Life lessons

Mister q, honestly I have nothing against you, but sometimes you talk as though you work at Macdonald’s fastfood house. Nothing personal, as i say. My world is a darker one than yours.

My dad gave me two lessons in life.

One was that no mater how bad things got, just hang on in, you do survive. I was about 13 and didn’t know what the hell he was on about, but it did sound ominous. Later, i learned what he was on about, and the lesson served me well.

The second was to warn me that people became harder as they grew older, and that some would have no restraint in hurting, even killing, you if it served them.

I thought this was a horrible observation, but even then I knew he was right. I think there was a Woody Allen film – Crimes and Misdemeanours?? – where some guy had his wife killed. This was done in such a way that nobody knew except the lead character (Allen), and nothing could be proven. Everyone continued as though the woman had never existed (I can’t remember how he explained her disappearance), and the murderer continued as the lovable man he had been before, the favourite chatter in the dinner parties. It was chilling because it was so restrained.

Which leaves me with a question. Why shouldn’t people do things like killing, or squirming ahead in life (as in my post on the previous page) if they can get away with it? It’s wrong isn’t a good enough answer. The question persists – why is it wrong?

If there is no God, everything is permitted – even the decision to be good and think of others. Everything is permitted, even that. If you don’t believe in God, what’s the answer to my question of why is it wrong?

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Hello scept. Nice to chat with you again. Hope you had a nice holiday…..

It is my belief that no matter who we call our creator, mine personal is called “God.”

It is also by belief that my God, does not hurt me, or others. It is us who make decisions in our life and how we run our own course…..may be right, may be wrong, we made those decisions, not God…

My father till the morning of his death, no longer could speak, always called me a survivor. His side nick name for me. Not wanting to let my dad go, he told me time to do so. First thing I recall saying, how would I survive with out his love and continued guidance when I screw up.. he said I would as always have, find way to move forward..other stopped never said another word.
As told by Doctors, people can still hear you. I continued to talk. Telling him was going out few minutes, to have a smoke in the car….10 minutes later, died…almost like waited for me to leave the room…..

What saying basically, no one, and no one, lives a perfect life or one we try to plan out for each of us. Can provide many challenges…we experience, learn, move on for next round..

But for me at end of day, crisis of some sort, or not, I do look up to the heaven, silently ask, what should I do now. He is the one put my confession at end of day, or share the goodness of the day too….

Linda

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sceptical guy

another rapture is due this weekend.. where all us bad buggers go to hell..

see ya there cowboy :)

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mooosey88 wrote:

Lol Well there you go you see Gez, in my line of work its the opposite, experience stands for everything and we get fresh out of Uni student nurses, who are completely wet behind the ears , they have done 3 years of classes, the 1st YEAR almost solely consists of team building and statistics, then arrive on a ward where they think giving someone a wash is beneath them ! Peoples lives depend on these people and if they get it wrong and , trust me, many do, it can have consequences. So give me a nurse who has started at the bottom and can put years of experience into some vastly differing situations over a ‘graduate’ to whom it is just a job and thinks because they ‘passed’ a pretty low key exam that most 16 year olds could do, they are entitled to call themselves qualified and trained. When they ‘hit’ the ward the training really begins

I’ve heard and seen this at first hand.

I was told that a student-midwife was an expert on Foucault and the oppression of women in the health service but when a real woman’s life was in danger, the said superior Foucault-midwife was helpless, and some older midwife who knew nothing of Foucault had to be brought in to save the woman’s life.

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lindaclemenza7

Another got her Paracetamol and her Tramadol mixed up, luckily before being administered, when questioned she answered ” oh I knew it ended in ‘ol’  !!!

AAARRGGHHHHHH

Graduates eh …….

I think people mix up ‘ being smart’ with’ Experience’….  IMO there is a vast difference.

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