You may be correct, although any definitive declaration on the matter is intrinsically unable to be proven.
Shakespeare put it as well as anyone:
“To be, or not to be, that is the question”
By William Shakespeare
(from Hamlet, spoken by Hamlet)
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
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Insofar as epistemology allows us to make any headway, it is an apparent fact that we live in a political world where we must do our best to make headway.
I happen to believe we should try to make headway in the name of "The General Welfare," and so that's where I place my bet.
And in the framework of working to advance "The General Welfare" I believe that the "Good Christians" who elected Trump not just once... but TWICE for Christ's sake!... are people unusually determined to save their souls whether or not "salvation" is as bogus as a Xanadu pipedream.
And these dimwits - as pigshit thick as they are - can be reached... as I believe they WILL be reached in the mid-term elections, when Trump experiences categorical and catastrophic rejection.
