Quote Originally Posted by BABY J
You just said it -- "personification". Root word - person... as in PERSONAL. Anytime your "hope" or "faith" comes from another being... then you are setting yourself up for failure.
You cannot live without hope and faith in other things. You pay taxes(for gov't services), you ask people for advice, you care or have love for people. all these things are conducive of not living for self and only self interest. In fact if you were living for self interest I don't know why you would care what other people put their faith in. It wouldn't matter to you and you would believe that nobody should care or listen to what you have to say anyway because they should all be focused on what they want.

Life itself for all things depends on someone or something else doing its job. You just don't seem to believe that any of the infinite number of other factors relate to you. I believe they do.

You went to basic, I am assuming you are in service or participated in ROTC or reserves. (Thanks for that BTW). If you did then you should know the importance of brother hood and how all parts of the military have to sync up in order for it to function properly. Without faith that one soldier is going to watch your back the marines would not have the incredible code of conduct that they have. The faith they have in one another is powerful enough to drive them to lose their lives for their brothers and their country. Is that wrong?

You buy a house, you get a loan, that takes other people keeping good records on you. You pay cash for that house. That takes your employer or business continuing in success to be able to supply you with funds. On public roads you expect the car next to you to stay in their lane. You expect them to look and give you space when they want to get over. 99% of your day is conducive of someone else doing what is normal to you.

There are 6+billion people in this world. 6+billion people have different desires throughout. No two are exactly alike. Common faith keeps these people from becoming so individualistic that you don't care and you ignore the need for faith and hope in others.

you don't always get what you pray for in life, you don't always get what deserve in life... you get what you get. When will people realize this?
I agree, but I don't focus on the negative of that statement. because it can also be written.

You get some of the things you pray for, you get some things in life that you work for and "deserve", but if you never pray and never work for some of those things, then you never get them.

For your tests, you didn't just say, I can do it. You put work into it. You prepared yourself. You can't do that without someone else giving you the information that you need to learn.

My point is that you cannot only rely on yourself and completely drop trust in other things/people and live a happy life. unless you want to be miserable, but then you would still be happy because you wanted to be miserable and you got what you wanted.