We all have to figure out what we're going to do in the face of the unknown, so we all need beliefs of some fashion. While I suppose there is some value of attaining a Zen like comfort with the now and pure being - to paraphrase an I <3 Huckabee's line, the is the inevitability of Human Drama to draw us in. We have a corporeal experience that has wants and needs to be satisfied and so we need to make decissions on how we will navigate our lives - we don't know our futures, yet we continually move in that direction (or such is my experience
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I'm comfortable with the unknowable, and titilated with the absurd - so I'm a shoe in with the existentialists and dadaist of the world. There just is too much to laugh about to get depressed about something I have no control over.
Perhaps the benefit of Faith, is that it allows you to pass along those things you have no control over to an entity that presumably does. You no longer have to worry, and can be relieved that someone is doing something about the perceived injustice, evil, and bad hair days of the world.