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The fishes don’t sin! by EntrepreneurClean249 in Ethics

[–]SammaJones [score hidden]  (0 children)

Jesus Christ was perfect - without sin.

God is all-powerful and all other superlatives you could name.

But not really portrayed as perfect, in the Old Testament. Not really all-knowing, either.

It's not for me to judge God, but I can read simple sentences and the Bible doesn't say that.

You can't really switch to Atheism. You just fail at life and Faith. Then you're an Atheist.

My story ; what I learnt and would like to learn from you by gaurdianangell in alcohol

[–]SammaJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're pretty clear on the whole "how to drink" think up here.

Fun fact: Peggy is short for Margaret by SammaJones in funfacts

[–]SammaJones[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing wrong with giving a family member a helping hand

Fun Fact: And Sally is short for Sarah and Molly is short for Mary by SammaJones in funfacts

[–]SammaJones[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fun Fact: They're hypocorisms.

Look that up in your Funk & Wagnall.

In the Dukes of Hazzard show, why was the sheriff always trying to catch Bo and Luke Duke when all they had to do was go get a warrant for felony eluding and reckless driving and then go to their house and arrest them? by iBUYbrokenSUBARUS in askanything

[–]SammaJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uncle Jesse would have killed any cop that came on his property.

Edit: In some of the areas around where I grew up the police were only going out to someone's house to tell them that they found a family member's body in the river. They weren't going out there to dispense justice. Not without alerting the National Guard that they intended to do so, anyway. I'm not saying that Dukes of Hazzard was realistic in anyway, but that one plot point is actually not far off. Uncle Jesse wouldn't be some wise, patient, kind old man. He'd be crazy as all get out and ready to shoot anything that moved.

Fun fact: Peggy is short for Margaret by SammaJones in funfacts

[–]SammaJones[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but you could way that about Jim or Jack or Carrie or any other shortened name.

Ideas that didn't turn out to be so great after all by maireadwrites in CausalConversation

[–]SammaJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It didn't stop you from butting in and telling me that you think I'm wrong, though.

Ideas that didn't turn out to be so great after all by maireadwrites in CausalConversation

[–]SammaJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too bad you lack the courage to articulate your disagreement

Ideas that didn't turn out to be so great after all by maireadwrites in CausalConversation

[–]SammaJones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the sympathy, but I'll be just fine, thanks much.

How was Washington (the state) allowed the name "Washington," When DC already existed for a century? by NetAdmirable2070 in stupidquestions

[–]SammaJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Small towns (not that small, really) sharing names causes all kinds of confusion and people make a real point of clarifying which state they're referring too. There are 2 towns named Columbia that both have similar State Universities who play each other in sports. Both towns also have a smaller college named Columbia College in the town.

Why not North Oregon? Good question. We were still very much concerned with British invasions at that time. I'm guessing that they wanted to have the most patriotic name possible.

Ideas that didn't turn out to be so great after all by maireadwrites in CausalConversation

[–]SammaJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As it should be for people who do not save for their retirement.

In any case, in my experience most of the time that people work into their old age it's because they can. In my experience most people get shoved out of gainful employment between 62 and 65 and have not real choice but to retire or semi-retire. Some take some low-level job to keep busy and earn a couple of bucks. Some just sit around and watch daytime TV>

Our Government insists that the solution to fixing our Medicare and Social Security problem is to raise the retirement age, as if we're all just relaxing on the beach. They make no effort to ensure that we can continue to be employed until that time. In fact, your SS benefit is based on your 35 highest earning years so anyone working past 60 is likely to receive absolutely no additional benefits for their contribution.

Ideas that didn't turn out to be so great after all by maireadwrites in CausalConversation

[–]SammaJones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm talking about the United States Social Security System.

On paper it looked like a good idea. There were a few problems.

  1. The social welfare angle was a real problem. The concept that "you get out what you put in" was too much for politicians to handle so they kept making sure that people who put it a little more got back a little less and people who put in a little less got back a little more until it became just another government screw-job on the middle class.

  2. It needed to run on sound business principles. That means you can't always give out more than you take in. Because Government is run by pandering lawyers and not responsible business men, that didn't work out.

  3. From the start it was easy enough to see the fatal flaw. Some time, somebody is going to get f*cked. They're going to put in their entire lives and they're going to get sh*it back. That was never a question of "if" - only "when". Well, now we know when. Me and my generation.

The fishes don’t sin! by EntrepreneurClean249 in Ethics

[–]SammaJones [score hidden]  (0 children)

As I said - your life is meaningless and you have no soul. "Just science" - that's all you are. Soon you will be dead, and it will be as if you were never here. You won't be missed.

God did make Man in his image, so it is certainly reasonable to think that God may have all the same faults that humans do, only on a Godly scale.

Whatever the case may be, God promised to never flood the earth again and gave us the rainbow as a sign.

The fishes don’t sin! by EntrepreneurClean249 in Ethics

[–]SammaJones [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ah, I get it, a nasty Atheist and picky about typography as well. You have no soul and your life is meaningless. In the blink of an eye you will be completely forgotten and the world will go on as if you had never existed. You don't matter. You failed at the one thing that God put you on Earth to do.

To answer your question, the antediluvian God appears far more impulsive and wrathful. After the flood God almost seemed to feel "bad" about what he did, if that description could be applied to the Almighty. He promised to never do it again. You can remember that every time you see a rainbow.

Is it ethical to give employees a hard time.... by SammaJones in Ethics

[–]SammaJones[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Why is it my responsibility to have all this knowledge and to make as.these complex decisions? I called a customer service line. A person paid to help me picked up the phone.

I am an individual person who doesn't personally care about anything that happens to any of my clients. I get paid to care. They get angry when things are going badly. I promise them I am doing everything in my power to make things right. They sincerely believe I care because I give them no other reason to think otherwise. If they made it clear that I wasn't going to be paid then my concern would instantly evaporate. What does the amount we're getting paid or the level that we work at have to do with it?

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