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The concept of The Redistribution of Wealth is a fallacious fairytale and a dangerous concept. Five things to consider are that the Redistribution of Wealth...
Violates Spiritual Law Violates Ethical Principles Exposes Proponent Hypocrisy Encourages Laziness and Non-Productivity Destroys our Children's Lives 1. The Redistribution of Wealth Violates Spiritual Law
The root of all human existence is based in spiritual law in which each soul progresses at its own rate through its own merit. Individuals do not make it to heaven, paradise or beyond by holding hands with others. Spiritual progress is an individual journey, not a collective one. God doesn't take a soul's good deeds and right actions and redistribute them to others, especially those who have not worked for their salvation. If God does not redistribute wealth, why would man think he can? In fact, he cannot. Doing so flies in the face of all that is natural and inherently divine.
2. The Redistribution of Wealth Violates Ethical Principles
In keeping with the principle of spiritual law is the principle of ethical law. "Your life; your responsibility." This is the essence of the human spirit. No one owes us a thing. It is up to each of us to accept responsibility for our life and make the best of it. If someone else chooses to work hard, exercise discipline, self-control, fortitude, persistence and sound life management, that person deserves to receive the fruit of his own efforts and no one has an ethical right to take what he has created for himself. To do so not only weakens the human spirit, it destroys it, and therefore it destroys human dignity in the process and with the destruction of human dignity the human race is destroyed.
3. The Redistribution of Wealth Exposes Proponent Hypocrisy
Interestingly, it is all too common and apparent for those who profess and teach the redistribution of wealth to not offer their own wealth in the redistribution process. Look at all the enormously wealthy people who promote redistribution of wealth. Are they redistributing their wealth? Are they giving away their millions and billions? Are they willing to live at the mean level of humanity? Preaching, teaching, promoting or promulgating the redistribution of wealth while not living by its philosophy is pure hypocrisy, dishonesty and deceit, as well as a blazingly red flag to those who are being asked to share their wealth with others.
4. The Redistribution of Wealth Encourages Laziness and Non-Productivity
When any human being is given something he or she does not deserve, that person becomes weak, lazy, non-productive and entitled-concepts that destroy the human spirit and undermine our society. Whole, sound, strong, independent and free people do not take from others. Taking from others is stealing.
5. The Redistribution of Wealth Destroys Our Children's Lives
Perhaps the most compelling reason of not living by a redistribution of wealth philosophy is that teaching our children to rely on others for their well-being weakens them, cripples them, destroys them. Life is difficult, but not teaching our children to rely solely on their own merits, efforts, and abilities in life will certainly destroy them. As our lives are our responsibilities, so our children's lives are their responsibilities and their children's lives will be their responsibilities. It's the way life is. Therefore, as parents we need to teach our children by our own example-not by preaching-to take charge of their own lives and not to rely on others or live with a sense of entitlement. We make our children strong by making them independent, resilient, resourceful, determined. This is the way we love them, not by making them weak by having them grow up in a mindset that they deserve what is not theirs to deserve.
The concept of the Redistribution of Wealth is anathema to the human spirit and an abomination to all that is divine. God rewards individually, not collectively, and certainly not politically. Man, if he is to reflect the highest principles of life and living, must do likewise. Personal ethics demand that each of us succeed on our own merit, not on the backs or efforts of others. Not to take responsibility for ourselves but to expect others to do for us when we are capable of doing for ourselves, is unethical and makes us weak and ignoble. Living by our own efforts and merits and teaching our children to do the same preserves our dignity and nobility.
Do those who preach the redistribution of wealth live by their preaching? Are they giving up their wealth? Or are they simply pandering to those who are weak, dependent, and seek to be taken care of by someone or something else while they remain in power to control the masses?
If we're to live a spiritual life, we must live by the concept that this is our life and it is our responsibility; it is no one else's responsibility to take care of us after we reach the age of adulthood. The redistribution of wealth is anathema to the divine human spirit. We succeed on our own merits. God demands nothing less; nor should we.
As of yesterday, citizens of Romania and Bulgaria have the unrestricted right to work and study in the UK.
The new rules are expected to attract tens of thousands of new immigrants to Britain, where the average wage is much higher than in the Eastern European countries.
However, they are not designed to benefit the beggars and rough sleepers who have been plaguing areas such as Marble Arch.
Prospective immigrants must prove they are able to support themselves and their families, meaning that the homeless or unemployed can be deported and sent home.
If they are found to be living in Britain illegally, they are banned from returning to the country within the next 12 months.
So Hollande has promised to tax the "rich" by 75% of their income.
Let this thread be a premonition of the future:
1. New tax is enforced. 2. Someone earning 1,000,000 a year in whatever currency you care to think of now earns 250,000, less money than if they earned 500,000 before tax. 3. Everyone with money, I.E. everyone whole owns all the big businesses decides to leave for places that don't punish them for earning money. 4. France is missing a huge chunk of it's economy and has even less income from tax than before. 5. Socialism, and this is pure socialism, crumbles with its complete lack of morality.
Just look at the man, a fucking hero of legend. Look at the stress the negroidals and liberals put this good law abiding citizen through. The man looks terrible like he's in his mid 40s but he's still in his late 20s and he's fat as fuck. Poor guy.
Anyone else feel bad when they saw his bloodied face during the incident? He looked a lot healthier back then but now it's a shame what happened to the good man.
His identity should have been protected unless he was found guilty. Zim is the only victim here of a close encounter chimp out and the negroidals.
Amanda Knox on ABC's Good Morning America in New York last Friday. She will probably have to wait several months for a definitive ruling in her case.
Rome - Amanda Knox, who was convicted by an Italian appeals court of murdering a British student in 2007, will probably have to wait several months for a definitive ruling in the case, a criminal lawyer said.
Knox, 26, who returned to the United States two years ago as a free woman after a court tossed out her 2009 murder conviction, was sentenced in absentia by an eight-person jury last Thursday to 28 years and six months in jail for murder and slander. Her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, got a 25-year jail term.
Last Thursday's verdicts are not final because lawyers for Knox and Sollecito said they will appeal to Italy's highest court.
"It will take months. They may schedule it around October or November," said Mr Andrea Castaldo, a criminal lawyer and professor at the University of Salerno, about a possible hearing at Italy's top court.
The defendants' lawyers must wait until the Florence appeals court publishes its reasons for last Thursday's verdict, which could take as long as three months.
An eventual extradition filing by Italy to the US can be made after a final conviction by Italy's top court or sooner if authorities request "precautionary measures" such as an arrest, Mr Castaldo said.
"It really hit me like a train," Knox, a Seattle native, told ABC's programme Good Morning America in an interview last Friday.
"I will never go willing back to the place where... I'm going to fight this to the very end. It's not right and it's not fair."
Knox and Sollecito were convicted of killing British student Meredith Kercher in 2007.
Sollecito was located by police on Friday about 50km from the Italian border with Slovenia.
After being notified of his foreign travel ban, he voluntarily followed policemen to a police station and was scheduled to be released once the paperwork was done, said police officer Glovanni Belmonte.
Before the death of her housemate, Knox was an exchange student in Perugia, a university town of 170,000 in central Italy known for its Baci chocolates.
She was originally sentenced to 26 years, and served almost four years in prison before the verdict was overturned in Oct 2011.
Sollecito, now a 29-year-old computer studies graduate, was sentenced to 25 years in jail in the first ruling in 2009 and found not guilty on appeal in 2011.
On March 26 last year, Italy's highest court approved a prosecutor's request to void the appeals court verdicts and try the pair again.
Kercher, a 21-year-old London native and Leeds University exchange student, was found dead in her bedroom, half-naked and with her throat slashed on Nov 2, 2007 in the house she shared in Perugia with Knox and two other women.
Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini said at the original trial that Knox had masterminded a drug-fuelled sex game involving Sollecito and Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast native who grew up in Italy, which turned violent, leading to the murder.
Guede was found guilty in a separate "fast-track" trial in 2008 and sentenced to 30 years.
His jail term was reduced to 16 years in a 2009 appeal.
Like Knox, Sollecito has always denied any wrongdoing, saying all he and his girlfriend wanted at the time was to be isolated in their "little fairy tale".
There's going to be a point in time when privacy becomes outdated because technology practically connects everything at all times. It may be in the next few generations, or much longer down the line. Has anybody thought about what happens to anonymity when it becomes impossible?
YOU can have a job, or you can have a career. Or you can go one step further and find your "calling in life".
The word "calling" is difficult to define, and some dismiss it altogether. But for those who do believe in the concept (as I do), a calling is a sense of higher purpose, a sincere belief that you are placed in this world for a reason.
Whichever way you look at it, the belief that there is more to life than the daily grind creates happiness, reduces stress and inspires greater productivity.
Daniel Pink, the author of Drive: The Surprising Truth Of What Motivates Us, lists purpose as one of the main reasons people wake up eager to face the day. Thus, if you want personal fulfilment and job satisfaction, aim for a little transcendence.
If you have yet to identify what your calling in life is, that's okay. It's process that takes time. In the meantime, consider the following reasons why you may not be hearing the call:
1. You're living someone else's dream
Did your parents push you to take engineering because you are from a family of engineers? Did you say, "I want to be a programmer" because many self-made millionaires are computer geniuses? Or maybe you feel guilty saying no to the uncle who paid for your education, hence you are slaving away in his company.
A calling is something deeply personal. True, others can give input about what might inspire you, but at the end of the day, it's a choice you must freely make.
Pleasing others is the easiest way to burn out. Similarly, copying other people's formula means you will never get to discover your own formula, the one that will make success all the more worth it.
2. You don't take time to reflect
Cultivating an internal life is a prerequisite to finding purpose. The ability to push "pause", get silent and listen to what your thoughts and feelings are telling you is necessary to spot the difference between what is working and what is draining you dry.
Workaholics who don't go for alone-time lose sight of what is driving them in the first place. Similarly, the restless young professionals who don't take time to reflect why they job-hop will never discover what they need to be happy.
3. You don't want to make a difference
Personal callings are often solidified by the realisation that you are making a real difference. When you know there is more to work than a monthly pay cheque, each little task has meaning.
This is especially so when the cause you are working for is something that resonates with you, either because you have experienced a similar need or the people you serve have touched your heart.
Being a medical representative, for example, may seem like lacklustre work, as all you may be is a glorified salesman. But if you interact with the very patients who benefit from getting matched with the right drugs, you may re-appreciate the value of what you do.
Unless you expose yourself to the significance of what you do, you may miss the bigger picture.
4. You don't believe in serendipity
Okay, so you're a realist. But at the very least, consider the idea that seemingly random experiences can be strung together to make one coherent whole.
For instance, you may have enjoyed being a women's shelter volunteer as a teenager, but thought nothing of it other than a summer job. Then you met your best friend in your late teens, someone who survived domestic abuse.
You took up psychology in college, thinking you wanted to be an human resource worker. But in your 30s, you suddenly realise that your college course was actually a good pre-law subject, and that your calling is to become a lawyer advocating women's rights.
So try to read the signs. Sometimes when the idea of a possible calling comes along, you will see little things coming together to make it happen.
5. You don't go beyond the present
Lastly, consider these questions: How would you like to be remembered? What would you like written in your epitaph? What legacy is most appealing to you?
A calling transcends time but its impact is long-lasting. Going beyond the present can help you identify whether you are moving towards a vision or simply surviving the day.
