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Religion Rant Redux
Sep. 26th, 2002 12:59 amOkay, this one goes out to a co-worker we'll refer to as X.
I can no longer discuss religion with you, period.
Number one, you start talking about it at the Worst Possible Time. ie, when clients are around. Religion, sex and politics can't be discussed around clients unless they initiate the conversation.
Heck, J has a history of fixed delusions about religion. You've been working in the field long enough that you should know what that means, but you ignore your job enough that I'll spell it out for you. J thinks God and the devil talk to him. Discussing religion while he's around will only serve to either confuse him, or cause him to decompensate, violently.
I know, most of the time our clients are very normal, but this doesn't change the fact that they're severely mentally ill. Knock off the god talk when they're in the room, okay?
Second. I know you've recently joined a religion that claims certain ties to my own. Heck, some of the archaeological evidence is really compelling, and bears further checking. That still doesn't make you Jewish, don't try telling me how to practice my religion.
Furthermore, don't try to quote "scripture" at me to prove your point.
-You're using a flawed translation, I've studied it in the original, and speak three or four dialects of Hebrew, as well as a little Aramaic, I know of what I speak.
-Those "Hebrew" lesson books that you're studying aren't Hebrew. I've been reading Hebrew since I was four, I know what the letters look like. At best, those look kinda like Ktav Ivri, a different semitic alphabet that Jews used to use thousands of years ago, until the neighboring semetic groups started publishing heresies, and challenging our writings, so we switched to Ktav Ashuri, and have been using it for millenia. Long before your religious group was supposed to have broken off. Someone snookered you, I don't care what degrees the author claims to have, thanks.
-Don't use the New Testament as an argument, and expect me to believe you. The founders of the modern incarnation of your religion use the NT (not the software, thankyouverymuch) as a way to attract Christian converts, and to hold on to some of the recent history of your ethnic group. Judaism doesn't believe in it, particularly the End Times. We don't believe in the Rapture, the apocalypse, or any of those things. We don't believe in the same concept of Satan or the devil. Heck, we don't even believe in Hell, really. (Yes, I know how ridiculously that sentence reads...) Babbling to me about how the smartchip in my AmEx Blue card is the mark of the Beast, and will be used against me by the Illuminati, and the One World Government to control my thoughts will only piss me off. (Or make me run around the room holding the card to my forehead yelling "It's the mark of the Beast! Run!!" like I did last month, purely to mock you.) Your scifi-esque rantings sometimes make me think you should be living at the program, not working here.
-Finally, yell at me in the middle of the residence, with clients in the room, about how you can't believe that I "don't believe in Jesus and I'm going to rot in Hell." and I will file a harassment report. You're already on probabtion, it'd probably get you fired.
I think I'm done now.
I can no longer discuss religion with you, period.
Number one, you start talking about it at the Worst Possible Time. ie, when clients are around. Religion, sex and politics can't be discussed around clients unless they initiate the conversation.
Heck, J has a history of fixed delusions about religion. You've been working in the field long enough that you should know what that means, but you ignore your job enough that I'll spell it out for you. J thinks God and the devil talk to him. Discussing religion while he's around will only serve to either confuse him, or cause him to decompensate, violently.
I know, most of the time our clients are very normal, but this doesn't change the fact that they're severely mentally ill. Knock off the god talk when they're in the room, okay?
Second. I know you've recently joined a religion that claims certain ties to my own. Heck, some of the archaeological evidence is really compelling, and bears further checking. That still doesn't make you Jewish, don't try telling me how to practice my religion.
Furthermore, don't try to quote "scripture" at me to prove your point.
-You're using a flawed translation, I've studied it in the original, and speak three or four dialects of Hebrew, as well as a little Aramaic, I know of what I speak.
-Those "Hebrew" lesson books that you're studying aren't Hebrew. I've been reading Hebrew since I was four, I know what the letters look like. At best, those look kinda like Ktav Ivri, a different semitic alphabet that Jews used to use thousands of years ago, until the neighboring semetic groups started publishing heresies, and challenging our writings, so we switched to Ktav Ashuri, and have been using it for millenia. Long before your religious group was supposed to have broken off. Someone snookered you, I don't care what degrees the author claims to have, thanks.
-Don't use the New Testament as an argument, and expect me to believe you. The founders of the modern incarnation of your religion use the NT (not the software, thankyouverymuch) as a way to attract Christian converts, and to hold on to some of the recent history of your ethnic group. Judaism doesn't believe in it, particularly the End Times. We don't believe in the Rapture, the apocalypse, or any of those things. We don't believe in the same concept of Satan or the devil. Heck, we don't even believe in Hell, really. (Yes, I know how ridiculously that sentence reads...) Babbling to me about how the smartchip in my AmEx Blue card is the mark of the Beast, and will be used against me by the Illuminati, and the One World Government to control my thoughts will only piss me off. (Or make me run around the room holding the card to my forehead yelling "It's the mark of the Beast! Run!!" like I did last month, purely to mock you.) Your scifi-esque rantings sometimes make me think you should be living at the program, not working here.
-Finally, yell at me in the middle of the residence, with clients in the room, about how you can't believe that I "don't believe in Jesus and I'm going to rot in Hell." and I will file a harassment report. You're already on probabtion, it'd probably get you fired.
I think I'm done now.