I so get what you mean. It does get so disheartening when the same things keep jumping up again and again, no matter many times or how resoundingly one keeps smashing them down. It's like Whack-A-Mole from hell.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'