be fervorently pursued. i believe that i am learning and changing every minute but that i will keep many of these underlying values with me because they define who and what i want to be tomorrow. and i believe, supremely, above all.. that there's always a chance to be silly..

That sounds more like Feynman, but he said if you can't explain something in general terms, it isn't fully understood.

now

realize

mgad, excuse me...I mean't allude
Zspider, Einstein did say that.