tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post1054979831022088087..comments2023-07-17T23:10:02.228+10:00Comments on Discombobula: The Daily Waffle, Thursday EditionSuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-25038379767292032014-02-17T16:14:13.211+11:002014-02-17T16:14:13.211+11:00Haha, no worries! Talk away! :)
I was going to ...Haha, no worries! Talk away! :)<br /><br />I was going to respond to your quote about Jesus and say that it highlights the difference between his time and now, where you could live in beautiful poverty then whereas now we are totally beholden to the machine. Which is true. But then there are some people who are living without money - a woman I remember seeing a video about a couple of years ago, and that bloke Mark Someone Or Other. But yet they are reliant upon people who still DO exist within the system so in a way it doesn't really count, although I think they are wonderful harbingers of the future.<br /><br />That's really interesting what that woman's grandmother's neighbour said. Perhaps the better way would be save up to buy a farm and stay in the Ukraine :) But then that would create its own problems, wouldn't it? You'd be an agitator amongst the community of poverty ... unless you shared it with them. Then it might be cool. But you'd still have some sort of hierarchy thing going on then. I have a problem with property ownership because look at all the problems it causes. I can't even begin to imagine what the world must feel like living in another age where nobody owns the land. I guess it would feel free, and lovely because then everybody owns it. Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4879615387850345622.post-50136261239063938962014-02-17T14:43:46.022+11:002014-02-17T14:43:46.022+11:00Look, I'm reading! It's funny, the talk at...Look, I'm reading! It's funny, the talk at church this morning was about money. He talked about the rich young ruler who asked Jesus what he should do to inherit eternal life (Mark 10: 17-22). It says that Jesus "looked at him, loved him" and told him to sell his possessions and give the money to the poor. The man went away "grieving" - in other words, he couldn't do it. Money is incredibly powerful. <br />I'll tell you another story - we have a time at church which is a kind of 'open mic' response time and a woman said her grandmother had emigrated to Canada from Ukraine and was incredibly poor. Eventually her family saved enough to buy their own farm and one neighbour said 'why would you want to have your own farm but give up the community of poverty?' That's been sticking with me today.<br />Look at that, I just wrote my own blog post on your blog. Sorry about that.E.Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09525989951162501357noreply@blogger.com