ajax18 wrote:I'll admit that I have mental and health challenges. And yet, I've managed to earn a living for myself and my family in spite of that. I'm in pain a lot, but I've never missed a day of work in 10 years.
Well, I wish you better health and strength. You may need it; you’re supporting the man who is busting the budget, reducing Medicaire’s ability to assist your family years down the road, and saddling your children with the highest levels of debt in history.
You think I'm an idiot right? I'll admit that I have mental and health challenges. And yet, I've managed to earn a living for myself and my family in spite of that. I'm in pain a lot, but I've never missed a day of work in 10 years.
Sorry to hear that.
You are not an idiot. You're often wrong but you're still a human being and a fellow American. Yeah, I'll claim you.
You think I'm an idiot right? I'll admit that I have mental and health challenges. And yet, I've managed to earn a living for myself and my family in spite of that. I'm in pain a lot, but I've never missed a day of work in 10 years.
Maybe calling you an idiot would be a bit hyperbolic, but I make no apologies for regarding some of the positions you hold both irrational and hateful. Your attitudes toward established scientific consensus on climate change, for instance, is very nearly as irrational and ignorant as flat-earthism.
Never missing a day of work due to health problems is not necessarily a virtue. I have had health problems too, and have even been hospitalized on occasion. There is no virtue or wisdom in ignoring medical advice and going to work despite illness which warrants hospitalization or is potentially contagious. Insisting on going to work despite illness can be not only foolish but grossly irresponsible.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
There is no virtue or wisdom in ignoring medical advice and going to work despite illness which warrants hospitalization or is potentially contagious. Insisting on going to work despite illness can be not only foolish but grossly irresponsible.
Sure if you have a virus and will be healed and noncontagious within a few days. There are many people who will be sick and in pain the rest of their lives, yet find a way to get up and push through the day rather than find a way to get on disability.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
There is no virtue or wisdom in ignoring medical advice and going to work despite illness which warrants hospitalization or is potentially contagious. Insisting on going to work despite illness can be not only foolish but grossly irresponsible.
Sure if you have a virus and will be healed and noncontagious within a few days. There are many people who will be sick and in pain the rest of their lives, yet find a way to get up and push through the day rather than find a way to get on disability.
Yup. And of course it is always easy to tell whether one is suffering from a transient virus infection rather than anything more serious and capable of being treated. Consulting a doctor is for wusses.
I like to think of all those people working while sick and in pain. The more the merrier (for me - I'm healthy and comfortable). Since the more of them there are the better I feel, I'd like to see all financial support to poor and sick people abolished, so that all temptation to seek treatment or to find a way to be able to give up labouring away in agony is removed. Wouldn't that be great?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
