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Hi all,

Some may remember that 3 years ago I was ruthlessly fired from a
private company after few months of working for them. The company was
the crowd of brainless employees and inept managers, and was the social
club. They had not yet came up to the market after 15 years of R&D of a
device. I had to forego an offered postdoctoral position because of
them, and I was unemployed for a year after they suddenly fired me. You
should know my feelings.

Few days ago I learnt that the manager who initiated the firing of me
three years ago, was himself laied off a few months ago in the
"right-sizing" of the ailing company. They did it the same way to him:
he was told on Friday that his services were not needed anymore, and
could he please leave the premises. He has not still found the job. Now
he will know the despair which I experienced in my time. I know of
people of circumstances similar to his who were not able to find a job
after 2 years of being unemployed. I think he might well be positioned
for a load of despair more in the coming year. I should be happy... I
am revenged... but it took so long -- 3 years. I cannot witness the
sufferings of the person... the feeling of revenge is not sweet.

But the Christian church teaches us that there is even better revenge.
I should forgive him for what he did to me. And then I should contact
him, and offer him help in finding a job... it will be mentally easy
for me to do it, because I have already forgave him. It would be quite
possible to assist him to find a job with my current employer. I would
befriend him, and listen to his stories of his woes every day. The
realisation of my rightesousness and my awareness about his sufferings
would be the feeling of a higher level than the feeling of revenge I am
experiencing now.

But at the moment I do not feel like I want to go for the lengthes to
experience that "higher-level feeling". The ol' simple revenge is
enough for me at the moment...

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afia boy wrote:

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> But at the moment I do not feel like I want to go for the lengthes to
> experience that "higher-level feeling". The ol' simple revenge is
> enough for me at the moment...
>
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Better yet is what Oscar Wilde said: "living well is the best revenge".

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afia boy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some may remember that 3 years ago I was ruthlessly fired from a
> private company after few months of working for them.

Yes, how can we forget it? It is 9/11 of SRC - Valerian has been fired!

>
> But the Christian church teaches us that there is even better
revenge.
> I should forgive him for what he did to me. And then I should contact
> him, and offer him help in finding a job... it will be mentally easy
> for me to do it, because I have already forgave him. It would be
quite
> possible to assist him to find a job with my current employer. I
would
> befriend him, and listen to his stories of his woes every day. The
> realisation of my rightesousness and my awareness about his
sufferings
> would be the feeling of a higher level than the feeling of revenge I
am
> experiencing now.
>
> But at the moment I do not feel like I want to go for the lengthes to
> experience that "higher-level feeling". The ol' simple revenge is
> enough for me at the moment...
>
> \|/.

You did not go to church, did you? You had studied communism. So, under
the circumstances your feelings by all means deserve appreciation and
encouragement. You might kill him and you did not. You are a SRC hero,
Valerian. We admire and applaud.

Old Pif

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Old Pif wrote:

> You did not go to church, did you? You had studied communism.

Yes, sometimes I go to church (which teaches us: "If someone slapped
your chick, turn the other one for slapping, for you will derive
satisfaction from it"), unlike the other people who go to synagogue
where there are no such teachings (I am not going to point my finger on
who).

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