In Reply to Deb's Post

and life is an endless tirade between the optimistic and the pessimistic.

for the existence and essence of God is determined only by the flow and ebb of the waves of life, to which the answer is cruelly (or justifiably, to reiterate my point) relinquished when we can go no further, rendering some liberation, and others eternal toil (of eternal regret, if anything). And the living will never know the answer unless we can speak to the dead, or are dead ourselves.