I May not Believe in God, but I do Believe in Karma!

Sometimes things happen for a reason. I'm big on karma, and love when things fall into place. For example today I went to the gym only to find that my garage was blocked by a handyman for the neighbor's condo. Not a big deal, I just called the number on the side of the truck, asked him to move it, and said thank you. But when I got back from the gym, having that number in my phone memory came in handy. No, not because of a magical love connection, but because as I stood naked in my shower ready to clean myself for work, there was no water. Said handyman had turned it off thinking it was for the unit, when it was actually for the entire building. After a moment I called him (thankful that he HAD blocked me in and I had a way to get ahold of him!) and he directed me where to go to turn the water back on. If only he knew during those directions that I was running around trying to find the lever wearing only a sleep shirt and no drawers trying not to flash the neighborhood. But I digress!

I had another I love Karma moment tonight as I was reading my emails. You see, if someone seems normal from their message, I often visit their profile, check out their details, and view some of the answers to the questions they've answered. Tonight, in the "Sorted by Magic" category of question viewing, all I had to do was read the first answer and I knew this gentleman and I would not be friends!

I'm about to open up a bucket of worms and piss some people off. You may not want to keep reading if you are offended by religious discussions.

I brought this up once during my stint on Match.com, but here's a refresher: I consider myself an Atheist. My OkCupid profile states as much, and specifically says "Atheism, but not too serious about it" and in all truth I'm probably more agnostic than anything. According to Wikipedia, "In the popular sense, an agnostic is someone who neither believes nor disbelieves in the existence of a deity or deities, whereas a theist and an atheist believe and disbelieve, respectively. In the strict sense, however, agnosticism is the view that humanity does not currently possess the requisite knowledge and/or reason to provide sufficient rational grounds to justify the belief that deities either do or do not exist."


To be clear, I respect other people's beliefs and religions. However, I would also like to point out that there are people in jail who claim religious affinities and went to church, yet still committed a crime. And just as I don't think I'm better than anyone based on their religious beliefs, I don't think that they're better than me either. It's a good thing that I creep people's answers to OkCupid questions, because doing so resulted in the following conversation:

So far,  being able to see how people answered questions is my favorite thing about OkCupid; and since most guys don't seem to read some of the major things called out in my profile, you better believe I'm reading theirs. However I feel like I got lucky twice today, and the second time saved me all sorts of time and potential awkwardness, especially when his reply message said:

"Ok. I'm sorry for you and good luck"

No sir, I'm sorry for you and your close minded view of people. Because I'm pretty sure that priests have molested kids, regular church goers have gone to jail for crimes, and not everything good is centered around the church. But thanks for weeding yourself out early and saving me some time!