Just wondering...
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UPDATED: Friday, June 3, 2005 06:14
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I'm a marketing director who longs to be a swashbuckling adventurer. 
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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
I'm a marketing director who longs to be a swashbuckling adventurer.
I've always said my life's ambition was to be a noble drifter in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
But swashbuckling adventurer's probably in my top 10.
Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
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Lol, has any of you swashbucklers played Monkey Island?
"Some people juggle geese!" -Ancient Chinese proverb.
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I'm a Teaching Fellow at one of them uppity law schools. There I co-teach Constitutional Law. I finish my one year tenure in about two months. Then I'm gonna sit back and do noting but watch TV and write fanfic for a while. I start working at one of them upity firms in October. So long story short, my life sux.
As for the fascenating religion strain. I'm a part-time non-practicing Catholic: none of the church going, lots of the sin [when I have time to fit it in], and 110% of the guilt [I know that I'm responsible for all the bad in the world]. But really what I aim to be in a fully practicing agnostic. Like Socrates I take comfort in believing that I'm wise, since I know that I know noting (at least regarding the nature of god). Though I buy into the theory of a higher being, I hypothesise that its very nature is more than my little mind could understand let alone comprehend. So mainly I don't think about it at all, unless I'm in the mood for some really deep mental masterbation.
Phaedra (a bad luck name)
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I'm an editor at a mid-sized publishing company. I do marketing, editing (as the title might suggest) and an unfortunately small bit of design. I long to find an employer that will allow me to become a Japanese-style window-sitter - one who has been with the company for a while but no longer works, yet has no threat of ever being fired. That would rock.
Either that, or something that will get me back into sports. I used to be a sports writer.
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I raise dairy goats and make goat milk soaps and assorted toiletries on our family farm outside of Richmond, VA. ( http://www.vagoatsoap.com)
Top that, y'all!
Mary
Always a beast, never a burden. 
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I currently work at a hotel, which I like, but not my current job. Looking to change positions somehow.
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Originally posted by Phaedra:
As for the fascenating religion strain. I'm a part-time non-practicing Catholic: none of the church going, lots of the sin [when I have time to fit it in], and 110% of the guilt [I know that I'm responsible for all the bad in the world]. But really what I aim to be in a fully practicing agnostic. Like Socrates I take comfort in believing that I'm wise, since I know that I know noting (at least regarding the nature of god). Though I buy into the theory of a higher being, I hypothesise that its very nature is more than my little mind could understand let alone comprehend. So mainly I don't think about it at all, unless I'm in the mood for some really deep mental masterbation.
Phaedra (a bad luck name)
This about sums up my take on it too, 'cept for the Catholic part, which gets rid of the guilt part. Socrates was the man. "I drank what?"
The following from Marillion:
When I Meet God
Lyrics: Hogarth
Music: Hogarth/Kelly/Mosley/Rothery/Trewavas
And if the bottle's no solution
Why does it feel so warm
And if that girl is no solution
Why did she feel so warm
And if to feel is no solution
Why do I feel
Why do I feel so tired
Why do I feel so broken
Why do I feel so outside
Why do I seem so blind
I'm so sick of feeling
It's ruined my life
If living rough is no solution
Why does it ease my mind
If looking back is no solution
Why are we all
Nothing but children
Children inside
Why do the Gods
Sit back and watch
So many lost
What kind of mother
Leaves a child in the traffic
Turning tricks in the dark
What kind of God?
I crawled around inside myself
It was a long way down
It was a mine and it was mine
And in the darkness
I saw a perfect mirror
Floating in space
When I meet God
I'm going to ask her
What makes her cry
What makes her laugh
Is she just stars and indigo gas
Does she know why
Love has no end
But it's dark-angel friend
Tearing women and men
Slowly apart
Stain
Don't do that
Scream
Don't do that
Fail
Never do that
Never do that
I want to go out
Don't do that
I want an adventure
Just stay..
I want
Just stay in
I want to make love
And if the bottle's no solution
Why does it feel so warm
And if looking back is no solution
Why are we all just children inside
And if to feel is no solution
Why does the whole damn world feel so broken
So outside and out-of-sorts
A perfect mirror
Floating in space
Waves and numbers
But oh, such beautiful numbers
And oh, such waves..
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Somno:
Thanks for the thanks. Mine really is a strange job. I don't suppose there's another exactly like it, although it does have a lot in common with just about every other career listed here. We have a saying that defines air traffic control (ATC), which may put it in perspective: "ATC is hours of routine boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror."
I'm pretty sure firemen can understand that. And maybe ICU nurses (like whedonesque). Policemen probably get more stark terror than I'd be able to stand and keep my sanity.
But retail sales... The horror... The horror...
Comparatively,
zoid
P.S.
I'll bet you are a fine pilot, who modulates his speech rate, can read his own instruments and uses an attention-getting step rather than overloading the controller on initial call. You know, "Someplace Tower, Malibu FOW-er, Fife, Tree, Keh-BECK, Pah-PAH." As opposed to SomeplaceTowerFurFye(sounds like 'two' but it might be 'three')KewPop, (takes half a breath) twentyfivemilessoutheastatfourthousanddescendingtotwentyfive (takes a quarter breath) inboundtoyourairportformulitpletouchandgoes."
Standard response: "Last aircraft calling Someplace Tower, say again." 
Vocal communication is the only tool I have (no radar), but it's a two-way street. The gobbledegook I regularly get on frequency is worse than nothing: It's a 10-second block of interference through which none of my other customers can be served, and all of which will have to be repeated in chunks anyway, in order to be refined into 'information'.
But anybody who sees air travel as a necessity, as opposed to a cool way to meet new friends (i.e. mid-air), is a man after my own heart. Keep safe, stay vigilant. You never know who you're sharing the skies with; but, I do. ...Be very afraid.
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Emma:
All of Matthew 11, the King James Version, since it really should be taken in context: http://tinyurl.com/5a3zj . (NB: Direct links don't work on the site. You'll have to use the 'Go to Scripture' tool at the left, sorry. Make sure you get 'King James Ver' in the 'Translation' dialog.) I don't think it's really that ambiguous, and I don't think Jesus was saying that the kingdom of heaven must be taken by force. So, I'm calling 'foul'.
We all -- all humans -- interpret the world and everything in it. There's no shame in that. But I reserve the right to disagree with the 'interpretations' of others; I take the words of Jesus (later Christ) as the law.
Heck, we all interpret Firefly differently, and I'd call the show 'divinely inspired' without a hint of disingenuity. But, if I disagree with someone else's interpretation, say, that Mal really wants to be the King of Londinium, I'll tell 'em so, even if they're a Shepherd or Whedonverse expert. Even tho' I agree Mal did say, "And I'd like to be king of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat."
This has gone on too long. This is not something I'm comfortable with in a public forum, because many will find it offensive. Luckily, the exchange has remained respectful of the differing opinions of others. That is what I meant by "Dangerously". If you'd like to continue the discussion, please Message Me from my profile page, and I'll discuss it with you 'til the cows come home. Perhaps you'd find the viewpoint of a common Christian educational, from a purely academic standpoint?
Respectfully,
zoid
P.S.
Luke 17 continues on the topic of 'trespass' or sin, and forgiveness. Use http://tinyurl.com/5a3zj, 'Go to Scripture' dialog box on the left hand side. Make sure you get 'King James Ver' in the 'Translation' dialog.
My favorite quote from that chapter is:
"The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." -Jesus (who became the Christ), Luke 17:20-21
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I work in retail and I've got one year left to go on my political science degree.
Sitting on the deck sounds good...
If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. -"Angel"
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