Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.
In his opening address he said,
"We can't keep devotees from going to Temples/Churches/Mosques."
"We can't keep them from reading their holy books and knowing the truth."
"We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their saviour."
"Once they gain that connection with God, our power over them is broken."
"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a relationship with God."
"This is what I want you to do," said the devil: "Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted. "Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."
"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles."
"Keep them from spending time with their children."
"As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!"
"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice from God."
"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive." To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-devotional music constantly."
"This will jam their minds and break that union with God."
"Fill the drink tables with magazines and newspapers."
"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Introduce more and more news channels."
"Invade their driving moments with billboards. When they go home, they should see advertisement of different home gadgets & appliances. When they go office, the bill boards should show about different policies. Keep there minds engaged."
"Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and false hopes.."
"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives."
"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night."
"Give them headaches too! "
"If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere."
"That will fragment their families quickly!"
"Give them tear flooding mega serials in TV to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of God's message."
"Give them illusion in attractive label so they won't talk about his resurrection and power over sin and death."
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."
"Have them return from their recreation exhausted."
"Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead."
"Keep them busy, busy, busy!"
"Send them mobile calls and SMS of variety of products. Let these satanic sound vibrations enter there ears rather than trancedental sound vibrations of the Holy Names of God."
"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talks so that they leave with troubled consciences."
"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from God."
"Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause."
"It will work!"
"It will work!"
It was quite a plan!
The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing the disciples of God everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.
Having little time for their Master or their families.
Having no time to tell others about the power of God to change lives.
I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes?
You be the judge!!!!!
Does "BUSY" mean:
B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?
Life Makes You think !!!
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Productivity - A myth
What is productivity?
If you ask me, I would say that productivity is the most confused term I have ever heard. If you ask three people what do they mean by productivity you would probably get three different replies. Many people try to keep productivity and efficiency in the same boat. This is an attempt clear the air around what Productivity is. Do not mind if this adds a little more the confusion. Share your ideas and I would to learn from you.
Productivity in economics refers to the measures of output from production processes, per unit of input. Productivity is different from Efficiency which takes into account both the value of what is produced and the cost of inputs used.
In software product engineering, Productivity is the number of lines of code generated by a programmer in a given time period.
Do you agree with this? If you agree than it is important to read further. Time to clear some doubts.
If you disagree, you are welcome. Read on till the end and let us know if you still disagree.
Actually this definition is wrong. If this is true, I can use a code generator which would produce 50 times more code which I normally produce on a business day and I would be the most productive developer on that day. That is why most of the matrices related to lines of code are useful for nothing.
Let us think ahead. What about the following definition.
Productivity is the rate at which the end users enjoy new features. Looks interesting! Let us elaborate it using Agile methodology.
In Agile Software Development world, the productivity would be the business value delivered per unit. Here Unit can be iteration/release depending on at what level we are trying to measure productivity. Productivity and team's velocity would go hand in hand. The Velocity as measured in story points would be the productivity of that iteration.
But this is not as easy as data can be easily manipulated. Here we are considering story points as a measure of productivity. But it is easy to manipulate the story points and the team can show that the velocity a.k.a productivity is increasing iteration by iteration. The same case is with business value. Who would ensure that business value associated with easy story is correct. This can neither be measured nor validated.
Let us think further. Productivity is the rate at which the teams increase partner's (end users’) profits. What about this?
This would again be wrong. It is not the programmer's job to make the users profitable. Too many other departments are involved in between and too many actors who do not want to increase profits in any way.
The closest possible answer to what productivity is that no one has managed in 50 years of trying to define productivity in programming in any way that can't be corrupted by some means.
If you ask me, I would say that productivity is the most confused term I have ever heard. If you ask three people what do they mean by productivity you would probably get three different replies. Many people try to keep productivity and efficiency in the same boat. This is an attempt clear the air around what Productivity is. Do not mind if this adds a little more the confusion. Share your ideas and I would to learn from you.
Productivity in economics refers to the measures of output from production processes, per unit of input. Productivity is different from Efficiency which takes into account both the value of what is produced and the cost of inputs used.
In software product engineering, Productivity is the number of lines of code generated by a programmer in a given time period.
Do you agree with this? If you agree than it is important to read further. Time to clear some doubts.
If you disagree, you are welcome. Read on till the end and let us know if you still disagree.
Actually this definition is wrong. If this is true, I can use a code generator which would produce 50 times more code which I normally produce on a business day and I would be the most productive developer on that day. That is why most of the matrices related to lines of code are useful for nothing.
Let us think ahead. What about the following definition.
Productivity is the rate at which the end users enjoy new features. Looks interesting! Let us elaborate it using Agile methodology.
In Agile Software Development world, the productivity would be the business value delivered per unit. Here Unit can be iteration/release depending on at what level we are trying to measure productivity. Productivity and team's velocity would go hand in hand. The Velocity as measured in story points would be the productivity of that iteration.
But this is not as easy as data can be easily manipulated. Here we are considering story points as a measure of productivity. But it is easy to manipulate the story points and the team can show that the velocity a.k.a productivity is increasing iteration by iteration. The same case is with business value. Who would ensure that business value associated with easy story is correct. This can neither be measured nor validated.
Let us think further. Productivity is the rate at which the teams increase partner's (end users’) profits. What about this?
This would again be wrong. It is not the programmer's job to make the users profitable. Too many other departments are involved in between and too many actors who do not want to increase profits in any way.
The closest possible answer to what productivity is that no one has managed in 50 years of trying to define productivity in programming in any way that can't be corrupted by some means.
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