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Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse

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Re: Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse

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Post by vellum »

jval wrote: post #24

Sad to see so many negative comments on this article and on the site, totally uncalled for and unfortunately very common with HN comments these days. Give the OP a break. The story about the boyfriend was fascinating. Get over the bold sentences, they're fine. I can't believe we live in a world where someone says something nice and the first three comments on the article are regarding bold text. And yes, some people…

>Try finding me a group of famous founders who quit their job when they had dependents

The "Traitorous Eight" who founded Fairchild Semiconductors.

"Most of the founders were married, busy starting their families and raising small children in addition to all the time and effort they were spending building Fairchild "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight

Re: Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse

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Post by philwelch »

acqq wrote: post #35
philwelch wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ecclesiastes is in the Old Testament. The possibility of eternal life in heaven was only offered by Christ.

No, it's not something introduced by Jesus. There is "everlasting life" in Old Testament: "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=daniel%2012:1-12... However, any reader of Old and New Testament should know that both "books" are in fact the collections of the hand-made copies o…

Theologically, that would probably be a prophesy that was fulfilled by Christ. Historically, you're correct.

Re: Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse

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Post by acqq »

philwelch wrote: post #42
acqq wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's not something introduced by Jesus. There is "everlasting life" in Old Testament: "And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=daniel%2012:1-12... However, any reader of Old and New Testament should know that both "books" are in fact the collections of the hand-made copies o…

Theologically, that would probably be a prophesy that was fulfilled by Christ. Historically, you're correct.

Also "theologically" according to the Jews their (older) Bible simply mentions "everlasting life" in the "Book of Daniel" at least century before the birth of Jesus. But they believe that the texts about Jesus written and collected by that newer sect that called them Christians simply don't prove that he's Messiah, as they are often based on misreadings of the Hebrew Bible, see for the example how NT came to use "the son of man" expression:

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10342-man-son-of

Of course, there's more than one "theology," even among different "Christians."

Re: Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse

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Post by philwelch »

acqq wrote: post #43
philwelch wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Theologically, that would probably be a prophesy that was fulfilled by Christ. Historically, you're correct.

Also "theologically" according to the Jews their (older) Bible simply mentions "everlasting life" in the "Book of Daniel" at least century before the birth of Jesus. But they believe that the texts about Jesus written and collected by that newer sect that called them Christians simply don't prove that he's Messiah, as they are often based on misreadings of the Hebrew Bible, see for the example how NT came to use "the…

I'm just saying you can easily reconcile Ecclesiastes with the Christian notion of heaven by considering its context. I don't know if there's any such problem to be reconciled in Judaism.

Re: Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse

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Post by acqq »

philwelch wrote: post #44
acqq wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also "theologically" according to the Jews their (older) Bible simply mentions "everlasting life" in the "Book of Daniel" at least century before the birth of Jesus. But they believe that the texts about Jesus written and collected by that newer sect that called them Christians simply don't prove that he's Messiah, as they are often based on misreadings of the Hebrew Bible, see for the example how NT came to use "the…

I'm just saying you can easily reconcile Ecclesiastes with the Christian notion of heaven by considering its context. I don't know if there's any such problem to be reconciled in Judaism.

My response was always to your claim that "the possibility of eternal life in heaven was only offered by Christ" and all my responses were to demonstrate that it's not "only by Christ" but an older and very known concept. They weren't supposed to help you reconcile that fact with your favorite theology.

Re: Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse

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Post by philwelch »

acqq wrote: post #45
philwelch wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just saying you can easily reconcile Ecclesiastes with the Christian notion of heaven by considering its context. I don't know if there's any such problem to be reconciled in Judaism.

My response was always to your claim that "the possibility of eternal life in heaven was only offered by Christ" and all my responses were to demonstrate that it's not "only by Christ" but an older and very known concept. They weren't supposed to help you reconcile that fact with your favorite theology.

I'm an atheist. I don't have a "favorite theology" but I understand some religions better than others, the original point of this discussion was a supposed inconsistency in one of them, and I find the subject interesting as an intellectual exercise. Now will you stop being needlessly confrontational?

Re: Why Hating Your Shitty Job Only Makes It Worse

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Post by CleanedStar »

crynix wrote: post #37
CleanedStar wrote: post #23

Some wage slave making minimum wage doesn't hop to attention to the second a college educated "lifestyle website" owner walks in the door, let me break out the violins. Then she's going to give some condescending life advice to the guy who is supposed to wait on her hand and foot. Lowly wage slaves have their ways to deal with annoying, self-important customers. I have friends who are waiters. Believe me, the people…

Reactions to obnoxious customers is strictly unprofessionally and shouldn't be tolerated. Someone is paying you to do your job. Do it right.

If I am doing all the serving, and the cooks are doing all the cooking, what then is the Appleebee's CEO and stockholders doing? The people working at the restaurant are the ones creating the wealth. They're not "paying" me, I am "paying" them.
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