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Johny Joe Hold 10-07-2019 03:05 PM

Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich
 
There have always been studies about poor people and their problems. Oh, they don't where their next meal is coming from, they need to see a doctor, there and rats in their apartment, etc etc. These go on and on.

What we have not had enough of are studies about the stress rich people are forced to live with. Now we are learning they live stress filled lives. Yes, the stresses are different but they are there.

Think about how much more complicated a romantic relationship is for a rich person. Rich people have to wonder if every potential partner is after me or my money.

Rich people often have important companies and jobs. They also have enough money to enjoy themselves when not working. The stress is this conflict between their professional obligations and the desire to enjoy their wealth.

Frankly, I've seen enough lamenting about the plight of the poor. It's time to recognize rich people deserve our prayers as much as the poor.

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Allykat 10-07-2019 08:06 PM

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I agree Mr. Johny Joe Hold, we should pray for the rich more. So many rich people stress so much and they don't have the peace from Jesus Christ. Plus, Jesus said it's hard for them to enter heaven!

Matthew 19:23-24

Johny Joe Hold 10-08-2019 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Allykat (Post 1258592)
I agree Mr. Johny Joe Hold, we should pray for the rich more. So many rich people stress so much and they don't have the peace from Jesus Christ. Plus, Jesus said it's hard for them to enter heaven!
Matthew 19:23-24

Wouldn't that just stress a wealthy person out, knowing about Matthew 19:24? He would be looking at camels and comparing his size to the size of a camel. "It's obvious," he would say, "A camel cannot fit through the eye of a needle. But, I am somewhat smaller. I wonder." No doubt some super wealthy people are nervous wrecks.

They need us. We should pray for them.

I Man Rastafari 10-08-2019 02:12 AM

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Greetings!

All of the very rich people are white people except for Kanye and he is only rich because he is married to a white woman so he does not count. Rich white people feel stress because of the way they have treated the Black man and kept us enslaved for 400 years. And so they have developed a slavish mentality and spend their time drinking martinis except for when they come to the beaches in my home country which is Jamaica to drink rum and turn red in the sun. I believe the rich white men could assuage their terrible guilt by beginning the payment of reparations to Black people for their enslavement. I myself am attending Georgetown University on a full scholarship due to the fact that the Jesuits there once held my ancestors as slaves and I am certain they feel a great deal of relief knowing that I a Black man will soon be performing delicate brain surgery on white people due to my education as a physician.

I am a student of great merit and an intellectual and I believe that the rich white people will feel much better about everything once they have paid for their guilty sins and those of their ancestors. I myself would be happy to assist any of my white friends in the shedding of their guilt and I would be able to provide a certificate of payment to any who choose to avail themselves of my assistance.

Jah Guide!
Trevor

Johny Joe Hold 10-08-2019 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by I Man Rastafari (Post 1258603)
Greetings!

Rich white people feel stress because of the way they have treated the Black man and kept us enslaved for 400 years. ... I myself am attending Georgetown University on a full scholarship due to the fact that the Jesuits there once held my ancestors as slaves and I am certain they feel a great deal of relief knowing that I a Black man will soon be performing delicate brain surgery on white people due to my education as a physician.

Jah Guide!
Trevor

I agree, I Man, that lots of groups feel guilt. Jews feel guilt for murdering Jesus. Women feel guilt because Eve committed the Original Sin.

But, I Man, don't people of the Negro race feel guilt for getting a free boat ride to the U.S. and afterwards free citizenship. It seems to me you Negro people took advantage of us white people at a time when we where vulnerable--worrying ourselves sick about how to get the cotton harvested.

I assume that word you used, "reparations," refers to paying for transportation from Africa, plus interest.

WilliamJenningsBryan 10-08-2019 07:35 PM

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It's almost an established fact that the nigra slaves that wound up in America were inferior merchandise. The white man didn't go to Africa and round up slaves - it was much too dangerous, not to mention the stories of early Christian missionaries that would up in a boiling pot of water and were eaten by cannibals.

The "slaves" we're talking about were rounded up by their "brothers" - of different tribes to make money, and the ones that were caught couldn't run fast enough from their "brothers" to avoid capture. Sure, there were some white men with ships waiting along the coast, but there were also some A-rabs (need we say mooselimbs) also in on the action - and we all know how they like to haggle.

We've all seen that movie "Roots" where descendants of slaves go back to Africa and find their ancesters and villages where they were captured - all LIEberal tear jerker propaganda. If they were really going to seek "reparations" they would be hunting down the villages and ancestors that captured them - and maybe time for a little payback, like whoomping some ass.

So now we're left with some nigras that, despite being offered millions of dollars, won't play football, refuse to stand for the National Anthem, and then complain that no one wants to hire them because of - racism. As usual, they're lining up to vote Democrat to keep those free EBT cards coming.

Lastly, there is the matter of Jesus - and the ancesters of those missionaries that they boiled and ate. We need a little reparation there as well.

MitzaLizalor 10-19-2019 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Allykat (Post 1258592)
I agree Mr. Johny Joe Hold, we should pray for the rich more. So many rich people stress so much and they don't have the peace from Jesus Christ. Plus, Jesus said it's hard for them to enter heaven!

Matthew 19:23-24

Thanks for posting the Scripture recording Christ's Own Words explaining that, although difficult, it's not impossible for rich people to enter Heaven. Sometimes crazies (social liberals swinging their wrecking ball to challenge Biblical marriage, leaders of blasphemous cults such as EMO and goth, catholics taking vows of chastity or poverty, hindoo cave-dwelling ascetics, maniacs promoting self-flagellation, it's a long list but you get the idea) claim that wealth prevents advancement to Heaven (or wherever they think they go) but we just need to remember King David—to name but one—to see that it can't possibly be so.
I Chronicles 22:14-16 Now, behold, in my trouble [King David speaking] I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto. Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
A talent is quite a heavy weight which is easy to look up if you're interested. The point here is that David possessed such quantities in the first place.
Hebrews 11:32-33

Johny Joe Hold 10-19-2019 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor (Post 1258978)
Thanks for posting the Scripture recording Christ's Own Words explaining that, although difficult, it's not impossible for rich people to enter Heaven. Sometimes crazies (social liberals swinging their wrecking ball to challenge Biblical marriage, leaders of blasphemous cults such as EMO and goth, catholics taking vows of chastity or poverty, hindoo cave-dwelling ascetics, maniacs promoting self-flagellation, it's a long list but you get the idea) claim that wealth prevents advancement to Heaven (or wherever they think they go) but we just need to remember King David—to name but one—to see that it can't possibly be so.
A talent is quite a heavy weight which is easy to look up if you're interested. The point here is that David possessed such quantities in the first place.
Hebrews 11:32-33


Thank you, Sister, for that gift of Scripture. I've been praying recently, not only for the wealthy President Trump, but for his wealthy children. I read Donald Jr. got divorced. Surely that, and the President's own divorces, is in part due to the stress of all the wealth in that family.

Jeb Stuart Thurmond 10-19-2019 03:47 PM

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We can't even beat our stress by relaxing in our private theaters and watching a movie. Billionaires are under-represented by Hollywood. Also, when billionaires are portrayed, it's by actors who are not billionaires - exactly like blackface, or whitecasting. Poorcasting, we should call it.

Dennis Lukes 10-19-2019 11:44 PM

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It's been proven by sociologists that older, upper class white men have the highest suicide rates of anyone in the country. The group with the lowest? Elderly, lower class black women. We need to start encouraging the Madeas of the world to start offing themselves to remedy this grotesque injustice. Does Aunt Jemima have more of a right to live than Charles Koch? Ridiculous!

Johny Joe Hold 10-20-2019 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes (Post 1259013)
. Does Aunt Jemima have more of a right to live than Charles Koch? Ridiculous!

Ridiculous indeed. I've been praying for Jeff Bezos. He owns Amazon and has been hounded by the tabloids. All he did was have a lady friend when he was married. His divorce caused him stress because his wife got $30 Billion of his $150 Billion.

It is certain to harm his health. To reduce worry about his financial future he does not give much to charity.

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Isabella White 10-20-2019 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold (Post 1258983)
Thank you, Sister, for that gift of Scripture. I've been praying recently, not only for the wealthy President Trump, but for his wealthy children. I read Donald Jr. got divorced. Surely that, and the President's own divorces, is in part due to the stress of all the wealth in that family.

Oh, it is of great concern -- that is most certain, dear Brother Mayor Hold. The stress that our dear rich President Trump goes through is unquestionable, what with Demonrats trying constantly to knock him out of the Oval Office. It must be a great burden for the President, trying his best to make :america: great again, build the border wall, etc., whilst still having the worries of his personal property to think about. Why, we must remember how his fortunes took a beating when he was forced to declare bankruptcy so many times. I do pray that his tax cuts for the 1% will be of some relief to him and his blessed family. But, I pray for protection from the :lord-fancy:, in general, for others in this situation.

Philippians 4:19 "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."

For example, how the poor Queen of England manages to afford to keep the lights on in her houses is beyond me, especially with that Brexit going down the drains. At least, she and our President were able to forget their worries and to share a laugh or two when they were together.

A blessed day to you, Dear,
Sincerely, Isabella W.
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Joanna Lytton-Vasey 10-20-2019 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold (Post 1258596)
"A camel cannot fit through the eye of a needle. But, I am somewhat smaller. I wonder." No doubt some super wealthy people are nervous wrecks.

This is probably why, in spite of having more and tastier food to eat, the wealthier folks among us tend to keep ourselves in better shape than the feckless poor, who have a tendency towards lardiness.

Dennis Lukes 10-20-2019 09:08 PM

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Speaking of Matthew 19:24, that verse seems to get misinterpreted by fluffy bunny liberal "Christians" almost as much as the first half of John 3:16. As I explained to the homeless veteran who ignorantly quoted scripture (NIV, of course) at me the other day when I refused to "spare a dollar," Jesus Christ was NOT criticizing the wealthy!!! Not only do such interpretations disregard Galatians 3:28, but they imply a heretical worldview in which the souls of the deceased can take their possessions with them into the afterlife. While multiple True Christian™ pastors have assured me that the generosity of your earthly tithes will be reflected in your Heavenly accomodations, the idea that you will have your riches literally with you when you stand before God for judgment is blasphemous. Those assets are still on earth, rightfully inherited by the rich man's children or else bequeathed to conservative organizations and PACs. The next time a socialist liberal or homeless bum shouts Matthew 19:24 at you without context, be aware that you are dealing with an Egyptian neo-pagan, not a Christian.

Joanna Lytton-Vasey 10-20-2019 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes (Post 1259042)
Those assets are still on earth, rightfully inherited by the rich man's children or else bequeathed to conservative organizations and PACs.

Of course, come the destruction of the Earth (Isaiah 24 - such a very beautiful chapter), there will remain nothing for anyone to inherit. I find this very reassuring: after all, why not tithe now while we still can?

MitzaLizalor 10-21-2019 11:09 AM

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I've always noticed how Jesu's disciples were often employers.
Luke 4:44 – 5:7a And [Jesus] preached in the synagogues of Galilee. And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, and saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them.
Only proprietors (in this case a partnership) have the authority do do that. And not running a pedalo operation. A commercial fishery. Employees would see what happened and be able to convert but His primary witness here is to employers.

Kyrre Eliasen 10-21-2019 03:47 PM

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:jesus: Never forget.Incels are Christlike like me.

Basilissa 10-21-2019 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyrre Eliasen (Post 1259065)
:jesus: Never forget.Incels are Christlike like me.

My dear, Christ was not an incel! :nono: Women were practically throwing themselves at His feet:

Luke 7:37-38
37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

John 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Has any woman, ever, offer to annoint your feet? I don't think so - otherwise, you wouldn't be the laughing stock of the society known as incel! :rofl3:

MitzaLizalor 10-23-2019 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Basilissa (Post 1259067)
Has any woman, ever, offer to annoint your feet?

It would depend what with of course.

I Man Rastafari 10-30-2019 03:29 PM

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Greetings!

The rich white people of Babylon became wealthy by enslaving African Black men to do all the work and never giving them pay. They are haunted by the crimes of their ancestors and they need to deal with the sins they have been bequeathed. If they could lead the way to reconciliation with the Black man by providing just reparations for the enslavement of our ancestors they would feel better about the terrible things they are responsible for. I myself would volunteer to accept and appropriately disburse what ever monies are required to expiate the sins of these rich white people and while I would be one of the recipients I would take no more than a small administrative fee for my services. Once the monies are paid everyone will be more content.

Jah Guide!
Trevor


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