The morning started out like any other with one exception, my right foot was exposed from under the covers and unknowingly to me was placed where the cat decides to rest on our bed.
In the wee hours the cat sits down quietly beside my foot and began sniffing, then licking and then having what she thought was a nibble was definitely more like she was sitting down for a buffet! I immediately jumped up (as you would) and said something like damn cat!
Having realized I was awake the cat thought "I can eat later" and promptly decided to go and play with something else. Well I immediately zoned out and went back to sleep. An atomic bomb could go off and I would sleep right through it! Yet it is quiet around me that will wake me up. Go figure?
So now I am sitting here and pondering how is it with all the experience I have gained in information technology over the last 30 years why is it that I am currently out of work? Granted that I have not gone the academic route and not have a piece of paper to glorify experience in one particular area whereas I have learned from doing. It is true I am not an ardent user of Microsoft ™ products however I have used them in order to assist with peoples computer issues, the same applies to Apple OS ™ & POSIX (UNIX, Linux) operating systems. While I have completed a course in Telecommunications Cabling and achieved an open license (some time ago) has only opened a few extra doors.
Now I sit here on a late February morning, I am looking at what I am going to do with the day. Most likely do some web editing & some Stumbling (StumbleUpon providing you use Mozilla based browser). Undoubtedly a trip to the Mall will be on the agenda sometime.
Perhaps something will present itself today, if not hopefully tomorrow.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
My initial blog
Here I sit, pondering what to write when I think '..most people just write about rather obvious & perhaps sometimes mundane issues'.
Well at times this may be the case however I think perhaps the one main issue I think about is how much the world would be better off without religion. Lets look at the precepts of certain groups (namely the extremist fundamentalists) who have taken small segments of their 'bible' (for want of a better word), and interpreted as doctrine. And yet many of these people complain of being stifled in their lives, yet they staunchly defend their direction of faith as the true religions. As my understanding of the bible (taken from the third person), has been rewritten several times and in each revision is an interpretation on the previous writings. Yet as experiments have proven many times over with a random number of groups, I believe I should elaborate here.
Say we have a target group of a hundred people and line them up, we tell the first person in the line a particular sentence and ask that they pass it to the next person in the line and so on until the last person has been told what the previous person has spoken to them. The first person is asked to repeat out loud what was told to them and then the last person does similarly, it is more often than not the text is either totally different or is totally out of the original context.
This is how I perceive religion as a whole, do not get me wrong if a person feels they need a crux in the form of a religious belief that is their choice but do not force others to follow the same belief.
As my understanding that stories of Jesus leave a gap in the bible, the period between the ages of 13 and 22 (or there abouts). This is because he had lost his way in the desert and was found by the Hittites and cared for. So what is perceived to be Christianity in fact the Hittite religion.
Some years ago during a conversation at the dinner table with family, the conversation came up if we believed there was a god. Someone made the comment you are only a good person if you believed. When it became my turn I calmly said I was an Atheist, my mother had a grim look on her face and I said "you have known me all my life and you know I am a good person, and I don't believe in any deity. I have faith in myself as I do others, why do I need to believe in something that is an intangible that there is no proof that it exists?" My mother very quickly became quiet, knowing that she had no recourse. And my father had a smirk on his face (perhaps because there was someone to win an argument against the family matriarch)!
There will be more to come in further posts.
Well at times this may be the case however I think perhaps the one main issue I think about is how much the world would be better off without religion. Lets look at the precepts of certain groups (namely the extremist fundamentalists) who have taken small segments of their 'bible' (for want of a better word), and interpreted as doctrine. And yet many of these people complain of being stifled in their lives, yet they staunchly defend their direction of faith as the true religions. As my understanding of the bible (taken from the third person), has been rewritten several times and in each revision is an interpretation on the previous writings. Yet as experiments have proven many times over with a random number of groups, I believe I should elaborate here.
Say we have a target group of a hundred people and line them up, we tell the first person in the line a particular sentence and ask that they pass it to the next person in the line and so on until the last person has been told what the previous person has spoken to them. The first person is asked to repeat out loud what was told to them and then the last person does similarly, it is more often than not the text is either totally different or is totally out of the original context.
This is how I perceive religion as a whole, do not get me wrong if a person feels they need a crux in the form of a religious belief that is their choice but do not force others to follow the same belief.
As my understanding that stories of Jesus leave a gap in the bible, the period between the ages of 13 and 22 (or there abouts). This is because he had lost his way in the desert and was found by the Hittites and cared for. So what is perceived to be Christianity in fact the Hittite religion.
Some years ago during a conversation at the dinner table with family, the conversation came up if we believed there was a god. Someone made the comment you are only a good person if you believed. When it became my turn I calmly said I was an Atheist, my mother had a grim look on her face and I said "you have known me all my life and you know I am a good person, and I don't believe in any deity. I have faith in myself as I do others, why do I need to believe in something that is an intangible that there is no proof that it exists?" My mother very quickly became quiet, knowing that she had no recourse. And my father had a smirk on his face (perhaps because there was someone to win an argument against the family matriarch)!
There will be more to come in further posts.
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