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Do You Believe that God and Rattlesnakes Exist?


Let me tell you a story.

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?"

And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?"*

The point of the fish story is this:

The most obvious and important realities are often the ones
that are hardest to see and talk about.

However, the fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, those realities can have a life or death importance. Let me tell you another story to help you understand what this means. Continue reading at –

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