Topic: Off/On ramp beggars....

[Skadi]

You can make it rain on the homeless!!

And sing 'pennies from heaven'. It could be a musical

[ohcheap1]

If you read this thread from the beginning you can see the desensification of the world in these pages. I dont know how to move beyond it. Very honestly. Part of me wonders how I can be so cold and calluous and scream "why have we come to this!" But the rational (?) side sees the manipulation and lying and resents it. Hhhhmmm......very confusing to me.

[subvinorosa]

I feel guilty when I don't give, especially when it's children.  But I don't usually give money.  I'd give whatever food I have on me though.

[Robin-Graves]

Id rather give help than money.
I mean,, money doesnt last,, but the memories of someone helping you stays.
I know Ive been in situations where I needed help and no one was there ( not even so called freinds).
 But on the other hand, I was allways the one that helped people that needed it, but where were they when I needed help? Nowhere.
So you know,, Its a little rough for me to help many people anymore,,then again I feel guilty for NOT helping them.
Its a wierd Catch 22 for me.

[chekovsulu]

I used to give money (the most I ever gave was ?18), but now I just ignore them.

[frankcapri]

If you read this thread from the beginning you can see the desensification of the world in these pages. I dont know how to move beyond it. Very honestly. Part of me wonders how I can be so cold and calluous and scream "why have we come to this!" But the rational (?) side sees the manipulation and lying and resents it. Hhhhmmm......very confusing to me.

Well, if it's any consolation, this desensitization has been going on for a long time.  Even Jesus kinda sloughed off the poor

For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

I'm think this is one of the only times Jesus is an outright richard in the Bible. 

[hmed2390]

Well, if it's any consolation, this desensitization has been going on for a long time.  Even Jesus kinda sloughed off the poor

I'm think this is one of the only times Jesus is an outright richard in the Bible. 

^is that a legit verse?

[redlandslide]

I'm think this is one of the only times Jesus is an outright richard in the Bible. 

Nah, he's a richard throughout it in my opinion.

Luke 23:27
A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and
wailed for him. Jesus turned and said to them, ?Daughters of Jerusalem, do not
weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come
when you will say, ?Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore and
the breasts that never nursed!?



He's real patronising on the cross as well.
Luke 23:34
"Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing"

[frankcapri]

He's real patronising on the cross as well.
Luke 23:34
"Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing"

Jesus may be a richard at times, but it takes a real badass to lay down a line like that at that moment in time 

^is that a legit verse?

Yeah, just look up Mark 14:7.  Here it is in lolcat

U guise can givs stuf to homless kittehs wenevr u wants. bt u guise wont hav meh furevah.

[hmed2390]

Here it is in lolcat

Dude, if I was christian, you guys would be offending me right now. Makes me worry there might be Christian members here.  

[subvinorosa]

There is.  Or there is if being a non practicing Catholic counts.

[smokester]

Dude, if I was christian, you guys would be offending the hell out of me right now. Makes me worry there might be Christian members here.  

When I was young I was a practising Catholic, in fact, I was actually an altar boy serving a bishop - which as dweez will tell you is quite a rare privilege.  However, the Bishop himself used to openly discuss my own doubts about the church with me, and agreed at times that it was hard to make it add up, although I'm not so sure he would have easily accepted derision of his or any other faith?

I am not religiously inclined that much anymore, but I still practise the clause of "turning the other cheek".

[subvinorosa]

I went to Catholic school, was a member of the Youth for Christ, participated in church activities and the like.  Then I lost the faith.  I figured that even if I don't practice the tenets of my faith, I could still try to be a good person.  Try being the operative word.

[frankcapri]

Dude, if I was christian, you guys would be offending the hell out of me right now. Makes me worry there might be Christian members here.  

Even when I was a Christian, I thought Jesus could be a bit heavy handed and prickish. 

I dunno, what would you call someone that told you, "Go ahead and help poor people. 
They're always going to be there.  I'm not."

I do still respect what he says about love and the ways people should treat one another 

[subvinorosa]

True that.