American Bible-Thumper Travels To Scandinavia, Freaks Out After Discovering How Secular They Are

[Moostache]

103. I always default to Descartes...

I think. Therefore, I am.

I have no use or need for alternative hypotheses as to WHY that is true.
I have no delusions or need of an over-arching "reason" or "purpose".

I pity those who cannot exalt in the pure glory of existence in and of itself! The ride is magnificent and you only get to go around once!

The fact that I draw breath for another day, am able to tell those I love that I love them once more and that I have the necessary things to continue living (shelter, food, companionship) is fantastic beyond all comprehension. The creature comforts and technology I enjoy beyond those basics - the fact that my life in all its "ordinariness" for the age, is STILL 1,000 greater in comfort and plenty than the lives of all the royalty of antiquity - is mind blowing when you stop to appreciate it.

I am blessed to not live in poverty.
I am blessed to be able to offer help to those in need and with much less than I have.

These are the things and the moments that make life so extraordinary, so precious and so magnificent while also being so heartbreaking, so infuriating and so desperately unfair all at once!

To someone who would challenge this view and experience by trying to put it in a box with rules and limits laid down by an agrarian, goat herding clan of Middle-eastern descent some thousands of years ago, all I can say is that their concept of 'god' is too small and too restrictive to waste time on.