I have no hatred for people that don't want to better themselves. I do pity them however. It truly is a pity when people give up on themselves and on life and think that the world owes them something.
Matt wade,
People don't want your pity.
People don't need your pity.
And its not the public you're addressing here when you address a member of this board.
You're addressing a real live, breathing flesh and blood person.
If I were in her shoes, I'd be telling you to stay out of my business. You don't know what choices are open to her: You don't know what doors are closed. You are not in a position to judge what she can do and can't do. You know nothing of her values; of her circumstances; of the reasons for her decisions.
You have no way of knowing that she is where she is because it was God's plan and not yours. You have no way of knowing that the decisions her family has had to make are because of things more valued than money, or big city life, or tearing down others to win a position and better pay.
If you really want to help, if you can't help meet the needs of those less fortunate and do it with joy and thankfulness and good cheer..... then back off. Judgement is not needed here and none of us are the judge. You have no right to say that people who have lived a godly and lawful life, who have had their money taken by others and promised a return, are not just to expect the fulfillment of a promise. The person who paid social security all his life did so expecting that it was taken from him.... and his own means to provide daily or invest in his future were restricted based on a promise that he could at least count on having it returned to him someday. He never expected the world owed him anything... and he never expected people who would represent him to take his money and give him promises of a future return... and then use it up.... like Maddoff did.
Your post is so destructive! I find myself entertaining the evil thought that what if you have your savings and investments for the future all nicely wrapped in a neat bundle and sealed with a bow..... mutual funds, 401-k and kins, IRA's etc., the promises of an employer, a corporation, a union, or a government job.... that your future will have benefits and you'll have a retirement based on your longevity at a job: What if the government steps in... and figures out how to crash that market on which the growth of your funds was dependent, and taxes it as money withheld from circulation, what if it shoots up the monetary supply of paper and coinage so high that it is no longer of value more than toilet paper or curtain and fishing weights? What if the storms crash your area of living and you find your homeowner insurance doubling and tripling every year and difficult to find insurance cause the company that you depended on goes bankrupt or pulls out of your state? What if the revenue needs of your community and state are so increased that your property taxes are doubled, your license and tag fees are doubled, you find fuel taxes go up, and the utility bills increase because of added on fees to pay state and federal revenue?
You, dear brother, do nothing to encourage her faith and hope that God will provide... and you do nothing to convince anyone that you trust anything other than mammon for your own supply... now or in the future.
The following is my error and mischaracterization:
I hate to mention a prayer request where it seems you wanted the community of faith to touch heaven in your behalf. Yet here you have a sister, and you have an opportunity to comfort her, encourage her, and pray for her.... nothing which cost you one cent, yet you quickly accuse her of expecting the world owes her something? Well..... to you the 'world' was that bank and its regard for the worth of your promises and the potential to make good on their investment. End of error. Please forgive my error. Mistaken identity, inexcusable and unfair to Matt Wade or any other implicated.
And its the world for which you depend on the growth of your business, and its the world which changes the value of your investment and the worth of your money supply. Self pride and foolish judgement of others... snares we need to avoid, snares we need to caution others from getting into before they enter chastining.
