How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have you

[musclemom]

Re: How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have y

I appreciate my transcriptionists!

Ah, if only you were a neurologist or neurosurgeon, I'd love a private client. I'm doing digital work now, too, very few tapes.

 

[mrplunkey]

Re: How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have y

Actually, until they started outsourcing transcription to India (material that has NO business leaving this country in the opinion of many) there was nothing "dying" or "cottage" about this industry.

A good transcriptionist keeps a doctor from looking stupid, and you can't be stupid and do this work. It's virtually impossible for many doctors to speak at the pace VR software demands. Most of them want their reports to look good and they don't have the time or patience to mess with it.

Additionally, VR software does not have the ability to remember that oh, hey MRS. Jones is a woman with an injury to her right foot and correct the doctor when he refers to his MALE patient's injured LEFT foot (and that happens a WHOLE lot). Nevermind keeping track of how to spell medications, procedures, etc. Little things like knowing that a patient who was born in 1936 can't possibly be 47, opening the letter with Dear Dr. Jones when the Dr. he's addressing the letter to is named Smith and Jones is actually the patient, that's the sort of shit that makes a doctor sound foolish and pisses them off to no end, but they say it all the time.

If I left things to stand exactly as they are dictated by my clients, there are times it would be a mess. That's the funny part about my work, if I do my job right, it's invisible (and, obviously, unappreciated). All they know is if they go somewhere else (to a service that outsources to other countries or VR software) suddenly they start sounding like they barely graduated high school. Some of them just make their office workers fix things. Some of them come back to professional American transcriptionists because their office personnel don't have the time (or know the terminology).

When I first got involved in this industry on a full time basis, a good living wage wasn't an unreasonable expectation. Now, thanks to advances in internet technology and East Indians who are willing to work for less than half what an American needs to make, a transcriptionist has to work almost twice as hard to make the same amount of money. This is also a physical job, and some people's hands and arms can take the abuse, some can't, and some of us are forced to pace ourselves, finding a balance between wear and tear on our extremities and making what we need to get by.

And as an aside, you don't know me, plunkey, but let's put it this way, more than 90% of the decisions I made in my life, that have brought me to where I am financially, were not made because I had the luxury OF choosing. I was driven to them out of fear, for the sake of survival, or to provide assistance and/or support for family. I could have made several decisions that were purely selfish and would be better off now, but I decided to do the morally right thing, knowing I was probably shooting myself in the foot as I did it. And yes, it pisses me off, just because I have a conscience doesn't mean I'm a saint.

I don't believe in transcriptionists, VR or overseas transcription labor. The correct answer is to use structured text so that medical records are more useful for automated retrospective analysis. Free-form text, regardless of how well transcribed, isn't all that useful across a very broad patient population.

 

[hardrock]

Re: How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have y

No!

See sig below.

 

[hardrock]

Re: How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have y

No!

See sig below.

 

[billfred]

Re: How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have y

MM - how much does this job pay you, if you don't mind me asking a personal question?

I read your post and you are very smart person. Someone with your brain would easily make $65 to $70k where I live and get health insurance plus some sort of bonus or stock rights. In addition, if your husband can pass a drug test, he could make $80 to $100k as an entry level truck driver plus get medical, vacation, and 401k.

I don't get your financial plight.

 

[ledhead]

Re: How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have y

Do you even know the meaning of the word proselytize? Because the idea of a 45 y/o woman shot full of steroids doesn't quite cut it for me.

You didn't offend me, but I'm tired of people like you. You think you're unique? You think you have some blazing insight that will lead me away from my path of damnation? You read a book or two, listen to one or two people who speak passionately and well but with absolute ignorance, maybe attend one or two "rituals" run by people who have absolutely no idea what they're really doing or how to do it and you're an "expert."

I came to my spiritual beliefs after reading, completely, The Bible, The Koran, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Bhagavad Gita, the I Ching (to name a few) and tons of ancillary books, including the Apocryphal texts, ancient Hebrew texts and material on Buddhism and Native American spirituality.

I've been informally involved in earth based and goddess based spirituality since the mid 1980s, formally dedicated into a coven in 2006 and frankly, over the decades I have debated, argued, and Christian bashed. Now I just try my best to correct misinformation and move on. You will learn eventually, if not in this lifetime some other, you have all of eternity to work out your own karma, but one thing I have learned, expending my personal energy by trying to clear the vision of you and those like you is an exercise in futility. You cannot add water to a glass that is already full

Evidenty, you don't know that the word proselytize has a few connotations! Of course you took in as a religious context....But, I tell ya what the other meanings are!(to join one's party, or cause) that's what I meant by proselytize....Those are things I'm into! I didn't mean to try to convert you my to faith, which I already explained to you where I stand. I'm not trying save you from damnation at all.....I was trying to save you from looking pathetic! Ah, according to you people are misinformed! You're views are right and everyone else is wrong, so the world needs you, right' that's your persuasion.....No doubt! You're indespensible! We're all expendable. Yeah! I had a minor in world religions when I got my BS, so I read all that crap...
I'm still not impressed!

The only thing you should do is "Thank Me", for putting my ass on the line for defending our country, and nearly getting my head blown off while you were back here reading wicca books.Yeah! that's right! people like ME made it possible for people like YOU to observe their First Amendment, so you can run your fucking mouth wrecklessly....End of the discussion! Im going back to the roid forum....

 

[musclemom]

Re: How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have y

The only thing you should do is "Thank Me", for putting my ass on the line for defending our country, and nearly getting my head blown off while you were back here reading wicca books.Yeah! that's right! people like ME made it possible for people like YOU to observe their First Amendment, so you can run your fucking mouth wrecklessly....End of the discussion! Im going back to the roid forum....

Too bad you won't get to read this response then:

Members of my family has served in some branch of the military since the late 1700s (although we do have reason to believe that great x6 grandpa was a Tory) most recently, my father served in the Marines in WWII, my half brother was an Air Force medic in Vietnam, I received my honorable discharge from the US Army in 1988, and my son was discharged from the Air Force about two years ago.

What, you think only christians fight for the rights of other? There are plenty of pagans and wiccans who lie in Arlington, except until recently they weren't allowed to have the symbol of their faith on their tombstones.

 

[Strongbow]

Re: How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have y

Too bad you won't get to read this response then:

Members of my family has served in some branch of the military since the late 1700s (although we do have reason to believe that great x6 grandpa was a Tory) most recently, my father served in the Marines in WWII, my half brother was an Air Force medic in Vietnam, I received my honorable discharge from the US Army in 1988, and my son was discharged from the Air Force about two years ago.

What, you think only christians fight for the rights of other? There are plenty of pagans and wiccans who lie in Arlington, except until recently they weren't allowed to have the symbol of their faith on their tombstones.

MuscleMom I love you, just so you don't forget.

 

[ghettostudmuffin]

Re: How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have y

I've read the bible from cover to cover and sections of it multiple times. The Ten Commandments(original) is one of my all time favorite movies.

That said I've decided I really don't believe in God. At least not in the typical religious sense. I believe there are things beyond our comprehension. I do believe their is good and bad when you consider the human mind is capable of understanding the concept.

I'm 30 years old and I've just recently come to this conclusion.

A big part of me thinking the way I do now is based off history and logic.

For all the good religion does I believe more people have died in the name of religion than all non-religious based wars, many times over...correct me if I am wrong. I highly doubt it.

IMHO, any religion that believe's it's belief system is "the" way or only way is frankly, utterly assinine.

Let's use some brain cells and logic.

Back when man first discovered fire Christianity did not exist. Catholicism didn't exist. Islam was nowhere to be found.

Aren't all the humans that came before organized religion pretty much screwed? They didn't know any better. It didn't exist. The couldn't acknowledge Jesus Christ as lord and savior nor could they pray to Allah. I'd love to hear a logical argument against that. Maybe they get a free pass. YA, that's logical...EDITED INh, I forgot in the Christin viewpoint god created adam and eve. Well, at least some guy wrote it down many ages later and said it was so...

Next you have organized religion clashing from different parts of the world. We humans are greatly influenced by that around us and what we are exposed to. The younger, the bigger the impression made. Christians think they are right. By that line of thought Islam followers must be screwed. Islam thinks you're screwed. Catholics don't agree with either of you. I am using a couple very widely known organized religions to make my points for those wondering why I don't mention another of the myriad belief systems that abound.

If you look at the big picture either everyone is screwed or only a select few are right. That's just stupid. This isn't debating whether the world is flat. Where you grew up in the world or what nationality/ethnicity your parents have generally will influence what religion you believe in. Take a baby born in India and raise him in a christian house hold in America and that baby will grow into christian man 9 times out of 10. He may convert to Islam for one reason or another later in life, but where he grew up and who he was raised by was a massive influence on his belief system. Naturally, he believes his belief system is the right one.

The fact that there are hundreds, if not thousands of different belief systems completely contradicts science, logic and reason. 2+2 does not equal 5. Generally there tends to be a right way about something and a wrong way. Putting your right foot forward can never be putting your left foot forward. Your right hand is not your left hand. You screw something in clockwise and unscrew it counter clockwise. And don't bother listing stupid exceptions to my examples lol.

Next it comes down to "faith". Religious belief is one of the only things in this world that has no concrete physical verifiable data, whatsoever. If a man wanted me to hire him and the job position required him to speak Latin and he couldn't prove it by actually speaking it I would laugh and send him on his way. So I'm supposed to believe there is some all powerful deity floating up in space, better yet all around us and in every thing and knows all, sees all, logs it down in a super wide load 5 mile high leather tome the width of a couple football fields and just take it on "faith"?

Divine inspiration bugs me too. As far as I know all belief systems are written down and interpreted by man. Doesn't that leave the possibility that errors were made? Someone might use the 10 commandments as an example, but no tablets still exist. Perhaps Moses carved them? How can you prove otherwise? A few errors made here and there, a few translation/transcription errors as the centuries pass, a few changes on someone's whim and how do you even know what you believe is the same thing originally written. The King James bible( THE KING JAMES) bible is not the same as the original holy bible which in itself was a collection of separate divinely inspired writings. .. ....

Free will annoys me too. So God, or Jesus, or Allah or whoever allows man to commit the horrendous inhumanities to man because he gave us free will? That's not a very caring god to let millions, hundreds of millions, who knows how many over the course of known human history to die by each others hands. It's real fair for a babies head to be caved in by some african warlord. Hey, it's free will. I'm sure he'll get his tuppins cumupins in hell. Although I thought hell was full of evil demons and run by this really bad dude. Sounds like he would fit right in. Can't be all that bad? WTF?

How about natural disasters? Gods plan to hold back earth's population density? How do these fit in Gods plan. Couldn't he have made Earth earthquake and tsunami free? For a guy that is all powerful and can do anything I think he could have done a better job. Break the laws of physics several times over to do it. Shouldn't be a problem. Oh nope, but we are all sinners! Can't have us havin it too easy now. Riiiight.

How about repentance of sins? This is the stupidest shit I have ever heard of. Technically, you could be Hitler, genuinely realize all the atrocities that you commited and were done by your own hand and ask for forgiveness and feel general sorrow for your actions and be forgiven. REALLY.

I could go on, but I think that anyone with a reasonable IQ that legitimately looks around and tries to make up their own mind even if it means breaking deeply ingrained beliefs that have been pushed since birth, will come to the conclusion at the minimum that something is not quite right with religion. Then again the average man/woman is actually pretty stupid whether they realize it or not.

If I offended anyone tough shit. Guess I'll be getting raped by a train of donkey's for all eternity while choking on brimstone.

Probably not, though I admit I would probably laugh if that did happen, if even for a mere moment upon realization...

 

[puddlemonkey]

Re: How many of you here believe in God, but have turned your backs on him? Or have y

cliff?