I should be studying

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Some guy sold a million books on kindle. Big deal.

I have sold none, and I still feel good about myself.

In fact, I am currently studying chemistry - and using this blog as an excuse not to figure out how many grams per mol will be created in a combustion reaction - assuming of course that there is an unlimited amount of the reactants.

Who cares?

How is this relevant to life?

Chemistry makes life meaningless - are we really just a collection of atoms.

Do our souls not exist?

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