I have an active faith

[houseofcantor]

Oh, and that last line in the OP is me being a troll. I thought you guys would get that one, but it seems it got caught up in the OP by being in the OP. Oh, and I write like I talk; and I usually don't start talking until I'm high, so there's that. 

Cool story bro

All I "have" to do is tell the story. Another difference between a prophet and a priest. You don't have to accept it.

Of course, if you read it, you kinda already did.  

[Angrboda]

Reading is rewriting. The medium is the message.

[Edwardo Piet]

I don't "lack" religious faith at all because absence of faith is not deficient it is merely absent.

[houseofcantor]

I don't "lack" religious faith at all because absence of faith is not deficient it is merely absent.

But now for the important question, how comes you haz Losty's avvy? 

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Faith is believing what you know ain't so.' - Mark Twain.

He expanded on this later in life, but his bitch of a daughter kept a lot of his personal papers secret. Twain felt that to have faith in anything - anything at all - was a form of lying to oneself. For him, faith fell into two broad categories: believing in things you know aren't true, because you're afraid to disbelieve them, and believing in things that you hope will be true, because it comforts you (he went on to make the point that faith in people is what made him such an atrocious businessman).

I once had a conversation with a theist in RL (the particular franchise doesn't matter) and he claimed that I was performing acts of faith whenever I drove, flipped on a light switch, sat in a chair, and any of a number of commonplace activities. I ran into a metaphorical brick wall trying to explain the difference between 'faith' and 'experience-based expectation'. Still, I remember him a being a nice enough sort, despite this peculiar fetish of his.

Boru

[houseofcantor]

I ran into a metaphorical brick wall trying to explain the difference between 'faith' and 'experience-based expectation'.  

There is none for the believer.Of course the believer refuses to accept the nearly certain fact that god is merely aspect of "higher self."

[Edwardo Piet]

I don't "lack" religious faith at all because absence of faith is not deficient it is merely absent.

But now for the important question, how comes you haz Losty's avvy? 

What do you mean?  That's a real life photograph of us taken together. As you can see no one had to make me say "cheese" because my turtle face was way too happy for me to not just smile genuinely and naturally at the awesome presence of my best Kitten  

There is no way I could ever fake such a smile when in the presence of the loveliest and most warm-hearted and genuine self-described "shameless harlot" I have ever known  

[houseofcantor]

But now for the important question, how comes you haz Losty's avvy? 

What do you mean?  That's a real life photograph of us taken together. As you can see no one had to make me say "cheese" because my turtle face was way too happy for me to not just smile genuinely and naturally at the awesome presence of my best Kitten  

There is no way I could ever fake such a smile when in the presence of the loveliest and most warm-hearted and genuine self-described "shameless harlot" I have ever known  

Ahhh... that's a turtle. Here I was seeing a pillow. I'm such a dummyhead.

And yes, Losty is a sweetheart. 

[Edwardo Piet]

Hey this Turtle can be a pillow too. Losty could rest her head on me for comfort any day she wanted

[ignoramus]

And talk about the first thing that pokes her eye out!