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I am pretty upset right now.
I wanted to get a small job just to have some extra pocket change. The job would have been for a very religious company. I figured I could handle it. However, now they are saying I'd need to have a filter put on my computer so that I wouldn't be able to have access to anything except work related sites. No blogs, no news, no quick information look ups, no Facebook (well, that's okay. lol).
Oh No no no no no no!!!!!
I can't deal!!!
Job and filtered computer vs no job and free access computer?
Everyone is getting tighter. More extreme. The greedy in America have really outdone themselves this time and now look what's happening to the economy. Terrorism has gotten to a new level after 9/11. Mumbai. Now, not only am I mindful as to which bus I can take, now I have to be mindful of which company I can work for. Okay, my situation is not as tragic as the previously mentioned ones. I know! But it is very invasive.
The religious buses that requires women to sit in the back, I simply avoided. But now this is inside my home, my own computer. What's a gal to do? Okay, I have to think here. Perhaps they are right. Perhaps computers are evil and will only lead to bad things and I should have a filter.
But what happened to faith?
Faith in God is also connected to faith in ones self.
Someone can have faith that God will do x, y, and z. But if they don't think they are important, or that they can fight a habit, or they can be used as a vessel to carry out His will, and do so as stealthfully as a commando carrying out a mission, then the faith is lacking.
Do folks not trust that I won't go to porn sites? And if I do, then I am taking responsibility of myself? Do they not trust that I could perhaps do good on the net? Does the CEO of this company have filters???
I have to really sit down and think it through. My initial reaction is a big fat NO. But I will give it due thought. Wow. Filter. Censorship. okay okay protection?
11 comments:
I read this post several times. Then i realized that they wanted YOU to put a filter on YOUR PC.
and what pray tell was their rationale for that?
I live in an Orthodox Jewish community. Within that community there is an element that is slowly taking a strong hold.
This element encourages, coaxes, pressures others to become more insular and more restrictive. i.e. no internet, cellphones w/o internet options, special segregated bus (men in front, women in back), limited "outside" influence.
they also hold many places of employment, supermarkets, and act as middlemen between the public and some prominent rabbis.
Once in a while things get really fanatical. At the same time it seems to be imploding from the inside.
Anyway, the company in question belonged to someone from that element. And so, they put the restriction that whoever wants this job must have a filter. (I just wish they were more upfront about it).
My family and I and many others are struggling with this.
In the Christian community one writer called that type of intense control over the free will of other believers "toxic faith." Humans don't realize sometimes that when they create unreasonable rules in the guise of religious faith they're really asking other humans to have faith not in God but in man.
Like The Ink I spent time while reading wondering if it was your computer or their computer. It's your computer? WOW! I wouldn't do it.
Ink - Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Verite Parlant - C'est la verite! I like that phrase "toxic faith". It fits. Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
"The religious buses that requires women to sit in the back...."
Miriam, when I first read the above line of your comment, what I saw was this:
The religious abuses that requires women to sit in the back....
I'll leave it at that.
It's not the avoidance of so-called evil, and evil influences, that makes us holy, it's our effort to overcome evil with good that does the trick.
No evil no holiness. How can we experience good without the bad, holiness without the profane?
Without being judgmental let me say this:
A definitions of God that I love is: God is Freedom.
God expressed this freedom toward us when he gave us free will, the ability to create using the power to choose and to decide for ourselves.
God could have chosen to make us like Himself, to have eyes "too pure to behold evil," but he didn't.
Instead he gave us the capacity to "know good and evil."
Now, if we have this capacity, it had to be for a reason, and I'm sure it's not what many Bible scholars believe: God gave us a choice, to choose Him or not, and, if we didn't choose Him, to be subjected to eternal punishment.
That conclusion doesn't make good horse sense.
In all my dealings, I choose freedom over restraint.
I have this irrepressible desire to express, and manifest God as fully as is possible.
I wish you well as you seek to resolve this quandary, and to find peace in the midst of chaos.
Domino - That is what some scholars teach. Not sure if this book is available still, but there is a book, more a little booklet that talks about this very topic.
Its called "Mayim" (means: water)
basically it talks about free will. There is as much free will as there is people. It also talks about Absolute Truth vs relative (personal) truths.
Say what? no way would I put a filter on my own pc, no way no how.
Stay safe my friend.
Hi Miriam,
I thought I'd pop by. I can't really comment on Mumbai because it'll just get me too riled up. This requirement about putting a filter on your computer that you own in your house is freaking ridiculous! I don't like people using religiosity to control women either but I'm trying to stick to the post at hand. You must really love your husband, lol!
Tania - I'm leaning towards not doing taking it. Though I understand their reasoning, I just don't agree with it.
Faith - Hey!! I also think its ridiculous. How does my love for husband fit in to it?
Im just curious to know if they have a legal right to require you to put a filter on your home computer. I would understand it if you work in their office and they put a filter on their computer but for them to ask for you to put it on your own computer sounds like an invasion of your privacy. Is there a way that they can get on your computer to check up on it? if not how would they know whether or not you do it?
Anonymous - they don't have legal rights. They'll just find a reason why I don't "qualify".
Also they intended to put the filter in themselves.
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