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friendoken
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| asmith wrote: |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
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I think the joke is that while I am working hard at living a life, almost everyone I know back in the West is living a life sentence.
Now THAT is a joke! |
With all due respect, working in a kindergarten and asking a bunch of 6-year olds "I like pizza. How about you?" for $1600 per month is hardly my definition of 'having a life'. |
If that is your life I strongly suggest a change. If you think it is mine, you are way off base. I have taught ESL, but never to children. Recently I was teaching grade 6 at a private school, english/science/math. I spoke to the kids in a perfectly normal way, they all understood very well. Presently I am the editor and writer for SpotLight Asia magazine. I live in Vientiane and make a very respectable salary. My life rocks!
In fact, I just met a guy here, American, who spent the last 5 years in Korea. After having experienced Laos for all of 3 weeks, now he wonders why he stayed so long in hell. With the won in the toilet, a decent teaching job here enables you to live a way better life. Not to mention the food, the people actually like you and they are all polite, everything is cheap yadda yadda yadda
Don't spread it around. The last thing Laos needs is a bunch of miserable ESL'ers from Korea pissing on our parade. |
Laos? Well, you'll be very happy. You won't be seeing me there. |
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Chambertin
Joined: 07 Jun 2009
Location: Gunsan
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DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP
Joined: 28 May 2009
Location: Electron cloud
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Life is listening to 'Cortez the Killer' at full volume with all the doors and windows open, whilst dancing around naked and drunk out of your frigging mind
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xingyiman
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
| friendoken wrote: |
I think the joke is that while I am working hard at living a life, almost everyone I know back in the West is living a life sentence.
Now THAT is a joke! |
With all due respect, working in a kindergarten and asking a bunch of 6-year olds "I like pizza. How about you?" for $1600 per month is hardly my definition of 'having a life'. |
I've done the "career thing" back in the west Serg and I can tell you that working for $45,000 a year and paying 4/5ths of your net income in expenses every month aint exactly never-neverland either.
I know that most people here at Dave's made at least 3 times that before they decided, for reasons unknown, to slum it in Korea but I guess i was one of the low earners. Sigh..... |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| If you're not laughing, you just don't get life! |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| Life's a joke but it's just way over my head. |
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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:04 am Post subject: |
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I suppose the ending of that monty python movie may be apt.
Life's a piece of ....
Always look on... |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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Is my life a joke or is life a joke ultimately have the same metaphysical origin. The prospect of there being a master designer AND this ultimate reality having a sense of humor is even more remote than the former being true. What does a sense of humor have to do with creating the universe? Absolutely nothing. Only humans could pose it based on their anthropomorphic conception of a God creating humans as separate and distinct from all other life.
Therefore, the question is meaningless. |
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drkalbi
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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| Life is serious. People are a joke. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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If only God exists, his only business is to enjoy Himself. And to increase his enjoyment, he expands into countless individual spiritual sparks - tiny sample gods - with minute independence.
As parts of God created to increase his pleasure, our eternal constitutional position is to purely serve God in some way. By pleasing God, we become happy (since we are intimately connected.)
When we exercise our free will to reject loving service to God, the alternative is to try to enjoy ourselves separately - necessitating the material creation (which hovers like a dark cloud in a small portion of the Spiritual Sky...)
In material consciousness, identifying ourselves with our material bodily covering, we suffer repeated birth, death, disease, and old age throughout the evolutionary cycle and on various planets in various universes.
Ultimately, we'll revive our dormant God (Krishna) consciousness and automatically be transferred back to the spiritual universes to participate in never-ending pleasure pastimes in the association of God and innumerable liberated souls.
It's not really a joke, but it will seem like a bad dream when we make it back to our real home. |
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