--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Interestingly, the issue of *how* to give money to > > spiritual organizations in the "cleanest" possible > > way, one that insures the highest benefit for all > > concerned, has been discussed recently on another > > forum of which I am a member. Here's a compilation > > of ideas that came up there for how folks there > > felt that charitable donations should be handled. > > > <snip> > My approach to gifts in general, including charitable > contributions to the TMO (which I've stopped by the way) > is to completely let go of the gift once it is given. > Unless it was a large sum of money I was donating ( > whihc is a *very* hypothetical instance...) I don't want to > chase around my gift after it is given. Once it is given, > it is gone, as far as I am concerned.
That's generally my attitude as well. But in these particular discussions, people were talking about trying to find a way to give charitable donations that prevented the *receiving* organization from abusing the money or falling prey to the many traps associated with getting large sums of money given to people who aren't used to handling it. You'll have to admit that if a few more people had handled their donations to the TMO as sensibly as these folks have suggested, that it wouldn't have been tempted to rip people off the way it clearly has. ------------------------ 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/
