Are You Eliminating Debt/Backstocking Food?

Digging4Truth · #1 02-28-2008, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Kae

Almost two years ago they were saying the plague was coming and we needed to stockpile food. Plague hasn't happened yet. About a year and a half ago they were telling Seattle they were the next city for a terrorist attack. Hasn't happened. The media has a way of trying to create a spirit of fear that motivates and causes the masses to react. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and sound mind. No reason to be afraid when man says jump. As far as Joseph was concerned God said jump not man. When God speaks I will listen. As long as the government and media are proclaiming fear tactics, I will continue to tune out.

The warnings of the plaque... did not witness with me and I made no move.

The warnings of the terrorist attacks... did not witness with me and I made no move.

The warnings of an impending financial collapse... the media only started talking about it when it began to be so blatant that it is no longer deniable. They aren't fear mongering. As a matter of fact, they are behind the curve.

One need not fear when one has God. No amount of debt elimination etc is going to hide me without God.

But I do think that too many are built on the sinking sand of a fiat economy and, while God will never leave us nor forsake us, He never promised we would not lose all of the excess that we deal in day by day.

Of course... the American definition of excess is quite skewed.

Pressing-On · #2 02-28-2008, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

The warnings of the plaque... did not witness with me and I made no move.

The warnings of the terrorist attacks... did not witness with me and I made no move.

The warnings of an impending financial collapse... the media only started talking about it when it began to be so blatant that it is no longer deniable. They aren't fear mongering. As a matter of fact, they are behind the curve.

One need not fear when one has God. No amount of debt elimination etc is going to hide me without God.

But I do think that too many are built on the sinking sand of a fiat economy and, while God will never leave us nor forsake us, He never promised we would not lose all of the excess that we deal in day by day.

Of course... the American definition of excess is quite skewed.

D4T,
I read this article the other day. Thought you'd enjoy it. Here's an excerpt.

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Economic Woes
By Cal Thomas
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Much of this economic "pain" is self-inflicted. Rather than purchasing homes they could not afford - or putting too much down, making them cash poor - they might have invested their equity in balanced mutual funds (the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 11.59 percent over a 10-year period). Such a path could have avoided the tight spot in which many now find themselves.

Some of the lust for bigger and better is human nature, but a lot is the result of consumerism. The Timex watch is no longer enough. We now must have a Rolex, though both accurately tell time. The adequate low-end automobile is insufficient. We must trade up to a luxury car with numbers and letters on the rear that mean nothing, but convey "status." And the house we are living in, which would have been more than adequate for our parents and certainly our grandparents, must be upgraded to larger digs in order to impress, if not growing families, than enlarged egos.

When none of this brings the promised happiness and fulfillment, we turn to drink, or pills, or counselors, or divorce court and seek significance in new things and relationships on what quickly becomes a personal boulevard of broken dreams.

We can't say we haven't been warned about this endless pursuit of stuff. The writer of Ecclesiastes wrote, "Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. ŠAs goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?" (Ecclesiastes 5:10-11)

When wants and needs are confused, desires become entitlements and politicians are afraid to tell people what they need to hear. Instead they tell them what they want to hear. Anger and envy result, as well as frustration with a political system that was not designed to indulge its citizens in their lusts or subsidize their greed.

Who will tell us that unending and expanding prosperity with home values constantly rising and a citizenry always able to afford them is a fantasy that is bound to end in heartache for those who buy into it?

The economy isn't bad. We are bad for believing that more is better and the most is best. We have an abundance of things, but a deficit of character. The economy is a false god, a golden calf. When this false god doesn't deliver, we complain to politicians who are happy to accept our faith in them to give us what we want - if we will only pledge to them our allegiance at election time.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/C.../economic_woes

Digging4Truth · #3 02-28-2008, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

D4T,
I read this article the other day. Thought you'd enjoy it. Here's an excerpt.

Wow PO... sage words of wisdom for our day.

Pressing-On · #4 02-28-2008, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Ron

PO, that is a good article & surprising in it's frankness in telling the truth.

Did you see my link about the Amero?

I'm sorry, Ron. I totally forgot about it. I had to grovel and beg AE to release me from a prison of unforgiveness, but now we are good. Hallelujah! AE rocks! I'll listen to it now.

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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

Wow PO... sage words of wisdom for our day.

Yes, Cal is awesome. He has an excellent article on immigration today.