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Re: Religious Conflicts

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Who wants to try to implement a sabbath mode on their robot?

On a less hilarious note, here's an example of the downside of letting religion become too central to a fundamentally areligious pastime.
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Re: Religious Conflicts

My team never had meetings on Sundays, and to my knowledge no one's Sabbath on our team was on a Saturday so this worked out well. We had a rule about how many meetings you could miss (to try to prevent people from joining to just show up when you felt like it) but i am sure that would have been relaxed for religious reasons. Robotics is great, but if you have a religious conviction (which i do) its just a matter of where you priorities are. To each there own, but for me, a robotics competition isn't worth going against my beliefs.

With that said, its unfortunate competitions interfere with peoples religious observance, but as others have mentioned its the real world. Learn to draw the line now, if you can skip the robotics competition now, you can tell your future employer about your religious adherence and you will be better off for it. It's not that FIRST is a bad activity (obviously we all know its great and can be very inspiring) but rather its the principle. So whether its okay with you to miss your Sabbath in the traditional sense for a week or if you would rather miss a competition, its up to you. We won't judge you either way, but one thing is for sure, as you get older making the choice will be harder and harder if you chose to miss out on certain activities for religious observance. This is especially true when you can rationalize saying "well I missed before, its okay if i do it again." I would say that where ever you stand its good to act on it now to develop the good habit of doing what you believe (whatever that may be).
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