it sounds cliche, but knowing my life has been without merit or worth. I hope I never know that feeling.

knowledge is power and the church does not want you to have that
they are still living in the past and cannot prove anything they belive

This is the key! If you dont' think, you cannot know. If you don't know, you cannot decide. If you cannot decide, you follow whatever is told to you.

Irony

When I was in the second grade, my teacher introduced me to "homonyms," those words, like "caret" and "carrot" that are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently, and that have different meanings. The concept intrigued me, and for months, I maintained a dog-eared pad of yellow paper with an ever-growing list of homonyms. I eventually lost that yellow pad, but never my interest in these odd, quirky English words.

I consider homonyms to be the prime numbers of the English language. Like primes, they cannot be predicted by any rules of grammar or diction. In the way that you can't search the number line for primes, you cannot systematically search the dictionary for homonyms. You just have to find them, like Easter Eggs in the dictionary.

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Not to belittle the point, but you can find prime numbers quite easily: www.mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.prime.num.html

I am surprised that no one mentioned the infamous animal, alot... instead of the correct use " a lot" ..