i’m toying with the idea of making working one day a week (or less) totally respectable. For those wondering how you’d divide a day up further, stuck on one day, imagine eight hours or less, distribute the hours any way you like over a week. Be creative

presently the working week is originated and conceptualized from a bible story of creation, some hardworking religious folk slept with capitalists somewhere, had a baby, and you’re it. Not exactly.

anyway, the question is of the future, when consumerism as you know it today has faded some, before the war perhaps that helps stabilize human population growth, the new capitalism that’s not so busy.

if people worked less, were less busy, are there planet-saving potentials in this, a more low-energy lifestyle

If people could slow down globally, then yes, that would be of some benefit.

from wiki, creation mythology

“Sixth day: God commands the land produce all kinds of animals. He makes wild beasts, livestock and reptiles. He then creates the first human (Adam). People are told to “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” Humans and animals are given plants to eat. Then God calls his creation “very good.”

we’re on track so far

from what I could tell when working in an office, many people only work a total of 8 hours and spend the other 32 making coffee, emailing their friends, goggling restaurants and chatting about their weekend.

/slight cynicism.

i was doing 10 hours per week a while back

it was king awesome

and gave plenty of time to do much good elsewhere

transition said:

from wiki, creation mythology

“Sixth day: God commands the land produce all kinds of animals. He makes wild beasts, livestock and reptiles. He then creates the first human (Adam). People are told to “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” Humans and animals are given plants to eat. Then God calls his creation “very good.”

we’re on track so far

wonder what subdue means in that

transition said:

transition said:

from wiki, creation mythology

“Sixth day: God commands the land produce all kinds of animals. He makes wild beasts, livestock and reptiles. He then creates the first human (Adam). People are told to “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” Humans and animals are given plants to eat. Then God calls his creation “very good.”

we’re on track so far

wonder what subdue means in that

Mine the fnerker out of it.

Arts said:

from what I could tell when working in an office, many people only work a total of 8 hours and spend the other 32 making coffee, emailing their friends, goggling restaurants and chatting about their weekend.

/slight cynicism.

Somewhat true, I’m fed up by 3:00pm each day, been there since 7:45, sick of sitting down and staring at a screen and the monotony of the work doesn’t help and we are lucky we get quite a bit of leeway to attend appointments, etc.

Tamb said:

transition said:

transition said:

from wiki, creation mythology

“Sixth day: God commands the land produce all kinds of animals. He makes wild beasts, livestock and reptiles. He then creates the first human (Adam). People are told to “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” Humans and animals are given plants to eat. Then God calls his creation “very good.”

we’re on track so far

wonder what subdue means in that

Mine the fnerker out of it.

Wreck it for profit and have wars over religion, politics and resources acquisition.

Cymek said:

Tamb said:

transition said:

wonder what subdue means in that

Mine the fnerker out of it.

Wreck it for profit and have wars over religion, politics and resources acquisition.

Sounds about right.

Tamb said:

transition said:

transition said:

from wiki, creation mythology

“Sixth day: God commands the land produce all kinds of animals. He makes wild beasts, livestock and reptiles. He then creates the first human (Adam). People are told to “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” Humans and animals are given plants to eat. Then God calls his creation “very good.”

we’re on track so far

wonder what subdue means in that

Mine the fnerker out of it.

where’s a learned creationist when you need one, but probably need not look there for an answer

there’s certainly some licensing about it, to utilize the world for humans’ own purposes

it’s clearly an introduction to the social construction of reality, the story is, nature yielding to the work of minds

not unique to typical religion

I guess if nature fights back with a higher thermostat setting and wobbly climate it’s because of mans’ evil ways, waywardness

Tamb said:

Cymek said:

Tamb said:

Mine the fnerker out of it.

Wreck it for profit and have wars over religion, politics and resources acquisition.

Sounds about right.

And breed like the Earth is infinite.

Tamb said:

Cymek said:

Tamb said:

Mine the fnerker out of it.

Wreck it for profit and have wars over religion, politics and resources acquisition.

Sounds about right.

Shameful though, the natural world and everything in its quite beautiful, fascinating and interesting.

transition said:

Tamb said:

transition said:

wonder what subdue means in that

Mine the fnerker out of it.

where’s a learned creationist when you need one, but probably need not look there for an answer

there’s certainly some licensing about it, to utilize the world for humans’ own purposes

it’s clearly an introduction to the social construction of reality, the story is, nature yielding to the work of minds

not unique to typical religion

I guess if nature fights back with a higher thermostat setting and wobbly climate it’s because of mans’ evil ways, waywardness

But god said to do it.

Tamb said:

transition said:

Tamb said:

Mine the fnerker out of it.

where’s a learned creationist when you need one, but probably need not look there for an answer

there’s certainly some licensing about it, to utilize the world for humans’ own purposes

it’s clearly an introduction to the social construction of reality, the story is, nature yielding to the work of minds

not unique to typical religion

I guess if nature fights back with a higher thermostat setting and wobbly climate it’s because of mans’ evil ways, waywardness

But god said to do it.

God may have found expression through capitalism, that’s what I reckon. Perhaps even consumerism

transition said:

Tamb said:

transition said:

where’s a learned creationist when you need one, but probably need not look there for an answer

there’s certainly some licensing about it, to utilize the world for humans’ own purposes

it’s clearly an introduction to the social construction of reality, the story is, nature yielding to the work of minds

not unique to typical religion

I guess if nature fights back with a higher thermostat setting and wobbly climate it’s because of mans’ evil ways, waywardness

But god said to do it.

God may have found expression through capitalism, that’s what I reckon. Perhaps even consumerism

When he told them to multiply, it was a punishment

transition said:

Tamb said:

transition said:

where’s a learned creationist when you need one, but probably need not look there for an answer

there’s certainly some licensing about it, to utilize the world for humans’ own purposes

it’s clearly an introduction to the social construction of reality, the story is, nature yielding to the work of minds

not unique to typical religion

I guess if nature fights back with a higher thermostat setting and wobbly climate it’s because of mans’ evil ways, waywardness

But god said to do it.

God may have found expression through capitalism, that’s what I reckon. Perhaps even consumerism

Satan did better. He only had one apple & he sold it to some sheila thus becoming the second most powerful being in the Universe.

dv said:

transition said:

Tamb said:

But god said to do it.

God may have found expression through capitalism, that’s what I reckon. Perhaps even consumerism

When he told them to multiply, it was a punishment

had a nasty turn

anyway, this word subdue interests me, it’s not just a word, in context, i’m inclined to attribute a special significance

I think it certainly means the world belongs to man, responsibility for it is left to man

transition said:

anyway, this word subdue interests me, it’s not just a word, in context, i’m inclined to attribute a special significance

I think it certainly means the world belongs to man, responsibility for it is left to man

This word “work” interests me.

Any occupation, whether it be driving, playing games, being entertained, even sleeping, seeing friends, etc. can be called “work”.

For instance playing games “is” work because it keeps game designers in business.
Being entertained “is” work because it keeps entertainers in business.
Seeing friends “is” work because it provides social support tor them.
Sleeping “is” work because it’s necessary to keep us healthy.

So we all work 24 hours a day seven days a week.

Do you see any problem in that?

I have mornings I get up and just pulling my socks on seems like work, they fight back, some days this persists to the end, to everything

transition said:

I have mornings I get up and just pulling my socks on seems like work, they fight back, some days this persists to the end, to everything

Worse still when you put both legs through one pants leg.. clothes, pffft

mollwollfumble said:

transition said:

anyway, this word subdue interests me, it’s not just a word, in context, i’m inclined to attribute a special significance

I think it certainly means the world belongs to man, responsibility for it is left to man

This word “work” interests me.

Any occupation, whether it be driving, playing games, being entertained, even sleeping, seeing friends, etc. can be called “work”.

For instance playing games “is” work because it keeps game designers in business.
Being entertained “is” work because it keeps entertainers in business.
Seeing friends “is” work because it provides social support tor them.
Sleeping “is” work because it’s necessary to keep us healthy.

So we all work 24 hours a day seven days a week.

Do you see any problem in that?

I like to create arbitrary definitions of common words too.

Witty Rejoinder said:

mollwollfumble said:

transition said:

anyway, this word subdue interests me, it’s not just a word, in context, i’m inclined to attribute a special significance

I think it certainly means the world belongs to man, responsibility for it is left to man

This word “work” interests me.

Any occupation, whether it be driving, playing games, being entertained, even sleeping, seeing friends, etc. can be called “work”.

For instance playing games “is” work because it keeps game designers in business.
Being entertained “is” work because it keeps entertainers in business.
Seeing friends “is” work because it provides social support tor them.
Sleeping “is” work because it’s necessary to keep us healthy.

So we all work 24 hours a day seven days a week.

Do you see any problem in that?

I like to create arbitrary definitions of common words too.

do you actually mean that or do those words mean something else?

>So we all work 24 hours a day seven days a week

my definition of work is whatever that involves sustained attention (variously effort, physical too), to the extent it hurts, if not immediately then afterwards

there are days things seem easier, and it doesn’t hurt, or not so much