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Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:42 pm to LSU1NSEC
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The things Jesus said about being rich always kind of scared me. And... really, the only time Jesus really lost his shyt was when greedy people were doing greedy things in the temple.
I don't think Jesus had a problem with people getting rich through honest hard work.
He had a problem with people being greedy, and getting rich through dishonest means or exploitation of others. And it's pretty typical for rich people to let it get to their head and act like they are above everything..very little humility.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:43 pm to genro
quote:No
Now answer my question. Are you retarded?
How about cucumbers?
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:45 pm to MIZ_COU
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It's a survey for a class
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:46 pm to Vols&Shaft83
808 is much smarter than me
but i es detarded
but i es detarded
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Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:48 pm to MIZ_COU
quote:and anally fixated.
but i es detarded
Bad combo
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:48 pm to deltaland
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I don't think Jesus had a problem with people getting rich through honest hard work.
He had a problem with people being greedy, and getting rich through dishonest means or exploitation of others. And it's pretty typical for rich people to let it get to their head and act like they are above everything..very little humility.
I don't know. Matthew 19:23 is pretty explicit in all the different versions of the Bible.
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Can kinda understand this since scientific evidence is starting to uncover some interesting things about what matter really is. Material objects may be nothing more than an illusion when all's said and done. Maybe Jesus realized this.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:49 pm to deltaland
If they didn't give more than they needed to live he did have have a problem with the rich. I mean, it's a pretty common theme but whatever makes you feel better about it.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:52 pm to Duke
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If they didn't give more than they needed to live he did have have a problem with the rich. I mean, it's a pretty common theme but whatever makes you feel better about it.
just quoting The Man
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:53 pm to genro
quote:I es a poor detarded anally fixated minimum wage wal mart worker that praises Jesus that I live in murica and not Haiti.
and anally fixated.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 9:59 pm to MIZ_COU
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:36 pm to LSU1NSEC
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I don't know. Matthew 19:23 is pretty explicit in all the different versions of the Bible.
I agree. If you're a Christian and have a lot of money, you better be generous, it's explicit. It doesn't say give till you're on equal footing with everybody or that the government should be the doler out of said money.
The problem I have with most people that correctly or incorrectly use those verses in or out of context (not saying you are) want to use this as a beacon of income equality but ignore everything the Bible teaches on morality.
On the flip side some rich Christians want to be really moral but skim over the generous thing.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:43 pm to TydeLyfe
100% of my clients have a net worth of over $5mm -most have a net worth of over $50mm. The majority of them were not born into wealth. Most started businesses that they worked tirelessly to build. The fact is that a lot of the 1% are just focused to the point where they are borderline nuts and most sleep less than 6hrs per night.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:08 pm to 3nOut
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I agree. If you're a Christian and have a lot of money, you better be generous, it's explicit. It doesn't say give till you're on equal footing with everybody or that the government should be the doler out of said money.
The problem I have with most people that correctly or incorrectly use those verses in or out of context (not saying you are) want to use this as a beacon of income equality but ignore everything the Bible teaches on morality.
On the flip side some rich Christians want to be really moral but skim over the generous thing.
Just something to think about I guess. I'm really not that religious - more philosophical I guess and try to live ethically. Strange that Jesus seems to repeatedly warn against materialism and now quantum mechanics is allowing us to peep into the reality of the world around us - and reveal that materialism may be an illusion.
"It’s quite the conundrum, isn’t it? Our experience tells us that our reality is made up of physical material things, and that our world is an independently existing objective one. Again, what quantum mechanics reveals is that there is no true “physicality” in the universe, that atoms are made of focused vorticies of energy-miniature tornadoes that are constantly popping into and out of existence. The revelation that the universe is not an assembly of physical parts, suggested by Newtonian physics, and instead comes from a holistic entanglement of immaterial energy waves stems from the work of Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg, among others."
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Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:13 pm to TydeLyfe
It should be embarrassing for anyone to say they thought there was much merit to that PoS opinion piece.
I'm not a materialistic person, but have never understood the overwhelming envy of rich people by a few in this country.
I'm not a materialistic person, but have never understood the overwhelming envy of rich people by a few in this country.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:44 pm to Phat Phil
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Contrary to myth, most of today's plutocrats are not the kind of Steve Jobsian visionary risk-taking entrepreneurs or superstar celebrities. The .01%, for instance, tend overwhelmingly to be high-end corporate managers and executives, particularly on Wall Street, operating in interlocking networks that inflate the standard of what an executive is "worth
All these "Wall Street" type are working 10-12 hour days and busting their arse while the OP is probably working 40 hrs a week and complaining about it.
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Extremely hard to make something out of nothing. All the rich or semi-rich people I know got a big help from their families. All of them. Yes it's possible to make something out of nothing but it's rare.
Is it hard than it was 30 yrs ago absolutely, hell it's harder now that it was 8 years ago. So many damned regulations won't hardly let people start their own businesses now.
I'm not in the 1% but I do very well for myself and is wasn't given shite. For the past 20yrs I've worked on average 50 hrs a week. I don't work in a Wall Street firm but it's close and I am in competition with those guys every day plus I do know a bunch of guys who do work on Wall Street.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:52 pm to bbvdd
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I do know a bunch of guys who do work on Wall Street.
So do I, and there is no way I'd do the hours with no end in sight like they do.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:53 pm to TydeLyfe
L 
L @ tPoors
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Posted on 4/9/14 at 11:55 pm to TydeLyfe
frick off, communist.
Posted on 4/10/14 at 12:09 am to Phat Phil
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Extremely hard to make something out of nothing. All the rich or semi-rich people I know got a big help from their families. All of them. Yes it's possible to make something out of nothing but it's rare.
And their families worked hard to give them the advantages to enjoy...
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