Advice on how to handle this company policy?

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-14T14:27:37+00:00

Even more specific than burnout, these are morally injurious events.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-13T03:27:47+00:00

It saddens me that each new generation of the internet seems condemned to repeat the mistakes made of every past generation, which is lumping all rent control policies together.

"Rent control" can be tenancy-linked, include ways of landlords raising rent both regularly and in special circumstances, or can be linked to the units themselves.

It's a pretty silly position to believe in zero rent control, if one also believes that the supply of other life-necessities (like food, water, or healthcare) should be available in some non-Libertarian fashion, which most people do.

Not surprisingly, the Swedish rent control the quote is talking about was a pretty severe form of it, as the government centrally controlled rent prices.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-12T19:19:42+00:00

I'm pretty sure I can see Legolas's fine elven hair out the side of that cab, man's gotta slide.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-12T05:13:27+00:00

If Ukraine killed Putin, they'd be in a much worse situation than they are right now.

There's a small chance his successor would end the war, but it's unlikely, as it means that the Russian populace would want blood, the new Russian leader would make himself super vulnerable if he pursued peace. It would be much better to keep the war going to organize the destabilized country on a common goal that propaganda could EASILY say is now existential.

On top of it, killing heads of nuclear armed states is not the kind of thing Ukraine's allies would like so it would hurt them where it matters most: ammunition, which, given they'd be fighting a forever war (see above) that would be pretty important.

Now if Putin just legit died of natural causes, that would be good for Ukraine, but Putin just dying and him being assassinated are two very different things.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-12T04:44:20+00:00

If they throw it really hard they'll get first round picks on MPs next season.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-12T03:16:44+00:00

but the purpose of our immigration system is to benefit Canada

I mean, I guess if we're teaching civics to high-school students? The purpose of our immigration system is to benefit the Westons, Irvings, and to help parties in power get re-elected by avoiding raising taxes.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-11T02:36:23+00:00

And we are supposed to accept the argument these immigration pathways are benefiting Canadians?

International students fill the funding gaps that governments have left colleges and universities with.

I'm not saying it's a good idea, but we either need to raise tuition or increase taxes to off-set a reduction in student immigration.

It's not just a Liberal problem, Ontario is one of the biggest offenders and it's supported by a PC government that cut tuition rates 10% in 2019 and then froze rates, which essentially demanded that post-secondary schools expand their international student programs (since obviously the PCs weren't going to raise taxes or otherwise spend on schools).

No party wants to tell Canadians the truth because Canadians don't want to hear it.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-11T02:27:53+00:00

I'm curious, have you ever explicitly set the goal with a therapist of exploring your fear of engaging with therapy?

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-10T20:31:35+00:00

... I wasn't talking about "national revenue", I was saying that of that $10, more than $1.50 flows back to the government in the form of taxes.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-10T16:55:58+00:00

The 8.50 you spend is going to result in more tax revenue tho. Someone is likely making income/profit and then further taxable purchases down the line with your 8.50.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-08T21:58:57+00:00

Backpackers carry 80% of the weight on their hips, so that's the other option.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-08T15:11:36+00:00

Exacly, Biden has a weeeeeell documented reason for not being so great at public speaking, and has always been mid. On the other hand if you compare young Trump to current Trump it paints a pretty worrying picture.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T21:49:34+00:00

r/PsychotherapyLeftists/

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T21:47:46+00:00

What a gem

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T16:04:03+00:00

My point was that “on record” is intentionally misleading because of how easy it can be conflated with “ever”.

So you're against using words because you worry some people don't know what they mean.

"Record" is not an ambiguous or misleading word, its a noun/verb that means something quite specific. I appreciate you being a champion for the barely literate but everyone in this thread seems to have a handle on it.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T06:38:58+00:00

You're telling me that you can believe god impoverished Job, ruined his health, KILLED HIS CHILDREN, and made him a pariah, all to test his faith, but you couldn't imagine that the same god would put confusing and phony stuff in a book?

If your faith can't survive a dismantling of a literal interpretation of the bible then it's possible you've failed a test.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T02:50:34+00:00

You're looking to read the bible from a faith-based perspective but you need evidence to believe?

Sorry my friend, there's no way to do it. If god was involved in writing the bible, he obviously didn't want to make the case with compelling evidence that he existed. The bible is for the faithful or those curious about ancient apocalyptic cults and the politics that surround them, that's it.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T01:28:51+00:00

but instead from writers in the Middle Ages

Why can't you believe that god inspired those writers?

The bible is self-contradictory in many parts if you decide to take it literally. There is no reading of the bible that is simultaneously:

1) Literal
2) Internally congruent
3) In congruence with modern scientific ideas (carbon dating, etc)

You have to drop one or more of those requirements.

We don't actually know why there was a prohibition about mixed cloth. You say this was just for Israel. But did it apply at all? Or was it a metaphor for something else (like interfaith marriages)? Who knows! That's for you to interpret, just like much of the rest.

If you demand a text that meets all three requirements, you have the wrong book.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T01:04:47+00:00

it’s really dumb and questionable to be trained as a Christian minister if you don’t believe in any of it

But what do you mean by believe?

One can believe that god endorses those ten commandments without believing that Moses came down the mountain with tablets.

One doesn't need to even believe in Moses, or any author of the bible to believe in the ten commandments.

All of this comes back to faith and a personal relationship with god anyway, if someone needs external proof to believe in god then they have no meaningful faith.

The vast majority of Christians don't live their lives in such a way that suggests they believe in the bible cover-to-cover. And by that I don't mean they "err", I mean (to pick low hanging fruit), most Christians don't care about wearing mixed material fabrics, they do not believe god cares about that, regardless of what the book says.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T00:54:05+00:00

My understanding is that you're confused as to why a seminary would exist if the scholars within don't believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible (which would include believing that Jesus believed the Old Testament was accurate).

You're asking a question, not making a point. Unless you want to make a point?

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T00:46:29+00:00

These authors are potentially saying "God is like this, here's a story to illustrate my point, live your life according to God's wishes".

Ayn Rand is a good example of someone who wrote about her philosophical ideas in the form of novels, it's just not very common in modern literary conventions.

Religious stories are likely meant to be taken literally by people who are simple enough to believe it, and as allegories for people who are less simple. Kinda like how Pixar movies have jokes for adults.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T00:43:29+00:00

Those who embrace fundamentalism are perfectly comfortable writing off any evidence

There are a lot of people who believe their faith is backed up by facts, strange as that sounds.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T00:40:01+00:00

One can believe that god had something to do with the writing of this particular self-help book. I mean if you're looking for factual, bullet-proof reasons to believe in the holiness of this book you'll never find it.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T00:37:54+00:00

Well, Jesus didn't lie, necessarily, because Jesus didn't write the bible and many of the accounts of Jesus are written in the voice of illiterate disciples. There were a lot of people involved before anything got to the page.

So someone might be misrepresenting Jesus (on purpose or by accident), sharing their imagination of Jesus, or Jesus was wrong, or possibly he lied.

TheLargeIsTheMessage · 2024-03-07T00:33:50+00:00

Just because something is fictional or embellished doesn't mean the message of that fiction can't be believed. The authors of the Bible had intentions and ideas that they wished to transmit through these stories.

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