Well, actually, I use Velocity, but
JSF doesn't really get involved in where Velocity finds its resources. That's all determined by how I configure and invoke Velocity.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.