Reply #25: Absolutely, and a little off topic but here goes.

[cpamomfromtexas]

Actually one of *'s buddies goes to my church. I'd been observing everyone's kowtowing for a while and it took me a bit to put the pieces together. It's sickening, truly, I googled this guy and got really scared. How out of touch people are with the needs of others.

I'm not on the bottom end of the spectrum by any means, but I've taken it as my mission to teach others how to get by on much less and do for yourselves. This includes growing food and doing things the old ways, cutting coupons, buying used items, shopping on ebay from small businesses and staying out of big box retailers as much as I can, cooking from scratch (healthier too)--you name it. I think I'm turning into a fanatic.

My whole basis for this behavior is that I believe Jesus wants us all to prosper (and not be slaves to the corporation that can cut our throats so easily) so we can help as many others as we can. With inflation eating us alive, it's making his mission all that much harder because it makes it harder for regular people to even take care of themselves and be debt free. For me it's an ethics issue and I try to convert as many to this as I can and away from the fascist corporate media advertising blitz as I can.

When I was a kid my dad taught us that the day would come that only people that knew how to do things would survive. My friend, I think we're dangerously close to that.