Welcome to Gaia! ::

Yay for the Nuri!

I must confess I am terminally amused by the deo's Shadow podcast. In particular at this moment, the skit from #24 along the lines of "what would it be like if a Dionysian-styled revel took itself as seriously as an airline?" xd

I don't remember how I stumbled upon it today but it is good background noise for making websites all alone.

Karma.
We all know what it isn't.

I was walking to the train station with a friend of mine, who happens to be my house mate and a devout Christian. We were discussing the old company I worked for. The only other developer there (there's a junior, but she's not up to much) had his second interview in my new place of work today. He's a competant programmer and I gave him my recommendation.
I mentioned, tongue in cheek, that it made me a very bad person. He said that it was justice. I stopped for a moment and considered it. Justice would have meant an external influence which wasn't there.
I informed him that Karma would be a better description of what happened and then used the situation at hand to explain to him that the western bastardised carma is wrong. I used the fact that a company needs its employees and therefore its Dharma is to treat them appropriately. Fairly, even. And that by failing to do so, it incurred Karma and that Karma can be seen as the summation of all your deeds.
I really hope he gets the job and comes to work in Nirvana with me.

I'm dying....just so you know. I may be somewhat skinny, but no endurance.

Wing: One could say the hamingja of the owners and managers of the company tanked, as well, due to mismanagement.

One of the more frustrating discussions I had illustrated, for me, the profound disconnect between avowed atheists and what they think all religion is. One stated to me, quite difinitively, that my religion could only have to do with supernatural things. I said, on the contrary, hamingja is a very observable thing, a part of natural forces, and not at all supernatural; it is, if you will, a gestalt of a number of different natural forces within a single person or family.

He was, unsurprisingly, completely uninterested. The topic very shortly thereafter became consumed in afterlife theory, a topic I find profoundly uninteresting but which, for some reason, many atheists and Christians seem completely consumed by.

More and more I find myself divorced from mainstream society, leaping from rock to rock of upg. It's good exercise.

Gods, that is one discussion I hate. There are so many theories about Greek afterlife, that I just stopped caring, and will figure it out when I get there. Until then, this life is important. This is the life I need to be remembered for.

I was wondering that myself. ninja

Hahaha! I was thinking all that too watching House tonight. So glad I'm not alone. xd

Also, belatedly, yay on the tattoos, Cuchullain!