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I got a $100 gift card once and was really excited about going to spend it, but when I got to the store, it turned out to either have been hacked or not loaded properly. I did not have the heart to tell the giver that I had to spend my own money and tell them it was a gift from them, but I was...

Best friends.

And you have done exactly what you accuse me of doing. You and others keep dodging and weaving by detracting from the principles of the matter and asserting your own agenda without any attempt to understand the downside of capitalism. I have hit a soft spot and I recognize that as these are...

Hmm. Now I remember why I don't do forums anymore. Some people simply twist things others try to say, don't even bother to focus on any other words than their own, pick and choose which Bible verses to use against someone else, and don't bother to have genuine discussions. Thanks for the...

Rich people can afford life-saving surgery. Poor people can't. So in the US, poor people die and rich people get to live. Iow, poor people's lives don't matter; they have no value. I feel for the poor people who can't afford the babies they are forced to have because abortion is abolished. Those...

Wow. Some of you here are getting very testy. Just a little defensive, eh? I am not "begging" but I live in a very small, old, modest home and when I am done with possessions, I donate them to thrift. I pay my taxes - some of which goes to infrastructure (such as the bridge under which people...

Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” Mt 19:21

It's better than letting the saved and unsaved alike die under a bridge, in a garbage bin or on the streets in a makeshift tent just so the ultra wealthy can go on bathing in their billions. Lives are more important than their mansions. That's what you got from the story? Hmm. I get this: that...

The problem is that individual people don't. Especially the wealthiest who could. It might appear so because you get these headlines that Oprah gave $1,000,000 to some charity or other but in the big scheme of her $2.5 billion, it's nothing. Now, when she does something worth mentioning, like...

Many years ago there was a tv show where the wives from two very different families would trade places for a week. One was pretty zen, I believe an energy healer, did yoga, had little Buddhas in her garden, very earthy. The other was a very far right-wing Christian. Unfortunately, it was the...

Jesus healed, he gave to the poor, he asked the wealthy to give it up and follow his ways... iow, social programs to get people on their feet, like healthcare and distribution of wealth (social programs like universal healthcare - not the obamacare type, either! - and income assistance...

I know an awful lot of Christians who spew hate in the form of judgement. It's one of the reasons the unsaved hates us, but Christians are sometimes too arrogant to notice that we contribute to our own persecution.

I'm not technically widowed because my beloved and I had only started talking about marriage when he was diagnosed with a very fast-growing brain tumor. Our connection was real though. We had intense limbic resonance, a spiritual connection - we could "feel" each other. I could feel it when he...

West Coast, Canadian slang, eh. But I agree with Josiah. I don't have an accent. Even none of you here have an accent. I read you all in Canadian West Coast.

There is no such thing as reverse racism. Feel free to look it up.

At the expense of the privileged white people. Okay, I just looked at population composition and labour force composition in the US and they are fairly closely represented, but not quite. Seventy-five and a half percent of the population in the US is white and they take up 77% of the...

Lamb, was that due to the affirmative action movement? Or maybe the hiring manager was black, or maybe the hiring manager was giving an unskilled person a chance to get somewhere in the world. It might not have been the colour of his skin and there may have been other factors in play. Did they...

Think in more global, sociological terms. There are rich and poor in every society. Black people are under-represented in the rich world and much over-represented in the very poor world (USA). Of course there will be a handful of white kids who grow up very poor, just as there will be a handful...

I'm not American so I don't have much of a stake in this conversation, but when I evaluate Canada's economic situation, I have to evaluate all the contributing factors no matter how easy it would be to just blame the guy in power who lies and I don't happen to like in the moment.

Try to get a giggle and ask them what excuse they would go with instead. lol. Seriously, though, their comment might warrant some self-reflection and self-honesty. If it's still your excuse, you can say "you're right, it's no excuse but it's the one I'm going with anyway." Good boundaries are...