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jaychant
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There's something about me that I'm just not sure about, and I would like some opinions.
When I'm offered something that I didn't plan on getting, I tend to be very unwilling to accept it. For some reason, it just makes me feel greedy. For example, last weekend, I noticed how upset my dad was because of our messy house (he was cleaning at the time), and so I thought I'd help him clean a bit. Just now, he offered to pay me a few dollars for it, but it just didn't seem right. I don't know.
Could this potentially be a problem for me in the future? If so, how?
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I think asking an online forum with an assortment of random people is not the right approach to such matters.
Better have a talk with your dad. 
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I feel kind of the same way. You don't want to mix transactional things into your family life, right?
Think of it as a gift. Resisting it isn't worth the trouble.
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I feel kind of the same way. You don't want to mix transactional things into your family life, right?
Think of it as a gift. Resisting it isn't worth the trouble.
Fair enough.
I just wasn't sure if I should fight my "generosity" (as I call it, though this is incorrect) or let it be.
Personally, I think it's a way to fight greed, because I am quite greedy. For example, for my team, Dark Fairy Games, I promise a split of profits between each member of the team. Well, originally I left 50% for myself. The setup is much more fair now, with about 20% to each group, though I still get 20% (whereas for example coders will only end up with 5% since there are four coders).
Now let's freestyle!
Nah, I can't throw the song "Rap Game" by D12 out of my head. So I just can't...
Maybe tomorrow!
I would like to now
But I just can't now
It escapes me now
but maybe tomor-ow!
I'll try it again,
and hopefully then,
I won't forget
No, I won't let
this escape me again
It won't evade me again
I won't forget it again
I will remember it tomorrow
I assure you, I'll follow
this promise I give to you
will not be broken
Tomorrow is the day
that is my token.
I admit, that took me minutes to write, so not exactly freestyle...
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I feel kind of the same way. You don't want to mix transactional things into your family life, right?
Think of it as a gift. Resisting it isn't worth the trouble.
Fair enough. I just wasn't sure if I should fight my "generosity" (as I call it, though this is incorrect) or let it be. Personally, I think it's a way to fight greed, because I am quite greedy. For example, for my team, Dark Fairy Games, I promise a split of profits between each member of the team. Well, originally I left 50% for myself. The setup is much more fair now, with about 20% to each group, though I still get 20% (whereas for example coders will only end up with 5% since there are four coders). Now let's freestyle! Nah, I can't throw the song "Rap Game" by D12 out of my head. So I just can't... Maybe tomorrow!
I would like to now
But I just can't now
It escapes me now
but maybe tomor-ow!
I'll try it again,
and hopefully then,
I won't forget
No, I won't let
this escape me again
It won't evade me again
I won't forget it again
I will remember it tomorrow
I assure you, I'll follow
this promise I give to you
will not be broken
Tomorrow is the day
that is my token.
I admit, that took me minutes to write, so not exactly freestyle...
If you have the time or will power, I suggest reading a book called Atlas Shrugged
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I am not always understand about what you speak, unfortunately.
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Death 999
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Atlas Shrugged is an all right book until you realize that it's terribly contrived.
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SweetSassyMolassy
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Extremely contrived, especially the first half. However, the point in writing it was to make sort of a half novel/half philosophy textbook. The reason it's so forced is because the book was just a platform for explaining her philosophy. She drives her views of ethics and morality until it hurts to read it. But even to those who disagree entirely in the end, it's an extremely powerful book with a whole lot of truth in it.
You could just as easily read her series of essays "The Virtue of Selfishness", and it will almost fully explain what she's trying to get across.
Also,
The novel's premise was that the product of the immorality in the United States would be its eventual downfall. In order for this to happen, events had to progress in a sequential manner. The book had to end the way it did, because that was the whole point. The fill-in parts, (where Dagny Taggart begins looking for John Galt's motor, or the fact that the moral citizens chose to build their own private city) are hokey, but they make sense if you read the bare bones of her philosophy. In particular, she wanted to show how a truly moral city functioned, which I think was a necessary component, and she wanted to show how John Galt, the essence of her morality, built the motor that would power the world. (As opposed to someone immoral who doesn't create anything, but takes without earning.) What more can a moral person in her eyes do than create something like that?
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I am not always understand about what you speak, unfortunately.
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And yet, Reardan made something of comparable utility if not as much, and look where he ended up.
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Oh, well, I didn't get that far. Last I saw him he was about to jump off a bridge or something. I guess he changed his mind?
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