The Pain of Coping When a Job Is Snatched Away

The New York Times ^ | December 1, 2003 | JILL ANDRESKY FRASER

[XBob]

200 - basically, protestants are a bottom up religion and catholics/russian orthodox and communists, and muslims are top down religions.

protestants are generally loose organizations of separate congregations who nominate and elect those who guide their religion - hence a history of independence and self reliance.

russian/greek orthodox are very similar to catholic in structure and organization. - Acceptance of dictates from un-elected monarchs/aristocrats/ditators/popes, who appoint the people below them.

this religious acceptance 'legitimizes' aristocrats and dictators, and ruling over 'peasants', so they are much more prone to accept it. As a result, 'freedom' is much less common and not a normal state.

[XBob]

200 - "Oh don't forget utopian and murderous anabaptists, autocratic Calvinists and also England under Protestants and all N. Europe under Lutherins."

That's why many of the original Americans came here, for religious freedom. In Europe, though they protested the Pope and Catholic church and broke away. They soon established their own 'dictatorships', which were often just as supporting of dictatorships and aristocracies, as those they replaced.

They just replaced one group of dictators for others.

Do you have to pay a 'church tax' in Russia, like they do in Germany?

[XBob]

201 - "protestants are generally loose organizations of separate congregations who nominate and elect those who guide their religion - hence a history of independence and self reliance. "

Perhaps I should say - AMERICAN Protestants, as we Americans protested the original protesters who protested the Pope.

[Fledermaus]

I don't like to tell people how to spend their money or raise their kids, but blowing retirement money on a needless sports excursion (especially when you can watch the game on TV for free) seems foolish, don't you think?

I live just south of Nashville and I'm too stingy to even get tickets to the Titan games there. Well, if you could even get any! lol

[rb22982]

But I have said to interviewers that stability is what I want but to no avail.

We've hired several college grads (ages 22-50) for very entry level 'shift department lead' management jobs at my retail store in the last year, even with the understanding that they will leave if they find a job as long as they give us a proper notice as long as their hours are flexible. If you go apply at a retail store and ask for weekends and nights off completely, don't expect to be hired. They tend to work much harder than a lot of younger kids which is the reason they were hired. And a couple of the ones who have stayed a while have been promoted to a department heads which make 25-37k a year. Several of my supervisors did this several yeras back as college grads, never left the business, and now are the general managers making 40-75k a year. All full time employees at my store get cheap healthcare/dental/life insurance (after 3 months) and 401k (after 1 year).