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NikolaNovak on May 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

I'm a relatively vocal atheist, but Serenity Prayer is a pretty useful/accepted creed to live by if you can get over the very first word, so I can't say it bothers me much; and while I realize there's one other OS that's much more explicitly religion-oriented, I'm not sure it's quite a significant pattern yet...

  "(God), give me grace
  to accept with serenity
  the things that cannot be changed,
  Courage to change the things
  which should be changed,
  and the Wisdom to distinguish
  the one from the other."

jagger27 on May 28, 2021 [–]

This is the version I'm familiar with:

    God, grant me the Serenity
    To accept the things I cannot change...
    Courage to change the things I can,
    And Wisdom to know the difference.

bombcar on May 28, 2021 | [–]

It's basically "should I use sudo or not" as a prayer.

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