Comments on: Ten Pieces of Inspiration #50

By: Kai

Kai — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:02:16 +0000

It’s not like he’s preaching. It’s a post explicitly mentioning some things he likes, and one happens to be a poem about a religious topic. If you can’t even handle a person indirectly mentioning their religion, you might want to re-think your sensitivity.

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:52:59 +0000

Love how Brittany spends time reading the whole blog, then criticizes it. Brittany! You can take this one off your “favorites” list! You don’t ever have to look at it (or comment on it) again! Same to you, Kevin!!

By: kristine

kristine — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:09:48 +0000

#4 Even higher functioning homeless likely have NO medical care. I would not want to eat or offer food served by a homeless person, no matter how well scrubbed or freshly dressed. Your suggestion is a risk for the spread of infectious disease. You have an ideological goal, but your practical suggestion is not at all well considered. Many homeless have mental issues no readily apparent, and do not belong interfacing with person, after person, after person. Let them sit, and eat, and keep to themselves. I would not want to appoint myself judge of who is acceptable to feed homeless little Suzy and her siblings.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:43:15 +0000

To shamelessly steal somebody’s point from the GRS thread the other day, there are millions of people out there who already know how to fish. But they’re not catching any fish right now, because the fish aren’t there. There are people in need of help right now for reasons other than being unskilled, lazy, stupid, or unclean.

By: deRuiter

deRuiter — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:36:40 +0000

I’m with #5. I never got the point of the upper classes trudging down to the homeless shelter . soup kitchen / local charity free food place for Thanksgiving and Christmas to “feed the hungry.” Think it would be better for the charities to pick out some of the higher functioning homeless / needy, give them a good scrubbing and clean clothing, and put them on the line serving food, to EARN their meal. Modern charity is designed to keep people dependent, living at a low level on the government dole. “Give a man a fish and he eats today, teach him to fish and he can eat fish every day, sell his excess catch to his neighbors for cash, eventually he can hire others to fish for him and all become prosperous.” But if you follow this philosophy, you can no longer give this man things as he is earning his own way, and you can’t feel sorry for him and have warm fuzzy feelings about your charitable nature.

By: kevin

kevin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:34:44 +0000

Brittany – it’s not a sure thing that Trent has even read the poem.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:44:01 +0000

The Dorothy Parker poem is one of my favorites, and I don’t think of it as a religious poem. I think it works whether you believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the son of god or just a person who had an enormous influence on the subsequent history of the world (but not until long after his death, which is why the maid servant wouldn’t have heard anything more about him during her lifetime).

By: Brittany

Brittany — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:15:30 +0000

First we get a ton of nonsensical political beliefs on the blog that “tries to keep politics off” it, now we get jesus poems from the same source who claims he also tries to keep religion out of it. Le sigh.