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 Remember SNL from the 80s and Deep Thoughts with Jack Handy? 

I was thinking about Stephen Hawking and the woman who told him, "the earth is flat and it is turtles all the way down." That was one of the original memes. The word meme is courtesy of Richard Dawkins, a stanch atheist.

All of a sudden, I thought, "is it turtles all the way up?" What I mean by that is, how did existence come to be? I know about the Big Bang Theory and all. I also was educated in religious schools, Muslim (Sudan, Saudi Arabia) and Catholic (Williamsburg, VA). That is to say, I know about God creating the world in 7 days. Yes, it is the same story in Christianity and Islam. Surprised?

But just like a fish in a fish bowl can't "see" past its world (the bowl) and "feels" something is off because that isn't its natural habitat (the river, the sea, the ocean), we humans keep asking ourself what is the meaning of life? Where do come from? If God created us, who created God? What is the beginning of the beginning? 

Maybe we are two lost souls living in a fish bowl year after year. Pink Floyd. 

Maybe we, like the fish, are not in our "natural habitat" and we need help getting back home. Bitcoin fixes this.

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