A Little Practice in Faith

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Interesting. I think god is taking your bad luck with computers and transferring it to me.

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Funny, I almost never have any kind of problem with e-mail, files, etc. like those described, and I'm not even that computer literate, to say the least.I do not believe in God, either, so what does that mean?

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I take almost nothing as an accident.

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So, there's no such things as accidents or random occurrences?I mean, when you give yourself a paper cut it's supposed to have greater philosophical "meaning" and "happened for a deep, hidden reason"?Wow, you must spend your entire life instilling tremendous meaning and import to things like hangnails and stepping in dog crap.(Sorry, couldn't resist this line of reasoning.)

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Heh. I can make a cogent argument that civilisation is a necessary prerequisite for war, poverty and religion... and that to get beyond them, we need to get beyond our form of "civilisation".

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I think there will always be conflict, but maybe not war.I think there will always be greed, but maybe not always poverty.I think there will always be some kind of belief in a higher power or unknown, but maybe not religion.Those are all really big "maybe's", however.

I was thinking about this, TL, and I have got to say that your idea that almost nothing that happens to you is random or accidental seems, to me, to be rather self-important.I know others have said as much, but, wow, I kind of can't believe you said that.