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[Astreja]

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

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

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.