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:: Monday, January 21, 2013 ::

Superstition

I don't understand how it is that some people find it more plausible that random occurrences can be attributed to luck but they find it amusing when others describe it as part of God's plan.

What is good or bad is entirely subjective, after all - to say that bad luck is happening is merely to form an opinion that the circumstances are less than pleasant, experientially speaking. If we're talking about statistical possibilities, there's no such thing as "bad luck" - it's just the chance of something happening given the set of circumstances surrounding an event.

Seriously speaking though, this isn't my main gripe. People have to believe in something, even when they claim to believe in nothing. My main contention today is for the people who think they deserve something from nothing and they expect this from the world because they want it. People who moan about how they're not rich, or how unfair it is that they don't have a spouse or how unpretty they are (iPhone doesn't recognise unpretty as a word, but I'm using here with wild abandon because it describes what I mean more adequately than "ugly").

I'm frustrated with these people who think that life isn't fair to them because they don't have these things. I have nothing I say to the people who try to change their circumstances but sadly fail, because that is truly unfortunate, but I'd like to know why some people think they ought to get money or fame or fitness without doing anything to deserve it AND (bear with me, this is a long set of clauses) think that it is ridiculous for others to ask for such blessings from a higher power.

So, it makes perfect sense to want something you haven't worked for and feel entitled to because people who are not you have such things, but it's laughable when someone of a religious bent asks for it from a god? How does directing such a want towards what, yes, arguably can be said to be an empty belief, be any less ridiculous than expecting it out of nowhere?

I'm not expressing this as clearly as I want to, but I find it enraging that some people who hope for better things can assume a logical superiority over people who put this hope in a God. There is no difference, to me, in buying lottery and hoping the chances favour you, and asking for your god of choice to gift you with money.

:: And that's all she wrote 5:20 PM [+] ::
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