theLeadmonger
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I'm extremely wary of financial "prayers" myself, in fact I think they're worse than sports prayers. Have you ever heard that sermon? People pray for their teams to win at sports, when in fact their teams winning at sports are all on the basis of athletic ability. In spite of that, you could pray that God would make someone a better sportsman than he is already. Not everyone plays fair. It has little if anything to do with atheists, dinner, and the Chicago Bears, and I don't really like the Chicago Bears anyway, but never mind it's all football, right?
I don't think I'll try to get a seasonal job moonlighting this year, I did that when I was young and in my prime, back when I could lift about twice what I can now and there was an economy at all to speak of, especially a seasonal economy, which also caused religious problems even though the extra weekends and holidays paid well enough that you'd have bothered to run and quick do it for three days or two weeks, just because money is more fun than sitting at home in from of a promotional television screen.
It doesn't always work. I know, the Department of Labor and industries blah blah blah, and if that or the Chamber of Commerce don't do it for you there are Labor Ready, Work Source, and Work First, on which you can get every king of stamp and voucher. Maybe I'll just read the Book of Job over Christmas this year. It's like this one supervisor I used to have once said, "You got a break when you got the job."
If you don't have a job one thing you could do would be to Just read the Book of Job. You'll always have the Book of Job. It can be used to deflect back all kinds of stupid noises from the peanut gallery, and it's a real test to see if the dice player with the note cards has ever read a whole book of the Bible for human character in linear order or not. You know how some people can't do anything except smile and offer a series of verses on a morals subject which are totally unrelated in terms of narrative and setting in the histories? See if he can keep up with you in a reading of (not just from) the Book of Job. If he can't, then maybe his job isn't theologian, or theologian just isn't his job.
I don't think I'll try to get a seasonal job moonlighting this year, I did that when I was young and in my prime, back when I could lift about twice what I can now and there was an economy at all to speak of, especially a seasonal economy, which also caused religious problems even though the extra weekends and holidays paid well enough that you'd have bothered to run and quick do it for three days or two weeks, just because money is more fun than sitting at home in from of a promotional television screen.
It doesn't always work. I know, the Department of Labor and industries blah blah blah, and if that or the Chamber of Commerce don't do it for you there are Labor Ready, Work Source, and Work First, on which you can get every king of stamp and voucher. Maybe I'll just read the Book of Job over Christmas this year. It's like this one supervisor I used to have once said, "You got a break when you got the job."
If you don't have a job one thing you could do would be to Just read the Book of Job. You'll always have the Book of Job. It can be used to deflect back all kinds of stupid noises from the peanut gallery, and it's a real test to see if the dice player with the note cards has ever read a whole book of the Bible for human character in linear order or not. You know how some people can't do anything except smile and offer a series of verses on a morals subject which are totally unrelated in terms of narrative and setting in the histories? See if he can keep up with you in a reading of (not just from) the Book of Job. If he can't, then maybe his job isn't theologian, or theologian just isn't his job.
