Comments on: Money Myths to Know For 2010 http://www.APersonalFinanceGuide.com/personal-finance/money-myths-to-know-for-2010/ A Guide to Personal Finance from around the Web Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:03:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ralf http://www.APersonalFinanceGuide.com/personal-finance/money-myths-to-know-for-2010/#comment-20210 Ralf Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:06:59 +0000 http://www.APersonalFinanceGuide.com/2010/01/12/money-myths-to-know-for-2010/#comment-20210 The idea of giving money to those in need or to your faith instead of buying gadgets and useless stuff may fall on deaf ears. Especially for those who are already in debt (you mentioned the average cc debt of $9.000), or just in need of fast emergency cash to meet their daily needs. It's however a principle worth promoting! There are those who will make a difference, in their own financial affairs as well as in other's. The idea of giving money to those in need or to your faith instead of buying gadgets and useless stuff may fall on deaf ears.

Especially for those who are already in debt (you mentioned the average cc debt of $9.000), or just in need of fast emergency cash to meet their daily needs.

It’s however a principle worth promoting! There are those who will make a difference, in their own financial affairs as well as in other’s.

]]> By: sasamat http://www.APersonalFinanceGuide.com/personal-finance/money-myths-to-know-for-2010/#comment-14347 sasamat Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:43:00 +0000 http://www.APersonalFinanceGuide.com/2010/01/12/money-myths-to-know-for-2010/#comment-14347 Too bad the apostle Paul writing in AD 50 hadn't read the parable of the widow's mite, appearing first in Mark's gospel some 15 yrs later in AD 70. The poor widow had virtually nothing, and yet gave everything of the little she had. Modern 'performance philanthropy' with its aim of 'getting first' so that it can 'give later' loves to quote from, and yet fails to grasp this parable, and consequently falls into the 'reality distortion field' that large chunks of change tend to engender. This is nothing new and is conceptually very similar to the curvilinear space-time distortion that occurs around large gravitational masses such as black-holes or big stars. This idea encapsulates the necessity for an impoverished Christ---assuming for a moment that the concept of the incarnation is true. Too bad the apostle Paul writing in AD 50 hadn’t read the parable of the widow’s mite, appearing first in Mark’s gospel some 15 yrs later in AD 70.

The poor widow had virtually nothing, and yet gave everything of the little she had.

Modern ‘performance philanthropy’ with its aim of ‘getting first’ so that it can ‘give later’ loves to quote from, and yet fails to grasp this parable, and consequently falls into the ‘reality distortion field’ that large chunks of change tend to engender.

This is nothing new and is conceptually very similar to the curvilinear space-time distortion that occurs around large gravitational masses such as black-holes or big stars.

This idea encapsulates the necessity for an impoverished Christ—assuming for a moment that the concept of the incarnation is true.

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