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Cake day: June 16th, 2024

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  • Sometimes this kind of people sounds like they believe in the Bible and prophecies as impersonal laws of nature, and not in an intelligent creator of any sort.

    Kind of. If a supreme being set into motion certain universal laws and always thwarted them for the benefit of this or that, one or group, the laws would be arbitrary, thus pointless. It’s up to us to let the pressures d/evolve us according to the idea of (a limited by circumstances and variables) somewhat free will. Some believers consider the most ignorant and slavish among ourselves closer to God than the most refined with the most spiritual knowledge and/or means. Iow it’s not the means but how they are utilized.






  • Apologies. I could have explained my reasoning. Many would look upon my living conditions as not good, but not abject. I’ve been extremely privileged in that I’ve turned down not great-paying jobs because while trained in them, I found them morally objectionable. I’m close to old age than not. I’ve been fortunate to have had some help. And if I didn’t? Would I spend my last twenty on a few meals or a bit of crack to rerock to sell for profit, buy a little more, rinse and repeat? I’d love to say I’d take the moral high road. I still have extra weight, you know?

    I trust the universe and I trust myself. Plus it’s highly likely that at this late hour, any addict would likely be highly suspicious if I suddenly started trying to sell dope. I’m acknowledging there are things we see and are unable to see at various vantage points. Your post just prompted questions to which it’s easy to say I’d this things and not the other, from this vantage point. Perhaps later in life I’ll have attained a point with more or less ability to see clearly. We hope and trust, potentialities are infinite – in every imaginable direction.

    This makes accountability neither more nor less important. Just an observation.



  • The idea is to consistently work toward being better than yesterday and making restitution, where possible, not where comfortable. It’s not always going to be easy. It’s called character development. If we’ve worked hard for a number of years being of bad character, it’s generally going to take an equal or greater number of years of hard work and restitution to be of great character; but with diligence, I would say perhaps the number of exceptions would be greater than the general rule. It doesn’t mean there will actually be external validation of it, though.