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paulv70
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Re: Karma and my new job
I'm not complaining (well ok I am but I know I shouldn't be) but it is pretty painful. There's absolutley nothing creative about what I do now.
If I was still a young man I'd move to Californ-eye-ay and see I could get a job in the prop biz. Seems like Jess and his crew have just about the best job I could imagine.
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Nothing stopping you from still going for that, I'm sure there's plenty of outfits that'd hire a man of your talents.
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Damn! That kind of sucks Paul. I dodged a bullet by not taking the Security job. No matter how much I could have used that job I could not bring myself to work for a company of inefficient idiots.
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Re: Karma and my new job
I must admit that the nature of my job is gradually changing in a way that I do not entirely care for.
I used to spend the majority of my time standing at a blackboard waving my hands in the air. I liked that.
Now, as an online and computer based instructor, I spend the majority of my time working out computer glitches. I don’t care so much for that.
Here is one positive. All the time I have spent on The Collectors forum has really paid off. I am much more comfortable in an online environment and much more familiar with posting things such as videos and images.
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Re: Karma and my new job
At least at my old job I had the occasional opportunity to do something creative. Now I can actually feel the life being sucked out of me.
On a related note, I've been noticing lately that karma's a funny thing. As soon as I started this job, my girlfriend lost hers. Then we had a scare where we thought she might have cancer, were relieved to find out she didn't, then our cat died. One day I came into a little unexpected money, the next day our garbage disposal blew up.
What's up with the universe?
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Karma is a cruel mistress. She's been stalking me for years.
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I have a relaxed take on life.
Whatever happens, good or bad, at least it makes a good story to tell... add a bit drama to it, and you got yourself a next episode for your RPG campaign...
In here -any- job is a golden fortune. With a nearly 20% unemployement rates all creativity is better to be left after working hours. All they want is profit. An employee, who tries to change something to the better in working conditions is marked for life to be "skycastle-painter" aka non-productive artist.
There are NO design jobs in the whole country, except from the Capital. And there the competition just is unbareable.
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I used to be a Christian, but as I've got older and let go of the human lies, grown out of Santa Claus, I've gradually come to the conclusion that it's not God up there but some satanic bastard that gets off playing huge sick jokes on us all. While hypocritical priests preach all the fictional goodness and miracles all I see is mass death and suffering for no good reason at all. I've decided that when and if I ever get to their promised vision of heaven, I'm going to seek out that bastard in charge and give him a good kicking for all the pain and misery he's put this planet through and then slowly strangle him to death with my bare hands to the tune of XTC's Dear God. For all the good I've done in my life and continue to do, the pay back has let's say been firmly and always in the negative and totally undeserved. I wish karma/god/ming the merciless/carrot top/whatever would just bugger the hell off and leave me alone. I'm so angry with this these days that if a vicar (any holy man any religion) utters one word to me I'd punch them instantly in the throat out pure reflex.
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I can’t seem to find a technical name for my spiritual beliefs, so I call myself a Magentan. When I get home tonight, I will post the complete creed of a Magentan.
I think the problem with most human’s comprehension of the bigger (divine) picture is that they take our own suffering too seriously.
There is probably nothing anyone can experience that is more painful than childbirth. Yet, you would seldom hear a woman say that the pain involved in giving birth to a child is proof that the higher powers are either mean spirited or evil. That is because women accept child birth as necessary.
If you could believe that all the suffering we experience is similarly necessary, then you would have the same attitude. The key is to realize that we are all involved in the “birth” of the universe. The universe is like a giant ship in a bottle that God is building from the outside. It is also like a plant that must go through the entire process of growth. We are all essential parts of the universe and its growth.
We sometimes experience suffering that seems inappropriate to our station. This is particularly true of children. No one can make sense of a God that would cause a child to be burned to death or die of a debilitating disease. The key is to remember that God can fix or undo anything. Even if a child suffers to the point of becoming insane, at the point of the child’s death God can erase all the suffering and restore the child’s sanity.
The reason why God does not extract the child from life before the suffering gets too bad is the same reason why a person building a ship in a bottle does not cut a hole in the bottle. It would ruin the model as a whole.
You may consider me to be a sophist and some Christians would even consider me to be damned. Nevertheless, this is my take on the subject.
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