Karma poll

[Little Rik]

Until  and unless your alleged god shows up in person and talks to Me directly, without any dumb-ass self-appointed mortal middlemen such as yourself, I'm just going to sit here in the "cage" and enjoy My life.

Gee, you expect that God........... shows up in person and talks to Me directly...........

I don't actually expect it to happen, because I believe that your god is imaginary and incapable of ever showing up in person.

However, I am totally incapable of religious faith.  My brain simply does not permit wholehearted belief in things that appear to be extraordinary, absurd, and/or unsupported by physical evidence.

What about if you would see someone who practice spirituality with bright eyes, shiny look and a terrific spiritual strength?
There are people like that around but I doubt that you would work out what that means and how they got that personality.

If it makes you feel any better, I don't believe in gods I actually like, either (Óðinn, Athena, Lakshmi and various deities from modern fantasy fiction).

I'm not a noob at this religion thing.  I read the Bible back in the early 1960s and tried for many years to find a belief system that I could believe in.  Nothing worked.  Nothing stuck.  Finally I just got tired of pretending to believe, sitting in various religious congregations or studying on My own,

Then we went through the same soup.
I also got sick of religions and when my parents stop pushing me I just gave them up for good.

and accepted that a non-supernatural universe made more sense.

Actually I did not do the mistake to put religions and God on the same foolish level.
And I am really glad I never did that.

Humanism and Stoicism adequately describe the way I see the world nowadays.

Actually Stoicism say...........To live a good life, one had to understand the rules of the natural order since they taught that everything was rooted in nature..........

One of these rules is to give equal importance to all our aspect of our life.  
Suppose you are on a cart pulled by 3 horses.
Each horse represent one aspect of our being.  
The physical the mental and the consciousness.
The natural thing to do would be to feed all 3 horses equally so all 3 would have enough energy to pull the cart of your life.
Considering that your main agenda at the moment is the material-mental progress then you let one horse to starve and that goes against the rule of nature which make a mockery of your Stoicism.  

Life can be cruel sometime especially when you don't put any effort in trying to win and overcome the challenges.

You really are an unpleasant and slanderous little prick.  You know nothing of what I've overcome, or of the innumerable wins.

Here's a big hint.  I don't pray for help.  I look head-on at a problem, even if it terrifies Me beyond the capacity for rational thought, and then I take the first frightened step towards solving it and keep going no matter how many times I blow it.

When I was 11 years old I came very close to falling 1400 feet to My death off a sharp cliff face near the top of a mountain in Quebec.  I shuddered, stopped looking down, and climbed to a safe place about 15 feet up.

I had to leave a home that I had completely paid for when My now ex-spouse threatened a murder-suicide.  I bought another house, this time in My name alone, and now it's paid off, too.  That's right:  I've paid off two mortgages.

I passed a key computer certification exam on the fourth try.  I passed My driving test on the fourth try.  I learned to play violin, clarinet, saxophone and flute in My 40s and 50s.  Mad DIY skillz, mostly self-taught, in just about everything one would need to renovate and maintain a house -- Plumbing, electrical, carpentry, drywall, masonry, roofing, door and window installation -- you name it, I've probably done it.  (Oh, and right now I'm learning how to speak Icelandic.)

For Me, the greatest joy is is to struggle through learning something new, and master it.  I like to win, and I win a lot.

You owe Me one hell of a big apology, you little brat.  I doubt very much you have what it takes to do it, though.

Well done Astr.
Unfortunately you tend to forgot the third horse that is left to starve.
How sad!