Peaks and valleys surround your median and bias gives one an illusion one way or the other...
When everything is going good the tendency of many in society is to call it "a blessing", almost like that good fortune is a personalized little gift or "doing it right". Conversely, the tendency is to infer "punishment" when you hit that inevitable lull.
In any case the experience, whether peak or valley influences the "gnostic" mindframe of most. This seems firmly rooted in an apparent specialness (in the macrocosmic sense) one places on their own value.
Quite fucking simply the world suffers from some stalker syndrome, only with divinity. The basis of "faith" is the guy who finds some excuse, any excuse, why that bitch across the street shares his feelings.
To put it to analogy: It's like believing saying, "I predict a 7.0+ magnitude earthquake will hit the Southern Pacific this week", and using it as a measure of your prophetic ability...
In this regard, faith has failed this world.
The only thing one can control is how well they are prepared for the obligatory "Hand of Statistics".
