--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/3/06 8:30:18 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I never give money to the needy. However > > I do buy food and clothing for them occasionally and give cash to > charitable organizations that help the needy such as supplying > shelter to the homeless. > > Because: > > i) as a conservative you don't believe in the value of personal choice > and freedom > > ii) you are afraid that they may spend the money on escapist > pasttimes: alcohol, drugs or TM? > > iii) you only carry confederate money? > > > :) > > > > My political philosophy has nothing to do with it. Many people who are down > and out are so because of bad decisions and I don't want to feed that > process. So, I give them something wholesome, something they could use that won't > hurt them. Christ said " I was naked and you clothed me, I was hungry and you > fed me" I would hate to think he said " I was bored and you got me stoned". I > also knew a priest who did yagayas and part of many of the yagyas he did ended > with distributing food and clothing to the poor. M also said don't give > beggers money because it fosters their dependence on begging.
I was just teasing. I undertsand your reasoning. But its ironic that a core of "some" conservative thinking is that individual decisions are always paramount to social or "mandated" decisions for the individual. Thus, who is to say that getting stoned (for a month) is of less value to a street person than some new jeans given his existing pants still work? YOU? ME? or HIM? "True" conservatives would say, "HIM". His "market basket" of values may be different than yours. Does that make them inferior? Maybe he is a renunciate at heart and is learning great lessons of detachment by focussing on inner states and not outer states. The question is, who is best to say? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
