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I think the idea of going to work and enjoying it is dead! I love to go to work, if i don't enjoy my job or get bored of it, i look for another. Why should i have a handout? Life tastes sweeter when you have earned it.
I am not a work-a-holic, i enjoy my holidays and my weekends but if i have to do extra hours i do without complaining or work the occasional weekend also, no problem, love the job and the feeling of earning my money. I started working at 15 and am now 36 and have not been unemployed for more than 1 week.
I'm not sure how it works in the USA but in Spain where i live they allowed gay marriage mainly for reasons of inheritance, buying property, rights to not resuscitate etc. mainly they where given the rights that married couples have as the law didn't recognize living together as giving the partner any rights over the other in case of death or illness.
Don't get me wrong, i am not in the least bit worried, i am an atheist through and through. This just came up in conversation with a religious friend of mine. he said "don't you think you should believe, just in case" and i answered " why? god isn't real and if he was he would send me to heaven before you" (the last bit was just to piss him off more than anything.
I believe that many factors change the belief in god/s, in the beginning gods where a way to explain the unexplainable, later they where used to conquer fear i.e. medicine was severely lacking and people died at birth, young ages and of diseases that we can now cure with a pill, god was needed to give comfort that if you die you will go to a better place. These days, except for the few fundamentalists around, we can have a good and fulfilling life on earth and no reason to wish for an after life as this one is good enough and just getting better year by year.
The most religious people in the world are always the poorest, must subjugated, most prone to death because of a lack of medicine/technology or have an overbearing religious culture, that says if you don't believe we will shun/kill you (like Saudi Arabia, where i currently live).
In short: good, healthy life = less belief in god,
poor, diseased, suffering life = more belief in god, or at least the hope that there has to be something better than this crap!
Yesterday i flew from Frankfurt to Bahrain, 6 1/2 hours, I paid full price for my ticket and found my self squashed against the window because the guy next to me took his seat and half of my seat! Why should i have to suffer because he can't fit in his seat. I asked to be moved but the flight was full even in business class. I don't mean to insult people, but when i pay 1,250 euros for a flight i expect to at least have my seat to myself.
I am probably a good person but I haven't taken the time to fill out my profile, so you'll never know! |