Customers suck.

[thessalian]

Yes, I've been away for awhile. I have a job now, and haven't really had a lot to say. I will try to be better at the whole LJ thing, promise.

Got out of work a bit early today (by dint of skipping a proper lunch break) because I'm meeting up with Mum for a trip to Brighton and didn't want to be late. So I'm at a cybercaff to kill some time. And there is the customer from hell sitting at my back.

She couldn't figure out that to log into the computer, you click on the "Customer Login" button. She passive-aggressive bitched when someone pointed out to her the mistake she'd made by clicking onto "Admin", saying, "Now this is customer service!" And then ... well, I was happily reading through a few things and happened to notice that the damp air had snarled my hair a bit in the back. This was irritating to me, so I decided to finger-comb the knots out. No problem, right?

"Excuse me," says this customer from hell.

Evidently, this is a problem.

"I am trying to work on my website," she says. "And your ... scratching is distracting me."

...Now, I'm sorry if your peripheral vision is that intense, or if your hearing's that acute, but I am just running my fingers through my hair. This is not a serious issue, and one that most sane people would simply ignore. I just sort of stared at her. I couldn't think what else to do.

Then, after a moment of that, and her staring at me in this 'I AM THE QUEEN OF EVERYTHING, BOW DOWN BEFORE ME' sort of way, she speaks up again in this snotty voice: "Thank you." Then went back to whatever the hell she was doing.

Well, fuck you too, lady.

I am nervous about the Brighton thing. I dunno if I can really manage hanging out with my mother for two whole nights. Not after the conversation we had recently in which she said that everyone should be obliged to show their faces in public so that we can identify them in case they COMMIT CRIMES, and then insisted that homosexuality is a genetic disorder in the same category as mental retardation and club foot ... then started ranting about "Why do we have to pretend it's normal? Humans are programmed to procreate, so it's not normal, so why do we have to pretend it is?" Let's not even get started on her lamentation that she didn't give me a "proper Christian upbringing" because she thinks that paganism is "nonsense".

My mother's an intolerant homophobe, and my dad's a racist. Where the hell did my beliefs come from?

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Where the Hell did my beliefs come from?

[navytron89.livejournal.com]

Ah the age old question here.... Seriously, I drifted from Christianity years ago when I started to read mythology and play D&D. Then I was like wait a minute if these gods are all fake, then Christianity must be fake too. So I slid over to Paganism to find solstice for a bit and was like well that wasn't a big help either.

So I started wandering through the faith systems to see if I could match up something to my personality. I read all the Holy Books of each faith and none really grabbed me because of all the restrictions that "GOD" demanded I make which was pretty shallow of him/her/it. Even Satanism sounded silly and I kept going.

So now I sit on the border between agnostic and Buddhist gray areas of religion. It has a few things I like but I can't completely slide into the atheists corner of religion because I've seen too much supernatural stuff to not believe that there is something beyond and we don't all turn to dust and have one shot in this universe.

All I can say is that your probably in the same boat as most people who got sick of Christianity begin a fake religion that stole its roots from Jewish tradition and a bunch of other faiths and mashed it up together thanks to a bunch of clergy who were pederasts and took a bunch of religious stories and mashed them together like fan fiction to make up a new religion. Hell, it took them 750 years to figure out which books they were going to use and also if Jesus was divine and that human beings actually had sinned. So I think that they invalidated their own credibility to begin with.

At least your Pagan faith has historical roots and is even older than Christianity and Jewish faith. Your centers on
worship of the world at large and the energy the controls it. Is it a silly belief? No as long as you have your spiritual center and find comfort in it.

As for the homophobia that's still rooted in religious upbringing and ignorance. My first cousin is gay and while my mother blames his "gayness" on his mental handicap status it has nothing to do with that. Physically he's 45 years old, mentally he's closer to 30; so he's a high functional adult. He's just going to have to be taken care of in his older years.

As for racism that's probably due to your father's exposure to people of other nationalities acting in a stereotypical fashion and not bothering to actually get to know people. My childhood friend was black, my mother was a bit of a racist. Fortunately my father was not and was actually her anchor to not act like a total white southern baptist cunt in public. So when my father passed beyond the mortal coil, she reverted back to her racist, homophobic ways when she moved back to North Carolina and was surrounded by like minded assholes.

So you're better educated than your parent on social issues such as racism, homophobia and other items. Because your parents refuse to evolve and are stuck in a set mode it why we still have these problems. It also doesn't help that these people spread their opinions out to others who might be on the fence and if they provide an opinion even if its full of fallacy; then they will probably listen to them because of age and experience rather than actually going and being exposed to it themselves and judging.

I worked around a bunch of people from all ethnic groups and walks of faith. Even then there is pockets of racism, homophobia and sexism within each group. Everyone stereotypes and its how the human brain is wired. It helps to put things in order and find logic in an illogical universe. However, religion is a problem and actually breaks the mind from being logical because it forces it to believe in something that doesn't seem rational or logical. When a person actually encounters the supernatural then they open their mind and change schemas and stereotyping to see beyond. Most likely your parents have never had a supernatural encounter and are still limited in their thinking. So they are locked into a certain mental view of the world and how it must function. Because if it doesn't follow that view then they get confused and have to re-evaluate everything and to most people that's too much work for their tiny brains to want to do.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Yay! for job-havingness. And wtf was that woman on about. I wish all the self-proclaimed special snowflakes would just melt away already.

[caira.livejournal.com]

Where the hell did my beliefs come from?
Dunno, but my first guess would be some combination a sense of empathy and putting one's teenage rebellion to good use.