Update XVIII: 15 Miles From Lunch

[Adam Griffin]

It's about time to eat.  My head feels much better this evening.  I am really looking forward to getting back in the groove tomorrow.  I believe I'm fine, based on what my boss told me yesterday and today.  We'll just see what happens in the coming days and weeks.  I don't plan on missing any more days for a long time.  I need to get back and continue training and getting ready for our big onslaught of work.

So the last two days were planned then?  Oh, okay.  I get it now.  

No, they were manager initiated.

Okay, so your manager came up to you and said "you don't look good and sent you home?"

It doesn't really matter, because in either case, the manager sees a sickly, incapable person and that will most certainly result in early termination. Bushie doesn't seem to get that the rest of the world isn't like his coddling, enabler household and religious clique: people being nice to you at first is no indicator that they're going to subsidize your inability to function, nor that you're going to perpetually get away with pulling the wool over their eyes.  

[Adam Griffin]

What do the 13 year old's parents do in Oklahoma? It's hard to imagine a job that's cool with somebody leaving for two years.

He is a postal worker and has 10 years seniority.  The union allows him to take a year sabbatical, come back work for a few days, then take one more year off and still come back to work. She is a stay-at-home mom so she can take off anytime. She will homeschool the kids while they are in Africa.

They'd be better off going to school in a one-room African schoolhouse with dirt floors and no desks; I'm sure they'd at least be learning science and studying literature there.

RIP EDUCATION

[Adam Griffin]

The more you post, the more I think you've got some serious handicaps.

[Adam Griffin]

Bushie's Marian theology is terrible and disturbing.

What, you think there's a problem with God being a child rapist? And ignoring whether or not Mary consented because He, in his infinite wisdom and power, created the concept of consent? No, it seems like Bushie has really devised a great theology here!

He has done nothing wrong. You have NO RIGHT to question him.

[Adam Griffin]

I only worked five hours today, but I got a lot done in those five hours.  I started this latest project around lunch time on Friday and was able to get 7 drawings done in the four hours Friday afternoon.  This afternoon, I was able to knock out 9 more drawings.  All done correctly, too.  There are still 30 drawings left in this current project.  My lead will likely have me switch to something else either tomorrow or Wednesday while other workers continue on with the project I am doing now.  The goal is to get 2 projects moving forward at the same time.  I will pick up where I left off today when I get in tomorrow, and I imagine the change will come around lunch time or so as we have yet another a new person starting tomorrow at 0800.

So, can you take some pride in the fact that maybe ... just maybe ... you chose to earn money, complete more work and potentially position yourself to further your career by showing dedication when others didn't?

This is a much more refreshing update than the "pleasant surprise" child-like response from this morning.

It does feel good, to be honest, Jesse.  I really do like this job and I want to see it fulfill all the promises that it has for me.  I know God can use this job to further my professional life and my witness for Him if I would just stop getting in my own way.  My brother really hit the nail on the head in his response to a Facebook post from earlier today - "Start putting your job first."  I'm still taking it one day at a time, but for tonight, I can sleep peacefully knowing that I refused to waste an entire day and chose to further my career no matter if my peers were there or not.  I look to do the same thing tomorrow!

You know one of the things that infuriates the people who have genuinely tried to help you is that you have heard this from us for literally years. Yet an offhand Facebook post from your brother is the one that clicks for you.

Whatever it takes, but this is why I'm losing patience with you. You rarely listen and learn.

Don't worry: you'll have plenty of chances to lose patience with him in a whole new old way tomorrow when he forgets that advice from his brother.

[Adam Griffin]

Good morning, guys.  I'm about to leave for work at 0700.  It's not so much that my brother finally got to me, but he's reinforcing what many have said.

You may call God a pervert, but remember He created the people who created the laws.  He can do whatever He wants and no one can deny that.  History shows that Mary was probably a 14 year old girl.  If that happened by anybody else it would be a crime, but everyone agrees that God is above all worldly laws.

Uh... I don't.

He of course means everyone within his ridiculously purified social circle (or perhaps just all of Oklahoma). I have no idea what his Facebook is like, but I imagine it and his entire community is just filled with people who interject "AMEN!" and "HALLELUJAH" and "PRAISE HIM, GLORY" and every other variation you can think of into everything, no matter how (in)appropriate or irrelevant in context, including things where they just try to make selfishness, greed or other sinful behavior seem holy by adding a shoutout to God on the end of it.  I actually saw this come across my FB feed just a few minutes ago at the same time I was reading this, and thought to myself, "this would definitely be one of Bushie's "spiritual" counterparts if they lived in the same neighborhood (well, if she wasn't black; it is Oklahoma, after all):

[Adam Griffin]

Well, as we've already been over in both this specific case and in a broader sense, you act like a child at Christmas because you are under-developed mentally and literally a manchild.

Does it seriously not give you pause to consider that a) there is no logical evidence to suggest that a man named Jesus would have been born in December in the climate of the Levant 2000 years ago (based on the tale of the shepherds tending their flocks), and that b) Christians did not celebrate Christmas until those idolaters known as Catholics adopted the celebration from Pagans in order to convince them to convert?

#callmeascroogeanddeflect

[Adam Griffin]

Adam and Polnut. are you seriously attacking my love of Christmas and my faith at Christmastime?

1) It's not 'Christmastime'; it's the middle of November.
2) You still haven't answered how you reconcile your faith with the fact that the Bible says nothing about when Jesus was born, that the holiday you and others have arbitrarily chosen to associate with it is of pagan origin and is one that essentially encourages idolatry/iconography, nor have you explained how this contradictory behavior when reading Luke 22:19 will guarantee you a fate any different than that of any other pagan or idol worshiper.

[Adam Griffin]

In absolute fairness to Bushie, this sort of quibbling about the probable date of birth of the 'Historical Jesus' as an attempt to discredit the observance of the Feast of the Nativity, which much like the Hana-matsuri is fixed when it is by tradition and symbolic import, is absolutely ridiculous and petty hair-splitting properly of no real relevance whatsoever to the life of the Church.

The more important of the two points - as I thought was emphasized - is Bushie's own admission that he engages in pagan worship for half of the year to indulge his sense of child-like wonderment, which is merely a small glimpse into his greater belief that he is justified to define and do anything he likes or agrees with as being "good" or "appropriate". He reconciles his hedonism and idolatry with his faith, morbidly twists the two former together with the latter based on his own individual perspective, and tries to sell that to others as if it's some sort of universal truth.

[Adam Griffin]

Adam and Polnut. are you seriously attacking my love of Christmas and my faith at Christmastime?

1) It's not 'Christmastime'; it's the middle of November.
2) You still haven't answered how you reconcile your faith with the fact that the Bible says nothing about when Jesus was born, that the holiday you and others have arbitrarily chosen to associate with it is of pagan origin and is one that essentially encourages idolatry/iconography, nor have you explained how this contradictory behavior when reading Luke 22:19 will guarantee you a fate any different than that of any other pagan or idol worshiper.

I'm not going to answer your questions.  Questions that are designed to make fun of my faith for celebrating Christmas when we do.  You don't want the answers, you just want to make fun of Christians and point your finger and laugh at our 'folly'.

You're not going to answer them because you don't want to admit the truth. You are a hedonist who - even more so than the average worshiper due to the length of time which you insist on doing it - indulges in pagan worship and idolatry because you like pretty lights, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, gifts you don't deserve and having an extra boost of coddled, child-like comfort injected into your already over-pampered life. It has nothing to do with your perceived religion; it has everything to do with your hedonistic tendencies. I hope for your own sake that your faith is wrong, because if it isn't, you are most certainly Hell-bound for this and many other reasons.

[Adam Griffin]

Another night, another night of ridiculing me and attacking me endlessly and for no good reason.  You guys are hopeless.

My my, you certainly are always the victim! We ridicule you because you never care to actually explain yourself, you take no advice whatsoever, refuse to answer any difficult questions and then can offer zero rational explanations as to why you do anything that you do. Whenever someone questions you, that's "attacking" in your eye. Whenever someone criticizes any part of your life or beliefs, you somehow correlate that to your "faith" as a defense mechanism. You aren't a Christian; you're a Bushiest, as you do exactly what you want, make no apologies for it, and believe nothing should change. Real Christians are mortified of your behavior, your life choices and your decisions.

Newsflash:  My life is going great right now.  I have nothing to be worried about and everything to be thankful for.

You are currently failing at everything, but won't listen to anyone about any of that, or if you supposedly "listen", all you do is offer the generic, empty "I'll try harder", "I need to do this better', "There's always tomorrow", "Nobody's perfect", blah blah blah blah blah. For one, there isn't always going to be a tomorrow, and you have relatively few of them left statistically-speaking because you literally have been eating for two for decades now.

Your complete lack of dietary restraint pours over into other aspects of your life, and is accentuated by your completely inability to exert any willpower or responsibility whatsoever over your own choices. Things like "I eat a terrible diet that gives me headaches, but my headaches don't come from that: they come from my genetics". Or maybe (!), just maybe, those sorts of things are genetic because there's a environmental factor at work that prevents you and others in your family from actually accepting responsibility for the fact that you are destroying yourselves and only you can fix it.  

Then, you use your bad decisions as a crutch to enable other bad decisions, such as only showing up to your jobs, school and anything else 60-70% of the time (and this is NOT something that is isolated or just to do with this one job; look at CADD class, and your other fifty jobs from which you've been fired or quit in the past year).

Compounding all of this is the fact that you refuse to grow up, and apparently, your family refuses to make you do so, either. You're a damn 30-something year-old man and you're talking about watching claymation movies made for 5-7 year-olds, for f[inks]'s sake! You can't cook anything. You can't clean up after yourself. You can't hold down a steady job. You make horribly ignorant decisions that could only be made by someone who's never been self-sustainable or functional as an adult (like moving in with family while maintaining a residence that's probably costing you more than what you make at this latest month-long job when you factor in time missed), your parents have to go with you to pick out clothes, you can't pay your own bills (neither in financial terms or physical terms), you can't drive confidently in inclement weather, you go to more children's birthday parties than actual children do, you look for every excuse possible to take off of work or reject responsibilities, you constantly borrow money from your parents, you can't make it through a normal day consistently without taking a kindergarten nap, and on and on and on.

You refuse to get help for any of this. Apparently, your family refuses to do anything about it, either. One of two things is happening here, as I've always said.

The first is that you are a manipulative man-child who is the most disgustingly hedonistic person on the face of the planet, and who exists at this point solely to take advantage of anyone who will give you money, time, attention and a roof over your head. In this case, it is likely your family's fault for coddling you and encouraging this sort of behavior; they can certainly be "proud" of the son they raised.

The second is that you are legitimately developmentally-disabled, and your family knows it. They allow you to run rough-shod over them because in effect, you are literally incapable of taking care of yourself, will need permanent support for the rest of your life, and they know it; basically, a notch above or below someone with Down Syndrome, depending (I know a guy with Down Syndrome who's had the same job for 25 years and has his own place - just putting it out there).

Whatever the case: you are in no position to be getting pissy with anyone when they critique or offer you advice. You are completely reliant upon others, stubborn as shit, unwilling to evaluate any aspect of your life that is going poorly (which is all of them), maintain a child-like mentality that reinforces all of this, and on top of all of that, are objectively blasphemous when it comes to how you treat your own religion (which is just an amalgamation of what a few people around you personally believe, and your own selfish interpretation that just so happens to align everything that is "good" what everything that you already do).

You're the hopeless one, Bushie: not the people here who are pointing out all of your miserable failures that you refuse to correct.

[Adam Griffin]

(he is currently on ignore)

That's OK: I'll keep posting, I know you'll keep clicking "Show", and you'll either respond like a child or ignore responding to valid questions completely like you do with so many others.

[Adam Griffin]

Another night, another night of ridiculing me and attacking me endlessly and for no good reason.  You guys are hopeless.

Welcome to our world. Frustrating, eh?

Since when is asking a question considered ridicule? I guess when you know you won't like the answer, it can be considered an attack ...

Some of these questions, though, are pointed questions.  They are not intended for informational value, but intended to point fingers and discredit everything I believe in or enjoy doing or something.  Adam is attacking my faith as a whole (he is currently on ignore).  Nathan is attacking my Southern Baptist beliefs which are nothing different than what I believe.  The Southern Baptists are the largest Protestant denomination in the country.  Our views are not that off.  We're not perfect, and we have never claimed to be perfect, but we are a Bible-believing denomination.  You are not really attacking, yourself, but it still seems you don't like my Christian faith and are trying to get me to not rely on God, but rely on myself.  That's hogwash.

I couldn't care less about any Christian's faith, as long as it's not contradictory or condemning of me.

But that last part ... I think the gap is that, often, you throw up your hands and don't do everything you (ie: a being created by God and given abilities by that God) to do things for yourself. You don't seem to ask the question, "What skills, abilities and environment did God give me to succeed and how can I use what he gave me to be better?"

That, if anything, would be my problem with your faith. You have so many abilities and so much latent potential. You just choose not to do anything with it.

Every morning, I do ask God how can I use my gifts and talents to further glorify His kingdom.  I don't always follow through with the results of that prayer, but sometimes I do.  I do try to do everything I can to advance the kingdom of God and be a vessel that He can use for His purposes.  He has created me for a purpose.  That purpose is to know Him and make Him known.  Underneath that he has given me a job to use my talents as a computer-aided drafter.  I go in every morning with the hope and expectation that I can accomplish what He wants me to accomplish that day.

You make God cry with how you live your life, twist his words, and take advantage of others.

[Adam Griffin]

Actually King, perhaps I spoke too broadly.  Most of us are not bathed in prayer, but you are:

I wash my face with Jesus every morning.

Of course. Jesus is the King of Kings after all.

Yeah, but I heard he dries out your skin. Is there a version with aloe now?

Yes! Thank God, Aloelujah!

[Adam Griffin]

That sounds like he's saying that he had new revelations at that time that showed him how to bring Jesus glory in a way that he hadn't been before that trip.  But does Bushie honestly believe today that he's been living a Christ-centered life during these past ~2.5 years in a way that he hadn't been in the previous ~2.5 years?

Watch out: you'll soon be on ignore, too!

[Adam Griffin]

Sounds like someone just needs a good dose of focusing on Christmas!

[Adam Griffin]

You know what, guys, I am not going to spend another night being yelled at for every little, insignificant thing.  I'm too good for that.  Have a nice night.

No, you're not. If anything, you needed more yelling and belittlement as a child to prevent you from turning into what you are.

You know what, guys, I am not going to spend another night being yelled at for every little, insignificant thing.  I'm too good for that.  Have a nice night.

Typical.. You get called out, know that we are right, and just leave. Go ahead, go back to sleep. It's really quite sad and pathetic. Maybe, just maybe one of these days you will get your life on track and understand what it's like to really live life.

You are not at all right.  I do not nap all the time.  Besides, 2 hour naps are acceptable and normal on weekends.  I said this last night but no one ever believes me for some stupid reason.  My life is going very well right now, I am living my life enjoyably right now.  I have a darn good job and I have a great God and great friends.  I am not letting life pass me by.  For you or any one else to claim otherwise is absolutely asinine.  Yes, I'm a big boy, but that doesn't mean I'm not enjoying life.  I'm not overly worried about it and nor should I be.  I don't lose sleep over it (obviously).

Oh, and Indy, this chair was on sale for $79.99.  All the other chairs were $117.99 and north.

Yes, you do, and no, it's not normal to take 2-hour naps when you sleep 8-9 hours every damn night. It's normal to take a nap on the weekends if you have a full-time job, kids to raise and sleep only a few hours every night throughout the week. In addition, just because you insist something is normal doesn't mean it is true or normal, LOL. When are you going to get it? So revealing of your true self, and likely why you get so pissy on here compared to real life where everyone must believe all the lies you tell: "I already told you my lies and made-up facts - now you're supposed to believe it!".