On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:33 PM, denstar <valliants...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> It seemed like you were judging garbage men. >> >> No it didn't > > Did so! =)p I was judging the author >> I didn't say I was better than him. I said I couldn't be happy as an >> unskilled laborer. > > Oh come now. Ye went a damn sight further than that. Many people take the easy way out, there's nothing wrong with that unless we all do. Somehow you think my pointing out someone not working to their full potential is an insult. That must mean you personally look down on him since you came to the conclusion I do. > I guess happiness and successfulness /could/ have different definitions. You really think success equals happiness? I don't. > Plenty of people utilize jobs with a lot of "down time" to further > themselves. People older than 25, even. > Some jobs legitimately don't require much more than "being there". > Some of those are pretty important, too. You're just not getting it are you? It was a bogus union job. Getting paid pretending to wait for the containers to arrive. > You seem to think that your way (and my way, as you know) is somehow > better than an alternative. Better for us, maybe, but not everyone. We're talking about happiness and I would hope most people aren't happy just getting by. Not all but most people have a sense of pride in their performance. I also realize many people have crappy dead end jobs and hate it. I've had a few myself. As a whole I would expect them to get a larger sample showing more people actually working for a living rather than the government but the article was promoting socialism so maybe socialism is happiness and I'm a fool. > It really did seem like you were talking trash about people in the, > um, service industry, so to speak. What trash? In what way did I trash the guy? > You put an "objective" value (low to none) on the profession, IIRC. > Something about low IQs, too, neh? It's a non thinking job, unskilled labor. Low IQ needed means he has to put no mental effort into his work just a little physical effort. I also didn't say it was bad or he was bad. Just that he chose the easy way out and wondered why he was used as a shining example of happiness. > Just an example of how "good for the gander" mentalities can suck. You're just stuck again huh? Can't get it out of your head that I wasn't insulting the guy? > An example of how saying someone who's happy is a bad representation > of happiness, just doesn't make sense. Unless you're being pretty > judgmental. =) It does ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325010 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
