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I was directly confronted with the inherent facism of religion. My General Manager passed out the following bit of tripe at the conclusion of our weekly useless friday morning meeting:
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Today before you say an unkind word - Think of someone who can't speak.
Before you complain about the taste of your food - Think of someone who has nothing to eat.
Before you complain about your husband or wife - Think of someone who's crying out to GOD (sic) for a companion.
Today before you complain about life - Think of somoene who went too early to heaven.
Before you complain about your children - Think of somone who desires children but they're barren.
Before you argue about your dirty house someone didn't clean or sweep - Think of the people who are living in the sreets.
Before whining about the distance you drive - Think of somoene who walks the same distance with their feet.
And when you are tired and complain about your job - Think of the unemployed, the disabled, and those who wish they had your job.
But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another - Remember that not one of us is without sin we all answer to one MAKER. (sic)
And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down - Put a smile on your face and thank GOD (sic) you're alive and still around.
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Now, don't get me wrong, it can be healthy and even virtuous to appreciate what you have. It can be very unhealthy to focus only on where you want to be and not on where you are. However, aside from the obvious innapropriateness of bringing this to a meeting, its true meaning is revealed when given the context.
You see, in the car business most stores lose at least one salesperson a month. We are no different, and since business is a little slow we've been losing some experienced guys lately. But rather than examining what management could do to address this attrition, we are told to be happy with what we have. Whats more it is not only morally objectionable for us to question what we're gaining from our employers for our efforts, but a sin in the eyes of the spaghetti monster.
Don't question, don't object, don't wish for more, or even long for less. Just keep your head down and be thankful for what you have.
Vomit.
Whatever we have in this life, good or bad, is mostly the result of people who were disatisfied with something and decided to do something about it! From walking upright to email: dissatisfaction is the mother of invention and the font of betterment!
Fascist pigs!
To be fair my management team is overall the best I have seen in the car business. For the industry they do make an effort to see that we're working happy. But the whole ideal that's laid out above springs directly from a religious upbringing in my opinion. Organized religion promotes facism. In general they all seem to promote blind adherence to a paternal group of gods and demagogues that should never be questioned only obeyed. Ones whole life is to be built around a rigid ideal that promotes passive acceptance of ones own inferiority and sublimation in the group.
The world is described in terms of black and white, all is either good or bad, and these dichotomies are also not to be questioned.
Gah I can't even go on. Oh for an ethical world.
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