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Philosophy in Seconds: Where did we come from? Where do we go? The answer is in you.

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     The real hard questions to answer surface at different times throughout our lives, and are often picked at with tweezers like a splinter, until they are driven too deep back down into the quick to retrieve them, just to resurface again at a later time when we've grown more intellectually. Yet, even then, as conscious beings, we still struggle to come up with logical guesses to the riddle that we are of so large a part. Particularly because, in part, we are asking questions about something that we have no outside experience of.      With age, and the cooling of our hormonal furnaces, wisdom eventually gives way to an acceptance of complete ignorance. As derived from Socrates, "The only thing I know is that I know nothing." For how can we prove anything at all if no basis for proof ever exists? There are, of course, those like the Great Thomas Hobbes who grasp tight to the mechanistic view of a Universe, in which nothing immaterial exists, and that even our own con