Mercedes - Do you believe in a higher power?- I am a pretty ardent atheist. At one time I was a vagueish Christian. My maternal grandparents are Jehovahâs Witnesses, my paternal are Catholics. I did go through an edgy atheist phase, and I was a major dick at that time. Hereâs my position. We do not know if there is a god or gods. We do not know which god or gods. It is therefore impractical from my position to hold any one religion or god or set of gods from any other.If we want to go any further with other vague higher concepts, I donât believe in fate or destiny. Those have vague-ish deterministic realities with some sense of âpurpose.â I am unsure of it, but I think free will doesnât exist. But donât confuse that with fatalism. Based on what Iâve learned about quantum mechanics, we do not live in a Newtonian World where one could be a Laplaceâs Demon and deduce all fated realities. For that reason we canât know one way or the other, so just donât worry about it. If the world truly is deterministic then it feels no different than one with free will, and since the information of the universe ever increases we canât predict the future...so donât worry about it. Jeralt - What job would you happily spend the rest of your life doing?- Man, I would have loved to be a virologist. Or a YouTube educational blogger.Â