Wow, man, I think about this matter all the time and here you’ve outlined it all so eloquently. Nicely done. The only thing on which we differ is that my own belief in God doesn’t (in my mind) preclude me from being an effective actor in my own life. So I get to be scared all the time like everybody else, but at least with a happy heavenly ending (: Keep on with that philosophy, dude. I, myself, completed a useless grad degree. You’re not alone.