Surely the idea is that if you're saved, you won't do those things.
yeah exactly.
rather than people performing acts so they are saved, you can tell that they are saved through the acts they perform.
that's the whole thing with the "protestant/puritan work ethic": people flaunt their hard work and frugality as a show of piety, a form of proof that they are among the elect.
Funnily enough, I can think of a parable in the New Testament that shows a Pharisee doing that and then going "hey, see this? Don't do that."
yeah, I had televangelists of the Jim Bakker sort in mind when I replied earlier...piety and good works made way for "look how rich I am, oh and fuck the poor"
Well, that's kind of a predestination sorta deal. Not all protestants follow that.
this is specifically in reference to the whole Protestant Work Ethic (<- this is a wikipedia link here) thing Weber talks about in reference specifically to Calvinism and whatnot, so yeah it's a bit of a misnomer but its not mine.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
It's called Calvinism, and when I believed in it, I thought that you should treat everyone as the elect, no matter how unlikely, because there's a good chance they could be.
"Illusion," he said. He half smiled, then let it go as if infinitely weary, sick of Time. "I know everything, you see," the old voice wheedled. "The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind." He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. "We see from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout. Not that we cause things to fail, you understand." He was testy all at once, as if answering an argument that had been put to him so often he was sick of it. "Dragons don't mess with your piddling free will. Pah! Listen to me, boy." The dead eye brightened. "If you with your knowledge of present and past recall that a certain man slipped on, say, a banana peel, or fell off his chair, or drowned in a river, that recollection does not mean that you caused him to slip, or fall, or drown. Correct? Of course it's correct! It happened, and you know it, but knowledge is not cause. Of course! Anyone who argues otherwise is a stupid ignoramus. Well, so with me. My knowledge of the future does not cause the future. It merely sees it, exactly as creatures at your low level recall things past. And even if, say, I interfere--burn up somebody's meadhall, for instance, whether because I just feel like it or because some supplicant asked me to--even then I do not change the future, I merely do what I saw from the beginning. That's obvious, surely. Let's say it's settled then. So much for free will and intercession!"
The dragon's eye closed to a slit. "Grendel!"
I jumped.
"Don't look so bored," he said. He scowled, black as midnight. "Think how I must feel," he said.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
A Poll is just a vote, it's not hard to understand why people are "invested" in this "vote".
So many people already give the excuse of apathy for not voting, like they feel their individual vote isn't going to do anything. we don't really need a poll going around that basically gives people incentive not to vote under the pretense that their vote isn't gonna do a damned thing.
Even aside from the fact that polling this early is meaningless, those same polls show Trump gets crushed versus any Democrat. Like are they just looking at primary polls or what?
A Poll is just a vote, it's not hard to understand why people are "invested" in this "vote".
So many people already give the excuse of apathy for not voting, like they feel their individual vote isn't going to do anything. we don't really need a poll going around that basically gives people incentive not to vote under the pretense that their vote isn't gonna do a damned thing.
Polls are very much not votes. That's sort of the point. One of the reasons Trump appears to be doing so well is no one's really applying a likely voter filter this far out. That would cause a yooge and luxurious drop in his numbers, but it wouldn't sell as well as this whole spectacle, so hey.
Even aside from the fact that polling this early is meaningless, those same polls show Trump gets crushed versus any Democrat. Like are they just looking at primary polls or what?
There's also the poll from SurveyUSA (isn't that the company that literally got busted for making shit up) that has Trump winning more among Hispanics than Romney did
this makes me wonder if people were talking about how the 1992 election would go at this point in 1991...I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to the race at that point.
This season did kick off a little early due to Ted Cruz declaring when he did, but I think the September before the election is pretty normal to start talking about it.
Although I was only 5 in 1991 so I couldn't personally weigh in there. :p
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'm getting REALLY tired of seeing that "I AM the manager!" post
If a customer is asking for a manger it's because you're not giving them what they want so, uh, no, I'm not on your side in this one
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
basically, stupid people result in stupid interactions, but when that stupid person is a customer you are obligated to put up with them, which is very frustrating
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Over the years I developed a particular Tumblr habit without even realizing it: If I looked at a post and the text at the bottom wasn't indented, it was usually safe to assume I was looking at the words of the person who reblogged it.
Now nothing is indented and that keeps throwing me off because I have this expectation that unindented text at the end of a post is a new addition, not something already on it when it was reblogged.
basically, stupid people result in stupid interactions, but when that stupid person is a customer you are obligated to put up with them, which is very frustrating
Yeah, that makes sense.
I guess I'm a bit biased because I tend to save "let me talk to your manager" for cases when whoever I'm talking to is just plain not listening or otherwise being exasperating, but I guess a lot of people break it out whenever they don't get what they want right away.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
I really need the indentations. I really, really need them.
Also yes there are tons of people who just go straight to the manager. There's also a common assumption that managers wouldn't be doing the grunt work, because fuck the working man, and I imagine that shutting those folks down can be very satisfying.
Over the years I developed a particular Tumblr habit without even realizing it: If I looked at a post and the text at the bottom wasn't indented, it was usually safe to assume I was looking at the words of the person who reblogged it.
Now nothing is indented and that keeps throwing me off because I have this expectation that unindented text at the end of a post is a new addition, not something already on it when it was reblogged.
basically, stupid people result in stupid interactions, but when that stupid person is a customer you are obligated to put up with them, which is very frustrating
Yeah, that makes sense.
I guess I'm a bit biased because I tend to save "let me talk to your manager" for cases when whoever I'm talking to is just plain not listening or otherwise being exasperating, but I guess a lot of people break it out whenever they don't get what they want right away.
As someone who worked an extraordinarily shitty fast food job please please please assume the best about cashiers even when it's nearly impossible
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Over the years I developed a particular Tumblr habit without even realizing it: If I looked at a post and the text at the bottom wasn't indented, it was usually safe to assume I was looking at the words of the person who reblogged it.
Now nothing is indented and that keeps throwing me off because I have this expectation that unindented text at the end of a post is a new addition, not something already on it when it was reblogged.
basically, stupid people result in stupid interactions, but when that stupid person is a customer you are obligated to put up with them, which is very frustrating
Yeah, that makes sense.
I guess I'm a bit biased because I tend to save "let me talk to your manager" for cases when whoever I'm talking to is just plain not listening or otherwise being exasperating, but I guess a lot of people break it out whenever they don't get what they want right away.
As someone who worked an extraordinarily shitty fast food job please please please assume the best about cashiers even when it's nearly impossible
They're trying their best, usually
Fair. I'd be hypocritical if I didn't, considering I told people to lay off the poor guy who runs the @staff blog :P
REALLY wish Edgy Teens wouldn't use a national tragedy to feel superior and pretend they're participating in a dialogue about terrible foreign policy when really they don't give a shit about it outside using it to get notes.
Seriously I'm so pissed about that post that always goes around
You wanna have a discussion about how 9/11 kickstarted a shitton of Islamophobia in the states, forever altered our relationship with militarization, justified an absurd amount of civilian deaths, etc. etc. etc.? Fine, those are extremely important topics to discuss. They need nuance, though. Not cutesy bullshit where you sarcastically mourn the deaths on 9/11. That doesn't add anything to the discussion.
REALLY wish Edgy Teens wouldn't use a national tragedy to feel superior and pretend they're participating in a dialogue about terrible foreign policy when really they don't give a shit about it outside using it to get notes.
9/11 happened 14 years ago and is still being used to justify, to quote:
It's just twee bullshit. They're trying to shame people for mourning the loss of 3000 lives.
I absolutely agree that it's been wrapped up in nationalism and commercialism, but again, that's a level of subtlety and nuance not being engaged with. And the fact that this shit mainly gets popular on the day itself is very telling.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
it's like playing the lottery, if you play you probably wont win, but if you dont play, you definitely wont.
and along the way some televangelist blowhards cut out the "not sinning" part so they could buy a private jet
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
"Illusion," he said. He half smiled, then let it go as if infinitely weary, sick of Time. "I know everything, you see," the old voice wheedled. "The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind." He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. "We see from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout. Not that we cause things to fail, you understand." He was testy all at once, as if answering an argument that had been put to him so often he was sick of it. "Dragons don't mess with your piddling free will. Pah! Listen to me, boy." The dead eye brightened. "If you with your knowledge of present and past recall that a certain man slipped on, say, a banana peel, or fell off his chair, or drowned in a river, that recollection does not mean that you caused him to slip, or fall, or drown. Correct? Of course it's correct! It happened, and you know it, but knowledge is not cause. Of course! Anyone who argues otherwise is a stupid ignoramus. Well, so with me. My knowledge of the future does not cause the future. It merely sees it, exactly as creatures at your low level recall things past. And even if, say, I interfere--burn up somebody's meadhall, for instance, whether because I just feel like it or because some supplicant asked me to--even then I do not change the future, I merely do what I saw from the beginning. That's obvious, surely. Let's say it's settled then. So much for free will and intercession!"
The dragon's eye closed to a slit. "Grendel!"
I jumped.
"Don't look so bored," he said. He scowled, black as midnight. "Think how I must feel," he said.
Although I was only 5 in 1991 so I couldn't personally weigh in there. :p
If a customer is asking for a manger it's because you're not giving them what they want so, uh, no, I'm not on your side in this one
Also yes there are tons of people who just go straight to the manager. There's also a common assumption that managers wouldn't be doing the grunt work, because fuck the working man, and I imagine that shutting those folks down can be very satisfying.
why this
But like a five year old's birthday party, though.
low rise fluorescent yellow chinos with a full break
too-shiny navy shirt
They're trying their best, usually
You wanna have a discussion about how 9/11 kickstarted a shitton of Islamophobia in the states, forever altered our relationship with militarization, justified an absurd amount of civilian deaths, etc. etc. etc.? Fine, those are extremely important topics to discuss. They need nuance, though. Not cutesy bullshit where you sarcastically mourn the deaths on 9/11. That doesn't add anything to the discussion.
I absolutely agree that it's been wrapped up in nationalism and commercialism, but again, that's a level of subtlety and nuance not being engaged with. And the fact that this shit mainly gets popular on the day itself is very telling.
But I am a person capable of holding two separate non conflicting opinions on a subject