Hail, my merry followers! Here I am again, wondering about the strange strange world.
I'm work at a customer service mainly because I like to talk and interact with people of all sort.
Sometimes one wonders though, why the hell I'm doing this. The customer is known to be always right, but it doesn't prevent him/her for being stupid, a complete moron at the times. How hard it is really to remember some rules of courtesy and habits when you are face-to-face to a living, breathing human. It may be so that mother hasn't taught how to talk to people and how you behave around them to some individuals. Little words like "Thank you" and "You're welcome" should be easy to remember. But noooo. Well, you can't always get what you want, but it just makes a person behind the counter pissed. The other thing that gives me a headache is a unbelievable stupidity. For example a guy comes to our establishment 6:03 am (we have been open for three whole minutes) and buys a coffee and a bun. So he/she offers me a 500 eur bill. Argh! So you try very politely to explain that you can't give any change, at least not at this time a day. And the customer is having a dick in his/her forehead after hearing this and thinking "poor customer service". Stupid, I say.
Well, I just have to take a part to this recent gay-church-Päivi Räsänen arguing that we have here in Finland. It's same time funny and sad that one uses the Bible to prove a point of any kind. I admit that there is good advice in the Good Book like loving thy neighbour. But every time when someone begins quoting Leviticus 20:13 from the Old Testament, it just makes me see red. For those who don't know your Bible, the passage goes like this (English Standard Version): "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have commited an abomination; they shall surely put to death; their blood is upon them." For real, wake up people! And some humans think honestly this way, so I've heard. Well, maybe it's time to take some more good advice from this great book. Leviticus 21:7 for expale speaking of priests: "They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from their husband, for the priest is holy to his God." This surely narrows down the possibilities for a priest to get married these days. Leviticus 25:45: "You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property." Now many of us will surely buy a slave who is an immigrant too. Leviticus 20:9: "For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him." So, death to practically all teenagers. Leviticus 19:19: "...nor shall you wear a garment or cloth made of two kinds of material." I think I don't personally own much clothing that is made just one material. Do you? Now someone devoted christian yells: "That is the Old Testament! The New Testament is another story." Well, you can find some "good advice" from there too: 1 Peter 3:7: "Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner..." Many wives surely appreciate this. Romans 14:2: "One person's faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose fatih is weak, eats only vegetables." Down with all vegans! And for the dog-owners: Revelations 22:15: "Outside are the dogs..." Dogs don't go to heaven. Here we have some really good advice also from the New Testament. A literal interpretation of the Bible is always dangerous and nothing good is ever going to come with that. I know many sensible christians who recognise this fact but one bad apple spoils a whole damn bunch. I mean by this the couple of people who happened to appear on the "Gay-night" on Finnish National television, and therefore spoiled the good reputation of christianity. I don't wonder at all that so many resigned from the Finnish State Church after that evening.
Well, I've said enough for today. There shall be more tomorrow. Behave.
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