Ok, I just want to say that I hate ANY employee being legally entitled to time off for holidays REGARDLESS of what religion they are. I DON'T have ANY problem with any religious beliefs at all. I also don't have a problem with —companies voluntarily closing down for some holidays;— (i.e. a store closing on Christmas because most people are busy opening their presents on that day.) The problem that I have is as follows. (I'm not biased towards Christmas; I used it as an example because it's —the most popular holiday that people take off work for.)—
When you legally require companies to not schedule certain employees on certain days, it can result in problems such as skeleton staffing and inconvenient disruptions in schedules.
Friday, December 30, 2016
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
A Criticism of Dr. Suess's How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Ok, now first of all, How the Grinch Stole Christmas has a wonderful
moral. I'm NOT criticizing the moral; what I am criticizing is its
execution. Please let me explain.
If you don't know what the story is about here's a recap. There's a microscopic town on a snowflake and all of the microscopic townspeople love Christmas. And every time they celebrate Christmas, they're cheerful and loud, which irritates this guy named, "The Grinch" who lives on a mountain nearby. Now the story says that the Christmas festivities annoy him because The Grinch doesn't have enough goodness in his heart, but that's one of the points that I'm going to debate so for the sake of argument let's just go with that for the rest of the recap. So on Christmas eve, while everyone's asleep, The Grinch steals all the decorations and all the Christmas presents and takes them to his house. Then he goes to sleep and when he wakes up on Christmas day to everyone singing. Now everyone's singing because according to the story, those people believe that 'Christmas is about love and not presents,' which is another point that I'm going to debate. Then The Grinch has an epiphany that Christmas isn't about presents and it's about love and he brings all the presents back and everyone forgives him.
Now the story in itself is a nice sentiment of someone having a change of heart, but it has some flaws. The first flaw is that the story claims that The Grinch is evil just because he doesn't like the Christmas cheer; I disagree, I think he just wants some peace and quiet and the noise and lights bother him, also just a reminder, the people in the town are microscopic and live on a snowflake so he might not be able to move further away from that, he also has a dog, who he's nice to that loves him so he does have kindness in his heart. He's just antisocial, which is a bad thing to be, but —whether or not its' bad to be anti social— is not one of the main points of the story.
Now my second point is that when the people wake up and realize that their presents are gone, they're singing cheerful songs. Now maybe they actually see Christmas as being about kindness, or maybe they're going through the first of the five stages of loss, as hypothesized by Kübler-Ross, a Swiss psychatrist. That stage of loss happens to be denial; those towns people could be singing cheerful songs NOT because —they believe that Christmas is about kindness and not materialism and/or consumerism,— but because they're in —denial that the gifts and decorations are gone—, and they're trying to convince themselves that the gifts are still there.
So my conclusion of this is that The Grinch is NOT a bad guy; he just wants to be left alone and that through the whole story, —the towns people did in fact believe that Christmas is about commercialism and not kindness,— which is DEFINITELY NOT —what the story states has happened. This means that The Grinch wasn't a buy guy who turned into a good guy; The Grinch was an antisocial guy who became a more social guy because he thought that the townspeople weren't materialistic. It also means that it is debatable whether or not the townspeople deserved for their Christmas gifts and decor to be stolen.
If you don't know what the story is about here's a recap. There's a microscopic town on a snowflake and all of the microscopic townspeople love Christmas. And every time they celebrate Christmas, they're cheerful and loud, which irritates this guy named, "The Grinch" who lives on a mountain nearby. Now the story says that the Christmas festivities annoy him because The Grinch doesn't have enough goodness in his heart, but that's one of the points that I'm going to debate so for the sake of argument let's just go with that for the rest of the recap. So on Christmas eve, while everyone's asleep, The Grinch steals all the decorations and all the Christmas presents and takes them to his house. Then he goes to sleep and when he wakes up on Christmas day to everyone singing. Now everyone's singing because according to the story, those people believe that 'Christmas is about love and not presents,' which is another point that I'm going to debate. Then The Grinch has an epiphany that Christmas isn't about presents and it's about love and he brings all the presents back and everyone forgives him.
Now the story in itself is a nice sentiment of someone having a change of heart, but it has some flaws. The first flaw is that the story claims that The Grinch is evil just because he doesn't like the Christmas cheer; I disagree, I think he just wants some peace and quiet and the noise and lights bother him, also just a reminder, the people in the town are microscopic and live on a snowflake so he might not be able to move further away from that, he also has a dog, who he's nice to that loves him so he does have kindness in his heart. He's just antisocial, which is a bad thing to be, but —whether or not its' bad to be anti social— is not one of the main points of the story.
Now my second point is that when the people wake up and realize that their presents are gone, they're singing cheerful songs. Now maybe they actually see Christmas as being about kindness, or maybe they're going through the first of the five stages of loss, as hypothesized by Kübler-Ross, a Swiss psychatrist. That stage of loss happens to be denial; those towns people could be singing cheerful songs NOT because —they believe that Christmas is about kindness and not materialism and/or consumerism,— but because they're in —denial that the gifts and decorations are gone—, and they're trying to convince themselves that the gifts are still there.
So my conclusion of this is that The Grinch is NOT a bad guy; he just wants to be left alone and that through the whole story, —the towns people did in fact believe that Christmas is about commercialism and not kindness,— which is DEFINITELY NOT —what the story states has happened. This means that The Grinch wasn't a buy guy who turned into a good guy; The Grinch was an antisocial guy who became a more social guy because he thought that the townspeople weren't materialistic. It also means that it is debatable whether or not the townspeople deserved for their Christmas gifts and decor to be stolen.
Thursday, December 8, 2016
This irritating poster that I saw at the airport
So I saw this picture when I was at the airport and I got so angry.
Now many of you are wondering why and that's a very good question, let me explain. This guy is the owner of a successful chain of restaurants and he's smiling NOT because he's just had a good meal; but because he owns his own successful business. Therefore, he should smile, but not like that.
Now why shouldn't he smile like that? Because that smile doesn't say, "welcome to my restaurant;" it says, "Haha! I have a successful business that isn't stressful to run and you don't!" Now don't get me wrong, I feel happy for him, but I can guarantee you that eating his food will NOT, I repeat NOT give you a 100% chance of ending up with your own successful business. It might make you inspired to to and achieve that goal, but —the chances of your success in achieving that goal— will NOT be 100% and unless his food will give you a 100% chance of achieving that in your life, he should not be looking at the camera like that.
—People in adverts— should ONLY be smiling because they have something that anyone can get if they can afford —whatever the advert, itself is advertising.— Otherwise, the entire advert comes off as smug and annoying!
Now why shouldn't he smile like that? Because that smile doesn't say, "welcome to my restaurant;" it says, "Haha! I have a successful business that isn't stressful to run and you don't!" Now don't get me wrong, I feel happy for him, but I can guarantee you that eating his food will NOT, I repeat NOT give you a 100% chance of ending up with your own successful business. It might make you inspired to to and achieve that goal, but —the chances of your success in achieving that goal— will NOT be 100% and unless his food will give you a 100% chance of achieving that in your life, he should not be looking at the camera like that.
—People in adverts— should ONLY be smiling because they have something that anyone can get if they can afford —whatever the advert, itself is advertising.— Otherwise, the entire advert comes off as smug and annoying!
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