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To: LindyBill who wrote (71140)	2/3/2003 4:11:52 AM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 281500

However you accomplish it, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammad, or just personal, is fine. We all try to "Gather" ourselves when we set out to accomplish something. Do you believe in a Supreme Being? A Creator?

To: LindyBill who wrote (71140)	2/3/2003 5:26:59 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I have an employee, a woman from China, not very skilled, does entry level clerical work and is paid accordingly. She's about 50, and all alone except for her daughter. She rarely speaks, but she is always busy. There's a limit to what she can do, talent-wise, but she is always busy doing those things she is proficient at. She is not well-liked by some of her louder and more capable co-workers, because she just doesn't fit in well with them. Nevertheless, she comes in every day, does not call in sick as they do, does not talk on the phone as they do, does not take cigarette breaks as they do, and works alongside them and tries to help them and tries to please them as best she can every day, knowing all the while they will largely ignore her positive efforts and unduly magnify her errors. She came into my office the other day and asked me if she would get into trouble for accepting a second job, part-time, elsewhere, in addition to this job, because she was "so poor" she was facing bankruptcy otherwise. I told her it was perfectly alright and not to be concerned as long as it did not pose any conflict with her hours. I walked by her desk the other day after she'd gone home for the evening and noticed a piece of cardboard, cut from the lid of a cardboard box. I stopped and took a closer look at it, and realized it was two pieces of cardboard cut out and taped together with scotch tape. I have no idea why she did this, other than presumably it was just something she wanted to do. But she had fashioned a cross out of two pieces of brown cardboard and scotch tape, the crudest, most basic, simplest thing imaginable, in some idle moment when she had nothing else to do, and set it on her desk in front of where she sat so she could see it. I am not a follower of organized religion myself, but I fully recognize the place it has in the lives of other people--people who for the most part are not using it to impose themselves as individuals on others. I could not imagine a ruder or more selfish act than for someone to come along and denigrate or not respect this simple, harmless person's quiet faith and quiet belief. If in fact there is no God as Christians or other believers define it, that's really irrelevant in this person's case. There is no possible positive good that could come out of trying to persuade her otherwise. There is nothing in her life that it would improve, there is no possible benefit she could gain by it. Her belief and her faith are her personal accomplishment. It represents what she has done with her life, what she has made of herself. So there is nothing illusory, false, or untrue about it at all in that sense.