I feel like it sort of matches some general feelings I have on the matter.

As a strong atheist, I firmly believe this life is all we get. So what do we do with this life? Hopefully a balance of enjoying life and making others' lives better.

Things are pretty shit for me in some ways - seven heart attacks, kidney failure so I'm on dialysis, below-knee amputation, I'm now a wheelchair user. Can't do a lot of things I used to. But it doesn't mean I can't make the best of it. I've learned more simple pleasures in life: Making someone laugh and brightening their day just a little. That's valuable and makes life worth living.

I still have so far to go to get where I want to be. For example, I'm still incredibly susceptible to "Someone on the internet is WRONG!" lol. That's a hard one to overcome.

But I think there are some great little principles to live by: Try not to harm others (or yourself); try to make the world a better place to the extent that you can; but also, relax, enjoy life as best as you can. Find joy in simple pleasures.

After growing up a fundie Southern Baptist and recovering… I've less patience for fundies than many others. heh. My attitute toward the Christian God these days is basically: If, after I die, turns out that's the god that exists, and I have to face him and explain why I didn't worship him....... I'll be terrified,of course, but do my best to say: You weren't around. You allowed children to die painful deaths. You created evil. Fuck you. If that's the god in control, fuck that god. heh

Which is not to say I can't get along with Christians. My dad - a pastor's son at that - is very very very laid back and accepting. If I grew up with his brand of Christianity, I could live with that. heh