Religions keep existing because they indoctrinate little children. Apparently you can make children believe anything. Something religions use to their advantage. Without that future supply of new believers / money, religions will go extinct quickly.
Religions = child abuse.

Hollywood actors seem to be able to convince their children that they are the opposite sex.

100's of Billions of galaxies if not more - Incalculable Number
of Planets & The Earth not even a spec of dust in the grand scheme
of things has it's very own Weirdy Beardy Sky Wizard looking after
everyone on this planet 

FFS its 2025 & millions of folk are still believing in this ridiculous
fairy tale.

Utterly unbelievable.

Religions keep existing because they indoctrinate little children. Apparently you can make children believe anything. Something religions use to their advantage. Without that future supply of new believers / money, religions will go extinct quickly.
Religions = child abuse.

Ruptured my bicep tendon removing the door pad on a truck.

I tore my bicep lifting a welding machine into a shipping container. There was like an iron loop at the end and I pulled with one finger, using the hand I supinate on deads. I mean I've held almost 1K on a very short rack dead with a mixed grip with no tears. I must have slightly bended the arm. Docs didn't want to operate but I insisted and I'm extremely glad I did, otherwise there would be zero bicep left (already had very small and short bis).

Isn't that something that could speak for the importance of genes? Bad circumstances, good genes I've been here talking about the primacy of genes for the longest time, though most people prefer to see people as being born as unwritten books, largely. It's just my current belief based on observation, but it's possibly open to change in the future... Check out twin adoptee case studies, identical twins adopted to different families with different circumstances. Often scarily similar tastes and temperaments and etc. In a way this is a scary viewpoint, what if we are mostly just automatons, like dead puppets with our strings pulled by our genes, little or no free will.

 

Two things that contradict your fatalistic determinism: neuroplasticity and epigenetic alterations induced by psychosocial factors.