01-14-2010, 03:02 AM
There's a distinction I'm not sure if I can put into words tonight.
On one side is offering or accepting a position of service. This is based on having strengths and blessings that one is able to share.
On the other side is being pushed into a role based on another's assumption that they've found the cure to their own empty neediness. Guess what, that cure is you... regardless of whether it depletes you beyond your own need to care for yourself, in order to be of greater service.
This is the spiritual issue that really doesn't have anything to do with computers.
It is vividly expressed through computers, because of the widespread perception if someone who knows some things about computers "should" be able to fix any computer problem.
If you wanted a thread in the science section about computer security I wouldn't mind discussing the technology. If it makes sense, what I wondered about here was the sense of being pressed into involuntary servitude, rather than a mutual blessing of service. If that doesn't make sense, I'll try to find better words tomorrow.
On one side is offering or accepting a position of service. This is based on having strengths and blessings that one is able to share.
On the other side is being pushed into a role based on another's assumption that they've found the cure to their own empty neediness. Guess what, that cure is you... regardless of whether it depletes you beyond your own need to care for yourself, in order to be of greater service.
This is the spiritual issue that really doesn't have anything to do with computers.
It is vividly expressed through computers, because of the widespread perception if someone who knows some things about computers "should" be able to fix any computer problem.
If you wanted a thread in the science section about computer security I wouldn't mind discussing the technology. If it makes sense, what I wondered about here was the sense of being pressed into involuntary servitude, rather than a mutual blessing of service. If that doesn't make sense, I'll try to find better words tomorrow.