12-06-2009, 02:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-06-2009, 02:41 AM by Questioner.)
I think you might enjoy embedded system network programming. This means having small computers built in to things like motors and valves, so that that they can coordinate their activities with other devices in other locations, using Internet technology. You might like Chuck Moore's Forth programming system, which is extremely simplified for efficiency in this kind of application. Forth came out of work to position telescopes so they would follow stars through the night. http://www.simple-talk.com/content/artic...rticle=775
Clordio, I enjoyed the rest of your post. When it comes to the point of view you described above, I encourage you to consider this perspective from Wallace Wattles.
It's a rather long excerpt but I don't want to take away from his well written point by trying to summarize it here. This chapter is online at http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTek-the-s...eat-6.html and from there you can find the table of contents if you want to read the whole book this comes from, The Science of Being Great. I believe this passage aligns perfectly with the Law of One material.
I added the italics.
So, you don't need to assume that someone who has a job of business strategy, finance, personnel decisions, etc. is unethical. (These days, it might not even be safe to assume they wear a suit at their job.) And I believe that even if those people are unethical, no matter what they wear while scamming and scheming, your love of the good you can do in your future is more powerful than any hate you could have of the sins in their past.
(12-04-2009, 08:54 PM)Clordio Wrote: I don't want to screw a person over because it's in my job description. I'd rather leave that to the suits and I will provide an honest product/service to my customer.
Clordio, I enjoyed the rest of your post. When it comes to the point of view you described above, I encourage you to consider this perspective from Wallace Wattles.
It's a rather long excerpt but I don't want to take away from his well written point by trying to summarize it here. This chapter is online at http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTek-the-s...eat-6.html and from there you can find the table of contents if you want to read the whole book this comes from, The Science of Being Great. I believe this passage aligns perfectly with the Law of One material.
Quote:Whether you have this faith or not depends upon your point of view. You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution, as a something that is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work. Millions of years ago God worked with very low and crude forms of life, low and crude, yet each perfect after its kind. Higher and more complex organisms, animal and vegetable, appeared through the successive ages; the earth passed through stage after stage in its unfolding, each stage perfect in itself, and to be succeeded by a higher one.
What I wish you to note is that the so-called “lower organisms” are as perfect after their kind as the higher ones; that the world in the Eocene period was perfect for that period; it was perfect, but God’s work was not finished. This is true of the world today. Physically, socially, and industrially it is all good, and it is all perfect. It is not complete anywhere or in any part, but so far as the handiwork of God has gone it is perfect.
THIS MUST BE YOUR POINT OF VIEW: THAT THE WORLD AND ALL IT CONTAINS IS PERFECT, THOUGH NOT COMPLETED.
So it is of human society and government. What though there are trusts and combinations of capital and strikes and lockouts and so on. All these things are part of the forward movement; they are incidental to the evolutionary process of completing society. When it is complete there will be harmony; but it cannot be completed without them. J. P. Morgan is as necessary to the coming social order as the strange animals of the age of reptiles [dinosaurs] were to the life of the succeeding period, and just as these animals were perfect after their kind, so Morgan is perfect after his kind.
Behold it is all very good. See government, and industry as being perfect now, and as advancing rapidly toward being complete; then you will understand that there is nothing to fear, no cause for anxiety, nothing to worry about. Never complain of any of these things. They are perfect; this is the very best possible world for the stage of development man has reached.
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All this does not prevent you from working for better things.
You can work to complete an unfinished society, instead of to renovate a decaying one; and you can work with a better heart and a more hopeful spirit. It will make an immense difference with your faith and spirit whether you look upon civilization as a good thing that is becoming better or as a bad and evil thing that is decaying. One viewpoint gives you an advancing and expanding mind and the other gives you a descending and decreasing mind.
One viewpoint will make you grow greater and the other will inevitably cause you to grow smaller. One will enable you to work for the eternal things; to do large works in a great way toward the completing of all that is incomplete and inharmonious; and the other will make you a mere patchwork reformer, working almost without hope to save a few lost souls from what you will grow to consider a lost and doomed world.
I added the italics.
So, you don't need to assume that someone who has a job of business strategy, finance, personnel decisions, etc. is unethical. (These days, it might not even be safe to assume they wear a suit at their job.) And I believe that even if those people are unethical, no matter what they wear while scamming and scheming, your love of the good you can do in your future is more powerful than any hate you could have of the sins in their past.