This question is from my 7 year old. She asked her sister and I this on the way to church Sunday. We had a very good discussion on the topic. It was wonderful to see how their minds worked and things that have made marks on them over the few years of their life.
As we talked about charity, my youngest asked about giving money to people in need and on the street asking for money. My oldest quickly jumped in about not giving money to people you knew were not going to use it wisely. She remembered that 2 years ago in Seattle there was a man who had a cup asking for money with a fishing pole. His sign read, "Fishing for Beer." They both asked how they can know who is lying and who is not.
I'll tell you how I answered that when I do my response to this question later in the week. Again, the question for this week's Christian Views Symposium is:
BTW, I told my daughter I was using her question and she thought it was "Awesome."
Rules reminder: No profanity, no name calling. I anxiously await your responses. They have been very good on the previous topics. Enter your response in the comments or email me using the link below with the name of your blog, the title of your post and its url. I will be accepting responses through Sunday night.
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1 - Quack Corleone
If I owned the world, I'd sell it to the highest bidder.
Then with my oodles of money, I would buy happiness.
2 - Natalie Davis
I'd sell it too. Pay off my debt, move abroad, sock some away for the kids' college, and give most of the rest to groups helping the planet, the poor, the unequal, and the disenfranchised. And yeah, I would get a top of the line Martin guitar. Or maybe I would buy off Congress. ;)
3 - parker
Give it to God?
Nice post.
4 - gonzo marx
the Question itself is meaningless, but fairly interesting as an excercise in thought...
however, what i stopped by to say was..
Lennie sez..
*Rules reminder: No profanity, no name calling*
ok..please don't take this personally but..FUCK THAT!!
you do NOT make the Ruiles here, you do NOT dictate terms here...on your own site, do as ya like
here at BC, free speech still Rules the day, until our Overlords tell us different, eh?
so..when you come in the spirit of Discussion, i will be happy to be as pleasant and thoughtful as possible...
as long as someone seeks to define, limit, or steer the Discussion through a limiting and narrow Lens...well, this Jester will sure as shit just get all kinds of Lenny Bruce on the fucktards.
the preceeding has been a public service announcement..had there been an actual Emergency, your humble Narrator would have started with insults and then told the offending part where to go and where to put it...
we now return you to your regularily scheduled program...
Excelsior!
5 - Bennett
Yeah, I second that gonzo. In addition,
"I will be accepting responses through Sunday night."
By posting this on blogcritics, you'll be accepting responses forever! Or until you change your email address.
Don't you read some of the dinosaur posts that get comments months and months after they are originally posted?
I expect some of my shit (freakin' Lincoln by bog!) posts to haunt me for years.
Get a grip Lennie.
6 - Phillip Winn
The previous two commenters are clearly unaware of the purpose of this post, but hey -- ignorance is bliss.
Hmmm, by "owned the world," I can either assume you're talking about a meaningless hypothetical sense of ownership, or a very real one. The world, however, simply cannot be owned absent the exercise of illegal military power. So I would actually own a large amount of private property and be the richest mang in the world, but I wouldn't actually have absolute ownership of everything on earth. This is good, since ownership means responsibility, and I wouldn't want to be responsible for everyones. I can barely manage myself.
Since I would have exorbitant wealth, I suppose I'd underwrite a bit of One.org's campaign against global poverty and AIDS. I'd foreclose on a few Christian churches which have abandoned the Christian Gospel in favor of various nosensical things. And heck, with great wealth comes great responsibility, too, so I'd hide out and become a hermit.